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Review: 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 and couldn’t wait to get to the acid house chapters….The history begins back in Victorian… Continue reading
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Wez G – Vine Line – Episode 1
Vine Line is a new Wez G podcast featuring songs that I am regularly enjoying at home. It will be an eclectic accessible mix of pop, dance, rock and any other genre I can think to throw in there. Enjoy and please share and spread the love x Wez G :::Tracklist::: # Artist name Track… Continue reading
7 Seconds, Ableton, Alicia Keys, Artful Dodger, Bad Guy, Billie Eilish, Bingo Wings, Caldicot, Chandelier, Christina Perri, Cosmo, COsmo Guitar, Detroit, Flapsandwich, Good Life, Gotye, Happy Mondays, Inner City, Kevin Saunderson, Lamb, Mark Ronson, Neneh Cherry, Newport, Newport Rising, Paul Oakenfold, Podcast, Pop, Pop Music, Rusty Shackle, Sia, Style, Tantrum Records, Taylor Swift, Truth, Vine Line, Wez G, Youssou N’Dour -
Review: Happy Mondays – Excess All Areas – by Simon Spence
This is the third Simon Spence book that I have read. He is a very talented music journalist from Manchester with a taste for documenting, wild, stylish cultural movements that have emerged from the Madchester craziness. Excess All Areas covers perhaps the most successful and innovative band to have ridden the early acid house craze… Continue reading
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Review: 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 aware of a lot of the history of dance music in the UK. This book,… Continue reading
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Wez G Sessions – Episode 11
This week’s Wez G Sessions episode 11 contains a heady blend of deeper sounds, a nice variety of different flavours and some fancy beats. :::Tracklist::: # Artist name Track name 1 Vangelis Love Theme 2 Apparat Granular Bastard 3 Coldcut feat Robert Owens Walk A Mile (Henrik Schwarz Remix) 4 Way Out West Domination 5… Continue reading
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I Want To Live
The author expresses a desire to live and emphasizes the need for healthcare systems, particularly psychiatry, to prioritize health and life. They criticize the current state of psychiatry as being misaligned with promoting well-being. Additional links are provided for a video and music by Grace. Continue reading
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Wez G – Free The Planet (DJ Set 45)
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 I am detecting a disturbing pattern of police brutality and the erosion of our fundamental… Continue reading
Alan Fitzpatrick, BT, Chambao, David Ferrero, DJ T, Gabriel Ananda, I’m Free, Jody Wisternoff, Kasabian, Krister Linder, Lullaby for Gaia, Manik, Maya Jane Coles, Moon Palace, Morgan King, Mr White, New. York City, NYC, Paul Oakenfold, Phreek POlus One, Pokito A Poko, Roisin Murphy, Sasha, Soma, Sommerstad, Surrender, Talking Props, Time To Dance, Tricky, Vincenzo, Warriors, Way Out West, Wez G, Wez G Inspired Edit -
Wez G – Summer Shiftin’ (DJ Set 22)
Summer is upon us. Festival season, bar-b-q’s, beaches and sunshine. This mix has a lot of remixes of big bands and also showcases some of the talent we are working with at Shuffle. Following the tracklisting are links to buy some of the tracks. Also – this is the first mix which includes a Wez… Continue reading
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Punta Del Este
Ibiza has for long been engrained on the roadmap for travelling clubbers across the globe. In Privelege it has the largest nightclub on the planet. All the top DJs fare their way on the White Isle every summer and the closing parties have become part of nightlife’s folklore. Goa, on the west coast of India,… Continue reading
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Wez G – Swine Flesh (DJ Set 20)
Ooh dear… We’re all going to die from Pig Flu… While we wait for the disease to engulf the planet, you can get prepared by listening to the Wez G podcast. House music is like a disease and this dirty, dark, melodic, progressive number will have you rolling around in your sty’s muck… Some old… Continue reading
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