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DJ Mix IX

AUGUST

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Greg

This podcast accompanies a blog piece, also titled ‘Unmixed Esssentials’, which simultaneously went online:
http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2014/01/unmixed-essentials/

To mark the 5th anniversary of perhaps the defining moment of my reignited DJ career, my Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1 on January 17th 2009, I’ve put together a podcast that includes all of the 43 source tracks featured in their full-length glory (retaining the same running order) - a whopping 277 minutes in all.

The Essential Mix is available to stream / download here:
http://soundcloud.com/gregwilson/essential-mix-greg-wilson-mix-for-bbc-radio-1

Essential Mix page at electrofunkroots:
http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/essential-mix/

Greg Wilson 17.01.14

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UNMIXED ESSENTIALS (greg wilson selection)

Live recording from Homoelectric @ Antwerp Mansions in Manchester on 08.02.14.

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HOMOELECTRIC @ ANTWERP MANSION MANCHESTER 08.02.14 (greg wilson live mix)

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)

Tracklist:

Jade – "Don't Walk Away"

Missy Elliot – "Work It" 

Nelly – "Ride With Me"

Amerie – "1 Thing"

Chris Brown – "Run it" 

Busta Rhymes – "Touch It" 

The Clipse – "When The Last time?" 

Q Tip – "Vibrant Thing"

Mya – "Case Of The Ex" 

Swiz Beats – "Money In The Bank" 

Mystikal – "Danger" 

Mystikal – "Shake Ya Ass" 

JLo – "Love Don't Cost A Thing" 

Destiny's Child – "So Good" 

Nelly Feat. Jagged Edge – "Where The Party At?" 

Mariah Carey – "Honey" 

N Sync Feat. Nelly – "Girlfriend"

Missy Elliot – "One Minute Man" 

Fat Joe Feat. Ja Rule & Ashanti – "What's Luv?" 

Ja Rule Feat. Christina Milian – "Between Me And You" 

Big Pun Feat. Joe – "Still Not A Player" 

TLC – "No Scrubs" 


Work It Girls' Classics Mix

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Jazzy Jeff Boiler Room London DJ Set

Sia - Chandelier (Four Tet Remix)

Full recording from closing set on Soul Train stage at Love Saves The Day Festival in Bristol on 25.05.14.

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LOVE SAVES THE DAY FESTIVAL BRISTOL 25.05.14 (greg wilson live mix)

Discox = funk, disco, <i>italo</i>, chicago.

Monthly club night @ café Cox, Amsterdam with resident DJ's <a href="http://soundcloud.com/SpacegirlsTitia" target="_blank">Titia</a> , @DJSandeman & <a href="http://soundcloud.com/auxmasterfader" target="_blank">Auxiliary tha Masterfader</a>.

Live back-to-back DJ set June 14th 2014.

Pictures of the night: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.537151456406794.1073741838.381665238622084&type=1

DJ Set Discox June 14th 2014

Enjoy Anoraak's exclusive mix ahead of his DJ set at Budapest Kitsuné Club Night on the 29th of November at Hôtel Nomuri, with Two Door Cinema Club.

Tracklist :
1/ Knight One - Swords Cry
2/ Seoul - Stay With Us
3/ Cyclist feat. Maiko - Sunrise
4/ Roosevelt - Montreal
5/ LeMarquis - Idol
6/ Bag Raiders - Nairobi
7/ ViLLAGE - The Touch (Arme remix)
8/ Alex Metric & Oliver - Galaxy
9/ David Shaw - No More White Horses (Dombrance remix)
10/ Moullinex - Love Magnetic
11/ Julian Perretta - Wildfire (Anoraak remix)

#KitsuneClubNight in Budapest - Anoraak Mixtape

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7) Teedra Moses - Be Your Girl (Kaytranada Edition)
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10) Klingande - Jubel (KANT Remix)
11) TEEMID - Crazy (Peer Kusiv Remix)
12) Jake Isaac - Waiting Here (FDVM Remix)
13) Ferdinand Weber & Fabich - Aaliyah
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15) Fast Car (Soundskin Remix) - Tracy Chapman
16) St. Germain - Sure Thing (Teemid Re Edit)

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Recorded at the Stonebridge Tent at 2pm. First of 3 appearances at Glastonbury on 27.06.14.

