WHY DID I QUIT?
This has been perhaps the most frequently asked question since I started deejaying again. There’s not a single answer to this, rather a number of factors combined...
François K is Coming to Town
Written in June 2004 for Circus website prior to François K DJ appearance in Liverpool. Greg discusses François Kevorkian’s impact on dance music.
UK Electro
THE UK ELECTRO STORY
Back in January 1984, Kermit, Fiddz and myself sat down and we wrote the lyrics of a track called “Style Of The Street”. Following the Rock Steady Crew’s chart success we figured that we might be able to get a deal for a record of our own, so, along with Martin Jackson (ex-Magazine) and Andy Connell (the keyboard player from Factory band, A Certain Ratio), we went into a small studio in Knutsford and made a demo of “Style Of The Street”, so I could approach record companies with the idea.
Classic
Electro Mastercuts
THE SLEEVENOTES TO “CLASSIC ELECTRO MASTERCUTS” Ian
Dewhirst (Mastercuts) / Greg Wilson Beechwood Music Ltd, 1994.
At the beginning of 1982 Dance music was in transition; Jazz-Funk had run it’s course, Disco had become Hi-Energy and Rap was still pretty much dismissed as a passing fad. Here in the UK, a once vibrant club and all-dayer scene was sliding into apathy and blandness, but across the Atlantic in New York’s Bronx something strange was happening.
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