Happy birthday Albert Cabrera (Latin Rascals)60 years and rockin' !!!

 

 

Today August 4th, 2024 Albert Cabrera, one half of legendary editduo "The Latin Rascals" turns 60. Wow, and still doing edits, productions and remixes. Unreal!

Albert, I wish you all the best, stay fit and healthy. 💪

Your fan for life. 

"RR"

Thinking of my friend Thomas L. aka TOM TALL (✝)

Today on July 4th I think of my good friend Thomas L. aka TOM TALL (✝ 2008), who would have turned 60 today. Rest in peace, my friend, I will play your entire Dirty Games 12" later today. 🙏

Here's the Club Mix:

Note: Original german Low Spirit 12" is from 1990, above UK pressing came out in 1991.

RIP Freddy "The Edit" Rivera

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It hit me hard when 2 people informed me of his death. Like myself he loved / lived edits, his talents went far beyond that, effects, additional / original production, artwork, computer, to name just these. Hard to accept he's no longer with us. My deepest condolences to his family, and friends. 

Rest in peace, Freddy ✞

"RR"

RIP Captain Rock

One of my favorite rappers alltime R. Greene aka Captain Rock has died. I saw him live in London 1986, a real trained sixpack powerhouse. I'm very saddened by this shocking news. 

Rest in Peace R.Greene (Captain Rock)

Latin Rascals - Paco Bell X-Mas Canon(RASCAL REVENGE Mashup)

 

Reposting again in 2020, with some microclicks
eliminated, rests on my HD since 2018, in addition
to VBR V0 mp3 first time in flac and apple lossless.

Merry Christmas under these special Corona
conditions , stay safe and healthy !

ENJOY !

This Mashup, Edits & FX by RASCAL REVENGE (Berlin, GERMANY). Made December 2005. This is a higher quality version, re-encoded Dec. 2018. In addition to the original Latin Rascals LP-track I weaved in vocals by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra ("Christmas Canon"). Those vocals I timestretched (i.e. they appear 30 BPM !! faster now). Enjoy ! Shouts to LATIN RASCALS (Albert Cabrera & Tony Moran). Rascal Revenge, Dec. 23, 2018. 

++ Funky Edits Are A Must ++

 

Download mp3 VBR V0:

 

Download 24 bit flac:

Download 24 bit apple lossless:

 

B. Ferry - Loop De Li(feat. RASCAL REVENGE Edits)

After half a year "RR" has something new. For that
time he didn't even launched his sequencer one time,
but on last THU late evening he made all the edits pre-
sented here, the usual leveling/finishing took place
on SAT. One main (first) edit, two microedits, plus
some drops over an effect-loaden perc-break @ 2:59
min. not  present on the record, made of bits from the
first seconds of this song. Erased 8 measures E-guitar
solo part in the middle, plus shortened end-refrains.


Enjoy.

I wish all editfans Merry Christmas and a 
Happy New Year.

"RR"

Peter Murphy - Deep Ocean Vast Sea(feat. RASCAL REVENGE Edit)

Hi there Edithead, have something new, hey it's time to post
something I thought, so I made this ;-) Now I have to say that I
heared this 1989 song for the first time on THU, thought could
work with edits, loaded it in and bam...edits. Made several edits,
but all left is the edit I saw fitting best for the song, rest really
out of the context, would make a good bonus beat edit, sorry
won't happen. So, all you can await from me doo, check it out:



 

Greetings

"RR"

Information: This is the third- or second-last post on this blog, lol
I noticed right now that apart from the new one above there is
only 1 other DL left of all the posts. So will there be another blog ?
I don't know, if then for sure not on google ! Will there be new
edits ? To be honest I don't know either, my interest is fading.
File under rare event ;-)
 
I'm planning to make all my Edits available again, in VBR 0
mp3 quality at least, as some were posted in lower quality.
Where possible (should I've kept all the wav-files) I post versions
without my name in there. So watch this space for a potential
new blog URL then. Until then.

