Greg’s mixes

I played a hugely enjoyable 8 hour marathon at Kantine am Berghain in Berlin last Thursday, and although I wasn’t able to record the whole night, I did manage to get the first 3 hours and the final hour and a half. So this is a mix in 2 parts – the first 185 minutes a downtempo groove fest, whilst from 3.05.26 onwards we’re into the final furlongs of the party with proceedings much more upbeat.

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EINE NACHT MIT...KANTINE AM BERGHAIN  BERLIN 12.12.13 (greg wilson live mix)

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)

Recorded on the first night in The Observatory @ Constellations in
Liverpool 18.10.14. Event held in conjunction with Oxjam and Freeze. 

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Greg Wilson @ Super Weird Happening Liverpool 18.10.14

Recorded at Oslo London 01.11.14 (includes added intro / outro)

Event held in conjunction with Heavenly Jukebox / Salon.

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Greg Wilson @ Super Weird Happening London 01.11.14

An incredible day all ways up! The Super Weird Sunset in the morning set the tone perfectly with well-being and good vibes music as the artists also set up for the day. Playwright Daisy Eris Campbell ('Cosmic Trigger')and author John Higgs ('Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense Of The Twentieth Century' and 'The KLF: Chaos, Magic And The Band Who Burned A Million Pounds') fascinated us during the talks, before Stella Grundy powerfully performed a section of her one-woman production 'The Rise And Fall Of A Northern Star', whilst poet JB Barrington well and truly put a smile on our faces with his Salford wit and acute observation.

Then it was Howard Marks. The warmth towards him was something else, the area packed to capacity with queueing around the corner the entrance to the Estuary Stage. A true countercultural icon of our times - the respect was tangible.

A potent line-up of DJ's followed - Tomlin of the Jam MC's, Luxxury over from LA, and a B2B with Derek Kaye and Peza, as the Estuary grooved into the 2nd half of the Happening

Blind Arcade and the Super Weird Society hit the ball out of the court big style - a phenomenal first appearance complete with live musicians. Huge thanks to Black Grape's backing band, who Kermit had hijacked for the event.

Then I was on for the finale, and what a climax it turned out to be. The stage was invaded at the end and when I looked to my side, appearing next to me, in a puff of smoke it seemed, was Back To Basics mainman and UK club legend Dave Beer, who turned to me, amidst the wonderful chaos of the moment and exclaimed 'this is seminal'.

Here's the footage - it really happened:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHmQuLrXyBY

greg

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Greg Wilson @ Super Weird Happening #6 Festival No.6 Portmeirion 05.09.15

Electro funk pioneer Greg Wilson gives Mixmag an exclusive mini-mix showcasing his trademark disco sound. 

NeedWant is one of the best deep disco labels around and head honcho Sean Brosnan tells us what records he would take with him if he were Marooned on Mars.

You can catch Greg Wilson at the Westbury Bar, Kilburn, London this Friday!

No.45 Greg Wilson / Sean Brosnan

Recording of Greg Wilson from La Discothèque at Manchester's Albert Hall 12.11.16.

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LA DISCOTHÈQUE @ THE ALBERT HALL MANCHESTER 12.11.16 (greg wilson live mix)

Recording of the finale of one of the key countercultural gatherings of recent times, the 14 Hour Super Weird Happening at The Florrie in Liverpool’s Dingle on April Fools’ Day 2017. The multi-media event featured live bands, DJs, performance, poetry, talks, art and much more.

Reviews:
Get Into This: http://www.getintothis.co.uk/2017/04/alan-moore-14-hour-super-weird-happening-florrie-liverpool/
Louder Than War: http://louderthanwar.com/14-hour-super-weird-happening-florrie-liverpool-review/

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Greg Wilson @ 14 Hour Super Weird Happening Finale The Florrie Liverpool 01.04.17

El legendario Greg Wilson celebró con nosotros el 9o aniversario de nuestra casa LEONOR.

GREG WILSON LIVE @ LEONOR 9TH ANNIVERSARY MEXICO CITY 09.07.17

We are honoured to have been given this fantastic live recording of Mr @gregwilson - taken from the Sunset Campout Festival in California, July 2017
Enjoy!

http://blog.gregwilson.co.uk
https://www.sunsetcampout.com

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GREG WILSON - Live From Sunset Campout Festival - California, USA 2017

Hailing from Essex in the east of England, CE has been making edits for over 3 years, and djing since 1989.

