Electronic Music

0:00 - love sick - bob dylan (sony)
0:25 - what my last girl put me through - nicolas jaar (unreleased)
4:22 - after laughter comes tears (nicolas jaar edit) - wendy kane (unreleased)
7:31 - materials (nico's bluewave edit) - nicolas jaar (unreleased) /> 9:48 - thief (live set edit) - the enticers (unreleased)
11:03 - meeting john coltrane - pharoah sanders
11:54 - variations - nicolas jaar (circus company)
14:48 - hage chahine (featuring willl epstein) - nicolas jaar (wolf + lamb)
17:03 - dubliners - nicolas jaar (clown & sunset)
25:35 - colomb - nicolas jaar (circus company)
28:38 - avalanche (tribute to leonard cohen) - nicolas jaar (unreleased)
31:34 - russian dolls - nicolas jaar (clown & sunset)
35:52 - encore - nicolas jaar (unreleased

OP 𓅛 mix 5 - Nicolas Jaar for xlr8r (2009)

For those who were asking what the mysterious mix that was put on after the DJs stopped playing outside at the Life and Death party in Art Basel, here it is. A mellow trip prepared by Greg from Thugfucker and presented here as a little thank you from all of us at Life and Death. 

It's been an amazing year and we're so very appreciative of all the support we've gotten as we've adventured forwards on this incredible musical trip together. We've got lots of exciting things planned for the year ahead (and beyond!) and we look forward to continuing together on this ride wherever it takes us.

Thanks for being there with us along the way. It really does mean the world to us...

xx
Life and Death

Greg's Mellow Trip

Shadows in Bloom (FREE DOWNLOAD)

Nicolas Jaar - Encore 00:00
Nicola Cruz - Departure Dub 04:22
Nicolas Jaar - Keep me There 10:00
Nicola Cruz - Hex Me (Ft. Marcel) 15:21
Nicolas Jaar - El Bandido 19:30
Nicola Cruz - Invocación 26:06
Nicolas Jaar - Fight 29:43
Chavela Vargas - La Llorona (Nicola Cruz) 38:12
Nicolas Jaar - I Got a Woman 42:42
Nicola Cruz - Puente Roto 46:43
Nicolas Jaar - Ishmael 50:23
Nicola Cruz - Sanación 55:58
Nicolas Jaar - Mi Mujer 1:00:00
Nicola Cruz - Sendero 1:04:55
Nicolas Jaar - Stay in Love 1:09:41
Nicola Cruz - Colibria 1:15:52
Nicolas Jaar - Variations 1:23:12
Rodrigo Gallardo - Agua de la Tierra (Nicola Cruz Remix) 1:26:12
Nicolas Jaar - With just one glance you 1:30:50
Matanza - Existencia (Nicola Cruz Remix) 1:34:08
Nicolas Jaar - What my last girl put me through 1:39:36
Nicola Cruz - Cumbia del Olvido 1:43:21
Nina Simone - Feeling Good (Nicolas Jaar Remix) 1:46:45
El Búho - Calchaqui (Nicola Cruz Remix) 1:52:40
Nicolas Jaar - Nymphs III 1:57:45

Nico & Nico (A Mix Featuring Nicola Cruz & Nicolas Jaar)

Kompakt head Michael Mayer drops by Sunday Best over Memorial Day weekend in NYC.   More info at www.sundaybestnyc.com

Michael Mayer - Live At Sunday Best (May 30, 2010)

PMs to https://soundcloud.com/tipotheus

The Youtube Video was banned due to Copyright claims. . .

Enjoy!

