Greg Wilson has been a pioneer in electronic music ever since the early 1980s. Specializing in jazz-funk and disco, Wilson is known for being the first DJ to ever mix live on British television, as well as the teacher of a young Fatboy Slim. Yet perhaps the British producer is most famous for his DJ sets, in which he scratches and mixes using two reel to reel tape machines. I’ve posted about him before, specifically his awesome BBC Radio Essential Mix and later an except from his essay on the roots of electro.
His set in May 2012 at the Movement festival in Detroit was a tour-de-force of disco dancing and seamless remixing. Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Garbage, and many others get a disco rework that’s both surprisingly funky and faithful to the originals. I’ve been listening to it constantly since May and have to share it here:
Download here (79 minutes, 145 mb, 256kbps .mp3)
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