"White Lines" - Grandmaster Flash

Jim's promo 45 is a really good edit of the song, and is very different from what I posted above.

I humbly retract the editing instructions from above, since they're not even close to what's on the real US promo 45.

(I know I reverse-engineered *something*, but after 17 years, I don't remember what it was. Regardless, it's a terrible edit. Don't use it.)

I will re-investigate shortly, and will post revised editing instructions.

Thanks, Jim!

Confirming eriejwg's findings - this one is really easy if you start with one of the Rhino discs.

The version on Rhino's Best Of Sugar Hill Records (1998) sounds great. The version on Rhino's Millennium Hip-Hop Party (1999) is digitally exactly 1.431 dB quieter than Best Of Sugar Hill Records. Both have the same timings if you want to do your own edits.

My editing instructions are basically the same as eriejwg's, but I start my fade a few beats earlier. (I use a sinusoidal-shape fade in Cool Edit Pro, which has a very gentle start.)

Remove the 16 beats from 0:00 to 0:08.9 of the Rhino versions.

Segment 1
472 beats long
Begins and ends on a downbeat
Extends from 0:00.0 to 4:05.5 of the promo 45 edit
Extends from 0:08.9 to 4:14.4 of the Rhino versions

Fade
16 beats long
Begins and ends on a downbeat
Extends from 3:57.1 to 4:05.5 of the promo 45 edit
Extends from 4:06.0 to 4:14.4 of the Rhino versions

Your mixdown will have no edits in it, will run 4:05.5, and will have a 16-beat long fade from 3:57.1 to 4:05.5.