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Another Bloody Sunset 7

Recorded live on Saturday 7th December 2013
On the Waterfloor - SCENARIO 
Amazing party from Sebo K
feat.  Âme Live, D'julz, The Mole, We Are Now

Phil Weeks Live @ Scenario - Watergate / Berlin (07.12.2013)

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)

As part of my tour of UK and Europe I played at the legendary Cafe Mambo venue in Ibiza.

The mix captures the very chilled daytime vibe at the venue.

Thanks to Dee Montero for inviting me to play [https://www.facebook.com/deemcauley]

http://www.cafemamboibiza.com/

Phat Phil Cooper at Cafe Mambo, Ibiza May 2015

the way home

Crimson Sand Veil

Capital development authority

Get Down Edits - Live at Glastonbury (The Glade Stage) - 24-Jun-2016

Live Recording from our first ever Glastonbury gig,
Definitely one of our highlights of 2016

Glastonbury - Glade Stage

Get Down Edits - Live at Glastonbury (The Glade Stage) - 24-Jun-2016

Dj Pippi At Hostal La Torre -Week 3 June 2018

Something for the 'peak' end...On Saturday 19th Jan I was invited to play Malanga Café in Ibiza by Lorcan Kelly for his 'Get Loose' session... Musically I was told it was across the board, not so much House but rhythmic and eclectic...

Thanks to all the team at Malanga for making this such a fun evening, thanks to Mr Doris for the connection...

Phat Phil Cooper - Malanga Cafe Ibiza Jan 2019

Recorded at one of the most beautiful Sunsets spots in Ibiza, Hostal La Torre in Feb 2019... An eclectic mix of chilled out music with heavy Balearic leanings.

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Phat Phil Cooper Sunset Session at Hostal La Torre, Ibiza 3rd Feb 2019

Another session straight from the decks of Ibiza's best sunset spot, Hostal La Torre. A downtempo mix soundtracking the wonderful natural beauty as we reach the end of the day...

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'Phat' Phil Cooper Sunset Session at Hostal La Torre, Ibiza 19th June 2020

DJ Eren - Sunday 26th July 2020 - 7pm to 9pm

#dj-eren

DJ Eren - Radio Sancho - Super Sunday

1. The McCrarys - Any Ol' Sunday
2. Ramsey Lewis - Summer Breeze
3. Edwin Starr - _There You Go_ (Edit By Mr. K)
4. Light Of The World - London Town 85
5. Lowrell Simon - Love Massage (Long Version)
6. Patrice Rushen - Don't Blame Me
7. Leroy Hutson - Classy Lady
8. Gwen Guthrie - Seventh Heaven (Levan Mix)
9. Convertion - Let's Do It (Danny Krivit 7" Edit)
10. Ashford & Simpson - Side Effect
11. LaRombe - All in Your Mind (Original Mix)
12. Eddie Fisher - Music Makes Me Feel Good
13. Shirley Brown - Hang On Louie
14. Common Sense - Just Can't Help Myself (I Really Love You)
15. Keni Burke - Hang Tight
16. Crown Heights Affair - Love Rip Off
17. Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Tongue Power
18. Melba Moore - Let's Go Back to Lovin'
19. Joan Bibiloni - The Boogie
20. Rhyze - Having Fun
21. Brothers Johnson - Streetwave [KB Extended Edit]
22. Ingram - Dedication
23. Logg - Something Else
24. Infinity - Queen of My Universe (Original Mix)
25. Faze-O - Ya Ba da Ba du Zie
26. Gwen McCrae - Iron Woman
27. Lamar Thomas - Feel so Good Inside (Extended Waxist Edit Mix)

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Since the early 1990s, Phat Phil Cooper has been navigating DJ culture with a restless spirit and an open ear, shaping a career that has never stood still. From Cream’s legendary dance-floors to sun-drenched terraces across the globe, Cooper has built a reputation not just as a DJ, but as a curator, artist manager, label founder, and storyteller whose journey continues to evolve.

In 2012 he launched NuNorthern Soul, a label that has since become a lighthouse for Balearic-minded sounds and eclectic treasures. Its releases, supported worldwide by DJs and collectors, reflect Cooper’s belief in music as something both timeless and borderless. More than a record label, NuNorthern Soul is part of a broader vision that blends curation, community, and a dedication to championing artists and sounds that might otherwise go unheard.

Now, with over three decades of experience, Cooper is moving beyond the booth. His current projects — from managing and developing artists, to creating YouTube vlogging series that explore culture, landscapes and hidden corners of places like Ibiza, Istanbul and beyond — point towards a future where DJing, storytelling and travel are interwoven. Whether capturing a sunset set in Bali, walking and talking with fellow artists on Ibiza’s coastal paths, or documenting his slow, overland travels across continents, Cooper is carving a new role: that of a cultural guide as much as a selector.

Still, at the heart of it all is the same spirit that defined his earliest residencies — an instinct for the right record at the right moment, and a commitment to creating shared moments that linger long after the music fades. The journey isn’t finished; if anything, it’s only just opening up into new chapters.

Phat Phil Cooper Sunset Session at Hostal La Torre, Ibiza 3rd Feb 2019

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