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Ron Murphy

Real Name:Ron Murphy
Profile:March 3, 1948 - January 12, 2008 (heart attack)
Record cutter, mastering engineer and record producer at Sound Enterprises (formerly National Sound Corporation/see NSC Records page) in Detroit. Ron Murphy engineered for the first time around May 1966 for title "We Go To Pieces" a 45 single on Forest Hairston's Viney records label. He manned the classic reverb and echo units during Isaac Hayes' recording of “Walk On By” in 1971 at United Sound. In 1989 Steve Martel and Ron Murphy decided to open a store specialising in old phonograph records, situated at 17610 W. Warren in Detroit, Michigan. They named the business National Sound Corporation. Murphy came to the attention of the techno pioneers in the 1980s when the likes of Derrick May and Juan Atkins stumbled upon that Westside cutting plant. Murphy owned a vintage cutting lathe from the 1930s and agreed to master and cut the metal prototype records. He pioneered pressing lock-grooves on records and invented NSC-X2 Groove Technology, he also encouraged artists and producers to make their end product unique, by including etchings written onto the records or enabling records to play outwards. He was also helpfull in fixing young artist recordings that came out-of-phase, poorly-segued or badly recorded but for all sort of release produced a warm, full and genuine sound. Ron Murphy was also known as "Motown Murphy", as he had one of the largest Motown records collection and an extensive knowledge of the Detroit musical history. Ron Murphy spanned two great moments of Detroit music history: Northern Soul and Detroit Techno. He cut masters for many of its innovators in the later genre.
URLs:http://www.soundenterprises.com
http://www.soulfuldetroit.com/web13-fortune%20records/fortune%20text/01-fortune%20intro.htm
Name Variations: All | Ron Murphy | R. Murphy | Ron
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Releases:
Untitled (12", W/Lbl)   NSC Records  
Appears On:
Living For The Night (12")   Underground Resistance 1991
Rappin' 4 Change (12")   Undercurrent Records 1994
Themes From Vapour Space (2xLP)   Plus 8 Records Ltd. 1994
Convextion ◄ (2 versions)   Matrix Records (Detroit) 1995
Loops ◄ (2 versions)   Serotonin 1995
Mix-Up Vol. 2 Featuring Jeff Mills - LiveMix At Liquid Room, Tokyo (Comp) ◄ (4 versions)   Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) ... 1996
Core*Osive Tone 001 (7", Bro)   Core*Osive Tone 1997
Invisible Landscapes: Session One (12")   Transistor Rhythm 1997
Invisible Landscapes: Session Two (12")   Transistor Rhythm 1997
The Other Day (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   S3 ... 1997
Waveform Transmission Vol. 3 (Detroit Cut) (2xLP, Ltd, W/Lbl)   Tresor 1997
(And Don't Forget Me) (7")   Salinger Press, Utilitarian Records 1998
Hundreds Of Sunsets / Itchy And Scratchy (Edit 37) (12")   Twisted Records 1998
Inside Out E.P. (12", EP)   Twisted Records 1998
Interstellar Fugitives (Comp) ◄ (2 versions)   Underground Resistance 1998
Apollo EP (12", EP)   Axis 1999
Groove Within The Groove (12")   430 West 1999
Hidden In Plainsight EP (EP) ◄ (2 versions)   Underground Resistance 1999
Private Dancer (12")   Direct Beat 1999
Riding The Thin Line ◄ (2 versions)   Metroplex 1999
Velocity Funk / Banjo / The Move (Remixes) (12")   KMS 1999
Whut / Yinmao ◄ (2 versions)   Down Low Music 1999
Allegory & Metaphor (CD, Album)   Intuit-Solar 2000
Divine Moments Of Truth (12")   Twisted Records 2000
Gettin Paid EP (12", EP)   Gingerbread House Records 2000
Lifelike (Comp, Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Labels ... 2000
Messages From Machines ◄ (2 versions)   Down Low Music 2000
Mi-Loony-Um! (12")   Twisted Records 2000
Mischa ◄ (2 versions)   Down Low Music 2000
Three One Two (12")   Kompute 2000
Turquoise Mood / Y3K (12")   Twisted Records 2000
Untitled (12", W/Lbl)   illegal Stockholm 2000
Untitled (12", TP, W/Lbl)   DeepChord 2000
Untitled (12", TP, W/Lbl)   DeepChord 2000
Alpha Activity / Over The Threshold (12")   Twisted Records 2001
