Luxxury 'Hold On' [Greg Wilson & Peza Mix] HD

Greg Wilson - Credit To The Edit Vol.3 (Tirk - 2018) Available here: https://fanlink.to/CTTE3 In 2013 I received an email from the extravagantly named Baron Von Luxxury, who’s based in Los Angeles. He told me he was launching a series of ‘dubby edits’, 3 of which he’d linked me to, including a somewhat spaced-out version of ‘Hotel California’. I’d presumed it was some obscure European variant I hadn’t heard before, the vocoder vocal completely throwing me, and it was only later that I realized that Luxxury had worked from the original stems, completely reinventing the LA Soft-Rock classic that had taken The Eagles to the top of the US chart in 1977. In a club context, at 82bpm this was slow, even for a DJ like myself who’s comfortable playing tracks below 100bpm, so it was all about finding the right moment for it. I had to wait a little while, but it finally arrived that December, when I used it to commence my 8-hour session at Kantine am Berghain in Berlin. With the Berghain recording serving to ignite interest, Luxxury had a viral hit on his hands when he unofficially issued ‘Hotel California’ the following January. Then it all blew up in his face, with Warner Music, who hold the song’s copyright, threatening legal action and forcing take-downs across all of his platforms. Despite the setback, interest in Luxxury’s reworks built, with downtempo delights like ‘Riders On The Storm’ by The Doors and his instrumental slant on the Bee Gees ‘Night Fever’, both big for me, as was his later take on ‘Whole Lotta Love’ by Led Zeppelin – Rock and Pop undoubtedly his speciality. In 2015 I approached him to remix my ‘Summer Came My Way’ single, featuring vocalists Carmel & Katherine Reynolds, and this would be the first release on my then new Super Weird Substance label. I’d subsequently work on remixes for 2 tracks he released in 2016, ‘Take It Slow’ (with Derek Kaye) and ‘Hold On’ (with Peza), the latter of which is included here. The Reynolds were also recruited to add their vocal finesse to great effect. Written by Blake Robin & Billy Caruso Produced by Luxxury Mixed by Greg Wilson & Peza Published by Expensive Sounding Music, BMI Deep & Disco Recordings 2016 Licensed courtesy of Nolita Records. http://gregwilson.co.uk