Cosmic Boogie

It’s hard work changing something you already love, into something you love even more. That’s about all I can say when it comes to this edit. If it were not for my father (the already referenced Handsome Bob), then I wouldn’t love Talking Heads, would not know how great a bongo can really be, and would today have no understanding of percussion, rhythm and downright genius. At least, that’s the way I see it. No version of the “live” Slippery People has ever existed in an extended format – so I thought I would do one, specifically with this weeks Beat Herder festival that I am playing in mind (so basically with added festival like powers).

I was never going to try and release this, so instead i thought id put it out for download to share. Comments are both welcome and appreciated.  You can download it from the Cosmic Boogie SoundCloud account:

http://soundcloud.com/cosmicboogie/talking-heads-slippery-people-cosmic-boogies-handsome-bob-edit

On Saturday (this weekend) Kelvin Harris and The Idjut Boys (with support from Chris Barker) are launching a new night ALTIPLANO in Liverpool at the Novas CUC centre. I know the people involved with this – Paula was kind enough to support 0ur night Archive while it lasted and I am very keen to show that same support back. I will be there, for some of the night at least, so if you are going along let me know and I can meet up with you.

ALTIPLANO
20th Juno 2009
NOVAS CUC Centre, Liverpool
10 – 4

Kelvin Andrews
The Idjut Boys
Chris Barker

Tickets are £10 advanced, and you can still get them from SKIDDLE.

I say good luck to any night like this thats trying to get off the ground in Liverpool…

Recorded early doors at a mad but memorable event promoted by the E.T.A crew next to a gypsy camp underneath London’s Westway (A40).

GREG WILSON

E.T.A – UNDER THE WESTWAY LONDON

12.02.2006

Full Tracklisting

Shuggie Otis / Strawberry Letter 23 (One Rascal Extended Mix)
Eighties Ladies / Turned On To You
The Cure / Close To Me (Oakenfold Mix)
Marvin Gaye / Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler)
Kanye West / Heard ‘Em Say
Thick As Thieves / ‘Lectric Love
Silver Convention / Fly Robin Fly
Mary Jane Girls / All Night Long
Timmy Thomas / Why Can’t We Live Together (Pressure Drop Edit)
Crazy P / Lady T (GW Edit)
Grace Jones / Nipple To The Bottle
Kid Creole & The Coconuts / I’m A Wonderful Thing, Baby (GW Edit)
Grand Groove Bunch / Catch The Groove
The Whatnauts / Help Is On The Way
Linda Clifford / Runaway Love

(note that this mix is available in iTunes as well as below)

 

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After trying to get the podcast feed accepted for about nine millenium’s, yesterday Cosmic Boogie was finally accepted into the Podcasts section on the iTunes store. I had been using plug-ins to try and create the feed for me but they were basically generating bollocks, so I decided to do it by hand. One week later – boom – in we go. The iTunes feed will basically cherry pick out the best mixes from the site and what not and add them in, and as each new mix is released it will automatically add to iTunes within 24 hours or so.

At the moment there are only a handful of mixes, but I will add to this over the coming days. I’m hopeful that its a way to get more people to hear the great mixes we have on here from guests around the country, and of course the Greg Wilson Renaissance mixes. Feel free to help spread the word.

Visit Cosmic Boogie in iTunes (requires iTunes to be installed)

I am playing this Friday at Cream in Liverpool as part of the Sasha and Digweed night. Archive was asked to represent itself in the Cream Annexe so I will be playing the first hour of disco and funk, etc. Ill keep the tempo up a bit I am sure, so as not to alienate people who clearly wont be there for disco strains – but I am looking forward to playing on the cream system none the less. Just in case Sasha and Digweed are your thing, here are all the details about the night:

Sasha and Digweed, Cream (Nation), Friday 22nd May

Main Room

10:00pm – 12:00am – Jemmy
12:00am – 4:00am – Sasha & John Digweed (B2B)

Annexe

10 – 11  Stu Robinson (Cosmic Boogie)
11 – 12  Mark Mac
12 – 2   Thomas Tuft
2 – 3     Iain Dixon
3 – 4     Rob H

Tickets: on sale now:

3 Beat Records, or Ticketline: Tel: 0844 888 4401 / Ticketline

 

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So – the day has arrived. Well, to be honest it arrived a few days ago as the track has been available on most of the record shops since Wednesday…but officially, it comes out today. Its exciting times, and there are many people I need to thank for pushing me and helping me get this stuff out but I wont drone on here as they know who they are. Here is the “official” blurb about the release:

“New imprint Cosmic Boogie sets off its journey into slow motion space disco with two tasteful slices of interplanetary funk. First under the blade are The Undisputed Truth who are carefully dissected and reworked into the Cosmic Boogie 9000 Edit of ‘Space Machine’ which positively drips in atomic funk, futuristic boogie and space rock. Meanwhile over on the flip, the low slung groove and spaced out gospel soul of Charles Jackson’s ‘Ooh Child’ is extended to the max with the Cosmic Boogie Extend Yourself Edit. Respectfully edited, wonderfully re-mastered and cut loud at 45 RPM for vinyl lovers, Cosmic Boogie is all about exploring a different meaning of ‘cosmic’. Long live the boogie!” Continue Reading…

The final day before the launch of the Cosmic Boogie vinyl (which has now surely been plugged enough) and I bring a good friend with impeccable music taste to the table. Paul runs the “where would Liverpool be without it” dance listing website Outlar, and is also semi resident at virtually every night in the city including Pigeon Hole Disco, Chibuku and anything else with a sound music policy. This is a brilliant mix, including a track from excellent upcoming Liverpool based producer Andy Ash, and the fabulously entitled “Big Hands for a Lady”. Indeed.

Full Tracklisting

I:Cube / Gtnup
Atlantic Conveyor / We Are
Mock & Toof / Big Hands for a Lady
Kelley Polar / Entropy Reigns (Pearson & Usher’s Dub)
Morgan Geist/Erlend Oye / Lullaby/A Place In My Heart
6th borough Project / Just A Memory
Popular People’s Front / I’ll Make Your Day
Soundstream / Rainmaker
Shirley Lites / Heat You Up (Melt You Down)
Bobby Womack / Inherit the Wind (Revenge rework)
Eddie C / Let Your Mind Be Free
Andy Ash / Whitefly Powder
Grace Jones / Williams Blood (Yam Who? Electric Dub)
Studio / Life’s a Beach (Todd Terje)
Curtis Mayfield / No Thing On Me

 

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Another day, and another great disco mix as part of the series celebrating the launch of the first Cosmic Boogie vinyl. This one cant really be categorized in genre which is really what I want when listening to a mix. This is from Gavin Kendrick who was originally part of the Cosmic Boogie blog when it all started up a few years ago. Enjoy this real eclectic mix of disco, funk, soul and all the shades between.

Full Tracklisting

Don Blackman / Since You Been Away So Long
Madlib / For My Mans
DJ Cam presents In Love / For Minnie Riperton (Vocal)
Jay Dee / Strugglin’ (Cosmic Boogie’s Consumption Dub)
100% Pure Poison / Windy C (Kon Re-Edit)
James Brown / Mind Power (Alternative Take)
Smoove & Turrell / You Don’t Know (Original)
Mr Supreme / Love Shots
Sunsetsoul presents Da Wiesel / Boogaloo Stomp (Tal M. Klein Remix)
Brass Construction / Changin’ (Full Length Version)
Electric Souls Orchestra / Love Rockin’
Pharrell featuring Jay-Z / Frontin’ (Yam Who? Rework)
Mos Def / Umi Says (Full Length Version)

 

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The second in the series of Liverpool DJ disco mixes this week (celebrating the first ever Cosmic Boogie vinyl) comes from Jasbof promoter and Chibuku resident Rich Furness. Rich is, by all accounts, a music lover – everything from 80’s pop to the darkest dubstep and techno. After a few stints playing disco with me in a bar around Liverpool, he came up with this unique twist on Disco with many classics, and some really not so obvious surprises…

Full Tracklisting

Jimmy Bo Horne / Spank
Controller 7 / Genius
Gwen Guthrie / Aint Nothin Goin On But The Rent
Unlimited Touch / I Hear Music In The Street
Gary & The Gang / Do It At The Disco
The Jacksons / Can You Feel It
Sparque / Take Some Time
Janet Jackson / What Have You Done For Me Lately?
Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony / The Hustle
Charanga 76 / No Nos Pararan (Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now)
Carl Carlton / Shes A Bad Mamma Jamma
Curses Feat Nancy / The Deep End
Aeroplane Feat Kathy Diamond / Whispers
Ladyhawke / Back Of The Van (Mock And Toof Remix)
Men Without Hats / Safety Dance
Burial / Raver
Burial / Forgive

 

