I’m not sure if some of my Wez G listeners have noticed the fact that I happen to have a little soft spot for female vocalists? From my earliest days of spinning on the decks in venues, from mainstream teeny-bopper
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St Paul’s Carnival, Bristol, 01.07.2023
This was my first visit to St Pauls Carnival since the COVID-19 epidemic. I got regularly to this Afro-Caribbean street festival, mainly for the authentic jerk chicken, but also it’s a great chance to hear some good music, some proper
Continue readingNomad – (I Wanna Give You) Devotion #LivePA Mikee Freedom – Dare To Club, Bristol 04.06.2023
I was attending Bristol DJ Tristan B’s 60th birthday in Bristol and Mikee Freedom did this amazing Live PA of Nomad – Devotion. I’ve included the original 1991 music video below for you to compare versions. He’s pretty good old
Continue readingReview: We May Win We May Lose – by Jim ‘Shaft’ Ryan
Jim ‘Shaft’ Ryan is a famous house music DJ from Birmingham who along with his brothers, Mick and Dermot, and their mate Lee, responsible for the seminary U.K. and global nightclub brands, Miss Moneypennys and Chuff Chuff. Jim is also
Continue readingGroove Presents Fat Tony, Luna Springs, Digbeth, Birmingham 29.04.2023 (Alison Limerick Live PA and DJ Jim ‘Shaft’ Ryan)
I travelled up to Birmingham on the train from Wales and caught up with my good mate DJ Jim ‘Shaft’ Ryan from Miss Moneypennys / Chuff Chuff. Luna Springs is an open-aired nightclub in Digbeth, a great clubbing zone in
Continue readingReview: Life After Dark – A History of British Nightclubs & Music Venues – by Dave Haslam
I got excited when this book arrived on my doorstep. At first glance it has all the key ingredients for a great book. Hacienda DJ author, history of British nightclubs – I expected lots of gory detail and exciting anecdotes
Continue readingReview: Altered State – The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House – by Matthew Collin
I’ve already read a Matthew Collin book – This is Serbia Calling – so I was chuffed when I stumbled upon this work, a history of UK dance music culture. As a DJ and Promoter for 24 years I’m quite
Continue readingReview: The Life and Lines of Brandon Block by Matt Trollope
I was a DJ myself back in the 1990s and although I never played alongside Brandon Block, I had the pleasure of meeting him a couple of times. Once, on his father’s birthday in a London bar/club, I had just
Continue readingReview: Mister Good Times by Norman Jay MBE
I was lucky enough to be a warm up DJ for Norman Jay back in the 1990s in The Cross Nightclub, London and I think I was billed on a couple of other events with him. He was a great
Continue readingI Can’t Take The Power
Here’s a nice, happy piano house track from the early nineties: Off Shore – I Can’t Take The Power – When I’m not mental healthing it I really do love listening to house music and find it truly enlightening… I
Continue readingShuffle Show – Xpress Radio – WEEK 1 – 02.11.14
The Shuffle Show with Wez G – WEEK 1 – 02.11.14 – XPress Radio The inaugural Shuffle Show on Xpress Radio has some nice cuts of house served up by Wez G plus an interview with Time Flies promoter,
Continue readingNEW: The Shuffle Show with Wez G – Xpress Radio – Saturdays/Sundays Midnight -1am
The Shuffle Show is a specialist Dance Music show on Xpress Radio, airing 12am – 1am Sundays (late Saturday night). XPress Radio is the award-winning Cardiff University radio station. I have recently gone back to my studies as a full-time
Continue readingDolphin Deep (Chillout)
Time for another mix in the Wez G chillout series. It’s a beaming hot summer and it’s always nice to get some fresh, sunny tunes to while away the time… This mix goes a little more four-four than usual and
Continue readingFloating Thoughts
Blissful thinking, a mind of changing images, this floaty deep house and bassy mix will have your head bouncing around as it whisks you on a journey of the freshest house cuts. I’ve aimed for funk and groove, perfect for
Continue readingOfficial Wez G website is revamped and relaunched
I spent a hectic three days at the end of last week rebuilding my main website. The old one looked rather dated and was a bit of a nightmare to update. It didn’t perform particularly well SEO wise and was
Continue readingPunky Funky
Electronic dance music enthusiasts are the modern day punks. Electronic music represents youth culture and the stuff top DJs hammer out in wild night clubs to glammed up audiences is about as punky as it’s gotten since the seventies. This
Continue readingPhoenix Rising
The phoenix is a mythical sacred fire bird. It is described as a bird with a colorful plumage and a tail of gold and scarlet (or purple, blue, and green according to some legends). It has also been described as
Continue readingSexy Disco Machines
There’s been a bit of a delay in getting this latest mix together as I’ve been busy enhancing the Wez G studio, spending over £4000 on it in the past month… I’ve been learning how to use all the new
Continue readingForefathers Of Funk
Well – It’s been a busy week… My new Native Instruments Maschine turned up and I’ve been busy learning that – the aim is to develop my digital DJing to incorporate Maschine eventually and it should certainly revolutionise the Wez
