Showing posts with label Funk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Funk. Show all posts

2.12.2016

MILK THAT FUNK :: The Bar-Kays - Holy Ghost

Barrel~dEM, The Bar-Kays - Holy Ghost
The Bar-Kays - Holy Ghost
Back in the hey-day of funk, the Bar-Kays had the pimp cane of funk with their hit - Holy Ghost. From their album "Money Talks", Holy Ghost went to number 9 on the US R&B Chart. It would later be sampled by another incredible group MARRS on their one and only song "Pump Up the Volume" in 1987.

The Bar-Kays are still touring today, but with only one original member.



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6.11.2013

Moon Boots - Backyard Boogie Mix (download)


Chicago disco-naut Moon Boots has just dropped a funky "Backyard Boogie Mix" just in time for your summer BBQ's and pool parties. The mix features some true gems, such as Chic - Good Times (Kon's Night Time Edit), Tropicool Monsoon Season - Green On Blue (Moon Boots Remix) and Sugarhill Gang - Hot Hot Summer Day (Theo Parrish Re-Edit).



TRACKLIST
0. Guy / Teddy's Jam

1. Patrice Rushen + Cosmic Kids / Remind Me (Le Nonsense Remix) + Whisper Softly

2. World Premiere / Share the Night (Breakdown Mix) 

3. Kurtis Blow + Next / Christmas Rappin (Instrumental) + Too Close (Acapella) 

4. Gino Soccio / Try It Out (Original + Instrumental)
5. Chic / Good Times (Kon's Night Time Edit) 

6. Young & Co + Pieces of a Dream / I Like It + Mt Airy Groove (Edit)

7. Fonda Rae / Over Like A Fat Rat

8. NV / It's Alright (Shep Pettibone Remix) 

9. Tropicool Monsoon Season / Green On Blue (Moon Boots Remix) 

10. Imagination / Burning Up (Koko Edit)

11. Earth, Wind & Fire / Brazilian Rhyme (Bozo Meko Edit)
12. T.S. Monk / Candidate For Love (Khidja Edit)
13. Alexander Robotnick / It's Alright Baby

14. Salsoul Orchestra + MFSB / Ooh I Love It (Greg Wilson Edit) + Love is the Message (Danny Krivit Edit)
15. Mary Wells / Take Me I'm Yours (Mercury Edit)

16. Sugarhill Gang / Hot Hot Summer Day (Theo Parrish Re-Edit)

DOWNLOAD

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4.24.2013

HEY MARTIAL ARTS FAN :: Brainfreeze - DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist (Complete Mix)



OK, so this mix was just begging for a posting. I used to have it downloaded to my phone and would constantly listen to it on the way to work. Lately, it's been popping up on my Youtube suggestions. Shadow and Cut Chemist - you can't go wrong here.

TRACKLIST:
Mix one: * Lamont Johson Quartet - "Thunder Kick" (trailer to unreleased film) * The Jules Blattner Group - "2001 - A Soul Odyssey" * Fried Chicken - "Funky DJ" * The Mohawks - "The Champ" * Reuben Bell - "Superjock" * Albert King - "Cold Feet" * Ultimate Force - "I'm Not Playing" * Eddie Bo and Inez Cheatham - "Lover and a Friend" * Mack Rice - "Three People In Love" * The Nu People - "I'd Be Nowhere Today" * Nu-Sound Express Ltd - "Ain't It Good Enough" * Mystic Moods - "Cosmic Sea" * American Gypsy - "Inside Out" * Odetta - "Hit or Miss" * The Mar-Keys - "Grab This Thing (Part 2)" * Rusty Bryant - "FireEater" * Simtec and Wylie - "Bootleggin' (Part 2)" * Wilbur Bascomb and the Zodiac - "Just a Groove In 'G'" * Eddie Bo and The Soul Finders - "We're Doin' It (Thang) (Part 2)" * Rufus Thomas - "Sophisticated Sissy" * The Showmen Inc. - "The Tramp (from Funky Broadway) (Part 1)" * The Original Soul Senders - "Soul Brother Testify (Part 2)" * Rufus Thomas - "Itch and Scratch (Part I and II)" * Alvin Cash - "Keep On Dancing (Instrumental)" * Lou Courtney - "Hey Joyce" * Bummer radio spot

