A record label and party by @aforalphaaa

Hugely inspired by 90s underground and the unique sound of this infamous decade. Tying together the old with the new and delving into the realms of House.

Demos: alphastriprecords@gmail.com

Country Gents is the moniker of Lee Jones, DJ and producer.
A DJ since 1996, Lee was initially inspired by DiY Soundsystem and ethos in 1990 and ended up DJ’ing all over the UK, Europe and America before starting his own events in Reading and Oxford UK under the name Valley Moods Productions.

He started producing in 1999 and released his debut 12” that same year on Cross Section Records’ sub label Black No Sugar. He has releases on Transfusion, Soiree International, Pear Music, Manuscript Ukraine, 124 Recordings and countless releases on Deep Cartel Recordings. In the early 2000’s he worked tirelessly with Dan Cartel putting on illegal parties all over Devon and South Wales and a multitude of other areas, with festival gigs including Glastonbury, The Glade and Secret Garden Party.
  
Over the years, a number of other producers have worked with Lee as fellow Gents, but currently he is working solo from his Bristol Bus Studio in the wilds of South Oxfordshire. Lee'sbackground is firmly in the Free Party/Rave/Festival scene that dates back to 1989. as mentioned earlier, in 1990, Nottingham sound system DiY erupted into the new culture of spontaneous guerrilla raves that began for that group of travellers and townsfolk alike, which was where it all really began for him.

These are exciting times - he launched a new label called Buslife at the end of 2015. 
In April 2020 the Country Gents Radio Show moved on from 3.5 fantastic years at Release FM and then 2 years on The Underground Sessions Radio. In 2023 with the support of a team of friends Buslife Collective Radio was launched and Lee still plays every Saturday night from 6pm to 8pm GMT
The picture you see in the logo of the label also happens to be his home, hence the name!

#buslife
#busliferecords
#farmlife
#freepartylife

Dave Austers & Ste Joyce
BassStream // LDC Radio

".. could sing a pearl from its oyster" (Billboard). Singer, Producer, DIY musician. Toured US, China, Europe, songs in film and TV, singer for large dance / drum n bass producers, various genres. Collabs aplenty incl Camo & Krooked, Coldcut, Zion Train, Murdock, Technimatic, London Elektricity ..... many other festival headlining acts 

Also runs the chocolate fireguard label, his own live blues band Pat Fulgoni Blues Experience and the psych rock dance project Kava Kava  + promotes occasional events worldwide. 

His compositions have been featured in US film and TV shows including Dirt (Courtney Cox), John From Cincinnati (HBO) and Weeds (Golden Globe TV series ft Mary Louise Parker). 

The "Pat Fulgoni sings drum and bass" playlist includes collabs with massive artists Technimatic, Keeno, Camo & Krooked, London Elektricity, Logistics, Dexcell, B Complex, Nu:Tone, 1991, The Vanguard Project, Bcee, Receptor Etherwood, Featurecast and labels including Hospital Records, Shogun Audio, Medschool, Spearhead, MTA, Drum & Bass Arena, Neuropunk, Soul Trader, Ram. 

Vocal "All Night" with Camo & Krooked on Hospital Records was nominated for "best single" in the prestigious Drum and Bass Arena Awards and was lead single and track two on the "Zeitgeist" album which won "best album". It was also lead track in the finale montage for Celebrity Big Brother :0) while "Like A Memory" with Technimatic was the second single from "Desire Paths" which also won best album in the Drum & Bass Awards and was in Mixmag's top 10 albums of the year.

