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Nightmares On Wax - BBC Radio 6 - 6 Mix

SOUL FOOD – THE BROAD CHURCH OF NORTHERN SOUL
This podcast accompanies a blog piece ‘Northern Renaissance’, which simultaneously went online. Below is an excerpt; you can read the full piece here: 
https://blog.gregwilson.co.uk/2013/11/northern-renaissance/

As I hope this piece will illustrate, Northern Soul back in the 70’s was a much broader church than many might imagine. Whilst the stompers were central to the scene, especially when Wigan Casino was at its peak, not everything ran at breakneck pace as is often suggested, the movement encompassed a whole spectrum of styles and tempos. The scene was notoriously very snobbish about its music, dropping a previously loved record like a hot potato because it had subsequently achieved commercial success, although it was this fervent elitism that played a major part in its success and longevity. It’s also the reason why a track many might consider to be as Northern as they come, like Jackie Wilson’s ‘(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher’ (a Detroit artist doing an uptempo dance track with Funk Brothers backing) isn’t Northern Soul according to those at the cutting-edge of the scene, despite the fact it was a big favourite in the Soul clubs following its 1967 release. It’s sin was that it became a UK hit in 1969, just before the Northern scene got into its stride, so, along with a whole heap of Tamla Motown tunes that are Northern in everything bar their success in connecting with the masses, it was banished to the realm of pop. This is why another famous Jackie Wilson track, ‘I Get The Sweetest Feeling’, this time a 1968 recording, which, on the surface, given it’s much mellower vibe, is far less stereotypically Northern than ‘Higher And Higher’, is, in contrast, considered a bone fide Northern classic – the reason being that ‘I Get The Sweetest Feeling’ didn’t become a hit until 1972, having broken out of the Northern scene, then in full swing.

So, with the various aspects considered, I’ve put together an epic 3 hour 20 minute podcast selection of records that I hope will reflect Northern Soul in its wider context, from the nailed on classics to those with more nominal status. What can’t be disputed is that each and every track included has been played, at least somewhere at one point or another, under the Northern Soul banner. There are 70 tracks in all, with just 2 artists with more than 1 inclusion, the aforementioned Jackie Wilson and the great, but tragic songstress Linda Jones (3, if you count Frankie Valli, here both solo and with the Four Seasons). The idea to put this together grew out of a CD compilation I made for myself back in the 00’s to listen to whilst I was driving, which I called ‘Soul Food’, and the intention is for it to act as solid introduction for those wanting to hear what Northern Soul was all about, in all its diverse glory, whilst I’d like to think it will also evoke fond memories for those who were there at the time. The fact I wasn’t a part of the scene has hopefully allowed me to approach this selection in a more objective way than someone embroiled within it, who may not be able to resist the inclination to pack it with tracks nobody else, apart from other ultra-obsessives may know, or who might want to brush a few of the inclusions under the ‘you had to be there at the time’, carpet. Consider this, if you will, a beginners guide, of which I love all of the selections, each in its own way - just wonderful wonderful uplifting music.

Greg Wilson – November 2013

SOUL FOOD - THE BROAD CHURCH OF NORTHERN SOUL (greg wilson selection)

This podcast accompanies a blog piece, also titled ‘Unmixed Esssentials’, which simultaneously went online:
http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2014/01/unmixed-essentials/

To mark the 5th anniversary of perhaps the defining moment of my reignited DJ career, my Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1 on January 17th 2009, I’ve put together a podcast that includes all of the 43 source tracks featured in their full-length glory (retaining the same running order) - a whopping 277 minutes in all.

The Essential Mix is available to stream / download here:
http://soundcloud.com/gregwilson/essential-mix-greg-wilson-mix-for-bbc-radio-1

Essential Mix page at electrofunkroots:
http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/essential-mix/

Greg Wilson 17.01.14

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UNMIXED ESSENTIALS (greg wilson selection)

Live recording from Homoelectric @ Antwerp Mansions in Manchester on 08.02.14.

