ESSENTIAL MIX - JAN 2009
Uploaded on 17.01.10 and exclusive to SoundCloud. Available for the first time without voiceovers and jingles,12 months on from original Radio 1broadcast on 17.01.09.


EMAILSHOT A FEW DAYS AHEAD OF MIX BEING AIRED:
2009 kicks in for me this weekend with my first gig of the year for Udio (1st birthday) at The Gramaphone Club in Shoreditch, London on Friday night, which coincides with the airing of my only just completed in the nick of time Essential Mix on Radio 1, made up of 43 tracks in just under 2 hours.

Given that the 5th anniversary of my DJ comeback has only just passed, I decided to take the opportunity to make the mix totally representative of this period, with all the selections being amongst the biggest tracks I’ve played since I made my second debut at Music Is Better in Manchester.

Five years represents a significant package of time, a fixed point from where I can reflect on what’s been a continually snowballing sequence of events, set in motion when Danny Webb asked me to appear in Manchester on that December night back in 2003.

There were less than 100 people there that night, but they were the right people, and I was taken aback by the response to my return, both on the night itself and during subsequent days, when people who were there began to post on the forums. I’d never expected all the feedback be so totally positive!

I’d figured that I’d play that night, using the combination of laptop and reel-to-reel for the first time, then go away and think about what worked and what didn’t before I made my next move. I would never have believed that things could come together so immediately, it was as if I’d hit a completely unexpected hole in one, especially when two of the people who were there, Ralph Lawson, DJ from Back To Basics in Leeds, and one of my fellow DJ’s that night, Richard Hardcastle (Solid State) from Society in Sheffield, both asked me to play at their nights no sooner had I finished my spot.

One thing kept leading to another and, in Sheffield, I was approached by Tony Daly to play at the now legendary Tyneside Cinema party in Newcastle, a bespoke event where he took on the substantial risk of presenting me in a city I’d never DJ’d in previously (unless you count the 1983 TV appearance on The Tube, which was filmed in the Tyne Tees studio). Then, of course, there was London, where Steve Kotey and Bill Brewster booked me for their parties, bringing me to the capital within the first few months of my return for Ouch and Low Life.

The bookings kept coming, and I found myself driving up and down the country on an increasingly regular basis. Later in 2004 I was approached by Sav Remzi, from Tirk / Nuphonic, with the idea of putting together an edits album, which would be issued the following year as ‘Credit To The Edit’. This would help bring my name to the attention of people outside the UK. There was soon a need to step things up further, now that I was receiving enquiries from Europe, and so began a fruitful relationship with my agent, Matt Johnson (Matty J), who’s done a wonderful job of representing me during recent years.

The last few months have been, to say the least, manic for me, with 25 flights, including 6 long haul, taking me to gigs in the US, Japan, Australia, Brazil and Europe. From a personal perspective I still find it remarkable the way everything has developed, pretty much organically, since I made the decision that I was going to be a DJ once again – had I concocted some sort of comeback masterplan, it could never have worked out anything like as well as it has. It’s definitely been a case of ‘from small acorns’.

It still never ceases to amaze me that people from another continent are interested in my DJ past. Back in the early 80’s, before I went into retirement for 20 years, the furthest I travelled (with the exception of the appearances I made in the South of England as part of The Hacienda Review in late ’83) was to places like Birmingham and Nottingham, when I played at All-Dayers, so to find myself in clubs on the other side of the world is pretty nuts!

Anyhow, I’d like to wish everyone all the best for 09. Big thanks to all the promoters who booked me and everyone who danced to the tunes I played during ’08 in Adelaide, Barcelona, Belfast, Berlin, Birmingham, Blackburn, Brighton, Bristol, Dublin, Dundee, Edinburgh, Fukuoka, Glasgow, Hamburg, Leeds, Lisbon, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, Melbourne, Milan, New York, Newcastle, Nottingham, Paris, Porto Alegre, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Sheffield, Sydney, Tokyo and Warsaw. Also the festivals and special events that I appeared at - Bestival (Isle Of Wight), Big Chill (England), Camp Bestival (England), Garden Festival (Croatia), Ibiza, Lovebox (England), Notting Hill Carnival (England), Rockness Festival (Scotland), Sonar (Spain) and the Southport Weekender (England).

