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Recorded at the Electric Chair Riot at Manchester's Legends (not to be confused with Legend, my early 80's venue) 27.12.09.

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ELECTRIC CHAIR END OF YEAR RIOT MANCHESTER 27.12.09 (greg wilson live mix)

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Live rec. from Savannah Ibiza 2014-06-22
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BFMP #244 | Greg Wilson @ Savannah Ibiza 2014-06-22

HNYTRX and Dark Entries Records celebrate the first ever vinyl LP release of Patrick Cowley & Jorge Soccaras CATHOLIC with a "Hi-Nrg" tribute mix from the inimitable Paul Goodyear aka SanFranDisko. Paul will join us this Wednesday November 12th, 2014 for a release party at RS94109 alongside Steve Fabus. 

This Wednesday also marks the 32nd anniversary of Patrick passing to what then was being called Gay Related Immune Deficiency (GRID). Take a moment to dance around to this mix and celebrate the lives of those who still bring us ecstatic joy in their music even though they cannot be here to see just how Gay our world is becoming! 

1. Intro 
2. Lift off - Patrick Cowley (Megatone 1981)
3. Rocket to your heart - Lisa (Moby Dick 1983)
4. Seclusion- Shawn Benson (TSR 1986)
5. Last call - Jolo (Megatone 1984)
6. Stepping Stone - Modern Rocketry (Megatone 1983)
7.Invasion - Patrick Cowley (Remix) (Megatone 1982)
8.Desire - Paul Parker (Fantasia 1984)
9.Hot Leather - The Passengers (Moby Mix version) (Moby Dick 1981)
10.Got you where I want you- Stereo Fun Inc (Dub mix) (Moby Dick 1983)
11.Band of Gold - Sylvester (Megatone Records 1983)
12. Cruisin' the streets - The Boystown Gang (SanFranDisko mix) (Moby Dick 1981)
13.Pump it up - Fever (Fantasy 1979)
14.Mercy - Carol Jiani (Moby Dick 1981)
15.Menergy - Patrick Cowley (Instrumental Reprise) (Fusion 1981)
16.Die hard lover - Loverde (Moby Dick 1982)
17.Dance Trance medley - The Boystown Gang (Rich and Famous 1984)
18. Love Pains - Yvonne Elliman (Moby Dick 1982)
19.Goin' home - Patrick Cowley (Remix Dub Version) (1982)



HNYPOT 192: Paul Goodyear's San Francisco Hi-Nrg Tribute Mix

Here's the track listing-

The Eagles - "Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Theme" (BBC)
Beenie Man - "Who Am I" (Greensleeves)
Danny Reo - "Room Wize" (Columbia)
Ninja Man/Flourgen - "Zip It Up" (Sure Delight)
Freestylers - "B-Boy Stance" (Freskanova)
Budbrothers - "Do You Wanna" (white Label)
Funkizm - "Boogie Butt Sounds" (Reel Vybe)
Eric B And Rakim - "Juice" (Soul/MCA)
Bowser - "I Need More Time" (Freskanova)
Whodini - "Magic's Wand" (Jive)
Cut And Paste - "Let's Go Disco" (white Label)
Artist Unknown - "Funky 4 U" (white Label)
Wobble U - "Petal" (Indolent)
Bowser - "Operation Hardheat" (Freskanova)
Damage Control - "Da Pumped Up Phunk" (Afro Wax)
Double G - Untitled (white Label)
Pick 'N' Mix - "Twisted Ska" (white Label)
Artist Unknown - "El Magnifico" (white Label)
Soul Hooligan - "Sweet Pea" (Freskanova)
Will Shaker - "Made Up Of This And That" (Sophisticuts)
Star And Garter - "Blimey" (Easy DB)
Freestylers - "Drop Tha Boom" (Scratch City)
Freestylers - "Don't Stop The Rock" (Music Specialists)
Freestylers - "Don't Stop" (Scratch City)
Information Society - "Running" (Tommy Boy)
Bowser - "Let Ya Body Funk" (Freskanova)
DJ Funk Roc - "My Beat Box" (white Label)
Isunamioe - "Number 43 With" (Fuel)
Freestylers - "Spaced Invader" (Freskanova)
Freestylers - "Check Da Skillz" (Freskanova)
The Fall - "Masquerade" (white Label)
DJ Poout - "Let The Bass Mix" (white Label)
Dance Conspiracy - "Dub War" (Metamorphosis)
Ginuwine - "Holler" Strike Remix (Epic)
John Williams - "Throne Room From Star Wars" (20th Century)
Public Enemy - "Bring The Noise" (Def Jam)
Chemical Brothers - "Leave Home" (Virgin)
Blapps - "Don't Hold Back" (Tribal Bass)
Godiego - "Birth Of The Odyssey" (BBC)

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The Salsoul Orchestra Ft. Loleatta Holloway - Seconds (A Young Pulse Rework)

Recorded at The Nest, Dalston, London 13.02.15.