0:00:00 Nicolas Jaar - Colomb - Space is only noise ;  ℗ 2011 Nicolas Jaar
0:03:08 Bonobo - Noctuary - Dial „M" for Monkey ;  ℗ 2003 Bonobo
0:08:20 Chet Faker - Cigarettes & Chocolate - Thinking in textures ;  ℗ 2012 Chet Faker
0:13:21 Nicolas Jaar - Mi Mujer - Time for us/Mi mujer ;  ℗ 2010 Nicolas Jaar
0:19:42 Bonobo - Kong - Black Sands ;  ℗ 2010 Bonobo
0:23:37 Chet Faker - I'm into you - Thinking in textures ;  ℗ 2012 Chet Faker
0:27:53 The Bees - Winter Rose (Nicolas Jaar Remix) ;  ℗ 2010 Nicolas Jaar
0:33:31 Bonobo - Emkay - The north borders ;  ℗ 2013 Bonobo
0:38:44 Chet Faker - No diggity ;  ℗ 2012 Chet Faker
0:42:14 Nicolas Jaar - Variations - Space is only noise ;  ℗ 2011 Nicolas Jaar
0:45:10 Bonobo feat. Grey Reverend - First Fires - The north borders ;  ℗ 2013 Bonobo
0:49:45 Chet Faker - Terms & Conditions (Nicolas Jaar Remix) ;  ℗ 2012 Nicolas Jaar
0:55:53 Nicolas Jaar - Encore - Podcast 184 ;  ℗ 2011 Nicolas Jaar
0:59:49 Bonobo - Recurring - Days to come ;  ℗ 2005 Bonobo
1:04:44 Chet Faker - Archangel - Live Sessions ;  ℗ 2011 Chet Faker
1:09:22 Nicolas Jaar - After laughter comes tears - Podcast 184 ; ℗ 2011 Nicolas Jaar
1:13:54 Bonobo feat. Bajka - Nightlite - Days to come ; ℗ 2006 Bonobo
1:18:54 Chet Faker - Love & Feeling - Thinking in textures ; ℗ 2012 Chet Faker
1:23:06 Nicolas Jaar - El Bandido -  Significant Others ; ℗ 2009 Nicolas Jaar
1:29:37 Bonobo - Ketto - Days to come ;  ℗ 2006 Bonobo
1:34:34 Chet Faker - Everything I wanted - Thinking in textures ;  ℗ 2012 Chet Faker
1:37:55 Nicolas Jaar - WOUH - Love you gotta lose again ;  ℗ 2010 Nicolas Jaar
1:44:44 Bonobo - Silver - Animal Magic ;  ℗ 2000 Bonobo

Bonobo - Nicolas Jaar - Chet Faker [by tipotheus]

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)

The Bianca Story – Dancing People Are Never Wrong (Jan Blomqvist Remix)

Nicolas Jaar LIVE at Montag Ist Immer Sonntag @ Bar 25,Berlin 30-08-2010 

Nicolas Jaar - Sonar 2012 (full set)

OP 𓅛 mix 2 -  Nicolas Jaar - Live Fall 2008

Track List is incomplete and timestamp is approximate.

1.	The Comeback   By Madlib The Beat Konducta
2.	Chanel 1 Suite By The Cinematic Orchestra
3.	Swan Lake By Blackalicous
4.	Movie Final [The Beatkonducta Vol.3] By Madlib
5.	Skanky Panky By Kid Koala
6.	Two Weeks By Grizzly Bear
7.	The Truth By Handsome Boy Modelling School
8.	Merry Go Round By Mayaan Nidam
9.	Playing Your Game By Barry White
10.	Sunny By Bobby Hebb
11.	Do's And Dont's By Boom Bip & Gruff Rhys
12.	Leaf House By Animal Collective
13.	Vitamin C’ By Can
14.	It Never Changes To Stop By The Books
15.	Codéine By Jason Edwards
16.	Balumukeno By Bonga
17.	Werewolf By Cat Power
18.	De Cara A La Pared  By Lhasa De Sela
19.	St. James Infirmary By Allen Toussaint
20.	Looking For You By Nino Ferrer


Nicolas Jaar - Sonar 2012 (full set)

Kat K

Recent comments

Şevval Atalay

Sonnenschein

Jordan Shirley

Jordan Shirley

Related tracks