PT 2 BEAT HOTEL – available here: https://soundcloud.com/gregwilson/glastonbury-trilogy-2014-pt-2-beat-hotel-270614-greg-wilson-live-mix

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GLASTONBURY TRILOGY 2014 PT 1 STONEBRIDGE 27.06.14 (greg wilson live mix)

Deep Café 20 has arrived 4.5 hours of deep sound ...
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Nigel Stately - Best Of Deep Café Vol.20

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John Kelly & Judge Jules - Golden - Academy - Stoke On Trent - 1994

This is a live recording from last week at Maca Kızı (Bodrum) Happy Hour...

A bit more commercial... Mostly not towards the electronic music lovers but for the happy hour beach crowd... I hope U still enjoy it... Enjoy :)

Live Recording @ Maca Kızı Happy Hour 23.08.2014

Nigel Stately - Deep Café Vol.3

Here's the first part of Greg Wilson's last appearance in Glasgow with Melting Pot on Boxing Day at Hillhead Bookclub.

Greg is back on Friday 26th September at SWG3 with his Super Weird Happening event. 

Part of a series of 5 Super Weird Happenings as summer shifts to autumn (the others taking place in Manchester, Bristol, Liverpool and London), this is an 8 hour event unlike any other, which takes in talk, live art, visuals, photography, a Blind Arcade performance, and a 3 hour Greg Wilson DJ finale.

More info:

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http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?627932

http://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Glasgow/SWG3-%28Studio-Warehouse-Glasgow%29/A-Super-Weird-Happening-with-Greg-Wilson-Blind-Arcade-amp-Howard-Marks/12239552/

Greg Wilson at Melting Pot 26th December 2013 Part 1

My first released track became an instant classic still fits in modern sets very well

thanks to 

jano, riley reinhold, jaqueline and manuel to make this one possible

Daso - Daybreak

SAY NO MORE its this track yeah you know it and u love it

Daso  - Meine

Ken Hayakawa - Organic Pictures (Daso Remix)

Pop Series of House 2004

01 Accap-Intro
02 Rio Da Silva - Universal Love
03 Dr Kucho - Lies to Yourself
04 Didier Sinclair - Groove to me
05 Deux - Deux
06 Ioo - Rapture
07 Armand Van Helden - Everytime
08 Rune feat Morten Luco - Nothing new
09 Frank'o'Moiraghi - Tribalexperience
10 Electro Luv - Stand up
11 Mario Ochoa - Habla con la luna
12 Greece 2000 - rmx 2004
13 Eddie Lock &amp; Boy Georges - Phycologie of the Dreamer
14 Red Carpet - Allright


Pop Series Of House 2004

this is a track for a kompilation where all money goes to a project in my home town hannover www.madebyself.de for the hannover youth

the legendary party treibgut rest in pieces destroyed by the aggressive police of hannover

thanks to yippie guys 


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daso - Miu Miu

A live recording of my set from the Def Mix 25th anniversary celebrations hosted by MN2S at Sugar Factory in Amsterdam. A very special night. Enjoy.

LIVE : David Morales @ Sugar Factory (The Def Mix 25th Anniversary - 19/10/2012)

“To me, remixing is about honouring the original composition by deconstructing it and adding new ideas from my own sound universe, and in that sense create something entirely new.“

Kasper Bjørke is no stranger to the art of the remix, having amassed a prodigious back catalogue over the past half decade. However, unlike so many other artists driven to churn out versions to keep their name in the limelight, one gets the sense that the young Dane has a quality control mechanism that elevates each mix he puts his name to – and a crucially deft ear for the artists he invites to rework his own compositions.

It’s with that in mind that hfn music proudly presents Remix Crusades (2007 – 2013) – a timely reminder that remixes can offer committed artists the creative platform to produce some of their most inventive work. Split evenly down the middle, half of this release focuses on remixes of Kasper Bjørke tracks over the past 5 years (including tracks of his 2012 album release ‘Fool’), with the second half a treasure trove of remixes he made for other artists.

Available in one place for the first time, the collection (which also contains a couple of exclusive unreleased tracks), is a perfect summation of the Bjørke’s disco-fied house music style, and a great opportunity for the non-DJs to catch up with his exceptionally high output over the last few years.

The list of artists lining up to re-interpret his original compositions is mouth-watering to say the least – from US sensations Nicolas Jaar, Still Going and Slow Hands, to the cream of European club land – rising stars Mano le Tough, Maxxi Soundsystem and Catz’n Dogz, underground flag-bearers Wareika, and fellow countrymen Trentemøller, WhoMadeWho and Kenton Slash Demon.

