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Solid Steel (1st November) Having announced that Four Tet will be joining the line up for the Solid Steel 25th Anniversary night at Fire in London on 6th Dec, we now hand over the decks to him for a 2 Hour exclusive mix. 
Four Tet's history with the show extends back to his first mix in 2001 and part of the Solid Steel US Tour that year with DJ Food, DK and Bonobo. He was also the first guest at the monthly Solid Steel club night in 2004, with more mixes to follow and his music has been consistently played on the show. 

As with all our 25th Anniversary guests, we asked for something different and here's what he said about his mix;

"This mix is made from unofficial edits and mixes.  I guess these edits were mainly made to be played in clubs and I've always like the tradition of DJs extending and rearranging to make things work in their sets.  Most of the edits here are unreleased because they are just tools for DJs really.  The Black Unity one was done for the Solid Steel US tour that I did in 2001.  Thanks to Daphni, Floating Points and Happa for the edits I got from them."

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Four Tet - Solid Steel Mix November 2013 https://twitter.com/FourTet
 
The unofficial mix
 
1. Playboy Mommy edit
2. Musiq - Photomachine H.E.R raw edit
3. HR Groove (J Rocc edit)
4. Marcos Valle Floating Points edit
5. K54 - Aight Aight Aight!
6. Sweet Love (volca edit)
7. Ain't no need (Zernell and Goodking edit)
8. Give it up and turn it loose (Black Cock edit)
9. Girl you need a change of mind (Bobby Busnach edit)
10. Marvin time to get it together (Daphni edit)
11. Everyday Extended Edit
12. Joni Mitchell Dreamland edit
13. Arthur Russell Flagrant Foul edit
14. Jerry Green Daphni edit
15. Weather Report - Non stop edit
16. Peaches and Prunes edit Ron Hardy
17. Funky Nassau (KH edit)
18. Teddy Pendergrass - Sunshine Sound edit
19. Happy song or dance (FK edit)
20. Ugly Edit 6
21. Kikrokus Ron Hardy edit
22. Edie and the Eggs edit
23. Jack Your Big Booty (Happa edit)
24. Canned Heat Daphni Edit
25. Pharoah Black Unity club mix
26. What's going on extended loud drums
27. silence
28. Peter Finger loop
 

Solid Steel Radio Show 1/11/2013 - Four Tet

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)

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095 - AnotherLateNight - Zero 7 (2002)

¡Discoteca! 3 with Selectors Frankie Francis, Quantic & Beto. All vinyl and recorded live at the 303, NYC, April 25th 2014.

Discoteca at the 303: Frankie Francis, Quantic & Beto

1) Tell us a bit about yourself and your record collection
 
My name is Felox and I have been spinning records since the mid Nintees.
 
My record collection is pretty heavy on 12" and singles with some proper albums thrown in for good measure. In this respect it's quite a classic DJ collection.
 
Musically it's mostly Soul, Disco-Edits, House and Downbeat. The red thread that connects all my records is a special "groove" that needs to be present in any song that get's into my dj bag.

2) 45/7 is all about celebrating the 7". Can you tell us a bit about what you love about the format.
 
It's a very handy format and the emphasis is most of the time on one track. You instinctively get what the 7" is about musically
which I really like!
 
It's this limitation that inspires me. Just the fact that there is only space on a 7" for two full tracks really makes the format feel more special and curated by the artist as not every song makes it into onto a 7"!
 
3) Can you talk us through your selection for your 45/7 mix?
 
I tried to squeeze the musical journey of a 5 hour vinyl only singles set into one hour of very selected 7" for the 45/7 VINYL CLUB project. From the warm up phase to peak time tracks all the way to the last song of the night. 
 
4) Where can people catch you / listen to your music? 
 
I am currently djing in selected venues in Hamburg / Germany.
The best way to catch up with me online is via my soundcloud: 
www.soundcloud.com/felox
 
5) Top 5 all time fave records
 
Primal Scream „Screamadelica“
Peace Orchestra „Peace Orchestra“
Jamie Lidell „Jim“
Stereo MC`s „Connected“
Supermax „World Of Today“

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45/7 #01 ARTIST: FELOX

With only a few days left until we ourselves become deserted on an island, we thought we'd share with you our Bestival Desert Island Mix.

Made with the lovely Pedestrian, we hope this selection of sunshine music will be the perfect accompaniment for when you're next stranded on a beach.

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Maribou State & Pedestrian - Desert Island Mixtape Pt.I

In Hour 2 we welcome German duo Âme, whose productions have featured many times on Solid Steel over the years. From their early releases on Sonar Kollektiv and their own Innervisions label, they have consistently produced music of high quality. In this mix they start with the melancholic vocal of Patrick Watson on The Cinematic Orchestra's 'To Build a Home' and on to the sound of Land Observations, Rotla and the Brian Eno project alongside Karl Hyde. Then it's Cirrus by Bonobo, Owen Pallett on Domino, To Rococo Rot and a remix of Peter Gabriel by Frank Wiedemann (one half of Âme) before closing with the beautiful sound of Joram Feitsma.


