Greg Wilson @ We are elements

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We've gone and done something very, very special indeed.

We are absolutely priveleged, no wait - HONOURED host a true legend in December @ WeAreElements - GREG WILSON.

Incredibly it'll be the first time in Oxford for Greg - and frankly, We're a little bit weepy in the eye at the prospect of having him grace us with his presence.

All too often the word 'Legend' gets thrown around, but Greg is a true, Red Carpet, cordoned off rope area, one of a kind originator.

Merseyside-born in Wilson is best known for championing early electro with his nights at Wigan Pier then Manchester's Legend club - people would travel all over from the North and the Midlands to hear Greg spin. In 1983 Wilson began a residency at The Hacienda, helping establish the night's reputation as a home for cutting edge club music with killer sets of electro-funk, disco and boogie: these sets not only placed him at the centre of Blighty's emerging hip-hop culture, they also prepared the ground for the late 80s house and techno sounds that would soon take The Hacienda, and young Britain at large, by storm. To the surprise of many, Wilson withdrew from DJing in 1983, choosing to focus more on production projects like Ruthless Rap Assassins, and curating compilations including the seminal Street Sounds UK Electro album and Classic Electro Mastercuts.
The last decade thankfully saw Greg make a welcome return to the DJing fray, but the real renaissance began with Tirk's brilliant Credit To The Edit 12″s and CD compilations, which celebrated the veteran's unique and deliciously raw reel-to-reel editing technique. Since then he's since become a fixture of our nightlife once more, DJing all around the world and showing off his chops as re-editor and remixer across various essential vinyl releases, remixing the XX and 1gnition among others"