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HOMOELECTRIC @ ANTWERP MANSION MANCHESTER 08.02.14 (greg wilson live mix)

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)

JAGUAR SKILLS 
THE JAGUAR SKILLS SHooOO!!!
SUPER MIX No: 026 - THE PIANO LOOP MIX 
Tracklist:

Marshall Jefferson - Move Your Body 
Bizzarre Inc - Playing With Knives 
Alison Limerick - Where Love Lies 
Rhythm Is Rhythm - Strings Of Life
Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling On 
Kym Sims - Too Blind To See It
Behrouz Vs Fpi Project - Rich In Paradise (Piano Paradise Instrumental Remix)
The Movement Club - Going Back To My Roots 
Inner City - Good Life 
Axwell - I Found You
Ralphi Rosario - An Instrumental Need
Jimi Polo - Betters Days 
Utah Saints - Something Good
Fatboy Slim - Praise You 
D.J. Pierre - Get On the Floor (Extended Version)
Strike - U Sure Do 
The Prodigy - Your Love 
Robert Miles - Children 
Original - I Luv You Baby 
The Prodigy - Wind It Up 
New Atlantic - I Know 
Livin' Joy - Dreamer 
Slo Moshun - Bells Of Ny 
Awesome 3 - Don't Go 
Congress - 40 Miles 
Brothers In Rhythm - Such A Good Feeling 
Bobby Brown - 2 Can Play That Game 
East Side Beat - Ride Like The WInd 
The Streets - Weak Become Heros 
Eric Prydz - Pjanoo
Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman 
K-Klass - Let Me Show You 
Happy Mondays - Step On 
N-Joi - Anthem 
Happy Clappers - I Believe 
Starlight - Numero Uno 
Robin S - Show Me Love 
Black Box - Ride On Time 
Sterling Void - It's Alright 
Felix - Don't You Want Me?
Hyper Go Go - High 
Tensnake - Coma Cat 
Cola Boy - 7 Ways To Love 
Manix - Feel Real Good
Rozalla - Faith 
FPI Project - Risky 
Liquid - Sweet Harmony


Jaguar Skills - The Piano Loop Mix

Full recording from closing set on Soul Train stage at Love Saves The Day Festival in Bristol on 25.05.14.

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LOVE SAVES THE DAY FESTIVAL BRISTOL 25.05.14 (greg wilson live mix)

The Superbs - Party Together 
Inner Life - Ain't No Mountain High Enough (The Garage Version)
Salsoul Orchestra - Magic Bird Of Fire 
Atmosphere - Dancing In Outer Space
In Search Of Orchestra - Phenomena Theme
The Roy Ayers - Sweet Tears 
Oscar - Doin The Trash 
Count Dee's Silver Disco Explosion - Theme From Charlie's Angels
Count Dee's Silver Disco Explosion - Theme From Superman 
Archie Bell & The Drells - Let's Groove 
Frankie Vallie - Grease Is The Word
Chic - Savoir Faire 
Boney M. - Gotta Go Home
Boney M - Daddy Cool 
Village People - YMCA
MECO - Theme From Starwars
M.F.S.B. - Love Is The Message 
Cookie Monster, Count, Ernie, Grover, Robin Gibb - Sesame Street Fever
Instant Funk - I Got My Mind Made Up
Blowfly - Can I Cum In Your Mouth
Chaka Khan - Clouds
Edwin Birdsong - Cola Bottle Baby
Mr. Magic & Pookie Blow - Earth Break 
Count Dee's Silver Disco Explosion - Theme From Kojak
Boney M  - Sunny
Marty Grover - Has Anybody Seen My Dog?
Jimmy Sabater - To Be With You
Pointer Sisters - Pinball Number Count 
The O'Jays - Message In Our Music 
The Blackbyrds - Walking in Rhythm
Boney M - Ma Baker 
Hoyt Curtin - Ready Room Disco
Big Bird, Girls, Kids - The Happiest Street In The World
Mankind - Dr Who
Brooklyn Express - Back In Time 
Count Dee's Silver Disco Explosion - The Hustle 
Carrie Lucas - Dance With You 
The Trammps - Where Do We Go From Here
Rhythm Heritage - Blockbuster
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - The Love I Lost
Toney Lee - Reach Up
RCR - Give It To You
Evelyn "Champagne" King - Shame 
MECO - Close Encounters Of Third Kind 
Jackson 5 - Life Of The Party
Rick James - You And I 
Todd, Pam & Love Exchange - Popeye Disco 
The Jacksons - Can You Feel It 
Musique -  Keep On Jumpin
Pino D'Angiò - Ma Quale Idea
The Usual Gang Of Idiots - Disco Clap
Salsoul Orchestra - Salsoul Hustle 
Blowfly - Show Me A Man Who Don't Like To F*ck
Kool & The Gang - Steppin' Out
Rose Royce - Is it Love You're After 
The Emotions - Best of my Love
Cloud One - Stomp Your Feet And Dance
Max Bygraves - Tulips From Amsterdam
Carol Williams - Love Is You
Change feat. Luther Vandross - The Glow Of Love
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive 
Loleatta Holloway - Love Sensation
Heatwave - Boogie Nights
Chic - Goodtimes
Chic - Soup For One 
Chic - Chic Cheer
Blondie - Rapture 
Chic - My Forbidden Lover 
Loose Joints - Is It All Over My Face?
Mirror - Give Up 
Bee Gee's - More Than A Woman 
Don Renaldo Strings - Fiddlin' Around
Alicia Myers - I Want To Thank You 
Cher - Take Me Home (Album Version)
The Love Unlimited Orchestra - Love's Theme
Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots 
Bee Gee's - Night Fever 
Abba - Dancing Queen 
Sylvester - Over And Over 
Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Til You Get Enough
Heatwave - Gangsters Of The Groove
Loleatta Holloway - Dreamin
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
Chicago - Street Player 
Julia & Company - Breakin’ Down (JM After-Session M&M Mix)
Michael Jackson - Rock With You
Phreek - Weekend 
Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
Double Exposure - Everyman
Arthur King - Fear
Kool And The Gang - Celebration
Barry Manilo - At The Copa (Disco Version)
Lipps Inc. - Funkytown
Donna Summer - I Feel Love (12" Version)
Sister Sledge - Lost In Music 
Chaka Khan - I'm Every Woman 
Mary Jane Girls - Ring My Bell
Walter - A Fifth Of Beethoven 
The Trammps - Disco Inferno 
Sister Sledge - He's The Greatest Dancer 
Chic - Everybody Dance 
Tavares - It Only Takes A Minute Girl 
Commodores - Lady (You Bring Me Up) 
Brothers Johnson - Stomp
Ottawan - DISCO
Diana Ross - My Piano 
Taste Of Honey - Boogie Woogie 
Positive Force - We Got The Funk 
Diana Ross - Tenderness
Slave - Just A Touch Of Love 
Michael Jackson - Get On The Floor 
Diana Ross - Upside Down 
Cheryl Lynn - Got To Be Real 
Chic - Le Freak 