Hope to see you soon.

Greg


FORUM POST DURING FOLLOWING DAYS:                                                        
Thanks for all the positive words. The feedback has been pretty phenomenal, far exceeding what I’d hoped for, especially on the BBC page, where I’d expected that some people would criticize the amount of older music included - the Radio 1 audience is used to current stuff ('in new music we trust'), so I’d anticipated a more mixed reaction. What’s particularly pleasing is that they were all made without the people seeing what each other wrote (they all came online at once, having been checked first by whoever moderates the BBC pages, I presume for swearing etc following the Ross / Brand controversy).

You always hope something you've done will be well received, but the response to this has blown me away.

Greg


ANSWER TO POST RE MIXING PROCESS:                                                      
It was quite a laborious process. Before I could start the actual mixing part I had to edit every track to a coherent length of around two and a half minutes average, inclusive of in and out points. I had a pool of about 90 tracks that fitted the criteria I'd set (a representative selection of the biggest tunes I've been playing during the past 5 years). It wasn't as straightforward as just editing the 43 tracks I ended up featuring - in order to have the necessary options once I started to piece the mix together I needed to have all the tracks at my disposal, just as I would have if I was out deejaying in a club, so the only thing to do was edit all 90 to the required length, even though I knew that only half would make the cut .

Once that was finally done they were all taken across into my laptop, enabling me to vari-speed them via PCDJ whilst I recorded across to my home computer into Cool Edit Pro, where I put the mix together track by track, before adding overdubs (fx, samples, textures) in a similar way to what I do live using the Revox (reel to reel).

I could quite easily have spent another day, tweaking bits here and there and adding more overdubs (the older I get the more finicky I become), but I had a deadline to work to, so, as it moved ever nearer, it became a race against time, with me doing as much as I could before the cut off point arrived.

Greg
                       

Greg Wilson - 2009


ESSENTIAL MIX (by greg wilson for bbc radio 1 2009)

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Flight Facilities For 'triple J Mix Up Exclusives'  2002 - 2012

First in the series of mixes featuring The Rolling Stones and like-minded cats. 
Sonically wrangled by @roxanneroll from @fleetmacwood

Miss You More  - @roxanneroll Edit
Heaven - @sunshine-jones Edit
On The Road - Barrabas @slicer-disco-edits
Under My Thumb - @kingmostontherun Redirection
Sympathy for the Devil - Mojo Filter Shakedown Edit @thebenz
Dance Pt 1 - @flying-mojito-bros Re-Frito
Emotional R- @inflagranti Edit
DJs in a Row - Schwab
Moreskin - @psychemagik Edit
You Gotta Move (Live) - @roxanneroll Edit
Rain Fall Down - @ashley-beedle Heavy Disco Dub Re Edit
We Love You (The Great Awakening) - J.B.C. 
You Can’t Always Get What You Want - @soulwaxofficial Remix
Worried Mind @jeremysole Edit -  Muddy Waters

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Sympathy for the Disco Vol 1

This is the first instalment of the Definitive Mix series - our Triple J mix up residency in Jan 2019. 

Tracklist
1.	Moby – Porcelain
2.	Fatboy Slim – Gangstar Trippin’
3.	Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin’ Beats
4.	Daft Punk – Da Funk
5.	Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
6.	Tori Amos – Professional Widow (Edit)
7.	Ce Ce Peniston – Finally (Somedub Mix)
8.	Hardrive – Deep Inside (Remix)
9.	Ian Pooley – Chord Memory (Daft Punk Mix)
10.	The Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling On (MK Dub Revisited)
11.	Deep Swing – In The Music
12.	M&S - If U Wanna (feat. the Girl Next Door)
13.	Jess/Crabbe/J S Bernard/P Exposito - F9 Riot Squad
14.	Jamiroquai – Little L
15.	Moloko – Sing It Back
16.	St. Germain - Rose Rouge
17.	Modjo – Lady
18.	Etienne De Crecy – Am I Wrong
19.	Madison Avenue – Don’t Call Me Baby
20.	Shakedown - At Night (Kid Creme Re Edit)
21.	Fred Falke, Alan Braxe – Intro
22.	Paul Johnson – Get Get Down
23.	X-Press 2 feat. David Byrne – Lazy
24.	Who Da Funk feat. Jessica Eve – Shiny Disco Balls
25.	Salif Keita - Madan (Martin Solveig Exotic Disco Mix)
26.	Afro Medusa - Pasilda (Knee Deep Club Mix)
27.	Armand Van Helden - U Don't Know Me
28.	Junior Jack – E Samba
29.	The Prodigy – Breathe
30.	Bob Sinclar – Save Our Soul (Country Club Edit)
31.	Cassius – 99
32.	Dirty Vegas – Days Go By
33.	Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You
34.	Groove Armada – Superstylin’
35.	The Bucketheads - The Bomb! (Armand Van Helden Re-Edit)
36.	Kings Of Tomorrow – Finally

