We have a real treat today. Over 2 years ago we approached one of the men who responsible for turning us into disco fiends. We really didn’t expect to receive a response and when we did we were both surprised and enthused. This man was Greg Wilson. Not only did Greg take the time to give us one of our first guestmixes but he also spent an hour on the phone to us giving us a really in-depth insight (below) into the scenes history and his origins as a Dj. Suffice to say we have the utmost respect for Greg who has always taken to time to ensure people accurately understand where these timeless tracks all came from and whats keeping them relevant.

Greg recently came down to play at one of our parties in London and has very kindly given us the recording of his live set to use as his second guestmix for us. We think you’ll agree that it cements his position as both an adventurous selector and a talented Dj. There is no tracklist for this one but that’s half the fun.

Read interview here

Greg Wilson - House of Disco Guestmix - Live at Oval Space 24.08.13

Kenny Dope Defected In The House 2013 Boom Ibiza

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)

I discovered Frankie Knuckles through his music, one that was, gentle, lush with a subdued, understated power that rocked many a dancefloor.
I had the privilege to hear him once in the heyday of his legendary residency at Sound Factory Bar in New York. I was submerged, sonically and emotionally by the beauty of the music I heard that night. I remember very clearly saying to myself that this would be impossible to ever equal.
That was 20 years ago, and I never got to hear this magic combination again.

I got to meet Frankie a few times, and he was always like his music, gentle, humble,   yet naturally imposing

I've put together here some of my favorite music from him. So that his legacy can keep on inspiring other people.

Rest in peace, Frankie, may your music keep on moving people eternally

My Tribute To Frankie Knuckles

Superjam AGFA (Flow Dynamics remix)

A Little Kenny Dope 45 Friday Mix For Ya'll Njoy Have A Great Weekend !!!!
Peace !!!
And Yes all 45's
Here's The Tracklist:
1.THE TOMORROW PEOPLE-BENDIX
2.DON CORNELIUS-BLACK MILK (FAT BEATS)
3.BRING THE RUCKUS-EL MICHELS AFFAIR (TRUTH & SOUL)
4.WHAT I'M HERE 4 FEAT DJ SCRATCH-RASHEED CHAPPELL (KAY-DEE)
5.FLY TO THE MOON-VERSIS X DIBIASE (10 THIRTY)
6.FEEL THE FUNK-PROFFESSOR BRIAN OBLIVION (CLOCKWISE)
7.LADIES-LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS (TRUTH & SOUL)
8.I STILL LOVE YOU-NOTTZ & MAYOR HAWTHORNE (RAW CONTACT)
9.THE GIFT(OH NO REMIX)-THE WHITEFIELD BROS. FEAT EDAN & MR.LIF (STONES THROW)
10.THE ILL KUDANA-DJ SPINNA (COLT 45)
11.DILLAGENCE-DJ SPINNA (COLT 45)
12.GLACIERS OF ICE-EL MICHELS AFFAIR (TRUTH & SOUL)
13.DO WHAT THEY WANNA-5 ELA (FUNK NIGHT)
14.RIGHT TO CARRY/INST-5 ELA (FUNK NIGHT)
15.FOUR TIMES RAW-SPOX-PHD FEAT.SADAT X & DIAMOND D & KURIOUS
16.A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATNUTS-J.RAWLS (POLAR ENT.)
17.NAH MEAN-NAS & DAMIEN MARLEY (WHITE)
18.STRAIGHTEN IT OUT-MR.CHOP & CL SMOOTH (STONES THROW)
19.A FOOL FOR YOU-JACK MOVES (FULL TIME)

Also: 
Kenny Dope Fully Produced Future Before Nostalgia-Rasheed Chappell available on Double Vinyl with bonus 45 & cd's at www.kaydeerecords.com

Kenny Dope Friday Hip Hop & Funk 45's Mix March 2012

Just in the basement bugging out with some more 45's n'joy da weekend mix !!!!