I want to give out shoutouts to the remaining few keeping edits alive !
Greetings

"RR"

++ Funky Edits Are A Must ++

Michael Jackson Drawing by Albert Cabrera(Latin Rascals)

Saw this a while ago, man has many talents:

(click on pics to enlarge)

Exposé - I Specialize In Love(RR's Vintage Edits @ 1993)

Today I bring you something that's special to my heart,
and it took only a funky 20 years to complete. For an
explanation; I had only the edits on DAT-Tape, so now
I ripped the CD-track (which IMHO is the best on this
1992 Album release), a great cover-version of Sharon
Brown's classic I also own, I must say !

What can I say now is wow I went so quick and
"bam" there it was, I rendered this the first time
on WED 2 a.m. and it really put a smile on my face,
now that it's ready after decades.

Edits/gating as they were - and I used all I made back then,
I did not change them with the computer now, just a lil'
delay from my host on the first edit plus the occational
reverb here and there, to make better blends.

Well what I did I pinned the song now to the grid/ a certain
BPM with my host. I remember the edit from 3:15 to  3:23
min. was very much influenced by an edit by the great
editors Whiz Kids, and the  tape-stop effect in this I sampled
from an edit by  - I seem to remember  - Eric "Moe" Rosenberg.
Edit starting @ 1:42 min. maybe a lil' too "adventurous" to some
for this songs beat, I find it pretty dope, like the unexpected ;-)
 

Technical freak-info:

Sampler used was my E-mu Emulator III keyboard sampler with
4 MB Ram, which gave you a good 23 sec. stereo sampling time,
software was I think LOGIC for the Atari already. So I programmed
a drum beat, started in the CD and fiddled around with the BPM until
my beat was in sync with the song for one minute, my usual method
in general, for years. Edits were usually (if not played in realtime)
done in LOGIC - and before in C-Lab Creator/Notator - with the
so called Hyper Editor, one of the best inventions in sequencer-
history IMHO, basically a drum editor, but going far beyond.


So with setting the grid to 32th note you could apply 16th note
gating, this worked by setting the Emu's Modwheel to Volume,
then using its MIDI CC-Value in the Hyper Editor, well you had
to figure BPM as closely as possible, otherwise it gives you bad
clicks. Using same method you can apply MIDI-ducking, as you
can hear in the edit starting @3:48, so where I drop an editslice
I lower/or cancel out the volume-level of the original song at that
very same position. You could also animate pitch with this samplers
Aux-Envelope, hear edit 3:04 - 3:06, and also 3:40 - 3:48, say does
the end of the latter sound freakin' "wiggle-waggle" awesome or
what ? I love it, really gives it a twist, hey this came not in a few
seconds, so imagine listen to this edit in a loop for a loooong time
- tweaking parameters, this was / is for the passionate guy.

ENJOY !!!
 "RR"

 







  

EA Mix IX - Kabelpeitsche 2.0 (feat. little RR-Edit)

Hi there, my friend Alex aka Audiohead made another
great mix again, containing tracks collected from music-forums
and other sources. I dropped a little edit for the Evil Hectorr
track (starting 25:39 in the mix), this track was already released
on the german electrolabel Dominance Electricity, used with
permission. Download mix via link or embedded one below.


Complete tracklist >>>> 
https://soundcloud.com/verstaerkermusic/ea-mix9-kabelpeitsche2-0

Whodini - Funky Beat(RASCAL REVENGE's Vintage Edits)

Yesterday I was listening to old music-demos I
transferred digitally from DAT-Tape, inbetween
I stumbled upon this short Whodini-Edit. I can't
say for certain, but this MIDI-Edit I made most
probably 1992, with Atari ST, C-Lab Notator and
my E-mu E III (4MB) Stereo-Sampler, the delay
at the end is also the EIII, these days you had to
render this to a sample, so for making the delay-
repeats/feedback audible you needed a long sample
with digital silence (i.e. -96 dB) at the end, using the
samplers Digital Processing, tzz. I own the US 12"
of this, but for this Edit I sampled the track from my
Whodini - Greatest Hits CD (1990).

This goes not into my list of Editmixes, so just for fun.



 

Telefunken M5

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Just saw this, liked the description Telefunken M5 Editmaschine ;-)
Now these are really build like a tank, guess you need 3 strong
men to move this, at least !

The Cover Girls - Still Miss You(feat. RASCAL REVENGE Edits)

Made one night a few days back, finishing today.
Usual concept of one main edit, two mini-thingies
before that, also some re-arrangement cuts. 
Well that's it, check it out.