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Set Mo - The Formative Mix

Nearly 10 years on, we've managed to get our 2010 Paris Social Club 70's DJ Set back online! 

Sloth Boogie from the blog house era with the write up:
http://slothboogie.blogspot.com/2010/11/flight-facilities-paris-social-club-70s.html

TRACK LIST:
1. Pink Floyd – The Wall (DreamTime Edit/DJ Agent 86 Edit)
2. The Bee Gees – Stayin Alive (Tokoloshe Edit/Original)
3. Franki Valli – Grease (Flight Facilities Edit)
4. Gwen Mccrae – All This Love That I’m Giving
5. The Brothers Johnson – You Make Me Wanna Wiggle (Flight Facilities Edit)
6. Chic – Good Times
7. Chilly – For Your Love
8. The Emotions – Best Of My Love
9. Edwin Birdsong – Cola Bottle Baby (Flight Facilities Edit)
10. Breakwater – Release The Beast (Flight Facilities Edit)
11. The Brothers Johnson – Stomp
12. ABBA – Gimme Gimme Gimme (Flight Facilities Edit)
13. Cerrone – Supernature/Sebastien Tellier – Kilometer
14. The Doobie Brothers – What A Fool Believes
15. Flight Facilities – Dreams In The Edit/Fleetwood Mac – Dreams
16. Heat Wave – Boogie Nights
17. Electric Light Orchestra – Last Train To London
18. Don Ray – Got To Have/James Curd – Got To Have
19. Boney M. – Gotta Go Home
20. Carrie Lucas – Dance With You
21. Michael Jackson – Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough/Crave You

Flight Facilities: Paris Social Club 70's DJ Set (2010)

The second installment of our Decade Mixes. Taking you chronologically from 1982 – 1992.

The 1982 - 1992 Decade Mix is available to download on the Flight Deck App. Link here: flightfacilities.com/app 🛫📱

Again, using the Soundcloud time markers, we want to see you name:

- The samples of major events in history
- The original songs used to make the edits
- The modern day songs that used the samples
- The unlisted cuts of other songs we snuck in

Just like the 72-82 mix, there are plenty of Easter eggs to be found. Some more obvious than others. Get hunting…

This decade’s cover art:

i.imgur.com/kAeEX56.jpg

Want to see the Decade Mixes in the flesh? Let us know where: https://lnk.to/DecadeMixLive

HINT: Download the Flight Deck App which features historical insights and images for the full experience.

Tracklist:

01. Sylvester – Do You Wanna Funk?
02. Brad Shitt – Casbah Breakdown
03. Solomun – Love Recycled
04. http://soundcloud.com/aeroplane/the-human-league-orchestra
05. Goblin – Tenebre
06. http://soundcloud.com/soulclap/death-on-the-balcony-cruel-banana
07. Herbie Hancock – Rockit
08. The Pointer Sisters – Automatic
09. Matthew Wilder – Break My Stride
10. B-Beat Girls – For The Same Man
11. Cybotron – Clear
12. Michael Jackson – PYT
13. New Order – Blue Monday
14. Laid Back – White Horse
15. Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
16. Miami Sound Machine – Dr. Beat
17. Madonna – Lucky Star
18. http://soundcloud.com/flightfacilities/toecutter-best-party-ever-flight-facilities-edit
19. Seidah Garrett – Do You Want It Right Now?
20. Limahl – Never Ending Story
21. Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy
22. Bangles – Dub Like An Egyptian (Todd Terje Edit)
23. Nu Shoes – I Can’t Wait
24. David Bowie – Magic Dance
25. Bruce Hornsby – That’s Just The Way It Is
26. Janet Jackson – What Have You Done For Me Lately
27. http://soundcloud.com/dropoutorchestra/rick-astley-never-gonna-give-you-up-drop-out-orchestra-dub-1
28. http://soundcloud.com/psychemagik/everywhere-psychemagik-edit-1
29. Harold Faltermeyer – Axel F
30. Steve “Silk” Hurley – Jack Your Body
31. https://soundcloud.com/flightfacilities/you-can-call-me-al-flight
32. Yello – Oh Yeah
33. John Farnham – Age Of Reason
34. Salt n Pepa – Push It
35. Technotronic – Pump Up The Jam
36. The B-52′s – Love Shack (Losoul Bitshit Edit)
37. Adamski – Killer feat. Seal
38. Dee Lite – Groove Is In The Heart
39. De La Soul – A Rollerskating Jam Named Saturdays
40. Prince – Cream
42. Annie Lennox – Walking On Broken Glass

