Casanovas Revenge - Let's Work FLAC

Something of a unique record in that the editor/co-producer Chep Nuñez's "Beat Junky Edits" is not merely a fantastic, heavily multi-edited track, but a promotional piece for the editor himself. The late Nuñez was a prolific and heralded master of editing as it existed in the era started by electro. Not to be confused with the early disco edits of the 70s nor original recording studio editing, multi-edits (aka "machine gun edits") were arguably started by the numbing edits of the Latin Rascals for their legendary radio shows. Splicing small bits of other records into a master track already edited with pounding, stuttered, programmed beats, these edits spread out across electro, house, freestyle, rap, and nearly every style of dance music in the 80s. In many cases, the most avant and just plain bugged (I DID say 1980s yunno) version of a track was the editor doing their thing, a proper shredding up and rebuilding of the base song innocently stashed on the B-side, sometimes labeled a "dub". Nuñez here takes the track and wraps it around a vocal sample about himself and then works the track into a lather, adding other vocal samples to the breathless breaks in between those chaotic drum patterns. Nothing else on this otherwise good 12" compares. If ever you need a sample of why people consider the studio wizards of this era to be utter geniuses-- or merely to explain what edits are-- this is the document.

Great review! I am always searching out Chep Nunez's remixes, there are some really killer mixes and edits he made, it is just a matter of finding the right one's. This one was sampled by Biochip Chip C on Steal it and Deal it.