@exvandal: It's Two Sisters 'B-Boys Be Dubbed'. All the info is here:http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/greg-wilsons-top-10-floorfillers-december-83/

Lovin the floorfillers. Wheres 1984 & 85?

for listening

live recorded at Harry Klein / Munich 30/11/2013 for Slave To Rhythm
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Julietta at Slave To The Rhythm @ Harry Klein - November 2013

Photo courtesy of Christopher Moves www.soundcloud.com/csoltis. 

Live at Good Hurt 11.30.13

White out.  The temple is ashes and the playa is lost in dark, swirling walls of dust.  It is utterly magical.  Lose yourself in this incredible mix from Eduardo Castillo at Robot Heart, Burning Man 2013.  Love.

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Track list:

Intro - Fisherman's Daughter | Daniel Lanois - Feat Eduardo Castillo
In Exile | Lisa Gerard
Walc | Jacaszek
Fratres | Arvo Part
Zivot | NU
Tigerskin | This Place is Empty Without You
Salome | Kadebostan, Laolu
Third of June | Stimming
Kazandub (la Sha Version) | Klartraum
Miru Mira (Nu & Mira Remix) | Mira Dima
Haush | Andhim
Bright Eyes, Dirty Hair | Lake Powel
Zusammen in B | Guido Schneider, Pascal Feos
Montbui | Nature Pile
Powa | Tune Yards (Eduardo Castillo Rework)
Mating Call | Eduardo Castillo
Earth | NU
Walk Music | Henrik Schwarz
Low Light | Peter Gabriel (Eduardo Castillo Remix)
12 | Acid Pauli, NU

Eduardo Castillo - Robot Heart - Burning Man 2013

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.

This podcast is also available on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad via the Radio ditto app, which is downloadable for free from iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/app/id464200632?mt=8

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

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

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)

Recording from Freddie's @ Pikes in Ibiza 07.10.24.

PIKES IBIZA 07.10.24 (greg wilson live mix)

Live recording of Greg Wilson's set from Sonic Tonic @ The Golden Lion
Track list... 
1.Ashford & Simpson stay free (raw-artes rework)
2.Earth, Wind & Fire saturday nite (derek kaye rework)
3.Sylvia Striplin (raw-artes edit)
4.Double Exposure everyman (late nite tuff guy rework)
5.The Blackbyrds walking in rhythm (peza rework)
6.Advance take me to the top (michael gray remix)
7.Zer-o real time (gw/cw introspective dub)
8.Led Zeppelin whole lotta love (luxxury rework)
9.Psychemagik mink and shoes (gw edit)
10.Players Association the get down mellow sound (mikeandtess rework0
11.Booker Newbury III love town (dr packer rework)
12.Jean Carn was that all it was (sanfrandisco edit)
13.Stephanie Mills put your body in it (mikeandtess edit)
14.Barbara Mason another man (dr packer rework)
15.Shocking Blue love buzz (ché wax rework)
16.Crazy P one true light
17.Young Dog Alien electric eel
19.Klien & Gerald voodoo talk (cw mash-up)
19.Kiko Navarro twilight
20.Lifelike the chase
21.Cerrone supernature (dr packer rework)
22.Jamiroquai space cowboy (dr packer rework)
23.Hercules & Love Affair blind (frankie knuckles remix)
24.Mighty Clouds Of Joy mighty cloud of joy (gw/cw rework)

Sonic Tonic 26.10.24 Greg Wilson @ The Golden Lion Todmorden

Here's my set from NYE’s party with Fever 105 at the Lafayette in London, 31st December 2024. Thanks to everyone that came, it was a fantastic night. The first two tracks I played are missing from the recording, the other three hours and 20 minutes are all present and correct. If you want a full tracklist of this, go to my Patreon page and subscribe (you can do so for as little as £2pcm): 
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BILL BREWSTER | Live at Fever 105, Lafayette, London, NYE 2024

Kraak & Smaak (Dutch: [ˌkraːk ɛn ˈsmaːk]) is a musical production trio from the town of Leiden, Netherlands, consisting of Oscar de Jong, Mark Kneppers and Wim Plug. The three began recording in 2003. Their first album, titled Boogie Angst, was released in the UK 2006, and they began performing at music festivals and at clubs in the US and UK. Their songs were played on the radio and were used in television shows. Their second album, released in 2008, was titled Plastic People. They won an EBBA. Their third album, Electric Hustle, was released in 2011.

