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LF SYSTEM  -  Dancing Cliche (LD Remake)

Dancing Cliché

Dancing Cliché (Catz ‘n Dogz Remix)

I’m going to get some more edits/reworks uploaded in the coming months, starting off with one I did in conjunction with Henry Greenwood, a rework that was getting a major response until the pandemic went and spoilt the party. 

Recorded by Brooklyn’s Linda Clifford for Curtis Mayfield's Curtom label and mixed by Jim Burgess, ‘Runaway Love’ was somewhat overshadowed by her Disco take on ‘If My Friends Could See Me Now’, from the ‘60s Broadway musical/film, ‘Sweet Charity’. Although ‘Runaway Love’ and ‘Gypsy Lady’ were also listed when the album of the same name topped the US Disco chart, ‘If My Friends Could See Me Now’ was very much the lead track. ‘Runaway Love’ however was the choice cut in the R&B realm where, having been issued as a single, it reached #3.

As big as it was in the Stateside clubs I can’t ever remember ever hearing a DJ in this country playing ‘If My Friends Could See Me Now’ – it was all about ‘Runaway Love’ here, which, from the moment the LP came in on import in ’78 the specialist DJs seized upon. It could have been a UK hit, but was only issued on the flip side of ‘If My Friends Could See Me Now’. Besides, it was all about the full-length 12” version, the truncated 7” compromising its wonderful flow and build. The single stalled at #50 – the fact it got as high as that was all to do with the B Side.

To my ears it’s a track that should be as familiar as Rufus & Chaka Khan’s ‘Ain’t Nobody’, but ‘Runaway Love’ is a hidden classic far too rarely heard. This prompted me to team up with Henry Greenwood to put together a DJ friendly rework that retained the song in all its glory, whilst providing a mix in and out and adding contemporary weight to its already infectious groove. I couldn’t have wished for a better outcome, the audience response the proof in the pudding.

The third in a trio of late-‘70s reworks I’ve collaborated on with Henry, following on from Marshall Hain ‘Dancing In The City’ & El Coco ‘Mondo Disco’, which were pressed back to back on limited vinyl as part of the A&R Edits series.

Linda Clifford 'Runaway Love' (greg wilson & henry greenwood rework)

The Destroyer

The Destroyer (Moodena Remix)

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Forthcoming on A&R Edits..January 18th 2015!!

My rework of the Blackbyrds 'Walking in Rhythm'.



A&R Edits #8 Moving in Sound - Peza rework

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Sebjak, Fahlberg - Chaka [ELEMENTS]
Chaka Khan – Ain't Nobody [Warner Bros.]

Chaka x Ain't Nobody (Kory Edit)

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Chaka Khan, Fahlberg, Sebjak - Chaka x Ain't Nobody (Kory Edit)

Federico Ambrosi, Mauro Venti - Soul Flow

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Rebirth Of Madam (Franco La Cara MashUp) FILTERED

Mighty Clouds Of Joy 'Mighty Cloud Of Joy' (greg wilson & ché wilson rework)

124 bpm

DJ only vinyl 2024.

The Mighty Clouds Of Joy were an LA-based gospel group who’d been releasing records since the early-‘60s, initially as The Mighty, Mighty Clouds Of Joy’. In 1974 they made a departure from their more traditional style when the group went into Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia, the epicentre when it came to the soulful dance music that would soon explode as disco, recording their album, ‘It’s Time’, with producer/songwriter, Dave Crawford. Members of the Philadelphia International group, MFSB, already renowned for backing artists like Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes, The O’Jays and The Three Degrees, were brought aboard for the sessions, including the legendary Baker-Harris-Young rhythm section, who, apart from MFSB, fuelled The Trammps, with Earl Young celebrated for innovating the disco style of rock drumming.

I came across the group via their second single from ‘It’s Time’, ‘Mighty Cloud Of Joy’, released in late-‘74. I figure I must have picked my UK 7” out of a bargain bin when I was 14, maybe 15. There’s nowhere I would have previously heard this – it was before I started DJing, and it’s not something likely to be played on radio. I reckon I bought it on spec – I knew the label, ABC, via singles by Eddie Holman, Four Tops and Rufus, so it was a trusted source, and I would have been fascinated that the artist and title were (almost) the same.

