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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)

Breakbot - Lazy Sunday Selecta

Hope you enjoy this selection of tracks...

mixed right from the delivery waiting room....  #babydisciple #welcometothefamily

Chew Your Music 

Business As Usual Vinyl Disciples (Vocal Tropical Deep House Music Mix)

Cheek To Cheek (Dr Funk Re-Edit) DJ Disse, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers

A little back story on this one, for those of you that may be interested. I'd wanted to do an edit of this wonderful track for ages but couldn't figure out how to approach it when along came Mark E with "Scared", an edit which solved the issue of how to deal with the two separate parts of the track beautifully - extend the intro, tease it out and simply drop into the main part of the original, leaving it as is. Brilliant! The only snag for me was that "Scared" wasn't in the style that I was looking for personally. So, I proceeded to copy Mark E's blueprint using a different groove. I filtered the intro and beat, jammed along on keys over the top, working it to the max, before dropping back into the original at the drop. I've had a lot of fun playing this one out over the years, it works equally well in house clubs and soul all-nighters alike. I've left the edit as is,  the way I first recorded it, nice and loose (nothing to do with locating 9+ year old files  on hard drives ;)). I hope you all enjoy it and play it out often and loud! 

CECIL WOMACK FOREVER!

Womack & Womack - Baby I'm Scared Of You (Casbah 73  Extended Edit)

sound(ge)cloud - Sunset Grooves Special by Funky Chap - mélange

Jeremy aka Funky Chap and me are united by our great passion for music. His Sunset Grooves project is at least as diversified as my podcast. We both refuse being labelled and we publish everything first and foremost for our own delight. In his new mix he has tried to turn the different styles that define Sunset Grooves into a story… and I can tell you: he reached his ambitious goal. A colourful journey through deep, groovy, spaced-out and cheerful sounds.
Jeremy, it is a real pleasure being your friend! Open your ears, spring is coming!

Jeremy aka Funky Chap und mich verbindet die große Liebe zur Musik. Sein Sunset Grooves Projekt ist ähnlich abwechslungsreich wie meine Podcast-Reihe. Wir wollen uns wohl beide nicht in eine Schublade stecken lassen und veröffentlichen alles, was in erster Linie uns gefällt. In seinem neuem Mix hat er nun versucht die verschiedenen Stile, die Sunset Grooves ausmachen, in eine Geschichte zu verpacken… und ich muss sagen das ist Ihm mehr als gelungen. Eine bunte Reise durch deepe, groovige, spacige und verspielte Sounds. 
Jeremy, es ist mir eine wahre Freude mit dir befreundet zu sein. Ohren auf, hier kommt der Frühling!

Funky Chap (Sunset Grooves/Lausanne/Switzerland)
Booking Contact --- sunsetgrooves@live.com
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Soundcloud Sunset Grooves --- https://soundcloud.com/sunset-grooves
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sound(ge)cloud 023  Sunset Grooves Special by Funky Chap - mélange

Wake up everybody - Psychemagik
A Return To Space (Leftside Wobble's Space dub) - Twisted tongue
What It Is Going On (Cole Medina Re-Edit) - Marvin Gaye
Thinking Of You (Dimitri from Paris remix) - Sister Sledge
I Wish (The Reflex Stems Remix) - Stevie Wonder
Why Can't We Live Together (Underdog Rework) - Timmy Thomas
Evil Woman (Internationally Trained Bunnies Edit) - ELO
Another Brick In The Wall (PEL Edit) - Snatch
Youngblood (Cosmic Boogie Edit) - WAR
Heavens in the back seat of my Cadillac (Revenge Rework) - Hot Chocolate
Open Sez Me! (Fingermanedit) - Kool & the Gang
Once In A Lifetime (Fingerman's Simple Extend) - Talking Heads
Beat Goes On (Fingerman Classic Edit) - The Whispers
More Bounce 2 The Ounce (Fingermanedit) - Zapp

Dr Funk Re-Edit Mix

Special mix put together in June 2010 ahead of the inaugural Vintage Festival (Aug 13/14/15): www.vintageatgoodwood.com 

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

VINTAGE FUTURE RETRO (by greg wilson for vintage festival 2010)

A simple edit done in some hours just to make it more dj friendly.

Chico Buarque - Far Niente (DJ Farrapo Edit) FREE DOWNLOAD

Artist:
@vibes4yoursoul

Noc Boots, the ever soulful NYC based rework and edit series has returned. Opening this Spring affair is French retouch maestro and Noc Boots series veteran V4YS with his creamy disco reggae interpretation of "I'm in Luv". Continuing the vibe is Moscow based rework specialist Rare Cuts and his breezy Brazilian groove "Branco Amigo". Sub37 follows suit with the melodic synth wave re-edit "Love Mission" Noc Boots curator Cloak Dagger closes out Vol.9 with "Come To Me" a filter heavy deep disco take on an essential 80's RnB classic! Keep Noc'n those boots!

Noc Boots 009

V4YS-I'm In Luv

Written by Jacques Higelin & Brigitte Fontaine, "La Grippe" was recorded in 1965. It was produced by legendary 40's/50's/60's talent scout Jacques Canetti, as part of a longer collection of songs, "12 chansons d'avant le déluge", which I highly recommend.

Founder of "Les 3 Baudets" club in Paris in the late 40s, Canetti auditionned Jacques Higelin for the first time in 1955. Only 15-year-old at the time,  young Higelin impressed him, but was too young for Canetti to promote...yet. 
Canetti told Higelin' parents that day that Jacques will probably hear from him again...when he turns 25. And kept his word, by producing this first record in Higelin long career!

To me, this wonderful little song sounds like an early echo of the bossa/jazz wave that hit in France in the late 60's/early 70's. Higelin actually subsequently worked a lot with the Saravah Records label, created by the man who introduced Brazilian sounds in France, Pierre Barough. 

Here is my samba/bossa Dj-friendly revisit of this song, as a humble tribute to Higelin's talent and legacy.

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Free Dwnld

Higelin X Fontaine - La Grippe (V4YS Sambossa Rework)

More info about Turnbalism Radio Show at : 
> https://www.lemellotron.com/turnbalism-radio-show

Guests :
Arno Lemons
> https://www.facebook.com/ArnoLemons/
> https://soundcloud.com/arnolemons

The Elektrik Cave
> https://www.facebook.com/TheElektrikCave/
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Turnbalism Radio Show #5 w/ Arno Lemons et The Elektrik Cave

More info about Serendipity Music Radio Show at :
 › www.lemellotron.com/serendipity-music-radio-show

Waxist - Serendipity Music Radio Show #66

More info about Funky French League at :
› https://www.lemellotron.com/funky-french-league

Funky French League #6

Kitty Winter - New Morning (Reworked) (Todd Terje Tangoterje Edit)

Dr Funk has a new page (The return of) Dr Funk.
