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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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feliz 2019 y que su ano nuevo sea lleno de musica y baile.  Hoy iniciamos una nueva sesion de ritmos tropicales y nuevas sensaciones. Nos llena de felicidad el poder compartir una vez mas nuestros discos y nuestra musica en Radio Comeme.

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Playlist:
1- Grupo Latino - Tiempo de Amor
2- Chicken y su Comando - Oye como Va
3- Facundo Rivero - Oyeme Mama
4- Carlos "Tabaco" Quintana - El Tren del Porky
5- Pedro Garcia and his Del Prado Orquesta - Abrete Sesamo 
6- La Comparsa Universitaria de la Laguna -  Necesito a Alguien
7-Perez Prado - Mama a Go Go 
8- Los Astrales - Calipso 6
9- Joe Quijano & His Conjunto Cachana - Fun City Chingalin
10- Eddie Palmieri - Condiciones que existen
11- Los Joao - Cuando Vuelva a tu Lado
12- Los Brios - Piel Canela
13- Los Sobrinos del Juez - Lovers
14- The Nombres - Todos
15- Orquesta Riverside - Baila con la River
16- Pantaleon P. Prado - Que es lo que pasa?
17- Grupo Bota - Cuco

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Bizarrement, l’histoire démarre il y a plus d’un an quand Fabien Reyal, chirurgien à l’institut Curie Université de Paris et fan de Radio Meuh, m’envoie un message pour me faire part des bienfaits de la sélection musicale de la Meuh pendant son travail au bloc. 
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Vu la complexité du chalenge, notre idée de collaboration aurait pu en rester là… mais les choses ont pris un tout autre tournant dimanche dernier, après un de ses messages : 

« Dis-moi, vu la situation, ce serait peut-être le moment de faire des sessions pour les soignants du monde entier non ?»  

Mesurant la responsabilité délicate de cette tâche vu la période, je décide d’en toucher deux mots à Laurent Garnier (Laurent est souvent de bon conseil dans ces moments-là!). Emu par l’idée, il pense tout haut et émet de suite l’idée d’une sélection musicale autour de la thématique du remerciement....

« En cette période si complexe, on se doit de parler aux personnes qui risquent chaque jour leurs vies pour nous. Leur dire MERCI en musique, c’est la moindre des choses que nous puissions faire mon Philou ! ».

Laurent planche le truc plusieurs heures pour m’envoyer cette sélection où chacun des titres choisi dit simplement merci… Merci, Merci, Merci du fond du cœur.

A travers cette lettre musicale qui s’adresse aux soignants et plus généralement à toutes les personnes qui se battent pour nous en cette période si difficile, nous désirons donc partager - à notre petite échelle de passionnés de musiques - une bande son pour leur dire MERCI.

Nous nous doutons bien que la période n’est pour eux pas propice à écouter de la musique. Nous espérons néanmoins que cette playlist puisse leur apporter un petit moment de déconnexion, histoire de retrouver un peu de douceur et de sérénité...

Aussi, si vous voulez vraiment les aider, Keep Safe et restez chez vous.

« MERCI »

Phil (Radio Meuh).

La photo illustrant ce podcast est de Tristan Reinarz. 
Justine Vernerey est infirmière et nous faire part de son témoignage sur ce post https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Da3NZId2e/?igshid=1eja67x0b9mid

Tracklist :

01- Sly & The Family Stone - THANKFUL n' THOUGHTFUL
02- Busta Rhymes  - THANK YOU
03- Royksopp - THANK YOU
04- Jamala - THANK YOU
05- Bonnie Raitt - THANK YOU
06- Bob Marley & The Wailers - GIVE THANKS &  PRAISES
07- BeBe Winans - THANK YOU (MAW 12' Mix)
08- Jill Scott - SAY THANK YOU
09- Cat Martino - THANK YOU
10- Mathieu Boogaerts - MERCI
11- Chris Brubeck's Triple Play - THANK YOU
12- Kero One - GIVE THANKS
13- Aimless - THANK YOU
14- Otis Redding - I WANT TO THANK YOU
15- Krystle Warren -THANKS & PRAISE
16- The Jazz Crusaders - THANK YOU
17- Easy Giant - THANKS 
18- Kilo Kish - THANK YOU!
19- Jerry Butler - THANK TO YOU
20- Billy Paul - THANKS FOR SAVING MY LIFE
21- Morgan - THANK YOU
22- Osunlade - GIVE THANKS
23- Mary J. Blige - THANK YOU
24- Nat King Cole - THANKS TO YOU
25- Ngyn, Esydia - THANKS FOR EVERYTHING

25 tracks to say THANK YOU. Thank you to all doctors, nurses, all of you who are working in hospitals.
The idea of this podcast came when Fabien Reyal (surgeon at Curie Institute in Paris) regular Radio Meuh listener, sent me a text to tell me how music and mainly Radio Meuh is important for caregivers and patients.
I called Laurent Garnier. He was touched by the idea and started thinking loudly about different music talking about gratitude…
From those selected music, dedicated to caregivers and to all persons who are fighting for us during this difficult time, we want to tell you THANK YOU. It is a small gesture from grateful music lovers.

25 morceaux pour dire MERCI

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