Five years on from its original launch, Super Weird Substance began 2020 with renewal. Before the world went into lockdown, the label commenced the year with the release of a vinyl single featuring three fresh mixes and an original from Bella Technika’s debut LP, hinting at the new sound that was to follow with subsequent digital singles from three new projects; The Emanations, Soulsmoke and Guevarism.

Refreshed by the inclusion of some younger energy, the label has reinvented its balaericpsychedelicdubdisco sound for the next generation of clubbers, including more house, acid, rave and breakbeat elements. Ché Wilson has been key to this new sound, both in his his collaborations with Greg Wilson (The Emanations) and JRay (Soulsmoke) as well as his own solo Guevarism project, helping lay out the label’s new blueprint with these three varied singles – a sign of what’s to come throughout the rest of 2020 and beyond.

More info here: https://www.superweirdsubstance.com/love-eternal-desire-moonlight

2020 Digital Singles

RELEASED DIGITALLY 4th DECEMBER 2020 
(Juno Download/Bandcamp 2 week exclusive)

1) The Emanations - Spread A Little Love (Soul Clap Extended Mix)
2) The Emanations - Spread A Little Love (Soul Clap Dub)
3) The Emanations - Spread A Little Love (Soul Clap Mix / Greg Wilson Edit)

More info: https://www.superweirdsubstance.com/the-love-ep
Bandcamp: https://the-emanations.bandcamp.com/album/the-love-ep
Juno Download: https://www.junodownload.com/products/the-emanations-the-love-ep/4844947-02


Earlier this year The Emanations announced their arrival with a Technicolor debut single ‘Love’, signalling a new direction for Super Weird Substance, bringing in a more youthful energy. Working as The Emanations, Greg Wilson and Ché Wilson explore a new cut and paste approach to production, having collaborated on a number of remixes these past couple of years.

Returning the favour for the GW/CW remix of New York’s Underground System, acclaimed Boston-based DJ and production duo Soul Clap have worked their magic on the Emanation’s debut, which now sees three new versions titled ‘Spread A Little Love’ - a Soul Clap extended mix and dub version plus a special Greg Wilson edit. The remix, and its variants, with a nod to D.C. LaRue and Firefly, evoke the jazz-funk vibes of the late-‘70s/early-‘80s.

Featuring SWS favourites The Reynolds and flautist Manon McCoy, who adds a deeply emotive and delicate layer of ethereal magic, Greg and Ché had already created a blissed-out slice of a Balearic summer with the original, although, to date, it’s unfortunately received sparse dance floor action given the shutdown of the clubbing industry due to COVID-19. Soul Clap’s workout runs at a mammoth 10 minutes plus, giving the track a whole new spaced-out dimension and allowing the listener to get further lost in the depths of its sonic realms, whilst their dub version boils the track down to a more visceral concentrate that’s sure to ignite dancefloors.

Soul Clap have been incredibly prolific the past few years, with a continuous stream of quality originals, remixes and compilations being released via Soul Clap Records, alongside various collaborative works like this release with Super Weird Substance.

Greg and Ché have hit a similarly productive work-rate together, with remixes for Confidence Man, Jarvis Cocker, Simply Red, DSK, Sleight Of Hands, The Cuban Brothers, Hipnotic, Bella Technika and Jungle Giants under their belts, they’re still attracting more remix requests and have further original music in the works with The Emanations, utilising stems provided by Tyrell, the Canadian-based multi-instrumentalist for further SWS releases.

@soulclap / @gregwilson / @chewilson

The LOVE EP

The club mixes of the first eight singles released on the Super Weird Substance label in 2015. All eight singles have been brought together in the 2 CD compilation, 'Greg Wilson Presents Super Weird Substance', which also includes an exclusive Greg Wilson mix. 

CD & Digital available here: https://greg-wilson.bandcamp.com

Check out our Super Weird sounds at: https://superweirdsubstance.bandcamp.com
Stay up to date with the latest at: http://www.superweirdsubstance.com

Super Weird Substance 12" Club Mixes

The two mixtapes we've put together at Super Weird Substance HQ over the past years. Both came together with plenty of serendipity and magic and were a joy to work on, with everyone adding their ideas to the mixing pot.

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'ALAN MOORE'S MANDRILL MEETS SUPER WEIRD SUBSTANCE AT THE ARTS LAB APOCALYPSE'
A Mixtape by Greg Wilson 
Starring Kermit Leveridge & The Reynolds
Additional Vocals: The Reverend Cleve Freckleton & Tracey Carmen
+ Alan Moore's Mandrill as Radio DJ

Last year we worked on a primate themed mixtape, collaborating with the man who inspired the name and much of the thinking behind the label, and the Arts Lab he's founded in his Northampton home town.

More info here: http://www.superweirdsubstance.com/alan-moore-mandrill-meets-super-weird-substance-arts-lab-apocalypse/

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'BLIND ARCADE MEETS SUPER WEIRD SUBSTANCE IN THE MORPHOGENETIC FIELD' 
A Mixtape by Greg Wilson
Starring Kermit Leveridge, EVM128 & The Reynolds
Featuring BB.JAMES (lead vocal 'Give It Away')

Our first mixtape was released at the start of the label's story in 2014 and the life-arming vibes spread around the airwaves that summer, paving the way for our 8 official releases in 2015.

More info here: http://www.superweirdsubstance.com/blind-arcade-meets-super-weird-substance-morphogenetic-field-cassette-inlay/

Both mixtapes mastered by Derek Kaye.

Super Weird Mixtapes

Released 31st January 2020
https://bellatechnika.bandcamp.com/album/substance-select-vol-2

Born out of the ashes of Darkwood Dub, one of the Balkans’ most revered alternative rock bands during the ‘90s/’00s, Bella Technika is the latest project of Bojan Drobac, the group’s guitarist and main songwriter. Joined by former bandmate bass player Milorad Ristić as well as opera singer Katarina Jovanovic, amongst others, Bojan has found a new direction with Bella Technika.

Bella Technika join forces with Super Weird Substance for Substance Select Vol.2, which features three remixes and an original production from the band’s debut ‘Section’ LP, released last year.

A1) Continuing their prolific form, Greg Wilson and Ché Wilson provide the first remix, taking album opener ‘Reinvented Daily’ into psychedelic territory with vocoder and dub fx.

A2) Lee Perry AKA Peza provides the second mix, a jacking, acid fuelled reimagining of ‘I Feel Light’ - alongside Sara Lucas’ primal vocal it evokes the halcyon days of house music.

AA1) Up next, Henry Greenwood provides a wonky, idiosyncratic version of ‘Heat Control’, slicing the hypnotically repeated vocals in and out of his chugging psychedisco groove.

AA2) The EP finishes up with the original fully titled ‘Suddenly I Feel So Light’, exhibiting the live band / electronic fusion that established their reputation across Europe.

Substance Select Vol.2

STARRING KERMIT LEVERIDGE, EVM128 & THE REYNOLDS
FEATURING BB. JAMES (LEAD VOCAL 'GIVE IT AWAY')

Uplifting, life-affirming, and perfectly timed for the summer months - cobbled together, Heath Robinson stylee, more by serendipity than design, into a coherent whole by DJ / Producer Greg Wilson. Most of the tracks featured are by Blind Arcade (Kermit Leveridge & EVM128), either existing demos or works in progress, but the mixtape is also peppered with half-a-dozen GW edits, lyrically laced to bubble the Super Weird stew – the constant presence, and main ingredient, being Kermit, for it's his inspirational tale of faith and redemption at the very core of this morphogenetic mixtape. Following on from the Ruthless Rap Assassins and Black Grape, we believe that this is his greatest musical odyssey, drawing from the deep wells of his own mythos and logos. There were 3 frontmen in the Rap Assassins, 2 in Black Grape, but now, for the first time, Kermit steps to the fore – no longer to be described by such a limited term as 'rapper', but as a sabre-skilled vocal chameleon, his shades and depths ranging from wise old soul to lovestruck adolescent, invoking his many I's as a cast of compelling characters, both comic book and close–up personal, whilst, in trickster tradition, keeping us on our toes, not knowing what to expect next.