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THE NEST LONDON 13.02.15 (greg wilson live mix)

Live mix from Alloneword in Brisbane 13.03.10.

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ALLONEWORD BRISBANE 13.03.10 (greg wilson live mix)

On The Roof @ Output unfortunately rained off, but we moved indoors to The Panther Room where this was recorded 31.05.15.

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THE PANTHER ROOM @ OUTPUT BROOKLYN NYC 31.05.15 (greg wilson live mix)

Live mix recorded during Reels Of Steel presentation (where I add visuals to the music) in Rizlab Arena at Bestival on the Isle Of Wight 11.09.11.

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BESTIVAL REELS OF STEEL @ RIZLAB 11.09.11 (greg wilson live mix)

There are few names more revered than Greg Wilson when it comes to DJing. In a time when the word legend gets thrown around referring to anyone vaguely involved in the formative years of house, Greg is one of the few names genuinely deserving of that status. From his hugely popular residencies in the early eighties at Wigan Pier and Manchester's majorly influential clubs Legend and The Hacienda, his role in the development of electronic music in the UK cannot be overstated.

Having begun DJing in 1975, 2015 sees Greg celebrate his fourth decade as a DJ and so we thought we'd invite him mark the occasion in the best possible way - by serving up a fresh set of selections for us to wrap our ears around.

Mixed in celebration of two anniversaries - he is also due to touch down in Liverpool December 5th for unconventional party starters Freeze's 10th year celebrations - the Super Weird Substance boss again showcases why he's still at the top of the tree all these years on. Here's to the next 40 Greg!

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Mix Of The Day: Greg Wilson's 40th Anniversary Mix

Recording from the 20 Years Of Electric Chair party at Factory251 in Manchester 27.12.15.

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20 YEARS OF ELECTRIC CHAIR @ FACTORY251 MANCHESTER 27.12.15 (greg wilson live mix)

Greg Wilson @ MAREH NYE 16 - Boipeba/BA (12.2015)

Recording of Greg Wilson's first live appearance of 2016, at The Nest in Dalston, London 05.02.16.

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THE NEST LONDON 05.02.16 (greg wilson live mix)

From latest blog post - 'Manchester Vibes In The Area':
http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2011/10/manchester-vibes-in-the-area/

The Electric Chair, with its legendary residents, The Unabombers (Luke & Justin), ran from 1995-2008, hosting 151 ‘executions’. A who’s who of guests, from both sides of the Atlantic, appeared during this time, and it was the favourite UK night of so many DJ’s. After 13 years they decided to go out at the top, their beloved ‘dirty basement’ still packed to the rafters for the monthly sessions (the venue, the Music Box, was previously another seminal Manchester club called Rafters, which I first became aware of in the late 70’s when it was at the forefront of the North’s Jazz-Funk scene, with DJ’s John Grant and Colin Curtis at the helm). Luke & Justin now run a successful bar, Electrik, in Chorlton, Manchester, whilst still making DJ appearances – they also host the Electric Elephant Festival in Croatia once a year.

Playing for the first time at the Electric Chair, on February 26th 2005, was a big deal for me, not only because it was the leading night on the scene I was now a part of, but also because it represented a lineage of cutting-edge Manchester clubbing dating right back to the 60’s, including Legend and The Haçienda, 2 landmark clubs I had the good fortune to be personally associated with 2 decades earlier. 

So, as you can appreciate, there was a deeper sense of time and place, almost a sniff of destiny, about that night at the Electric Chair for me. I’d prepared in accordance, putting together some new edits for the occasion. I started off with a mash-up, ‘Soul Squelch’, which coupled a contemporary track, ‘Squelch’, by Manchester’s own Dubble D, a Chair regular, with the classic Rakim rap from ‘I Know You Got Soul’ (Eric B & Rakim), which harked back to my 80’s Hip Hop connections with the city – this would be pressed-up on the first Redux 12” as ‘Soul Squelch’ (by Dubble D & Rakim). 

My final track, again specially edited for the occasion, was Mr Bloe’s harmonica workout, a feelgood favourite from my younger years, 1970’s ‘Groovin’ With Mr Bloe’. This would later be become more widely known as the closing cut on my first ‘Credit To The Edit’ compilation, which was issued the following August. 

The recording features an additional ‘one for the road’ track, which was an extended edit I did of ‘The Word’ by The Beatles. Luke and Justin always played the last spot, but they got me to come up at the end of the night to spin a final tune, and this is what I went with. Also, the recording is presented here for the first time as a whole 2 hour mix. It was originally split into 2 CD length halves, hence the fade out you’ll hear on ‘WFL’ by the Happy Mondays at the end of what was Disc 1.
  
