Old School

Recording from warehouse party at Autumn Street Studio, Hackney Wick, London 20.07.13.

Check out my label's music at: https://superweirdsubstance.bandcamp.com

AUTUMN STREET STUDIO LONDON 20.07.13 (greg wilson live mix)

Edition #19 of Early 80’s Floorfillers takes a look back to July 83. 
You can see the Top 10, complete with label or record sleeve scans and individual track credits, here: 
http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/greg-wilsons-top-10-floorfillers-july-83/ 
Greg Wilson – July 2013

GREG WILSON’S EARLY 80’S FLOORFILLERS: 
A fascinating insight on how the fading Jazz-Funk scene gave way to the emerging Electro-Funk movement in the early 80’s, ‘Greg Wilson’s Early 80’s Floorfillers’, marks the 30th anniversary of when these tracks first appeared. Compiled from his record lists of the time, and unfolding month by month, Greg Wilson counts down the Top 10 Floorfillers played at his venues during the key years of ’82 and ’83. Featured, most notably, on his Tuesday sessions at Wigan Pier and Wednesday gatherings at Legend in Manchester, the most cutting-edge weekly black music nights of the era, these were the clubs most associated with the evolving Electro-Funk sound.

The majority of music played on the black scene in the UK was initially only available on import, mainly out of New York during this period, with the club nights described as ‘upfront’, meaning that the DJ’s were way ahead of the curve – what they played now, others played later, or not at all. Without these DJ’s, many now classic dance tracks would never have become UK hits (many without enjoying similar crossover success in the US) – the reason they were released here in the first place was because these specialist DJ’s were breaking them via the underground.

Things would change in a big way during those 2 years; we were entering the hybrid age for dance music, and the oncoming House and Techno and Hip Hop directions would all owe a huge debt to this era of dance alchemy and groove experimentation.

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GREG WILSON'S EARLY 80'S FLOORFILLERS - JULY 1983

the last time i recorded a drum & bass set it was on a cassette tape over 10 years ago. in 2012 i was finally able to return to my original love, dive into my old vinyl, and play some jungle: b2b with eats everything at bestival, b2b with totally enormous extinct dinosaurs at secret garden party, and as a guest of bachelors of science at their monthly at monarch in sf. for those of you who were not able to catch one of these rare pilgrimages back to my roots, i have recorded a special set just for you featuring a handful of my all time favorite records. happy new year and i hope you enjoy!

-justin martin

tracklist:
goldie- kemistry- ffrr
justin martin vs leroy peppers- riding spaceships (shadow child in search of 94 remix)- dirtybird
blu mar ten vs eryka badu- you got me- white label
commix & steve spacek- how you gonna feel- metalheadz
little dragon- little man (marcus intalex remix)- soul:r
justin martin- don't go (leroy peppers remix)- dirtybird
adam f- circles- F-Jams
paradox- deep sleep- renegade hardware
claude vonstroke- aundy (dj marky & spy remix)- dirtybird
seba- waforms- looking good records
justin martin- ghettos & gardens (bachelors of science remix)- dirtybird
pfm- love & happiness- good looking records
seba & lotek- so long- looking good records

Old School

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