# R.I.P. Chris Hill (legendary UK DJ)

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**Created:** [September 11, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/r-i-p-chris-hill-legendary-uk-dj/65592 "2025-09-11T12:31:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![PKtheDJ](https://community.enginedj.com/user_avatar/community.enginedj.com/pkthedj/32/5819_2.png) [@PKtheDJ](https://community.enginedj.com/u/PKtheDJ)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/r-i-p-chris-hill-legendary-uk-dj/65592/1 "2025-09-11T12:31:48Z")

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Just saw this on Greg Wilson’s Instagram page:

[https://www.instagram.com/p/DOdbXHqCsMg/?utm\_source=ig\_web\_copy\_link](https://www.instagram.com/p/DOdbXHqCsMg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link)

> **[Chris Hill (DJ)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hill_(DJ))**
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> Chris Hill (8 January 1945 – 11 September 2025) was a British disc jockey. He worked at the club Lacy Lady in Ilford, as well as at the Goldmine Canvey Island and was the head of the 'Soul Mafia' a group of DJs which included Greg Edwards, DJ Froggy, Jeff Young and Robbie Vincent, in London and the South East of England into the early 1980s. He had a major input into the creation of the British 'Brit Funk' music scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
> Hill's first residency was at The Cock pu...

> **[100 Jazz & Jazz Funk Tracks From The Goldmine Club 1973-1984](https://indangerousrhythm.blogspot.com/2008/02/100-jazz-jazz-funk-tracks-from-goldmine.html)**
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> Chris Hill DJ from the legendary UK Club The Goldmine recently posted a great list of jazz and jazz funk tracks played at the club on the Es...