early, mid 90's

Fac 51 The Haçienda (better known simply as The Haçienda) was a nightclub and music venue in Manchester, England. It became most famous during the "Madchester" years of the late 1980s and early 1990s; during the 1990s it was labelled the most famous club in the world by Newsweek magazine. The Haçienda opened in 1982, and despite considerable and persistent financial troubles survived until 1997 – during much of this time the club was mainly supported by record sales from New Order. The Haçienda is associated with the rise of acid house and rave music.

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Andrew Weatherall @ The Hacienda, Manchester, U.K.  07.1993

Classic techno track from 1992 , coming soon with remixes on Edit Select Recordings

Teste - The Wipe (Edit_ Select _2014_ Edit) Preview

Spin Inn, Eastern Bloc, The Mix Factory, Da Intalex...just some of the Manchester musical institutions and outfits that Mark XTC has been involved with in his now twenty five year career across records shops, clubs and early rave culture.

Playing across hip hop, classic house and also well known as a proponent of Drum and Bass / Jungle throughout his career Mark is a hugely versatile DJ and his Hacienda Tribute mix, published now on this site and soundcloud, sees him take to three decks and CD-J’s in putting it together.

Showcasing the skills throughout, taking accapellas, additional beats and put his own spins on the format, “Always There” and “Dirty Cash” knock out over classics such as Jam The Dance from the outset. A tribute to the recently passed Mark Bell with an airing of “LFO” as Mark throws in the better known tunes such as “Voodoo Ray”, “Promised Land” against US underground  such as Corina’s  “Temptation” 

With extended mixing a feature of the mix, and Mark laying his own markers, scratching in and out, from “French Kiss”, “Higher States Of Consciousness” and the Sasha remix of Better Days, Mark expertly blends the tracks in a set that pulls no punches.

The rarely heard dub of My Friend Sam featuring Viola Willis kicks off the final section of the mix as B Sides Volme II, ”Casanova” and “The Shaker Song” all come together as rare hip hop cut The Doc’s “Portrait Of A Masterpiece” and an untouched “Strings Of Life”  bring Mark’s exhilarating hour to a close.

Tracklisting

01.	Asmo – Jam the dance 
02.	Stevie V – Dirty cash
03.	LFO – LFO
04.	Robin S – Show me love
05.	Bob Marley & Funk Deluxe – Sun is shining
06.	Guy Called Gerald – Voodoo Ray
07.	Corina – Temptation
08.	Crystal Waters – Gypsy Woman
09.	Inner City – Big Fun
10.	Joe Smooth – Promise Land
11.	Lil Louie – French Kiss
12.	Alison Limerick – Where love lives
13.	Jimi Polo – Better Days (Sasha Remix)
14.	Josh Wink – Higher state of consciousness
15.	My Friend Sam – It’s My Pleasure
16.	B Sides – Vol II
17.	Jazz and the bros grimm – Casanova
18.	Playtime toons – Shaker song
19.	The Doc – Portrait of a masterpiece
20.	Rhythm is Rhythm – Strings of life

Mark XTC | Haçienda Three Decks Tribute 2015

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Fingers Inc - My House acapella
Inner City - Pennies From Heaven (Reese Dream-A-Lot Mix)
Chez Damier - Can You Feel It (New York Dub)
The Reese Project - The Colour Of Love
4th Measure Men - 4 You 
Bobby Konders - The Poem
Blunted Dummies - House 4 All
Deep Forest - Sweet Lullaby 
Inner City - Let It Reign (Reese Hardcore Mix)
Bizarre Tracks - Sensory Delight
Inner City - Pennies From Heaven
Jungle Brothers - What U Waitin' 4
React 2 Rhythm - Intoxication
Yvette - Pump Me
Hex - Alright To Love
Warp 69 -Natural High
Cajmere - The Percolator
Public Enemy - Bring The Noise!
Format #1 - Solid Session
Astrospider - Don't Be Afraid
Phantasm - Tones Energy
Zhana - Sanctuary Of Love
Radical Rob - Monkey Wah
Itchy & Scratchy - U Got Me Runnin'
House Syndicate - Jam The Mace
Sound Factory - Understand This Groove
Kenny Dope Gonzalez - All I'm Askin'
Aly-us - Follow Me
Ricky Rouge - Strange Love
Robert Owens - I'll Be Your Friend
Bump - I'm Rushing
Zero B - Lock Up
Liquid - Time To Get Up
Felix - Don't You Want Me
Transformer 2 - Pacific Symphony
George Morel - Morel's Groove
Liberty City - Some Lovin'
Bass Bumpers - The Music's Got Me
Inner City - Good Life

