Hip-Hop/Rap
United States
Pettibone
About Pettibone
DJ, remixer, producer, and songwriter Shep Pettibone is one of the most revered figures in club music history. Active and prolific from the late '70s through the mid-'90s, he built his reputation on "master-mixes" of post-disco R&B records that balanced might with nuance. He applied the approach with tremendous success to the pop world, most famously as an associate of Madonna, for whom he remixed "Get into the Groove" (1985) and "Express Yourself" (1989) before co-writing and co-producing "Vogue" (1990) and the majority of Erotica (1992). Whether his mixes featured new instrumentation, rearranged sections, imaginative emphasis on the drums, or were reproduced from scratch, they were tailored to dancefloors and airwaves alike. Artists and labels with whom Pettibone worked often favored his remixes (over edits and album versions) for radio and video. Level 42, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, and Cathy Dennis, among dozens of others, benefited from Pettibone's prowess.
