Top 40 Music on CD Forum : Black Box

Top 40 Music on CD Forum : Black Box - Strike It Up https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:59:36 +0000 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:18:07 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 30 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=4751 <![CDATA[Top 40 Music on CD Forum]]> https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ <![CDATA[Black Box - Strike It Up : I only heard the video edit. That...]]> https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4751&PID=68114&title=black-box-strike-it-up#68114 Author: PopArchivist
Subject: 4751
Posted: 27 April 2026 at 4:18pm

I only heard the video edit. That is the "hit version" as far as I know. Anything else on the promo CD might have gotten limited airplay. A similar situation a few years later happened for DJ Mike's What's Up where the promo CD did not have the "hit version" either.

I never heard on radio any of the edits on the promo CD. I listened to a lot of radio back then.]]> Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:18:07 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4751&PID=68114&title=black-box-strike-it-up#68114 <![CDATA[Black Box - Strike It Up : I don't know the editing...]]> https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4751&PID=68113&title=black-box-strike-it-up#68113 Author: aaronk
Subject: 4751
Posted: 27 April 2026 at 12:23pm

I don't know the editing instructions, but earlier in the thread I mentioned that it comes from the "Original Remix" but uses the opening synth note from the LP version.]]> Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:23:16 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4751&PID=68113&title=black-box-strike-it-up#68113 <![CDATA[Black Box - Strike It Up : Any editing instructions on how...]]> https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4751&PID=68111&title=black-box-strike-it-up#68111 Author: eriejwg
Subject: 4751
Posted: 27 April 2026 at 10:51am

Any editing instructions on how to create this 'video edit'?
What files do I need to recreate?]]> Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:51:52 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4751&PID=68111&title=black-box-strike-it-up#68111 <![CDATA[Black Box - Strike It Up : Thank you for all the info, guys.This...]]> https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4751&PID=68108&title=black-box-strike-it-up#68108 Author: JackSB
Subject: 4751
Posted: 26 April 2026 at 5:01pm

Thank you for all the info, guys.

This track's situation is a bit of a mess - I can definitely see import CDs being played on US radio. I just don't understand why there'd be not one, but two promo CDs issued and most people weren't hearing any of the tracks from each one - unless most radio stations had their hands on import CDs that were released weeks, if not months, prior.

I'll go with the Original Remix Radio Edit, since it has a lot of what you guys recall hearing on the radio. The LP version is quite long, and I can imagine creating the edits from memory wouldn't be an easy task, nor would it be 100% that they're all correct.

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Subject: 4751
Posted: 26 April 2026 at 8:29am

Actually, one thing I can't say for sure is whether I heard the entire album version or an unofficial edit. I think it would often end on the 'dance, dance, dance, dance' chant, which could mean they just ducked out at 3:50.

On the European CD single, there's a "Radio Edit" by Los Angeles-based engineer Josh Schneider, and it cuts down the album version to about 3:31 and ends with the chant, but cutting off the last 'dance'. I don't know if this edit was circulated in the U.S. or if import CDs were ever serviced to radio as promos, though.]]> Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:29:10 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4751&PID=68107&title=black-box-strike-it-up#68107 <![CDATA[Black Box - Strike It Up : I checked old episodes of Casey's...]]> https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4751&PID=68106&title=black-box-strike-it-up#68106 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 4751
Posted: 25 April 2026 at 10:23pm

I checked old episodes of Casey's Top 40.

The first few weeks of the chart run used the Original Remix Radio Edit.
The last few weeks used an edit of the DJ Lelewel remix that wasn't the official DJ Lelewel Mix Edit (which was also the UK 45 version). It may have been an in-house edit.

I myself only remember hearing the LP version back in 1991, but I'm a small sample size and I was plugged into Minneapolis radio at the time (WLOL until they signed off in Feb 1991, then KDWB - those are the only two that would have played the song at the time).]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:23:43 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4751&PID=68106&title=black-box-strike-it-up#68106 <![CDATA[Black Box - Strike It Up : As mentioned upthread already,...]]> https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4751&PID=68105&title=black-box-strike-it-up#68105 Author: mjb50
Subject: 4751
Posted: 25 April 2026 at 6:27pm

As mentioned upthread already, the Radio Mix (edit of DJ Lelewel Remix), despite being the official single version, was not the U.S. radio hit, as far as any of us remember.

My experience is the same as aaronk's. In Columbus & Dayton, Ohio, I'm certain I heard the album version at the time. I was always shocked that the phrase "acid house" was on mainstream radio.

Edited by mjb50 - 26 April 2026 at 7:40am]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:27:19 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4751&PID=68105&title=black-box-strike-it-up#68105 <![CDATA[Black Box - Strike It Up : Hi everyone,If you could only...]]> https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4751&PID=68104&title=black-box-strike-it-up#68104 Author: JackSB
Subject: 4751
Posted: 25 April 2026 at 5:55pm

Hi everyone,

If you could only use the tracks on the two promo CDs (if you're collecting US Dance #1s in their radio airplay form) - would the "Original Remix Radio Edit" be the correct choice as opposed to the "Radio Mix"?

It's interesting to me that the "Dance Radio Edit" is track 1 on the 8-track promo CD.

]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:55:44 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4751&PID=68104&title=black-box-strike-it-up#68104 <![CDATA[Black Box - Strike It Up : Hi all, In 1990 Providence was...]]> https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4751&PID=51926&title=black-box-strike-it-up#51926 Author: prisdeej
Subject: 4751
Posted: 15 May 2019 at 7:40pm

Hi all,

In 1990 Providence was a 2 Top 40 market. WPRO-FM & WWKX. WFHN on the fringe in New Bedford.

Around 1998-2000 WFHN was still a heavy recurrent station, spinning cuts from the prior 10 years. Around that time I heard them spin the "Original Remix Radio Edit", and something jumped at me which felt very strange -- that intro. It just sounded wrong, it really changed the feeling of which I heard a number of times on the other two stations.

I heard the Video Edit more than once on WWKX between 1995-1997 and quite possibly on WPRO-FM as well. Wish I kept in contact with those folks, I'd ask them to pull the CD.

Hope this helps.

Edited by prisdeej - 31 December 2025 at 1:41am]]> Wed, 15 May 2019 19:40:39 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4751&PID=51926&title=black-box-strike-it-up#51926 <![CDATA[Black Box - Strike It Up : Loveland wrote: aaronk wrote:That's...]]> https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4751&PID=51901&title=black-box-strike-it-up#51901 Author: aaronk
Subject: 4751
Posted: 15 May 2019 at 9:48am

Loveland wrote:

aaronk wrote:

That's eight of us who never recall hearing the "Radio Mix," which leads me to believe that markets airing this mix were likely in the minority.

Aaron, are you familiar with The Mandela Effect? I truly believe this is what's happening here.

Perhaps, but I can say that personally I had never heard the DJ Lelewel remix (including the "Radio Mix") at all until the mid-2000s when I started collecting more extensively. That mix was completely unfamiliar to me.]]> Wed, 15 May 2019 09:48:32 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4751&PID=51901&title=black-box-strike-it-up#51901