Ultimate Early 90s House Megamix

Dj Cirillo & Nasty Django - Deal With Beats

Dj Pierre - live @ Aufschwung Ost, Kassel (Harthouse Label Party)

Written & Produced by Miquette Giraudy and Steve Hillage
Remixed by Richie Hawtin

System 7: Alpha Wave (Plastikman Acid House Mix) (1995) BFLD25

Taken from blog post:
http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2012/05/it-was-back-in-82/

IT WAS BACK IN ’82:
One of the defining moments of my DJ career took place exactly 30 years ago, on Monday May 10th 1982, when my first radio mix was broadcast on Mike Shaft’s show, ‘T.C.O.B’ (Taking Care Of Business), on Manchester’s hugely influential Piccadilly Radio, which played a major part in bringing black / dance music to wider attention during the 70’s and ‘80’s - from Soul, Funk and Disco, through Jazz-Funk and Electro, and on into Hip Hop, House and Techno. I go into its rich legacy in greater depth here:
http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/articles/dont_touch_that_dial.html   

The mix had been recorded a few days earlier, as live, one afternoon at Legend in Manchester (the club closed at the time). Mike Shaft had brought along a Revox B77 reel-to-reel to record onto, the machine being the portable unit of choice throughout the radio industry in this country back then. This was the first time the Revox, which has since played a constant role in my work, entered my life. At the time I had no means to record at home, but by the end of the year, following the runaway success of the mixes, which would subsequently become a regular feature on Piccadilly, I’d purchase a couple of Technics SL1200’s and a Matamp Super Nova mixer (this was at a time when, with the exception of London DJ, Froggy, who used them for his Roadshow, no UK DJ’s had such equipment at home). To top things off I bought my first B77, so I could put together my mixes at home, which would serve to lead me ever-deeper into my obsession with editing. So glory be to Mike Shaft and to Piccadilly Radio for facilitating this life-defining arc of continued discovery.

The reel of ¼ tape onto which that first mix was recorded onto was, as with most of my radio mixes (the final one, ‘The Best Of ‘83’, being aired in December 1983), lost – probably copied over at some point or other, having been stored at the station. I managed to salvage a few of these mastertapes, most importantly ‘The Best Of ’82, but the original mix wasn’t amongst these, and I only had it on an extremely lo-fi cassette recorded from the radio at the time.

As the author / DJ Dave Haslam once said, the mixes “were probably some of the most taped programmes in Manchester radio history”. These tapes would also spread further afield than the Greater Manchester region that Piccadilly broadcasted to, with copies, and copies of copies, finding their way into cassette players and ghetto blasters in all corners of the country, often without people having a clue about their source – this was the ‘mixtape’ in its earliest form from a British perspective. One such recipient of my mixes was Stafford based Pezz, then a 14 year old lad discovering his musical influences, and later of the fabled Nottingham-based soundsystem and DJ collective, DiY, who were amongst the pioneers of the UK free party scene, having formed in 1989.

I’d meet Pezz at the Liverpool offices of 3Beat, the record shop / label he worked for – this was in 2002, 20 years on from when my radio mixes first aired. My DJ comeback was still in the future, and I was very much an obscure name from the past at best, most people of Pezz’s age brought up on a later generation of DJ’s. So his excitement at meeting me was unexpected – he was talking about this tape from back in my Piccadilly days that had made a big impact on him and his friends at the time, as they set off on their own personal dance music odysseys, and asked me if I could identify a couple of the tracks featured (these id’s having eluded them for 2 decades). It turned out that one of his big mates back then was Dean Meredith, later of Bizarre Inc, who enjoyed chart success in the early 90’s, and more recently  Chicken Lips (whose ‘He Not In’ I edited on my first ‘Credit To The Edit’ compilation in 2005), and that this tape had been a major influence on the sound of his latter project, which, along with Bizarre Inc, was produced in collaboration with partner Andy Meecham.

Pezz takes up the story in the sleevenotes of a limited run CD (300 copies only) from 2007, to mark the 25th anniversary, which he called ‘It Was Back In ‘82’:

“As soon as I’d met Greg, an excited call was made to Dean. ‘…. Hey kid, guess what! I just met Greg Wilson – No way – I need you to send me a copy of the tape up as soon as possible….’ Then came the months of waiting more phone call’s hassling to get a copy before eventually with the bribe of digitally remastering it onto CD it finally arrived!

