Credit To The Edit

[disco-disc]

Just managed to obtain a copy of this CD...I know I'm late to it, but it IS worth the wait. (May even save up for the vinyl version)

I wonder how long it takes to compile one of these edits, you must have to know the track inside out before attempting this.
My faves are Chic,Yello and Rockers Revenge after afirst listen.
Very good notes as well.

What about Volume Two ??

And are you going to write a book Greg ??

[Bernie]

Greg was kind enough to send me a copy of Credit to the Edit and I loved it from first play and have been plugging this CD because it is simply great. He's the only person that I have heard from the UK that has managed to capture a true New York vibe with a unique slant. Job well done! Looking forward to the next edition.

[Disco Funk]

Originally Posted by starsky

Just managed to obtain a copy of this CD...I know I'm late to it, but it IS worth the wait. (May even save up for the vinyl version)

I wonder how long it takes to compile one of these edits, you must have to know the track inside out before attempting this.
My faves are Chic,Yello and Rockers Revenge after afirst listen.
Very good notes as well.

What about Volume Two ??

And are you going to write a book Greg ??

If you liked that you should also check out Danny Krivits Edits CD (I don't remember the exact name, but it does have 'Edits' in the title).

As for how long it takes to do an edit, personally, it can take me between a half hour to a few hours depending on the enormity of the task.

If I'm putting a couple of albums onto one CD but they don't completely fit, I might take the least favourite song and edit pieces out of it to shorten it. On the other hand, if the two albums don't fill up the entire CD, I will pick out my favourite cuts and lengthen them. But then have to be 'edit-able'. Some songs just can't be lengthened.

The ones that have taken longer for me are tracks that are like 3 minutes long and I want to make them into 7 or 8 minutes in length. It can take hours with those tracks because I try to make edits sound clean, and I don't want the repeated sections to sound repetitive.

Disco Funk

[Ysl]

Yeah, I also want a volume 2 !!!!

[disco-disc]

Arae you listening Greg ???

[Greg Wilson]

Originally Posted by starsky

Just managed to obtain a copy of this CD...I know I'm late to it, but it IS worth the wait. (May even save up for the vinyl version)

Nice one starsky :)

The album was only released on CD, but there are three vinyl twelves:

http://www.tirk.co.uk/releases_gregwilson1.html
http://www.tirk.co.uk/releases_gregwilson2.html
http://www.tirk.co.uk/releases_gregwilson3.html

Originally Posted by starsky

I wonder how long it takes to compile one of these edits, you must have to know the track inside out before attempting this.
My faves are Chic,Yello and Rockers Revenge after afirst listen.
Very good notes as well

Every one is different, some more time consuming than others.

This is what I said on the subject in the sleevenotes:
The majority of tracks chosen for the Credit To The Edit project were ones I’d already edited and was playing out. The remainder were records I’d wanted to edit, but hadn’t yet got around to doing. I don’t have a set approach, it’s more a matter of cutting your cloth accordingly – sometimes I only use a couple of sections of a track, looping them around and adding overdubs, whilst with others I keep pretty close to the original arrangement, just extending without adding any new elements. Then there’s the ‘mash-ups’, a contemporary term for something I was doing in a live context as soon as acappellas began to appear on dance releases, back in 1982.

Originally Posted by starsky

What about Volume Two ??

Currently thinking about possible tracklisting. Looking to release a Vol 2 by either Autumn or early next year.

Originally Posted by starsky

And are you going to write a book Greg

This is something else that's in the pipeline - just a little matter of finding a publisher. I'll keep you posted on developments.

[Greg Wilson]

Originally Posted by Bernie

Greg was kind enough to send me a copy of Credit to the Edit and I loved it from first play and have been plugging this CD because it is simply great. He's the only person that I have heard from the UK that has managed to capture a true New York vibe with a unique slant. Job well done! Looking forward to the next edition.

Thanks Bernie, great to have your support and encouragement.

[Paulo]

GREG WILSON:

Hello. A while back a friend of mine and swing out sister fan (like me) asked me to ask you this:

Long time ago you were involved in the production of an album called UK ELECTRO isn't it?

Can you give a discription of the songs, the groups and the musicians involved in the recording? It seems Andy Connell was involved isn't it?

[Greg Wilson]

Originally Posted by Paulo

GREG WILSON:

Hello. A while back a friend of mine and swing out sister fan (like me) asked me to ask you this:

Long time ago you were involved in the production of an album called UK ELECTRO isn't it?

Can you give a discription of the songs, the groups and the musicians involved in the recording? It seems Andy Connell was involved isn't it?

Hi Paulo: I actually received an email from Andy last month (it's the first time I'd been in contact with him in over 20 years). He'd come across my 'UK Electro' piece online and emailed to say that he thought it was 'a fair and accurate summation'. You can read it here:
http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/uk_electro.htm

[Paulo]

Thanks Greg for the link and congratulations for the review. I've been trying to locate UK ELECTRO through Gemm, but at the moment no copy was found.

Although Credit To The Edit wasn't released here in Brazil, it was reviewd by the brazilian elctronic music magazine BEATZ. They only said good things about your work. The writer is Claudia Assef who published the book "Todo DJ Já Sambou" (the story of the rise of the brazilian DJs from the 70's to today's glory days).

Having missed Uk Electro, I'll make sure I won't miss Credit To The Edit.