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I recently realised that I can add a rather sexy Juno chart to my site, which is awesome, as anything that saves me doing any hard work in making a nice meaty post can only be a good thing. So you will be getting one of these each month from now on. This is the May selection from Juno Download – particular favorites this month are the No Retribution EP on Tirk – just about as close to modern day electrofunk as I have heard, and the delightfully echoey Naomi Rap. Continue Reading…

This week sees the launch of the first ever Cosmic Boogie edit 12″, of which I am of course really excited about. I thought I would try and do something different for the launch other than just bang a post up here with all the blurb about the track and links to buy it, so I asked 4 friends in Liverpool to construct a mix for me based around disco in some way. The results are all great, and each day this week I will be putting one of the mixes up, culminating on a mix from myself on Friday to officially announce the launch.

I kick off with the first mix recieved a good few weeks back from Gareth Cheshire, Circus resident and perpetrator of the splendid Downstairs Mixup Podcast and a number of his own edits. A really nice modern take on the nu-disco italo influenced sound, with a few classic tweaks thrown in for good measure.

Full Tracklisting

Oblio – Principles Of Discovery
Mudd & Pollard – Scaffold (Coyote Remix)
Andrew Allsgood / (Disco) Pigs In Outer Space (Steve Yanko 7 Steps To Insanity Remix)
Soft Rocks / Dialulac
Boozoo Bajou / Same Sun (Prins Thomas Discomix Loops)
Beppe Loda Presents Egotrya / Volcanoe (The Revolving Eyes 10,000 Lightyears Disco Mix)
Sneak Thief / Zmaj (Mr Pauli Disco Remix)
Dirtyhaze / Lazer Sex (Original Mix)
Elitechnique / Munich Emotions
Talking Heads / I ZIMBRA (Gareth Cheshire)

 

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If you haven’t already heard the excellent Out In The Sticks edits, then you really should. Most people would question what you could do to a track like Forget Me Not (apart from Will Smith clearly), but listen – and you shall see. I’m a big fan, Greg is a big fan, in fact everyone who has heard them is a fan. The other stuff I have heard that they are sitting on is also dancefloor killer. Out In The Sticks might be out of town, but they certainly aren’t out of touch (ooph!).

I got in contact with them a few weeks back, through the splendid Disco Deviance chaps, and have for your entertainment been sent back the answers to some questions, and a mix so unbelievably good it actually sounds like an hour and a half edit. Spot the joins if you can. Download or stream it with the links right after the interview. I’d like to thank the lads for taking the time out from going to the beach, sitting around playing pool, and looking at dangerous wildlife in their back gardens. Continue Reading…

 

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ARCHIVE #005
FRIDAY 8TH MAY

MAURICE FULTON
DANIEL WANG
SCUZZ McBOOB

9 – 4 / £8

@ LEAF TEA SHOP AND BAR
25 PARLIAMENT STREET, LIVERPOOL

Archive 5 brings two disco pioneers to raise the roof off the tea shop. Maurice Fulton and Daniel Wang are both internationally respected and globally loved, each having their own take on dance music past and present.

Maurice Fulton is one of music’s true originals, an eccentric ex-pat American (currently living in Sheffield) DJ and producer who never fails to surprise and delight his listeners. He has recorded for DFA (under his Syclops guise), Tirk, 20:20…not to forget inspirational labels such as Strictly Rhythm and Warp Records.

Daniel Wang started his revered Balihu label in 1993 after years of dancing in NYC to disco classics and early house. He has since recorded for (amongst others) Environ, Ghostly International and Paper Recordings, bringing his take on the Italo disco sound of the early eighties. We welcome Danny the Dancer from his current home in Berlin.

All this will be ably supported by Scuzz McBoob (aka Scott McGill)

Making Happy Feet

Archive x

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Leaf Tea Shop & Bar
Parliament Street
Liverpool

0151 7077747
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After last months fantastic party with Optimo, this month were pulling out all the stops for an Easter all night party to remember.

Archive 4 is a double header of scientific proportions. The legendary Greg Wilson takes to the decks in his home city for the first time in years, fresh off the back of his huge BBC1 Essential Selection mix, which is being hailed as EM of the year already. For those that don’t already know who Greg is or what he is about, you can find out everything at www.electrofunkroots.co.uk.

Also, as its an all nighter we bring Chris Duckenfield (SWAG) from his home in Sheffield to party in Liverpool. Chris has earned a reputation for being one of the UK’s if not the world’s most versatile and interesting DJ’s. Equally at home playing House as he is Downtempo, Disco and classics.