In the meantime I’d had many conversations with Greg and e-mail’s were exchanged, one of which contained a list of essential Electro-Funk releases. This list was full of records I, and anyone I showed it to, had never heard of, apart from some obvious classic’s such as the Peech Boy’s ‘Don’t Make Me Wait’, and Afrika Bambaataa’s ‘Planet Rock’. When I finally sent him a copy of the tape I’d got from Dean he identified mysterious artists and titles like The Gunchback Boogie Band’s ‘Funn’ and Jimmy Spicer’s ‘The Bubble Bunch’. I began hunting down these tracks on the internet, the first to arrive was Larry Graham’s ‘Sooner Or Later’, and the excitement of finally getting my hands on these tunes was unreal, mindblowing! I hadn’t had such a buzz from buying records in years. A goal was then set to collect every track on the tape. Gradually over the coming weeks all but a handful were found. In the meantime, Greg found the old tracklistings for his first ever mixes for Mike Shaft, which just happened to be the two mixes contained on the legendary tape. I was then able to find all but two tracks, or rather two small drum sections he used in the first of the mixes. Not even Greg can recall where these came from!

Before long it seemed obvious that listening to this 20-year-old tape was not enough. After collecting these, and a host of other early 80’s Electro-Funk releases, I decided that the only thing left to do was to re-create the mixes myself! Rather than just re-do them as Greg did back in ‘82 on the decks at Legends. I decided to use the computer to ensure the tightest of mixes and present them in today’s highly polished manner (I also lifted and cleaned the missing drum parts direct from the tape). The whole concept of taking someone else’s work and re-creating it is quite strange, and actually completing it and then re-presenting it to Greg felt even more bizarre. Thankfully he was really into what I’d done, especially as the original ¼” masters have been lost and, like myself, the only copy of these mixes that Greg had was recorded onto cassette from the radio.”

Pezz’s full sleevenotes can be read at:
http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/it-was-back-in-82/

So, to mark its 30th anniversary, this reconstructed version of my first ever radio mix, which was painstakingly pieced together by Pezz, has now been uploaded onto my SoundCloud.

The mix would be the first of its type on British radio, and following the fantastic response to mix 1, Mike Shaft decided to make it a regular feature, with new mixes every 3-4 weeks. It would have an instant impact in the clubs, with Legend’s attendance, which was already on the up, going through the roof in a matter of weeks. It was a momentous month, which also saw the release of the seminal Electro track, ‘Planet Rock’ (see: www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/articles/when_the_planet_rocked.html) and the opening of a new Manchester club, which I’d DJ at later down the line, called The Haçienda.

My career was about to go into overdrive, and ‘The Greg Wilson Mix’, as Mike, in his distinctive mid-Atlantic drawl, would introduce it, was a major part of this process.

Greg Wilson May 2012

IT WAS BACK IN '82 (by greg wilson for piccadilly radio manchester 1982 reconstructed by pezz 2004)

A very special mix from our headliner, Lil Louis at our next party on June 3rd @ The House & Terrace, Greenwich.

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Lil Louis @ Haçienda, Manchester, UK /// 25 SEPT 1992

great techno, house and acid techno set from 1995

Milestones of Techno: 1995-09-30 Hr3 Clubnight DJ Pierre, Marky, Blake Baxter - Aufschwung Ost (Stammheim) Kassel

monstertrance set by techno daddy sven vaeth that was transmitted live in the hr3 clubnight radio transmission

Milestones of Techno: 1993-12-31 Sven Vaeth at Sylvesterparty Uni Goettingen

Armand Van Helden @ Mayday '12 1995

Holger Sinn is an electronic dance music producer from Germany. Born in Pforzheim. His music career started in the eighties as a part of the speed metal band called Destroyer where he was also founder and songwriter.
Not only interessted in heavy metal stuff, he also loved to discover popular componists like Stockhausen, Mozart, Bach, Kraftwerk, Einstürzende Neubauten and the “Neue Deutsche Welle”. Back in the end of the 80′ies he find out early elecotronical stuff like KLF, Front 242, Vangelis, Faltermeyer and loved it. More and more influenced from that music and parties in Omen, Dorian Gray, Kiwi, Gummibär, Nexus, Trance, Berlins Tresor and of course the parades in Zürich and Berlin he started to play that music too. He played his acid records not only in clubs in Baden Würrtemberg, also in radio shows like Radio Störfunk.