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Live mix recorded at the Mister Saturday Night Loft Party at 12-Turn-13 in Brooklyn, NYC 05.03.11.

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MISTER SATURDAY NIGHT BROOKLYN NYC 05.03.11 (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)

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Lazy Sunday at Pikes 
Recorded live at Ibiza Rocks House at the legendary Pikes Hotel. ROBOT84 in the mix, pre-sunset, Sunday 4th August 2013

(BUY GIANT - https://robot84music.bandcamp.com/track/giant) 

Tracklist:
1. Josephine by Chris Rea
2. Get it up for Love by Ned Doheny
3. Rotation by HERB ALPERT
4. Flowers by Andrew Ashong and Theo Parrish
5. Café de flore by Doctor Rockit
6. Blackbird by Beatlejuice
7. Analogue dreams by Craig Bratley
8. Giant by ROBOT84 
9. Elle.Et.Moi by Max Berlin
10. Feels so good by Psychemagik
11. Never Give Up by Spirit Catcher
12. No Use by Four Walls

Support

LAZY SUNDAY AT PIKES, IBIZA ROCKS HOUSE, PIKES, IBIZA

Recorded at The Nest, Dalston, London 13.02.15.

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THE NEST LONDON 13.02.15 (greg wilson live mix)

Here's the live recording (warts n all ! ) from the absolutely incredible Liverpool Disco Festival 2016 ... I did an hour set of "obvious" disco in the Roller Disco Arena . . Hope you enjoy as much as I enjoyed this amazing event! . .  As always, please leave me your comments/ thoughts  . . DK x

Liverpool Disco Festival 2016 - Roller Disco Arena -  Derek Kaye -  Live Set

So as Part 1 seemed to be so well received, myself and my funk soul brother Bruno Aka Bombyce decided it was time for part 2!

The first hour and a bit is Bombyce with another killer set and then the last hour is me! 

Hope you enjoy :)

Tracklist is as follows : -

Bombyce Mix -

Closed Paradise - Bad Girls
Ed Wizard & Disco Double Dee - Do It Tonight
YSE Saint Laur’Ant - All Over The World
Willy Hutchinson - Gonna Party (V’s Edit)
RockNRolla Sound System - Shakey Ground
George Kelly - Satisfaction Express (Original Mix)
Jack Tennis - You’re Wrong
Massimo Vanoni - Jin Go
Sunner Soul - Fuwafuwa Groove
Dave Gerrard - Pinapple Soup
Sunner Soul - Make It Better
Ron Basejam - For The People By The People

My Mix with a lot of vinyl only releases -

The Sellouts - Hustlin’ In The Ghetto
Serge Gamesbourg - The Cool, The Hip & The Square
Corbi & Gray - Make Me Do It
Ed Wizard & Disco Double Dee - Wanna Shake
Sunner Soul - Good Time
His Dirty Secrets - Floatin’
Secret Squirrels #13 - Side B
Eros 03 - Track 3
Secret Squirrels #13 - Side A
Hot Chocolate - I Just Love What You’re Doing (Kon’s Edit)
Labor Of Love Edits - Just For You
Dicky Trisco - The Feeling Is Strong

Funk Soul Brothers Part 2

Bombyce Archive Part 01

Full live mix (over 3 and a half hours) from The Bunker loft party at 12-turn-13 in Brooklyn NYC 26.08.12. 

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

THE BUNKER BROOKLYN NYC 26.08.12 (greg wilson live mix)

Get Down Edits "Daz" Live @ Itty Bittys Feb 23rd 2019

Get Down Edits "Daz" Vinyl Set Live @ Itty Bittys Feb 2019

New selection 120 Bpm, enjoy the music guys!

01 - JB Dizzy - Lovin Me
02 - Gledd - I Just Want You
03 - Phonk D - Gettin' Down
04 - Ari Bald - Pacific Tears
05 - Chevals - My Feet Keep Changin'
06 - Sould Out - Shadow Integration
07 - Giovanni Damico - Italians In A Line
08 - Sartorial - Come Play
09 - Be Yourself (Frank Booker Edit)
10 - The Funk District - Get Movin
11 - Turbojazz - The New Bell

Let's Go Disco Mix Part 34

Bookings email: hotdigitsmusic@outlook.com or contact www.downtowndisco.co.uk/agency/fingerman

Recorded live (Warts & all) on an intimate but packed river boat party with the Deep Sea Rhythms crew in Chester. Beautiful day and fantastic vibes. Apologies for the cut outs in the sound during Sylvester... everyone was singing along! ;)

