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Master Mixes
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EP by Duran Duran
Released 20 June 1987
December 1987 (Brazil)
Recorded 1986-1987
Format 12" vinyl (45 RPM), cassette
Genre New wave, synthpop
Length 6 tracks
Label Capitol, EMI
Producer(s) Duran Duran
Nile Rodgers
Brazilian cover
BRAZIL
Duran Duran

Master Mixes is a promotional-only EP by Duran Duran, released in Asia, Hong Kong and the USA by Capitol Records-EMI on 20 June 1987 and in Brazil during December 1987.

About the EP

The 12" vinyl version released in Asia, Hong Kong and the USA is double one-sided record, housed in a plain white stickered sleeve featuring track listing details

The Brazilian edition was 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, as both "Skin Trade" and "Meet El Presidente" 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.

See also

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