Freestyle-Mix containing some of my edits

RASCAL REVENGE EDITS REMIXES by Freestyle House Treasure on Mixcloud

Mixed by DJ Fuligem, this via Melvin Gonzales, thanks.

Chrissy I-eece - You & Me(Re-arrangement & Edit by RASCAL REVENGE)

Now this has just some parts I did not like left
out, all stripped down to Radio-Mix length,
more is really not needed. And wow... it has
one (repetitious) edit-break. I made more
(actually better) edits with this, but the edit
that finally appears here was the one best
matching, so I'm happy with it. C'est la vie.

Well, this Advance Copy CD seems to have
some production faults, the main thing is the
tracks are almost completely in mono, but
you can listen to it ;-)




Check it out:

Alxxm - Love's On Fxre(feat. RASCAL REVENGE's Bangin' Edits)

Here my latest, edits made in one go the night 3 days back, a
little finishing ("levelling/mastering") yesterday.
For artist and title edited see above.


Now I always liked the producers for their own productions, plus
all they did for one of my favorite rappers, Capt. Rock.

Great beats/songs/productions/vocalist(s), what more can you ask
for ? Edits ? Oh Boy, you came to the right place.


Think I made two great edits, ok now the first is nice compared to
the second (bangin' !) edit, which is (me thinking) one of the best
edits I made yet. Don't mean it selfish but I love it, in such moments
I forget I made it, you know !?!

It's just the way this 2. edit hits you when it clocks in.... it has that
umm...bite... call it "edit with an attitude" ;-). 

Ok, now check this out 


Download

zip-password is>>>  edits

Laura Enea - Your Personal Touch(feat. RASCAL REVENGE Edits)

Hi there, to all a happy and healthy year 2013.

So here a piece I made last year in August, with my old PC (RIP).
After 4 months without one I now rendered it with my new computer
 - super...turbo..mega...o-rama ;-)

Evelyn "Champagne" King released this song originally back in 1985,
so this Laura Enea here is a cover version, with drums obviously
sampled from Mantronik-production. Well done, like those hard beats.


It does not contain as much edits as I planned, so now it's just
another "feat. RR Edits" piece, the latter always indicating it being on
the "nice side" of edits     haha.
Check it out !


DOWNLOAD

Sandee - Love Desire(feat. RASCAL REVENGE Edits)

Made this a week ago already, but there was some
modulation in the audio, caused by my host-software.
Not completely gone, but I did my best to make this
"presentable", at least.

Piece of "Club Hip Hop" I'd like to call this track, it
was made 1991. Presented by Sandee, who sadly
passed away Dec. 2008, Rest In Peace !

Made some re-arrangement cuts, i.e. cutting out
repeated refrains, I also threw the rapper out ;-) 

Blending out I made it; can I say I dig the main-edit,
the one caressing your ear @ 3:33 min. ?

PLAY THIS EDIT LOUD !     LMAO

Ok, now check this out.

Download

mediafire password: edits

India - Steppin' Out(feat. RASCAL REVENGE Edits)

My latest, made entirely today, July 4th:

India - Steppin' Out 

(feat. RASCAL REVENGE Edits)

Great Freestyle track, well produced by John "Jellybean"
Benitez 1990, performed by the amazing India, love her voice.
All add. Edits/Effects/Re-arrangement by me, once again a nice
one, uplifting the song a bit, with the second edit (coming in @
3:21 min.) being pretty tasty. Sure I will present a crazy one
in the near future, so watch out.


Enjoy !

Download


P.S.: Once again a big thank you to Melvin from Puerto Rico.

Th* C*rs - Hello AgainFUNKAFILIA & RASCAL REVENGEBonus Beat Edit

Hi there, did another collab with my editfriend from
the netherlands FUNKAFILIA, presenting:

Th* C*rs - Hello Again 

(FUNKAFILIA & RASCAL REVENGE

Bonus Beat Edit)

The original tempo of this song is close to 129 BPM,
for this Bonus Beat Edit it was changed down to
124 BPM. Thanks to Funkafilia for doing this with
me. Now check this edit-piece out:

Download

mediafire password: edits

Sorry, normally I don't extra-zip mp3s (recent posts),
but there's a reason for doing this, you trust me ;-).

P.S.: The first collab we did 2003 will appear here soon.