Prior to my initial Reels Of Steel at Band On The Wall, Stretch Disco, who were hosting the night, put a YouTube piece online, where I was interviewed about my career defining ‘Manchester Moments’ - Legend and The Haçienda first time around, and Music Is Better and the Electric Chair more recently. Here’s what I said about my Chair debut:

“I knew about the Electric Chair beforehand, and I’d recognised it as the leading night on the scene, not just in Manchester but nationally. I think Electric Chair is one of these nights that, now, I don’t think people give full credit to - it will need a separation of time, give it 10 years and people will talk about the Electric Chair in real hallowed terms because, you know, the amount of nights up and down the country that I’ve done since that have said that they got their inspiration from the Electric Chair. It was just such a great night! 

What they were doing was mixing all the different styles together and I think that reconnected to the original spirit that went back to my time (at Legend). I can remember when I first went in there, listening to some of the tracks that were being played - I knew that Justin (Unabomber) had come from an Indie side, he was in a band called The New Fast Automatic Daffodils, and I was aware of this, but I didn’t know much about Luke at the time. I thought there’s a connection back to the black scene here, but I couldn’t quite work out what it was, and then I realised what it was, it was that Luke was from Sheffield and he’d been schooled at a night called Jive Turkey, which Winston (Hazel) and Parrot were the DJs at. Now they were kids on the scene who used to come to the All-Dayers that I used to do - no doubt that they came to Legend and stuff. So it’s all within that side of things, and he (Luke) made his connection there, and that made perfect sense to me as to why that black sensibility was there within the music that was being played at the Electric Chair. 

It was an incredible night, I mean they still do one-offs now, but obviously the night was at The Music Box - not the original though, they started in pubs in the 90s. I mean it was going for a long time beforehand but eventually found its home at The Music Box with a real dedicated crowd who were really into the music and everything. So when I came to play there it was like a homecoming in a way, and in a sense it made me feel like I’d arrived as a DJ again - it had gone beyond the stage that here’s somebody from the past and there’s a novelty value aspect to it, to somebody who’s current and doing stuff now, and I felt that very much with playing at the Electric Chair, with the warmth and reception of the crowd.”

The full ‘Manchester Moments’ clip can be viewed here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXHJQ_mDPiU

Greg Wilson - October 2011


ELECTRIC CHAIR MANCHESTER 26.02.05 (greg wilson live mix)

Recording of Greg Wilson from XOYO in Shoreditch, London on April 2nd 2016.

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XOYO LONDON 02.04.16 (greg wilson live mix)

GREG WILSON @ THE GARAGE LIVERPOOL 09.04.16

FIRST TIME IN NYC @ APT 21.10.05 (greg wilson live mix)

This is the recording from my first ever appearance in New York. The gig was arranged to launch my Credit To The Edit compilation Stateside – it was at APT in the Meatpacking District on October 21st 2005.

Most people presumed that I’d been to NYC previously, a fair assumption given the influence the city has had on me, particularly via the black / dance music of the early 80’s, which provides a defining aspect of my DJ career, but this was not only my first time there, but my first time in the US (my first time on another continent now I come to think of it). 

I was made to feel very welcome though, and there were lots of NYC DJ’s in attendance that night – as I mentioned in the accompanying text for the ‘I Was A Teenage DJ’ download (http://soundcloud.com/gregwilson/teenage-dj-aka-greg-wilson-i/) Rug N Tug’s support for the track had turned it into one of the hottest underground tunes over there ahead of my arrival. It was hardly The Beatles stepping onto American soil at JFK in Feb ‘64 with their record at the top of the charts, but I felt that the ‘Teenage DJ’ track had helped prime things nicely for my US debut.

A former New York DJ who came to see me was Barry Lederer, who’d once played a hugely influential role as Billboard’s Disco columnist back in the 70’s, taking over from the great Tom Moulton (Barry was also co-owner of Graebar Sound, the company who installed the sound systems at venues including The Saint and 12 West). He’d planned to be accompanied by his friend Mel Cheren, a true pioneer of the Disco era, who owned the Paradise Garage as well as West End Records. Barry extended apologies for the no show from Mel, who wasn’t well, and we talked about hooking up during my next visit. However, it sadly wasn’t to be as Mel died in 2007, before my return. Just six months later Barry too was no longer with us. When I’d heard the sad news of his passing I played Jimmy Ruffin’s ‘Tell Me What You Want’ (1974) at my next gig – this was his favourite Disco record, and something I often used to slip in as a much loved oldie back when I started out in the mid-70’s. 

The music I played that night at APT was rich with reference to New York’s illustrious past, including my edit of ‘Psycho Killer’ by Talking Heads, which I’d put together especially for this night - this has since become one of my best-known cut-ups. I also played no less than six Teenage DJ tracks, half of which have never been made available. Oddly, now I look back, there was only one track included from the Credit To The Edit compilation (Brenda Taylor’s ‘You Can’t Have Your Cake And Eat It Too’), which had been issued in the UK the previous August. 

