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Master Mixes 
12mastermixes
USA cover
Released 20 June 1987
Recorded 1987
Genre Dance
Length 6 tracks
Label Capitol Records
Producer(s) Duran Duran
Nile Rodgers
record label & Brazilian cover
Masterdisk master mixes duran duran
BRAZIL
Duran Durn

Master Mixes is a Duran Duran promotional-only double one-sided 12" vinyl EP, released in Asia, Brazil, Hong Kong and the USA by Capitol Records on 20 June 1987.

About the EP

Released in a plain white stickered sleeve featuring track listing details in Asia, Hong Kong and the USA, the EP was also issued in a picture sleeve in Brazil. Rumour had it that the band were readying either "American Science" or "Vertigo" as a likely fourth single from the album Notorious, commissioning remixes in anticipation. However, both "Skin Trade" and "Meet El Presidente" both failed to enter the top 20, plans for a fourth single were quietly scrapped. Masterdisc released this Master Mixes collection, compiling the unused remixes, as well as a further mix of "Skin Trade" and a megamix called "Notoriousaurus Rex" in time for Duran Duran's USA leg of The Strange Behaviour Tour in June and July 1987.

In 1999, EMI released a collection of remixes under the title Strange Behaviour and included the "American Science" (Chemical Reaction Mix), giving the mix its first truly commercial release. The other remix of "American Science" and the Kurtis Mantronik mixes of "Vertigo" still have yet to receive a commercial release.

Track Listing

US Release

Brazilian Release

This EP was released in December 1987 by EMI Music Brazil for promotional purposes, to coincide with the Hollywood Concert shows in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in 1988.

Brazilian bootleg

A Brazilian CD version also contains these additional tracks:

Listings

  • Asia - 12" vinyl VB-15320 (stickered white sleeve)
  • Brazil - 12" vinyl 0647489561
  • Hong Kong -12" vinyl VB-15320-1/2 (Stickered sleeve)
  • USA - 2x 12" vinyls Capitol VB-15320-1/2,2x1-sided, (stickered anonymous gatefold sleeve)
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