Griff

music for the people

words of power

rabbits 2

My debut EP that came out on Summer Rain Recordings, written in my studio in Elwood in 2009.

elwood EP

work

Bra skit

philoutmusic 2.o

A reinterpretation of Mustard Tiger's "Bass Rate".    

Buy it on Addictech! 

Mustard Tiger - Bass Rate (griff's keen sumatran mix)

Untitled Collab Storm vs Green Meter #3 WIP

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)

Liquid Grip - Shanti Planti VA Rhythm Code OUT NOW !!

modify

Out soon on "Happily Broken" VA Vol.2 (Compiled by D-WaUw)by Groove Secret Chamber. 

Autumn Bliss (Out soon on "Happily Broken" VA Vol. 2 - Compiled by D-WaUw. Groove Secret Chamber)

Orbit - Written and produced by griff.
Track 1 from 'Swarm Theory', an Omelette Records various artists compilation album.  

Grab it!  

Orbit

Rock Creek Park - CIRCLE RESEARCH remix

ALT DL LINK: http://www.divshare.com/download/15581504-e2d  

Rock Creek Park - CIRCLE RESEARCH remix

Original Living Light track from the "Let Us Help Nepal" fundraiser compilation featuring  9 unreleased songs from Ott, Desert Dwellers, Bombay Dub Orchestra, Eat Static, Human Experience and Knowa Illusion, Celt Islam, Adham Shaikh, Beat Farmer, ShaMANoiD, UVX, Zion Train and yours truly.

Purchase on bandcamp at http://somasoundsystem.bandcamp.com/


2 Miles High

Very happy to present my new four track EP on Hedflux's label Luminus Music. This EP will showcase some of the slower Mid Tempo styles I have been experimenting with. :)

Available to buy here http://luminusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/twisted-clarity-ep

Buy via Bandcamp

Nanosphere - Twisted Clarity

Nanosphere - Intrinsic

Heres the last track from my next forthcoming EP on Broken Robot Records, Event Horizon. A tantalising slice of Bendalicious Psyhypnocosmotronic Tech Funk with a sprinkling of comb filtered frequency modulation. :D

Nanosphere - Receptive

Here be the third track from my forthcoming EP on Broken Robot Records! :)

Nanosphere - Interaction

Nanosphere - Freefall

dedicated to the art of procrastination.  

get on with it

improbability -  (free download via Buy this track link - Adapted Records)

Mondou - The Feast

This is my set from Shambhala 2015 at The Grove.  Thanks so much to all the legendary crew at The Grove for having me and looking after me so well and thanks to all the crazy groovers for coming and lending an ear to my sounds.  I love you all :)  

Tracklisting:

griff - mental static
opiuo - chubby putty ft beats antique (griff remix) - 
griff - orbit (kepler mix)
griff - dead heroes
grouch - exile (griff's stateless mix)
griff - surrender
griff - deep field
griff - cosmic backroads
griff - the bionic ear
griff - panoramica
griff - like the 60s never happened
griff - missing pages
griff - jitter
griff - trial and error
calibre - miraculous
technicolour - freedom theme
break - they're wrong
dJ shadow - you can't go home again




griff @ The Grove, Shambhala Music Festival, Canada, 2015

Written by Eden Altman ( https://soundcloud.com/estwrd ), Ryan Monro and griff.  Guitars by Eden Altman, bass by Ryan monro, drums by Selwyn Cozens, arranged and produced by griff.

Artwork by Jack Rowland <3 

https://www.facebook.com/jackrowlandart/

Aerial One

Dawn Trails (w Eastward & Yikesdoor)

trouble with 3

upper 

Mondou - China Town

QUOTED FROM JUNO.CO.UK
 "Hello and welcome to the future. Your guide today will be Abakus, he'll take you to eight different sonic destinations and be on hand to answer any questions you have about this exciting new dimension. Be sure to stay in the vehicle at all times as some of bass drops here are so rounded, deep and wobbly you may well bounce off them into another dimension altogether. Amongst the textured, detailed soundscape and flexible, elastic tempos you will notice similarities to other future-focused electronic luminaries such as Orbital, Plump DJs and Bassnectar. Thank you for choosing Modus Airways, we hope to see you in the future again very soon. Have a delightful trip"

Abakus - Laserbass

Mondou - Dwarfs Anthem

Charge / Get Back out on 12.22.18

Big thank you to BIG ICE for the vocal samples! https://soundcloud.com/luvbigice/give-it-2-em

Schmoop - Charge

https://linktr.ee/Smolbeats

My remix as part of Cnopes' Funktion Flux EP
https://soundcloud.com/cnopes

Fluxx (smol Remix)

Cnopes - Flux (Smol Remix)

Loner

Junior Byron - Dance To The Music (Gigamesh Edit)

A remix I did for the talented ambient artist Enuui http://soundcloud.com/el-cubist.

Will be available soon as part of a compilation of Enuui remixes.  

original:   http://soundcloud.com/el-cubist/nagini

enuui -nāginī (griff's kanchenjunga mix)

Visionary Shamanics Records​ has done again and released an absolute anthology of modern psychedelic transmissions. Deep textures, lush soundscapes, fractal auditory hallucinations and vision inducing vibrations abound. Shout out to David Baker​ for his diligent work and for being such a kind and inspiring individual. Support the official release on Bandcamp.

Visionary Worlds #3

Ritual Dance

Support

Inspired by The Beatles track "Tomorrow Never Knows". 

Mad funky drum breaks played by the hyper-talented Benjamin Hendry.   PM me for his details if you are keen to work with a consummate professional session drummer.  



Surrender

Mad funky drum breaks played by the hyper-talented Benjamin Hendry. PM me for his details if you are keen to work with a consummate professional session drummer.

Mental Static

New album "Aerial One" is out now! 

https://griffmusic.bandcamp.com/album/aerial-one

griff is one of Australia’s leading purveyors of highly varied and unique bass music.  Since 2009, griff has created many LPs, EPs and remixes, released on renowned labels such as Omelette, Addictech, Enig'Matik Records, Slurp Music and Buxton Records.  

As an assistant engineer at Sing Sing Studios in Melbourne, Australia he worked on albums by The Cat Empire, The Jon Butler Trio, Blue King Brown, The Dirty Three and many more. 

Playing his original compositions and DJing all manner of styles and genres he has toured the world moving crowds at festivals such as Shambhala Music Festival in Canada, Boom in Portugal, Symbiosis and Burning Man in the US and Rainbow Serpent Festival in his home country of Australia. 

He enjoys laughing and is uncomfortable talking in the 3rd person. 

Thanks for taking the time to listen, much appreciated...  <3