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.

Following its auspicious series launch, with the ‘Adriano Italiano’ / ‘Blue Eyed Boz’ 12′, Ruff Edits follows-up with its second instalment, an equally enticing offering, coupling ‘Scandinavian Safari’ with ‘The Messenger’.

To launch this new series, edits don Greg Wilson extends a somewhat forgotten Italian cult club classic with a mad as toast title, which was originally issued a decade before the term Italo Disco was coined. ‘Prisencolinensinainciusol’ by Adriano Celentano, with its relentless rhythm and horns, has been described as a rap release before there was such a genre. This glorious oddity found favour both on UK dancefloors and throughout Europe, following its release in 1973. It was still a choice oldie when Wilson started out as a club DJ in ’75, and he would frequently play it, as a 7” single, at his club residencies in New Brighton, the Golden Guinea, the Chelsea Reach and the Penny Farthing , during the following years.