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EPISODE #501

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1. Pollena - Bask In Blue
2. Guzimi, Heinrich Schlupf - On The Rocks
3. Glenn Chiller - Routine
4. Fletcher Reed - kindred spirit
5. Baronski, Bnmo - Purdiedo
6. Mamoosh - Freddy's Button
7. Altın Gün - Kalk Gidelim
8. Mammal Hands - Dimu
9. Daniel Casimir - The Truth
10. Fernando Perdomo - Throwback
11. Kolinga - I Can See You
12. Michael Leonhart Orchestra - The Normyn Suite No. 1: Denial
13. Monophonics - Falling Apart
14. Nick Hakim - GODS DIRTY WORK
15. Pratt & Moody - Wheels Turning (feat. Cold Diamond & Mink) (Instrumental)
16. Natalie Bergman - You've Got a Woman
17. Zara McFarlane - Black Treasure
18. Buttering Trio - Sail With Me
19. Eddie Henderson - Beyond Forever

RHYTHMS Radio Show (Apr.07.2023)

Danish jazz outfit Sun Creatures reveal sizzling new single 

‘Bang Rak’ →https://linktr.ee/musicfordreams

Danish producers/musicians Arto Eriksen and Fridolin Nordsø form Sun Creatures, a new Danish outfit whose music bring a sprawling, riotous force to hip-hop inspired jazz compositions.

Their new single ‘Bang Rak’ pulls no punches: a head bopping groove is hardly installed before the pair begin to swirl and contort their instruments around it. Distorted guitars and screeching horns in a steamy procession of sublime funk schematics.

Supported by Koda’s Cultural Funds and Musik Forlæggerne.

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Sun Creatures - Bang Rak - s0720

We are proudly presenting # 12 with Chris Coco and his Sunset Atmospherics and Island Vibrations mix.

A mix from Chris Coco that evokes the feeling of a super sultry, languid day on the island. It’s hot, floaty and atmospheric. It’s morning swims and sunset dreaming. It’s Balearic beats, big drama and deep meditation. It’s pure island vibrations.

Tracklist:

1 Chris Coco George Solar - Holy Rising
2 Coyote & Florecer - The Biggest
3 Apollonia - Modern Artefact (Oyobi Rework)
4 Dr Bronzer - Wet Dreams (Projections Remix)
5 Antonio Prosper - Electro Balear
6 SONLIFE ft Plumm - Piecebypiece
7 Chari Chari - Night Stream
8 Radio Slave ft Caged Baby - Amnesia (Instrumental)
9 Slowdive - Prayer Remembered
10 Chris Coco George Solar - Pink Sun
11 Aus - Neanic

Balearic Discoveries #12 - Chris Coco

https://refugeworldwide.com/radio/mehmet-aslan-residency-07-nov-2023
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Refuge Worldwide | 07 November 2023 | Residency

Listen every Tuesday from 21 till 22 (Moscow time) Jazz FM (radiojazzfm.ru)

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1. Harvey Averne Band - Let's Get It Together This Christmas
2. Rose Graham - Black Christmas
3. The Rimshots - Takin' It
4. Franceola - Mighty Good Man
5. John Wright - Strutt
6. The Chi-Lites - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
7. The Futures - Ain't No Time Fa Nothing
8. Carol Williams - You're So Much A Part Of Me
9. General Crook - Thanks but No Thanks
10. Oscar Toney Jr. - Chicken Heads
11. James Last - I Can't Move No Mountains
12. Preacherman Isidore Womack - I've Got Power in My Mind
13. Francis Lai - Young Freedom
14. Asha Puthli - Flying Fish
15. Classic Funk - The Funk's Gonna Fly
16. The Eliminators - Loving Explosion
17. Milly and Silly - Gettin' Down for Xmas
18. Jimmy Jules & Nuclear Soul System - Xmas Done Got Funky
19. White Chimney - Funky Santa Claus

Funk and Beyond Radio Show (Dec.19.2023)

Listen every Tuesday from 21 till 22 (Moscow time) Jazz FM (radiojazzfm.ru)

