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Boiler Room #29 Young Turks Takeover hosted by The bPm w/ Phantom (live), Mount Kimbie (live), SBTRKT and Theo Parrish.

[Broadcasted on Tuesday 19th October 2010]

Tracklist & video at http://boilerroom.tv

BR #29 Theo Parrish

The notorious Dubstep Warz transmission on Mary Anne Hobbs BBC Radio1 Breezeblock show. This show marked the global tipping point for the dubstep sound. 

Mala, Skream, Kode 9 & The Spaceape, Vex’d, Hatcha & Crazy D, Loefah & Sgt Pokes and Distance changed the world of global dance music forever. 

TRACKLIST: http://getdarker.com/audio/sets/mary-anne-hobbs-dubstep-warz-bbc-radio-1-100106/

Dubstep Warz still sounds as vital, as primal and as thrilling as the night it was broadcast.

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Mary Anne Hobbs - Breezeblock Dubstep Warz - BBC Radio 1 - 10.01.2006

Final hour of Optimo residency at Sub Club

Gloria Jones – Tainted Love
Vitalic Vs Peaches – LA Rock Show
Sparks – Beat The Clock
A Homeboy A Hippie & A Funky Dred – Total Confusion
Westbam (With Nena) – Oldschool, Baby (Piano Mix)
The Turtles – Happy Together
Chris Isaak – Wicked Game (Trentemoller’s Businessman Dubby Games Remix)
Blondie – Atomic
Sylvester – Do You Wanna Funk?
The Doors / Merzbow – The End / Woodpecker No. 2 (Merzbow?)
Dinosaur L – Kiss Me Again
The Joubert Singers – Stand On The Word
Ben E. King Stand By Me
**The Final 15 Minutes!!**
Divine – Shake It Up
Liquid Liquid – Optimo
Ike & Tina Turner – Come Together
Warner Brothers – End Credits With Porky Pig
Nina Simone – Feeling
Good Chuck Wood – Seven Days Is Too Long

Optimo Optimogeddon Part 5

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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)

This podcast has been recorded in realtime. You will find own productions (unreleased), tracks by other people and live edited versions of them. Beside that I used a Juno 60 and a Prophet 5 during the recording.

Tracklist:

01. Intro + Alexander Scriabin – Prelude op.11 Nr.5
02. Kammerflimmer Kollektief – Thats How The Light Gets In
03. Van Hai – Dernier Amour (Riperton Remix)
04. Boards of Canada – Reach For The Dead (Live Edit)
05. David August – Ingrid
06. David August – Renata
07. Madonna – Frozen (David August Reconstruction)
08. I:Cube – Nuees Ardentes (Live Edit)
09. Pink Floyd – On The Run (Live Edit)
10. Curtis Mayfield – Little Child Running Wild
11. Apparat – Goodbye
12. Flying Lotus – Puppet Talk

Innervisions #50 LIVE Podcast - David August

Live dj set at Madness 4th Bday Party.
Enjoy

CPT LUVLACE LIVE SET MADNESS 4th BDAY

Watch the set and get the full tracklist at https://boilerroom.tv/recording/maceo-plex-berlin?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=tracklist

Maceo Plex Boiler Room Berlin DJ Set

in our wilderness,
where hearts condemn us;
the world alternates.
we dance alone.

in our wilderness

Watch the set and get the full tracklist at https://boilerroom.tv/recording/solomun?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=tracklist

Solomun Boiler Room Tulum DJ Set

2manyDJ's - Despacio (…4 Hours Into Despacio) BBC Radio 1 Mix
Recorded 17th April 2015 BBC 1

2manyDJ's - Despacio (…4 Hours Into Despacio) BBC Radio 1 Mix

Here is my liveset from friday evening, bachstelzen, fusion festival 2015.

Thank you for this perfect time ♥

Rampue Live at Bachstelzen (Fusion 2015)

A section from my set at Magic Waves Summer Festival, Berlin, July 2015,  featuring the more accessible synth end of the kind of stuff I play at my occasional So Low night in Glasgow. So Low 2 x LP compilation in hand screen printed sleeve coming February 2016 via Vinyl Factory.

JD Twitch Live at Magic Waves Summer Festival, Berlin 2015 (Part 1 - So Low Synth NRG set)

Stanton Warriors - Stanton Sessions Vol.1 (2001)

Part 2 of my Magic Waves, Berlin set. I had a sense that by this point in the night the crowd were, uh, feelin' kinda high, so it maybe reflects that a bit. It's a tad more all over the place and a little less doomy than the first part.

JD Twitch Live at Magic Waves Summer Festival, Berlin 2015 (Part 2 - So High set)

Read the feature: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2815

JD Twitch (Optimo) live warmup - Sub Club In Residence mix

Live dj mix of Muslimgauze music recorded at Unsound, Krakow, October 22nd 2016. Apart from the occasional use of some FX, this is 100% the music of Muslimgauze with nothing added. Any glitches, distortions, weird audio anomalies, dramatic changes in volume etc. are all part of Muslimguaze’s unique production process. Available to download as a 320 mp3.

