Greg Wilson
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Fatboy Slim, Norman Cook: A Conversation With Norman Cook
Interview by Greg Wilson, electrofunkroots.co.uk, 1 September 2003
EARLIER THIS YEAR I e-mailed Norman Cook via Skint Records, telling him about the electrofunkroots project and my intention to document the early 80's period ...
David Mancuso And The Art Of Deejaying Without Deejaying
Retrospective by Greg Wilson, electrofunkroots.co.uk, 2003
CLUB CULTURE is a nowadays a global business, dance music transcending language, translating via rhythm rather than words. Inter-city has become inter-continental where the top ...
Retrospective by Greg Wilson, electrofunkroots.co.uk, 2003
THEY SAY THAT lightening doesn't strike twice, but where there's a rule there's always the exception. Case-in-point concerns that maverick maestro of musical mayhem, Mr ...
Daft Punk, Giorgio Moroder: Daft Punk: Random Access Moroder
Comment by Greg Wilson, Rock's Backpages, 20 May 2013
THE MOST talked about album in many years, Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, is released in the UK today, and it's all set to blitz ...
Jimmy Savile: DJ Originator Or More Smoke And Mirrors?
Comment by Greg Wilson, Rock's Backpages, November 2012
JUST OVER 12 MONTHS AGO, on October 29th 2011, the TV and radio personality Sir Jimmy Savile died two days before his 85th birthday (he ...
Electro-Funk – What Did It All Mean?: Dance Culture's Missing Link
Retrospective by Greg Wilson, electrofunkroots.co.uk, November 2003
ELECTRO-FUNK IS undoubtedly the most misunderstood of all UK Dance genres, yet probably the most vital with regards to its overall influence. ...
Daft Punk: Disco Now Disco Then
Retrospective by Greg Wilson, electrofunkroots.co.uk, April 2013
DAFT PUNK ARE sitting pretty at the top of the UK singles chart for the first time. The track in question, 'Get Lucky', taken from ...
Afrika Bambaataa, Terry Farley, Larry Levan, David Mancuso: How Clubbing Changed The World
Essay by Greg Wilson, Rock's Backpages, 14 September 2012
LAST MONTH I was over in Chicago chilling out in my hotel room ahead of my first gig in the city, at Smart Bar, a ...
Book Review by Greg Wilson, electrofunkroots.co.uk, 9 October 2013
JUST FINISHED a captivating and, to my mind, long-overdue book, which covers the history of black music in the capital spanning (almost) 100 years, the ...
Retrospective by Greg Wilson, electrofunkroots.co.uk, 9 November 2012
DURING THE 1980s Morgan Khan was viewed as a "dance music mogul", a true instigator who enriched British culture via his unyielding efforts, driven by "an ...
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