Let me take you by the hand
So you know what's going on
Let me take you step by step 
On a journey that won't take too long
Come let me show you
Reality is not what it seems
It's all a construct
And what you see might not be real

Kermit Leveridge – The Construct

Accompanying blog post (inclusive of tracklisting):
http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2014/06/blind-arcade-meets-super-weird-substance-in-the-morphogenetic-field/

Check out our Super Weird sounds at: https://superweirdsubstance.bandcamp.com

Interview re Super Weird Substance:
http://thepool-london.com/loop/greg-wilson-qa-on-blind-arcade-meets-super-weird-substance-in-the-morphogenetic-field.html

Thanks to all who contributed to the various stages of recording – Blind Arcade’s Kermit Leveridge & EVM128, of course, studio engineer Derek Kaye, singers BB. James, Amy Wilson, Katherine Reynolds, Carmel Reynolds and Tracey Carmen, trumpeter Kevin G. Davey, saxophonist Marc Rockwood, special guest vocalists Howard Marks and MC Tunes, plus Martin Foster, Ollie Miles, Ché Wilson, Sam Heller, Alexis Billington and Asha Billington, who also leant a hand along the way. It’s wonderful what spells we can muster when our magic is combined.

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/super-weird-substance
www.superweirdsubstance.com
https://www.facebook.com/SuperWeirdSubstance
www.kermitleveridge.co.uk 
http://evm128.com
https://www.gregwilson.co.uk

Blind Arcade Meets Super Weird Substance In The Morphogenetic Field (Greg Wilson Mixtape)

Recorded at Gorilla Manchester 20.09.14 (includes added intro). 

Event held in conjunction with El Diablo's Social Club.

Check out our Super Weird sounds at: https://superweirdsubstance.bandcamp.com
Stay up to date with the latest at: http://www.superweirdsubstance.com

Greg Wilson @ Super Weird Happening Manchester 20.09.14

Recorded on the first night in The Observatory @ Constellations in
Liverpool 18.10.14. Event held in conjunction with Oxjam and Freeze. 

Check out our Super Weird sounds at: https://superweirdsubstance.bandcamp.com
Stay up to date with the latest at: http://www.superweirdsubstance.com

Greg Wilson @ Super Weird Happening Liverpool 18.10.14

Recorded at Oslo London 01.11.14 (includes added intro / outro)

Event held in conjunction with Heavenly Jukebox / Salon.

Check out our Super Weird sounds at: https://superweirdsubstance.bandcamp.com
Stay up to date with the latest at: http://www.superweirdsubstance.com

Greg Wilson @ Super Weird Happening London 01.11.14

Reworked by Peza from the mixtape 'Blind Arcade Meets Super Weird Substance In The Morphogenetic Field'.

Remember, what you see might not be real.

Check out our Super Weird sounds at: https://superweirdsubstance.bandcamp.com
Stay up to date with the latest at: http://www.superweirdsubstance.com

Blind Arcade Meets Super Weird Substance 'The Construct' - Peza's Acid Rework (Free DL)

SWS001 - Greg Wilson Featuring The Reynolds 'Summer Came My Way', the first release on the new Super Weird Substance label - release date June 22nd 2015. 

Vinyl & Digital available here: http://bit.ly/SWS-001
Compilation CD available here: http://bit.ly/SWS-CD001

This is the full length Luxxury club mix, you can hear the radio version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MynCxEQ4DyI

Having been one of his biggest festival tunes in the summer of 2014, the Luxxury mix of Greg Wilson’s 'Summer Came My Way' - which originally surfaced on last year’s 'Schooled In The Classics' 12” - was put on the back burner throughout the winter in readiness for a full 2015 release. Juxtaposed by Walter Ego’s equally sublime take on the track, the release marks the first of eight records to be issued over the summer months.

Sometimes composition is a long and arduous process, other times a song arrives fully formed. The latter was the case for Greg when he imagined 'Summer Came My Way' as a vehicle for hitherto unknown vocal forces of nature, The Reynolds - twins Katherine and the song’s lead singer Carmel - who, by beautiful serendipity happened to live within a mile of Greg’s Merseyside home.

Bursting out of LA with a lavish twelve-part re-edit series last year, Luxxury’s brand of hazy, slo-mo reworks - a West Coast Balaeric fusion - has catapulted him onto the world stage. Opening his mammoth eight- hour Berghain set in 2013 with Luxxury’s 'Hotel California' rework, Greg helped bring his Los Angeles vibes to wider attention, bolstered by his subsequent support of other reworks; 'Night Fever' and 'Riders On The Storm'.

A victim of his own success, 'Hotel California' gained Luxxury a little too much notoriety and, after a Wall Street Journal interview began circulating, Warner came down on him like a ton of bricks on finding out he’d used The Eagles’ multitracks. All was resolved however and he’s currently recording his forthcoming album, with great things expected for 2015 and beyond. The Luxxury approach perfectly fitted Greg’s vision of the song and the result is a glorious nine-minute epic, just in time for the summer.

With releases on the legendary Ninja Tune, San Francisco’s murky Symbols and Kerri Chandler’s jackin’ MadTech, Walter Ego’s appeal stretches across the board; from forward thinking house to rough and ready grime. Having got to know the Sheffield musician during recent years, Greg was impressed by what he heard, especially an as yet unreleased project he was working on in collaboration with London singer, Obenewa. Inviting him to remix the track, Walter returned an ethereal yet mechanical take on 'Summer Came My Way', his delicately decaying synths and cold hydraulic rhythm giving the track a brooding quality and placing The Reynolds in an entirely new context.

Check out our Super Weird sounds at: https://superweirdsubstance.bandcamp.com
Stay up to date with the latest at: http://www.superweirdsubstance.com

Greg Wilson Featuring The Reynolds 'Summer Came My Way' - Luxxury Club Mix

SWS002 - Sweet Tooth T 'She Can't Love You / Feel The Same', the second release on the new Super Weird Substance label - release date July 6th 2015. 

Vinyl & Digital available here: http://bit.ly/SWS-002
Compilation CD available here: http://bit.ly/SWS-CD001

This is the full length Greg Wilson club mix, you can hear the radio version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvNt2fcqMhM

When disco was declared dead in 1979, dance music was forced back underground, leading to one of its most creative periods. Moving into the eighties, post-disco producers were allowed to explore the new technologies emerging at the time with little corrupting influence from the mainstream and New York became a hub for the new electro-funk and boogie sounds.

Having built his reputation playing the latest US dance imports at Wigan Pier and Manchester’s Legend and Haçienda in the early eighties, DJ Greg Wilson is indebted to that sound and has paid homage to many of the cult hits of the era through his reworks and edits.

Greg had originally intended to edit Chemise’s 1982 underground cut 'She Can’t Love You', cherry picking the best parts from the original and dub mix. However this proved unsatisfactory, so instead he decided to take on a full cover, approaching Tyrrell; the guy who did such a brilliant job of recreating Massive Attack and the Rolling Stones - mashed up with Amerie - on his 2005 P.T.A release, which Greg then reconstructed into 'Two Sides of Sympathy', one of his most enduring edits.

Having recorded the backing track back in 2011, he needed to find the right vocalist. His first thoughts were to approach Adeline Michele, the singer from Brooklyn disco outfit, Escort. This never materialised and, apart from a fleeting fancy for recording it with NYC based Lady Miss Kier, formerly of Deee-Lite, the track was put in mothballs for a couple of years, until he dug it out just a few months ago to play it to The Reynolds, who’d sang so superbly on his track 'Summer Came My Way'. Katherine Reynolds took on the lead and Greg instantly knew the song had found its voice. Not only that, Katherine also expertly weaved lyrics from Triple X’s 1999 'Feel The Same' into the track to give it a new twist.

Greg road-tested the recording in a club for the first time in London last December and it’s since become a crowd favourite - the release is greatly anticipated by DJs and dancers alike. Kermit Leveridge, who has worked with The Reynolds on his Blind Arcade project chipped in with the rap section the girls add and also features on a further mix of 'She Can’t Love You', this time coupled with his own 'C’mon Sway' lyrics. Sweet Tooth T is a project channeling the hallowed sounds of New York in the early eighties but - like with Greg’s DJ sets - the sounds from this groovacious past have been reimagined in a contemporary manner.

