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  And We Danced - Tom Moulton Profile
Tom Moulton was born in 1940 and dreamed of being a disc jockey at a young age.
Tom Moulton thought most people were not really finished dancing to one song before the next one had begun.
Moulton's approach has always been one of using the components of the original recording to stretch and expand the listening experience while remaining true to the original musicians and vocalists.
www.andwedanced.com /producers/moulton.htm   (961 words)

  
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Tom was gaining noteriety as a print and commercial model in the early 1970's when on a weekend trip to Fire Island he discovered that his love for music was stronger than his love of modeling.
Tom expounded on the virtues of the 12" further by stating: "Because 45's were geared for radio, they were all 'middle', and you couldn't cut a lot of bass onto the record.
Tom also invented by accident the "disco break." It came about when he undertook the task of remixing "Dream World" the song had a severe key change and in order to extended it he stripped it down and slowly built it back up.
discomuseum.com /TomMoulton.html   (1718 words)

  
 Tom Moulton: A Tom Moulton Mix: Pitchfork Record Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Moulton's mixes represent the sound of disco as it was transmitted through DJs and samplists to the modern day: pop vocals spun into never-ending networks of quivering funk.
The elementary structure of your average Moulton mix will therefore be familiar to anyone with a strobe light, but the complexity and elegance is nearly overwhelming throughout Soul Jazz's two-disc set.
Moulton's name was nearly synonymous with disco success and his direct influence spreads across thousands of records.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/39194/Tom_Moulton_A_Tom_Moulton_Mix   (567 words)

  
 A Tom Moulton Mix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
To appreciate the level of involvement Tom Moulton has had with the over 4000 mixes he has executed, you must first understand that not all 'remixers' and 'remixes' are cut from the same cloth.
Most of Moulton's remixes, as proven with this collection, were comprised of just the original musical elements, tweeked with a louder EQ and extended in length to satiate a growing new market sparked by the Disco phenomenon and the club DJ's demand for more product, i.e.
Moulton since arguably, there is more than enough material in his distinguished discography that could / should be reintroduced to a public with a growing thirst for quality dance music.
www.buyrado.com /p7814-a-tom-moulton-mix.html   (1291 words)

  
 Tom Moulton
Tom Moulton's concepts singlehandedly created a new industry of remixing--producing records with greater dance impact.
Tom Moulton was a fashion model on hiatus from the music business when he visited Fire Island's Botel during a photo shoot.
At 2:30 on a Saturday morning, Moulton was awakened by a call from the Sandpiper that was unintelligible except for the screaming of dancers.
www.geocities.com /jahsonic/TomMoulton.html   (515 words)

  
 Soul Jazz Records — Tom Moulton — A Tom Moulton Mix
Tom Moulton is one of the most important people in the history of dance music.
From a little corner of his Manhattan apartment, his eyes locked on a computer he is harnessed to deliver the legendary Tom Moulton mix, he breathes life into songs that were gathering dust in warehouses, usually forgotten by their current owners, the Major labels.
Tom is definitely a man of sheer brillance, a quality that is all too rare in our scene, meeting him was one of the best encounters I've ever had.
www.souljazzrecords.co.uk /releases/?id=5956   (1030 words)

  
 MDD_TOM MOULTON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In the early 1970s Tom was taken to Fire Island, a legendary place, only accessable by boat, where New York's gay clubbing community spent their summers, by another model from his agency who owned The Botel there.
Tom had already been experimenting with reel to reel tape for a few years, extending parts of favourite songs, seeing what would happen.
Tom's mix of Freeman really opened the floodgates for him, and he spent most of the 1970s mixing records for artists far too numerable to even begin to list.
www.milliondollardisco.com /tommoulton.html   (1741 words)

  
 Dance Music Then and Now, From Tom Mo... - !! Electronic Musika !! - tribe.net
Early in the 1970's, Tom Moulton found a way to defy the laws of mathematics: he made songs longer by a process of subtraction.
Moulton did something that would soon become commonplace: he made a mix.
Moulton went in the other direction: the version here lasts more than 11 minutes, and if anything it ends too soon.
musika.tribe.net /thread/b20f8969-07a7-412c-83ec-9ea1021832b6   (1001 words)

  
 TomMoulton
Tom continues; "So, one day I went in there to José and I had "I'll Be Holding On" by Al Downing and I said; "José, I really need some acetates." And he said; "Tom, I don't have any more 7" blanks.
Tom claims it took only 10-11 hours for each mix that he did.
Tom is alive and well and still going strong in his beloved Big Apple apartment/studio.
www.discomuseum.com /TomMoulton.html   (1718 words)

  
 Browse by Artist: MOULTON, TOM
When thinking of dance music, and its now long and proud heritage, there is no denying that one of the yardsticks everyone comes back to time and time again is the visionary body of work that Tom Moulton has accumulated over the course of his long and illustrious career.
Tom Moulton began his career in the early 1960s as a promotions man at the legendary R'n'B label King Records, home of James Brown, Little Willie John, Hank Ballard and The Midniters and many more.
Tom Moulton wanted to extend the time of a song in order to keep people on the dancefloor.
www.forcedexposure.com /artists/moulton.tom.html   (299 words)

