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Part 1 of 3
GREG WILSON
VARIOUS MIXES PLUS INTERVIEWS 1983-2002
1. BUFFALO GALS¹ MALCOLM McLAREN THE WORLD¹S FAMOUS SUPREME TEAM LIVE
MIX 1983
Live mix from Legend¹ in Manchester using 3 turntables. Recorded onto
cassette, so apologies for the poor sound quality. The track at the
beginning is Klien MBO¹s Dirty Talk¹.
2. D¹YA LIKE SCRATCHIN¹¹ - PICCADILLY RADIO B-BOY MIX 1983
In the summer of 83, when breakdancing began to hit the streets of
Manchester in a big way, I put this together with the breakers and poppers
in mind. As with all my Radio mixes, the equipment I used were two Technics
SL1200¹s and a Revox B77 reel-to-reel. Tracks are D¹Ya Like Scratchin¹¹ by
Malcolm McLaren The World¹s Famous Supreme Team, The Adventures of
Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel¹ by Grandmaster Flash The Furious
Five, Break Dancin¹ Electric Boogie¹ by the West Street Mob, The
Wildstyle¹ by Time Zone, Rockit¹ by Herbie Hancock, I¹m The Pacman¹ by The
Pacman, and Hobo Scratch¹ by Malcolm McLaren The World¹s Famous Supreme
Team.
3. FREAK-A-ZOIDS¹ PICCADILLY RADIO DANCE MIX 1983
One of a number of mixes I did for Piccadilly between 82-84 (beginning in
May 82). The mixes were the first of their type in the country, and were
aired on Mike Shaft¹s specialist black music show, T.C.O.B¹ (Taking Care Of
Business). This mix features many Legend¹ and Wigan Pier¹ classics from
82/83, including Freak-A-Zoid¹ by Midnight Star, Beat The Street¹ by
Sharon Redd, Confused Beats¹ by New Order. Walking On Sunshine¹ by Rockers
Revenge, Body Work¹ by Hot Streak¹, The Return Of Captain Rock¹ by Captain
Rock, Heat You Up¹ by Shirley Lites, Makin¹ Music¹ by Gary¹s Gang, Jingo
Breakdown¹ by Candido, It¹s Passion¹ by The System, Weekend¹ by Class
Action, Chocolate Milk Who¹s Getting¹ It Now¹, Toney Lee Reach Up¹ and
others, plus snippets of some of the more innovative pop 12² mixes of the
period, Don¹t You Want Me¹ by the Human League, The Look Of Love¹ by ABC,
Chant No 1¹ by Spandau Ballet and Situation¹ by Yazoo.
4. I FEEL FOR YOU¹ CHAKA KHAN PICCADILLY RADIO TURNTABLE EDIT 1984
One of a series of mixes I did for Piccadilly in 84 where I took a
well-known track and put together my own version. I called them Turntable
Edits¹ because I¹d use 2 copies of the same record for repeat and phase
effects, and the Revox for cutting it up. Others included New Order, Frankie
Goes To Hollywood, and Scritti Politti.
5. THE WORD¹ KISS 100 ELECTRO INTERVIEW 1994
6. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO CLUBLAND¹ RADIO 1 ELECTRO INTERVIEW 1994
In 1994 I compiled Classic Electro Mastercuts¹, which prompted much media
interest in the Electro period. I¹ve included two of the radio interviews I
did that year, one for Kiss 100¹s Electro special, the other for Radio 1¹s
club history, The Gospel According To Clubland¹. It¹s interesting to note
that while Radio 1 cite their own presenter, Tim Westwood, as the pioneer of
the London Electro scene, Kiss¹s Gordon Mac places its origins with George
Power and Paul Anderson. Whatever the disagreements about the roots and
development of the Electro movement in the capital, there¹s no such argument
regarding the North. Much of the confusion surrounding the London scene is
because it was fragmented and without a focal point (until Mike Allen¹s
Capital radio show finally filled the void towards the end of 1984), whereas
Legend and Wigan Pier were central to the club scene up-North, and known to
pretty much every DJ in the region, if not the country. On top of this, the
Piccadilly radio mixes allowed me to take Electro-Funk to a wider audience
at a time when Mike Shaft¹s Soul show contemporaries in London, Greg Edwards
and Robbie Vincent, would never have entertained such an idea.
7. MONASTIC MIX¹ 1996
Although my DJ appearances since 1984 have been few and far-between, from
late 96 through 97 I was involved in an experimental monthly club night on
Merseyside (plus specials at London¹s Mars Bar¹) called The Monastery¹.
The basic premise was that we didn¹t play any four-on-the-floor (as this was
being played pretty much everywhere else at the time), concentrating instead
on groove-based music from the 60¹s to the 90¹s. A free cassette was given
away to everyone who attended the first night, with the Monastic Mix¹
filling one of the sides. It was the final mix I put together using my
Revox, and is just about as eclectic as it gets (although more recently
Soulwax¹s brilliant 2 Many DJ¹s¹ mix had a similar anything goes flavour),
featuring 60¹s Soul, 70¹s Funk, Electro-Funk, Hip-Hop, Indie-Dance,
Trip-Hop, Drum Bass and more. I put it together with a Liverpool DJ called
Matt Shannon, and it became cult listening for the people who got hold