Jaguar Skills - D.I.S.C.O - 40 Min Workout - June 2014

Recorded at the Stonebridge Tent at 2pm. First of 3 appearances at Glastonbury on 27.06.14.

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GLASTONBURY TRILOGY 2014 PT 1 STONEBRIDGE 27.06.14 (greg wilson live mix)

A Disco flavoured mix for Tokyo's C-Les Radio - Feb 2010.

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DISCO XI (by greg wilson for c-les / tokyo 2010)

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JAGUAR SKILLS 60 MINUTES OF RAM

Jaguar Skills - Special Place Intro 
Origin Unknown - Valley Of The Shadows
Randall & Andy C - Sound Control 
Origin Unknown - The Touch (Part 2)
Shimon - Within Reason
Desired State - Here And Now 
Desired State - Goes Around
Origin Unknown - Truly One 
Origin Unknown - Lunar Bass
Shimon - Predator 
Desired State - Here And Now (Remix)
Randall & Andy C - Feel It (Remix)
Randall & Andy C - Sound Control (Remix)
Desired State - Invasion 
Desired State - Mind Games
Andy C - Roll On 
Concept 2 - Cause N Effect 
Flatliner & DJ Freedom - Deeper Levels 
Shimon & Andy C - Night Flight 
Shimon & Andy C - Mutation 
Shimon & Andy C - Genetix 
Origin Unknown - Broken Road
Shimon & Andy C - Quest 
Moving Fusion - Deep Minds
Red One - Hard Edge 
Shimon & Andy C - In Session 
Shimon & Andy C - Live Line 
Shimon & Andy C - Mutation (Remix)
Origin Unknown - Termination 
Moving Fusion -Turbulence 
Dj Freedom - The Zone 
Origin Unknown - Emotion 
Origin Unknown - Sound In Motion 
Ram Trilogy - Human Future 
Moving Fusion - Sexdrive 
Ram Trilogy - Snake Bite 
Ram Trilogy - Mind Overload 
Ram Trilogy - Time Chamber 
Ram Trilogy - System Error 
Moving Fusion - The Beginning 
Moving Fusion - Atlantis 
Ram Trilogy - Undergrowth 
Decorum - Carnage 
Moving Fusion - Peace Keeper 
Moving Fusion - Skull Smasher
Red One - Kung Fu Fresh 
Origin Unknown - Elevator 
Shimon & Andy C - Firewire
Moving Fusion - The Witness 
Shimon & Andy C - Mind Killer
Shimon -Hush Hush 
Origin Unknown - Fly Away 
Origin Unknown - Equinox 
Shimon & Andy C - Orient Express
Shimon & Andy C - Body Rock 
Moving Fusion - Reality 
Moving Fusion - Star Sign 
Moving Fusion - Mean Machine 
Moving Fusion - Chilli Pepper 
Moving Fusion - Shadows 
Moving Fusion - Guy Fawkes
Moving Fusion - Ghost Lane 
Dynamite MC & Origin Unknown- Hotness (Roni Size Remix)
Ram Trilogy - Skittles 
Fresh - Switch
Sub Focus - X Ray 
Shimon - Malice 
Sparfunk Ft. Joe Solo - Rapture
Sub Focus - Juno
Sub Focus - Frozen Solid 
Sub Focus - Scarecrow
Sparfunk Ft. Joe Solo - Blazzin’ Jazz
Sub Focus - Swamp Thing 
Sparfunk - Diamention X
Noisia - Facade
Noisia & Mayhem - Moonway Renegade
Sub Focus - Airplane 
Xample Ft. Crystal Clear - Heaven & Hell 
Shimon & Moving Fusion - Mysterions (Baron Mix)
Sub Focus - Flamenco 
Shimon - Crossbow 
Shimon - Hand Up
Shimon - The Bypass
Culture Shock - The Shadow Knows
Sub Focus -Citizen Kane 
Noisia - Facade VIP
Sub Focus - Druggy
Culture Shock - Vice Chase 
Gridlok - Skanka 
Xample - Get Out Clause 
Xample - Lowdown 
Culture Shock - Zeppelin 
Chase & Status - Hurt You 
Culture Shock & Brookes Brother - Rework 
Xample - Infamous 
Xample Ft. Lomax - The Latter 
Chase & Status - Pieces
Sub Focus - Timewarp 
Culture Shock - Imax
