House & Techno
Wes Baggaley - London, UK
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Wes started collecting music at a very young age. He got his first record player when he was six years old and started collecting ex jukebox 7” singles with his 50p a week pocket money.
After a brief flirtation with thrash metal he started to frequent the legendary Wigan Pier in his home town of Wigan in 1991 (he was underage I might add!). It was all rave and piano house at the Pier back then and he was bitten by the rave bug. In 1995 he went to Back to Basics in Leeds for a friend’s birthday. Some dj he’d never heard of called Derrick Carter was playing. He was playing proper house music, techno and disco mixed together. Wes hadn’t heard anyone dj this was before and soon started to obsessively try to get to every Derrick Carter gig in the UK and discovered other djs like playing different kinds of electronic dance music and started to track down the names of the tracks and collect mix tapes and 12” singles.
Wes finally bought a pair of Technics 1210’s and a mixer in 2010. He now lived in Manchester and had built up quite a collection of vinyl from hanging around the record shops of Oldham Street on a daily basis.
He got his first gig in September 2001 (1 week after buying the decks)at the newly opened (and now sadly closed) Legends Nightclub. After a drunken conversation with the manager on a Friday night (that Wes couldn’t remember) he got a phone call on the Saturday asking him to play that night. Wes wasn’t going to let the small detail of not being able to mix get in the way. He must have done something right because he became the weekly resident for the next four years where he developed his mixing skills and his style of deep house, techno and whatever else he felt like playing J. He played got booked for various other gigs in Manchester at the Attic, Paradise Factory, the Deaf Institute and became a resident for the monthly Terrorist night before moving to London in 2010.
Since moving to London Wes has played at Megawoof, Dalston Boys Club, Area, Union and has a quarterly residency at Vogue Fabrics and is a resident at the Recon Parties. He has also been a guest on Proton Radio.
Track List:
Lee Gamble – M25 Echo
Lucy – Finnegan
Anthony Naples – Slackness
Boddika – Soul What (Beats Mix)
Paranoid London – Paris Dub 1
Tripeo – 2nd Trip
Delroy Edwards – Feelings
Mike Huckaby – Basement Track
Tuff City Kids – SFS
Omar s – 998
Chez Damier – Untitled
Sound Stream – Inferno
Italo Johnson – 3A
Serge & Tyrell – Pump-O-Matic
Arttu Feat. Jerry the Cat – Move (Cellar Mix)
Willie Burns – The Overlord
George Fitzgerald – Every Inch (Deetron Remix)
Schweiz Rec – Untitled
Delano Smith – Midnight Hours (Reconstructed By Carl Craig)
Martin Landsky – 1000 Miles (Laurent Garnier Mix)
Steve Poindexter – Computer Madness (Function Remix)
Innerspace Halflife – Wind
Bad News – Real Bad News
Marquis Hawkes – Sea Lion Woman
Da Sampla – Over