It picked up specialist plays from some soul and funk DJs here, including Colin Curtis at the Blackpool Mecca and Les Spaine at The Timepiece in Liverpool, but largely went under the radar. It remained a personal favourite from the period, which I’d have thought would have done well in the States, but it appears to have been largely slept on there too, the track receiving DJ support, but not igniting as you’d imagine it would have. The following year, again recorded at Sigma Sound, the next Mighty Clouds album, ‘Kickin’’, included ‘Mighty High’, which would blow up big time with US DJs and top the disco chart (it wasn’t a track I can ever recall hearing in a UK club). It surprised me to learn that ‘Mighty High’ had been so big, while ‘Mighty Cloud Of Joy’ is conspicuous by its absence from both the US R&B and Disco charts – the latter sounding far more like a disco classic to my ears.

Having remixed Gabriels ‘Love And Hate In A Different Time’ with Ché, inspired by the mid-‘70s Earl Young disco groove, it brought to mind the gospel-infused ‘Mighty Cloud Of Joy’, and this rework resulted. Having played it out while we fine-tuned, despite its relative obscurity, people responded to it like they’ve known it all their lives, it’s ‘movin’ on up’ refrain infectious, which makes it all the more surprising that it wasn’t huge on release.

Pressed on limited vinyl as part of the GW Edits series, and featuring ‘The Turnaround’, an update of Vicki Sue Robinson’s ’76 disco anthem, ‘Turn The Beat Around’.

Mighty Clouds Of Joy 'Mighty Cloud Of Joy' (greg wilson & ché wilson rework)

AND003
Side A: Arise (Sophie Lloyd Edit)
Side AA: Love Making Love 2 U (F.A.M.E. Edit)

Following the immediate success of the first two releases on A&R Edits, issued side by side back in May, comes the third instalment, a split 12” with transatlantic reworks served up by the UK’s Sophie Lloyd and the USA’s F.A.M.E. collective.

First up under the re-edit razor is Herb Alpert's 'Rise', a track that reached number one on the US chart upon its release in 1979, making Alpert the first (and only) artist to reach Billboard’s Hot 100 with a vocal ('This Guy's in Love with You', 1968) as well as an instrumental performance. ‘Rise’ was also famously played on import by DJ’s on the UK Jazz-Funk scene at 45rpm (rather than the correct speed, 33rpm). In 1997, the track found a new lease of life when sampled by Sean 'Puffy' Combs, becoming the instrumental bed for Notorious B.I.G.'s hip-hop classic, 'Hypnotise'. Now, 16 years on, London-based producer and DJ Sophie Lloyd breathes fresh life into this infectious groove, crafting a timely dubbed-out rework that's been a highlight of Greg Wilson's sets this summer.

On the flip, the Detroit collective F.A.M.E. don their disco guise for 'Love Making Love 2 U', an edit of the cult 1981 Boogie cut, ‘I Love Makin Love To You’ by Mel Sheppard, another choice tune for Wilson this festival season. The edit first came to his attention when he went to Detroit in June to play the Movement Festival Appreciation Party at the TV Lounge and, during the afternoon soundcheck, heard DJ Mike Petrack playing it. After enquiring, Mike gave Greg a copy, which he played that night to great response. It was also at this same event that he first played Sophie’s ‘Rise’ edit: Gregwilson – Movement-appreciation-party-tv

So both tracks, with their Detroit connection and raw-edge in common, seemed a solid combination for an A&R release.

AND003 is released on Monday 14th October on 180g vinyl.

A&R Edits #3 'Arise' (Sophie Lloyd Edit) AND003A

Here's a rework of a track by a particularly famous band that Peza and I did back in 2014. This is the first time its been uploaded.

Four Lads Who Shook 'The Word' (greg wilson & peza rework)

One of the first tracks off my Winter Warmers Mix on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-f81viraxk

Already a few great edits of this funk soul classic up on soundcloud but thought I'd do my own version for the mix. Free Download short time only so grab it whilst you can!!!

youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2TMS9MTUzE

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The O'Jays - For The Love Of Money (Dj XS Edit)

GREG WILSON’S 20 CHOICE EDITS & REWORKS 2017
http://secretlifemusic.com/greg-wilsons-20-choice-edits-reworks-2017/

Another selection from Greg Wilson, now for the 6th year, listing some of the edits and reworks that have featured in his DJ sets during 2017. Further info: http://blog.gregwilson.co.uk/2017/12/20-choice-edits-reworks-2017/

GREG WILSON'S 20 CHOICE EDITS & REWORKS 2017

Henry Greenwood and I have put together a couple of reworks, which I’ve been playing throughout the summer, both ‘70s tracks, one Disco, one Balearic in flavour. The first I’ve uploaded is the former.

