greg wilson and the SDC

if you havent already met, let me introduce you to disco don, greg wilson.
he is credited as the '1st UK Dj to mix live on tv'.... 1983 baby!



he was just a teenage dj

From his myspace: "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. He was a pioneer of mixing in the UK and in 1983 he became the first ‘dance music’ DJ hired for a regular weekly session at Manchester's now legendary Hacienda club. 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 his own website electrofunkroots to document this crucial era in the evolution of dance culture and, having retired from DJ work at the end of 1983, Greg returned to spinning tunes two decades later, receiving plaudits for his red-hot appearances at renowned nights including Electric Chair, Horse Meat Disco, Fabric, Back To Basics, Ministry Of Sound, Asylum, Melting Pot and the Sub Club, to name but a few. Before long he was picking up an ever increasing amount of bookings throughout Europe and, more recently, worldwide.
In 2005 Tirk Records released ‘Credit to the Edit’, a compilation of re-edits spanning Greg's entire career, some even original tape edits from way back when (Greg still uses his trusty old Revox B77 reel-to-reel tape machine when DJing out). This wasn't his first compilation either, having collaborated on most of the tracks to appear on the Street Sounds ‘UK Electro’ LP in 1984, as well as being the selector behind the ‘Classic Electro Mastercuts’ LP in 1994."
And now we have Credit to the Edit vol 2 - a stellar compilation featuring megajams 'Dont Turn It Off' and 'Secret Sunday Lover'; both required listening for anyone curious about 'nu-disco' or hip swinging in general.




BTW: the 40 Thieves funkflex 'dont turn it off' is a cover of the 1979 track of the same name by Hot Chocolate and it famously appeared in the 2005 Rub 'n' Tug set recorded at Campfire, New York that Eskimo then made available but with the cover warning(?) that "All skips,feedback and distortion are just part of the night so make it nice!"


here is a sweet sweet version he put out of 'the way you move' from the up and coming and hotly tipped Social Disco Club aka Humberto Matias... so smooth. yeow.



While we are on SDC you have to hear this funky burner from last year that i just cant not play out. The original is hot, and at home in the james murphy and pat mahoney fabriclive mix.

Gichy Dan's Beachwood No. 9 – Cowboys & Gangsters (Social Disco Club Re-Edit) by Social Disco Club


and check out this symphonic disco edit they put up 8 days ago, coming out soon on Hands of Time. flip up your collars and break out the queso!

Daft Funk by Social Disco Club

here is an interview and podcast greg did in sept 2008 for RA
SDC have a blog and a myspace