Chase & Status - Music Club 
Chase & Status - Brazil
Icicle & Nymfo - Franky Mountain 
Chase & Status - Smash TV 
Culture Shock - Kronix 
Chase & Status - Take Me Away 
Chase & Status - Eastern Jam 
Culture Shock & Brookes Bros - Smoothie 
Chase & Status - I Can’t Get Enough 
Sub Focus - Splash 
Xample - Keep Their Heads Ringing 
Lomax - Faith Massive
Sub Focus - Let The Story Begin
Lomax - Mercia 
Sub Focus - Triple X
Noisia - Deception 
Lomax - Avon Calling 
Xample Ft.. Lomax - Contra
Chase & Status Ft. Kano - Against All Odds (Xample Remix)
Sub Focus - World Of Hurt 
Chase & Status - Saxon 
Loadstar ft. Xample & Lomax - Link To The Past 
Hamilton - Soundboy
Rusko ft Amber Coffman - Hold On (Sub Focus Remix)
Callide - Supreme 
Fresh - Signal 
Noisia & Phace - Floating Zero 
Mind Vortex - Onslaught 
Blackout - Love (Hamilton Remix)
Fresh -  Arkanoid 
Sub Focus - Take That 
Wilkinson - Overdose 
Moving Fusion - Makosa 
Break - Breakfast 
Loadstar - BLVD
Loadstar - Hit The Ground 
DC Breaks - Creeper
Chase & Status - Blind Faith 
Loadstar - Berlin 
DC Breaks - The More I Want 
Culture Shock - Ohrwurm 
Cyantific - Touch Me
Culture Shock - Machine 
Chase & Status - Hypest Hype 
Hamilton - Soundboy VIP
Basher - Xerox
Loadstar - Space Between 
Fresh - The Gatekeeper
DC Breaks - Horror Show 
Wilkinson - Pistol Whip
Basher - Androids
Chase & Status - No Problem 
Chase & Status - Hocus Pocus
Delta Heavy - Minus 
Shimon - The Shadow Knows (Dirtyphnics Remix)
Ant Miles & Boneshaker - Vicious Nature 
Hamilton - Echoes
Hamilton - Brainstorm 
Culture Shock - Protection 
Delta Heavy - Overkill
Basher - Devotion 
Wilkinson - Tonight (After Midnight Mix)
Wilkinson - Tonight 
Wilkinson - Everytime 
Loadstar - Second Skin 
Mind Vortex - Hotbox 
Hamilton - Rich Kids
Calyx & TeeBee - Elevate The Sound
Calyx & TeeBee - Pure Gold 
Calyx & TeeBee - Skank 
Rene LaVice - Absolute Monster 
Rene LaVice - Not Deep
Loadstar - Passenger 
Wilkinson - Automatic 
Loadstar - Bomber 
Delta Heavy - Turbine 
Rene LaVice - Meow
Mind Vortex - Now It’s Time 
Delta Heavy - Get By
Calyx & TeeBee - Hurting 
Calyx & TeeBee - Scavenger 
DC Breaks - Shaken
Rene LaVice - Headlock VIP
Calyx & TeeBee - Heroes & Villains 
DC Breaks - Gambino 
Rene LaVice - Where My Ladies At 
Loadstar - Flight 
Rene LaVice - Portland 
Hive - Neo (Audio Remix)
Sub Focus - Out Of The Blue 
Gridlok & Prolix - Membrane 
Hamilton - Brainstorm VIP
DC Breaks - Swag 
Hamilton - Fuck It Up
Mind Vortex - Gravity 
Andy C - Workout 
Audio - Stampede
June Miller - Operation Ivy 
Wilkinson - Take You Higher 
Wilkinson - Perforation 
DC Breaks - Slugs 
June Miller & Nymfo - Misfits 
Frankee - Black Heart 
Rene LaVice - Tap Dat (Chords Remix)
Frankee - Wonderland 
Andy C - Haunting 
Loadstar - Vatican Roulette 
Wilkinson - Need To Know 
Wilkinson - Afterglow 
Mind Vortex - Alive 
Calyx & TeeBee - Strung Out (Calibre Remix)
Chords - Amygdala
DC Breaks - Lock In 
Loadstar - Under Pressure 
Delta Heavy - Apollo
Audio - Heads Up
Chords -High Groove 
Hamilton - Be There 
Frankee - Gully 
Wilkinson - Too Close (Frankee Remix)
Frankee - Away 
Jaguar Skills & Chords Feat Matti Roots - Lust 
Jaguar Skills & Chords Feat Matti Roots - Lust (Break Remix)
Jaguar Skills - Outro 


