Sunshine Anderson - Heard It All Before (Ben Watt Lazy Dog Mix)

Episode 33 of The Joints n' Jams Radio Show is out!

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TRACKLIST

Take the Country to New York City - Bohannon
Young Hearts Run Free - Hortense Ellis
Love and Happiness - Mansour Shuaibu
Not Enough (feat. Haile Supreme) - Dam Swindle
Freak Like Me ft. Venessa Jackson (Extended Mix) - Bazza Ranks
Make Me Move (Boogie Version) - E. Live & Chesta Blake
Totoish (Directors Cut) - Storken & Gusteau
The Faith - Currents
You Are the One (Extended Mix) - FrescoEdits
Dance Dance Dance (Extended Version) - Cody Currie & Kapote
He Is the Joy (Jose Nunez ‘Subliminal’ Dub) - Donna Allen
Hot Buttered Boogie (SLY Edit) - Tasha Thomas
Don's Place (SLY Edit) - Hollywood Disco Jazz Band
In The Bush (SLY Rework) - Musique
Reach Out (SLY Rework) - George Duke
Got 2 Be Loved (Extended Mix) - Soul Reductions
24h in a Disco (feat. Kiki Gyan) - ZERB
La La Tune (Melé Remix Extended Version) - Sam Ruffillo, Kapote & Melé
Got The Funk (Extended Mix) - Low Steppa, Capri
Bouncy Thang - Illyus Barrientos
Trip To Your Mind (LTJ Xperience Rework) - Hudson People

JNJ Radio 033

Trunk Of Funk | The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Show 14.06.25

TRACKLIST 

(If You Want It) Do It Yourself (SLY Rework) - Gloria Gaynor                          
Take the Country to New York City - Bohannon                               
Fruit Basket - Osaka Monaurail                        
Shining Star - (DJ Jin Samba Remix) - Earth, Wind & Fire                     
Let's Groove (SLY Rework) - Archie Bell & The Drells               
We Got To Hit It Off (Dimitri From Paris Liberated Women Mix) - Millie Jackson   
Mighty Cloud of Joy (SLY 12" Edit) - The Mighty Clouds of Joy               
Hear Me Today - Shaka Loves You                        
I Feel It Now (feat. Lumi HD) - Sam Redmore                            
Trouble With A Capital T (Shaka Loves You Remix) - Joseph Malik                           
Found A Cure (SLY Rework) - Ashford & Simpson                      
Sun Don't Shine (Sophie Lloyd Remix) - Wolfgang Valbrun

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Trunk Of Funk | The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Show 14.06.25

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He's the Greatest Dancer (E-Smoove Mix) [remastered 123 bpm version)

Edit The Edit ‘Two Sides Of Sympathy’ (greg wilson edit of pta mash-ups)

112 bpm

Previously limited vinyl only in 2007 & 2009.

Of all the tracks I’ve played since my DJ return at the end of ’03, this has been undoubtedly the most requested. It was very much a signature track for a number of years, and still makes an appearance from time to time nowadays.

It all stems from when I picked up a 12” from Piccadilly Records in Manchester during the summer of 2005. It was by The P.T.A (Paul Martin and Tyrrell) on Throw Away Records, and included two mash-ups, both of which used the vocal from Amerie’s ‘1 Thing’, which had been a big R&B hit earlier that year. On one side of the 12” it had been mashed with Massive Attack’s ‘Unfinished Sympathy’ (this was titled ‘Unfinished Thing’), whilst on the other, ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ by the Rolling Stones (‘One For The Devil’). Not only had each of these combinations melded brilliantly, but both had ‘Sympathy’ in the title. This impressed me no end – some genius juxtaposition going on there.

Listening closer it was clear that there’d been some tampering, but it wasn’t until much later that I realised that, apart from the Amerie acappella, everything had been re-created by Canadian producer / DJ Tyrrell, including Keith Richard’s iconic guitar solo, which sounded better than ever - I’d presumed that the version of ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ he’d used had come from some Andrew Loog Oldham type instrumental (as was the case when The Verve famously sampled Oldham’s orchestral arrangement of the Stones’ ‘The Last Time’, on their 90’s classic ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’), so this only added to my awe at what Tyrrell and Paul had somehow managed to magic up.