"Pat Fulgoni has a highly original and soulful voice..." He has also sung rock, soul, funk, house, blues, psychedelia, jazz and guested as an instrumentalist for many successful third party bands and producers including Coldcut, Erick Morillo's Subliminal Soul (USA), 2020 Recordings with Ralph Lawson and Diane Charlemagne, award winning jazz pianist Matt Bourne, platinum selling indie band Embrace (trumpet), Tony Benn (mp),  Cabinet of Millionaires, Jeff Buckley song writer Gary Lucas, Yousef, Zion Train, Bill Brewster, Alex Tepper, Kooky, French hip hoppers La Cédille, Cemur Samur, Lost Colours, Sonority, dub steppers Slippery Jack, Jon Kennedy, Urfaust, Dark Poets, Neo, 9 invisibles, Darcadian, as J Haystax, Kava Kava and as himself. 

SOME REVIEWS/REACTIONS: 

"classy, finely crafted vocal silk" (Mixmag)

"Special shout out to the man like @patfulgoni for the vocal chops. One of the best in the business!" Technimatic

"One of THE voices of Drum & Bass, Pat Fulgoni guests on 'All That I Need' (deejay.de)

"you are the gob of drum and bass at the moment" BBC Introducing (Raw Talent) 

"Pat Fulgoni could sing a pearl from its oyster (SXSW 2010)" Katie Hasty / Hitfix / Billboard (US)

"Amazing isn't he" UKF 

"Vocalist Pat Fulgoni has a fantastic raw soul voice" Louder Then War

"Pat Fulgoni is larger than life. His singing has a confrontational musicality British pop hasn't seen since Jack Bruce" The Wire 

"Fulgoni's rich vocals recall Tom Jones amongst others" The Crack

"Drafting in the sweeping emotive vocals of singer/songwriter Pat Fulgoni help add an extra dash of class to Technmatic" Data Transmission 

"legendary vocalist Pat Fulgoni" Juno Records

"one of the biggest vocals this side of the Atlantic" Track It Down 

"Deliriously flowing soul" DJ mag 

"stunning vocals" Med School

"immaculately hewn rock-soul vocals ...Pat's powered voice lifts the whole thing" Nick Toczek, Rock'n'Reel Magazine 

“he’s a wicked person to work with” Logistics (D&BTV interview)

“this is brilliant. by far my favourite track from the Keeno debut album” Chris Goss, CEO Hospital Records (interview re As One ft Pat Fulgoni)

"The vocal is perfect" DJ MAG (Pimpsoul review)

Hey, I'm a Drum &amp; Bass Dj, Producer &amp; Promoter, originally based in Lincolnshire &amp; now in West Yorkshire. Back in the day I was part of a collective signed to Formation Records &amp; went under the names of Megadrive &amp; Mega, now I Dj all over the UK &amp; part own a promotion outfit putting events on alongside DJ SS called Future Formation. We run monthly events in Huddersfield that have seen the likes of Grooverider, SS, Kenny Ken, Jumping Jack Frost, Nicky Blackmarket,Bryan G, Bar 9, Doctor P, Prototypes, Rollz, Warren G, Crissy Criss, RV, Northern Lights, Hotwire, Youngman...too many to mention.....

Anyway hope you enjoy my page &amp; if you want to get in touch then e-mail me at dj.promo@virgin.net

Laters.....



Bookings: matt@thepool-london.com 
Promos: promo@gregwilson.co.uk 
DJ Dates: https://blog.gregwilson.co.uk/upcoming-dj-dates/
Greg began DJing in 1975 and is regarded as one of the most important figures on the UK dance scene. He enjoyed hugely popular residencies in the early eighties at Wigan Pier and Manchester’s majorly influential Legend, having originally started out in his hometown, New Brighton. A pioneer of mixing in the UK, he became the first ‘dance music’ specialist hired for a regular weekly session at Manchester’s now legendary Haçienda club in 1983. Greg was instrumental in breaking the new electronic, post-disco records coming out of New York, a sound he has dubbed ‘Electro-Funk’.

In 2003 he set up electrofunkroots, a website documenting this crucial era in the evolution of dance culture. After a two decade hiatus from the booth, he returned to DJing and soon welcomed bookings throughout Europe and, subsequently, worldwide.