Tickets are limited for the night, so get them as early as you can. There are also a number of cd’s placed in 3 beat and various other shops around Liverpool that have mixes from each of the DJ’s on the night, and are completely free. Happy Easter.

archive #004 party details

ARCHIVE #004 – EASTER ALL NIGHTER
THURSDAY 9TH APRIL

GREG WILSON (TIRK / ELECTROFUNKROOTS)
CHRIS DUCKENFIELD (SWAG)
STU ROBINSON
SCOTT MCGILL

@ LEAF TEA SHOP AND BAR, ELEVATOR
25 PARLIAMENT STREET, LIVERPOOL, L8 5RN

10PM – 6AM / £7

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TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE AT SKIDDLE:

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TICKETS ALSO AVAILABLE FROM LEAF TEA SHOP AND BAR:

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Parliament Street
Liverpool,
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info@thisisleaf.co.uk

Archive is back and we have a great year ahead of us, starting with none other than Optimo the Scottish electronic duo responsible for the Optimo night in Glasgow (at the Sub Club), and for many a searing electro tinged edit and eclectic set.

Optimo started in 1997, though Twitch and Jonnie Wilkes had each been DJing separately for ten years. Both had started out playing different music – Twitch – electro, noisy rock and the eighties New York punk funk of Liquid Liquid (from who they borrowed their name) and Wilkes reggae, funk and jazz. Then techno came along and Twitch co founded Scotland’s first techno club, Pure, which ran for ten years, became legendary, was the first club in Europe to book Jeff Mills, Green Velvet and Richie Hawtin. The club also spawned thee labels which released music from amongst others Coil, Chris and Cosey, Jimi Tenor and Orlando Voorn.

In 1997 they founded the clubnight Optimo as a reaction to 4/4 techno all night long. Anything goes was the philosophy and the club night proved to be a hit. “I didn’t care whether it would work or not, or whether anyone would go, it was just something I had to do,” says Twitch. “I love DJing with all my heart but at this point I was so bored with seamless mixing – it was all just too obvious, too predictable and too easy – that I had to do something to preserve my (in)sanity.”

Don’t expect easy club hits at a night with Optimo, depending on the duo’s mood, the sound will veer from sleazy funk to post punk, electro, 50’s swing and anything inbetween.

Optimo will of course be backed up by myself and Scott McGill – the new resident on board for 2009. We have high hopes so if you need any more information / details, either continue reading or give me a shout on email.

archive #003 party details

OPTIMO (SUB CLUB GLASGOW)
SCOTT McGILL
STU ROBINSON

@ LEAF TEA SHOP AND BAR, ELEVATOR
25 PARLIAMENT STREET, LIVERPOOL, L8 5RN

10PM – 4AM / £5

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Landmark GW appearance at Manchester’s greatest club night of the past decade, the hugely influential Electric Chair (RIP). Almost like a second homecoming, given his key role in the evolution Manchester club culture during the early 80’s, Greg was welcomed as a returning hero by Luke Unabomber, and the full set  he played that memorable night, 4 years ago to the month, appears here in 2 parts.

GREG WILSON

LIVE AT THE ELECTRIC CHAIR

26.02.05

Part 1 Tracklisting

Dubble D & Rakim / Soul Squelch (GW Mash-Up)

Freddie Cruger feat ADL / The Hustle
Kasso / Walkman
Gino Soccio / Try It Out
Man Boys / Hip Hop Be Bop Rock (GW Mash-Up)
Nairobi / Soul Makossa (GW Edit)
Sugardaddy / Love Honey
Soul Mekanik / Wanna Get Wet
Boogie Coorporation / Dirty Rip
Crown Heights Affair / Dreaming A Dream (Ian Dewhirst Edit)
Kool and the Gang / Sesame Seed (GW Edit)
Teenage DJ / I Was A Teenage DJ Pt 1
Incredible Bongo Band / Apache
Dawn Elliot & Co / Gotta Keep Workin’ It’ /  (GW Mash-Up)
Kool and the Gang / Spirit Of The Boogie (Todd Terje Edit)
Paliamarleyment (GW Mash-Up)
Happy Monday / WFL