Check out our Super Weird sounds at: https://superweirdsubstance.bandcamp.com
Stay up to date with the latest at: http://www.superweirdsubstance.com

Sweet Tooth T 'She Can't Love You / Feel The Same' - Greg Wilson Club Mix

SWS003 - Kermit Leveridge & The Super Weird Society 'I Wanna Be Your Dog', the third release on the new Super Weird Substance label - release date July 17th 2015. 

Vinyl & Digital available here: http://bit.ly/SWS-003
Compilation CD available here: http://bit.ly/SWS-CD001

This is the full length Greg Wilson & Peza club mix, you can hear the radio version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzaVDG8DMOo

Touching on punk territory as early as 1969, The Stooges’ 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' captured the beginnings of the transformation from the optimistic sixties to the disaffected seventies and laid the foundations for the next generation’s sound. Raw and simplistic, yet extremely powerful - it’s incredible to think that this song has been around for forty-six years.

The idea to bring the proto-punk classic into the now with a dance version - aimed at festival audiences as well as the clubs - was one of those crazy notions that somehow works out perfectly, given the right ingredients that is. Kermit was initially skeptical of the idea but once he heard the framework of the reimagined version, he quickly signed up to the idiosyncratic vision and took on the Iggy Pop role with aplomb.

This is the first solo release by Kermit Leveridge of Blind Arcade, one of Manchester’s true groove innovators; helping give the city - and the country for that matter - one of its first breakdancing crews, Broken Glass before becoming a member of one the UK’s most influential hip hop acts, the Ruthless Rap Assassins, then eventually hooking up with Happy Monday Shaun Ryder to form the chart topping Black Grape, who’ve recently reformed for an anniversary tour.

Kermit’s heroin addiction may have taken him to the brink of self- destruction but during recent years he’s been a redeemed man on an artistic mission. This newfound outlook helped yield last year’s mixtape 'Blind Arcade Meets Super Weird Substance In The Morphogenetic Field', regenerating his association with Greg Wilson, who had previously managed Broken Glass and the Rap Assassins, who he also produced.

On the back of a whole series of quality reworks, including Blind Arcade’s The Construct, Wolverhampton based DJ and musician Peza was brought into the mix and has done a great job with programming / keyboards, whilst Greg’s son, Ché Wilson plays a mean guitar, summoning the raw energy of punk’s past in a furious solo courtesy of a Cort X-6 guitar given to Kermit by Joe Strummer - and, by adding their deadpan backing vocals to the fray, The Reynolds tie the track together perfectly.

Check out our Super Weird sounds at: https://superweirdsubstance.bandcamp.com
Stay up to date with the latest at: http://www.superweirdsubstance.com

Kermit Leveridge & The Super Weird Society 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' - Greg Wilson & Peza Club Mix

SWS004 - The Reverend Cleve Freckleton & The Sinners 'World Gone Crazy', the  fourth release on the new Super Weird Substance label - release date July 31st 2015. 

Vinyl & Digital available here: http://bit.ly/SWS-004
Compilation CD available here: http://bit.ly/SWS-CD001

This is the Greg Wilson & Peza club dub, you can hear the radio version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik0v3Gwndgs

When 'World Gone Crazy' was originally written in the early nineties as part of the Mind Body & Soul project Greg Wilson was then developing with singer Tracey Carmen, it was intended for an album that never was and only a demo version was ever recorded.

Its lyrics identified an information age already spiraling out of control. Two decades on however, and it’s far beyond anything anyone could have imagined back then. Originally referencing the post-acid house generation, ‘a generation lost and disillusioned’ now becomes the sixties generation, growing old in a world even more corrupt and confused than the one they thought they’d change.

Listening through the old MBS demos for tracks that might be updated for The Reynolds, it was suggested that 'World Gone Crazy' would be perfect for Leeds singer/musician The Reverend Cleve Freckleton, who came into our Super Weird orbit when he crossed paths with Blind Arcade at last year’s Latitude Festival. The gruff gravitas of The Reverend’s voice was exactly what the track needed, serving to give its words more relevance now than when they were written.

From an early age the gospel sound of Cleve’s family’s Pentecostal practices loomed large over his life and after a chance encounter with a pin-sharp pimp- turned-preacher, Cleve ventured to the depths of America with him. As ‘Minister of Music’ The Reverend worked in some of the Southern Belt’s most deprived neighbourhoods and even found himself performing to James Brown in a South Carolina penitentiary chapel.

Channeling the fire and spectacle of a spiritual laden Deep South service, Cleve found his own distinct groove in secular music upon returning to the UK. From recording with British neo funk stalwarts The New Mastersounds on their debut album to taking a band of musicians to Durban, South Africa on request of Leeds city council, Cleve’s forceful voice has reached a diverse set of ears.

'World Gone Crazy' was adroitly programmed by Peza, with The Reynolds and the song’s original singer, Tracey Carmen, providing powerful bvox and Ché Wilson weighing in with funk-laced rhythm guitar - Cleve cuts a commanding figure, calling out the world’s wrongs from his sonic pulpit.

Check out our Super Weird sounds at: https://superweirdsubstance.bandcamp.com
Stay up to date with the latest at: http://www.superweirdsubstance.com

The Reverend Cleve Freckleton & The Sinners 'World Gone Crazy' - Greg Wilson & Peza Club Dub

SWS001 - Greg Wilson Featuring The Reynolds 'Summer Came My Way', the first release on the new Super Weird Substance label - release date June 22nd 2015. 

Vinyl & Digital available here: http://bit.ly/SWS-001
Compilation CD available here: http://bit.ly/SWS-CD001

This is the Walter Ego mix. Hear the Luxury club version here: https://soundcloud.com/super-weird-substance/greg-wilson-featuring-the

Having been one of his biggest festival tunes in the summer of 2014, the Luxxury mix of Greg Wilson’s 'Summer Came My Way' - which originally surfaced on last year’s 'Schooled In The Classics' 12” - was put on the back burner throughout the winter in readiness for a full 2015 release. Juxtaposed by Walter Ego’s equally sublime take on the track, the release marks the first of eight records to be issued over the summer months.

Sometimes composition is a long and arduous process, other times a song arrives fully formed. The latter was the case for Greg when he imagined 'Summer Came My Way' as a vehicle for hitherto unknown vocal forces of nature, The Reynolds - twins Katherine and the song’s lead singer Carmel - who, by beautiful serendipity happened to live within a mile of Greg’s Merseyside home.

Bursting out of LA with a lavish twelve-part re-edit series last year, Luxxury’s brand of hazy, slo-mo reworks - a West Coast Balaeric fusion - has catapulted him onto the world stage. Opening his mammoth eight- hour Berghain set in 2013 with Luxxury’s 'Hotel California' rework, Greg helped bring his Los Angeles vibes to wider attention, bolstered by his subsequent support of other reworks; 'Night Fever' and 'Riders On The Storm'.

A victim of his own success, 'Hotel California' gained Luxxury a little too much notoriety and, after a Wall Street Journal interview began circulating, Warner came down on him like a ton of bricks on finding out he’d used The Eagles’ multitracks. All was resolved however and he’s currently recording his forthcoming album, with great things expected for 2015 and beyond. The Luxxury approach perfectly fitted Greg’s vision of the song and the result is a glorious nine-minute epic, just in time for the summer.

With releases on the legendary Ninja Tune, San Francisco’s murky Symbols and Kerri Chandler’s jackin’ MadTech, Walter Ego’s appeal stretches across the board; from forward thinking house to rough and ready grime. Having got to know the Sheffield musician during recent years, Greg was impressed by what he heard, especially an as yet unreleased project he was working on in collaboration with London singer, Obenewa. Inviting him to remix the track, Walter returned an ethereal yet mechanical take on 'Summer Came My Way', his delicately decaying synths and cold hydraulic rhythm giving the track a brooding quality and placing The Reynolds in an entirely new context.