Shouts to The Brooklyn Bandits (Dj Scratch/Dj Spinna/DJ Clark Kent),Breakbeat Lou,
DJ Mell Starr,Big City Records,Flea Market Funk,Who's Gonna Take The Weight & to the diggers & dj's worldwide,
Peace

1.FUNKY THING-SONS OF DARKNESS (P&P)
2.LOVING YOU IS FAR OUT-THE 6 DEGREE SOUTH (6o/FRYER)
3.TOUCH ME TAKE ME-RITA WRIGHT (DUSTY FINGERS)
4.STAY ON POINT-DeROBERT & THE HALF-TRUTHS (G.E.D. SOUL)
5.THE SONG I SING-COOKIN' BAG (SOLID GOLD)
6.REPLY ME-LITTLE BARRIE (NON-DELUX)
7.COSA NOSTRA-RED DEVILS (STONED CIRCUS)
8.DENNIS THE FOX-FILEDRIVER (SCORPIO SOUNDS)
9.PEACE DANCE-WOODY CARR (JERDEN)
10.G & S-DIABOLICAL TWO (GDAY)
11.JESSIE'S PARTY-CRAWDAD FARMERS (LAKE-SIDE)
12.BAKER'S DOZEN-THE SIMONSOUND (PROJECT BLUE BOOK)
13.GET UP,GET INVOLVED-WOLFPACK (WHITE)
14.IT'S GREAT TO BE HERE-THE JACKSON FIVE (DEATH BREAKS)
15.HOT WIND-HELL'S BELL'S (SIDEWALK)
16.FRIEND OR FOE-CHANTAL MITVALSKY (HOE STREET)
17.MONEY-HACKNEY COLLIERY BAND (WAH WAH)
18.IZZY COME,IZZY GO-THE FUNK REVOLUTION SUNSTREET
19.SITAR BEAT-KLAUS DOLDINGER (EASTERN EYE)
20.PICK N ROLL-THE STANCE BROTHERS (STANCE)
21.WHO STOLE MY COOKIE-THE PHILLIPS BROS. (WE THE PEOPLE)
22.TIGHT SITUATION-THE GOSPEL COMMUNICATORS (SOUL-FULL)
23.SMASH PT.2-DAMN SAM THE MIRACLE MAN (KAY-DEE)
24.BONGO ROCK MACHINE-THE BONGO ROCKERS (SCHOOL YARD BREAKS)
25.HIT & RUN-CHIP WICKHAM (WHITE)
26.SWAHILI-ANDRE TANKER (SOUNDWAY)

Also: 
Kenny Dope Fully Produced Future Before Nostalgia-Rasheed Chappell available on Double Vinyl with bonus 45 & cd's at www.kaydeerecords.com

Kenny Dope-Jazz-Funk-45 Breaks 'Saturday Basement Mix 2012'

Here ya go another weekend mix Njoy !!! (All Vinyl 45's & lp's)

1.Change Ft. Craig G-Silent Someone (Realphresh)
2.Cross My Heart-Billy Stewart (Chess)
3.You're Gonna Need Me-Dionne Warwick (Warner Bros.)
4.Ressurection-Rasheed Chappell (Ill Friction)
5.Mayor In The Ghost Town-DJ Format (Project Blue Book)
6.Girma's Lament-Karl Hector & The Malcouns (Now Again)
7.Like A Ship-Pastor T.L. Barrett (Light In The Attic)
8.In The Forest Pt.2-The Original Black Sheep Of The Family (Kay-Dee)
9.Charlie's Theme-Jimi Entley (Espionage)
10.The Telephone Song-Charles Bradley (Dunham)
11.Substitution-Ub's (First Cut)
12.Make The Road By Walking-Menahan Street Band
13.Take Two-Will Sessions (Fat Beats)
14.Sister Funk/Inst-Thomas East (True Soul)
15.10 Bricks-Raekwon (Ice H20)
16.Az Madlib Remix-Medicine Show 12 
17.Maybe So Maybe No-New Holidays (Soulhawk)

Peace to Lord Finesse,DJ Spinna,DJ Scratch,Dj Format,Silent Someone,Matt (Traffic),Jared (Big City) & all the blogs that did re posts on my march mixes !!!

