Showing posts with label greg wilson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label greg wilson. Show all posts
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
DJ SET: GREG WILSON @ LOFT STUDIOS LONDON 20.04.13
Another stupendously good Greg Wilson mix to digest. Boom it's over 3 hours long too! THANK YOU GREG!
Sunday, 25 November 2012
STREAM / DL: THE MONASTIC MIX (BY GREG WILSON 1996)
http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2012/11/the-monastic-mix/
I think it’s a mix that’s most conducive to a chilled-out environment (and state of mind). I might have given the impression that it’s pretty heavy-going, but you’ll find lots of familiar stuff throughout (it makes for a great game of spot the sample) and I’m sure it’ll raise a smile, and perhaps even the spirit, here and there."
Sunday, 11 November 2012
STREAM / DL: Greg Wilson @ Track artwork MELTING POT GLASGOW 03.11.12 (live mix)
Sunday, 26 August 2012
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
STREAM / DL: Greg Wilson, Derrick Carter, The Revenge Mixes
Been grooving to these all week and yes I know I've been absent but a boys gotta eat. Check these out while you wait for a fresh update.Thursday, 6 October 2011
DOWNLOAD: Greg Wilson 'DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ADJUST YOUR RADIO'
Taken from GW's Soundcloud page: "I also had some old jingles that fitted the theme I had in mind, which was a radio show, but without a presenter - instead the tracks would be segued together via edited sections, sound bites and samples. It’s a real cut-up, very raw and experimental, referencing a wide spectrum of black music, mainly from the 70’s and early 80’s, taking in Soul, Funk, Disco, Jazz-Funk, Electro-Funk, Hip Hop and Boogie, but with a few curve ball edits thrown in for good measure. Listening back I can clearly hear that, in some respects, I used it as an ideas pad, a number of which came to fruition later down the line."
Mmmm, mmm, mmm another slice of aural happiness form the DJ who just keeps on giving.
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
STREAM / DOWNLOAD: Greg Wilson BESTIVAL REELS OF STEEL 11.09.11
GW recently did a live show at Rizlab @ Bestival where he added visuals whilst performing a live DJ set. We weren't able to make it but thankfully Greg Wilson has posted up part of the mix on soundcloud and there are also two videos below taken by members of the audience where we can see exactly what it was he was doing with those images. Looks pretty cool.
BESTIVAL REELS OF STEEL @ RIZLAB 11.09.11 (greg wilson live mix) by gregwilson
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
STREAM / DOWNLOAD: Mixmag No.45 Greg Wilson / Sean Brosnan podcast
Check out the latest Mixmag podcast featuring Electro funk pioneer Greg Wilson and NeedWant head honcho Sean Brosnan, who tells us what records he would take with him if he were Marooned on Mars.
You can catch Greg Wilson, live if you are lucky enough to be in West London this Friday 8th September at the Westbury Bar, Kilburn.
No.45 Greg Wilson / Sean Brosnan by Mixmag
Friday, 2 September 2011
VIDEO: Amerie '1 Thing' / STREAM: Edit The Edit 'Two Sides Of Sympathy' (greg wilson edit of pta mash-ups)
OK thats the first reason out the way and the second is the awesome mashup that Greg Wilson did that uses the Amerie vocal to full effect. He has just made this outsanding track available to stream and download on his soundcloud page and it simply awesome. I defy anyone to not at least find themselves headnodding along to this most majestic of mash-ups. Check out the original music video and GW's edit below.
Edit The Edit 'Two Sides Of Sympathy' (greg wilson edit of pta mash-ups) by gregwilson
Greg Wilson had the following to say about how it came about:
"Of all the tracks I’ve played since my DJ return at the end of ’03, this has been undoubtedly the most requested. It was very much a signature track for a number of years, and still makes an appearance from time to time nowadays.
It all stems from when I picked up a 12” from Piccadilly Records in Manchester during the summer of 2005. It was by The P.T.A (Paul Martin and Tyrrell) on Throw Away Records, and included two mash-ups, both of which used the vocal from Amerie’s ‘1 Thing’, which had been a big R&B hit earlier that year. On one side of the 12” it had been mashed with Massive Attack’s ‘Unfinished Sympathy’ (this was titled ‘Unfinished Thing’), whilst on the other, ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ by the Rolling Stones (‘One For The Devil’). Not only had each of these combinations melded brilliantly, but both had ‘Sympathy’ in the title. This impressed me no end – some genius juxtaposition going on there.
