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About the CD:
So this came out of the blue in 2000 and was a new mix compilation that gained a lot of fans not just from its unique theme (what's not to like!) and retro artwork which stood out on the shelves. Not only that but the music was damn good too. Dimitri from Paris delivers a driving soulful collection which had its own unique flavour and was perfect for nights out, driving, after parties and whatever else. Shout out to Just Lance in Dubai for reminding us about this one!

Play it loud, share the mix and enjoy!

032 - A Night at the Playboy Mansion mixed by Dimitri from Paris (2000)

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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Ed Banger special – Essential Mix 2015-10-17 Busy P, Para One and Cassius mixes tracklist:
Ghost Culture – Lucky [Phantasy]
Breakbot – Back For More [Ed Banger Records]
SebastiAn – Arabest [Ed Banger Records]
Trevor Jackson – Rgbpm3 [Phonica]
Gesaffelstein – The Voice [Ed Banger Records]
Paperclip People – Oscillator [Planet E]
Erol Alkan – A Hold On Love [Phantasy]
Teddy Pendergrass – You Can’t Hide (Dimitri From Paris Disco Blend) [BBE]
Boston Bun – Paris Groove (Club Mix) [Ed Banger Records]
Justice – Never Be Alone (DJ Hell’s Bavarian Gigolo Mix) [Gigolo Records]
Tiga – Louder Than A Bomb [Different]
DJ Falcon – Together [Roulé]
Boys Noize – Donnastag [BNR]
Basement Jaxx – Same Old Show [XL Recordings]
Motorbass – Flying Fingers [Motorbass]
Joakim – Come Into My Kitchen (Basement Dub) [Versatile Records]
Riton – Lost In Sound [Ed Banger Records]
DJ Mehdi – Pocket Piano (Brodinski Remix) [Ed Banger Records]
Fulgeance – Gitem [Ed Banger Records]
Para One – Wake Me Up [Because Music]
[unknown] – Unknown [White Label]
Ode – Rummel [White Label]
Juliet Sikora – Larry’s Garage [Kittball Records]
Sh*t Robot – Where It’s At (feat. Reggie Watts) (Johnny Aux Remix) [DFA Records]
Basement Boys – God Help Those (Who Help Themselves) [Basement Boys Records]
DJ Wild – Love Every Day [The W Label]
Romanthony – Trust (Mia Dora Mix) [Glasgow Underground]
Cajmere – Feelin’ Kinda High [Cajual Records]
Loco Dice – Carthago [Cocoon Recordings]
Funky Green Dogs – High Up [Murk Records]
Larry Heard – The Sun Can Compare [Alleviated Records]
Kerri Chandler – Back To The Raw (Dark Vocal Mix) w/ Preacher Man (Acapella) [Deeply Rooted House]
Jovonn – Back To House (Ian Pooley’s New Dub) w/ In The Beginning [Underground Solution]
Todd Terry – Can You Feel It [Strictly Rhythm]
DJ Sneak – Compute [Strictly Rhythm]
Cajmere – Percolator (Green Velvet Mix) [Cajual Records]
George Morel – Let’s Groove [Strictly Rhythm]
Mike Dunn – God Made Me Funky [Solo Recordings]
Club Style – Crazy Wild [Dance Mania]
The African Dream – All The Same Family [Eightball Records]
Pop Rocks – Purple Jelly [Acid]
The Deep – Love Your Brother [Basenotic Records]
Todd Edwards – Can’t You Believe [i! Records]
Romanthony – Let Me Show You Love (Crooklyn Dub) [Decks Classix]
Hardrive – Deep Inside [Strictly Rhythm]
Moodymann – U Can Dance If U Want 2 [KDJ]
Fix – Player’s Anthem [Electrofunk Records]
Thomas Bangalter – Spinal Beats w/ Untitled [Roulé]
Sound Stream – Good Soul [Sound Stream]
Submission – Women Beat Their Men (Cevin’s Peak Hour Dub) [Velocity Recordings]
Paul Johnson – Hear The Music [Peacefrog Records]
Josh One – Contemplation (King Britt Funke Mix) [Prolifica]
Black Magic – Freedom (Make It Funky) (Color 1 On & On Strong Vocal Mix) [Strictly Rhythm]
Para One – Elevation (Soul Mix) [Ed Banger Records]

Ed Banger special - Essential Mix 2015-10-17 Busy P - Para One and Cassius mixes

Daft Punk- Essential Mix - 1997.03.02

01 Salt 'N' Pepa, The Stooges - Push It Like A Dog (Soulwax Remix)
02 Felix Da Housecat - Silver Screen Shower Scene
03 Bobby O - She Has A Way
04 Bobby O - I'm So Hot For You
05 Madonna - Vogue
06 Daft Punk - Aerodynamic
07 The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
08 808 State - Flow Coma (AFX Remix)
09 Lio - Amour Solitaire
10 Missy Elliott - Lick Shots
11 Elastica - Connection
12 Basement Jaxx, Clash, The - Magnificent Romeo (Soulwax Remix)
13 The Jamie Star Scenario - Welcome To The Light
14 Jacksons - State Of Shock
15 World's Famous Dj Team - Radio Promo
16 Beach Boys, The - God Only Knows (Acapella)
17 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
18 Carlos Morgan - Shake Your Body Down
19 Nasty Habits - Shadow Boxing
20 B-52's, Natural Born Chillers - Rock the Funky Beat
21 Alpha Wezen - Into The Stars (Firebirds Remix)
22 David Bowie - Modern Love
23 Kenny Loggins - Footloose
24 Hairy Diamond - Givin' Up
25 Freelance Hellraiser - Stroke Of Genius
26 Kosheen - Hide U
27 Nas - Hate Me Now
28 T99 - Anasthasia
29 Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People
30 Janis Jay - Fly Too High
31 Spice Girls - Wannabe
32 Girls On Top - We Don't Give A Damn About Our Friends
33 Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotized
34 DJ Kool - Clear My Throat (DJ LBR Remix)
35 Breakestra - Cramp Your Style
36 Hanayo - Joe Le Taxi
37 Klein And MBO - Dirty Talk
38 New Order - Blue Monday / The Beach
39 Basement Jaxx - Jus 1 Kiss
40 Chemical Brothers, The - It Began In Afrika
41 The Disco Boys feat. RB - Born To Be Alive (Felix Da Housecat Remix)
42 Bentley Rhythm Ace - How'd I Do Dat (Chicken Lips Remix)
43 Microbop Ensemble, The - Groove Baby
44 Domino - Up The Par
45 Destiny's Child, Nirvana - Smells Like Booty (Soulwax Remix)
46 Dukbreakz - Dubbreaks
47 Darkus - The Wisemen Speech
48 Lazy Dogz - I Don't Care
49 Ladytron - Playgirl (Soulwax Remix)
50 Paul Simon - Late In The Evening

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