FRESH Tribute: United Kingdom DJ Greg Wilson

I just recently got turned on to this signature electronic DJ pioneer. Greg Wilson is a true innovator of the term remix, utilizing more than just a turntable and mixer. Check out the videos and just witness his pure originality...

Greg Wilson Intro: With a DJ pedigree stretching back to the original disco era, Greg Wilson first came to national prominence in the early 1980’s as the first to champion New York’s emerging Electro-Funk sound. From day one, his support for this radical new electronic dance music caused deep divisions within the jazz-funk fraternity. To many ears, the new Electro-Funk sound had ‘no soul’… to some it didn’t even qualify as ‘real music’… Over 20 years on, how is the music viewed today? Greg Wilson is in no doubt:

" Electro-Funk's legacy is huge. It announced the computer age and seduced a generation with its drum machines, synthesizers, sequencers, dub mixes, bonus beats and samples… Its influences lay not only with Kraftwerk, the Human League and Gary Numan, but with Miles Davis, Sly Stone, Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, Norman Whitfield and George Clinton? " - Greg Wilson

Electro-Funk is unquestionably the source from which much of today’s house, techno, and breakbeat-oriented club music originated. Essential labels releasing Electro-Funk tracks included West End, Prelude, Sugarhill, Emergency, Profile, Tommy Boy, Streetwise and many others.

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