The Los Angeles based songwriting and production team Laurin Rinder & W. Michael Lewis forged a distinctive Disco sound during the mid-late 70’s, drawing from their background as Rock and Soul session musicians, whilst playing all the instruments themselves, El Coco and Le Pamplemousse being their initial projects. They’d later record a series of albums under their own names, Rinder & Lewis, including the grandiose Disco concept album, ‘Seven Deadly Sins’. The smooth grooving and somewhat esoteric ‘Mondo Disco’ is one of their early tracks released under the El Coco moniker in 1976.

Available to pre-order on 12" here: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/gw-henry-disco-mondo/739367-01/

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El Coco 'Mondo Disco' (greg wilson & henry greenwood rework)

Here’s the second of the reworks I’ve recently put together with Henry Greenwood. This time it’s a brooding Balearic treasure from the late-‘70s, recorded by a group who experienced a fleeting moment of fame with this pop/rock treat and its addictive downtempo dance beat. It’s these qualities we’ve tried to enhance, making the track more contemporary for DJs to play out now, whilst retaining the distinctive essence of the original.

Before we set about the rework, I played it last year as my final track when I appeared at Glitterbox in Hi! Ibiza (I’m back this year for the closing party on Sept 28th). It was after hearing how well this worked as my Glitterbox finale (mix here: https://soundcloud.com/glitterboxibiza/greg-wilson-glitterbox-hi-ibiza-150917) that I approached Henry, who has a wonderful feel for downtempo grooves, to work on an update with me. Anyhow, I think it’s definitely mission accomplished, feedback since I’ve been playing it extremely positive.

Released on EMI’s progressive label, Harvest, in 1978, Marshall Hain’s ‘Dancing In The City’ was a huge UK hit, reaching #3 on the singles chart, as well as scoring big in Europe, Australia and South Africa, and just missing out on the US top 40. 

The duo behind the track, keyboardist Julian Marshall and vocalist/bassist Kit Hain had met as pupils at Dartington Hall School in Totnes, Devon, just a few years beforehand, but their success would be short-lived. A follow-up, ‘Coming Home’, was less memorable, just about scraping into the top 40 before, as with the band itself, completely vanishing from the pop realm, indifference to their album, ‘Free Ride’, the final nail in the coffin.

Marshall would become a member of The Flying Lizards, whose oddball post-punk/avant-garde cover of the R&B classic, ‘Money (That’s What I Want)’, released on Virgin, went top 5 in 1979, before forming Eye To Eye, who released 2 albums for Warner Bros. in the early-‘80s. Hain pursued a solo career, recording the albums ‘Spirits Walking Out’ for Deram (1981) and ‘School For Spies’ for Mercury (1983), before subsequently moving to the US and turning her attention to songwriting.

Available to pre-order on 12" here: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/gw-henry-disco-mondo/739367-01/

Marshall Hain 'Dancing In The City' (greg wilson & henry greenwood rework)

Annual selection from Greg Wilson, now in its 7th year, listing 20 of the edits and reworks that have featured in his DJ sets during 2018. For further information:
http://blog.gregwilson.co.uk/2019/01/20-choice-edits-reworks-2018/

1.Rufus & Chaka Khan - Stay (Frankee More Rework)
2.Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ (Dr Packer Rework)
3.Nese Karabocek - Yali Yali (Oliver Ferdinand Edit)
4.Gino Soccio - Dancer (Late Nite Tuff Guy Rework)
5.Two Man Sound - Que Tal America (Get Down Edits Rework)
6.Harvey Mason - Groovin’ You (Dr Packer Rework)
7.Linda Clifford - Runaway Love (Greg Wilson & Henry Greenwood Rework)
8.Funkadelic - (Not Just) Knee Deep (Shit Hot Soundsystem Rework)
9.Donald Byrd - Change (Makes You Want To Hustle) (Misiu Rework)
10.Marshall Hain - Dancing In The City (Greg Wilson & Henry Greenwood Rework)
11.Crown Heights Affair - Say A Prayer For Two (Andy Buchan Rework)
12.El Coco - Mondo Disco (Greg Wilson & Henry Greenwood Rework)
13.Titanic – Sultana (Alex Zuiev Rework)
14.Roy Ayers - Running Away (Young Pulse Edit)
15.Unique - What I Got Is What You Need (Dr Packer Rework)
16.Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - The Bottle (Mikeandtess Edit)
17.T Connection - At Midnight (Get Down Edits Rework)
18.MFSB - Love Is The Message (Moon Rocket & Re-Tide Rework)
19.Rose Royce - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (Jarred Gallo Rework)
20.Aquarian Dream - You’re A Star (Mikeandtess Edit)

GREG WILSON'S 20 CHOICE EDITS & REWORKS 2018

AND002 – limited vinyl on A&R Edits

Released: Monday 27th May, 2013

Side AA: Music Up (Reworked by Derek Kaye)

Selected by GW

Derek Kaye married his schoolboy passions of music and electronics in 1973 when he constructed his first disco sound system, aged just 13. Prior to this, with DJ equipment something of a rarity in those days, he created a custom setup that bypassed the need for a mixer by rewiring his turntables in such a way that he could flip the sound from one deck to another, and installed a switch that would dip the music so a microphone from a portable cassette player could be used to announce the song on rotation. His work soon grew in sophistication and a new console was built, with his schoolmate, Greg Wilson, buying Derek’s old rig, thus beginning his own well-documented DJ career.