  
 A Tom Moulton Mix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moulton's heyday such usage was a definite no-no for those seeking respect in the industry.
Moulton seems to have okayed such usage by his contemporaries within the Salsoul Records family.
Moulton himself cast aspersion upon Vincent Montana Jr.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Tom_Moulton_Mix   (224 words)

  
 Tom Moulton Tribute @ Disco-Disco.com
Tom Moulton is the guy who has meant more to music and the Disco scene, than other people can dream of in a lifetime.
Tom was born in November 29, 1940 in a town with the Indian name Schenectady, which is right next to Albany - the capitol of New York State.
Tom was the most desired mixer already in 1974-77 and he was one of the few guys who was credited already in these early Disco years, because the record labels knew it would help sell records with his mixes.
www.disco-disco.com /tributes/tom.shtml   (9193 words)

  
 Tom Moulton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moulton's early successes in "mixing down" dance records were the result of insistently taking away elements from the original multi-track.
As the club in question (the Sandpiper) was very high profile, it was only a matter of time before his skills were noticed and put to use pre-release by those in the music industry.
Moulton was also a male model for a short period of time.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_Moulton   (441 words)

  
 Various, A Tom Moulton Mix | | Guardian Unlimited Arts
Tom Moulton created the first 12in mix prior to the 1970s disco boom and became a pioneer of the format.
Artists graced with a Tom Moulton mix could expect their concise pop to be turned into an epic drama.
Moulton had a good sense of when to hold back (Patti Jo's Make Me Believe In You is stripped and urgent) but also knew that disco floors often relished going over the top: MFSB's Love is the Message sounds like John Williams conducting a choir of cartwheeling angels.
arts.guardian.co.uk /reviews/story/0,,1798490,00.html   (203 words)

  
 SF Station: Tom Moulton - A Tom Moulton Mix
Myself and many of my peers were too young to experience the disco heyday of the 70s, the hedonism and excess that accompanied it, not to mention the bold and striking fashion that went along with it.
To provide context, Tom Moulton has been a seminal figure in the world of disco/dance music for over three decades.
Granted, the content of the majority of the songs captured in A Tom Moulton Mix can accurately be characterized as shallow, vapid, decadent, hedonistic, etc. But, independent of the content and lyrics of the songs, virtually every song has a catchy and infectious beat that is imminently danceable.
www.sfstation.com /tom-moulton-a-tom-moulton-mix-a1986   (566 words)

  
 The Other Music Update
Tom Moulton grew up as a soul lovin' white boy from Indiana and after a short stint in the music industry, he ended up making a living as a male model in New York City in the early-'70s.
Moulton could hear things in a song that no one else could, and he would accentuate whatever made a particular track great, and extend that part to create maximum dancefloor effect.
Moulton asked his engineer to make him a 7-inch test pressing of a single he was working on, but the engineer only had 10-inch blanks.
www.othermusic.com /2006april13update.html   (3699 words)

  
 Tom Moulton - DiscoMusic.com
Tom Moulton [b: November 29, 1940 - present] is the best known Disco remixer as his name has appeared on hundreds of Disco records from the 1970s.
Disco Exhibit NYC (2005): Bernie Lopez of DiscoMusic.com and the godfather of the 12 inch Disco mix, Tom Moulton.
When 12 inch records were hot,seeing 'a Tom Moulton Mix' at the lower half of the label meant you were in for a treat.
www.discomusic.com /people-more/6325_0_11_0_C   (485 words)

  
 Short story - "MYSTERY UNEARTHED AT PINA,PANAMA" by Tom Moulton - Page 3 of 12
Tom wrote to the Instituto de Tourismo in Panama City, Panama asking for information about traveling along the Northwest coastal area of the country.
To be more specific, he indicated a desire to view and photograph the tropical birds along the coastal area.
Tom wondered what other options he had for receiving information on getting to his quest.
www.sffworld.com /authors/m/moulton_tom/fiction/mysteryunearthed3.html   (684 words)

  
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Not content with inventing the 12” single format and the ‘remix’, Moulton almost single-handedly popularized disco in the 1970s with his hugely influential column in Billboard magazine.
TOM MOULTON - A Tom Moulton Mix - Volume 2
TOM MOULTON - A Tom Moulton Mix - Volume 1
www.boomkat.com /artist.cfm?a=10775   (289 words)

  
 Tom Moulton: A Tom Moulton Mix's album: Various Artists  (djmixed music review)      (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In 1973, Moulton inadvertently ignited a musical revolution when he ingeniously created the extended dance mix by meticulously sustaining and expanding the grooves of traditionally 3-4 minute dance songs by re-assembling them into grandiose suites with precise breaks and instrumental drop-outs.
These landmark tracks are a fascinating chronicle of the evolution of club music and the birth of the remix.
Moulton’s creative ingenuity, musical integrity and sonic expertise as a producer, remixer and engineer were unrivaled and more than 40 years on, his “Tom Moulton Mix” trademark remains synonymous with high quality, leaving a lasting legacy and benchmark for successive generations of dance music lovers to uncover and enjoy.
djmixed.com /djmixed/reviews/review.cfm?Article_ID=3746   (264 words)