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1. Will Hatcher - What Is Best For Me Is Better For You
2. Grover Mitchell - What Hurts
3. The Spinners - Mighty Love
4. Gary Bartz - Music Is My Sanctuary
5. Boeing - Dance On The Beat
6. Frankie Beverly - Before I Let Go (JM M&M Remix)
7. Louis Ramirez - Do It Anyway You Want
8. Esther Williams - I'll Be Your Pleasure
9. Neo Experience - Human
10. Golden Flamingo Orchestra - The Guardian Angel Is Watching Over
11. Avenue B Boogie Band - Bumper to Bumper
12. Pleasure - Straight Ahead
13. Third Stream - Gettin' It Together
14. L.T.D. - (Every Time I Turn Around) Back In Love Again
15. Tim Maia - Sossego
16. Lisa Hill - I Am On The Real Side
17. Esperanto - Kailua

Funk and Beyond Radio Show (Dec.26.2023)

O'Ladipo     Balls of Love

The first 6 hours of my set at the strawberry fields festival 2017 Australia
Contains FUNK, SOUL. DISCO, RARE GROOVE, HIP HOP, R&B, EXOTIC PSYCHEDELIC. ELECTRONICA and much more
ENJOY!!

STRAWBERRY FIELDS FESTIVAL 2017 - SLICK MARCEL JOHNSON @ TEA LOUNGE

Original records selected by Mambo Chick & Jean Toussaint ! Season 2

We are 'Les Diplomates' ! Season 2

To tie-in with my 200th blog post, this was the last mix I ever tape edited, putting it together on my original Revox B77 reel-to-reel, which I’d bought 14 years earlier, back in 1982. See the post with accompanying images at the blog:
http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2012/11/the-monastic-mix/ 

THE MONASTIC MIX:
‘The Monastic Mix’ was very much a labour of love, gradually assembled in stages, as I bounced between reel-to-reel and DAT in order to add further textures. I did it in collaboration with a young DJ from Liverpool, Matt Shannon, who was into the Trip Hop / D’n’B vibes of the time, which I really liked myself, but didn’t have any of the records (I was, as you might say, on the bones of my arse brassic back then, so I wasn’t in the position to be buying anything other than the bare essentials). We fused Matt’s tunes with mainly older stuff from my own collection for the mix, which appeared on one side of a free cassette that was given away to everyone who attended the launch of 'The Monastery', an experimental monthly club night on Merseyside (plus a couple of Wednesday specials at London's 'Mars Bar' in conjunction with Microdot, the design company ran by Brian Cannon). We made things particularly difficult for ourselves, holding the night on a Sunday, and choosing an off the beaten track venue, Stairways, a Birkenhead Rock club, to which we bussed people through the Mersey Tunnel from Liverpool, as well as attracting others from The Wirral. However, despite all the drawbacks, we somehow managed to keep things afloat for the best part of a year, enjoying some great memories and much musical mayhem along the way.

‘The Monastery’ brought together a collective of DJ’s and musicians who were largely disillusioned with the local dance scene - Derek Kaye, Bernie Connor, DJ Trix, Phil Jones, Desa, Girls On Top, Phil Melia, Kerry Harrison, Ciaron Bell, Matt and myself all played our parts, doing it for the love rather than money, with Martin O’Shea (who, as it would work out, went on to manage the successful girl group, Atomic Kitten) promoting the nights. The basic premise was that we didn't go down the four-on-the-floor path, as this was being played pretty much everywhere else at the time, concentrating instead on groove-based music from the 60's to the 90's.  

Featuring Soul, Funk, Electro-Funk, Hip Hop, Indie-Dance, Trip Hop, Drum & Bass and more, ‘The Monastic Mix’ became cult listening for many of the people who got hold of the cassette, although I’m sure that others found it a bit too eclectic for the time and never gave it a second hearing. I’ve been told that it’s quite a demanding mix to listen to, dark in places and somewhat ‘druggy’ (‘one for the heads’ being a comment made about it back then). 