2018 has seen releases on a flurry of formidable labels:

•	Masterworks Records with the ‘Think Twice’ EP in December 2017. 
•	Alpaca Records - ‘Maskerade’ EP (January 2018)
•	Hot Digits - ‘Danke Schoen’ EP (February 2018) 
•	Bandolier Records - ‘Boogie Bigness’ EP (April 2018)
•	Alpaca Records - ‘Get A Room’ EP (MAY 2018)
•	Midnight Riot - ‘Things Are Changin’ E.P (June 2018)
•	FKR -Records - ‘Yes Miss Jones E.P’ (August 2018)
•	Samosa Records - ‘Soul Tempo’ Vinyl Only E.p (September 2018)

His work has been frequently championed on the BBC 6 Craig Charles funk & soul show and there are a flurry of Eps & remixes due out in the in late 2018.

“ I am still humble in what I do and need to believe more in myself more...... will be re launching Dj career after finally feeling fit enough again being diagnosed with testicular cancer 2 years ago in the winter with a few london guest spots with my good friend Twisted Soul Collective.....i just want other men who feel it will never happen to them to check their balls and dont be scared of going to the doctor..... i spent most of my recovery focusing on something positive learning the depth of ableton which led to all them previous eps "

Chuggin Edits - Live Mix from Gouranga HQ

Next up on PAPA we are truly honoured to welcome a band whom are 100% Funk & RnB royalty, the original funky Scot’s, AVERGAE WHITE BAND.

AWB had many hits between 1974 and 1980 are are best known for their million-selling instrumental track PICK UP THE PIECES, and their albums AWB and CUT THE CAKE.

A LOVE OF YOUR OWN was originally released back in 1976 as part of their album SOUL SEARCHING. Now we present a superb modern rework courtesy of JUAN CHOUSA & KANIKE.

PAPA117

A Love Of Your Own

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Average White Band - A Love Of Your Own (Juan Chousa & Kanike Remix)

Recording from the Glitterbox closing party at Hi in Ibiza 28.09.18.

GLITTERBOX CLOSING PARTY @ HI IBIZA 28.09.18 (greg wilson live mix)

Recording from a special Essential Mix 10th Anniversary appearance at XOYO in London on 26.01.19. More at the blog:
http://blog.gregwilson.co.uk/2019/01/essential-mix-10th-anniversary/

ESSENTIAL MIX 10TH ANNIVERSARY @ XOYO LONDON 26.01.19 (greg wilson live mix)

I’ve been waiting to write a full blog post before I put up this mix from what is going to be my last festival appearance for some time, but its been difficult, given the circumstances we all find ourselves in, to fully engage, and although I’ve made a start there’s still more I’d like to say, so the post will have to wait a bit longer.

*now online here:
https://blog.gregwilson.co.uk/2020/04/16600/ 

Its Easter weekend, so I think its about time I shared the mix – it was recorded on March 8th at the WOMADelaide festival, the centrepiece of my recent Australian tour, and was pretty much a perfect gig for me – environment, crowd, sound/set-up – featuring a jamboree of some old favourites alongside more recent releases / re-edits. There’s a strong Aussie representation, with tracks by Tame Impala, Confidence Man and Owl Eyes - a great new remix of ‘You And I’ by Late Nite Tuff Guy who also provides, along with Dr Packer, a number of reworks.

This was only a month ago, but how times have changed. Hope you’re keeping safe and coping during lockdown.

WOMADelaide FESTIVAL 08.03.20 (greg wilson live mix)

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This weekend, maestro Greg Wilson welcomes us with an exclusive podcast recorded in 2019, during a party we had with him during Sonar week. Expect some Disco vibes, mixed with House anthems and other masterpieces in an eclectic mix that will transform your mood into a good vibe that you will not forget. Be careful this session is highly addictive!

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Jackies Music Disco Session #013 - "Greg Wilson"

Things were somewhat on top for Liverpool radio station Melodic Distraction, having lost their studio space in the Baltic Triangle they were left homeless, and this mix was put together in support of their plight. They set up a Kickstarter and I’m happy to say that they reached their required amount of £35,000 and plan to move across the city into new premises in the Fabric District, novelly housing their studios in shipping containers.

The hour-long mix features original tracks I’ve played during more recent years, rather than re-edits or older stuff, so, especially given it’s a bit different to the norm, it’s good to be able to get up onto SoundCloud, where my uploads have been a bit threadbare (in comparison with previous times) since coronavirus shut down the industry.

Greg’s mixes

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