As with the ‘Electric Chair Manchester 26.02.05’ live mix that I recently uploaded here as exclusive content, this recording is presented here for the first time in its entirety. It was originally split into two CD length halves, hence the fade out you’ll hear on ‘You Can’t Have Your Cake’ at the end of what was Disc 1.

Greg Wilson – October 2011

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FIRST TIME IN NYC @ APT 21.10.05 (greg wilson live mix)

Live recording of Greg Wilson from the final date of 2016 US tour at Eighteenth Street Lounge in Washington DC.

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EIGHTEENTH STREET LOUNGE WASHINGTON DC 07.05.16 (greg wilson live mix)

Recorded at the ‘Credit To The Edit‘ album launch in The Dolphin, a proper East End London pub, on Sunday July 31st 2005, this appearance, in effect, completed the first phase of my comeback. It was obviously a special occasion for me, launching an album of my own edits, an idea that would have seemed ridiculous just a few years before, when I was still a somewhat lost soul from the past who’d rarely ventured inside a club during the previous decade. I’d certainly never have believed that being a DJ would once again become my profession, let alone find myself deemed relevant enough for a label at the centre of what is now referred to as the Disco (or, to some, Nu Disco) movement to so strongly endorse my reignited career. Tirk, run by Sav Remzi, and born out of the mightily influential London based Nuphonic imprint, which played a big part in helping build the foundations for what’s happening now on our side of the scene, would play a major role in my renaissance.

I won’t go any further into the actual ‘Credit To The Edit’ compilation itself here, suffice to say that its release would follow in August ’05 and everything shifted up another level for me, my ever-expanding DJ horizons taking on an international dimension as the overseas bookings came in, enabling me to connect directly with people from different countries, from different continents. If you want the full lowdown on the album, there’s a section about C2theE at electrofunkroots: http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/credit_to_the_edit/index.html. 

I regarded that day at the Dolphin as a celebration amongst some my new found friends of the past few years, plus one or two older ones, including a guy called Shaun Anton, who I’d been at school with, but hadn’t seen since way back when. It was like he’d appeared as a messenger from the past, just to mark the moment, and it doesn’t surprise me that I haven’t seen him in the 6 years since then – sometimes these strange time warps open up!

Running for a whopping 193 minutes, give or take a couple of seconds (40 tracks in all), this mix originally came in 3 CD length parts, but I’ve uploaded here as a continuous whole (you’ll hear Pt2 opening with the Happy Mondays ‘WFL’ fading up, and Pt3 entering after the fade out on West Phillips ‘(I’m Just A) Sucker For A Pretty Face’.

The first section was pretty chilled-out, as people arrived early evening and I just played downtempo grooves – it was more about setting the vibe than filling the dancefloor at that point. I was also conscious of the fact that this provided me with the opportunity to make a few personal references that I wasn’t able to bring into play in a normal club setting. This is most noticeable with the Reggae selections I indulged myself in, including ‘This Is Reggae Music’ by Zap Pow, which always evokes teenage memories of my great friend Derek Kaye, who played a big part in my formative DJ years, and ‘Double Barrel’ by Dave & Ansil Collins, which I blogged about being ‘My Favourite Number 1’ recently:  http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2011/10/my-favourite-number-1. I even managing to slip in a huge personal favourite forever associated with the time just after I’d stopped deejaying -  Was (Not Was) and ‘(Return To The Valley Of) Out Come The Freaks’, which was also, around this time, one of my 12x12 choices for the US magazine Wax Poetics: http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/lists/12x12.html 


From this chilled-out foundation, things gradually morphed into full-on party vibe. It was the perfect way to wet the baby’s head, so to speak. I played for around 4 hours, so over three quarters of my spot was recorded. Listening back I had a little smile to myself at the fact that there’s a live prototype,  towards the end of the second section, of what later became my signature track, ‘Two Sides Of Sympathy’, where I mix The PTA’s ‘Unfinished Thing’ into ‘One For The Devil’. Full lowdown / waveform for ‘Two Sides Of Sympathy’ here:  http://soundcloud.com/gregwilson/edit-the-edit-two-sides-of 

Lasermagnetic DJ’s, Neil Thornton  and Johnny ‘Chingas’ Hiller, also appeared, having done a top job of co-promoting the event with Tirk. All in all it was a very memorable occasion both on a personal level, and for those who packed into that groove jammed Hackney boozer.

Greg Wilson – December 2011


CREDIT TO THE EDIT LAUNCH @ THE DOLPHIN LONDON 31.07.05 (greg wilson live mix)

Live mix from Cafe Mambo in Ibiza 27.09.09.

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