Edition #24 of Early 80’s Floorfillers takes a look back to December 83. 
You can see the Top 10, complete with label or record sleeve scans and individual track credits, here: 
http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/greg-wilsons-top-10-floorfillers-december-83/ 
Greg Wilson – December 2013

GREG WILSON’S EARLY 80’S FLOORFILLERS: 
A fascinating insight on how the fading Jazz-Funk scene gave way to the emerging Electro-Funk movement in the early 80’s, ‘Greg Wilson’s Early 80’s Floorfillers’, marks the 30th anniversary of when these tracks first appeared. Compiled from his record lists of the time, and unfolding month by month, Greg Wilson counts down the Top 10 Floorfillers played at his venues during the key years of ’82 and ’83. Featured, most notably, on his Tuesday sessions at Wigan Pier and Wednesday gatherings at Legend in Manchester, the most cutting-edge weekly black music nights of the era, these were the clubs most associated with the evolving Electro-Funk sound.

The majority of music played on the black scene in the UK was initially only available on import, mainly out of New York during this period, with the club nights described as ‘upfront’, meaning that the DJ’s were way ahead of the curve – what they played now, others played later, or not at all. Without these DJ’s, many now classic dance tracks would never have become UK hits (many without enjoying similar crossover success in the US) – the reason they were released here in the first place was because these specialist DJ’s were breaking them via the underground.

Things would change in a big way during those 2 years; we were entering the hybrid age for dance music, and the oncoming House and Techno and Hip Hop directions would all owe a huge debt to this era of dance alchemy and groove experimentation.

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GREG WILSON'S EARLY 80's FLOORFILLERS - DECEMBER 1983

Recording from Beat-Herder festival in Lancashire 21.07.24, where I closed out Smokey Tentacles on the final night.

SMOKY TENTACLES @ BEAT-HERDER FESTIVAL RIBBLE VALLEY 21.07.24 (greg wilson live mix)

Recording from Freddie's @ Pikes in Ibiza 07.10.24.

FREDDIE'S @ PIKES IBIZA 07.10.24 (greg wilson live mix)

Live recording from a special daytime event at The Social in London. 

I never normally record the audience in my mixes, but, for some strange reason, there seems to have been a mic active on my device picking up the crowd. My aversion to this is that, apart from the general ambience of the room, it also picks up people chatting in or around the booth, especially in a small compact space like we were in. I hope this isn’t distracting, but, weighing things up, it was such a good day, and its so long since I’ve uploaded a mix to SoundCloud, that I think it’s only right to share regardless.


AN AFTERNOON AT THE SOCIAL LONDON 01.03.25 (greg wilson live mix)

Freshly uploaded to SoundCloud, the recording from my recent appearance at Pikes, Ibiza on May 19th, when I was one of the secret DJs, along with Graeme Park, for their Monday night session at Freddie’s.

FREDDIE'S @ PIKES IBIZA 19.05.25 (greg wilson live mix)

Recorded at Stonebridge/Glastonbury on June 29th 2025.

GLASTONBURY STONEBRIDGE 29.06.25 (greg wilson live mix)

Patrice Rushen – Remind Me (East Coast Love Affair Poolside Mix) – White 
Earth, Wind & Fire - Fantasy (Shelter DJ Mix By Blaze) – Columbia 
D’Angelo – Girl You Need A Change Of Mind – White 
Gap Band – Outstanding – Total Experience 
Neal Francis – Can’t Get Enough – ATO Records
Brian Jackson & Masters At Work – It’s Your World – BBE Music
Sunlightsquare – Heart’s Desire – Sunlightsquare Records
Leon Ware - Why I Came To California (Tommy Musto Organic Disco Remix)
Angie Stone – I Wasn’t Kidding - J Records
William De Vaughn - Be Thankful For What You Got (FKJ Remix) - White
Bill Withers - Lovely Day (Ahmed Sirour Tribute Remix) - White
Josh Milan – Your Body – Honeycomb Music 
Michael Jackson - Rock With You • The Reflex Re√ision - White
Alicia Myers - I Want To Thank You (KON Re-Edit) - White
Patrice Rushen – Number One – Elektra 
Jill Scott - Golden (Kaytranada's Life Extended Living Edition) – White 
LTD - Don't You Know Baby (Young Pulse) - White
Logg – You Got That Something  (Seamus Haji Personal Edit) - White
Booker T - Melting Pot (Ritual Session) - Azuli
Fatback Band – Wicky Wacky – Ace Records
Positive Force – We Got The Funk – Sugarhill 
Boz Scaggs – Lowdown – Columbia
Reach out (Stef Konstan Deluxe Edit) - White
The Joubert Singers - Stand on the Word (Dimitri from Paris Sunday Morning Remix) - White
Janet Jackson - That's The Way Love Goes (CJ FXTC Club Mix) – Sony

Glitterbox Beach Stage Warm Up Set - Defected Croatia 2025

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another great night @ the No. 1... took over from Folamour and closed the Theatre in style 🪩

Mousse T.  closing set Glitterbox @ Hi Ibiza 20.08.25

Recording from a special Essential Mix 10th Anniversary appearance at XOYO in London on 26.01.19. More at the blog:
http://blog.gregwilson.co.uk/2019/01/essential-mix-10th-anniversary/

ESSENTIAL MIX 10TH ANNIVERSARY @ XOYO LONDON 26.01.19 (greg wilson live mix)

Live recording from the Stonebridge tent at Glastonbury Festival 2013.

Read the accompanying blog post, 'Glastonbury - The Greatest Show On Earth' here:
http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2013/07/glastonbury-the-greatest-show-on-earth/

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GLASTONBURY STONEBRIDGE 27.06.13 (greg wilson live mix)

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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.