Mix two: * The Singing Principal - "Women's Lib" * Salt - "Hung Up" * The Soul Lifters - "Hot, Funky, and Sweaty" * Frankie Seay and The Soul Riders - "Soul Food" * The Interpretations - "Jason Pew Mosso (Part 1)" * Thunder and Lightning - "Bumpin' Bus Stop" * Billy Garner - "I Got Some" * Pleasure Web - "Music Man (Part I and II)" * Gary Byrd - "Soul Travelin' (The G.B.E.)" (Part I) * Clifton Chenier and Grandma Gee Gee - "Just Keep On Scratching" * "W" radio spot * Marlena Shaw - "California Soul" * The Vibrettes- "Humpty Dump (Part 1)" * Eddie Bo - "From This Day On" * 7-Eleven - "Dance the Slurp" * Kraftwerk - "Numbers" * Flash and The Five - "Flash It to the Beat" * Pearly Queen - "Quit Jivin'" * Tony Alvon and The Belairs - "Sexy Coffee Pot" * Chuck Mangione - "Hill Where the Lord Hides" * Funka Fize - "No Words" * Schooly D - "Gucci Time" * Jurassic 5 - "Unified Rebelution" (a cappella) * Third Guitar - "Baby Don't Cry" * Don Pierce - "This Funky Thing" * Funka Fize - "Because You're Funky" * The Troubleneck Brothers - "Back to the Hip Hop" * Stu Gardner - "Devil in a Man" * Samson and Delilah - "There's a DJ in Your Town" * Giorgio Moroder - "Tears" * Tim and Bill - "Someone"





4.14.2013

SO SICK :: Ulysses - Om Unit


Ulysses
Om Unit

Ulysses is part of "Aeolian" Om Unit's 3rd EP for Civil Music. Aeolian features Tamara Blessa, Kromestar plus Reso and Sweatson Klank Remixes and artwork By Kutmah
http://www.kutmah.com

Grab the Vinyl & get the Download free here: http://www.civilmusic.com/buy/aeolian-0/

4.13.2013

THAT COCAINE FUNK :: Zackey Force Funk - Cocaine Lady


Zackey Force Funk
Cocaine Lady

Hailing from Tuscon, Arizona. Zackey Force Funk is a member of the west coast label "Machina Muerte". Listen as he brings the funk back from the dead... Make sure to check out his soundcloud for more.


https://soundcloud.com/zackey425
https://twitter.com/ZACKEYFORCEFUNK
http://machinamuerte.com/

3.04.2013

RARE GROOVE :: American Gypsy - Inside Out



Since 1963, this funk group of American origin has performed under diverse names such as Blue Morning, Orpheus and Pasadena Ghetto Orchestra. American Gypsy began club performances in Los Angeles in 1971, followed by a two-year tour of Spain. When the group settled in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in the early 70's, the line-up was: Joe Skeete (bass guitar), Michael Hamane (lead guitar), Lorenzo Mills (vocals), Richard James aka Ricardo James (drums), David Harrell (vocals, guitar, sax, flute) and Steve Clisby (vocals, keyboards). During their American period, individual members recorded sessions with many popular artists: Barry White, The Byrds, Young Rascals, Frank Zappa, Jefferson Airplane, Dr. John and Santana.

They continued live club performances throughout Europe and was one of the more popular r&b/rock acts on the club circuit during that time.

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3.01.2013

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain



I took this word for word from a youtube comment ... I could never write a better description for this song -
"If a guitar were able to grow up in a troubled household, being abused by an alcoholic father, and grow up promising to be better, make the best of it's life, achieve success in his career and his love life, start a beautiful family and then, through a tragic accident of his own doing, lose it all, this is what it would sound like when it wept in agony."

According to legend, George Clinton, under the influence of LSD, told Eddie Hazel during the recording session to imagine he had been told his mother was dead, but then learned that it was not true. The result was the 10-minute guitar solo for which Hazel is most fondly remembered by many music critics and fans. Though several other musicians began the track playing, Clinton soon realized how powerful Hazel's solo was and faded them out so that the focus would be on Hazel's guitar. Critics have described the solo as "lengthy, mind-melting" and "an emotional apocalypse of sound."

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12.18.2012

'73 TIL INFINITY

It can't be denied that the 1970's brought us some of the best music ever from rock to glam, funk, disco, punk and even hip-hop. The 70's even produced me during the year when the Watergate scandal was in full swing, lite beer was introduced to the US and the first handheld cellular phone call was made. The decade was full of those fed up by war and the hippie movement. Cocaine was the new drug of choice and people wanted to dance. Soul Train was born. The synthesizer was used more and more and the early stages of electronic music came to be. Here are a few gems from the 1970's to help you remember your roots:

















groovy,
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4.08.2012

EVERYTHING PLUS THE KITCHEN SINK :: Ajani - Tonya's Mix


Tonya's mix by Ajani
A tight mix put together by my boy Ajani, here's what he had to say:

Made this for my sweety on an iPad, no cue volume control, no cue to mix fader for headphones, and using pitch controls on the ipad screen made for a very technically challenging mixing experience (no computer beat sync here) ..but its all i had on hand and the tracks are super..I had to get em together..enjoy..it starts with great re-purpose funk tracks/rmxs..some glitch hop..and moves into house..I haven't spun a track in 6-7 years..and got all this new music and had a dynamite time playing it..kinda looking into maybe getting some real equipment again..well..what do you think. oh yeah I video'd the whole thing too, shows my hands on the equipment,,not sure what to do with it.

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