Cone back to this after many years . It is in my opinion one of the best mixes of the last decade.....unreal

Amazing mix...Beatles at the end is brilliant 

Top, top edit of  i Love You More Than You Love Me ...beautiful piece of music

Tomorrow never knows - left side wobble edit - unbelievable

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)

Annual selection from Greg Wilson, returning after two year break due to covid restrictions, listing 20 of the edits and reworks that have featured in his DJ sets during the combined period 2020-2022.


1. The Temptations – Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone (Ian Ossia Rework)
2. Cerrone – Supernature (Dr Packer Rework)
3. Crown Heights Affair – Dreaming A Dream (ID Edit/Crypic Retouch)
4. PDM Vs The Sugarhill Gang - Rappers Delight/Move Or Not (Mikeandtess Rework)
5. Rose Royce - Is It Love You’re After (Redux MST Edit)
6. Maze - Joy and Pain (Dr Packer Rework)
7. The Emotions - I Don’t Wanna Lose Your Love (Derek Kaye Rework)
8. Freeez – Southern Freeez (Dr Packer Rework)
9. Winners - Get Ready For The Future (Chewy Rubs & North Laine Rework)
10. Claudja Barry - Sweet Dynamite (Dr Packer Rework – Retouched) 
11. Gene Chandler – Get Down (Dr Packer Rework)
12. Yazoo - Situation (Greg Wilson Edit of François Kevorkian Dub)
13. Garfield Fleming – Don’t Send Me Away (Mikeandtess Edit)
14. B.B.C.S. & A Band - Rock Shock (Dr Packer Rework – Retouched)
15. Rodney Franklin – The Groove (DJ S Rework)
16. The Fatback Band - (Are You Ready) Do the Bus Stop (Sauco & Manuel Costela Rework)
17. Prince Charles & The City Beat Band – Bush Beat (Alkalino Edit)
18. Don Ray – Got To Have Loving (Mighty Mouse Edit)
19. Tantra – Hills Of Katmandu (Greg Wilson Edit)
20. Gary’s Gang - Makin’ Music (Machine Disco Rework)

Full Choice Edits & Reworks tracklists 2012-2022 here: https://blog.gregwilson.co.uk/choice-edits

GREG WILSON'S 20 CHOICE EDITS & REWORKS 2020-2022

Astral Projection Podcast [May 2011] [vol 1] [mp3 320 Kbps] [free Download].

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Astral Projection


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The music that rocked our 30th Birthday Boat Party... the live recording.... Matt Brown & Jimmy K-Tel all night long... 😊

Our 30th Boat Party Celebration - April 30th 2023

Recorded on 10.02.24 in London’s fabled Ministry Of Sound.

MINISTRY OF SOUND LONDON 10.02.24 (greg wilson live mix)

Recorded on 12.04.24 at Koko in Camden, London.

KOKO CAMDEN 12.04.24 (greg wilson live mix)

All the music from the Faxos late 40th, 10 yr anniversary, Christmas party

LNTG

superb music from carlo, buzz compass, frank booker, das komplex, lovedrop, joss moog, boof, dave lee, young pulse, moon dance, etc

enjoy!

Love joint [deluxe burnout mixtape]

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Messy (Jays F Bomber Mix)****FREE D/L****

Do you love me now

My Ain't No Big Thing radio show (http://djshmeejay.com/aint-no-big-thing-radio-show/), broadcast on the 2nd and 4th Thursday monthly at 8pm (gmt) / 11pm (EST) at http://BoxFrequency.FM. As well as it's syndicated on iTunes at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/aint-no-big-thing-radio-show/id1106603822

This episode I host Beatwell:
https://djshmeejay.com/2017/06/09/beatwell-and-dj-shmeejay-aint-no-big-thing-radio-show-2017-06-08/
https://soundcloud.com/beatwel
https://www.mixcloud.com/carl-christian-welhaven/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010475886562
https://hearthis.at/mf3nVvyg/
https://www.instagram.com/beatwell__/

If you want a copy of just Beatwell's set you can grab it here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vw8g4csgaylaky4/Beatwell%27s%20Guest%20Mix%20For%20Ain%27t%20No%20Big%20Thing.mp3?dl=0

Next show coming in two weeks!

TympanumBene,

folO Olof

Ain't No Big Thing

Beatwell

Beatwell & dj ShmeeJay - Ain't No Big Thing - 2017-06-08

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)

feel very good for these cracking joints from Queen & Disco, HNNY, Tilman, Ray Mang, COEO, Eli Escobar, Joe Cleen, Alkalino, YSE, Joe Corti, Sunner Soul, Kayroy, ++

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I just feel so good [mixtape]

Buy Link : http://www.beatport.com/track/pistolero-astrix-remix/3887937

Follow:
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/ASTRIXtv
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Astrix.Official
Twitter: twitter.com/astrixofficial
Soundcloud: @astrix-official
Instagram: www.instagram.com/astrixofficial/
Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/AstrixOfficial/
Beatport: pro.beatport.com/artist/astrix/7873

Juno Reactor - Pistolero (Astrix Remix)

If anything binds the many musical faces of Nate Raubenheimer, it’s that fact that each of his productions move. His latest work of Protoculture art, the mighty ‘Laguna’, is no exception. Featured on Armin van Buuren’s A State of Trance 2013, this jewel sets a high standard for 2013.

There’s only few styles that South-African producer Protoculture hasn’t touched yet. And there’s even less that he can’t handle.

Throughout the course of his career, that spans over 10 years already, he’s ever intrigued the listener with outstanding soundscapes, original melodies and solid, deep bass. ‘Laguna’ is another one of those. A real gem, that embraces you right there on the dance floor.

It provides that magical moment, when nothing but the music matters. Hands in the air, eyes closed and ‘Laguna’ to guide you.


Connect with Protoculture

Website: http://protoculture.fm
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_protoculture
Facebook: https://facebook.com/protocultureofficial
Tour Dates: http://bit.ly/protoculturetourdates
YouTube: http://youtube.com/protoculture
iTunes: http://bit.ly/protocultureitunes
Beatport: http://bit.ly/protoculturebeatport
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/protoculture
Radio Show: http://bit.ly/protoculturenaturalselection


Protoculture - Laguna (Original Mix)

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.

GREG WILSON FESTIVAL ANTHEMS (for oki-ni 2012)

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