Audio treats from the team behind BBC Radio 3's Jazz on 3.

Remorseful, despairing and slightly haunting, the minimal approach and singular directive.

Ivor Novello Award-winner and Mercury, Grammy, and BRIT-nominated artist Lianne La Havas unveils her new single ‘Disarray.’ The track showcases a blend of emotional depth and striking vocal delivery, set against sparse, ethereal finger-plucked electric guitar —a signature of La Havas’ style. 

“The song felt very intimate, almost like a secret just for me,” says La Havas. “It’s about vulnerability, honesty, and giving listeners a window into a moment of my life.”

Over the course of her career, La Havas has released three acclaimed albums — Is Your Love Big Enough? , Blood and her self-titled Lianne La Havas  (which won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Album). She has collaborated with leading international artists and captivated audiences worldwide with her spellbinding live performances.

Released via her own Καλό μήνα (Kalo Mina) Records. La Havas embarks on an exciting new chapter, broadening her sonic horizons while remaining rooted in vulnerability and artistry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Match&Fuse (M&F) is a touring exchange network and annual festival with the primary aim of connecting creative scenes across Europe. With an emphasis on local culture and its transmission across borders M&F facilitates shared platforms for like-minded artists and the creation of new artistic material through international collaboration.

1. Aesthetic
M&F aims to work within underground scenes that comprise distinctive audiences built  through cutting-edge artistry. M&F is typified by an innovative and alternative approach, with artistic diversity given common purpose via strong artist-group identities and through dynamic performance or practice.

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M&F facilitates equal partnerships between artists; this implies an aesthetically appropriate ‘matching’ of artists, as well as a logistical and administrative blueprint for management and promotion that is fair to both parties for international exchanges (utilising local knowledge relative to each artist’s country) and appearances at festivals or showcases.

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The creation of new artistic works is central to the M&F philosophy. New work is usually formed in a live or practical setting through the ‘fusing’ of groups or artists’ individual approaches, but can also involve specially pre-composed or -conceived work, and recording, rehearsal or workshop sessions.

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M&F aims to work alongside promoters, venues and audiences, encouraging open channels of communication, ‘risk-sharing’ between all parties and the financial stability of events and programmes, while still creating an environment that encourages quality artistry.

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An enterprising outlook is essential for any artist or group as it provides them with a diverse range of opportunities. M&F strongly endorses such entrepreneurial practice within all of its projects. As with its relationship with venues, risk is shared between M&F, artists and promoters, encouraging each party to take on responsibility for the success of each exchange or collaborative project.

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M&F believes in collecting high-quality media from each event, in order to document the creation of new work, create a long-lasting legacy for each project and disseminate it effectively through online sources. Similarly, evaluative data, marketing techniques and merchandising are central to developing audiences: M&F is constantly striving towards strong relationships between artists and their public.

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M&F education projects challenge the setting within which contemporary art is received and studied in order to develop audiences of the future and continuously expose young people to high-quality creative work.

The essence of Match&Fuse is encapsulated in its name: artists, exchanges and audiences are ‘matched’ to ensure equality across projects and to provide appropriate platforms for creative practice to thrive. They are then ‘fused’, creating cutting-edge new work, breaking down barriers between genres and cultures, and challenging pre-conceptions: in sum, exporting vibrant, dynamic artistry across Europe.

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