Mixing up modern tracks, classic disco and some of his own productions, Frankie plays a party set of extended mixes, kicking off with his and Eric Kupper’s sumptuous arrangement of Donna Summer’s “Hot Stuff. Taking in original disco with Lou Rawl’s “You’ll Never Find A Love Like Mine”, the soulful, gospel tinges are put up against the tougher elements and classic pianos  of Spencer Parker & Dan Beaumont’sThe Look.

With classic vocal American garage tunes like the tightly wrought Dbow “Get Involved” and the effortlessly but sublimely tuned dub of Eric Kupper’s “Disco Revenge” midway through the set, Frankie then turns to a Hacienda classic, the David Morales Defmix version of Juliet Robert’s “Caught In The Middle”, a record which had the original Hacienda spellbound back in 1993.

Taking it deeper to the close, the deep bassline and twisted soul of Alfredo Azzetto’s remix of “The Word Is Love” is followed by  Frankie’s homage to New York’s Sound Factory with his tribal disco remix of Sounds Of Blackness “The Pressure Pt 1”, itself a Knuckles classic. To end, he then brings in Black Legend’s, “You See The Trouble With Me” before rounding up with Robert Gaez’s re-rub of Frankie’s “Get Over U”.

A great set from one of house music’s undoubtedly legendary figures, This Is Frankie Knuckles.

Thanks to Judy Weinstein and Maria 909 at Defmix, and of course Frankie himself for allowing the mix to be released.

Live recording and mixing of the set by tube UK, Manchester http://www.tubeuk.com.

Frankie Knuckles Hacienda NYE At The Albert Hall Tracklist

Donna Summer - Hot Stuff (Frankie Knuckles And Eric Kupper’s Director’s Cut Signature Mix)
Kenny Summit & Director’s Cut -  Brawls Deep (Director’s Cut Remix) 
Ariana Grande – Baby I (Director’s Cut Dub)
Spencer Parker & Dan Beaumont – The Look (Director’s Cut Signature Mix) 
Dbow -  Get Involved (Director’s Cut Classic House Remix)
Frankie Knuckles pres. Director’s Cut feat. Jamie Principle – Boys (Farley & Heller Dub)
Gusto – Disco’s Revenge (Eric Kupper Remix)
Frankie Knuckles pres. Director’s Cut – Bourgie Bourgie (A Director’s Cut Exclusive)
Juliet Roberts - Caught In The Middle (Def Classic 12” Mix) 
Steve Silk Hurley feat. Sharron Pass  - The Word Is Love (Alfred Azzetto Classic Re-Work Remix)
Inaya Day – Good Feeling (A Director’s Cut Master)
Harry Romero & Erick Morillo – Bang (Harry & Erick’s Banh In Your Face Mix)
Sounds Of Blackness – The Pressure – Pt 1 (Sound Factory Mix Revisited) 
Black Legend – You See The Trouble With Me
Frankie Knuckle’s Pres. Directors Cut Feat. B. Slade - Get Over U (Robert Gaez’s ‘Mustache’ Mix)

Please note, the mix rights on this set rest with Frankie Knuckles / Defmix. Any licensing or sub licensing requests by third parties need to be approved in advance. For requests email artists@fac51thehacienda.com

Frankie Knuckles | Haçienda Albert Hall NYE 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)

1. Sound Of Blackness – The Pressure (Frankie Knuckles Classic Mix) [Perspective Records] 00:00
2. Human Life – In It Together (Director’s Cut Signature Togetherness) [Defected] 07:06
3. Candi Staton – Hallelujah Anyway (Director’s Cut Signature Praise) [Defected] 11:38
4. Andrea Mendez – Bring Me Love (Classic Frankie) [Azuli] 15:59
5. Hercules & Love Affair – Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix) [DFA] 20:51
6. Frankie Knuckles presents Satoshi Tomiie – Tears (Classic Vocal) [FFRR] 26:00
7. Loose Ends –Hangin' On A String (Frankie Knuckles Club Mix) [10 Records] 30:26
8. The Nightwriters – Let The Music Use You (Club Mix) [Danica Records] 33:46
9. Frankie Knuckles feat. Roberta Gilliam – Workout (1992 Vocal Mix) [Virgin] 38:32
10. Alison Limerick – Where Love Lives (Classic Mix) [Arista] 42:14
11. Frankie Knuckles – Rain Falls (FK Original) [Virgin] 46:41
12. Frankie Knuckles feat. Jamie Principle – Your Love [Persona] 51:59

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162 - Dimitri From Paris ‎– In The House Of Love - Disc 1 (2006)

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Greg Wilson took over on the Saturday night finale of last year’s Love Dancin’ @ We Out Here, spinning his signature disco and electro-funk sounds.