Check out our Super Weird sounds at: https://superweirdsubstance.bandcamp.com
Stay up to date with the latest at: http://www.superweirdsubstance.com

Greg Wilson Featuring The Reynolds  'Summer Came My Way' - Walter Ego Mix

For a different take on the main mix of 'She Can't Love You' Kermit Leveridge put together a Disco rap ('C'mon Sway') evocative of the original party style that first defined the genre. More about 'She Can't Love You' here: http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2015/07/covering-a-cult-classic

Vinyl & Digital available here: http://bit.ly/SWS-002
Compilation CD available here: http://bit.ly/SWS-CD001

This is the Greg Wilson rap mix, you can hear the radio version on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvNt2fcqMhM

When disco was declared dead in 1979, dance music was forced back underground, leading to one of its most creative periods. Moving into the eighties, post-disco producers were allowed to explore the new technologies emerging at the time with little corrupting influence from the mainstream and New York became a hub for the new electro-funk and boogie sounds.

Having built his reputation playing the latest US dance imports at Wigan Pier and Manchester’s Legend and Haçienda in the early eighties, DJ Greg Wilson is indebted to that sound and has paid homage to many of the cult hits of the era through his reworks and edits.

Greg had originally intended to edit Chemise’s 1982 underground cut 'She Can’t Love You', cherry picking the best parts from the original and dub mix. However this proved unsatisfactory, so instead he decided to take on a full cover, approaching Tyrrell; the guy who did such a brilliant job of recreating Massive Attack and the Rolling Stones - mashed up with Amerie - on his 2005 P.T.A release, which Greg then reconstructed into 'Two Sides of Sympathy', one of his most enduring edits.

Having recorded the backing track back in 2011, he needed to find the right vocalist. His first thoughts were to approach Adeline Michele, the singer from Brooklyn disco outfit, Escort. This never materialised and, apart from a fleeting fancy for recording it with NYC based Lady Miss Kier, formerly of Deee-Lite, the track was put in mothballs for a couple of years, until he dug it out just a few months ago to play it to The Reynolds, who’d sang so superbly on his track 'Summer Came My Way'. Katherine Reynolds took on the lead and Greg instantly knew the song had found its voice. Not only that, Katherine also expertly weaved lyrics from Triple X’s 1999 'Feel The Same' into the track to give it a new twist.

Greg road-tested the recording in a club for the first time in London last December and it’s since become a crowd favourite - the release is greatly anticipated by DJs and dancers alike. Kermit Leveridge, who has worked with The Reynolds on his Blind Arcade project chipped in with the rap section the girls add and also features on a further mix of 'She Can’t Love You', this time coupled with his own 'C’mon Sway' lyrics. Sweet Tooth T is a project channeling the hallowed sounds of New York in the early eighties but - like with Greg’s DJ sets - the sounds from this groovacious past have been reimagined in a contemporary manner.

Check out our Super Weird sounds at: https://superweirdsubstance.bandcamp.com
Stay up to date with the latest at: http://www.superweirdsubstance.com

Sweet Tooth T Featuring Kermit Leveridge - 'She Can't Love You / C'mon Sway' - Greg Wilson Rap Mix

SWS003 - Kermit Leveridge & The Super Weird Society 'I Wanna Be Your Dog', the third release on the new Super Weird Substance label - release date July 17th 2015. 

Vinyl & Digital available here: http://bit.ly/SWS-003
Compilation CD available here: http://bit.ly/SWS-CD001

This is the Greg Wilson & Peza instrumental mix, you can hear the radio version on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzaVDG8DMOo

Touching on punk territory as early as 1969, The Stooges’ 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' captured the beginnings of the transformation from the optimistic sixties to the disaffected seventies and laid the foundations for the next generation’s sound. Raw and simplistic, yet extremely powerful - it’s incredible to think that this song has been around for forty-six years.

The idea to bring the proto-punk classic into the now with a dance version - aimed at festival audiences as well as the clubs - was one of those crazy notions that somehow works out perfectly, given the right ingredients that is. Kermit was initially skeptical of the idea but once he heard the framework of the reimagined version, he quickly signed up to the idiosyncratic vision and took on the Iggy Pop role with aplomb.

This is the first solo release by Kermit Leveridge of Blind Arcade, one of Manchester’s true groove innovators; helping give the city - and the country for that matter - one of its first breakdancing crews, Broken Glass before becoming a member of one the UK’s most influential hip hop acts, the Ruthless Rap Assassins, then eventually hooking up with Happy Monday Shaun Ryder to form the chart topping Black Grape, who’ve recently reformed for an anniversary tour.

Kermit’s heroin addiction may have taken him to the brink of self- destruction but during recent years he’s been a redeemed man on an artistic mission. This newfound outlook helped yield last year’s mixtape 'Blind Arcade Meets Super Weird Substance In The Morphogenetic Field', regenerating his association with Greg Wilson, who had previously managed Broken Glass and the Rap Assassins, who he also produced.

On the back of a whole series of quality reworks, including Blind Arcade’s The Construct, Wolverhampton based DJ and musician Peza was brought into the mix and has done a great job with programming / keyboards, whilst Greg’s son, Ché Wilson plays a mean guitar, summoning the raw energy of punk’s past in a furious solo courtesy of a Cort X-6 guitar given to Kermit by Joe Strummer - and, by adding their deadpan backing vocals to the fray, The Reynolds tie the track together perfectly.

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Kermit Leveridge & The Super Weird Society 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' - Greg Wilson & Peza Inst Mix

SWS005 - The Reynolds 'Don't You Worry Baby The Best Is Yet To Come' the fifth release on the new Super Weird Substance label - release date August 14th 2015. 

Vinyl & Digital available here: http://bit.ly/SWS-005
Compilation CD available here: http://bit.ly/SWS-CD001

This is the full length Greg Wilson & Peza club mix, you can hear the radio version on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHZUVedVtXw

The resplendent vocal versatility of The Reynolds has been indispensable to Greg Wilson's Super Weird Substance label over the first four releases and, as such, they have duly been awarded their debut solo release, mixed by Greg and Peza. Although only young, The Seacombe-based twins perform like veterans and in this case they have masterfully taken on Bessie Banks' 'Don't You Worry Baby The Best Is Yet To Come' - a cult Blackpool Mecca classic from the mid-70s. 

By playing contemporary disco alongside 60's soul rarities the Mecca was at the centre of the famous Northern Soul schism which put the venue at odds with the music policy of Wigan Casino. Whilst the Casino is remembered as the more famous venue, it's arguable that - via its most influential DJ's Ian Levine and Colin Curtis - more classic tracks were unveiled in Blackpool than anywhere else. 

The Mecca operated during normal club hours, closing at 2am, whereas the Casino was an all-nighter from 2am-8am - subsequently a number of people would leave the Mecca around 1am to get to the Casino for opening. This led to the final hour at the Mecca becoming more experimental and compilation albums have been made focusing purely on records that became popular there during this timeframe - 'Don't You Worry Baby The Best Is Yet To Come' being one, a Colin Curtis special.

It's such an obscure track that - unless you were there in Blackpool in '76 - it's unlikely you'll have ever have heard of it, having never been issued in the UK. The original vocalist Bessie Banks is best-known for her early 60's hit 'Go Now!' - later covered by the Moody Blues, gifting them their breakthrough hit.

Written by Clyde Otis and Banks' husband of the time, Herman Kelly - legendary in hip hop circles for 'Let's Dance To The Drummer's Beat' - 'Don't You Worry Baby The Best Is Yet To Come' was released in 1976, two years before Kelly's heavily sampled break.

Lending his hand to the recording and mixing once again, Peza cements an ever-fruitful association with producer Greg Wilson, as the Wolverhampton-based DJ and musician takes on a international focus, working with Chen Shi-Zheng in Shanghai on a project opening in New York - on the back of a mutual association with Damon Albarn.

The Reynolds are currently recording further tracks with the intention of a debut album release in 2016. The diversity of sound and nuanced vocal ability of the twins first surfaced on last year's 'Blind Arcade Meets Super Weird Substance In The Morphogenetic Field' mixtape and has become a hallmark of the label since.

