A moment from the DJ Paulette archives that's unavailable anywhere else - including the Radio1 website. The concept behind this mix - because believe it or not I thought long and hard about it - was to represent musically exactly who I am and how I came to be included on the hallowed Essential Mix roster.  Deep, latin, jazzy, soulful and downright funky house nestles alongside pure funk and disco goodness. It's NOT a string of obvious bangers though so don't go expecting 'I'm Every Woman' or 'Promised Land'. Vibewise it represents the foot progression in a club from the back room to the main room but also provides a bit of a biog / background including music from Talkin Loud and Mercury days. Every song and lyric tells its own story.  I showcase Roni Size & Reprazents remixed by Nuyorican Soul and Terri Callier featuring a glorious Peven Everett vocal tipping the hat to my PR day job at Mercury Records.  House sounds of Manifesto records, A&M, Virgin reflect my night shift DJ job. Over parts one and two, artists featured include Armand Van Helden, Daft Punk, Ultra Naté, Unlimited Touch, Slick, Muzique, Ten City, LaTour, BeBe Winans, Roger Sanchez, Eddie Amador, Roy Ayers, Cevin Fisher, It also is a fine example of the sort of 'block party' sets I was renowned for playing at the Zap Club in Brighton, Bagleys, The Cross and The Ministry of Sound in London, Flesh Club at the Hacienda in Manchester, Amnesia, Privilege and Cafe Mambo in Ibiza and anywhere else I deigned to turn up and play records.  Sadly I don't know where Part 2 is - (probably quarantined by Soundcloud over the years) and I don't have a playlist for this mix which is a shame as there are some beauties on there that I'd like to re-home from my collection.  It's a vinyl and acetates mix only, recorded live, in one take with no faking, fixing or tricks-ing. There were no CDs, MP3s available nor were there any laptops capable or fast enough to do a complete dj mix in 1998 and I was not a reel-to-reel player. Acetates and live musician timings and random speed pitches brought about the occasional timing slippage but we lived with that then - it was allowed and it gave the set a spiky, less linear life of its own. If you know, then you know.  This is how it was for me in 1998.  I'm proud and happy to have found it so I've reposted and featured it again. It's fusion and funk - with a badass bassline. Enjoy.

PAULETTE'S RADIO 1 ESSENTIAL MIX PARTS 1&2 TX: MARCH 1998

Another moment from the DJ Paulette archives and unavailable anywhere else - including the Radio1 website.  Not sure if that means it was rubbish though so you can make your own mind up.  The concept behind this mix - because believe it or not I thought long and hard about it - was to represent musically exactly who I was and how I had got to be included on the Essential Mix roster.  Deep, latin, disco, soulful and downright funky house nestles alongside pure funk and disco classics.  It was supposed to represent the movement in a club from the back room to the main room but also provided a bit of a biog background including music from Talkin Loud (I represented Roni Size & Reprazents, Nuyorican Soul and Terri Callier and the house sounds of Manifesto records, A&M, Virgin etc at the time when I DJ'ed by night and w orked by day in PR for Mercury Records. Artists including Armand Van Helden, Daft Punk, Ultra Naté feature alongside Unlimited Touch, Slick, Patrice Rushen, Muzique, Ten City, LaTour, BeBe Winans, Roger Sanchez, Eddie Amador, Roy Ayers, Cevin Fisher, It also is a fine example of the sort of 'block party' sets I was renowned for playing at the Zap Club in Brighton, Bagleys, The Cross and The Ministry of Sound in London, Flesh Club at the Hacienda in Manchester, Amnesia, Privilege and Cafe Mambo in Ibiza and anywhere else I deigned to turn up and play records whilst also being fashionably on point.  Sadly I don't have a playlist for this mix, can't find one anywhere online either which is a shame as there are some beauties on there that I'd like to get the titles for myself.  It was mixed on two Technics 1210s, an embarrassingly rude Gemini two channel mixer and is (as was the norm in 1998) a CD and MP3 free zone - it does have some acetates on there though - hence the occasional timing slippage as those things were heavy and hell to cue up.  This is how it was for me in 1998.   It is admittedly a bit rough in places but everybody's gotta learn sometime and 13 years later I'm still proud of it and happy to have found it. It's fusion and funk - with a badass bassline. Enjoy.

1-01 PAULETTE'S RADIO 1 ESSENTIAL MIX MARCH 1998

Winner of the DJ Mag Top 100 Lifetime Achievement Award (November 2022) DJ Paulette is a highly regarded DJ across the UK and Europe, born and raised in (and still resident of) Manchester. Over a 30-year career, she has scaled the heights of dance music fame and hedonism playing disco, house and techno to huge crowds and in cool underground basements. She is a dj who is renowned for consistently ‘smashing’ every set she plays. One of two women to have a residency at the Hacienda in its heyday, she went on to have residencies at Heaven and Ministry of Sound, before successful stints in Paris and Ibiza. She has a keen talent for reinvention and replicating excellence. She has monthly radio shows with Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide FM, Reform Radio and a Global Residency show produced in collaboration with The Radio Department that is syndicated to stations around the world. on 6 Music she has been standing in for Afrodeutsche on The People's Party, Amy Lame's morning show and Craig Charles on 6 Music. 

She has played headline sets at Beams in London, Warehouse Project – Glitterbox, Homobloc and Hacienda, Maceo's and the NYC Downlow for Block 9, San Remo, Stonebridge, Greenpeace at Glastonbury, Beatherder, Brixton Disco Festival, Worldwide Festival in Sete, Mighty Hoopla, Horsemeat Disco in Berlin, Kelburn Garden Party, The National Theatre River Stage, Gilles Peterson’s stage for All Points East,  Brighton Pride, Glitterbox at Hi Ibiza, Flow Festival in Finland, Homoelectric, Feel It at Omeara and Fatboy Slim’s Weekender ‘All Back to Minehead’. Apart from dj’ing Paulette is an events and exhibition curator and a regular contributor to radio shows as diverse as Jamz Supernova on 6Music, Radcliffe and Maconie , Afrodeutsche’s ‘The People’s Party’, Anamatronic’s ‘Dance Devotion’, Eats Everything’s ‘Edible Beats’ and for the end of 2023 she will be closing Homobloc with a B2B with the Blessed Madonna. She sits on the Regional Committee for the Musicians’ Union and is a Power Up mentor for shesaidso. Her ‘jewel in the crown’? Her debut book ‘Welcome To The Club’ will be published in January 2024 on Manchester University Press.

PAULETTE'S RADIO 1 ESSENTIAL MIX PARTS 1&2 TX: MARCH 1998

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