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Edition #19 of Early 80’s Floorfillers takes a look back to July 83. 
You can see the Top 10, complete with label or record sleeve scans and individual track credits, here: 
http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/greg-wilsons-top-10-floorfillers-july-83/ 
Greg Wilson – July 2013

GREG WILSON’S EARLY 80’S FLOORFILLERS: 
A fascinating insight on how the fading Jazz-Funk scene gave way to the emerging Electro-Funk movement in the early 80’s, ‘Greg Wilson’s Early 80’s Floorfillers’, marks the 30th anniversary of when these tracks first appeared. Compiled from his record lists of the time, and unfolding month by month, Greg Wilson counts down the Top 10 Floorfillers played at his venues during the key years of ’82 and ’83. Featured, most notably, on his Tuesday sessions at Wigan Pier and Wednesday gatherings at Legend in Manchester, the most cutting-edge weekly black music nights of the era, these were the clubs most associated with the evolving Electro-Funk sound.

The majority of music played on the black scene in the UK was initially only available on import, mainly out of New York during this period, with the club nights described as ‘upfront’, meaning that the DJ’s were way ahead of the curve – what they played now, others played later, or not at all. Without these DJ’s, many now classic dance tracks would never have become UK hits (many without enjoying similar crossover success in the US) – the reason they were released here in the first place was because these specialist DJ’s were breaking them via the underground.

Things would change in a big way during those 2 years; we were entering the hybrid age for dance music, and the oncoming House and Techno and Hip Hop directions would all owe a huge debt to this era of dance alchemy and groove experimentation.

This podcast is also available on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad via the Radio ditto app, which is downloadable for free from iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/app/id464200632?mt=8

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GREG WILSON'S EARLY 80'S FLOORFILLERS - JULY 1983

Sit back, zone out and listen in to the sounds of the kaotic kosmos!

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Burek Podcast #05 - DJ KAOS

Hello Everyone,

This is the last Magic Tape of the year !
As usual, it features lots of exclusivities including the brand new Duke Dumont 'I Got U' .

Happy Holiday and see you in January 2014 for the next installment !

xx
The Magician

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© 2013 The Magician

Magic Tape 38

Polish duo Catz n Dogz have released two albums and a string of singles to date through Mothership, a sub-label of Claude Vonstroke's Dirtybird Records, and created their own label Pets Recordings in 2010, releasing the likes of Groove Armada and Eats Everything. Their most recent album - 2010's 'Escape From Zoo' - featured collaborations with Jazzanova's Paul Randolph and Claude Vonstroke himself, and was celebrated for its funk-driven basslines and experimental cross-genre approach.

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Catz n Dogz play The Warehouse Project as part of Heidi's Jackathon takeover on Saturday 14th December

SATURDAY 14TH DECEMBER
HEIDI PRESENTS...
THE JACKATHON

HEIDI
KERRI CHANDLER
CAJMERE
MAGDA
DEETRON
SKREAM
JIMMY EDGAR
JACKMASTER
DUSKY
HUXLEY
CATZ N DOGZ
HOT SINCE 82
KIM ANN FOXMAN
ALEXIS RAPHAEL
CITIZEN
KRYSKO
PIRATE COPY
PLUS VERY SPECIAL GUESTS
AZARI & III - LIVE: UK EXCLUSIVE

WHP13 MIX 017 - - - CATZ N DOGZ

The third mix in the series for us from dat Thrilogy. He kills it as usual, so serve it up and enjoy.

Tracklisting for the spotters:

LOGIC ‘THE FINAL FRONTIER (THE GROOVE)’
AUDIO CLASH ‘LIVE AND DIE (LONDON 7-INCH)'
LOGIC ‘BLUES FOR YOU (HARD DUB)’
LOGIC ‘BLUES FOR YOU (VOCAL MIX)’ 
MR G ‘MOMENTS’ 
PABLO RARUDA ‘LOVE POEM’
DIONNE ‘BACK ON THE PLANET (ORIGINAL MIX)’ 
THRILOGY ‘BOUND BY ENCHANTMENT (UNRELEASED DUB)’ 
NEVILLE WATSON ‘AGAINST THE TIDE (MARQUIS HAWKES REMIX)’
THRILOGY ‘GUITARRA’
KCYC ‘UNDER CONTROL (6:23 AGAIN)’
KCYC ‘UNDER CONTROL (SHELTER MIX)’
RON JASON & KIM ANN FOXMAN ‘D’
TWO ARMADILLOS ‘ROLLER SKATE (THRILOGY USED TO HOLD ME BOOTLEG)’ 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/THRILOGY/487621341322253?fref=ts

WOLF Music Presents...Thrilogy - Valencia Mixtape Vol 3

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)

Berlin based futuro producer Two Thou who provided us last bUrek release  made a podcast out of his studio rehearsals. 
He put together live recordings from the latest year and chose the versions which fit best a listening mood. Enjoy!