JAGUAR SKILLS: 60 MINUTES OF RAM

TODD TERJE - Alfonso Muskedunder (Bullion remix)

TODD TERJE - Alfonso Muskedunder (Mungolian vs Tangoterje dub)

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Eyes In The Back Of My Head (feat. Rival)

TODD TERJE - Inspector Norse (Pepe Bradock remix)

Platoon

Platoon (SpectraSoul Remix)

NO SELL OUT - ELECTRO RETROSPECTIVE
LEGEND / WIGAN PIER MAY 1982 – DEC 1983
MIXED BY GREG WILSON FOR A GUY CALLED GERALD - SAMURAI FM 2005

This is the most involved mix I’ve ever put together, even more so than my Essential Mix in 2009, for which ‘No Sell Out’ very much provided the prototype. I intended it as a definitive document to the period May 82 – Dec 83, when Legend and Wigan Pier were at their most influential, the new Electro-Funk sound turning the black scene on its head as the old gradually gave way to the new.

As I wrote at the time:
“The tracks on this mix represent this now distant time of both musical and cultural change. I’ve selected the records that were regarded as controversial at the time within black music circles, the ones that the traditionalists were up in arms about. I’d originally chosen 50 of the biggest tracks played at Legend and the Pier, but this was upped to 60, all of which needed to be edited down to an average of a minute and a half in length, which was no small task in itself! Realising that there were still other tracks I wanted to include, I decided to keep it to the main 60, but drop in snippets of additional records from the period, not only Electro, but also other big floorfillers from my nights. I never played purely Electro, but mixed it in alongside Soul, Funk and Disco (or as people refer to it nowadays, Boogie), and this is reflected by the numerous ‘references’ sprinkled throughout the mix.

