man hearing this song right now,. takes my ole ass back....to PoMonA,Ca.    doing ditch parties  with my half crate... Wow!

this could as well have been certified platinum today 🙈🙉🙊✌️

The club track in Cartouche Utrecht, often played bij Leo Cotino (good Times).

Bridge - Baby Don't Hold Your Love Back (Dj Amine Edit)

The O'Jays - I Love Music (Alan Dixon DJ Edit) Free DL

I like to think when this first came out that Accountants, Bankers, and Romantics alike rejoiced! A simple DJ /  mixable edit  with a bit of additional synth and kick drum work. Summertime vibe out. Enjoy!

Shalamar - Take That To The Bank (TREWs Save My Love DJ Edit)

Legs (Bring The Wolf Out Of Me) Extended Dance Mix Djloops (1983)

Captain Rapp ‘Bad Times (I Can’t Stand It)’ (greg wilson edit)

120 bpm

Previously limited vinyl only 2009.

With all the talk of recession during late 2008 through 2009, Captain Rapp’s ‘Bad Times’ kept running through my head, prompting the idea to put together this edit, which would be pressed  to limited vinyl as part of the Ruff Edits series, appearing as ‘Ruff Rapp’ on Ruff Edits #3. Now, with the news reporters back to warning us of a rocky road ahead, with all the social problems this might entail, it provides a topical opportunity to share it here.

Taking its lyrical cue from 1982’s seminal recording, ‘The Message’ by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, ‘Bad Times (I Can’t Stand It)’ was a socially conscious rap that explored the issues of the day, topped off with the raw pleas of singer Kimberley Ball. Just as important though was the killer Electro-Funk groove that set the more discerning of dancefloors alight. A proper underground tune that was huge for me during the latter part of ’83 , topping my floorfillers list not long before I called time on my DJ career:
http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/lists/no1_floorfillers.html

This was very much a track you’d only hear if you were tuned into what was going on in the black clubs over here. Like the majority of tracks I played, I’d picked it up on import from Spin Inn, the essential shop in the North for Soul, Funk, Disco, Electro-Funk and Jazz (the elements that made up a specialist night circa ‘83). As I've said before, if you didn't buy your records at an import stockist like Spin Inn, you couldn't seriously aspire to be a black music specialist, and Spin Inn was right up there, along with an elite of shops, like Groove and City Sounds in London, shaping the course of UK club culture via the constant stream of dance music, great, good and not so good, they brought into this country.

Whereas New York was the centre of the dance universe at this time, its hybrid groove and technological experimentation pushing the music ever forward, ‘Bad Times’ was a West Coast, not East Coast  track, released on a small label out of Los Angeles called Saturn, with unknowns, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (along with Rich Cason), credited as arranging and performing (Jam & Lewis would, of course, become the most successful dance / R&B producers of the mid-late 80’s). Captain Rapp himself was Larry Earl Glenn, whose 1981 ‘Gigalo Rapp’ (by Disco Daddy & Captain Rapp) has its place in history as the first West Coast Rap 12”. 

‘Bad Times’ would be issued in the UK on the Becket label, but failed to make any real impact beyond the black scene. As such, it’s always retained its underground credentials, and a place in the hearts of black music enthusiasts with a fond ear for the early 80’s. 

Greg Wilson – October 2011

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Captain Rapp 'Bad Times (I Can't Stand It)' (greg wilson edit)

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A very funky old skool Roller Skating Jam if there ever was one.
Enhanced, Re-Edited and DJ Friendly....
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Edit Info:
Time: 6:02
BPM: 109
Intro: 32/32 Beats
Outro: 32/32 Beats
End: Cold

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BTW....Please Click LIKE or COMMENT if you like what you hear.....THANKS!!

T.S. Monk - Bon Bon Vie [Gimme The Good Life] (Digital Visions Re - Edit)

19 - Skyy - Let's Celebrate - 1981 [12'' Mix] - Funk [WM](1) - Cópia

Nick Straker Band - A Little Bit Of Jazz - (Shep Pettibone Master Mix 82)

CJ&Co - We Got Our Own Thing

U Are In My System (a Discobody systematic boogie)

The synth R&B duo The System was founded in 1982 in N.Y. by vocalist/guitarist Mic Murphy and genious keyboardist David Frank. 
"You Are in My System", which combined hi-tech synths with emotional vocals, was their senond single that ultimately reached iconic status and peaked at #10 in the U.S. R&B charts and #14 on the U.S. Hot Disco/Dance charts in 1982. A year later Robert Palmer covered it and hit #4 on the latter charts.