Autosave (12")   Ground Zero 2001
Cosmos 99 / Cyclone ◄ (2 versions)   Twisted Records 2001
Hardlife (12")   Underground Resistance 2001
LSD (Remixes) ◄ (2 versions)   Twisted Records 2001
La Caixa / El Mariacchi (12")   Twisted Records 2001
Millennium To Millennium ◄ (2 versions)   Underground Resistance 2001
Satellite Cities ◄ (3 versions)   Down Low Music 2001
Sunspot EP (12", EP)   Twisted Records 2001
The Diary Of GrooveLock (12")   Kompute 2001
Chapter One (12")   Kompute 2002
Inspiration / Transition (12")   Underground Resistance 2002
Mescalito / Pura Vida (12")   Twisted Records 2002
Sliding To Midnight ◄ (2 versions)   Down Low Music 2002
The Finger (12")   Twisted Records 2002
The Muffler Strut ◄ (2 versions)   Down Low Music 2002
Paradigm (12")   Iron Box Music 2003
Anonymous Release 2 (12")   Anonymous Release 2004
Automatik ◄ (2 versions)   Transistor Rhythm 2004
Exhibitionist (DVD, PAL)   React 2004
Exhibitionist - A Jeff Mills Mix (Comp) ◄ (2 versions)   React ... 2004
Lost Trax Volume 1 (1990-1993) (12")   Transistor Rhythm 2004
The First EP (12", EP)   Electrofunk Records 2004
The Result EP (12", EP)   BTRAX Records 2004
Anonymous Release 3 (12", Ltd)   Anonymous Release 2005
No One Listens To Techno (12")   Cratesavers Muzik 2005
Plan A (12")   The Plan 2005
UR Battlepak Vol. 2 (2x12")   Underground Resistance 2005
Underwater EP (EP) ◄ (2 versions)   Transistor Rhythm 2005
Arrival / Departure ◄ (3 versions)   Octal 2006
Defragment: Part 1-3 (12", Ltd)   Octal 2006
Defragment: Part 4-6 (12", Ltd)   Octal 2006
Defragment: Part 7-10 (12", Ltd)   Octal 2006
Forthcoming EP (12", EP)   BTRAX Records 2006
Kill Or Be Killed EP (12", EP)   Cratesavers Muzik 2006
Slammer / Slinker (12", Promo, Ltd, Whi)   Transistor Rhythm 2006
Analogueheart (12", Ltd, Cle)   soundshift [detroit] 2007
Cityscape EP (12", EP)   Kupei Musika 2007
High Tech Soul - Stvoření Techno Světa (DVD)   XMAG 2007
Holding Onto That Feeling EP (12", EP)   soundshift [detroit] 2007
Indicios (12", Ltd, EP)   Kupei Musika 2007
Itinerant Craft (12")   frequeNC 2007
Miranda (Remixes) ◄ (2 versions)   Matrix Records (Detroit) 2007
Offworld Awaits Us (7", Ltd)   Select Start Records 2007
Vantage Isle (Comp) ◄ (4 versions)   echospace [detroit] 2007
soundshift [restructured one] (12", Ltd, Blu)   soundshift [detroit] 2007
Dirt Nap E.P (12", EP)   DeadLock Records 2008
Don't You Know? E.P. (12", EP)   Restoration Records 2008
Inch By Inch (12", Cle)   Cryovac Recordings 2008
Music (12", S/Sided)   Whasdat Music 2008
My Life With The Wave (Limited Edition Set) (12", Ltd + CDr, Sam)   S Y N T H 2008
Starlight (CD, Comp) Starlight (M 69 Origin... echospace [detroit] 2008
DJ Marquis Presents: The Disco Boyz (12", S/Sided, W/Lbl, TP)   Nu Flava  
Music Take Me UP (12", W/Lbl)   Mixx Flava Records  
User Reviews:
sgt, Sep 06, 2007

Ron Murphy is probably one of the most instrumental figures in the history Detroit electronic music. All you have to do is take a good look in your record collection and look for the little NSC logo on the runout groove on the inside of the record. Ron has shaped the sound of Detroit Techno more than just about anybody. There were allot of records back in the beginning that were brought in by people that knew next to nothing about production or mixing down properly and Ron has saved the sound of those records and many of them have went down in history as some of the finest examples of techno ever made. Ron has been one of the biggest opponents of overcompression in the industry as people have rushed to bring techno music into the rediculous loudness war that the rest of the record industry is engaged in currently. His mastering is both dynamic and warm and has been praised for its definition in the low end. A kick drum on an NSC mastered record is a beautiful thing to behold. Hes a real living legend in this industry yet he remains humble and is still one of the most interesting figures in this industry that i have ever talked to. A true classic character.

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