From Marcel:

I remember a whole bunch of early Kraak & Smaak 12"s, Squeeze Me with Ben Westbeech, Funk Ass Rotator and then the iconic Henrik Schwarz remix of No Sun In The Sky that would also massively stick it's head out on the K7 Henrik Schwarz Live! compilation album. A really cool moment in time. 

Later Wim Plug invited LYMA and myself to release two 12" on their label Boogie Angst , namely Games Change and No Time and the collaboration helped solidifying LYMA and my relationship and was a great experience altogether.

Happy to welcome these legendary artists to the series.


Lumberjacks Tapes 068: Kraak & Smaak

Welcome to Future Disco Radio – your ultimate soundtrack, anytime, anywhere!

This week, we have the legend himself Louie Vega, live on the airwaves, for a special guest mix. 

Catch us live every Friday at 3 PM GMT / 10 AM EST for the freshest house and disco, handpicked by the world’s top DJs and producers. Whether you're kicking off your weekend or need a midday energy boost, we’ve got the perfect vibe for you.

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Future Disco Radio - 292 - Louie Vega Guest Mix

Welcome our special guest this week Aroop Roy! He's a musician, producer and label head that oozes personality within his productions and sets that span multiple genres including house, garage, jazz, disco and much more. His distinct style has landed him in some of the biggest clubs around the world like Fabric, Koko, Hi Ibiza and loads of festivals across the globe. 

This week Aroop’s latest production lands on Kerri Chandler’s Kaoz Theory. ‘Club Transmissions’ with Finn Rees features a deep infectious bouncy rhythm that is sure to get your head bobbing. The tastemaker’s special Traxsource mix is loaded with tunes from KX9000, Kapote, Yoruba Soul, Opolopo and several of his own works. Let’s go!

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AROOP ROY TRACKLISTING: MAY 22ND

01. Aroop Roy - Let Me In (ft. Andre Espeut) Kaoz Theory
02. KX9000 – Nuova Zone (ft. Corsica One) – Pont Neuf
03. Max Sinal & King Crowney - Intentions (ft. Live East) (Frits Wentink Remix) Soul Quest
04. Harold Matthews Jr & Sean McCabe – This Place (Glenn Underground Remix)
05. Sam Ruffillo & Kapote – La La Tune (Aroop Roy remix) Toy Tonics
06. Pegasvs – Wonky Business – Burnin Music
07. Jimpster & Oveous – Flo – Freerange
08. Erick Ricco – Disco Funk (Aroop Roy Burning Vision) Cosmocities
09. Aroop Roy – Club Transmissions (ft. finn Rees) Kaoz Theory
10. DJ Disciple – Stand Up (ft. Stepheon Stewart) (Blackk Vokal Remix) Catch 22
11. Aroop Roy – Shimmy Shimmy House – Bandcamp
12. RAH & Ruffcats - Wake Up (they are the people of the myths) (ft. King Khan) (Yoruba Soul mix) Sonar Kollektiv
13. Millie Jackson – We Got To Hit It Off (Opolopo Deeper remix) Cosmos Music
14. Recloose – Dust (Aroop Roy remix) Remedy Project

FORTHCOMING GUESTS ON TRAXSOURCE LIVE!

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Welcome to Future Disco Radio – your weekly fix of house and disco!

This week, we’re turning up the heat with a special guest mix from Hendo Froth!

Lock in every Friday at 3 PM GMT / 10 AM EST for the freshest sounds, delivered by the biggest DJs and producers in the game. Whether you’re gearing up for the weekend or just need good vibes, we’ve got you covered.

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Future Disco Radio - 294 - Hendo Froth Guest 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.

PIKES IBIZA 19.05.25 (greg wilson live mix)

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This week, we’re thrilled to welcome the incredible Natasha Kitty Katt to the show!

Catch us live every Friday at 3 PM GMT / 10 AM EST for the freshest house and disco, handpicked by the world’s top DJs and producers. Whether you're kicking off your weekend or need a midday energy boost, we’ve got the perfect vibe for you.

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Future Disco Radio - 296 - Natasha Kitty Katt Guest Mix

Boiler Room Berlin/ Zeitberger (Speedy J B2B Lucy), Mondkopf, Milton Bradley & Felix K

[Broadcasted Wednesday 5th June]

Tracklist & video at boilerroom.tv

Zeitgeber (Speedy J B2B Lucy) 90 Min Boiler Room Berlin 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.

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