what was the first continuous DJ mix on CD?

This CAN'T be the first. I think Dan is right. I'm sure someone somewhere did some cursory CD issue of some Stars On 45 thing in 1987 or something... probably in Europe.

http://m.nu/musik/worldtc.html

Even the Coldcut one is like volume 9 of JDJ, and it came out like six years after Jive Bunny!

(though was Jive Bunny all originals mixed? did they not use session hack re-recordings [I thought Stars On 45 did for sure...])

I'm sure the KLF must have done this before Jive Bunny etc

They never released any DJ mixes at all (not least because they didn't DJ, though Cauty did with Alex Paterson at parties in his squat), let alone before 1989. Chill Out is one continuous take (they stopped tape everytime they made a mistake and started from the beginning), but is overwhelmingly their own compositions, rather than other peoples' records, and was largely performed in real time too, not strictly mixing pre-recorded pieces.

I still can't believe there isn't anything proven to predate the Jive Bunny CD on this matter. I mean, I have a LOT of 1988 era acid house CDs, but none of them are mix CDs.

I have The Shamen's Phorward maxi-CD-single, which has a mega-mix on it, but it's not the entirety of the CD. But it's from 1988.

And according to this, started out as bootlegs!
http://gernhardt.com/beatles/cover/mccd192.html
Cool.

But, anyway still no answer to the specific question? "DJ" on "CD"?

Um, we're talking about CDs, right? What CDs were around in 1981?

Ahhh yeah....that'd be the very rare proto-CDs I have in my collection...made of wax...and er...invisible.

My apologies.

So now we need to find disco mixes released now earlier than 1982 (more likely 1983 though I would think).

There must be a list somewhere.

My recollection is that DJ mix CDs of contemporary tracks started appearing in earnest around Summer 94, eg. Rachel Auburn's Freska and some of the stuff on React (although most if not all of the early React stuff was unmixed).

As for UK releases: this set of results reveals the following candidates:

Mixmaster Morris - Chill Out Or Die!
Mrs Wood Teaches Techno
Billy Nasty - Journeys By DJ Vol 1
(There's also Sasha & Dave Seaman - DJ Culture, which is two separate mixes.)

In the US, there's a mix from Howard Kessler from 1992, called MTV Party To Go Volume 2 (Tommy Boy), but the notes say "Some of the beat-mixes were done with the aid of samplers/sequencers."
http://www.discogs.com/release/179493

In 1993, the same Billy Nasty Journeys By DJ mix pops up again, as well as a David Morales mix called Platinum On Black (which, strangely, features UK tracks).
http://www.discogs.com/release/189361

Also:
DJ Vitamin D - House For Sale Vol. 1
Strictly Rhythm Mix by Tony Humphries
Dave Seaman & Sasha - DJ Culture Vol. 1: The Stress Compilation (again, 2 separate mixes)

Who made the first mastermix?

Eh … dunno.

But neither does anyone else.

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life supplies some clues. By October 1974, John Addison had been making live reel-to-reel recordings of New York DJ sets for some time, selling them over the phone for a hefty $75 a pop. In the same month, just as Billboard magazine was alerting the industry to this illegal practice, Spring records released the Disco Par-r-rty LP as ‘the first non-stop dancing LP record’. No DJ or editor was credited for this segued mastermix.

And no this isn't talking about cds, but it does suggest that the statement at the top of the thread (but not in the title) would be incorrect. Still doesn't answer the thread title question, though.

i can actually remember plenty of bootleg-ish cd mixes from around the same time, usually sold in the same section of the dj shop as the DMC/Hotmix stuff, but i don't think they were anything legal or "commercial"

speaking of Hotmix, does anyone know if this is mixed or un?

http://www.discogs.com/release/242178

cos the Hotmix guys usually did the megamix/continuous mix thing, and this came out in 1988

http://www.discogs.com/release/126501

Where is the love for Visage?

Seriously though, I would very much like to hear from the early 1970s. There's some history right there.

Then it wouls make sense (sort of).

If the Hotmix CD Rentboy mentioned above isn't a continous mix, then I think this might be the first DJ mix on CD:

Ben Liebrand ‎– Grandmix 88

It came out in 1989.

As for vinyl, I guess this LP (also mentioned above) is the first continous mix, at least according to Billboard magazine:

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Disco-Par-r-r-ty/release/1393444

Makes sense, Liebrand was probably the biggest name 'megamixer' this side of the pond back then, the big labels all went to him for 12" edits. His annual Grandmix (1985 onwards?) was an institution all across Europe. Surprised the older mixes didn't get a CD release tho.

Actually, searching the Discogs database proves I'm wrong! If you don't count single artist and studio band medleys, or megamixes, the first continous DJ mix on CD appears to be this one from 1985:

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Super-Maxis-On-CD-Maxi-Mania/release/1317400

This one came out a year earlier, but the notes say that "all titles are about 3 to 5 seconds into each other", so it's not a DJ mix.

The Liebrand mix CD appears to be the first one that was specifically marketed with the DJ's name though, instead of being just an anonymous "various artists" type of compilation.

What about those 70s disco mix LPs? Were they ever credited to the DJ? The ones I've come across usually look like that Disco Par-r-r-ty comp or this one, where the DJ's name might be found on small print in the credits, but not on the album cover.

As for vinyl, I guess this LP (also mentioned above) is the first continous mix, at least according to Billboard magazine:

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Disco-Par-r-r-ty/release/1393444

the rosko show lp predates that record by a couple years and i'm sure you could easily find earlier examples of radio host/dj type mixes doing some digging. weren't those cheap k-tel comps from the early 70s continuous mixes of sorts also?

http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Rosko-Show/release/1726997

Yeah, I've heard that Rosko Show LP, but IIRC it's isn't a "DJ mix" in the sense we talk about them, i.e. a seamless mix of various songs... Isn't it more like Rosko playing tunes and talking between them?

Also, I wouldn't count the sort of comps where the songs otherwise play in full, but they fade into each other a few seconds before they would otherwise end, as DJ mixes, even if they kinda technically are. What we're talking about here is the sort of mixes DJs were playing in discos/clubs, i.e. where some effort was put into mixing the songs together.

AFAIK know the art of seamless mixing and beatmatching didn't even exist before the late 60s (with Francis Grasso usually being named as the first DJ to do that), so any earlier examples probably don't count.

yep, i get your point. with rosko it was prob 50/50: some smooth transitions between tracks and also a few seconds gaps with the guy introducing songs over fade outs. pretty sure i came across a few soul/reggae comps from the same period where the mixing was kind of smooth tho. can't recall which ones now, will dig some of those out.