He has all the time in the world for anyone who messages him and he's just as nice a guy in the flesh, a top bloke but as soul says when we played with him he didn't pick his headphones up once playing on the laptop and I think he's very close to retirement, he's been giving all his music away for the past couple of months, all his edits and there's no real passion to put something new on the table, I could put some of his mixes up from 6 years back and they are amazing and each of them different, now it's like he has a playlist of 100 songs and he rotates them, a true legend but he's close to calling it a day I think.

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Couldnt agree more s, last few ive listened too all the same tunes in different order,still like his sounds,but enjoyed him more 5 + years back.

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Defo mate, I'll upload some of the mixes I have of his from New York and elsewhere, simply amazing, but still nowhere near as good as his early 80's stuff, I blogged one of his mixes from 83' on Sinister a little while back, will put it up

http://sinisterdelicious.blogspot.com/20...angerfield.html

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Can anyone stick that on a disc for me ???

I ve got most of the tracks on that mix, but they re generally too slow imo, and too much pissing around with the music..

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The Wilson one? It is for the radio so he probably did that to make it more of an interesting listen and not something he did/could have done in a club. It's still a good listen now.

He seems a nice guy but my take on it is that he has been elevated to a status that he probably never wanted, there were loads of djs round the country who championed electro and played the same records he did, the first styled electro club wasn't his.
A lot of people who are a bit younger have seen him as the top guy, but good luck to him.

One thing I would ask him is how does he feel playing to mainly white audiences when he used to play to mainly black ones? Does he feel he has any connection with what the youth listen to today?

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He's not viewed as the top guy like you say but he's viewed with a lot of respect purely down to his edits and production's making some of the best House & Disco records of the last 10 years and a lot of them, as for DJ'ing when he made a re'appearance his set's were amazing, simple as that, churning out set's with records he edited and reworked giving him a truly unique sound and having people like myself wanting the records he was playing, you can't deny the guy the impact he had on the clubbing scene and although he's got a little stale/lazy he's a true pioneer.
As for the track choices in his mixes these days he purely plays on one level of disco/deep house and I just think he's been doing it for so long he's just turning out and giving a lot of people who go to see him what they want, when we played with him all 4 of us come away and said it was a good night but it was full of spectator's not people there to listen to great music and unfortunately I think he know's this.
The connections with music in the modern world though mate are not his music or the music he play's, it's a completely different era so he's not going to have a connection with the youth of today, it's a niche scene and it's pretty big but not big on a large scale compared to say R&B and pop culture and what the majority of kids/teens/youth's listen to.