Greg Wilson at Love Dancin' [ Live from We Out Here 2024 ]

An all vinyl mix done back in  92 and Recorded live at Rascalls Nightclub London. A mix of my Favorite Balearic tracks of the time and still to this day. Play loud in the sunshine with a cold cerveza xx  

Track listing
The Blow Monkeys - La Passionara
Sueno Latino - Sueno Latino
Love Corporation - Palatial
Primal Scream - Don't Fight It Feel It
The Beloved - Sun Rising (Euro Mix)
Hypnotone - Dream Beam
Illusion - Why Cant we Live Together (Love & Unity Mix)
Taja Seville - Love Is Contagious (Ben Liebrand Remix)
A Guy Called Gerald - Emotions Electric
A Man Called Adam - Barefoot in The Head
Neutron 9000 - Loves Got A feeling
Boytronic - Bryllyant
Electra - Jibaro (Spectrum Remix)
Electra - Autumn Love (Future 3)
Electra - Autumn Love (Future 4)
The Grid - Flotation
Izit - Stories
Banderas - This Is Your Life (Red Book Mix)
Orchestra JB - Free Spirit (FPI Project Remix)

Balearic Beats

this is how we did it at Slide UK's night @ the Brixton Clubhouse in Londinium

Dimitri From Paris Live @ Brixton Clubhouse, London, for Slide UK 12-11-11

Recorded live in one of LA's best sounding rooms, we are honoured to host another amazing musical journey courtesy of @gregwilson.

On the night Greg performed with his iconic Reel to Reel setup and played after another Gouranga favourite @luxxury.

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GREG WILSON - Live From Sound Nightclub - Los Angeles, USA 2017

Simon Dunmore: "This is my musical DNA. My journey. The artists, DJ’s, producers, labels and scenes that inspired me since my youth, that compelled me to DJ, to promote events, to work in the music industry and eventually start my own label. A selection that will go someway to giving you an insight into the music I love and continues to influence everything we aspire to achieve at Defected Records, as we celebrate 20 years in the House!"

Tracklist:
01. Fred Wesley & The J.B.’s – Blow Your Head [People Records] x Blaze - My Beat (Feat. Palmer Brown) (Acapella) [Slip ’n’ Slide]
02. Esther Williams – Last Night Changed It All (I Really Had A Ball) [Friends & Co.]
03. Coke Escovedo - I Wouldn’t Change A Thing [Expansion Records]
04. Thelma Houston – Saturday Night, Sunday Morning [Motown]
05. Bobby Womack – Tell Me Why [Beverly Glen Music]
06. Sinnamon – Thanks To You [Becket Records]
07. Salsoul Orchestra – Seconds [Salsoul Records]
08. Universal Robot Band – Barely Breaking Even [Moonglow]
09. Glen Adams Affair – Just A Groove [Sam Records]
10. Chantal Curtis – Get Another Love [Key Records]
11. Love Symphony Orchestra - Let Me Be Your Fantasy [Miracle Records]
12. Linda Clifford – Shoot Your Best Shot [RSO records]
13. The Strikers – Body Music (Vocal) [Prelude Records]
14. Fun Boy Three – Faith Hope & Charity [Cooltempo] x Ralphi Rosario & Linda Clifford - Wanna Give It Up (Acapella) [Afterhours]
15. Jungle Brothers – What “U” Waitin’ “4”? (Jungle Fever Mix) [Warners Bros. Records]
16. Teddy Pendergrass – You Can’t Hide From Yourself (Dimitri From Paris Super Disco Blend) [Philadelphia International Records]
17. Claudja Barry – Sweet Dynamite [Salsoul Records]
18. Sinnamon – I Need You Now [Jive]
19. Swing 52 – Color Of My Skin (Feat. Arnold Jarvis) (Swing Remix) [Cutting Records]
20. Groove Committee – I Want You To Know (Victor Simonelli Nu Groove Mix) [Nu Groove Records]
21. Sound Design – Bounce To The Beat (Tee’s Freeze Mix) [Freeze Records] x Michael Watford - Michael’s Prayer (Acapella) [EastWest Records America]
22. Lil Louis & The World – I Called U (The Conversation) [Epic]
23. Mike Dunn presents Tha RC Groove Project – He’s Gonna Make It Alright (Feat. Ron Carroll) (The Full Disco Mix) [Sub-Urban Records]
24. Robert Owens – I’ll Be Your Friend (Morales Glamour Mix) [Perfecto Recordings]
25. Ann Nesby – Can I Get A Witness [AM:PM]
26. Morel’s Groove – Let’s Groove (Morel’s Full Club Mix) [Strictly Rhythm] x Aaron Carl - My House (The Word) (Acapella) [Wallshaker Music]
27. Juliet Roberts - Free Love (Original Monster Club Mix) [Slam Jam]
28. Norma Jean Bell - I’m The Baddest Bitch (In The Room) [Pandamonium Records]
29. Donell Rush – Symphony (Symphony In E-Smoove) [ID Records]
30. Paperclip People – Throw [Open Records]
31. Mike Dunn presents MD Xpress – God Made Me Phunky [Solo Recordings]
32. Young MC – Know How (Vocal) [Delicious Vinyl]
33. Jamiroquai – Emergency On Planet Earth (London Rican Mix) [Sony Records]
34. Prince & The New Power Generation – Gett Off (House Style) [Paisley Park]

Simon Dunmore - BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix (January 5th, 2019)

Wally Callerio was awesome enough to come down and drop this amazing set for our 5 year anniversary!! Enjoy

Progression 2

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