Listening closer it was clear that there’d been some tampering, but it wasn’t until much later that I realised that, apart from the Amerie acappella, everything had been re-created by Canadian producer / DJ Tyrrell, including Keith Richard’s iconic guitar solo, which sounded better than ever - I’d presumed that the version of ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ he’d used had come from some Andrew Loog Oldham type instrumental (as was the case when The Verve famously sampled Oldham’s orchestral arrangement of the Stones’ ‘The Last Time’, on their 90’s classic ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’), so this only added to my awe at what Tyrrell and Paul had somehow managed to magic up.
Brilliance on vinyl is all good and well, but I’d bought the track with the dancefloor in mind, so it was now a case of how it walked the walk. Straight away I had a problem – which side to play? They were both really strong and I couldn’t make my mind up at first, but then I went between the horns of this dilemma and decided to mix one straight into the other, as though it was a single continuous track. I originally did this live (they appear together this way on a recording from Birmingham’s much lamented Jigsaw night, where I played in August ’05), but then I decided to put together an edit so I could take the combined length down by about three minutes and tighten the idea up. I called this version ‘Two Sides Of Sympathy’ – I utilized the percussion from ‘One For The Devil’ for the intro, before moving into the main body of ‘Unfinished Thing’, which then mixes back into ‘One for The Devil’ during the breakdown, reaching its climax with the guitar solo. To round things off I gave it a customary peppering of samples and spins.
The edit went Big with a capital B for me, and everywhere I went people were asking for it – it was one of those tracks you couldn’t stop playing because you knew that people would be disappointed not to hear it. When I came to put together my Essential Mix for Radio 1 in January ‘09, ‘Two Sides Of Sympathy’ was probably the first track on my list (the mix focusing on the tunes that had served me best since my comeback five years previous).
A limited 12” on the Edit The Edit inprint was made available in 2007 – as the name suggests, this was for my edits of other peoples edits (or mash-ups, as in this case). The original P.T.A release was fully credited on the label – I’d made contact with Tyrrell via email and he’d given his blessing for the 12” to be pressed. We got to meet for the first time when I was in London appearing at Plastic People in April ’07, where he’d hear me play ‘Two Sides’ over that killer system.
In 2009 it would re-appear on vinyl, this time as the second release in the Reactivate series (following on from ‘I Was A Teenage DJ’ / ‘Gotta Keep Workin’ It’), a new wave of DJ demand resulting from its Essential Mix inclusion.
Given that I can’t list the artists as Amerie, Massive Attack & the Rolling Stones (because two thirds of that trio are Tyrrell in disguise), I’ll stick to Edit The Edit ‘Two Sides Of Sympathy', which is how it’s been listed most often, Essential Mix included.
When I asked Tyrrell if he was happy for me to upload it here he told me to ‘go ahead, spread the love’. So here it is, maintaining the bi-yearly sequence – 2005 original P.T.A 12”, 2007 Edit The Edit 12”, 2009 Reactivate 12”, and now 2011 SoundCloud download.
Greg Wilson – August 2011"
Monday, 15 August 2011
DOWNLOAD: WAREHOUSE @ VINTAGE SOUTHBANK (greg wilson live mix)
Part 3 of the Vintage Trilogy; Live recording from the Warehouse in the bowls of the Royal Festival Hall in London's Southbank 31.07.11. This is the final mix in the Vintage trilogy.
WAREHOUSE @ VINTAGE SOUTHBANK 31.07.11 (greg wilson live mix) by gregwilson
DOWNLOAD: STYLE STUDIO @ VINTAGE SOUTHBANK (greg wilson live mix)
Part 2 of the vintage trilogy; a live mix by Greg Wilson recorded in the Style Studio overlooking the Thames at Vintage in the Royal Festival Hall on London’s Southbank 29.07.11.
STYLE STUDIO @ VINTAGE SOUTHBANK 29.07.11 (greg wilson live mix) by gregwilson
Tuesday, 2 August 2011
DOWNLOAD: SOUL CASINO @ VINTAGE SOUTHBANK 29.07.11 (greg wilson live selection)
From Mr Wilson: 'Something a bit different, not a mix in the normal sense, but a no-frills selection of soulful singles spanning a seven year period (1969–1976) and played during my lunchtime Soul Casino spot at Vintage in the Royal Festival Hall on London’s Southbank 29.07.11.'
