Walter Gibbons (1954 - 1994) was an American record producer and remixer. In the music industry, record producer designates a person responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ... A remix is an alternate mix of a song different from the original version, made using the techniques of audio editing. ...
He remixed "10 Percent", by Double Exposure), the first commercially available 12-inch vinyl recordremix , and one of the most successful early American remixes, "Doin' the Best That I Can" by Betty Lavette. In film and photography, double exposure is a technique in which a piece of film is exposed twice, to two different images. ... 33â…“ LP vinyl record album The vinyl record is a type of gramophone record, most popular from the 1950s to the 1990s, that was most commonly used for mass-produced recordings of music. ... A remix is an alternate mix of a song different from the original version, made using the techniques of audio editing. ...
One of the dance figures whose influence and exposure far exceeds his actual name-recognition association, WalterGibbons pioneered the concept of the remix and 12-inch single in America.
Gibbons began working for Salsoul Records in 1976, and recorded his first remix singles that year, Double Exposure's "Ten Percent" and the Salsoul Orchestra's "Nice 'N' Nasty." Utterly transformed with the addition of echo/reverb effects borrowed from dub and drum breaks, the singles influenced dozens of producers (and DJs).
Gibbons also worked on tracks for West End and Gold Mind during the late '70s, but was inactive for several years.
WalterGibbons was a true "Native New Yorker." Born in 1954 in Queens he had a rather uneventful childhood growing up in the big apple.
By 18 Walter was plugged into the emerging gay nightlife scene and he became one of disco's earliest d.j.'s.
Most people believed that WalterGibbons was a fading legend in the early history of disco, then in 1984 he resurfaced, and had a new and immediate impact on the development of Chicago House Sound.
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