Multi-Edits Monthly / 001
Heeeeyyyy fellow editheadz, It's me, Jean-Paul! Also known under the moniker of Funkafilia. I reckon we all experience this in life, you're at a great party and into the zone, wishing it would never end. But as time goes by, the older one gets, the vibe changes, people leave, and before you know it you're reflecting with a kind of a double feeling concluding that we had a lot of fun but it has had its day. That's the feeling that stuck after 5 years of editheadz.
We all moved on and got on with our lives, I guess. But I don't know how you guys experienced it, somewhere in my hippocampus (or whatever part of the brain), the love for cut and paste never disappeared. I reckon it is an abnormality that few people get.... at least in my social surroundings! For me multi-edits have alway been some kind of mystic. Maybe you recognize the kind of romantic feeling of listening to tape edits, visualizing the actual tape cutting and splicing. From bombastic stuttering like on T La Rock - Breaking Bells by Omar Santana....
T La Rock - Breaking Bells (Dub) / Special edits by Omar Santana ....to sublte rhytmic rearrangments of micro-edits, that are hardly noticable to the untrained ear and made popular by the Latin Rascals. Check out for instance this extended version of Digging Your Scene by The Blow Monkeys from 1986. Great song, I recommend listening to it entirely. For those of you with ADHD skip to 3:05 and 4:35 to check musicality in edits.
The Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene / Special edits by The Latin Rascals Back to 2026. Life is beautiful, but I can't deny that occassionally nostalgia kicks in. Music, and I guess, every kind of entertainment has become a commodity. I can't distinguish one song from another. I've been listening to a lot of great musi my entire life and really feel we need to conserve the good things from the past, even if there is a tiny, tiny audience. That's why I came up with the idea to start a platform where we editheadz are gathered to keep the art of editing alive. I don't have the pretentions of bringing edits back to mainstream...if it ever was, but hope that at least once a month it can bring a smile on your face by sharing some edited remixes/mixes from the past and present. Some of you already told me they are more than thrilled to make and share new edits that I will curate in this monthly newsletter. /Editheadz.com coming soonI've been talking to Steve "The RaZor" Picardi (The Bladerunners) regularly lately, who still owns the editheadz.com domain and opted to relaunch the website as the #1 go-to vault to share and find multi-edits from the past and present. It's still in the development phase, but chances are high that quite soon you'll have a large archive to dive into. We'll keep you updated! If you don't know Steve, please check out some of his greatness here.
Cherrelle - I Didn't Mean To Turn You On / Special edits by Steve 'The RaZor Picardi for The Blade Runners /iVox - a new editing toolI can't recall the moment when it came to mind, but after using numerous kinds of software with limitless possibities like Ableton and Renoise, I wanted to make a tool that would serve my own process of making edits, nothing more and nothing less. Although I added some basic effects like pitching, muting, pitch bend (for deckstops), and reverse, I limited myself to the possibilities of the tape machine and splicing block. You can check it out at www.i-vox.app. There's a free trial, so you can play along with it. If you have any questions, please send an email to: hello@i-vox.app. /Rare findingsFor all of you living in France in the 80s, y'all probably know the name or the mixes he made. This one is made by a guy called Laurent "Nagradance" Nawawi, who made a dozen of mixes and incredible tape-edits for MixAmiX. I know that Mixcoast is influenced by him. For most of us outside France Nagradance is rather unknown, at least for me. My guess is that his name came from the famous swiss Nagra tape recorders brand. If any of you have more information about him, please let me know. The sound quality is low, but the edit action is impressive.
/My latest chopsSince I came back to editing recently, I really try to replicate the old school feeling of analog tape-editing. Been listening to some edited versions of late 80s popsongs, mostly done by The Latin Rascals, Chep Nunez, Omar Santana and Greg "ski" Royal. For this remix I cut up Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer into a radiomix.
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer / special edits by Funkafilia /The Kick-offTo conclude this newsletter I would love you to get inspired to pick up the old rusty razor blade and start making edits again. This newsletter and the upcoming editheadz.com. will be the place to share them to core editheadz. If we could present some new and rare edited mixes every month it would be awesome. Please send me an e-mail if you have new or rare editmixes.
Before I sign off, don't forget to check out these crazy editors from Japan: Nonsectradicals (Japanese Edit Team) Blazing Multi Edit Mastermix Bible Old Text Mix Nonsectradicals - New Test Bible Mix
P.S I still haven't reached all the old cats, if you can help me or know some other edit catz please let them join in.
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