SOUL CASINO @ VINTAGE SOUTHBANK 29.07.11 (greg wilson live selection) by gregwilson
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
DOWNLOAD: Greg Wilson 'Live mix from The Cut Newcastle' 29 May 2011
Recorded at a lively bank holiday party at The Cut in Newcastle just a couple of weeks ago (May 29th).
Tracklisting:
1. Sebastian slow momy
2. Project Tempo get up and clap your hands
3. Pink Floyd another brick in the wall (dj agent 86 edit)
4. Late Nite Tuff Guy one nite at the disco (gw edit)
5. Subvader each time we touch (ebar mix / gw version)
6. Donna Allen serious (ron basejam edit)
7. Odyssey hang together (keep schtum edit)
8. Ooft! make u mine
9. Donald Byrd love has come around (deep & disco edit)
10.Alena changes (ron basejam mix)
11.Loleatta Holloway love sensation (beaten space probe edit)
12.40 Thieves don’t turn it off (gw version)
13.Jimmy Bo Horne spank (hawk edit)
Monday, 30 May 2011
DOWNLOAD:Greg Wilson Live @ MELTING POT GLASGOW 21 May
Yet another fine ass mix from GW. Check out out now it's hot and fresh and for more on Greg check out his website here.
Wednesday, 18 May 2011
DOWNLOAD: Dubble D & Rakim Soul Squelch (Greg Wilson’s mashup)
Just in from Redux blog.Taken from the first ever Redux edit ep by Greg Wilson which is now deleted and gone for good. Here it is in all it’s full fat WAV glory for anyone who missed it to enjoy. Definitely one to get the heads nodding and booties bouncing. Grab it QUICK before it goes again. This is some sickness so at least have a listen below.
Dubble D & Rakim Soul Squelch (Greg Wilson's mashup) by dubble d
Friday, 1 April 2011
VIDEO: DJ Greg Wilson - Manchester Moments
Ahead of his Reels of Steel debut at Band on the Wall, electrofunk pioneer & nudisco DJ - Greg Wilson talks to Stretch Disco about his career defining Manchester nights at Legends, The Haçienda, Music is Better and Electric Chair. You can see Greg play next with
Stretch Disco feat. Greg Wilson's Reels of Steel - April 16th at Band on the Wall.
Monday, 14 March 2011
DOWNLOAD: Greg Wilson 'MISTER SATURDAY NIGHT BROOKLYN 05.03.11' mix
Legendary DJ Greg Wilsons latest offering was recorded live at the Mister Saturday Night Loft Party in Brooklyn, NYC 5 March 2011, and is yet another classic and well worth checking out, even if you are a regular follower of his soundcloud mix page or are fortunate enough to see him live. For more info check out his website.
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
DOWNLOAD: Greg Wilson Fabric Mix
Get you greedy virtual hands on this awesome Greg Wilson Fabric mix from his recent gig at Fabric. Also check out his latest interview over at The House Of Disco - very interesting and enlightening stuff.
Friday, 5 November 2010
STREAM: Greg Wilson DJ mixes by the bucketload!!!
Have you been over to Greg Wilson's Soundcloud page lately, ever, never? If you haven't heard of him by now then where have you been? Those regulars reading will know that he is one my all time favourite DJ's and one of the greatest in the world right now. Check out the video of him DJing live on The UK music TV show 'The Tube' back in '83 - he's being interviewed by Jools Holland! I haven't got through all the new additions to his live mix roaster, available to stream and download right now but of the ones I listened to so far my favourite has to be The Rizla Riverboat shuffle (listen below) and includes tracks from Jamoroquai, The XX, Queen and Everything But The Girl and lots more of course.
Greg on the Tube in 1983:
Thursday, 14 October 2010
STREAM: The XX 'Night Time' Greg Wilson Version
Disco Disco Disco! Head nodding deep disco madness from Mr Wilson. This is an simply astounding remix of band du jour The XX.
No news on when this little slice of hotness is due for a release but It's forthcoming on XL as part of a remix package, not sure of the actual release date yet but it is currently being promo'd so if you know then drop us a line and leave a comment. Stream below.
The XX 'Night Time' - Greg Wilson Version by wearemachinemusic
No news on when this little slice of hotness is due for a release but It's forthcoming on XL as part of a remix package, not sure of the actual release date yet but it is currently being promo'd so if you know then drop us a line and leave a comment. Stream below.
The XX 'Night Time' - Greg Wilson Version by wearemachinemusic
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