When Bjørke himself is at the controls, the results are no less devastating. Bjørke describes the process thus, “a remix portfolio becomes a sort of production diary that can go hand in hand with my own original material. It reflects my influences of the time I worked on the remix – and sometimes you can hear sounds and ideas in the remixes that have affected compositions on my own singes and albums.”

As evidence of this, witness the outstanding work he produces for the likes of Michoacan, Trentemøller, Ilya Santana, Moby, Gluteus Maximus, Human Woman and many more. His talent for deconstructing wildly disparate styles and pulling together tracks that are definitively by the hand of Kasper Bjørke, is clear to see.

iTunes customers will also be blessed with the chance to snatch up two unreleased tracks – made up of Bjørke reworks for GusGus and Danish legends Laid Back - and an exclusive pre-release remix of Cómeme´s hot property Rebolledo.

Remix Crusades (2007-2013)

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Kasper Bjørke - Symptoms (Mano Le Tough Remix)

Melting Pot is one of the longest running clubs in the UK (16 years and counting in 2017), giving DJs such as Floating Points, Mr Scruff, Greg Wilson, Joey Negro, Danny Krivit, Joaquin "Joe" Claussell, Francois K,  and Cosmo the opportunity to play whatever they feel: disco, house, techno, funk, soul and beyond. None of this would be possible without the fabulously knowledgeable Glasgow dancers that have taken us into their hearts. The final ingredient is the attention to detail we pay to our sound system which has made it one of the best sounding anywhere, with our guests raving about it! 

Many thanks to the DJs and acts who have joined our residents Andrew Pirie and Simon Cordiner over the past 15 years including: 
    6th Borough Project
    Ade (Plastic People)
    Al Kent
    Alejandro Paz
    Ali Tillet (Warm)
    Andrew Back
    Andrew Divine
    Andrew Weatherall
    Andy Blake
    Andy Crowther (Whistlebump)
    Andy Piacentini
    Ashley Beedle
    Auntie Flo (Live)
    Autodisco DJs (Dicky Trisco & iamelectron)
    Big Break Records (Wayne Dickson & Roddie Gibb)
    Bill Brewster
    Billy Woods
    Blind Arcade (Live)
    Bob Jeffries
    Brian D'Souza
    Chris Duckenfield
    Chris "Beans" Geddes
    Colin Cook
    Colin Walker
    Cosmo
    Cottam
    Craig Thompson
    Daniele Baldelli
    Danny Krivit
    DarkStarr
    David Mancuso
    Deportivo Street Team (Live)
    Derek Smith
    Dimitri From Paris
    DJ Rahaan
    Eric Duncan (Rub n Tug)
    Federation of the Disco Pimp
    Floating Points
    Francois Kevorkian
    Frankie Knuckles
    Gareth Sommerville
    Gerard Bell
    Greg Mungin
    Greg Wilson
    Horse Meat Disco
    Hushpuppy
    Idjut Boys
    I-F
    James Pole
    Jamie Thomson
    Jeremy Newall
    Joaquin "Joe" Claussell
    Joey Negro
    Johnny Whoop
    Kevin Stevens
    Kirk Degiorgio
    Laurence Hughes
    Leo Zero
    Let's Go Back
    Mark E
    Mark Seven
    Martin Moscrop (A Certain Ratio)
    Maurice Fulton
    Mogwai
    Moodymann
    Motor City Drum Ensemble
    Mr Scruff
    Mudd
    Nick The Record
    Nicky Siano
    Optimo DJs (JD Twitch & Jonnie Wilkes)
    Paul Cawley
    Pete Herbert
    Pistols at Dawn
    Psychemagik
    Ray Mang
    Remember Remember (Live)
    Retro/Grade (Live)
    Sal P (Liquid Liquid)
    Sean P
    Simon Haggis (Whistlebump)
    Simon Lee (Faze Action)
    Simonotron (Hot Mess)
    So Fidel Castro DJs
    Soul Hustlers
    Spittal & Nowicki (Sub Rosa)
    Steve Kotey (Chicken Lips)
    Steve Mason
    The Revenge
    The Village Orchestra (Live)
    Thunder Disco Club
    Tim Sweeney
    Toby Tobias
    Todd Terje
    Toni Rossano (Strut)
    Wilson Tan (Live)