Part 2 Tracklisting

Gunchback Boogie Band / Funn
Kid Creole and the Coconuts / Annie (Soul Mekaniks Edit)
Webster Lewis / Welcome Aboard
Teenage DJ / Glorious
Soul Searchin / Blow Your Whistle
Aretha Franklin / Save Me (Andy Mac Mash-Up)
Yello / Lost Again (GW Edit)
League Unlimited Orchestra / Things That Dreams Are Made Of
Toby Tobias Meets the Streets / (GW Mash-Up)
Inner City / Do You Love What You Feel
Cybotron / Clear
Futureshock / Late At Night (GW Electro Edit)
Ike & Tine Turner / Nutbush City Limits
Mr Bloe / Groovin’ With Mr Bloe (GW Edit)
One for the Road:
The Beatles / The Word

 

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Ive been so busy, I nearly forgot to post up that the return leg of the Mix for the Taberacle was sent to them on the final day of January with only moments to spare (or something nearly that dramatic), and that you can find it for download over at the excellent Slabs of the Taberacle website. I wont put it up here because the mix was crafted for them, but here is a tracklisting for those interested…

Amendment: as a fair bit of time has passed now – i have added the mix to the bottom of this post.

Full Tracklisting

Pascal Comelade / Unknown
Material / Over and Over
The Brothers / Bobo Theme
Mr Scruff / Get on Down
Bombers / Shake
The Canyons / Apples & Pears
Babla / Kabhi Hota Nahin
Forrrce / Keep on Dubbin’
The Popular Peoples Front / I Dont Know
Pascal Comelade / Unknown
Orlando Riva Sound / Indian Reservation
Felix / Tigerstripes
Red Rack’em presents Hot Coins / Jazz Ending
Leo Zero / I Get Deep (Edit)
Bryan Ferry / Don’t Stop the Dance

 

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I had a very good Christmas on the whole. Everything went smoothly, none more so than the night we put on with Trus’me on boxing night. The place was busy and a good time was had by all. Numerous good things came out of the night, and one of them is this very guest mix slot. Andrew Ingham is part of the crew that run the splendid looking Slabs of the Tabernacle night up in Scotland. At some random time in the morning, after I had finally twigged as to who he was – we had a conversation that stated we would make a mix for each others websites / nights, and that we would try to make it so that there was nothing obvious on it. I am., at the moment, still constructing mine (I have until the end of January to come up with the goods).Andy, however, is on the ball and has sent me this mix, which I therefore pass on to you.

I listened to it no less than 4 times yesterday. Its exactly what Cosmic Boogie is about – a melting pot of different genres of dance music, all with a certain angle. If you want to see more from the Slabs crew, check out the Slabs of the Tabernacle website. We will have Andy down for a night in Liverpool (and vice versa) at a future date.

Full Tracklisting

Mark Du Mosch / Inner Vision
Buckingham Palace / Give Me Your Name [Extended Version]
Matzo & Pauli / Drama
Tako / My Kind Of Woman
Giorgio Farina / Tawawa’s
Philly Cream / No Time Like Now
Pacific Blue / You Gotta Dance
Mr. Pauli / Der Alte
Klein & M.B.O. / Wonderful
Phuture Scope / Hands Of Time
Blake Baxter / When We Used To Play
Spank Spank / Jam Session
Underground Resistance / The Theory
Brain Machine / Capricorn Rising
People’s Choice / People’s Re-edit
Sylvester / I Need Somebody To Love Tonight

 

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It might be old news to some by now, but in the early hours of Saturday morning at the weekend just gone, Greg Wilson’s first ever Essential Mix was broadcasted out across the nation through BBC Radio 1. The mix has gone down an absolute storm, with rave reviews from all who have heard it, including me (of course). It has everything you could want from 2 hours of music, and my mere keyboard ramblings cant do it justice – but your ears can. You can find the mix still on the Essential Mix website for the rest of the week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/essentialmix/, and failing that you can find it for download on a million websites. Im not linking to any of them, but just type Greg Wilson Essential Mix into Google, and hey presto, its all yours.

2009 – the year of the Wilson. Continue Reading…

Yes, its been a ghost town around here. Numerous reasons; Christmas, a new job, and the acquisition of a macbook which I had to learn how to use (and am typing this very post on right now). However, no longer will you be starved of a cosmic boogie fix – things are gearing back up now. So first of all I will say happy new year to everyone, I trust it all went as well as could be expected, and that 2009 goes just as swimmingly.

This year should see some great guest mixes, the continuation of the archive night in Liverpool, some more articles, some more mixes from myself, some more edits, some more tasty treats from Greg Wilson (who has his BBC Radio 1 essential mix going out live tomorrow night) and some all round general musical love.

Super.