Continue readingAlien Abduction
A few years ago I underwent an Ayahuasca session and was induced into the world of shamanism. It was great except for the plant taking complete control of your body and mind proved a bit daunting around six months later
Continue readingCoffee And Gossip
Nothing like a midmorning natter with caffeine flowing through your veins. Catch up on the weekend’s events, look forward to the week ahead, find out the latest goss, everyone loves their coffee break. This funky little mix starts with some
Continue readingWhat I Am
Music is a great tool for expression. The music artist takes you on a journey,a rollercoaster ride of feelings and emotion. Descartes said ‘Cogito Ergo Sum’ – ‘I think, therefore I am’. The musician thinks and then performs and his
Continue readingHot In The City
Hot, sweaty city nights. The Urban Heat Island warms up the landmass and where to go but dancing in the smog-laced street, unless you happen to house it up in your nearest club. Hot In The City is a deep,
Continue readingCircles
Back in my (younger) clubbing days I can remember watching a drug awareness video. They put a load of rats in a box, gave some of them speed which caused them to run around crazily hyperactive. The ones they gave
Continue readingGhost In The Bed
Mixing this haunted house made me think of a ghost under the covers with me. Twisted tech with minimal vocals, the mix builds to a crescendo with an old reworked classic, Jaydee – Plastic Dreams, which was one of my
Continue readingJack Attack
Jacking your body has always been a part of house music and this mix has a few ‘Jack’ references. My own interpretation of the required picture and actual mix name comes from one of my greatest Christmas presents back in
Continue readingLittle Disco Biscuit
The best time for dance music in my opinion was the early 1990s. It was the heyday of the Rave Scene and dancefloors were packed with sky high dancing bods. The reason I like this period is not that the
Continue readingFree The Planet
It’s been a long summer and there’s been a break in my regular mixes. Anyway I’m back with a bang and keen to ‘Free The Planet’. Watching the news here in the UK over the past year or so and
Continue readingNetwork Transmit
Global Communication has never been more open… In the past decade we have experienced a worldwide internet revolution that has widened our horizons more than ever before. At the touch of a button you can meet and speak to people
Continue readingSilicon Surrender
Everything in the digital age moves ever increasingly more speedily to the heartbeat of silicon… Chips, smaller, faster, ever more slick, drive our revolution… Our era is defined by technology and what better way to relax in this electronic world
Continue readingBen DJ joins Dr House Music
Ben DJ joins Dr House Music Ralph aka Doctor House Music – has appointed Ben DJ, a big Italian / Tunisian DJ, who rides high on the Beatport Progressive chart, to the team of his great Dutch Dance Music Website.
Continue readingSpooky Rhythm
Haunted House? Well – for want of a better title – I thought there was some spooky theme going on in the track titles for this deep and funky mix which explores some of the finer elements of 2011 deep
Continue readingI literally bought this domain yesterday to promote this cult dj mix from a while ago – who’d have known Osama Bin Laden would be killed.. Here is Taliban House by Wez G http://talibanhouse.com
Continue readingTricia Lee Kelshall – Images
Tricia Lee Kelshall – Images I’ve been having a busy day updating #web stuff – Got some new Picasa slideshows running across websites… Here is the new album with some new (and more old) photos of the vocalist I manage:
Continue readingSolar Flare
A solar flare is a sudden brightening observed over the Sun surface, which is interpreted as a release of a massive amount of energy. Here in the UK we are experiencing a great deal of sunshine and warmth which is
Continue readingStroll In The Park
When I release a DJ Mix across the internet I picture listeners tuned in on their ipods as they go about their day to day lives, all across the world… For this mix there is a certain mellow ambience and
Continue readingClear Spring
It’s a bright fresh spring day in Wales and the latest mix is complete. There is a certain European flavour to this one as that is where the freshest sounds in house music are coming from, hence the Alpine scenery
Continue readingSweet Tooth
I’ve been munching fruit Menthos all week – can’t get enough of them so a sweet theme seemed appropriate, that and the first two songs are about sweets, including a great remix of the eagerly anticipated new Billie Ray Martin
Continue readingBringing Down The House
A journey through house, from disco and deep through to upfront prog and breakbeat. This is a mix I was excited to do as I managed to fit in three of my own productions (a bootleg, a remix and an
Continue readingGet Your Groove On
This is a nice groovy deep house DJ mix. I’m keen to embrace DJ technology and having made the transistion to Traktor I’m trying to push myself to the limits as a creative DJ. I decided to utilise 4 Traktor
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