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The Reynolds  'Don't You Worry Baby The Best Is Yet To Come' - Greg Wilson & Peza Club Mix

An incredible day all ways up! The Super Weird Sunset in the morning set the tone perfectly with well-being and good vibes music as the artists also set up for the day. Playwright Daisy Eris Campbell ('Cosmic Trigger')and author John Higgs ('Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense Of The Twentieth Century' and 'The KLF: Chaos, Magic And The Band Who Burned A Million Pounds') fascinated us during the talks, before Stella Grundy powerfully performed a section of her one-woman production 'The Rise And Fall Of A Northern Star', whilst poet JB Barrington well and truly put a smile on our faces with his Salford wit and acute observation.

Then it was Howard Marks. The warmth towards him was something else, the area packed to capacity with queueing around the corner the entrance to the Estuary Stage. A true countercultural icon of our times - the respect was tangible.

A potent line-up of DJ's followed - Tomlin of the Jam MC's, Luxxury over from LA, and a B2B with Derek Kaye and Peza, as the Estuary grooved into the 2nd half of the Happening

Blind Arcade and the Super Weird Society hit the ball out of the court big style - a phenomenal first appearance complete with live musicians. Huge thanks to Black Grape's backing band, who Kermit had hijacked for the event.

Then I was on for the finale, and what a climax it turned out to be. The stage was invaded at the end and when I looked to my side, appearing next to me, in a puff of smoke it seemed, was Back To Basics mainman and UK club legend Dave Beer, who turned to me, amidst the wonderful chaos of the moment and exclaimed 'this is seminal'.

Here's the footage - it really happened:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHmQuLrXyBY

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Greg Wilson @ Super Weird Happening #6 Festival No.6 Portmeirion 05.09.15

SWS006 - Blind Arcade 'Give It Away' the sixth release on the new Super Weird Substance label - release date September 18th 2015. 

Vinyl & Digital available here: http://bit.ly/SWS-006
Compilation CD available here: http://bit.ly/SWS-CD001

This is the full length Greg Wilson & Derek Kaye club dub, you can hear the radio version on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im7zHRJ9UBk

When hedonism took him to the brink of self-destruction many feared it would be the last they saw of Kermit Leveridge. However, the driving force in his life - writing lyrics - kept him going through his introspective recovery and when he was finally fit enough to return, he had amassed a wealth of material aching to break out of his countless notepads. 

Coming together with forward-thinking bass-maker, Luke EVM128, they channelled Kermit’s bottled up magic through Luke’s ‘Evermean’ beats to form the uplifting, life-affirming Blind Arcade. With an accessible but edgy balearic, somewhat psychedelic hip-hop sensibility with real depth and substance, it was clear they were on to something special. 

Drug addiction can chip away at the soul, leaving people bitter in the heart. Letting all the negativity out through his pen proved incredibly cathartic for Kermit, aiding his recovery and allowing him to move forward with a positive message.

This centred approach to negativity shines through the lyrics in Blind Arcade’s 'Give It Away', brought to life by the commanding voice of London-based songstress BB.JAMES and delicately supplemented by The Reynolds and Tracey Carmen. 

First appearing on the 'Blind Arcade Meets Super Weird Substance In The Morphogenetic Field' mixtape that catalysed the beginnings of the Super Weird Substance label, Give It Away brims with the soulful warmth and spine-tingling magic that connected with people as the mixtape spread across the sound-waves last summer and paved the way for the autumn ‘Happenings’ that swept across the UK.

Given a new lease of life with three brand new re-recorded versions to fit the label’s current direction, 'Give It Away' returns in the form of a sumptuous, slow-burning club dub, a deep and driving radio mix keeping the spirit of the original and a radio-friendly mellow vocal mix.

With their sights on an forthcoming album release through Super Weird Substance in 2016, Blind Arcade have expanded on the success of last year’s mixtape with more of the same serendipitous alchemy and a new and improved live show featuring Black Grape’s current backing band, which they rolled out at Festival Number 6 in Portmeirion - a highlight of a truly sensational twelve hour Super Weird Happening.

Written by Kermit Leveridge and EVM128, produced by Greg Wilson and mixed by Greg and Derek Kaye, the new versions of Give It Away feature Kieran O’Malley on strings, Ché Wilson on guitar and Gareth ‘Misterlong’ Bailey, Craig Crofton and Gary Alesbrook aka The Longhorns on brass - trombone, tenor sax and trumpet respectively.

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Blind Arcade 'Give It Away' - Greg Wilson & Derek Kaye Club Dub

Recording from Festival 23 in South Yorks 23.07.16. Write-up at SWS website: http://www.superweirdsubstance.com/discordian-happening-festival-23

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Greg Wilson @ Festival 23 South Yorks 23.07.16

STARRING KERMIT LEVERIDGE & THE REYNOLDS
ADDITIONAL VOCALS: THE REVEREND CLEVE FRECKLETON & TRACEY CARMEN
 
More about the project: http://www.superweirdsubstance.com/alan-moore-mandrill-meets-super-weird-substance-arts-lab-apocalypse  
 
Obey the Mandrill: www.facebook.com/mandrillifesto

Mandrillifesto words by Alan Moore.

Big thanks to: Josh Ray, Ché Wilson, Derek Kaye, Joe Brown, James Mellor, Dominic Mandrell, Marcus Hislop, The Arts Lab Northampton.
 
Artwork by Pete Fowler
 
2017
 
COMETH THE MOMENT, COMETH THE MANDRILL

In times of national demise, speaking historically,
the mulch of crumpled dream and culture is a laboratory,
that breeds outrageous saviours and monsters without warning; 
Cromwell, Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Jeremy Corbyn – 
emerging from a broken world to find a hole they can fill,
cometh the moment; cometh the Mandrill.

This greed and gore emporium is not how life was meant to be,
with franchises and fads reheated from a previous century,
and nothing new, a neutered future on the retro record deck,
that’s stuck and endlessly repeating in a firebombed discotheque. 
Your TV’s in a coma and you can’t get it to wake up.
What you need is a dictatorial baboon in makeup.

Overstated, aggravated and horrifically mutated,
here to see that you’re berated. What’s the last thing you created?
All those logos on your raiment, brand-name badges of enslavement,
drip-fed passive entertainment. Was this your intended statement?
When you have nowhere left to stand you'll have to take one.
If there’s no culture in the land then you must make one. 
Psychopathic, charismatic, I could go on but don’t need to:
as the higher primate it’s my long-awaited fate to lead you.
You have no choice but me, so please do not suggest so.
Hear now the poetry of my Mandrillifesto!

The light of burning corporations will repaint the sky in grenadine. 
There’ll be billions of banners and Art Nouveau butterfly bombers like this world has never seen before. 
We’ll march on ugliness and stupidity. 
We’ll make loveliness compulsory.

And the roar of our orchestra engines will soar evermore in a glorious annihilating symphony, for the tyranny of beauty is our God-given duty. 
Every child at birth is to be issued with a ukulele, 
given their own flag and granted absolute and utter sovereignty, 
and so long as it’s coloured in nicely and has an old woman on, make their own currency. And we’ll turn every urban address into a dripping Rousseau wilderness, and we’ll keep advancing until there’s nobody not dancing.

We’ll put politics in the pillory,
put the art back in artillery.
We can weaponise wonder
and our voice shall be as thunder.

From times of national demise arise new apes like me, 
with, in our leopard-scaring eyes, manifest destiny. 
I’ll lead you to a fluorescent utopia if you’ll let me: 
love me, worship me, obey me – but never pet me. 
If we can’t build a future then we’ll be its human landfill. So…
Cometh the moment, cometh the Mandrill. 
(Repeat until indoctrinated)

Alan Moore's Mandrill Meets Super Weird Substance At The Arts Lab Apocalypse (Greg Wilson Mixtape)

Recording of the finale of one of the key countercultural gatherings of recent times, the 14 Hour Super Weird Happening at The Florrie in Liverpool’s Dingle on April Fools’ Day 2017. The multi-media event featured live bands, DJs, performance, poetry, talks, art and much more.

