Funkier Radio

Funkier Sounds celebrated its 6th birthday with an hour of tunes from me and then an hour of tunes from a DJ and producer that I’ve been into forever. My hour was the usual mix - starting things mid-tempo and funky, bringing things down a notch and then cranking things a touch with a few promo goodies before the handover. In hour 2 I was dead chuffed to welcome none other than Fingerman. Gregg’s a bit of a legend in the game, and someone who I looked up to loads before I got into producing. Love that I’ve put out a couple of bits on his annual Hot Digits compilations (eyes on this year!), love that we hung out at Glasto a few years back, and love that he’s done a brilliant mix for my show! It’s the expected level of lushness, launching straight in after the trademark spoken intro. Gets quite full on towards the end too, but always keeping it cool, well-mixed and very Fingerman. Bit shouts to Gregg for the mix - give him a follow, yeah? https://soundcloud.com/fingermanedit https://www.instagram.com/fingermandisco/ HOUR 1 TRACKLIST 1 Balearic Skip - Mighty 2 Opolopo - Minneopolopolis 3 Dam Swindle, Tom Misch - Yes, No, Maybe (Sterac Electronics Remix) 4 Young Franco - Drop Your Love 5 Kazzey - Love Trouble (feat Laura Corini) 6 Mick Jessup - Take It Easy When You Get Down 7 BT Express - Give Up The Funk (CMAN Edit) 8 Patrice Rushen - Number One (12' Version) 9 Monkey Boots - Impossible Need 10 DJ “S” - Groove On 11 Chuggin Edits - Ooo This Love 12 Ben Jamin - Dance - Hot Gorilla Records 13 Dee-Bunk - Go Again 14 Parliament - Funkin' For Fun 15 David Morales - Boriqua 16 Jaegerossa - Lay It Down 17 Get Down (Young Pulse -Make U Mine- retouch) 18 Enrique Iturralde - The Pump 19 Shabi - Back To You 20 Nico Cortazzo - Lady Soul 21 Dusky - Skin Deep FINGERMAN GUEST MIX Roxanne Shante - Live On Stage (House Mix) Fingerman & Chewy Rubs - Party Dude Shabi - Ghetto Beats Kenny Summit - The Cookout Motor City Drum Ensemble - Raw Cuts 1 Soul Of Hex feat Motion Parallax - Face Down Felipe Gordon - Profundo Alma Negra - The Vibe Luke Solomon - Fire You Up (Body Edit) Robot 84 - The Weekend (Vocal Edit) Liam Dunning - Just For You Andy Bach - D.A.N.C.E Q-Burns Abstract Message - Mess Of Afros (Glen Underground Remix) Riva Starr - How It Feels Dj Falcon - Together (Sgt Slick Rework)

No guest mix this time, so I kindly stepped in to supply the whole 120 minutes of grooves. We kicked off with some lovely soul a’la Aretha and Marvin, then went into some low tempo boogie, some weirdness, some African vibes, more weirdness, and via a few stop offs along the way we ended up with some beautiful, lesser known disco. I had fun! TRACKLIST 1 Jill Scott - A Long Walk 2 Latimore - Let's Do It in Slow Motion 3 Aretha Franklin - Day Dreaming 4 Marvin Gaye - Ain't That Peculiar 5 Nuyorican Soul - I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun (feat Jocelyn Brown) 6 Debra Laws - How Long 7 Loose Change - Rising Cost Of Love 8 Nate Evans - Main Squeeze 9 Imagination - Music & Lights [The Reflex Revision] 10 Gary Wright - Comin' Apart 11 Barry Dow - Sly & Wicked 12 T-Connection - Everything Is Cool 13 Stargard - Which Way Is Up 14 Loose Ends - Hangin' On A String 15 Dr Packer - Move That Bottom 16 Prince - Wonderful Ass 17 Amadou & Mariam - Filaou Bessame (Cerrone Remix) 18 Dele Sosimi - You No Fit Touch Am (Medlar Remix) 19 Takao - Mi Mosquito 20 Classonix - Aeo Aeo 21 Pigeon - Yagana 22 Conway Brothers - Turn It Up 23 Tantra - A Place Called Tarot (Idjut Boys Re-Edit) 24 Bold Parade - Proxy 17 25 Crackazat - Fire Drift 26 Sauco - Donna Is in Control 27 Bralan Arias - Jazzy Chato 28 S-Express - Nothing to Lose (Subterranean Edit) 29 LV Premier - Hooked On This Feelin' (Dimitri From Brooklyn Edit) 30 Platinum Hook - Standing On The Verge (Of Getting It On) 31 Joe Bataan, Specter - Latin Lover (Specter Edit) 32 Nina Dunn - If You Want My Love (Do It) 33 Sylvester - Doin' It For The Real Thing 34 The Gap Band - Gap Band Party 35 Val Young - If You Should Ever Be Lonely 36 Cultured Pearls, Hoff - Mother Earth (Hoff's Optimistic House Edit) 37 Ce Ce Rogers - Someday