Tracklisting

Only Child - Down Fever
LNTG - That's A Groove
SR Edits - Delicious Disco
Deelicious - Let Me Tell You Something
Chewy Rubs & Fingerman - Maintain The Groove
Vigi - Together
Andy Kidd - The Dope Cube 
Dj Agent 86 - Give It To Me Baby
Flevans - Who's Got Me? (Art Of Tones Remix)
Yuksek - I Don't Own A Drum Machine
Fingerman - The Feel Good Factor
Fatboy Slim - Praise You (Purple Disco Machine Remix)
Psychemagik - Rattlesnake
Todd Terje - Inspector Norse (Fingerman Re-Edit)
Sylvester - You Make Me Feel Mighty Real (Michael Grey Remix)
Xpansions - Move Your Body (Elevation) (Nick Reach Up Remix)
Shakedown - At Night (Purple Disco Machine Remix)
Farley Jackmaster Funk feat. Daryl Pandy - Love Can't Turn Around (Fingerman Re-Edit)

Book Fingerman!

Fingerman @ Deep Sea Rhythms Boat Party, Chester 13/7/19

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-- FINGERMAN - LDS GUESTMIX 016 --

Edition 016 see's us bring forth Belfast based, Brighton native, Hot Digits label boss and long time inspiration to us - Fingerman.

Gregg Holmes aka Fingerman has been one of the most dedicated re-edit masters to our knowledge. Since our inception as a little gathering in the upstairs of Shoreditch boozer 8 years ago, we have avidly collected his reworks, re-edits and more recently his newer original productions on his label.  Without a shadow of a doubt, he had a profound effect on us at the beginning of our foray into playing Disco - introducing us to a barrage of old music, previously unknown to us, all touched by his masterful style creating extensions and more DJ friendly versions of some classic tracks and lesser known rarities which are either hard to get hold of, or lets face it, just a pain in the arse to mix due to live drum and percussive elements on the original recordings.

His work is regularly praised for by two of the most influential figures within the edit scene - Dimitri From Paris & Greg Wilson (who has consecutively charted Fingerman edits on his Credit To The Edit blog for the past 5 years - and even released a few on his A&R edits imprint)

Over the years, we've kept an attentive ear to Gregg's sounds and have witnessed the development from his early days up until the present, its been a great process to listen to and also watch reactions to his material on the dancefloor too, having witnessed the man himself play on the same stage at us at Locomotive Disco in London and also for his mammoth annual street party in Brighton for Pride Festival with the Get Down Edits guys & Jay Ru (check his Soundcloud for the extended recordings of these events)

Strap yourself in - its a goodun! 

TRACKLIST:
1) Fingerman - Brass Monkeys
2) Da Lukas - Funkyloop
3) Re-Tide - To The Funky People
4) Cobra Edits - Joy
5) Curtis Scott - Right Time
6) Fingerman - Mind Fonk
7) Dr Packer - Waves of Funk
8) Chewy Rubs & Fingerman - Disco Quavers
9) Fingerman - The Feel Good Factor
10)T-Connection - Do What You Wanna Do (Moplen Dub)
11) The Velvet Stripes - Tony Grey
12) Yuksek - The Rollercoaster
13) Parissior - Acid Shake
14) Mix & Fairbanks - Ground Control & Major Toms
15) Down Under Disco - Sonny Jim
16) Somethin’ Sanctified - Soul Glo
17) Get To Know - Sonur
18) Foals - In Degrees (Purple Disco Machine Remix)
19) Phonk D - Taking Vintage
20) Kayroy - Rosella (Fingerman Edit)
21) Vintage People - Whatever Makes You Happy
22) Mad Funk - JC
23) Kapote - Jaas Func Haus (Art Of Tones Remix)
24) Detroit Swindle - Call Of The Wild
25) Hotmood - Groove With You
26) Ike Eyes - Ton Of Groove (The Funk District Edit)
27) The Silver Rider - Woman
28) Dave Mathmos - Why Don’t You
29) Groove Assassin - Office Party (Dj Spen Re-Edit)
30) The Patchouli Brothers - A Mighty Joy

As always, if you're feeling it, please share the love with your likes, reposts and by following the artists channels <3

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Fingerman - Mix For The London Disco Society October 2019

Fingerman - LDS GuestMix 016

Almost two and a half hours from the SUS 4th Anniversary Party at the Seco Lounge in Tokyo 13.11.10.

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SECO LOUNGE TOKYO 13.11.10 (greg wilson live mix)

2+ hour live recording from the London end of year party at East Village in Shoreditch last Saturday.

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

EAST VILLAGE LONDON 15.12.12 (greg wilson live mix)

July edition of my Discotizer monthly mix full of modern disco, funk and house. Let's dance!

Discotizer July 2020 Mix by Javi Frias

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.

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