Lori M. Grant - life is a venn diagram

This is one of my favorite dance mixes. Lots of one-hit wonders on here, but great music.
Dance Mix 7 & 8

Control - Janet Jackson: Fun song, but not one that I play today.
Brand New Lover (12″ extended mix) - Dead or Alive: After discovering Dead or Alive’s previous work, I couldn’t wait for this album [...]

This dance mix is one of my all-time favorites. 1987 was a great year after 1984. The dance mixes were awesome. It was nice to have dance music evolve from the Bar-Kays and Five Star sound to Bananarama and Janet Jackson’s early stuff.
Dance Mix 6

Venus (12″ extended mix) - Bananarama: I loved this song. As [...]

My Dance Mix 5 tape always felt like a transition tape between Dance Mix 4 and 6. There were only a handful of songs that I loved on this tape. Everything else felt like filler. I barely remember Falco, Starpoint, and Five Starr. And James Brown’s song? What was I thinking?
Dance Mix 5

Restless- Starpoint: Eh…not [...]

There were only seven songs on this tape that I still love today.  The Jets emerged as an interesting family act. Their 12″ vinyl were always great mixes. I have no doubt that I had lots of personal drama going on in 1986, but at least I had good dance music to get through those [...]

It was January 18, 1986. I was only 23 years old, when I recorded this dance mix. My cassettes were meticulous, since I had a system or what I like say now, “a repeatable process” for making my tapes. I always had the title with some type of numeric reference, while I listed the recording date [...]

Music was an anchor for me growing up.
I remember the first album my parents bought me, The Partridge Family’s first album. Be kind, I was really little when I listened to The Partridge Family.
For some reason, when I was little, from from toddler to ten, I loved Diana Ross and the Supremes. So naturally, I [...]