Reviews:
Get Into This: http://www.getintothis.co.uk/2017/04/alan-moore-14-hour-super-weird-happening-florrie-liverpool/
Louder Than War: http://louderthanwar.com/14-hour-super-weird-happening-florrie-liverpool-review/

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Greg Wilson @ 14 Hour Super Weird Happening Finale The Florrie Liverpool 01.04.17

More relevant than ever, ‘World Gone Crazy’ sums up many people’s thoughts in these turbulent times.

This version appeared on the 'Greg Wilson Presents Super Weird Substance' compilation, a GW edit featuring elements of both the club dub and original mix. It was not previously available on SoundCloud until now.

'World Gone Crazy' was the fourth 12" single on Super Weird Substance back in July 2015. Originally written in the early nineties as part of the Mind Body & Soul project Greg Wilson was then developing with singer Tracey Carmen, it was intended for an album that never was and only a demo version was ever recorded. 

Its lyrics identified an information age already spiralling out of control. Two decades on however, and it’s far beyond anything anyone could have imagined back then. Originally referencing the post-acid house generation, ‘a generation lost and disillusioned’ now becomes the sixties generation, growing old in a world even more corrupt and confused than the one they thought they’d change.

It was suggested that 'World Gone Crazy' would be perfect for Leeds singer/musician The Reverend Cleve Freckleton and gruff gravitas of The Reverend’s voice was exactly what the track needed, serving to give its words more poignancy now than when they were written. 

Channeling the fire and spectacle of a spiritual laden Deep South service, Cleve cuts a commanding figure, calling out the world’s wrongs from his sonic pulpit. 'World Gone Crazy' was adroitly programmed by Peza, with The Reynolds and the song’s original singer, Tracey Carmen, providing powerful bvox and Ché Wilson weighing in with funk-laced rhythm guitar.

You can purchase a copy of the track at Juno Download: 
https://www.junodownload.com/products/greg-wilson-presents-super-weird-substance/2900826-02/

The Reverend Cleve Freckleton & The Sinners 'World Gone Crazy' (GW Edit)

Recording from the memorable #RAWDay at The Museum Of Art & History in Santa Cruz on 23rd July 2017.

For more info check out the accompanying blog post: 
http://www.superweirdsubstance.com/raw-day-santa-cruz/

Greg Wilson @ #RAWDay The Museum Of Art & History Santa Cruz 23.07.17

The latest release from Greg Wilson’s Super Weird Substance sees a return of The Super Weird Society; an amalgamation of the label’s vocalists – Kermit Leveridge, Katherine and Carmel Reynolds and The Reverend Cleve Freckleton. 

Following on from the memorable 14 Hour Super Weird Happening in Liverpool in April, which saw a live performance of the much-loved ‘Alan Moore’s Mandrill Meets The Super Weird Society At The Arts Lab Apocalypse’ mixtape, Super Weird Substance are back releasing music, building on the support received for the first 8 releases in 2015. 

Since the Mandrill mixtape, there's been much creation at SWS HQ and SWSD009 is the first official release from this new crop of tracks, some of which will be performed in the new 'Super Weird Jam' at Remember Love in Liverpool the weekend following the release. The 'Super Weird Jam' incorporates Xjukebox's The Isrights into a live semi-improvised performance and the label's four vocalists with Cleve on keys, performing through covers and Super Weird favourites.

Written by Henry Greenwood, Kermit Leveridge, The Reynolds and producer, Greg Wilson, the disco funk jam ‘Gone With The Vibe’ has been a big summer favourite for GW this year, with Henry’s Extended Mix being his weapon of choice.

You can pick up a digital copy here:
https://thesuperweirdsociety.bandcamp.com/album/gone-with-the-vibe

Artwork by Mal Earl

The Super Weird Society ‘Gone With The Vibe’ (Henry's Extended Mix)

‘Remember Love’ was a diversion from the norm – an all-day gathering with the emphasis on the social; enabling me to feature music I wouldn’t generally get chance to play.
 
A couple of days before the event I burnt off 9-hours-worth of tracks onto CD – just a semi-random selection of music I’ve uploaded for personal listening, rather than stuff I’m using for DJing. My spot was for 3 hours, so only a third of these classics and curios would make the cut on the day (which amounted to 41 selections). I wanted to do something different to what I generally do, playing not what I normally play, so I decided that there’d be no re-edits and that I wouldn’t mix (although I’d link the tracks with sound fx from the Revox).
 
So, having selected from a spectrum of tunes of varying styles, and with plenty of scope for the spontaneous flavour I wanted, it was pretty much a case of making it up as I went along, skipping from genre to genre and letting things free-flow. And a thoroughly enjoyable 3 hours it was, despite the elements being against us - rain intermittent throughout the day. However, this didn’t dampen spirits and I decided to stay set-up outside with the music also piped inside into District for those who wanted to avoid a soaking.
 
Big thanks to my fellow selectors Josh Ray and Jill On Top, plus The Isrights, The Reynolds and the Reverend Cleve Freckleton for an inspired Super Weird Jam (although unable to perform, Kermit Leveridge was in attendance despite being taken ill a couple of nights earlier at the ill-fated Hope And Glory festival where he appeared with Black Grape). Also shout out to Jayne, Eric, Ra and all Yard/District crew who enabled this to take place and provided such a great environment in which to meet new friends amongst familiar faces.

Read more about the event here: http://blog.gregwilson.co.uk/2017/07/remember-love/

Greg Wilson Live Selection @ Remember Love District & Yard Liverpool 06.08.17

Having been one of his biggest festival tunes in the summer of 2014, the Luxxury mix of Greg Wilson’s 'Summer Came My Way' - which originally surfaced on last year’s 'Schooled In The Classics' 12” - was put on the back burner throughout the winter in readiness for a full 2015 release. 

Given the fact it's become a firm seasonal favourite for Greg, we've decided to upload an ambient mix Luxxury put together back in 2015, which hasn't previously been heard before.

Sometimes composition is a long and arduous process, other times a song arrives fully formed. The latter was the case for Greg when he imagined 'Summer Came My Way' as a vehicle for hitherto unknown vocal forces of nature, The Reynolds - twins Katherine and the song’s lead singer Carmel - who, by beautiful serendipity happened to live within a mile of Greg’s Merseyside home.

Bursting out of LA with a lavish twelve-part re-edit series in 2014, Luxxury’s brand of hazy, slo-mo reworks - a West Coast Balaeric fusion - has catapulted him onto the world stage. Opening his mammoth eight- hour Berghain set in 2013 with Luxxury’s 'Hotel California' rework, Greg helped bring his Los Angeles vibes to wider attention, bolstered by his subsequent support of other reworks; 'Night Fever' and 'Riders On The Storm'.

A victim of his own success, 'Hotel California' gained Luxxury a little too much notoriety and, after a Wall Street Journal interview began circulating, Warner came down on him like a ton of bricks on finding out he’d used The Eagles’ multitracks. All was resolved however and his career has grown from strength to strength since then. The Luxxury approach perfectly fitted Greg’s vision of the song and the result is a glorious nine-minute epic, just in time for the summer. 

Two years on, this ambient mix captures the mood in dying days of summer, placing The Reynolds in a more mellow and ever so slightly melancholic context.

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Greg Wilson Feat The Reynolds 'Summer Came My Way' (Luxxury Ambient Mix)

The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu made their return in Liverpool and proved they're just as visionary and unpredictable as ever. 23 years on from burning a million quid on the Scottish Isle of Jura, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty took 400 'volunteers' on a journey through a series of bewildering and highly exciting 'situations', adding to their already heady mythos with their '2023' trilogy before unveiling their most ambitious project yet; The People's Pyramid.

This is a recording of Greg Wilson at the final Graduation Ball, where he played on a bill alongside DJ Food and the much hyped #BadgerKull. Here's a full lowdown on Welcome To The Dark Ages: http://www.superweirdsubstance.com/jams-klf-dark-ages

Greg Wilson @ The JAMs Graduation Ball Invisible Wind Factory Liverpool 25.08.17

On the night of the Graduation Ball people were saying that Jarvis Cocker was down at the front dancing and a few days later, I received a call from him saying he’d had a great time at the gig and he asked if Greg would be up for doing his stage at Festival No.6, which was very serendipitous given he was already going to be there for two gigs. It would be the perfect opening to what was a hugely enjoyable weekend.