Over the past 40 years, Derek has continued to DJ in and around the North West, both in residencies and guest spots, and his passion for music and electronics are still just as strong. His enviable studio has gone through the transitions of working with notator (the forerunner to logic) on the studio essential Atari 1040 ste with a collection of keyboards and Akai samplers, to just about “working out of the box” as is the case with a lot of studios now.

Today, a lifetime of experience is being teased out of the connoisseur by lifelong friend and A&R curator Greg Wilson, beginning with the double header of 'Nobody' and 'Music Up': both reworks have caused dance floor rapture for Greg over recent months and, as festival season fast approaches, they are now being shared amongst the wider DJ community for the very first time (Derek and Greg have also recently joined forces to remix Bryan Ferry’s ‘Don’t Stop The Dance’).

'Music Up' is an overhaul of the 1979 Vanguard 12” by the Players Association, Kaye's version injecting further verve into the original with a new bassline, percussion, strings and arrangement. Personally requested by NYC stalwart Danny Krivit when Greg Wilson dropped it during his recent gig at The Date in London, 'Music Up' is a surefire festival favourite, for house and disco heads alike, that’s set to fly this summer.

Players Association - Turn The Music Up  -  Derek Kaye Rework

Tonight

Disco Weapon

Annual selection from Greg Wilson, now in its 8th year, listing 20 of the edits and reworks that have featured in his DJ sets during 2019. For further information:
https://blog.gregwilson.co.uk/2020/01/16444/

1.Steve Arrington - Feel So Real (Dr Packer Rework) 
2.Prince - Controversy (Mighty Mouse Edit) 
3.Gibson Brothers - Cuba (Dr Packer Rework)
4.Thelma Houston - Don’t Leave Me This Way (Dr Packer Rework) 
5.Eumir Deodato - Whistle Bump (Moplen Rework)
6.FPI Project - I’ll Bass You / Rich In Paradise (Greg Wilson Edit)
7.Chemical Brothers -Got To Keep On (Petko Turner & Chew Solo Edit)
8.People’s Choice - Jam Jam Jam (All Night Long) (DJ Laurel Edit - Retouched)  
9.MFSB - TSOP (The Sound Of Philadelphia) (Dr Packer Rework)
10.Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force / Gary Numan - Planet Rock / Cars (Peza Mash-Up)
11.Francine McGee - Delirium (JRay Rework)
12.Chaka Khan - I Feel For You (Dr Packer Rework)
13.Double Exposure - My Love Is Free (Mighty Mouse Edit)
14.Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing (V’s Rework)
15.Dennis Edwards Featuring Siedah Garrett - Don’t Look Any Further (Late Nite Tuff Guy Rework)
16.Primal Scream - Movin’ On Up (Andy Buchan Edit)
17.David Bowie - Fame (Ché Wilson Edit)
18.James Brown - Dead On It (The Owl Edit)
19.Incognito Featuring Jocelyn Brown - Always There (Get Down Edit)
20.Detroit Spinners - I’ll Be Around (Dr Packer Rework)

GREG WILSON'S 20 CHOICE EDITS & REWORKS 2019

Michael Jackson - Workin Day and Night (Sonic Extension Remix)

AND001 – limited vinyl on A&R Edits

Released: Monday 27th May, 2013

Side A: Buffalo Dance (Reworked by Henry Greenwood)

Selected by GW

Buffalo Stance (Henry's Rework) (preview)

Santa Catarina

New Soul Clap mixes of The Emanations 'Spread A Little Love' out Dec 4th on Super Weird Substance. Includes my condensed edit of their epic 10 min remix, uploaded here, which is also available, along with the dub version. Two week exclusive on Juno Downloads and Bandcamp. Pre-order below: 
https://www.junodownload.com/products/the-emanations-the-love-ep/4844947-02/
https://the-emanations.bandcamp.com/album/the-love-ep

Further info at SWS:
https://www.superweirdsubstance.com/the-love-ep/

The Emanations 'Spread A Little Love' (greg wilson edit of soul clap mix)

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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.