Name: Mike De Costa Autumn 22 Mix by mikedecosta
Duration: 1 h 38 min 4 s
Description: Soulful House and Disco edits from Alchemist Resident Dj. Featuring tracks from David Morales, Dave Lee, Basement Jaxx, Harry Romero, Honey Dijon, Masters at Work, Dimitri from Paris plus more!

Soulful House and Disco edits from Alchemist Resident Dj. Featuring tracks from David Morales, Dave Lee, Basement Jaxx, Harry Romero, Honey Dijon, Masters at Work, Dimitri from Paris plus more!

Mike De Costa Autumn 22 Mix

Recorded live @ Tolerance, The Tapestry Arts, Bradford on the 13th May 2023, set time was 10pm - 11pm warming up for Al McKenzie.

Richard Gill - Live @ Tolerance, Bradford (13 - 05 - 2023)

8/7/23
Hopefully this will be coming on vinyl soon  ......... low res upload

Tina & Barry (Chuggin Edits)

This mix was recorded form the amazing Distrikt bar at our last HomeGrownSounds event.

To check our up and coming nights please go to our Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/196597666704975

Home Grown Sounds - NiteJazz Records 013 -  Richard Gill live @Distrikt

Live mix for the opening set of La Musica/huddersfield 2023
Tracks include - Time ft Rhye /SG Lewis, Over you/Ken@wok,
Sho Nuff/FF EDITS , Take some time out/ The Salsoul orchestra Dr Packer , Burnin up / Stephane Deschezeaux ,I need your lovin / Mousse T , L.O.V.E / PURPLE DISCO MACHINE ,Life is something special acapella, Tout set bleu/ Are strong, Follow Through / Miguel Migs , Race of Survival , Everything , Get another love , Everything alright ,Jazz cafe.

Big Thanks to Danny & Wayne/Good2Groove for having me on board.
Big love to everyone who checks the mix out and hope you enjoy it x

La Musica Aug 23

Two parts of a live set that i did at Distrikt bar in Leeds. If you are into proper house music and none of this commercial cheesy nonsense then this is for you. Loads of great tracks, new and old.

Live @ Nite Jazz Records, Distrikt, Leeds PT2 (1-9-23)

Its been a while but here's a little hour long mix I've put together I hope you enjoy it and if so please share like and drop me a comment .

Big love & thanks for listening .

Funk Ginnel

This is my warm up set from the Tolerance gig at the Tapestry Arts, Bradford. Full of long lost underground gems with a couple of obvious tracks thrown in for the people who don't understand that early doors you just don't bang it out.....enjoy :)

Live @ Tolerance, Tapestry Arts, Bradford (21-10-23)

My live set recorded at the Tapestry Arts, Bradford. Set time was 22.30 - 12am warming up for Jeremy Healy. Enjoy :)

Live @ Tolerance, Tapestry Arts, Bradford (2-3-2024)

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)

Anyone who knows me knows what a huge influence Mint Club has been to me; I cut my teeth there going every single night week in week out during my 20's for BACK TO BASICS, as well as running my own night there for a couple of years, not to mention playing more after parties than I can remember.... it's safe to say without Mint Club I wouldn't have met a good portion of my very best mates, maybe wouldn't have got a Basics residency, and my social and music life would have taken an entirely different trajectory.... I've got A LOT of love for that club! So I was over the moon to be asked to play their closing party weekend alongside Derrick Carter, Inland Knights, Ralph Lawson, Tristan Da Cunha, Jay Kilka and Dave Moorey, and what a party it was!!!  One of my very favourite nights at Mint Club (and that's really saying something!), it couldn't have been a better send off!  

Here's the recording of my warm up set on the night.  It's a bit rough in places but it's all live & in the moment so f**k it!  I absolutely LOVE that you can hear the crowd on it all the way through - it gives you a bit of an idea of the atmosphere on the night - one I'm not going to forget in a hurry!  Gone but never forgotten!  ❤️

Enjoy! X

Frenchy live at Mint Club Closing 22.02.19

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Currently resident Dj for Alchemist London, previously resident at Viper Rooms Harrogate, Alchemist and Oracle in Leeds. I have dj'd at clubs around the world including, Ministry of Sound, Cream, Manumission, Pacha and Nikki Beach to name a few. I have been djing for over 20 years and have a vast music collection from Disco to House and Techno and pretty much everything between. I run Midnight Magic Recordings and produce music.

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Ambiosphere Recordings
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Mike De Costa Autumn 22 Mix

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