Brilliance on vinyl is all good and well, but I’d bought the track with the dancefloor in mind, so it was now a case of how it walked the walk. Straight away I had a problem – which side to play? They were both really strong and I couldn’t make my mind up at first, but then I went between the horns of this dilemma and decided to mix one straight into the other, as though it was a single continuous track. I originally did this live (they appear together this way on a recording from Birmingham’s much lamented Jigsaw night, where I played in August ’05), but then I decided to put together an edit so I could take the combined length down by about three minutes and tighten the idea up. I called this version ‘Two Sides Of Sympathy’ – I utilized the percussion from ‘One For The Devil’ for the intro, before moving into the main body of ‘Unfinished Thing’, which then mixes back into ‘One for The Devil’ during the breakdown, reaching its climax with the guitar solo. To round things off I gave it a customary peppering of samples and spins.

The edit went Big with a capital B for me, and everywhere I went people were asking for it – it was one of those tracks you couldn’t stop playing because you knew that people would be disappointed not to hear it. When I came to put together my Essential Mix for Radio 1 in January ‘09, ‘Two Sides Of Sympathy’ was probably the first track on my list (the mix focusing on the tunes that had served me best since my comeback five years previous).

A limited 12” on the Edit The Edit inprint was made available in 2007 – as the name suggests, this was for my edits of other peoples edits (or mash-ups, as in this case). The original P.T.A release was fully credited on the label – I’d made contact with Tyrrell via email and he’d given his blessing for the 12” to be pressed. We got to meet for the first time when I was in London appearing at Plastic People in April ’07, where he’d hear me play ‘Two Sides’ over that killer system.

In 2009 it would re-appear on vinyl, this time as the second release in the Reactivate series (following on from ‘I Was A Teenage DJ’ / ‘Gotta Keep Workin’ It’), a new wave of DJ demand resulting from its Essential Mix inclusion.

Given that I can’t list the artists as Amerie, Massive Attack & the Rolling Stones (because two thirds of that trio are Tyrrell in disguise), I’ll stick to Edit The Edit ‘Two Sides Of Sympathy', which is how it’s been listed most often, Essential Mix included.

When I asked Tyrrell if he was happy for me to upload it here he told me to ‘go ahead, spread the love’. So here it is, maintaining the bi-yearly sequence – 2005 original P.T.A 12”, 2007 Edit The Edit 12”, 2009 Reactivate 12”, and now 2011 SoundCloud download.

Greg Wilson – August 2011


Edit The Edit 'Two Sides Of Sympathy' (greg wilson edit of pta mash-ups)

A magical end to a magical weekend in Trash Manor @ The Beat-Herder Festival 2016. Sunday at it's finest with BH favouirte Greg Wilson! Herd Em Up!x

Tickets available here...http://tickets.beatherder.co.uk

GREG WILSON LIVE @ BEAT-HERDER - TRASH MANOR 17.07.16

Garlands 2002

Disco Muff

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)

This will be my final longer set isolation type mix which is a little different to the normal , the mix contains tunes mainly house and early rave from the era '1988 - 1993' when i began my DJ journey , however each tune has had the Dr Packer treatment to it in some form such as an edit , rework or full remix so they are not the original versions. 
So to make things clearer it is music i used to play as 'Greg Packer' but reworked in a way that i do now as 'Dr Packer' with the help of some fellow producers such as 'Grant Nelson , Michael Gray , HiFi Sean' for eg who provided some great remixes from the same era. 
Hope you enjoy the ride..... 

