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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.

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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

PYTZEK - Cow In Space

Mix and interview from Burek honcho Pytzek for Meoko.net

http://www.meoko.net/interviews/burek-records-interview-with-pytzek-to-uncover-the-mystery-of-croatia-s-house-scene

PYTZEK MIX FOR MEOKO.NET

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)

A Beautiful Day In The Ragerhood

Most of this mix was recorded live at the "What's What" South Bowl rooftop party this fall but I hit start record after I started so I added a few new bangers to the beginning to fulfill the hour mix. 
Track List:
1- Barely Royal - Numbers
2- Dozens - Bad girl
3- SecondCity & Tyler Rowe - I Enter (We Are Nuts! Remix)
4- 86deep - Reach for Something Deeper
5- Phlegmatic Dogs - Move you knees 
6- Kidd Kool - Turn Me On
7- Rich Pinder & DJOKO - Faith
8- Low Steppa & Taiki Nulight - Nu Jam
9- Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (KLATCH Remix)
10- Billy Kenny & DJOKO - Do Me Right (Original Mix)
11- Fritz Carlton - Mohki
12- PVC - Walking with Rhinos
13- MK, Wankelmut, Emma Louise - My Head Is A Jungle (Spekktrum Remix)
14- Notorious B.I.G. - Dead Wrong (1989 Remix)
15- Chris lorenzo - Scarecrow
16- Distinkt - Summon
17- Giraffage x Viceroy-Impression Of You ft. Patrick Baker (Taiki Nulight Remix)
18- Hoodboi - Palm Reader feat. Lido (Treasure Fingers Remix)
19- Niko the Kid - Slip Away
20- Fritz Carlton - Push it
21- Inkline - Butterscotch
22- Kry Wolf - Pushing Me
23- Ayo Alex - I.M.T.B.M.B.
24- Vitamindevo - Double Rainbow
25- Cjzaire & FKJ - Iceberg Slim
26- ZDH - Paradise Awaits (FKJ Remix)
27. Potatoehead People - Blue Charms
28. Marvin Gaye - Gravevine (Autograf Remix)
29. Elenne - Between Us Ft. Mothica

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Rooftop Rage

Recorded live after Bangarang Presents Hungry As F*ck on Saturday 11/07/2015.

After After Afters jawnz

Enjoy :)

Autumn Grind 2015

Burek owner Pytzek bring you his mix for Pink City Beats Radio! 
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PYTZEK - Acid Whump

Summer is near, and so are the hot days, also to make it easier for you Burek brings you a small gift that will refresh you in these upcoming lazy days. 
 FROM BUREK WITH LOVE



"Come on Summer, give me a smile
That long, cold winter lasted quite a while
Come on Summer, sweet lemonade
A skinny dip, a picnic by the lake

The green grass and the pine trees
They do me good
And the bright sun on my skin
Feeling brand new"

t/l:

Tommy Awards - Blind Away
Eddie C - Iceline
Femi Kuti - Oh oh (Liza Richardson remix)
Pharoa Black Magic - Amulet (Begin remix)
Vicenzo - Downtown (Genius Of Time remix)
Arthur Russell - How We Walk On The Moon (Youth Return To Base Edit)
Pink Skull - Be Nose Put Yr Face On (Brassica remix)
Daphni - Npe
Unknown - Wouldn't Want To Be Like U
The Quintus Project - Night Flight (Psychemagik remix)

PYTZEK - Come On Summer

02 Kenny Larkin Classics 2 Mix

Some fresh deep sounds from Burek resident...

The White Lamp - It's You(Ron Basejam remix)
Moodymann - Why Do U Feel
Jill Scot - Love Rain (Detroit Swindle's seasonal redux)
Anthony Naples - Mad Disrespect
Shonky - Le Velour (Mr. Fingers remix)
Lauer - Mascat ring
Oskar Offerman - U Can You To Me Say
Linkwood - Taken Me Over 
The Glue - Love Generator (TDRMC Calls It Love Remix)
Teed - Household Goods (Mano Le Tough remix - Ducktape edit)
Andres - Things You Like

PYTZEK - DEEP & BUREK

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)

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

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