Deep & Disco

Aficionado of all things soulful and all-around slick muthaf@cka, San Diego's Freddie Joachim delivers this 5th installment of our podcast series.  Always an avid listener of hip-hop, jazz, brazilian, soul music and more, Freddie's tastes are on full display in this mix which flows seamlessly through his choice selections.  

Freddie has numerous releases under his belt, but the world is gonna get a fresh taste of his production prowess when the upcoming Outta Sight 7" drops on January 27th on Razor-N-Tape. The record includes Freddie's new twist on a Stevie Wonder classic, already a certified party panty-dropper, with Kano Sano's future soul version on the flip!

Check out more from Freddie here: https://soundcloud.com/freddiejoachim

Tracklist:

01 Julien Dyne feat Parks - Fallin Down (Mitsu Remix)
02 Dwele - What Profit
03 Zo! - Detroit District (Pts. I & II)
04 Aloe Blacc - Love Is The Answer (featuring Pharrell)
05 Mara Hruby - Alright
06 Erik Rico & Marc Mac - Just Love
07 Havana Cultura - Think Twice (Marc Mac of 4 Hero Remix) feat. Danay & Carina
08 J Dilla - Rico Suave Bossa Nova
09 Jurassic 5 - Canto de Ossanha
10 Marissa - Saudade Fez Um Samba (Sadness Created a Samba)
11 J.Rawls & Middle Child - Thankful
12 Ohmega Watts - Adaptacao Ft. Tita Lima
13 Hassanah - Release
14 Dj Day - A Place To Go
15 Quadron - Simili Life
16 Iamnobodi - One For My Kids
17 Robin Thicke - Lost Without You (Oddisee Remix)
18 Marsha Ambrosius - Butterflies 
19 Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered (DJ Smash Essential Funk Mix)
20 Alicia Myers - I Want To Thank You
21 Busta Rhymes ft Qtip Kanye West and Lil Wayne - Thank You
22 Black Milk - Sonny Jr. (Dreams) [feat. Robert Glasper & Dwele]
23 Maylee Todd - Hieroglyphics (Tall Black Guy Remix)
24 J.Rawls - Inhale,Exhale
25 Keelay And Zaire - Alright With Me Ft. Dminor And Phonte Of Little Brother 
26 Zhane - Hey Mr DJ
27 De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)
28 Mayer Hawthorne - No Strings
29 Common - Heat
30 The Upstarts - Put It Down (Freddie Joachim Remix)

The Deep&Disco / Razor-N-Tape Podcast - Episode #5: Freddie Joachim

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)

Deep disco edits mixed

Live recording of Greg Wilson from closing night of Electric Elephant Festival in Croatia at Barbarella's Discotheque 11.07.16.

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BARBARELLA'S @ ELECTRIC ELEPHANT CROATIA 11.07.16 (greg wilson live mix)

Recording of Greg Wilson from La Discothèque at Manchester's Albert Hall 12.11.16.

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LA DISCOTHÈQUE @ THE ALBERT HALL MANCHESTER 12.11.16 (greg wilson live mix)

DEEP & DISCO EDITS  ON  WAX .    MIXED   BY  SARTORIAL

Radiomeuh - Plein Phares Vol.1
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Tracklist:
01- Johnnie Taylor – Stormy (ChangED Rework)
02- Rayko - You Stepped Rayko Edit)
       Reprise des [Bee Gees - You Stepped Into My World]
03- Peza – Turn Off The Lights
04- Steely Dan – The Fez (Laura Ingalls wtf is a fez Edit)
05- Bill Withers – The Same Love (Whiskey Barons Rework)
06- Gil Scott Heron – Willing (Alkalino Rework)
07- William DeVaughn – Be Thankful for What You've Got (Onur Engin Edit)
08- Raw DMX – Do It To The Funk
09- Edit Murphy – Undisputed
 10- 40 Thieves Feat. Qzen – Don't Turn It Off (Greg Wilson Edit)
 1 1- Kid Creole & The Coconuts – I Do Believe (40 Thieves Mix)
 12- Family of Eve – I Wanna Be Loved by You
        Compilation enregistrée par Phil (Herr Meuh).
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