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DJ Shaun Buchanan - The Wedding - Fire Island Pines - 8-20-83 (Jim Hopkins Remaster)

From the Owen Frager reel-to-reel mixtape archives. **This tape was recorded on very thin tape. Due to the age of the tape, it contains some slight dropouts towards the beginning and end of the mix.

(Owen writes....)
Shaun Buchanan.... “Encore”
When Sting sings about being an “Englishman in New York,” I remember my friend and haircutter DJ Shaun Buchanan, who was one of the first people I knew, that succumbed to AIDS in 1984. But Shaun died having touched the hearts and minds of thousands of the world’s most creative and influential men through his music in the early 80s. Determined to play the top clubs in New York, he went from making a demo cassette as a hobby… to getting it played in a small bar called The Break beneath his Chelsea apartment… to becoming one of the most popular regular DJs at The Saint… in less than six months. This $5million hi-tech phenomenon was dominated by a 76' x 38' perforated aluminum dome which is larger than the Hayden Planetarium's, encasing a dance floor of 4800 square feet. The effect of those dancing under The Saint’s dome was staggering. It took thousands of dancers into a new dimension of light and sound. But when Johnny Mathis’ Begin the Beguine came on, all eyes and ears turned to Shaun who was about to begin a signature encore. There was never anything like dancing to Shaun’s early morning beats before, and I’ve never had a club experience to equal it since. Though Shaun was also known for his Sunday morning sets at Moonshadow and for playing the Pavilion on Fire Island, the selections in this CD come from a more personal venue. Shaun played my wedding on Fire Island in August 1983. The performance was his Island debut and its tape was used as his audition for the Saint. It wet the boys appetites for more of Shaun and the buzz they created helped fulfill his dreams. I hope you enjoy hearing it as much again now as we did back then.