Also: 
Kenny Dope Fully Produced Future Before Nostalgia-Rasheed Chappell available on Double Vinyl with bonus 45 & cd's at www.kaydeerecords.com

Kenny Dope April Weekend "Hip Hop Funk Soul Funk Breaks 2012 Mix"

Here We Go Once Again The Saturday Weekend Mix with Kenny Dope Njoy Ya'll

1.Time Leak/Redef Damu Remix-Union Ft Talib Kweli & Sly Johnson (Fatbeats)
2.Chit Chat-Natural Yogurt Band (Jazzman)
3.Year Of Hip Hop-LL Cool J (Slice Of Spice)
4.This Was A Time-Dee Felice Trio (Adidas Originals)
5.Give The Drummer Some-Ultramagnetic Mc's (Adidas Originals)
6.Greedy G-Mr.Chop (Now Again)
7.Yellow Soul Force-Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro (Jazzman)
8.Head Wiggle-Kashmere Stage Band (Kram)
9.Take It Easy/Kenny Dope Mix-Brass Construction (Kay-Dee)
10.Soul Power-The Soul Surfers (Funk Night)
11.King Kong-Big T Tyler (Aladdin)
12.Signs- J Dilla (Stones Throw)
13.Keep On Doin'-The Isley Brothers (T Neck)
14.Breakloose Ft. DJ Scratch-Rasheed Chappell (Kay-Dee)
15.Soul To The People Pt.1-The Fantastic Souls (Kay-Dee)
16.Hit The Bongo-Tito Puente (Tico)
17.I'Ve Got What You Need-Mary Jane Hooper (Power Pac)
18.Obsession 77-Atomic Forest (Now Again)
19.Thank You-York Wilborn's Psychedelic Six (Now Again)

Peace to: Tracy Morales,Albie (L-R-G),My Man Thomas From La,DJ Spinna,DJ Scratch,Matt and Traffic Staff,Egon & Now Again,Gerald & Whole Jazzman Records,Breakbeat Lou,Lord Finesse & Slice Of Spice,Rasheed Chappell.

Also: 
Kenny Dope Fully Produced Future Before Nostalgia-Rasheed Chappell available on Double Vinyl with bonus 45 & cd's at www.kaydeerecords.com


Kenny Dope Hip Hop & Breaks Saturday Basement Mix #2 April 2012

Taken from blog post ‘Festival Anthems’:
http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2012/06/festival-anthems/

Back in March, in the lead up to the Rainbow Disco Club festival in Tokyo (an event that would frustratingly be rained off), I was asked to make a list of my 10 favourite festival tracks. I came up with a dozen, all edits which have served me well during recent years and certainly merit anthemic status. Around the same time I was approached, via the Garden Festival’s PR dept. to supply an exclusive mix for the oki-ni series. As an example, I was linked to Derrick Carter’s contribution, where he referenced the mixes he used to hear on Chicago dance station WBMX in the early 80’s, focusing on Disco & Classics. 

Whilst thinking about a suitable theme for my mix, I had the brainwave of working with the list of festival favourites I’d recently compiled– I thought that putting these 12 tracks together into a single mix would not only provide a solution, but gives me the opportunity to document some of the music that’s served me so well in the festival environment, which I’d never otherwise play all together. So, from there, it was just a case of finding a way to jigsaw them into a coherent whole, which didn’t prove to be difficult, the mix coming together in no time.

It wasn’t until I’d submitted it that I found time to have a look at the oki-ni website and check out some of the mixes already on there, a pretty substantial 75 of them. It was only then that I realised that my approach was somewhat  out of sync with the ethos of the series, which was outlined as follows; ‘the series aims to venture off the dancefloor, allowing the artists involved the freedom to produce unique and personal mixes that speak directly to them. The results are always eclectic, compelling, and unique’. 

Being that this was supposed to be more a personal choice of tunes you wouldn’t play out, rather than the clearly themed mix I’d mistakenly believed it was, I pointed out this anomaly, but was assured that all was fine. Had I not been off to the US that weekend, then onto Japan, I’d have probably insisted on doing something else, which fitted their criteria, but they maintained that they were more than happy with what I’d done, so it became mix #76 in the oki-ni series (and exclusive to their website for the past few months):
http://www.oki-ni.com/scat/mixes 

Half of the tracks are my own edits, half other people’s (big up Psychemagik, Dimitri From Paris, Joey Negro, Bermuda Triangle, Leftside Wobble and Michael Cook). The mix features some iconic names, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Talking Heads, The Clash, Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, Prince and Fleetwood Mac included. As they say, great music never dies, especially when there’s an edit that helps introduce it to a whole new younger audience, whilst rejuvenating the spirit of an older one in the process. Hopefully this collection of climatic tunes will help bring on the festival spirit – here’s to sun and mud to come!