It’s close to my heart because it reflects my state of mind at the time it was made, which was pretty turbulent. Since my production work had ground to a halt a few years earlier, I was very much in no man’s land, completely detached from the music scene and with no means of expressing myself. I was still totally illiterate as far as computers were concerned and I remember feeling old and out of touch. There were moments when I wanted nothing more to do with the music industry, being punch drunk from the knocks I’d taken during recent years, but, having never had a ‘proper job’ in my life, I was pretty much in a catch 22 situation. I had no money and no prospects, life was passing me by and I was more or less washed out creatively. Suffice to say it was a very bleak period for me.

It was during this time that my friends, seeing how much I was struggling, were urging me to get back into deejaying, telling me that I could make good money by trading on my reputation of old. However, there was a big catch, which was that I’d have to decide what area of dance music to specialise in, which was an alien concept for me, having made my name playing the best of a whole range of styles, rather than just one narrow area. Thankfully (and I can only say this with hindsight) I resisted the temptation to take this option, which would have amounted to selling my DJ soul for a quick cash-in.

The idea behind The Monastery was planted in my mind by my friend, Kermit, who, following on from the Rap Assassins, had hooked-up with former Happy Mondays mainman Shaun Ryder to form the band Black Grape.  Just before they were about to do the final mixes on their debut album, ‘It’s Great When You’re Straight…Yeah’ (which would subsequently top the British charts), Kermit came to see me in Liverpool with a cassette of all their tracks. I was blown away with what they’d come up with, but it also served to highlight my own shortfallings. I commented that he’d done so much while I’d been wasting away at home doing nothing, but he told me that the time I was spending, in relative seclusion, with my music, books and videos, would prove to be time well spent. He likened my existence to being in a monastery – a comment that very much resonated within me and somehow gave me renewed hope for the future.

The following year, when the idea of a putting together a club night was put to me, I suggested it should be called The Monastery, with the music policy and presentation completely unlike anything else that was happening, combining DJ’s with live musicians. When it came to putting the mix together, I wanted to reference as many of my musical influences as I could, even if it only be a tiny snippet. I managed to cram a lot of them in and I can guarantee that, even after numerous plays, you’ll still recognise new elements hidden away in there. There’s a lot of stuff going on in the detail and, listening back to it later down the line, I became aware of a definite autobiographical slant that didn’t seem so obvious then, reflecting the struggle and soul searching that summed up my life at the point it was made. A mix will, obviously, always have something of yourself within it, but this is undoubtedly more personally revealing than anything else I’ve done – there’s some kind of twisted narrative in there, and I can hear me talking to myself via some of the samples I chose (for example, when you hear the words ‘does anyone remember who I am?’, I really meant it, trapped in obscurity as I was). Even the discordant parts, the bits that jar with me now, show me exactly where my head was at.

It was an important personal step for me, and I thank Matt Shannon for what he brought to the table – I didn’t have all the ingredients myself, and he was also pretty handy on the decks, so Matt was, of course, key to this. He no doubt reads it in a different way to me, but I know it has its own special symbolism for him, especially given he never followed the DJ route, and instead carved out a rewarding career working in the computer, rather than in club realm. 

‘The Monastic Mix’ very much informed what I did later, especially the Teenage DJ project, which built on that autobiographical slant I’d stumbled across. It’s echoes can also be heard via my use of samples in a live context - people who know my mixes from more recent times will, no doubt, recognise many of the samples I’ve subsequently used, which are spun from the same tape, but in a different context – from another time and place.

I think it’s a mix that’s most conducive to a chilled-out environment (and state of mind). I might have given the impression that it’s pretty heavy-going, but you’ll find lots of familiar stuff throughout (it makes for a great game of spot the sample) and I’m sure it’ll raise a smile, and perhaps even the spirit, here and there. 

Greg Wilson - November 2012

THE MONASTIC MIX (by greg wilson and matt shannon for the monastery 1996)

DJ, Producer, Funky Promoter, Radio Show Host on Mother Russia's territory and beyond.

Funk and Beyond parties and RHYTHMS Radio  Shows celebrating 17th anniversary in 2024.

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Funk and Beyond Radio Show (Dec.26.2023)

Anatoly Ice