Double Trouble & Amp Fiddler ‘Amp Trouble’ (greg wilson mash-up)

92 bpm

Previously limited vinyl only 2006.

Issued on the Young Dog Alien 12” from 2006, which included ‘Gotta Keep Working It’, one of my best-known mash-ups (http://soundcloud.com/gregwilson/imagination-missy-elliot-gotta) , ‘Amp Trouble’ combined Double Trouble’s ‘Stoop Rap’, from the seminal 1983 Hip Hop movie, ‘Wild Style’, with ‘Intro’ the opening track from Amp Fiddler’s 2004 album, ‘Waltz Of A Ghetto Fly’. Both of these tracks were extremely short, just over a minute a piece in length, but I originally put them together purely as an interlude section for the ‘Do Not Attempt To Adjust Your Radio’ mix I did for the Six Million Steps website in early 2004, not long after my DJ return, so, by nature, it’s the shortest mash-up I’ve ever had pressed up. You can stream / download the 6MS mix here: http://soundcloud.com/gregwilson/do-not-attempt-to-adjust-your 

Despite it not being something I’d play out, due to its length, I really liked the vibe of it and, when I was looking for something to put on the flip of the Young Dog Alien 12”, I felt that, in addition to an Electro cut-up I’d done, which I called ‘Electric Eel’, it’d be a nice little bonus track to include.

Whilst I was preparing a Video Blog post this week, about the amphitheatre climax from ‘The Wild Style’, which includes a performance from Double Trouble, ‘Amp Trouble’ obviously came to mind and I thought I’d tie-in by making it available here.

The relevant part of the post reads: “I have a particular soft spot for Double Trouble, who you see earlier in the film practicing acappella, sat on steps outside a Bronx tenement block. Their rap at this point is super-chilled and laid back (http://youtu.be/nLDJZAgWrJA), but at the amphitheatre, using the same lyrics, they really rip it up, resplendent in white gangster suits and hats. However, this was as good as it got for LiL Rodney C and KK Rock Well, and as Hip Hop went global they were left behind. I always regard them as Rap’s ones that got away”. The full blog post is here:
http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2012/11/video-blog-wild-style-at-the-amphitheatre/

Greg Wilson – November 2012

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Double Trouble & Amp Fiddler 'Amp Trouble' (greg wilson mash-up)

Amsterdam-raised and Bali-based, Jiminal is a DJ whose musical evolution has been years in the making. Although he's been spinning records for as long as he can remember, Jiminal took his craft to the next level in 2020, carving out a unique presence on the scene with a signature sound that spans Balearic, Downtempo, Cosmic Disco, and House–and anything in between. Music for hip movement.

While Jim is unruffled by nature, he lights up when surrounded by the music and people he loves. As a selector, his musical DNA is shaped by the rock & roll and disco records from his parents and takes listeners on a journey—whether it’s through global sun-drenched sounds or spaced-out tracks to get lost in.

With a weekly radio residency on UFO FM and a series of events at key Amsterdam venues such as Radio Radio and Multipla, Jiminal is quietly but steadily making his mark among a global community of selectors.

Outside of music, he’s deeply involved in several communities of creative technologists working towards building a better internet. His goal is to combine this ideology by blending his musical endeavors to create a unique presence in the scene.

In 2023, in support of this mission, Jiminal launched FERMI, a multidisciplinary party label that celebrates the cultural significance of music through DJing and community-building. With FERMI, Jiminal aims to deepen connections to the roots of the music while sparking discovery and appreciation for timeless sound.

With a collection of forgotten records, hidden gems, and timeless classics in his arsenal, Jiminal's sets are designed to put a smile on your face as he guides you to get lost in sound together.

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' the Dance of Life is here for you, it's calling you, the Dance of Life ' (narada michael walden)

Our Sunday music series, 'Sundays ride - ipanema' which we try et get out eWeek, inspirationally came from walking along a beach in RDJ basically Looking for my girl from Ipanema (long before I discovered all of Colombias hidden gems :) et stumbling across by accident, a surfing event held at Arpoador, et ive still got the t shirt! 

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via Miami's South beach to Trinidad & Tobago not far from Brasil our adopted second homelands where it all started with the drum really, but nothing prepares you for the first time you hear Samba in a Rio street or sweet steel pan or the Mighty Shadow booming poverty is hell from a passing taxis boom box, just outside Smokey et Buntys ye olde Rum shoppe in downtown st james port of spain / youtu.be/ZKdDwwTaQTQ (https://medium.com/@gal_ngo/my-270-days-inbrasil-as-a-carioca-a-tri-part-musical-journey-or-my-brazilian-love-affair-auto-6eb316a18588)

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(2023/24/25 work/'wish' List of collabs & studio time avec the following) 




14 Charles Webster collabs 2025/26
01 Amp fiddler 'July' song rework cover
02 Little Dragon rework of Philipp Thimm & Raphael Hofman - Lolite Shadows / https://soundcloud.com/wuza-berlin/philipp-thimm-raphael-hofman-lolite-shadows 
03 David Morales Bad Yard Club 'the Program' classic 2022 mZumbi update
04 https://soundcloud.com/da-capo/no-rainbow and/or https://soundcloud.com/djnicodeandrea/woman-fka-mash-afro-glitch RMX/rework avec @adamport & @keinemusik 
05 Lady Alma & Peven Everett collab 
06 Any Mahogany Music collabs
07 Casamena Jimpster & St Germain grooves c'mon Lets go!
08 Ron Trent Trinidadian Deep & Jody Watley reunite special project
09 More Brazilian Samba adventures w masters at wok! KDope & Lil Louie
10 World plus Berlin Music promotions contd (inspiration Paul Simon)
11 Vintage Reggie Masters vault raids! (inspiration Adrian Sherwood)
12 tea w Kate Bush ... 

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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.