Tracklist
Intro…. 
The Source ft. Candi Staton – You Got The Love [Dr Packer Edit] 
Kariya – Baby Let Me Love You Tonight [Dr Packer Edit] 
Degrees Of Motion – Do You Want It Right Now [Dr Packer House Edit] 
Blaze – If You Should Need A Friend [Dr Packer Edit]
Rave – Break 4 Love [Michael Gray Remix]
Frankie Knuckles ft. Robert Owens – Tears [Dr Packer Edit] 
Praxis ft. Kathy Brown – Turn Me Out [Dr Packer Edit]
Masters At Work ft. India – To Be In Love [Dr Packer Edit]
Nightcrawlers – Push The Feeling On [The Other Guy Rework] 
House Without A Home – I Can’t Quite Understand [Dr Packer Edit]
Royal House vs Jungle Brothers – I’ll House You [Dr Packer Mash Up]
Adeva – I Thank You [Dr Packer Edit]
D.Ramirez – Brutal Power [Original Mix] 
House Master Boyz – House Nation [Dr Packer Edit]
Roberta Flack – Uh Oh Look Out Here I Come [Dr Packer Edit]
Todd Terry – Keep On Jumpin’ [Dr Packer Edit] 
Clubland – Let’s Get Busy 2019 [Grant Nelson Club Mix]
My Friend Sam – It’s My Pleasure [Dr Packer Edit] 
Inner City – Till We Meet Again [Greg Packer Edit]
N Joi – Anthem [Greg Packer Remix] 
Ralphi Rosario – You Used To Hold Me [Dr Packer Edit] 
Inner City – Good Life [Greg Packer Remix] 
Nomad – Devotion Soul Mix [Dr Packer Edit] 
Fast Eddie – Acid Thunder [Greg Packer Edit] 
Steve Lawler – House Record 
Inner City – Pennies From Heaven [Dr Packer Edit] 
Marshall Jefferson & Curtis McClain – Move Your Body [Directors Cut] 
Evolution – Everybody Dance [Dr Packer Edit] 
FPI Project – Going Back To My Roots [Greg Packer Edit] 
Black Box vs Love Sensation [Dr Packer Mash Up] 
K Klass – Let Me Show You [Greg Packer Edit] 
Joe Smooth – Promised Land [Dr Packer Edit] 
Charles B & Adonis – Lack Of Love [Greg Packer Edit] 
Brothers In Rhythm – Such A Good Feeling [Greg Packer Edit] 
Raze – Let The Music Move You [Greg Packer Edit]
Adonis – No Way Back [Dr Packer Edit] 
Alison Limerick – Where Love Lives [Dr Packer Edit] 
FPI Project – Everybody All Over The World [Greg Packer Edit]
A Guy Called Gerald – Voodoo Ray [Greg Packer Edit] 
Psychotropic – Hypnosis [Hifi Sean Remix] 
Stone Roses – Fools Gold [Greg Packer Edit]
Future Sound Of London – Papua New Guinea [Greg Packer Remix]
Liquid – Sweet Harmony vs Some Justice [Greg Packer Mash Up]
Ratpack – Searching For My Rizla [Greg Packer Rave Edit]
Baby D – Let Me Be Your Fantasy [Greg Packer Rave Mix] 
SL2 v’s Jah Screechy – On A Ragga Skank [Greg Packer Mash Up] 
Prodigy – Out Of Space v’s Max Romeo ‘Chase The Devil’ [Greg Packer Mash Up]

Classic House Vs Rave Edits 

Dr Packer vs Greg Packer B2B [Classic House vs Rave Edits] 3 Hour Mix

My rework of Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome

Released on special edition red vinyl. 

Buy on digital: https://robot84music.bandcamp.com/album/robot84-vs-fgth
 
DJ FEEDBACK:

ALFREDO (SPACE RESIDENT IBIZA)- Love this mix, been playing it at space for the last month, included on my WE LOVE SPACE PODCAST.

RUG ' N' TUG( New York) - Yeh played it a few times, dope remix!!!

DANNY RAMPLING(UK) - Dropped Monday night at Aurra in Ibiza, very good reaction.

EROL ALKAN(UK) - I heard Greg Wilson drop this at Bestival, smashed the place up big time, will be playing this tune with out a doubt.

EWAN PEARSON (SOMA RECORDS)- Played it as my third last tune in the main room of SPACE, took the roof off the place, great mix.....

GREG WILSON (ELECTROFUNK ROOTS) - Good remix, will include in my sets, played the tune at Bestival amazing reaction.

TOM FINDLAY (GROOVE ARMADA)- Sounds gr8 fellas, in fact its practically epic , nice one!!

GRAEME PARK (UK) - Cool mix, played it on my 1 mix radio show

CHRIS COCO (RADIO 1 UK) - Great tune played it on my Melodica radio show.

PETE GOODING (SECRET LIFE) - What a mix, I love this tune, made my weekend at bestival when Greg Wilson dropped it, in fact it was the tune of the weekend, included on my Global Network Radio show.

BEN SANTIAGO (Hed Kandi resident Ibiza) - Been playing this tune for the last month in Ibiza, getting amazing reactions, have included for my Ministry of Sound Radio show.

ANDY WILSON (SONICA RADIO IBIZA) - This is very different to the other mixes I have heard, but works very well, will play on my Radio show.

DJ MASH (CAPITAL RADIO, MIXMAG) - Track is great guys, will include in my capital Radio Show.

FAZE ACTION (UK)- Rockin Remix, instant floor filler.

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Welcome To The Pleasuredome (ROBOT84 Full Vocal Rework)

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.