This is an amazing set Greg, so many good tracks expertly blended, hats off to you (again) sir... This first track is an amazing rework, can I have an ID please?

Was there, listened to set again today, Greg Wilson is a genius

crackin' mix from start to finish. cheers sir 

Was at this night and when I heard Luther come in I pretty much lost it!! Genius

Living overseas now... I miss the Melting Pot. Wish I had been there for this Greg. Awesome my friend.

Cool Sounds

Weekly podcast presented by Bill Brewster, wit, DJ, raconteur, idiot. Featuring a mixture of brand new dance music, mixed with classics of all styles, put together in Brewster's inimitably incompetent style. This week's show features music from Flamingo Pier, Chaka Khan, Pollena, Anushka, Fantastic Man, Hailu Mergia and more more more!
FLAMINGO PIER - Honey
FANTASTIC MAN - Lounge Wizard
HAILU MERGIA & THE WALIAS BAND - Aya Belew Belew
KUTIMAN - Surface Currents (radio edit)
JAMES HEATHER - Passing Soul
KARATE BOOGALOO - T Plays It Cool
NORTH OF THE ISLAND - Kit Kat
TOUR-MAUBOURG - Deep Oddities
POLLENA - Glitter
ANUSHKA - Speak To Me
CHAKA KHAN - Everywhere

DJ History Podcast #593 | Bill Brewster

Love Hangover is a brand-new intimate weekend festival showcasing the very best in Funk, Soul, Disco, House, and Hip Hop, coming to Colebrook Park, Tunbridge Wells, on 20th-22nd August 2021.

House Music legend Terry Farley opened his vaults and made a vibrant selection to this vital mixtape series curated by Love Hangover & SXDNS.

Follow @terryfarley, peeps!
Tickets: https://lovehangover.co.uk/

Love Hangover

LOVEHANGOVER006 - Terry Farley

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

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

MISTER SATURDAY NIGHT BROOKLYN NYC 05.03.11 (greg wilson live mix)

It's time to get your Chug on with another set of  Chugging, spaced out, sleezy, low tempo, hypnotic groove's.

The mix features music by Gerd Janson, Derrick May, Zombies In Miami, .Curses, Purple Disco Machine, Beyond The Wizards Sleeve and an all time cracker of a track 'Theme For Great Cities' by Simple Minds. 

We go again into a low slung groove of a mix put together with Love by @thefunkassassin 

There are more Electronic music sessions to come, Follow @thefunkassassin for all future mixes, there’s some fire on the way.

For all past mixes click here ==> soundcloud.com/thefunkassassin/sets/the-andy-haworth-mix-sessions

Instagram: www.instagram.com/the_funk_assassin/
Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/g2fac3ls3k8e1ucxe4fqe7g89
Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheFunkAssassin/

Simple Minds 'Theme For Great Cities' is dedicated to the warmth and kindness of Scotland for having me here. Love you Scotland.

Back2Electric 05 - Gerd Janson, Derrick May, Zombies In Miami, Purple Disco Machine

DJ Mix show for Pulse Radio by the Irish disco kingsl Get Down Edits.

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Check out their latest release on DD!

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/get-down-edits/518808-01/

https://soundcloud.com/getdownedits

Disco Deviance Pulse Radio Show 34 - Get Down Edits 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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Greg Wilson - Live @ Opening Party, We Love, Space (Ibiza) (12-06-2011)

A very special recording from BBC 6 music..interview with Lenny Fontana over a live recording of the Paradise Garage 2nd Birthday party..history

Legends of the Dance Floor A Piece of Paradise Larry Levan tribute BBC6

Ashley Beedle Live @ Freestyle Birmingham

Making huge movements with co-owned https://soundcloud.com/moonrise-hill-material and his own new label https://soundcloud.com/forheavenuseonly-records we are proud as hell to have the pleasure of introducing https://soundcloud.com/folamour to the series.

This organic hour provides nudges of nostalgia throughout, combining genre classics and jams that'll have you itching to move. 

Watch out for our Moonrise Hill Material and FHUO features, coming soon.

Folamour

FH || Folamour

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)

Full 3 hour live mix from Melting Pot at The Admiral in Glasgow 03.11.12.

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

MELTING POT @ THE ADMIRAL GLASGOW 03.11.12 (greg wilson live mix)

This is a LIVE mix (one take NO Synch)I recently did at The Red Lion E11. I used a mix of seven inch 45s, Twelve inch Vinyl and CDs, and it was done entirely as a stream of consciousness groove over 3 hours and 40 minutes (and a few pints).

Live DJ mix at The Red Lion E11 3/5/2019

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

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

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)

I started buying disco and jazz funk records soon after I started djing in 1990, but my first dj mixes were mainly made of dance and house music, often with disco influences and samples but never original versions. This is the first time I recorded a mixtape made of only original funk and disco tunes for my friends, i named it "Privè" as in northen italy during those years disco was a genre played in the smaller rooms of trendy clubs. Enjoy :)

SPIXMIX 01 - 1994 - DJ Spiller - My First Disco Mixtape

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.

MELTING POT @ THE ADMIRAL GLASGOW 03.11.12 (greg wilson live mix)

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