Greg Wilson @ Festival No.6 Jarvis Cocker & Friends Castell Gardens Portmeirion 09.09.17

Kermit And The Super Weird System is the latest offering from the ever-evolving Moss Side artist. Channelling the likes of Big Youth, Dillinger and U-Roy, Kermit Leveridge’s new project sees him assume the role of a JA deejay, toasting over the booty-shaking, dubwise good times spun by Super Weird selector, Josh Ray.

 From an original British b-boy to a Ruthless Rap Assassin, Kermit has constantly shape-shifted his way to the front of the vanguard of music. Having been the first dancer photographed spinning on his head in the UK during his Broken Glass days, his rhymes were later hailed by Roots Manuva as the ‘the roots of grime’ and as a founding half of Black Grape, alongside Shaun Ryder, Kermit climbed to the top of the UK charts, securing his name in the annals of music history.

After touring the world to critical acclaim and crossing the near-fatal abyss of heroin addiction, Kermit returned as a poet with lyrical wit that’s as distinct and impressive as ever. Reigniting a long-standing creative partnership with DJ Greg Wilson in 2014, his return to music inspired the formation of the multi-media Super Weird Substance label, and an extended family of singers, musicians and DJs has grown out of it since.

With an output including 2 life-affirming mixtapes and 9 balearicpsychedelicdubdisco vinyl EPs, the label has established a name for itself in the counterculture, furthered by a string of live events including 7 memorable sixties-styled Super Weird Happenings. Providing a pop-up party wherever they go, Super Weird Substance has established a reputation for versatility; as comfortable hosting intimate fire-side sessions as they are rocking a full house on main stages.

This latest manifestation sees Kermit join forces with Josh Ray, who’s established a solid reputation for reggae locally in Liverpool, at festivals like Positive Vibration and Africa Oyé, whilst DJing further afield in places like Amsterdam and Addis Ababa. Debuted to an incredibly warm and increasingly wild response at Sheffield’s Catch 23, Kermit And The Super Weird System are primed to rock festival audiences across the UK with their new slant on a sound system.

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Kermit And The Super Weird System - SYSTEM TOO HOT (Mixtape)

We're delighted to announce the return of the vinyl-only Substance Select! Volume 2 in the series, sees SWS turn its attention to Bella Technika...

Born out of the ashes of Darkwood Dub, one of the Balkans’ most revered alternative rock bands during the ‘90s/’00s, Bella Technika is the latest project of Bojan Drobac, the group’s guitarist and main songwriter. Joined by former bandmate bass player Milorad Ristić as well as opera singer Katarina Jovanovic, amongst others, Bojan has found a new direction with Bella Technika.

Bella Technika join forces with Super Weird Substance for Substance Select Vol.2, which features three remixes and an original production from the band’s debut ‘Section’ LP, released last year.

Lee Perry AKA Peza, true to form, has provided a jacking, acid fuelled reimagining of ‘I Feel Light’. Alongside Sara Lucas’ primal vocal it evokes the halcyon days of house music.

Released 31st January 2020. Available here: https://bellatechnika.bandcamp.com/album/substance-select-vol-2

Bella Technika - I Feel Light (Peza Remix)

Born out of the ashes of Darkwood Dub, one of the Balkans’ most revered alternative rock bands during the ‘90s/’00s, Bella Technika is the latest project of Bojan Drobac, the group’s guitarist and main songwriter. Joined by former bandmate bass player Milorad Ristić as well as opera singer Katarina Jovanovic, amongst others, Bojan has found a new direction with Bella Technika. 

Bella Technika join forces with Super Weird Substance for Substance Select Vol.2, which features three remixes and an original production from the band’s debut ‘Section’ LP, released last year. 

Henry Greenwood provides a wonky, idiosyncratic version of ‘Heat Control’, slicing the hypnotically repeated vocals in and out of his chugging psychedisco groove.

Released 31st January 2020. Available here: https://bellatechnika.bandcamp.com/album/substance-select-vol-2

Bella Technika - Heat Control (Henry's Remix)

Born out of the ashes of Darkwood Dub, one of the Balkans’ most revered alternative rock bands during the ‘90s/’00s, Bella Technika is the latest project of Bojan Drobac, the group’s guitarist and main songwriter. Joined by former bandmate bass player Milorad Ristić as well as opera singer Katarina Jovanovic, amongst others, Bojan has found a new direction with Bella Technika.

Bella Technika join forces with Super Weird Substance for Substance Select Vol.2, which features three remixes and an original production from the band’s debut ‘Section’ LP, released last year.

Continuing their prolific form, Greg Wilson and Ché Wilson provide the first remix, taking album opener ‘Reinvented Daily’ into psychedelic territory with vocoder and dub fx.

Released 31st January 2020. Available here: https://bellatechnika.bandcamp.com/album/substance-select-vol-2

Bella Technika - Reinvented Daily (Greg Wilson & Ché Wilson Remix)

Digital single - released 14th February 2020. Available here: https://the-emanations.bandcamp.com/album/love

There’s a new Technicolor musical phenomenon emitting from the Morphogenetic Field… Known as The Emanations, this new project will act as a vessel for Greg and Ché Wilson to explore a new cut and paste approach to production. Sending fragments of classic and cult classic dance tracks through their sonic prism to create fresh hybrids.

The past couple of years have been prolific for the pair in the studio, turning their hand to a number of varied official remixes, including Sleight Of Hands’ 10CC cover for Green Gorilla Lounge, The Cuban Brothers cover of Razzy’s Northern Soul classic, Heavenly Records Melbourne-based outfit Confidence Man, Hipnotic’s early ‘80s boogie, Brooklyn collective Underground System on Soul Clap Records, Serbian electronic live act Bella Technika and the Confidence Man-affiliated Jungle Giants – with further mixes delivered and in the pipeline.

The Emanations project has been developing alongside this plethora of remixes, with Greg and Ché utilising stems provided by Tyrell, the Canadian-based multi-instrumentalist also responsible for replaying the parts for Rolling Stones/Massive Attack mash-up ‘Two Sides Of The Sympathy’ and SWS Chemise cover, ‘She Can’t Love You’.

‘Love’ is the first offering from the project, and links back to the beginnings of Super Weird Substance. Like with the label’s debut release, ‘Summer Came My Way’, the song was originally written by Greg Wilson and performed by The Reynolds for Schooled In The Classics.

This time however, it was mixed down at SWS HQ. Blending and fusing Tyrell’s re-recordings, GW and CW fed The Reynolds through a vocoder, inviting deeply emotive flautist Manon McCoy to add a delicate layer of ethereal magic.

The Emanations - Love

Digital single - released 13th March 2020. Available here; https://soulsmoke-music.bandcamp.com/track/eternal-desire

Soulsmoke is a project that emerged out of a shared love of underground US disco, melodic Italian house and esoteric Balearic treasures. With Ché Wilson (Guevarism) working alongside Josh Ray (JRay), Soulsmoke flirts with all three styles, bridging the down and dirty grooves of disco with the floating euphoria of house music, all with an eye on the hedonistic, loved-up party beaches across the Europe.

Arriving with a statement of intent, 9-minutes of hard-hitting piano-driven house, Soulsmoke’s ‘Eternal Desire’ pulls no punches in the pursuit of moving a peak-time crowd. Working with younger Liverpool-based musicians, Super Weird Substance is ebbing slowly closer to its goal of a house-band, with Andrew Wileman providing infectious keys and Lady Soul stepping up with a primal take on JRay’s cosmically charged lyrics, backed subtly by Carmel Reynolds.

Having been DJing together for over a year, whilst previously collaborating on a number of DJ edits as the Fire House collective, Ché Wilson and JRay have built up a solid working relationship, with a finessed and varied musical ability paired with a deep and extensive knowledge of music.

Soulsmoke can be seen as the Yin to the Yang of the Cryptide collective, another project formed by duo, which also includes a host of like-minded musicians and producers. The dark and brooding acid/electro/breakbeat sounds of The Cryptide form a balance to the majestic and uplifting disco/house/Balearic sounds of Soulsmoke.