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The Cinematic Orchestra	_	To Build A Home	_	Ninja Tune
Land Observations	_	Walking the Warm Colonnades	_	Mute
Rotla	_	Laguna	_	Mondo
Eno · Hyde	_	Strip It Down	_	Warp
Tornado Wallace	_	Okavango Delta	_	Beats In Space
Bonobo	_	Cirrus	_	Ninja Tune
Owen Pallett	_	In Conflict	_	Domino
Fred & Luna	_	Minisong	_	Unknown
To Rococo Rot	_	Baritone	_	City Slang
Peter Gabriel	_	Quiet Steam (Frank Wiedemann Edit)	_	Unknown
The Legendary Lightness	_	Hey Ron	_	Anker Platten
Joram Feitsma	_	Mimi	_	Unknown

Solid Steel Radio Show 12/9/2014 Part 3 + 4 - Âme

This mix incorporates some multi-tracks, unreleased skits with a garnish of new and old music. This mix is intended to make a long car ride breeze by in a flash.  Enjoy!

Nu Crack City Mix

This is a recording of my 3rd & final set at the amazing Splore festival in New Zealand . Feeling pretty spaced out and happy with all the sunshine,beach & good vibes going round :-) Enjoy ! I surely did :-) One Love xxx

Splore Sunday Spaced out closing session

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Calibre - Essential Mix 2017-07-01

Mixed by James Lavelle and Steve Weston and coming in support of their new album The Road: Part 1, @unkleofficial's new Dazed Mix takes in band’s entire catalogue, taking in their range of influences and showing what’s kept Lavelle at the forefront of club culture since its beginnings.

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Dazed Mix

Dazed Mix: James Lavelle presents UNKLE AI Def Mix

Late Night Tales: Trentemøller

Late Night Tales: Trentemøller (Continuous Mix)

OP 𓅛 mix 6 - Nicolas Jaar - (BBC Essential Mix 2012)

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Tracklist: 
01. I.D 
02. Shay Jones - Are You Gonna Be There (Hurley’s House Mix)
03. Idris Muhammed - Could Heaven Ever Be Like This
04. Paris Toon - Reflections Of A Disco Ball 
05. Joey Negro & The Sunburst Band - He Is (Joey Negro Club Mix)
06. I.D
07. I.D
08. Delia Renee - You’re Gonna Want Me Back (Joey Negro Disco Blend)
09. Phase ll - Reachin (Brotherhood mix)
10. I.D
11. Chieko Kinbara - Changed My Life (Code Red Vocal)
12. The O’Jays - Message In Our Music (Joey Negro remix)

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Cinco De Mayo Hangover Mix

Downtime is a new series that showcases a different side of our favourite DJs. Up next, a mix of Downtempo records from Session Victim

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Our 25th Anniversary slot this week features Richard Dorfmeister who appeared on the show in 2003 and featured many times as one half of Kruder and Dorfmeister, as well as his project Tosca with Rupert Huber, amongst others. Opening with ECM artist Steve Tibbetts, his mix floats between Gui Boratto, his own lush edit for Selah Sue, acoustic guitar of Jeb Loy Nichols and the dubbed out Rhythm & Sound featuring Cornell Campbell on vocals. He then weaves through Pat Metheney, the dub version of Sunset from Grace Jones' last album, blues from Ry Cooder and ending with a couple of tracks from his recent Tosca album 'Odeon'.

PART 3 + 4	-	Richard Dorfmeister		https://twitter.com/drrichard5
				
Steve Tibbetts	_	climbing	_	ECM
Gui Boratto	_	trap	_	Kompakt
NORAH JONES	_	after the fall  /  sitekdub rmx	_	Parlophone
selah sue	_	this world / dorfmeister edit	_	Unknown
BRENDON MOELLER	_	tswana dub/ brendon Moellers Beat pharmacy dub	_	Stereo Deluxe
JEB LOY NICHOLS	_	hard times	_	CITY COUNTRY CITY 
RHYTHM +SOUND	_	king in my empire	_	Burial Mix
KAZUMI WATANABE	_	walk don`t run	_	Gramavision
OLIVIER MAESSIEN	_	les corps	_	Schwann
PAT METHENEY	_	icefire	_	ECM
GRACE JONES	_	sunset dub	_	Wall of Sound
LORD ECHO	_	Wang east	_	Economy
RY COODER	_	Hold On	_	Warner
TOSCA	_	meixner	_	K7
TOSCA	_	bonjour	_	K7

Solid Steel Radio Show 29/3/2013 Part 3 + 4 - Richard Dorfmeister

"When DJ's have an album project dropping, there's always tons of requests to supply exclusive mixes to various radio shows, and it can be daunting to accomplish them all. This mix seems to incorporate a fair chunk of my live show at the time, a sure sign that I was already out touring to support my record 'The Private Press.'"- DJ Shadow

From The DJ Shadow Archives - Mary Anne Hobbes Mix (2002)

Back in May 2020 Dave Lee guested on Gilles Peterson’s BBC 6Music show as part of the “Stay Home, Rave Safe” weekend. Mr. ZR has extended the 30-minute mix into an hour – expect some lesser known boogie, funk, disco and soul from the vaults.

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