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Paul Foxe
Paul started spinning records in 1974 at USA Roller rink. He, of course was 2. No, just kidding. Paul started spinning in clubs at 17 years old. He had an agent who took 10% or $5 whichever was greater. He was getting $35 a night when he started. Big bucks for a 17 year old in the late 70's. As his career continued, he started doing remixes with his Teac 4 track and a razor blade using drum machines and tape loops to add intros and extend songs. In 1988, he joined forces with Donny Raiser and together they started doing New years radio shows for Kiss 98.5 in Buffalo New York. That evolved into doing some combination remixes (mash-ups)for the station. They enjoyed the exclusives and the ability to extend the life of a song on the air. The Music Director at the time was Mike McGowan. He was also the primetime air personality (7 to Midnight). Mike knew Foxe and Raiser wanted to do a mix show more than seperate remixes and developed a show called "The Saturday Night Kissmix". It was a 3 hour show hosted by Mike every Saturday night. The format was all pop dance with 2 song and 3 song sets. Mike gave Raiser & Foxe a list of adds every week and they worked them into sets and built up a library of sets that he could program however he wanted. He would give info about the tracks and artists, talk to listeners and such. Then when the show went off the air at midnight, Mike would drive to a club called LaBoom, which sponsored the show, and continue hosting at the club. Donny Raiser was the resident DJ at LaBoom. The show was #1 in it's slot from '88 to '93 when it went off the air. During their partnership, Paul and Donny produced 2 records together, Temptation Eyes by Billy Razor and the blades, and You Shook Me (all night long) by FBI Posse (Full Blooded Italian). Both were on Amherst Records in Buffalo which at the time owned Glen Medeiros, Doc Severenson,Spiro Gyra, And Gamalon. Foxe and Raiser had local success on both records due to their radio show and radio support from Kiss, and had some nationwide success on the dance charts due to their record pool connections.
Today, Paul is still spinning "records" in Buffalo but also producing music. Paul currently produces Tamra Pacile. A young female artist who has a beautiful voice and personality. Foxe and Tamra are currently working on her first album. The first single, "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love" has been released to the dance genre and has had good success on the dance floor and dance charts around the country
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Donny Raiser
Donny (DJ) Raiser was always into music. In 1978 he went to Sgt. Peppers nightclub on Hertel ave. in Buffalo and met John Ceglia who let him make his first mix. Shortly after that he met Charlie Anzalone who taught him the finer points of mixing. Raiser would follow Charlie to where ever he worked, recorded the mixes and went home and tried to reproduce them on his own home turntables. He started working at clubs in 1980 and spun until 1999. During that time Raiser spun at Casey’s Clubhouse, The Locker Room, The Inferno, Yellow Jaguar, Spy Nightclub, Flash Nightclub, and Laboom. In 1985 Raiser along with DJ Paul Foxe teamed up to do the new year’s eve show on kiss 98.5. Two years later Raiser and Foxe teamed up to produce the Saturday Night Kiss Mix, a four hour mix show on Saturday nights hosted by Mike McGowan. The Kiss Mix was the number one radio show in the area for over five years. In 1987 Raiser and Foxe we called upon by Amherst Records to produce dance tracks for the label. Raiser retired from mixing in 1999 but still produces music with his music partner Paul Foxe.
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Sammy D
Born and raised on buffalos west side. Sammy D was able to visit disco clubs like the Club 747 and Mulligan’s Nightclub, hearing dj’s like Keith Perla and Paul Foxe and listening to the old radio station on Saturday nights called Foxy 93 . Sammy was inspired by how these dj’s blended records together creating a party on the dance floor. How they controlled the dance floor by moving through different tempo’s. Sammy thought that was the coolest thing . Sammy got his first taste of djing at a local roller rink called Super Skate and a local nightclub called Danny Boys. At Danny Boys Sammy met a DJ named Peter, who helped by teaching him the finer points of djing. He bought a cheap pair of turntables and practiced. Sammy got the chance to spin at other clubs in Buffalo like Caseys Niteclub and No Names(that was the name of the place), both were big on Sunday nights. His longest stay was at JJ Muggs in Lackawanna, NY. After Muggs Sammy D worked at Fusions Nightclub and Center Stage in Niagara Falls. Then he headed back to Buffalo and spun at The Colliseum. Sammy D currently is DJing at The Marriott on Saturday nights for the "dance thru the decades” party.
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