Last month on the 13th of October, we invited house music hero & all round good guy Derrick Carter to bring his 'Derrick Does Disco' party to the Sub Club helping to celebrate GLASGAY! 20th Anniversary.

The source of many a man-crush (particularly from our local DJ geeks and record freaks) our sexy affair with Derrick has spanned a good couple of decades. Perhaps it’s his desirable physique, that intense beaded brow around 2am or his disarmingly charming manliness from the moment we met him off the plane.

Either way we’re always hot for him and so was everyone in the crowd who joined us as we got down and dirty in a darkened room and showed each other some serious loving, with no strings attached till 3am.

With Derrick in control for the full four hours we had to get the roadblocks out. Here is an hour of this amazing set specially picked out by the one man block party himself.

NEXT STOP IS A LONDON REUNION WHERE HE JOINS HARRI & DOMENIC IN THE SUB CLUB POD FOR RED BULL'S REVOLUTIONS IN SOUND WHICH WILL BE BROADCAST LIVE ON CHANNEL 4OD. TURN ON, TUNE IN & DROP OUT X

 


'Derrick Does Disco' [Recorded LIVE at Sub Club 13/10/13]

The utterly fabulous s4g/smokey boat party / Notts excursion

Andy Riley Live-S4G/Smokescreen Boat Party London June11th '22

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)

Recording from Freddie's @ Pikes in Ibiza 07.10.24.

PIKES IBIZA 07.10.24 (greg wilson live mix)

Here's my set from NYE’s party with Fever 105 at the Lafayette in London, 31st December 2024. Thanks to everyone that came, it was a fantastic night. The first two tracks I played are missing from the recording, the other three hours and 20 minutes are all present and correct. If you want a full tracklist of this, go to my Patreon page and subscribe (you can do so for as little as £2pcm): 
patreon.com/billbrewster

BILL BREWSTER | Live at Fever 105, Lafayette, London, NYE 2024

Recorded at Stonebridge/Glastonbury on June 29th 2025.

GLASTONBURY STONEBRIDGE 29.06.25 (greg wilson live mix)

Grag Queen - Boogie Brasil (Discarada Mashup)

TRACKLIST & DOWNLOAD HERE: blrrm.tv/dimitri

Dimitri From Paris Boiler Room London DJ Set

Tracklist: https://www.slothboogie.com/mixes/106-folamour/
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We're very happy to welcome @Folamour in this week's SB guestmix slot! The Frenchman has had an extremely busy year putting out some of our favourite EPs and somehow finding time to also release an album on his Moonrise Hill Material label which is so good its already been snapped up for a re-release on Classic Music. 

His stock has risen sharply as a result and he's now relentlessly touring into next year so we recommend catching him in your neck of the woods asap!

SlothBoogie Guestmix #106 - Folamour

Audio from Housepitality 10 Year Anniversary. Enjoy!

Mark Farina - Housepitality 10 Year Anniversary  - Oct 10 2020

The final Faith show of the year features an exclusive 85 minute mix from Chicago house legend Ron Trent, deep, soulful music at it's finest. The show is top and tailed by Faith's Terry Farley and Stuart Patterson. Three hours of house heaven.

Terry Farley and Stuart Patterson
01. Billy Lo - It's The Life
02. Crackazat - Alfa (Rick Wade mix)
03. Eddie Leader - There's A Time
04. Celebrity BBQ Sauce Band - Live It, Wear It, Walk It
05. DJ Kwame - Spirit Dance

RON TRENT 85 MIN MIX
01. Leroy Burgess - One plus One (Dave Lee mix)
02. Jennette Lady Day - Come let me love you (Mr. K Edit)
03. Buscrates feat. Brother Martino - Turn it out
04. Opolopo feat. Pete Simpson - You can make it
05. Nico Lahs - Deep Down In My Soul
06. Jimpster and Matt Masters - Come Down (Dub)
07. Crackazat - Class One
08. Zephrian Saint - Resurrection
09. RT Factor - Midnight Sky
10. Tomahawk Bang & Coflo feat. Lady C - Persuade You
11. Incognito - Mea (Joe Claussell mix)
12. Gigi Testa – Saudadea (Ron Trent’s Romantic Flight mix)
13. Life Recorder - World Confusion
14. DJ Stew - Holdin On (Ron Trent mix)
15. The Robinson - Burn Out (Ron Trent mix)
16. Lady Blackbird - Beware The Stranger (Ashely Beedle’s mix)

Terry Farley and Stuart Patterson (cont.)
06. Glen Davis - Special (Ashley Beedle Remix)
07. Dua lipa - Hallucinate (Mr Fingers Remix)
08. Hard Ton - Make Ip
09. Mark Flash - spirit messanger
10. Manny Cuevas feat Leatherman - Im Jackin (RU)
11. Louie Vega & The Martinez Bros - Let It Go (Honey Dijon Remix)
12. Deetron - Ego Rave
13. Mark Flash - Dementia
14. Louie Vega - Thousand Finger Man
15. Giocoso BBQ Club - Track 2
16. Will Saul & Paul Woolford - Your Time Is Up
17. Monie Love- Power (Roach Motel Dub)
18. Duran Duran – Save A Prayer (Edit)
19. The Vision feat Dames Brown - Down
20. Moonboots - Tied Up (Kenny Dope mix)
21. Kelvin Sylvester + Brother Basil - 8.46

Faith 006: Stuart Patterson, Terry Farley and Ron Trent Guest Mix

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