  
 Dancing Queen - Abba Tom Moulton & Shep Pettibone Perspective Mix by NTM UK
Before starting this project I had no idea who invented the 12inch mix or when the idea was ever conceived.
Tom Moulton is one of the big sleeping giants of the music industry.
The tracks I choose to mix with Abba's Dancing Queen were deliberate, to show the wide scope and level of Professionalism both had reached in their work.
www.ntmusic.org.uk /proj_dmu3.html   (127 words)

  
 A Tom Moulton Mix by Various Artists Review, A Tom Moulton Mix by Various Artists Downloads, A Tom Moulton Mix by ...
Tom Moulton was the genius who invented the remix in 1974, but it wasn’t only a head start that made him one of the masters of dance music.
Moulton restructures and tweaks deep (and shallow) soul songs to build, crest and pour weightlessly over a sweaty crowd or a solitary listener.
Unsurprisingly, they’re almost all about love and its physical manifestations, and time’s been kind to them: porn queen Andrea True gasping for more-more-more and Isaac Hayes coaxing two young ladies into a moonlit threesome were once campy cartoons of sexiness, but the earnest melodrama of their delivery and Moulton’s throbbing rhythms now sound genuinely seductive.
www.blender.com /guide/reviews.aspx?id=4138   (228 words)

  
 Tom Moulton Mix of Robert Palmer's "You Overwhelm Me"? - Forums
Now, I never found out whether he was just bs-ing me, since there's no info available anywhere about the existence of said gem.
It's funny this because although Moulton worked on 4 tracks on that LP, "You Overwhelm Me" doesn't seem to be one of them.
Best Of Both Worlds is on a 12" ("A Tom Moulton Mix").
www.djhistory.com /forum/showthread.php?t=15736   (477 words)

  
 Amazon.com: A Tom Moulton Mix: Music: Tom Moulton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Needing You [A Tom Moulton Mix] - Clara Lewis
Tom Moulton ''A Tom Moulton Mix'' is released today on Soul Jazz Records.
This is the first album to bring together some of the classic and rare tracks that have been blessed with the phrase "A Tom Moulton Mix" on the record label.
www.amazon.com /Tom-Moulton-Mix/dp/B000EHQ5NU   (1771 words)

  
 A Tom Moulton Mix special on Starpoint Radio - Forums
Join us this and next Saturday (8 and 15 July) for a Tom Moulton special on the 6MS Sessions on Starpoint Radio from 11am to 1pm (GMT).
Lots of familiar tunes that you know, some that may be new to you and some you hadn't realised had been touched by Tom.
Edith was Tom's cookery teacher and taught him his first mix.
195.238.232.184 /~djhistory/forum/showthread.php?p=149233   (200 words)

  
 DailyCD - Tom Moulton
One of the most important contributions to disco didn't come from the dance floor or the DJ booth, oddly enough, but from a young record executive-turned-model named Tom Moulton.
Initially, the mixes were primitive physical cuts: Moulton would literally cut the tracks with razor blades and then tape them together to form the extended versions.
Suddenly, the dancer is on the same journey with everyone on the dance floor, and all of life's pain and suffering is expelled through a simple scream over transcendent horns, keyboards, and strings.
www.dailycd.com /cgi-bin/display/printerfriendly.cgi?articleid=1628   (497 words)

  
 TOM MOULTON: Vinyl/Records - The DJ List
Ron Hall and The Muthafunkaz Feat Marc Evans, Remixes By David Penn / Sergio Flores / TOM MOULTON
A Tom Moulton Mix - Volume 1 (Keep On Truckin / I'll Be Holding On / Peace Pipe / Dreamworld / Make Me Believe In You / Needing You / Free Man / You've Got The Power)
Jocelyn Brown, France Joli, Remix By Danny Tenaglia, TOM MOULTON, Dimitri From Paris
www.thedjlist.com /djs/TOM_MOULTON/vinyl   (239 words)

  
 e t h e r e a - online music reviews, audio sound clips, and mailorder
Tom Moulton pretty much invented the remix in the 1970s.
Chopping, re-editing, extending the breakdowns, rebuilding songs with the dancefloor in mind.
While the much-touted Toronto-based electronic pop act Junior Boys might be missing co-founder and Last Exit producer Johnny Dark, the sophomore release of So This Is Goodbye doesn’t compromise a thing.
www.ethereaonline.com   (608 words)

  
 Tom Moulton
Salsoul SG 203 DJ Mixed By Tom Moulton
Salsoul SG 374 DJ A Tom Moulton Mix
Salsoul SG 390 DJ Mixed by Tom Moulton
www.geocities.com /scottpurkiss/music/tom_moulton.html   (281 words)

  
 Grace Jones - La Vie En Rose (Tom Moulton Mix) / The Hype Machine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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This page provides information about the track La Vie En Rose (Tom Moulton Mix) by Grace Jones posted on the Dilated Choonz blog.
If you are concerned about our listings, you can find more information here and are welcome to contact us directly.
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