JRay and Ché Wilson have recently begun DJing together as Soulsmoke and are set to take Super Weird Substance’s new sound to venues and festivals around the UK, with further releases later this year.

Soulsmoke - Eternal Desire ft. Lady Soul

Digital single - released 17th April 2020. Available here: https://guevarism.bandcamp.com/track/moonlight-kept-us-up-ft-carmel-reynolds

The third in Super Weird Substance’s 2020 digital releases, Guevarism's ‘Moonlight (Kept Us Up)’ sees the label further broadening its horizons to take in a wider scope of dance styles.

Ché Wilson has been integral to this new direction. Having forged his own path as a musician, he’s more recently found a new outlet for creativity, becoming a DJ/Producer in his own right. Guevarism is his own club-based project.

Setting the tone via a series of remixes in collaboration with his father Greg Wilson, for Confidence Man, Underground System, The Jungle Giants, Bella Technika, Sleight Of Hands and Hipnotic, the duo provided the label’s first digital release of the year, 'Love' with their new project The Emanations. Following with Soulsmoke's 'Eternal Desire', the debut from a new collaboration between Ché Wilson and JRay.

The uplifting ‘Moonlight (Kept Us Up)’ features vocalist Carmel Reynolds, who has already made key contributions to the label’s evolution. A futuristic breakbeat workout, 'Moonlight' is intricate yet forceful, sometimes ethereal; sometimes menacing; it revises the rave blueprint for a new generation of dancers.

With his band Rubber Dub in increasing demand, whilst the Keep It Cryptic underground parties he co-promotes in Liverpool go from strength to strength, Ché is a rising force within the Merseyside music scene – this new single further enhancing his emergence.

Guevarism - Moonlight (Kept Us Up) ft. Carmel Reynolds

Earlier this year The Emanations announced their arrival with a Technicolor debut single ‘Love’, signalling a new direction for Super Weird Substance, bringing in a more youthful energy. Working as The Emanations, Greg Wilson and Ché Wilson explore a new cut and paste approach to production, having collaborated on a number of remixes these past couple of years.

Returning the favour for the GW/CW remix of New York’s Underground System, acclaimed Boston-based DJ and production duo Soul Clap have worked their magic on the Emanation’s debut, which now sees three new versions titled ‘Spread A Little Love’ - a Soul Clap extended mix and dub version plus a special Greg Wilson edit. The remix, and its variants, with a nod to D.C. LaRue and Firefly, evoke the jazz-funk vibes of the late-‘70s/early-‘80s.

Featuring SWS favourites The Reynolds and flautist Manon McCoy, who adds a deeply emotive and delicate layer of ethereal magic, Greg and Ché had already created a blissed-out slice of a Balearic summer with the original, although, to date, it’s unfortunately received sparse dance floor action given the shutdown of the clubbing industry due to COVID-19. Soul Clap’s workout runs at a mammoth 10 minutes plus, giving the track a whole new spaced-out dimension and allowing the listener to get further lost in the depths of its sonic realms, whilst their dub version boils the track down to a more visceral concentrate that’s sure to ignite dancefloors.   

Soul Clap have been incredibly prolific the past few years, with a continuous stream of quality originals, remixes and compilations being released via Soul Clap Records, alongside various collaborative works like this release with Super Weird Substance.

Greg and Ché have hit a similarly productive work-rate together, with remixes for Confidence Man, Jarvis Cocker, Simply Red, DSK, Sleight Of Hands, The Cuban Brothers, Hipnotic, Bella Technika and Jungle Giants under their belts, they’re still attracting more remix requests and have further original music in the works with The Emanations, utilising stems provided by Tyrell, the Canadian-based multi-instrumentalist for further SWS releases.

Pre-order here:
https://www.superweirdsubstance.com/the-love-ep
https://the-emanations.bandcamp.com/album/the-love-ep

The Emanations - Spread A Little Love (Soul Clap Extended Mix)

New Soul Clap mixes of The Emanations 'Spread A Little Love' out Dec 4th on Super Weird Substance. Includes my condensed edit of their epic 10 min remix, uploaded here, which is also available, along with the dub version. Two week exclusive on Juno Downloads and Bandcamp. Pre-order below: 
https://www.junodownload.com/products/the-emanations-the-love-ep/4844947-02/
https://the-emanations.bandcamp.com/album/the-love-ep

Further info at SWS:
https://www.superweirdsubstance.com/the-love-ep/

The Emanations 'Spread A Little Love' (greg wilson edit of soul clap mix)

Earlier this year The Emanations announced their arrival with a Technicolor debut single ‘Love’, signalling a new direction for Super Weird Substance, bringing in a more youthful energy. Working as The Emanations, Greg Wilson and Ché Wilson explore a new cut and paste approach to production, having collaborated on a number of remixes these past couple of years.
 
Returning the favour for the GW/CW remix of New York’s Underground System, acclaimed Boston-based DJ and production duo Soul Clap have worked their magic on the Emanation’s debut, which now sees three new versions titled ‘Spread A Little Love’ - a Soul Clap extended mix and dub version plus a special Greg Wilson edit. The remix, and its variants, with a nod to D.C. LaRue and Firefly, evoke the jazz-funk vibes of the late-‘70s/early-‘80s.
 
Featuring SWS favourites The Reynolds and flautist Manon McCoy, who adds a deeply emotive and delicate layer of ethereal magic, Greg and Ché had already created a blissed-out slice of a Balearic summer with the original, although, to date, it’s unfortunately received sparse dance floor action given the shutdown of the clubbing industry due to COVID-19. Soul Clap’s workout runs at a mammoth 10 minutes plus, giving the track a whole new spaced-out dimension and allowing the listener to get further lost in the depths of its sonic realms, whilst their dub version boils the track down to a more visceral concentrate that’s sure to ignite dancefloors.  
 
Soul Clap have been incredibly prolific the past few years, with a continuous stream of quality originals, remixes and compilations being released via Soul Clap Records, alongside various collaborative works like this release with Super Weird Substance.
 
Greg and Ché have hit a similarly productive work-rate together, with remixes for Confidence Man, Jarvis Cocker, Simply Red, DSK, Sleight Of Hands, The Cuban Brothers, Hipnotic, Bella Technika and Jungle Giants under their belts, they’re still attracting more remix requests and have further original music in the works with The Emanations, utilising stems provided by Tyrell, the Canadian-based multi-instrumentalist for further SWS releases.
 
https://www.superweirdsubstance.com/the-love-ep/
https://the-emanations.bandcamp.com/album/the-love-ep
https://www.junodownload.com/products/the-emanations-the-love-ep/4844947-02/

PREMIERE: The Emanations - Spread A Little Love (Soul Clap Dub)

A multi-media label founded by DJ Greg Wilson, Super Weird Substance deals primarily with balearicpsychedelicdubdisco recordings whilst, on the live side, hosting sixties-styled ‘Happenings’ that include talks, art, bands and DJs.

Announcing its presence at the beginning of summer in 2014 – via the good vibes life-affirming mixtape ‘Blind Arcade Meets Super Weird Substance In The Morphogenetic Field’ – the label took five Super Weird Happenings across the country, whilst releasing a series of new recordings on vinyl, the next year. Eight singles were released between June and October, followed by a CD compilation, bringing together all of the singles as well as alternate versions and a special Greg Wilson mix.

Building on the success of a memorable Festival No.6 showcase in Portmeirion in 2015, Super Weird Substance returned in April 2017 with their most ambitious event to date, the 14 Hour Super Weird Happening at The Florrie. Prior to that Super Weird Substance collaborated with the man who bestowed their name, teaming up with Alan Moore and his Mandrillifesto project, Super Weird Substance created their second mixtape, ‘Alan Moore’s Mandrill Meets Super Weird Substance At The Arts Lab Apocalypse’, taking his acute social commentary and reinventing it within their own joyous sonic realm.

In 2018, the label returned to music with digital single, Gone With The Vibe and the first Substance Select EP. 2019 saw a new, younger energy introduced to the label, bringing with it new sounds, set to be unleashed in 2020, alongside Substance Select Vol.2, releasing Bella Technika remixes on vinyl.

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