Tracklist -

The Taliban

Eleven Minarets Part 10

Arab Jerusalem

Tozeur Palm

Choke Noose Of Gold Silk

Bandit Queen

Noose Of Gold Silk

Azeri Jab

Azzazin 1

Zindabad

Bazoft Rope

Ishmael Tongue

Herod-1

Free From A Veil

Untitled 1985

Purdah Zealot

Azzazin 6

An Abyssinian Who Could Kiss Fine

Khan Younis

Negative Of Ethiopia

The Eternal Illusionist Of Old Baghdad

Baghdad

Najibullah Headless

JD Twitch plays Muslimgauze, Unsound, Krakow 22/10/2016

The full version of the text below can be read here - thequietus.com/articles/22925-optimo-20-mix-listen

As well as 2017 being the 20th anniversary of Optimo it is also 30 years since I started DJ’ing, in Edinburgh in the summer of 1987.

It had never crossed my mind to be a DJ and I fell into it quite by accident. Myself and several friends were devoted attendees at a sub basement club in Edinburgh’s Cowgate called The Backroom that started in 1986. It was the first club where we truly felt at home musically and that was frequented by people we felt comfortable being around. The resident DJs, Bill & Bobby, had been playing around Edinburgh for years and had phenomenal taste and abilities to play exactly the right records in the right order at the right time. After a year or so of religiously attending, my good friend Macky noticed a poster announcing they were looking to audition people to play the first two hours of the night. Macky suggested we audition and initially I point blank refused, partly because the idea terrified me and partly because it held little appeal to me at that time. He persisted and eventually I agreed being fairly confident that our total lack of experience would be so apparent that we would never get the gig. Over the next few weeks they auditioned various people by letting them play the start of the night and somehow we were picked to be the new warm up DJs. Yikes!

So began an uninterrupted trend of being part of a DJ duo, and every Saturday night I would get the bus through from Glasgow where I had now moved to study and Macky and I would take turns to play a few records each to a generally completely disinterested audience. Our fee for playing was £25 and I would get £15 as I had to travel through from Glasgow and Macky took a tenner. Once I realised how much I was enjoying doing it I would have happily played for free.

So, what was I playing back then? Well, I kept quite a detailed diary in those days and would write down the records I played each week. From those diary entries I have put together a mix of what I might have played in my first ever set had I had the technical knowledge or ability to actually be a mixing DJ at that time. Though the music played was very diverse, we were all particularly into records with advanced production that sounded state of the art at the time and we used the term Electrobeat to describe the core sound that we were really into. The term didn’t catch on and neither did the music. The club was very popular but the people who came generally did not like weird records they did not know, were quite averse to drum machines and I’d often hear people grumbling about us playing “that drum machine crap”, a scenario which is of course in complete reversal 30 years on.

So, here are 30 tracks mixed together that were the sound of my late teenage years that I tried to turn people on to 30 years ago. Most of the records in this mix would lie dormant on my shelves for the next 20 years but in the last 10 years or so a surprising number have found their way back into my sets and finally found an appreciative audience and sound as good, if not better today than they did 30 years ago.

There is no tracklisting but I don’t think there is anything wildly obscure or rare in the mix. I could have pretended I was playing lots of lesser known records back then, but this is a 100% genuine round up of what I was actually playing in 1987. The two tracks without a drum machine are the only ones which were anything like bonafide dancefloor hits for me at The Backroom at the time. I have also included one (loop from a) track my then co-DJ, Macky used to play lots and also a Bill & Bobby classic. The mix is available to download as a 320 mp3. For a bit of bonus fun I have included one track that wasn’t released until 1988. If anyone can identify which one it is they will win a prize.

JD Twitch - 1987 reimagined (30 year anniversary mix)

The Wolf + Lamb prodigy whips up a diverse hour-long mix for this week's RA podcast.

RA211 100614 Nicolas-Jaar-residentadvisor.net

Por cortesía de http://saltasporquequieres.blogspot.com.ar/

Tracklist:
1. The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl (SLWX Remix)
2. Mr. Oizo - Cut Dick
3. Roxy Music - Editions of You / Love Is The Drug
4. Siriusmo - The Door
5. Kris Menace - Scaler
6. Late of The Pier - Best In The Class (SLWX Remix)
7. Tiga - Mind Dimension
Adonis - No Way Back
Black Riot - A Day In The Life
8. Discodeine - Tom Select (Surkin Remix)
Justice - Phantom Pt. II (Sticks middle finger at screen)
9. Zombie Nation - Forza
10. John Paul Young - Love Is In The Air
11. Slayer - Raining Blood
12. Crookers Ft. Soulwax & Mixhell - We Love Animals
13. Carte Blanche - Gare Du Nord
14. Daft Punk - Robot Rock (SLWX Remix) / Aerodynamite
15. AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
16. The Gossip - Standing In The Way of Control (SLWX Remix)
17. Chaka Khan - Fate
18. Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
19. The Clash - The Magnificent Dance
20. Boys Noize & Erol Alkan - Lemonade
21. Queen - Bicycle Race
22. Guns N Roses - Welcome To The Jungle
23. Mr. Oizo - Positif
24. Marc Sleen - Cote d'Or Presenteert U: De Olifant in Woord en Beeld
25. De Gantoise - Door De Buffalo's
26. La Bionda - I Wanna Be Your Lover
27. Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita
28. Can - I Want More
29. Afrojack - Pacha On Acid
30. The Phenomenal Handclap Band - 15 to 20
31. Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover
32. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Rydeen
33. Blondie - Call Me
34. Dr. Phibes - Acid Story
35. Kamiel - Me Wuf Is Weg
36. Shinichi Osawa & Paul Chambers - Singapore Swing
37. The Beatles - St. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

Optimo Optimogeddon Part 5

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