Biography
Albert Cabrera earned recognition chiefly through his partnership in the Latin Rascals with Tony Moran, a collaboration that shaped the edit-intensive freestyle sound dominating dance floors in the mid-1980s. As DJs active during the early part of the decade, the pair observed how the post-disco climate had pushed dance music to the margins of popular taste. Operating out of New York, then the nation’s foremost hub for club activity, they persisted through persistent outreach until securing a prominent slot as mix masters for WKTU’s midday “lunch time mix” broadcast. On that program they introduced their private edits—extended reworkings of tracks originally recorded by Bruce Springsteen and the Rolling Stones. Fever Records subsequently enlisted them to helm productions for the Cover Girls, yielding the club success “Show Me.” Over the ensuing years the pair issued their own dance tracks while supplying remixes for numerous rap, rock, and R&B artists. Their profile rested mainly on these reinterpretations of existing hits, yet once audience appetite for that approach waned, the two went their separate ways.
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