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)

KH - Essential Mix 2022

Artist - Title - Label

01 T Williams - Way One - n/a
02 Skrillex + Boys Noize - Want Some More - n/a
03 Altrice - bda creature - Jiaolong
04 Altrice - eyes - Jiaolong
05 Koreless - Joy Squad (Facta + K Lone remix) - Young
06 Anna Lunoe - Back Seat (Chris Lorenzo Instrumental) - NLV
07 Dog Blood - Turn Off The Lights (RamonPang flip) - n/a
08 Anna Lunoe - Back Seat (Chris Lorenzo Instrumental) - NLV
09 Hagop Tchaparian - Round (Four Tet DJ version) - Text Records
10 KH - Feelings - n/a
11 Anish Kumar - Aa Gayi - n/a
12 Benomorph - B4 I die - n/a
13 Nikki Nair - Showmelove - n/a
14 Anthony Naples - Swerve - Running Back
15 Hagop Tchaparian - GL - Text Records
16 Oklou - God's Chariot (SH Remix) - Welt Discos
17 Four Tet - Mango Feedback - Text Records
18 Karima F - Crab Ride - 
19 Waleed - Se Rompen - City Slang
20 Four Tet + Fred Again - Unreleased demo - n/a
21 Fear Of Jazz - Moon In Pisces - n/a
22 A+A - North Star - n/a
23 Joy Orbison - Pinky Ring - XL
24 Floating Points - Vocoder - Ninja Tune
25 Floating Points - Problems - Ninja Tune
26 East Man - Selector -
27 Two Shell - Round - n/a
28 Chloé Robinson + DJ ADHD - Pax (Four Tet remix) - Pretty Weird
29 Chloé Robinson + DJ ADHD - Redbull - Pretty Weird
30 Flume - Sirens - Transgressive 
31 HiJinx - Shush -
32 Sir Spiro - Check -
33 KH - Looking At Your Pager - Ministry Of Sound
34 Adam F - Circles (Pola & Bryson bootleg) - n/a
35 Skrillex - Supersonic - Atlantic
36 Daphni - Cloudy - Jiaolong
37 Four Tet - Scythe Master - Eat Your Own Ears

KH Essential Mix 2022

1. ??? / Gilbert And George - Are You Sitting Comfortably... 
2. UnknownmiX - The Siren (2manydjs Edit) 
3. ??? 
4. Haruomi Hosono - Alternative 3 
5. Ferrara - Love Attack (Soulwax 'Get Off The Speakers' Edit) 
6. ??? 
7. Brenda Russell - Way Back When (Underdog Edit) 
8. Copycats - Getting Excited 
9. The Lovers - Discomania 
10. Slick Rick - Children's Story 
11. ??? 
12. ??? 
13. Ignacio - Skydance 
14. CHAI - END 
15. Oliver Sim - Sensitive Child (Soulwax Remix) 
16. Redbone - The Witch Queen Of New Orleans 
17. Full Time - Do You Do (Christian S. Sax Edit) 
18. Alexander Robotnik - Problèmes D'Amour (Ah Ou Ah Version) 
19. Shock - Angel Face 
20. 2 Belgen - Lena 
21. Orlando Riva Sound - Moonboots
22. 808 State - Flow Coma (AFX Remix) 
23. ??? 
24. June - First Age 
25. ??? 
26. Idjut Boys - Schlagstock (Vacant Gaze Version) 
27. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - Ceci N'est Pas Un Cliché (Soulwax Remix) 
28. Jacques Renault - Choo Choo Beat 
29. Rafael Cameron - Boogie Gonna Get Ya 
30. ??? 
31. Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime 
32. ??? 
33. Incredible Bongo Band - Apache 
34. Gaucho - Dance Forever 
35. ??? 
36. Pop-O-Pie - Pop-O-Rap 
37. Todo Todo - Tratamiento Radical
38. Suenõ Latino - La Puerta Del Sol (Acapella)
39. ??? 
40. Mr. Oizo - Transexual 
41. Os Ritmistas Brasileiros Conduzidos Por Luciano Perrone - Réco-Réco No. 1 
42. Rosalía - Bizcochito (Soulwax Remix) 
43. Gettoblaster - Do It
44. Lou Hayter - My Baby Just Cares for Me (Decius Dub) 
45. Faceball 2000 - La Patinoire (Live at The Cafetaria Mix) / ??? 
46. Jules Ettiene - John's Job (Rhythm Track)
47. Ana Roxanne - Untitled 
48. Ben Klock - Napoleon Hill 
49. I-F & Alden Tyrell - The Amazing Run In The Victory Boogie Woogie Tunnel (Amazing Mix) 
50. Vanessa Worm - Heaven To Hell (Eden Burns Baked Beans In The Basement Mix)
51. Cinthie - No One Will Take You From Me 
52. Gary Gritness - Lithium Polymer 
53. ??? 
54. Nowt - Polestar 
55. Underspreche - Acid Gentle Moves / Wraetlic - Bumfluff (Smagghe & Cross Remix) 
56. ??? 
57. Palmės Žiedas - Fhadi 
58. Koreless - Joy Squad 
59. ???
60. 808 State - Pacific 707 / Peggy Gou - I Go (Soulwax Remix) / Shannon - Let The Music Play (Alan Fitzpatrick's 6AM Terrace Mix)
61. Earth To Mickey - Factory Beats 
62. Sharif Laffrey - And Dance 
63. Frank De Wulf - Traffic 
64. Rhyw - Honey Badger
65. Your Planet Is Next - Rhythm Is A Dancer
66. Tiga - Easy / DHS - House Of God 
67. Gesloten Cirkel - Gesloten Cirkel 
68. Blackbelt Anderson - En Real Tjukkas / Bunny Sigler - By The Way You Dance (I Knew It Was You) (Acapella) 
69. ???
70. Bambi OFS - IXꕔN
71. Drexciya - Water Walker 
72. DJ Europarking - 20-Inch Chrome
73. Beastie Boys - Bonus Batter / MTS & RTT - Native House (Dubbed)
74. Hybrasil - Intermodulate
75. Lipelis & TMO - Diet 505 / The Minutemen - OK, Alright (Acapella)
76. D-Mob - We Call It Acieeed 
77. KiNK - Disco Spectrum
78. Wet Leg - Too Late Now (Soulwax Remix) 
79. Hashim - Al Naafiysh (The Soul) 
80. TV.OUT - USER3328
81. Miss Kittin & The Hacker - The Beach
82. ??? 
83. Bam Bam - Feel The Beat (Accupella) 
84. The Mighty Zaf - Get Down Beats 
85. E-Freq - E Is 4 Freak / Fierce Ruling Diva - Atomic Slide (Acapella) 
86. Frequency - Systematic Input / Altern8 - Frequency (Hallucin8 Mix) 
87. ??? 
88. LMZ - Fun Fun Fun 
89. Beck - Get Real Paid
90. S'Express - Funky Killer 
91. Haruomi Hosono - Platonic 
92. Black Meteoric Star - Freaks Only

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