On this mix I work on The System’s bass-driven recording which I slightly prefer infusing bits of Palmer’s take. Also I include parts of the System’s Spanish version “Tu Estas En Mi Systema” released in 1983. Vocal rearrangement, extra synthlines / hi-hats / percussion & bass complete the picture. Enjoy :)

This version’s lyrics:

“System,
Systema

Oh, you’re in my system
You keep my body alive baby
Oh, you are, you’re in my system
I see you day and night and night now 
Oh, you are estas en mi-my system
I just want you to know that 
Oh, you are, en mi-my system
Everything you need
Oh, you’re in my soul
You keep my body alive baby
Oh, you are, you’re in my soul
I see you day and night and night now 
Oh, you’re in my soul
You keep my body alive baby
Oh, you are, you’re in my soul
I keep on pushin’ baby

You’re in my soul
Love's got control
Just can't get enough
Of your lovin' touch

It's a romantic vision
Of me and you
Holding hands on Sunday
And Monday too
Oh baby, you are in my system 
I just want you to know that, 
Oh, you are
You're in my system, system, system 

You know my daydreams stop
My heart beats on
I can't take it anymore
It's you I live for, ho, baby

You are in my system
I just want you to know that, oh
You're in my system
Got me burnin', burnin', baby, oh
Ooh, You're in my system, oh
You're in my system
Don't you, don't you, don't you know that, baby
I see you in my mind

I will keep on pushin', pushin'
Until I get through
My main objective, baby
Is to get to you

Turn your mind around
I know it takes time
But you know I can't wait, no
You're on my mind

You are in my system
I just want you to know that
Ooh, you are in my system
Got me burnin', burnin', baby
You are in my system
I just want you to know that
Ooh, you are, you're in my system
I keep on pushin', baby

Day by day
And night by night
I see you in my mind
It happens all the time

There's no doubt in my mind
That's I've been true, baby
You know I'll take you out
And I keep love new, oh, baby

Tu estas en mi systema…” -

U Are In My System (a Discobody systematic boogie)

D Train - Keep On

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Greg began DJing in 1975 and is regarded as one of the most important figures on the UK dance scene. He enjoyed hugely popular residencies in the early eighties at Wigan Pier and Manchester’s majorly influential Legend, having originally started out in his hometown, New Brighton. A pioneer of mixing in the UK, he became the first ‘dance music’ specialist hired for a regular weekly session at Manchester’s now legendary Haçienda club in 1983. Greg was instrumental in breaking the new electronic, post-disco records coming out of New York, a sound he has dubbed ‘Electro-Funk’.

In 2003 he set up electrofunkroots, a website documenting this crucial era in the evolution of dance culture. After a two decade hiatus from the booth, he returned to DJing and soon welcomed bookings throughout Europe and, subsequently, worldwide.

Greg was the first DJ to mix live on British TV, putting together the first UK radio mixes of their type for Piccadilly 261 in Manchester and showing a certain Norman Cook (later Fatboy Slim) how to scratch.

Nominated by DJ Magazine for outstanding contribution, and also named amongst their top twenty remixers of all-time, Greg’s remix credits include Grace Jones, The XX, Groove Armada, Bryan Ferry, Confidence Man, Gilberto Gil and Simian Mobile Disco, whilst he’s edited tracks by A Guy Called Gerald, Talking Heads, O.M.D., Electronic, Imagination and Missy Elliot.

In January 2009 Greg’s reputation was further enhanced when his Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1 received almost universal acclaim and was selected as one of 10 classics that spanned the show’s near 17 year history.

Greg’s Blog, ‘Being A DJ’, was launched in June 2010 for observations on various aspects of club culture now an online touchstone for an ever-increasing amount of dance enthusiasts and aficionados.

In August 2010 he co-curated areas at the inaugural Vintage Festival at Goodwood, which was named ‘Best New Festival’ at the UK Festival Awards.

He has produced a series of documentary podcasts, Time Capsule, Random Influences and Early 80’s Floorfillers, as well as the long-running blog series, Living To Music.

Greg has given talks on music and DJ culture at a number events at venues The Tate Gallery in Liverpool and London's Southbank and Institute Of Contemporary Arts, whilst in 2013 he was invited onto a panel alongside legendary figures Nile Rodgers and Giorgio Moroder @ ADE in Amsterdam. 

In 2014 he unveiled the multi-media label Super Weird Substance, focusing on recording and live events. In 2015, the label released 8 vinyl singles, brought together in the 2 CD comp, 'Greg Wilson Presents Super Weird Substance'. September 2015 saw a memorable Festival No.6 Happening in Portmeirion and Greg rounded off the year with the Liverpool-based celebration of the 40th anniversary of his first club date in 1975 as well as being presented with DJ Magazine's Industry Icon award.

Greg launched his Credit To The Edit club collective at 2016's Festival No.6 and since then has taken it to Liverpool, Berlin, Brixton, Bethnal Green and finally back to Portmeirion for Festival No.6 2017.

2017 saw his label host the epic 14 Hour Super Weird Happening at Liverpool's Florrie, following a mixtape collaboration with Alan Moore, who also appeared at the Happening, whilst it also saw the digital release of The Super Weird Society's 'Gone With The Vibe', released the following year on the first Substance Select 12" vinyl alongside 'The Ghosts Of Watling Street', 'The Best Is Yet To Come' and 'Summer Came My Way'. 2018 also saw the release of Vol.3 in Greg's long-running Credit To The Edit compilation series.

After a handful of further releases, the label was put into hibernation with the onset of covid. Diversifying, ‘Greg Wilson’s Discotheque Archives’ was issued during 2020 lockdown as a limited run paperback, with more books, both Wilson’s own projects and by other authors, now planned.

Captain Rapp 'Bad Times (I Can't Stand It)' (greg wilson edit)

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