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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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1. Kylie Minogue – Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Soulwax Elektronic Remix) 4:15 
2. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Peter Gunn (Live) 2:49 
3. Basement Jaxx – Where's Your Head At (Head-A-Pella) 
4. Peaches – Fuck The Pain Away 1:38 
5. Velvet Underground, The –I'm Waiting For The Man 0:57 
6. Polyester – J'Aime Regarder Les Mecs 0:57 
7. Sly And The Family Stone* – Dance To The Music 
8. Ready For The World – Oh Sheila (A Capella) 
9. Dakar & Grinser – I Wanna Be Your Dog 
10. Ural 13 Diktators – Disko Kings 1:28 
11. Bobby Orlando – The "O" Medley 2:56 
12. Felix Da Housecat – Silverscreen - Shower Scene 
13. Stooges, The – No Fun 
14. Salt 'N Pepa* – Push It 
15. Hanayo With Jürgen Paape – Joe Le Taxi 
16. Jets, The – Crush On You (A Capella) 
17. Funkacise Gang – Funkacise 3:03 
18. Soul Grabber – Motocross Madness 
19. Lil Louis And The World* – French Kiss 
20. Zongamin – Serious Trouble 
21. Garbage – Androgyny 'Thee Glitz Mix' By Felix Da Housecat 
22. Frank Delour – Disc Jockey's Delight Vol. 2 (2:30) 
23. Residents, The – Kaw-Liga (Prairie Mix) 
24. Carlos Morgan (2) – Shake Your Body 2:11 
25. Alphawezen – Into The Stars (Firebirds Remix) 0:58 
26. Interstellar – Concepts 1:37 
27. Nena – 99 Luftballons 
28. Destiny's Child – Independent Women Part 1 (A Capella) 3:30 
29. 10cc – Dreadlock Holiday 
30. Dolly Parton – 9 To 5 2:29 
31. Royksopp* – Eple 
32. Arbeid Adelt* – Death Disco 0:43 
33. Jeans Team – Keine Melodien Featuring – MJ Lan 1:46 
34. Skee-Lo – I Wish (A Cappella) 3:30 
35. Maurice Fulton Presents Stress* – My Gigolo 
36. Breeders, The – Cannonball 
37. Cramps, The – Human Fly 1:33 
38. Wildbunch, The – Danger! High Voltage 1:42 
39. Op:l Bastards – Don't Bring Me Down 1:57 
40. ADULT* – Hand To Phone 1:40 
41. Vitalic – La Rock 01 2:37 
42. Queen Of Japan – I Was Made For Loving You 1:59 
43. New Order – The Beach 2:12 
44. Detroit Grand Pubahs – Sandwiches (A Capella) 
45. Lords Of Acid – I Sit On Acid (Soulwax Remix) 2:56 
46. Streamer – Start Button Featuring – Private Thoughts In Public Places 4:27

2 many dj's - As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2

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EDM Mashup Mix 2025 USA-Best Mashups Remixes of Popular Songs-Electro Techno Music 1642

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An upload of Soulwax's "Most of the Remixes..." continuous mix because I couldn't find it as one track without the hidden track "Stella Maris (Soulwax Remix)" at the beginning.

Soulwax - Most Of The Remixes... [Disc 2] (Continuous Mix)

As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 is the first album to be released by Soulwax members David and Stephen Dewaele also known as 2ManyDJs. It consists of 45 remixed tracks by a series of diverse artists including Dolly Parton, Basement Jaxx and 10cc. While some of the tracks are conventional remixes, most tracks are mashup collages with the vocals of one song placed over the instrumental part of another. The sampled material was extensively cleared for commercial release; as a result, only 114 elements appear out of the 187 recordings that 2ManyDJs initially wished to use.

Track Listing:

1    – 2:49
        Emerson, Lake & Palmer, "Peter Gunn" [live]
        Basement Jaxx, "Where's Your Head At" (Head-a-pella)
2    Peaches, "Fuck the Pain Away" – 1:38
3    Velvet Underground, "I'm Waiting for the Man" – 0:57
4    – 0:59
        Polyester, "J'aime Regarder Les Mecs"
        Sly and the Family Stone, "Dance to the Music"
        Ready for the World, "Oh Sheila" (a cappella)
5    Dakar & Grinser, "I Wanna Be Your Dog" – 1:44 
6    Ural 13 Diktators, "Disko Kings" – 1:28
7    – 2:56
        Bobby Orlando, "The "O" Medley"
        Felix da Housecat, "Silverscreen Shower Scene"
8    – 2:31
        The Stooges, "No Fun"
        Salt 'n Pepa, "Push It"
9    – 2:28
        Hanayo with Jürgen Paape, "Joe le Taxi"
        The Jets, "Crush on You" (a cappella)
10    – 3:03
        Funkacise Gang, "Funkacise"
        Soul Grabber, "Motorcross Madness"
        Lil Louis and the World, "French Kiss"
11    Zongamin, "Serious Trouble" – 1:39
12    Garbage, "Androgyny" (Felix da Housecat 'thee glitz mix') – 1:16
13    – 2:30
        Frank Delour, "Disc Jockey's Delight Vol. 2"
        The Residents, "Kaw-Liga" (prairie mix)
14    Carlos Morgan, "Shake Your Body" – 2:11 [cover of The Jacksons]
15    Alphawezen, "Into the Stars" (Firebirds remix) – 0:58
16    – 1:37
        Terranova, "Concepts" *
        Nena, "99 Luftballons"
17    – 3:30
        Destiny's Child, "Independent Women Part 1" (a cappella)
        10cc, "Dreadlock Holiday"
18    – 2:29
        Dolly Parton, "9 to 5"
        Röyksopp, "Eple"
19    Arbeid Adelt!, "Death Disco" – 0:43 [cover of Public Image Ltd.]
20    Jeans Team, "Keine Melodien" featuring MJ Lan – 1:46
21    – 3:30
        Skee-Lo, "I Wish" (a cappella)
        Maurice Fulton Presents Stress, "My Gigolo"
        The Breeders, "Cannonball"
22    The Cramps, "Human Fly" – 1:33
23    The Wildbunch, "Danger! High Voltage" – 1:42
24    Op:l Bastards, "Don't Bring Me Down" – 1:57 
25    ADULT., "Hand to Phone" – 1:40
26    Vitalic, "La Rock 01" – 2:37
27    Queen of Japan, "I Was Made for Loving You" – 1:59 
28    – 2:12
        New Order, "The Beach"
        Detroit Grand Pubahs, "Sandwiches"
29    Lords of Acid, "I Sit on Acid" (Soulwax remix) – 2:56
30    Streamer featuring Private Thoughts in Public Places, "Start Button" – 1:56

2 Many DJ's - As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2

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