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The music... lives on.

This is mastermix dot org, a website by Richcolour.

It focuses on the mid-1980s London soul radio stations which introduced the mastermix genre to the UK. The sounds on this site are predominantly taken from FM pirate broadcasts, recorded to cassette. Often the recordings suffer from interference, drop outs, print-through and occasional 'record button' accidents. But generally they have a warm, authentic quality to them. Browse through the Mixes links on the menu. You can also find station idents, jingles and adverts from back in the day. I'm also building up a collection of pirate stickers, documents, t-shirts and other Memorabilia. For info about the radio stations see the Station Information page. Finally, when I have some time I'll add a Forum so you can add your own memories.

Disclaimer: This website is not about ripping off artists or record companies. You won't find full length original songs here, just some ancient, hissy FM broadcasts of partial mixed up tracks. If you came here looking to download a particular song then don't bother. You should go buy it from a legal download site. It will cost you just a few coins, and you'll get a genuine, high quality music file. As this site progresses I'll try to add links to where you can legally buy every track mentioned within these pages.

Furthermore, if you own the copyright on a part of the broadcasts on this site please get in touch on richcolour@mastermix.org . I will honor every removal request, and immediately take down the recording.