It’s good to be able to place some of these tracks back into their original context. Tracks like ‘The Message’, ‘Rockit’ and ‘Buffalo Gals’ would become big hits in the UK, but they were completely unknown when first played at Legend and the Pier. A perfect example would be ‘White Lines’, which was an underground favourite for many months before the penny finally dropped with the mainstream audience and they came to appreciate it as the wonderful record it is, resulting in a chart stay of over a year! Nowadays, ‘White Lines’ can be played pretty much anywhere to a great response. It’s a sure-fire floorfiller, regarded as a dance standard, but it wasn’t always that way - without the initial specialist support it could quite easily have ended up as just a minor hit.

The title of the mix, ‘No Sell Out’, comes from the opening track. It seemed an appropriate name, given the fact these records were very much regarded by the purists as the selling out of black music, rather than its salvation (something which pretty much everyone can now, with hindsight, clearly see). Listening back to these tracks you can trace the evolution of Hip Hop, Techno and House. This was the point in time when black music fully embraced the available technology and took dance to new dimensions. Hearing these records for the very first time, we knew that the future was upon us and that dance music had entered a whole new phase of its development.”

The ‘No Sell Out – Electro Retrospective’ page at Electrofunkroots gives the full lowdown and complete tracklisting. It includes an introduction by Gerald Simpson (aka A Guy Called Gerald), for whose Samurai FM podcast this mix was originally put together.

http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/mixes/no_sell_out.html 

Greg Wilson – February 2012

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

NO SELL OUT ELECTRO RETROSPECTIVE (by greg wilson for a guy called gerald - samurai fm 2005)

GREG WILSON presents The Chic Organization – 1977-79 Selection Reworked
 
Greg writes about the mix and all things Chic at his blog:
http://blog.gregwilson.co.uk/2018/06/the-chic-organization-1977-79-selection-reworked/
 
Chic had a sound of all their own, the crack rhythm section of Nile Rodgers (guitar), Bernard Edwards (bass) and drummer Tony Thompson providing the highly infectious grooves that characterised their records. They would be massively influential as a consequence, their anthemic tracks still loved all these years later, with a new younger generation embracing their good time vibe in the same way their parents might have.
 
The mix consists of 12 edits / reworks of 9 Rogers & Edwards produced tracks, all of which happened to be originally recorded during 1977-79, the years which saw Disco peak and decline, with Chic at the helm during those halcyon days, their own recordings providing 4 US top 10 singles, including a pair of #1s, whilst Sister Sledge, whose success they mentored, weighed in via the hit-laden ‘We Are Family’ LP. They even found time for a French excursion via Sheila & B Devotion’s ‘Spacer’.

SISTER SLEDGE ‘THINKING OF YOU’
1.‘Things You Do For Me’ - Killer Funk Disco Allstars Edit
2.Sister S ’Living Ecstasy’ – Norington Remix
CHIC ‘CHIC CHEER’
3.Leroc Sportif Edit
SISTER SLEDGE ‘HE’S THE GREATEST DANCER’
4.’Greatest Dancer’ – Daz Digs Disco Re-Edit
5.’One Nite In A Disco’ – Late Nite Tuff Guy Rework / Greg Wilson Edit
CHIC ‘I WANT YOUR LOVE’
6.Todd Terje Edit (incorporates Moodyman ‘I Can’t Kick This Feeling When It Hits)
CHIC ‘STRIKE UP THE BAND’
7.’Feel The Rhythm’ – Deep & Disco Edit
CHIC ‘LE FREAK’
8.Chewy Rubs ‘Future Freak’
SISTER SLEDGE ‘LOST IN MUSIC’
9.DSD Balearic Mix
CHIC ‘DANCE, DANCE, DANCE (YOWSAH, YOWSAH, YOWSAH)’
10.Greg Wilson Rework
11.In Flagranti ‘A Brag Mount’
SHEILA & B. DEVOTION ‘SPACER’
12.Greg Wilson Edit
 
Addition overdubs / editing by Greg Wilson
Recorded June 2018
 
Greg Wilson is set to support Chic in Manchester, Wed 27th June at Castlefied Bowl, alongside a live performance from Crazy P.
 
http://gregwilson.co.uk

GOURANGA MIXTAPE: Greg Wilson - The Chic Organization - 1977-79 Selection Reworked

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)

Bookings: matt@thepool-london.com 
Promos: promo@gregwilson.co.uk 
DJ Dates: https://blog.gregwilson.co.uk/upcoming-dj-dates/
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.