Greg was the first DJ to mix live on British TV, putting together the first UK radio mixes of their type for Piccadilly 261 in Manchester and showing a certain Norman Cook (later Fatboy Slim) how to scratch.

Nominated by DJ Magazine for outstanding contribution, and also named amongst their top twenty remixers of all-time, Greg’s remix credits include Grace Jones, The XX, Groove Armada, Bryan Ferry, Confidence Man, Gilberto Gil and Simian Mobile Disco, whilst he’s edited tracks by A Guy Called Gerald, Talking Heads, O.M.D., Electronic, Imagination and Missy Elliot.

In January 2009 Greg’s reputation was further enhanced when his Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1 received almost universal acclaim and was selected as one of 10 classics that spanned the show’s near 17 year history.

Greg’s Blog, ‘Being A DJ’, was launched in June 2010 for observations on various aspects of club culture now an online touchstone for an ever-increasing amount of dance enthusiasts and aficionados.

In August 2010 he co-curated areas at the inaugural Vintage Festival at Goodwood, which was named ‘Best New Festival’ at the UK Festival Awards.

He has produced a series of documentary podcasts, Time Capsule, Random Influences and Early 80’s Floorfillers, as well as the long-running blog series, Living To Music.

Greg has given talks on music and DJ culture at a number events at venues The Tate Gallery in Liverpool and London's Southbank and Institute Of Contemporary Arts, whilst in 2013 he was invited onto a panel alongside legendary figures Nile Rodgers and Giorgio Moroder @ ADE in Amsterdam. 

In 2014 he unveiled the multi-media label Super Weird Substance, focusing on recording and live events. In 2015, the label released 8 vinyl singles, brought together in the 2 CD comp, 'Greg Wilson Presents Super Weird Substance'. September 2015 saw a memorable Festival No.6 Happening in Portmeirion and Greg rounded off the year with the Liverpool-based celebration of the 40th anniversary of his first club date in 1975 as well as being presented with DJ Magazine's Industry Icon award.

Greg launched his Credit To The Edit club collective at 2016's Festival No.6 and since then has taken it to Liverpool, Berlin, Brixton, Bethnal Green and finally back to Portmeirion for Festival No.6 2017.

2017 saw his label host the epic 14 Hour Super Weird Happening at Liverpool's Florrie, following a mixtape collaboration with Alan Moore, who also appeared at the Happening, whilst it also saw the digital release of The Super Weird Society's 'Gone With The Vibe', released the following year on the first Substance Select 12" vinyl alongside 'The Ghosts Of Watling Street', 'The Best Is Yet To Come' and 'Summer Came My Way'. 2018 also saw the release of Vol.3 in Greg's long-running Credit To The Edit compilation series.

After a handful of further releases, the label was put into hibernation with the onset of covid. Diversifying, ‘Greg Wilson’s Discotheque Archives’ was issued during 2020 lockdown as a limited run paperback, with more books, both Wilson’s own projects and by other authors, now planned.

1. Mood - A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling. 
2. Indigo - Having a color between blue and violet.

 - The life grind ain't reality tv for renaissance headz now is it? Start here if you've never heard of Mood (M:I for text) or his cerebral style that he brings to "Educated Ears" of the house/deep house genre. 

Some of us live in indigo as far as our EMOTIONS/PERSONALITY are concerned. This voyage opens a door for you to understand that "we (other music headz)" feel and live the same way as you do. 

Invest your time and enter into what we experience on these vibez. It's intrigue, it's therapy, it's passion, and it's escapism..... 

So if you know what "headz" mean......  

mood:indigo

Is this your color? is this your introduction?

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weekly underground shows:
www.mixlr.com/the-underground-sessions--2/ - Thursday 10pm - midnight (gmt)
www.inspirationfm.co.uk - Saturday 6pm -8pm (gmt)


MGMT: sol@goodhuman.uk
BOOKINGS: tom@clockworkartists.co.uk
TUNES: tunes.efan@gmail.com

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