I’ll be appearing at the following festivals / special events:

23rd June – The Summer Soiree / Blackpool
http://theblackpoolball.com/#/ball-info/4548984235
 
6th / 7th July – The Garden Festival / Croatia 
http://thegardenfestival.eu/ 

15th July – Vintage / Northamptonshire
http://www.vintagefestival.co.uk/about/vintage-festival
 
28th July - Camp Bestival / Dorset 
http://www.campbestival.net/#/home

4th August – Eastern Electrics / London
http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/easternelectrics/2012/

5th August – Standon Calling / Hertfordshire
http://www.standon-calling.com/ 

2nd September – Preston Guild / Preston
http://www.prestonguild2012.com/?OBH=413&ID=583 

8th September – Bestival / Isle Of Wight
http://2012.bestival.net/

Greg Wilson - June 2012

Check out my label's music at: https://superweirdsubstance.bandcamp.com

GREG WILSON FESTIVAL ANTHEMS (for oki-ni 2012)

Welcome to October's weekend mix once again just playing some 
new funk and some older one's all 45's,just a mix to push 
new funk & re-issue's and peace to all the labels pushing the
music foward !!!
Enjoy
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1.Love Me A Little While Longer - Funky Music Machine (Black Top)
2.Baby - The Phenomenal Handclap Band (Truth & Soul)
3.Mango Walk - Walter Branco (Dynamite Soul)
4.Ham Hocks & Beans Pt.1-Chuck Womack (Re-Joint)
5.Fancy Roll - The Grips (Ged Soul)
6.90% Of Me -Amrau's Trinidad Band (Weed Beat)
7.Strychnine - The Grits (Mocambo)
8.Chicken - The Soul Investigators (Timmion)
9.Get Involved Pt.1 - Wolfpack (White)
10.Hey Sallie Mae,Get Off My Feet - Lee Fields (Desco)
11.Scopolamine - Michael Leonhart (Truth & Soul)
12.The Hatch - The T.M.G's (Funk 45)
13.Black Boy - Dyke & The Blazers (Beat Goes Public)
14.Nervous Like Me Pt.2 - The Dap-Kings (Kay-Dee)
15.Dance Of The Dragons Pt.2 - The Heliocentrics (Now Again)
16.Freeway Crowd - J.T. Allen (Crowbar)
17.Hot Pants On Fire - The Fabulous Soul Investigators (Timmion)
18.C'Ex -Phillippe Nicaud (Rivera)
19.Hook N Sling - The Soul Command (Soul Fire)
20.Cold Heat - Lil Lavair 
21.Daytona - Yosuke Tominaga (Champ)
22.Funky Thang - Dorando and The Ice Picks Of Soul (Sure Shot)
23.Stay In The Groove Pt.4 - The Dap-Kings Feat Rickey Calloway (Kay-Dee)
24.Purification Pt.4 - Funkshone (Kay-Dee)
25.Leave My Beat Alone - Raw Soul (Plut)
26.Pistol Whip - T-Bottoms (Funk Night)
27.Rappin All Over Pt.2 - The Marvelous 3 (Kay-Dee)
28.It's Just Begun - The Simonsound (Project Blue Book)
29.Electronic Brain Break - Virgil Howe & Shawn Lee (Breakin Bread)
30.The Clayton Break - Virgil Howe & Mark Clayton (Breakin Bread)
31.Phantom Pt.2 - Yosuke Tominga (Champ)
32.Soul To The People Pt.2 - The Fantastic Souls (Kay-Dee)
33.Tighten Up Pt.1 - Maceo & The Flames (Dynamite)
34.Ritual Pt.1 - Soul Sugar (Mocambo)
35.The Popcorn (Inst) - The Soul Believers (King)

Superjam AGFA (Flow Dynamics remix)

DM