The Contessa's Party has finally begun

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Thorne's newest CD is now available.

from CD Baby

After a wonderfully positive response to the Contessa by the New York dance community, we decided to make a collection of club mixes. The first issue was of Dancing With B. Noted New York remixer Norty Cotto contributes three mixes, and Thorne adds another three, each in radically differing styles. The CD (right) runs for over 70 minutes for just $6.99 including shipping. The 12" vinyl (left) has Norty's two long mixes.

The second CD, in further response, was Grandma's Goodbye, which featured a 16' megamix by Thorne (who holds the world record of 22' 55" for the Communards' Don't Leave Me This Way) as well as futher contributions by Norty Cotto. It just missed making the Billboard club chart, which would have been nice for a pure independent release.

Selected commercial production commentaries 1974-2006
A large collection of commentary and inside anecdotes about many of the music projects with which Thorne has been associated. No-one's dignity, least of all his, gets in the way of a good story......

Short Biography
Pimpled, understated Mike Thorne first sprang to prominence as a thin, pale tape op on Deep Purple and Fleetwood Mac sessions in London during the early seventies. This natural career interlude between a physics degree and classical composition study led erratically......

Production and performance credits, 1976-present

Encyclopedia of
Record Producers (entry)
(Billboard Publications, August 1999)
Mike Thorne - keyboardist, scholar, journalist, record executive, studio owner, multimedia entrepreneur, composer - is one of the most important and successful producers of punk, post-punk, technopop and new wave over the last 20 years.   His productions include......

The first album by Thorne: Sprawl

God Save The Sex Pistols
Interview with Thorne
(God Save The Sex Pistols site
November 2002)
I picked up the phone when Malcolm called, then saw them at the 100 Club in Oxford Street. Couldn't persuade anyone else from EMI to walk over from the Marquee where their signing Giggles had just played. They weren’t hot property then, despite having featured on the cover of Melody Maker. To many, it was probably just another of Mike’s crazy projects, and since......

Wire Newsletter
Interview with Thorne, May 1996
The idea for the Roxy album certainly caused some consternation at EMI. I remember hanging on the pay-phone at the club, trying to explain some raucous contractual point to the Managing Director [Leslie Hill].  Logistically it was a major effort getting all that together.  For the recording I deliberately......

Chapters Posted from Music In The Machine:
Logistics: Before The Music Gets Physical
The Recording Studio: Rise And Fall Of An Institution
Dancing: Into The Eighties
Delivering The Music: All Change

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