Legendary DJ, remixer and edit exponent Greg Wilson is back at it again with the third instalment of his hugely popular Credit To The Edit series. Almost a decade on from Volume 2, Credit To The Edit Vol. 3, released via Tirk Recordings, draws on music from the disco and rave eras, adding a seminal hip hop cut, a Balearic favourite, as well a few contemporary tracks from the last 10 years. Kicking off with Ha?ienda DJ Mike Pickering’s T-Coy project, the loose-limbed Latinate shuffle Carino is very much a cult classic. Greg’s instrumental edit of Todd Terje’s edit of Glad To Know You, 37 years on from the Chaz Jankel original, has been a big club and festival favourite, and is made available here for the first time, while Escort make their second Credit To The Edit appearance with Greg’s remix of their 2010 release, Cocaine Blues. The near-pornographic funk classic Jungle Fever, recorded by Chakachas, a group of Belgian- based studio musicians, is a playful mixture of Latin music, jazz and European-style exotica and the Fab Five Freddy hip hop landmark Change The Beat, which includes one of the most sampled phrases ever, “This stuff is really fresh!” with Greg’s edit combining the male / female English / French versions to create a unique rap combination. His 2009 edit of one of the all-time rave classics, Is There Anybody Out There? by Bassheads is always guaranteed to bring the roof down, whilst he places the emphasis on the Chic-driven backing on Sheila and B. Devotion’s Spacer, taking out the verses completely and making more DJ friendly. More recent favourites come courtesy of Psychemagik and Red Rack’em, with Getting Away With It, a hidden classic of the Madchester era recorded in 1989 by New Order’s Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr of The Smiths as Electronic (complete with Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant), bringing the curtain down on the third instalment of Credit To The Edit. A signature edit of Greg’s which slowly creeps up on you, it’s a fitting way to close the album and gets its official release here.