Tracklist
1. Intro + Dave Lombardo + Impro
2. Kuduro Arp
3. Left and Right
4. Pianist and The Drummer
5. Trapezio Geometrico
6. Wawawia Low Version
7. Storytelling Impro
8. Mayfield Move outro

Burek Podcast #26 - TWO THOU

The Burek podcast series returns to the cloud, this time brought to you by the amazing French house and techno meisters supremes - Les Yeux Orange.

Les Yeux Orange started early 2013, when Noctambulo and Humangigz teamed up to share their passion of electronic music with the world. Long time record collectors and DJs, both based in Paris, they started off by uploading all sorts of electronic music on their inhexaustible youtube channel and sharing podcasts by DJs such as Willie Burns, Intergalactic Gary, Mick Wills and many others. Joined in 2014 by two young producers, LeonxLeon and Alan Dente, they organised memorable parties with I-F, Yan Wagner, Albion, Sacha Mambo, Aroy Dee and Beppe Loda to name but a few. In 2015, they started a monthly radio show to promote new electronic music and featured many exclusive “premieres” of upcoming releases. Rapidly going viral, Les Yeux Orange are now invited to play all over France and in the UK and will soon launch their own record label.

http://www.lesyeuxorange.com/
https://soundcloud.com/les-yeux-orange

Burek Podcast #27 - LES YEUX ORANGE

Urulu has given us a live recorded mix for our podcast series which blends house vibes with a smidgeon of deep house into a spaced out mix of starry wonderment.  He has steadily produced since he  caught the ear of Berlin's Dirt Crew, known for releases by Mano Le Tough and Detroit Swindle. He'd go on to drop critically acclaimed releases on respected imprints such as NYC's Let's Play House as well as taste making UK outlets.


Burek Podcast #28 - URULU

As the spring arrives and nature awakening after the winter takes firm hold, we bring you the new Burek podcast. Stepping forward for this we have Berlin's great underground cat, our favorite Iron Curtis.


Burek Podcast #29 - IRON CURTIS

For our latest Burek podcast we have a skilfully layered journey into various shades of soul, funk, hip hop and disco  from Detroit based producer  CL Dawkins aka Alex Israel.  

Alex Israel, here debuting his CL Dawkins moniker, is a mechanical engineer and a modular aficionado who started playing piano at the age of 6. Since 2011, Alex released a string of successful releases under his real name on labels such as Crème Organization, Stilove4music, Night Gallery and W.T.Records.  In tune with the mood  of his release on our label Pomalo!, Alex delivers  mid-tempo jams mix which fit perfect with this sunny weather. 

Buy CL Dawikins record on Pomalo! here:
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/cl-dawkins-affirmation-of-love/592898-01/

Burek Podcast #30 - ALEX ISRAEL AKA CL DAWKINS

Pool - Flex (Aeroplane Remix) Release date: 04/02/2013 Out on Diynamics "2DIY4" 

"The internationally renowned and adored producer Vito de Luca a.k.a. Aeroplane puts his own spin on ‘Flex’ with an incredibly smooth and sexy remix. 50 BPM slower than the original, Aeroplane honours the guitars and vocals, weaving the elements into his own spacious disco style."

Beatport

Pool - Flex (Aeroplane Remix)

All feedbacks will be appreciated

tracklist:

1. The Organ Grinder - Jersey Jam [CATAPULT RECORDS]
2. New Jack City - Back In The Dayz (Original Mix)  [MUSIC IS LOVE]
3. Crue - Track 2  [CRUE]
4. Karol Aleksander - Temptation [VELCRO CITY RECORDS]
5. MCDE -  Send A Prayer Pt.1 [MCDE]
6. Medlar - Knockard Pearl (Detroit Swindle remix) [WOLF 16]
7. 6th Borough Project - When the Hate Is Gong [KOLOUR LIMITED]
8. Jamie Trench -  Laisse Moi [ROOTS FOR BLOOM]
9. Montel - Move Ya Body [LOVE REVOLUTION]
10. Twins Of Sound - Took My love [ TASTE THE MUSIC]
11. Mario K - Feeling High  [out soon]
12. Chesus - Special  [LOCAL TALK]

Underground March 2013  -  tribute to PUSZEK

Pytzek dj set from Burek night w/Juju & Jordash 12.04.2013

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