My hour started off nice and funky, quickly built up the tempo to cram in a few promos, and ended up with a few dusty disco belters north of 130BPM. Fun times! I was lucky to snag a very special guest for the second hour. French DJ, singer, composer, multi instrumentalist, producer and audio engineer David Baluteau AKA Joi N’Juno. He’s another one of my favourite producers, specialising in funky, danceable tunes with African influences. His mix is bloody brilliant - lots of tropical sunshine sounds, some solid nu-disco and housed up worldwide oddities, with a few of his own in there, including a bit of unreleased stuff. Loved every minute of this one, and I hope you enjoy it too. Give Joi N’Juno a follow - https://soundcloud.com/joiandhappinessmusic https://www.instagram.com/joiandjuno/ HOUR 1 - EVEN FUNKIER 1 James Rod - 'Disco Rocket' [Situation Remix] 2 Stevie Wonder - Boogie On Reggae Woman 3 Change - Change of Heart (Special Extended Mix) 4 T Connection - Funky Lady 5 Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly - Time Is On My Side 6 Buscrates 16-Bit Ensemble - On My Own (feat. Laura Benack & Nice Rec) 7 Tweet - Boogie 2Nite (Fat Camp Mix) 8 Above and Beyond (Young Pulse Instru Retouch) 9 Scott Diaz - The Truth 10 Shabi - Boogie Feet 11 Hurlee - In The Sunshine 12 Mahogany - My Chance To Dance 13 Ricky Montanari & Discoplex - Garagesque 14 Arpy Brown - Attention (Extended Version) 15 Gigi Croccante - Y'all Feel Dat 16 3kelves - Magic 17 Retrofract - The Free Movement Association 18 The Brothers Johnson - The Real Thing (Even Funkier Edit) 19 Congress - Something That You Got (Real Hot) 20 Vera - Take Me to the Bridge HOUR 2 - JOI N'JUNO 1-Busy Twist - Levis Vercky's - Meca (The Busy Twist remix) 2-Joi N' Juno- Wake Up Song 3-Raz & Afla - What's Going On? 4-Joi N'Juno - Unreleased track 5-Letta Mbulu - Kilimanjaro (The Revenge Edit) 6-LONDON AFROBEAT COLLECTIVE - MY WAY (KIKO NAVARRO DISCOTERRANEO REMIX) 7-Sue Wright-I Believe In You-Sue Wright-Believe In You (Joi N' Juno Rework) out 11th April on Canopy records 8-Les Inferno - Yeah C'mon 9- Hotmood - Love To The Music (Original Mix) 10- Joi N'Juno - The Storyteller 11- Joi N'Juno - Douala Boogie (Original Mix) 12- The Funk District - Gogo Mama (Original Mix) 13-Joi N'Juno- Samemala 14- Bosq, Kaleta, The Ibibio Horns - Song for Ehi feat. Kaleta & The Ibibio Horns (Disco Dub) 15- Flamingo Pier - Remedy

The first half of this episode of Funkier Sounds was very much a Southport Weekender affair, thanks to me making my second visit there last weekend. It was, with one exception, all tracks I’d heard there, so after a little warm up it was more or less wall to wall soulful house with a splash of gospel house for good measure. I ended my hour with something brand new from me, that will be available for a free download later this week. For hour 2 it was time to hand over to Alessandro Oliveira, a DJ and radio host from Brazil. Alessandro has kindly invited me to be on his show, and I’ll be his guest this week! Alessandro’s mix is a brilliant disco house selection, but not that slightly annoying type of jacking disco house - this is refined, beefed up interpretations of classics, with a few lesser known gems in there too. It really is very good! Huge thanks to Alessandro for the mix - give him a follow… https://www.instagram.com/discodanceradioshow/ https://soundcloud.com/discodanceradioshow …and keep an eye out for my mix for his show, dropping soon! HOUR 1 TRACKLIST Moca - Post It Crackazat - Can't Blame A Soul (Mana's Dub) Captain Rapp - Bad Times (I Can't Stand It) (Greg Wilson Edit) Art Of Tones - Bootyshaker (Under The Influence Of Red Greg) Dam Swindle - That's Right Imagination - Burning Up (Soul Clap Remix) Roisin Murphy - Incapable (Dimitri From Paris and Aeroplane Remix) Glenn Underground - Funki-Ghetto Mark Grant - U Can Lift Me Up (Boom Boom Room Mix) Neighbour - Bro Chant Kem - Heaven (Marlon D _ GA club mix) The Astro Trax Team feat. Shola Phillips - The Energy (Feel The Vibe) Joe T Vannelli Project - Sweetest Day Of May (Knee Deep's Vocal Hymn Mix Remastered 2k18) Blaine Connell - Lovin YASS - I Go Deep Peven Everett - Stuck (Phil Asher's Soul Heaven Version) 2fox - Elevation with Laville Alex Finkin, Rocco Rodamaal - In Da Hood Splendor - All Night Long The Brothers Johnson - The Real Thing (Even Funkier Edit)

To celebrate the fact that I’m off to Southport Weekender this weekend, I decided to put together a little minimix of some of the sort of vibes I might be hearing over the weekend. It’s soulful, bumpy house music with lots of funky basslines and skippy US Garage-style percussion. This sort of music nourishes my soul, I hope you like the mix! WATCH ON YOUTUBE... https://youtu.be/Vzmxf2T8_4I TRACKLIST 1 Cultured Pearls, Hoff - Mother Earth (Hoff's Optimistic House Edit) 2 Wez Whynt - You Will Know (Soullab Spiritual Vocal Mix) 3 Khubos - Let The Beat Ride 4 Stacy Kidd - Body Jerkin (feat Peven Everett) 5 Jamie Lewis - For You (feat. Michael Watford) 6 Sunkids - Rescue Me (MAW Magic Sessions Mix) 7 Random Soul - Hooked Upon Your Love (Extended) 8 Solid Ground (Brian Tappert For The Heads Remix) 9 Cafe 432 - Homage 10 Beverley Knight - Made It Back (Booker T Night Time Dub)