Tom Moulton or the birth of the extended mix.
DO A November 29, 1940 SCHENECTADY (NEW YORK), TOM MOULTON (FORMER DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING UNITED ARTISTS, FAMOUS FILM COMPANY) IS RECOGNIZED AS THE "MASTER" OF MIX-EXTENDED.
(...) While one of his first desires is to become a disc jockey, Tom Moulton prefers to stay in the shade. So one day he goes to Fire Island, near famous Long Island (New York). To his surprise, young white Americans are dancing to the music "black." Tom Moulton thought to be the only white man to be interested in this music. First revelation. The second is more relevant. By observing the dance, Tom Moulton, finds that the public begins to enter into a trance at the end of three minutes and thirty as hard as a 45-laps. How to that the public keeps the pace? And if the trick was to lengthen the song? Why not extend the piece three minutes and thirty six minutes initials? The young man reflected. It begins by analyzing the structure of a song, the introduction of each instrument. Tom then reshapes the entire mix, the chains, having extended the duration of each track. In a fifteen-second intro, he arrived at one minute and then introduced each one to one instrument to the vocal part, extends the verses and choruses with instrumental stretches the musical bridge, and ultimately end up with a song whose duration varies between five and six minutes. Tom Moulton mix finishes the song "I'll Be Holdin 'On' Al Downing. Completed soon, Tom Moulton went as usual to the pressing plant in order to press the disc on a disc-test called "test-pressing. (Before being permanently engraved on 45-laps, the track is first burned to a disc test-pressing 7 ", whose format is identical to a 45-laps). This process ensures the high quality sound recording. But serendipity would change the course of history. (...)
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