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He was the first British DJ to mix live on television. He organised the UK's first ever breakdancing competitions. He was the man who taught Norman Cook (aka Fat Boy Slim) how to scratch.
Mr. Scruff calls him the Electro Granddaddy. Norman Jay refers to him as the original old skool innovator. Described by Jockeyslut magazine as the man responsible for bringing about the 80’s northern house explosion, Mike Pickering has described him as "the closest thing to New York" and legendary producers Groove Armada call him the ‘Cornerstone of UK Dance Music’. If you're not familiar with him already, let me introduce you to Mr. Greg Wilson. Before dance music dominated the airwaves, Wilson was performing live re-edits while mixing with effects and reel to reel tapes, playing US black dance music to UK audiences when very few had even heard of it. To be included in one of his cutting edge DJ sets was such an honour, there are artists such as A Certain Ratio, who claim Wilson had such an effect on them that part of the reason they crafted their music the way they did was due to his influence, but in 1984 it was all to end. Greg Wilson closed his record box and decided to call it a day. The world was a much smaller place when he decided to stop DJ-ing. It was almost a poetic notion by Greg Wilson to stop DJ-ing at his peak. Greg states a number of reasons for his departure from clubland including a desire to produce and remix other artists records, following a successful stint as the producer of most of the Street Sounds UK Electro compilation. Another reason stated by Greg for his decision to stop DJ-ing was due to a bulk of his time being consumed as the manager of the extremely popular Broken Glass breakdancing crew. But none of the reasons for his decision to call it a day is of much importance anymore as the only thing that matters about all this is that 2 decades later, after House music was born, after Techno was created, after Drum and Bass exploded and after Garage pumped vocals back onto the dance floor, he was back and I feel very fortunate to lay claim to having witnessed the night that Greg decided to return to the dance floor.
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Top vid Caro.. Delia just rocks, doesn't she!
Brill video Caro!! haha enjoyed that its allll the same evolution. The same people in the same cultural space, just at different times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDX_CS3NsTk
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