A major asset to underground dance music, Bill Brewster is a DJ, journalist and occasional producer. He took up DJ'ing during the late 80's, later worked for DMC (Dance Music Club), and eventually moved from his native England to Ne York to run the organisation's U.S division. He operated a handful of labels- 5XO-294, Sugar Daddy, and the U.K. arm of Twisted - throughout the latter half of the 90's.

Along with his writing partner Frank Broughton, Brewster has authored several books, including the indispensable Last night a DJ Saved My Life (2000), How to DJ (Prop

Bill Brewster & Low Life Allstars Mixes!!

Sunshine Funk

DJ Mixes 3

Full recording from The Social in London's West End, 18 years on from my previous appearance there, soon after I’d started DJing again, for the launch of the Don Letts 'Dread Meets B-Boys Downtown' compilation. With its recent refit, The Social surely stakes a claim to being amongst the best small venues in the land. Great close-up atmosphere and a wicked sound system in a compact 150 capacity space. 

There's a short video clip/photo montage over at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ_yi_vqRoC/

It provided the perfect opportunity for me to debut a bunch of new edits I’ve held back for the right occasion, which I thought would be The Riot at Depot Mayfield in Manchester on New Years Day, but that fell victim to the covid uncertainty. I struck lucky though - there couldn’t have been a better environment for this than The Social, complete with a fully vibed-up crowd emanating an extra special atmosphere, which, with January’s Ministry Of Sound gig (where I focused on tracks from my recently re-broadcast Essential Mix) sets the tone for 2022.

THE SOCIAL LONDON  11.02.22 (greg wilson live mix)

Superlover live @ Printworks London -  February 12, 2022

Booking: rob@radiusartists.com

Live @ Printworks London - February 12, 2022

Return of the Hot Mix. Going to stick mixes up on here and hopefully get some talented pals to contribute to the series too. 

First half was used on David Dunnes excellent Triple Dee Show on Gaydio FM, ended up carrying on for another hour.  


Tracklist

Karen Diggs - You Took My Love For Granted 
Paradise Girls - Holding Back (Paul’s Back / Dubmental Mix II) 
Mighty 7 - Call Me 
Feel - Got To Have Your Lovin 
Janice Christie - One Love (Dub I) 
G&D - Ori One 
James Greenwood - Flex 
Grace Jones - On Jones St (KT's DJ Toy) 
Rena Scott - Superlover (Nik M Edit) 
Tata Vega - (I've Got My) Second Wind
Red Greg - Peace 
South Side Connection - Get Down Get Down (Zernell Edit)
Jesse Gould - Out Of Work 
Unabombers - Rock Me Again 
Natural Order - Jealousy (Grimy Edit)
Unlimited Source - Nicola Nicola
Candido - Super City (Volcov Edit)
Aura - Freex Funkatized (Mighty Zaf & Phil Asher Edit)
Cloud - All Night Long (Instrumental) 
Sylvester - Sell My Soul
New York Community Choir - Have A Good Time
Heem The Music Monsters - Keep God On Your Side 
Heaven's Sound – Fire
Brainstorm - Wake Up And Be Somebody 

Peace x

FWFM: Hot Mix #1

Beatport Live presents: Andrea Oliva from UNITED ANTS at Printworks, London
No pretendo quitar créditos al artista ni a Beatport. Subida simplemente para el disfrute de todos.
https://soundcloud.com/andreaoliva

Andrea Oliva @ UNITED ANTS Printworks, London | Beatport Live

Andrea Oliva  UNITED ANTS Printworks London  Beatport Live 2022

Ale De Tuglie B2B Calvin Clarke x Music On @ Printworks (London) - 01.04.2022

My set at We Are The Sunset, Between The Bridges, London.

BILL BREWSTER | Live At WATS, Between The Bridges, Sunday May 1st, 2022

Christian Nielsen @ Printworks, London

PAWSA LIVE @ PRINTWORKS, LONDON 🇬🇧 SOLID GROOVES 10TH BIRTHDAY 2022

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)

My set from our lovely little festival, Wild Life, earlier this month. 

BILL BREWSTER | Wild Life 2014

UNHAPPINESS IS OVER

Bill Brewster's warm-up set from Low Life party at Autumn Street Studios, November 2014. 

BILL BREWSTER | Low Life November 2014

Bill's set on from the Wild Life Festival on June 6th, 2015. 

Bill Brewster | WILD LIFE 2015

Bill Brewster has very kindly put together a damn funky mix for us ahead of our party at POW, Brixton on 12th June. Bill is a certified legend, having done it all, from being a punk-rocker, a chef, an author, the founder of the 17 year old warehouse party Low Life, the co-editor of the football magazine When Saturday Comes to a founding resident at FABRIC and much much more. He's a certified groove assassin. You'll never know what to expect...

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