Flight Facilities Decade Mix: 1982-1992

This is the final instalment of the decade mixes. But this time it's a little bit different.

The 2002 - 2012 Decade Mix is available to download on the Flight Deck App. Link here: flightfacilities.com/app 🛫📱

This is the decade that turned us into what we are now. This mix is effectively our condensed dance music bible (believe it or not, there are lots of tunes we couldn't fit in). The mix is done in the same style in which we remember our clubbing experiences. Most notably, The Bang Gang parties every Friday night in Sydney. Those guys were a HUGE part of why we became DJ's in the first place. This mix will, for better or worse, dig up a few dance-floor 'moments' for anyone who took part in the madness. 

So many of these songs are classics to us, and probably are to many others too. It's hard to hear these songs without cracking a smile and remembering a great time of irresponsibility. 

You won't find too many mixtapes in this style anymore. And certainly not from us. But we had to show what this decade was all about to us, and how it brought us to what we do today.  

We're dedicating this mix to our belated friend and mentor, Ajax. He's had more influence on this final chapter than anyone will ever know.

Thanks to everyone who got behind these mixes. It's been a long ride.
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Flight Facilities Decade Mix: 2002-2012

http://flightfacilities.com/blog/?p=2789

Tracklist:

01. Stevie Wonder – Superstition
02. Al Green – Let’s Stay Together (Edwin Bautista Edit)
03. Lou Reed – Take A Walk On The Wild Side (Rocco Raimundo Edit)
04. Paul Simon – Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard (AutoRock Edit)
05. Kool & The Gang – Jungle Boogie
06. Mindless Boogie – Tina (Villa Edit)
07. George McCrae – Rock Your Baby
08. The O’Jays -For The Love Of Money
09. David Bowie – Golden Years (Tim Fuchs Edit)
10. Paul McCartney & Wings – Listen To What The Man Said
11. Walter Murphy – A Fifth Of Beethoven (Flight Facilities Edit)
12. Ohio Player – Love Rollercoaster
13. Hot Chocolate – Cadillac (The Revenge Rework)
14. Joe Tex – Ain’t Gonna Bump No More
15. Marvin Gaye – Got To Give It Up
16. Talking Heads – Psycho Killer (Drop Out Orchestra Rework)
17. Donna Summer – I Feel Love
18. Meco  – Star Wars
19. East Coast – The Rock
20. Sylvester – Mighty Real
21. Eddie Johns – More Spell On You
22. George Duke – I Love You More
23. ABBA – Voulez-Vous
24. Chicago – Street Player // Dynasty – Freak
25. Mindless Boogie – Emotional R (In Flagranti Edit)
26. Soulwax – NY Lipps
27. Depeche Mode – Just Can’t Get Enough
28. Mindless Boogie – Area 45 (Skinny Joey Edit)
29. Chaka Khan – Fate (Todd Terje Edit)
30. Kim Carnes – Bette Davis Eyes (Alexander Edit)
31. Sugar Hill Gang – Apache
32. Donna Sumemer – If It Hurts Just A Little
33. Hall & Oates – I Can’t Go For That
34. Queen & David Bowie – Under Pressure



Flight Facilities For 'triple J Mix Up Exclusives' 2002 - 2012

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