Funkier Radio

Like the little neurodivergent DJ that I am, I obsessively tag my tracks so i can easily filter them by all sorts of qualities. One of my tags is, for some reason, called ‘Secret Sauce’, and it’s reserved for the handful of disco, boogie and occasionally a bit Latin tunes that are very special to me. I’m not even sure what makes a track qualify as Secret Sauce, but it makes sense in my head. They’...

Another Fresh Finds session, so all of these are new to me, though a fair few of them are even older than I am. Sugar Pie DeSanto and Steely Dan at one end, Nu Genea and musclecars at the other, and what - about fifty years in between? Opens balearic and jazzy, rolls through disco and soul, takes a detour via Colombia and Nigeria in the middle, then gets deeper towards the end. Sylvester and Hi-Gl...

Kept this one solidly funk and soul, with some jazzier bits thrown in for good measure. All selected off the cuff - complete with a few slightly shaky blends, as is the way when you’re winging it and mixing old funk tunes live. Some proper heavy hitters making an appearance - Curtis Mayfield, Lyn Collins, James Brown and Jamiroquai all turn up early doors alongside some more obscure bits, before t...

The latest Funkier Session is a good one - this instalment comes from Deezee Wizzard, a DJ and producer from Germany who has done a guest mix for my radio show before (see episode 84 - https://soundcloud.com/evenfunkier/funkier-radio-84). This mix is a 78 minute journey into his brain and through his musical world, and it takes in all sorts - from disco to funk to housier bits, old stuff, new stuf...

Right, so this one gets a bit lively. Opens up with a proper run of Afro and Antillean goodness - Voilaaa, Pasteur Lappe, Tabu Ley Rochereau - before things turn darker and acid-tinged, then we head off into loopy house territory for no particular reason. Faster than I normally go, and there's a few curveballs in there that I won't apologise for. Madeon closes it out, which even I didn't see comin...

This one ended up going all over the place, geographically speaking - South Africa, Burkina Faso, Berlin, Japan, and a few stops I couldn't place if you asked me. Starts out funky and boogie-flavoured, rolls into some dusty, housier bits, then the Afro goodness takes over for a while. Finally got hold of that legendary Theo Parrish Sugarhill Gang edit I’ve been hunting, and there's one of my own e...

Honoured to get the fantastic London selector Alexei Byzone on for the next instalment of Funkier Sessions, with one of his legendary Funky Ibiza mixes. This one's high energy from the get go, with pumping, funky beats all over the place. In Alexei's own words... 'Welcome to a special Funkier Sessions guest mix! ☀️🌴 Bringing you 1 hour of uplifting Funky Ibiza House, blending fresh modern club cu...

Dug into the funkiest corners of my collection for this one - no clever journey, just a load of tunes that hit hard, one after the other. There's some proper heavyweight funky business occurring - Zapp, Dennis Coffey, Rose Royce… and Talking Heads again. Alongside the vintage goodies there’s a big pile of modern edits doing their best to keep up - Opolopo, Buscrates, Packer. Ends with Bill Withers...

Time for another one of my Fresh Finds sessions - each tune brand new to my collection… but not necessarily newly released - in fact I think most of these are at least a few years old. Started off at a very polite 80BPM, then gradually cranked things up to the mid 120s. As is the way with these sessions, anything can happen - we’ve got ambient Japanese loveliness, a Nina Simone edit, some Balearic...

Shirley Bassey and Aphex Twin in the same mix?! I'm as surprised as you are. This one's an early morning affair, recorded before work on a sticky tuesday. All slow chug and dusty, soulful grooves, never troubling anything above a very sedate 93 BPM. Bill Withers, some Loose Ends, a proper mellow roll all the way through, then Al Johnson to see us out - I'd got my second wind by then. Give it a spi...

Started this episode on a bit of an old school tip with some lovely uplifting tunes, and a few from that late 80s golden era of early house music. Voodoo Ray bridges the gap into acid territory, then we descend into something a bit deeper with some chunky rollers and Afro goodies. We’ve got Jordan Rakei making an appearance in disguise, and we round off proceedings with a nice track called Smiling...

My friends Karim and Karen had a BBQ, and I DJed there alongside a few other excellent selectors. We were outside in the evening, but moved proceedings into their kitchen later on to keep the neighbours onside - because it was LOUD! I had the closing set - about 2am to about 4am... and about 15 mins in I remembered to hit record! Kept the energy high, and bounced through the genres like nobody's b...

Next up on Funkier Sessions we’ve got a lovely mix from Leon Barnard. Dropping this mix in the middle of this endless UK summer feels like good timing, as it’s got sunshine written all over it. There’s plenty of old school hip hop, reggae vibes, some chilled out funk and soul. Lots in this one, and it’s good!

So I kept my hands firmly off the sync button this week, which is of course a healthy thing to do... but it does mean some of the blends are a touch rougher round the edges than usual… and, I’m not gonna lie - there’s a couple of full on trainwrecks in there. But the tunes more than make up for it - soulful and warm to start, then a proper roll through boogie, disco and deep funk, with Larry Graha...

This one starts out in the sun - Latin and Afro grooves, easy and warm - then quietly sneaks off downstairs to where the bass is at. Boogie, a bit of dusty house, and of course one or two bits that have no business being there. Just chasing the funk wherever it's hiding, as I like to do. Some old favourites, some caught in the moment. Enjoy x TRACKLIST Ronaldo Reseda - E Novamente Mas Que Nada (OO...

FREE DOWNLOAD HERE - https://hypeddit.com/evenfunkier/macaracid Well, I’ve finally gone and done it - here’s my version of Macarena! I’m actually really pleased with this and had a load of fun making it. Headline is that it’s got a big wiggly 303 line, so its working title was of course Macar-acid. It’s also got new percussion to give it a bit of chug and swagger, new bass, a slightly dubby vibe i...

Funkier Sessions returns with a lovely hour of tunes from DJ Paul C, representing Donegal, Ireland. Paul's put together a really nice selection of disco and nu-disco - some really funky bits in here. Big thanks to Paul for the mix, and please give him a follow - https://soundcloud.com/dj-paul-c-3 As always, I'm on the lookout for more mixes for this little series. Give me a shout if you'd like to...

This episode finally saw me return to Twitch, after a couple of false starts due to tech issues that I’ve thankfully managed to resolve. I didn’t get many viewers though, so why not join me next time? I stream at 8pm UK on Mondays - https://twitch.tv/evenfunkier Anyway, the tunes were decent this time, starting with some sunny afro kinda vibes and then switching up the tempo halfway to bumpier, so...

First show for a few weeks, and my intention was very much to go live on Twitch for this one. However some technical gremlins soon put a stop to that, so it ended up being another straight to Soundcloud jobby. Nice vibes though, mostly a bit moody, some tasty Afro vibes in there, some chunky, wonky funk, and I dropped Jamiroquai in the middle - purely because it’s June and it has the word June in...

I played a set at Circes, a rooftop bar next to Waterloo Station in London on a boiling hot Saturday afternoon at the end of May 2026. The first couple of hours were with the supremely talented Suki Soul, but sadly I wasn't able to record that bit. But I managed to grab the last 3 hours or so! My brief was to play commercial but I didn't really, although there are quite a few big tunes in here. Bu...

This one's a straightforward mashup, but I think it works pretty well. It's an early 80s collision, combining the vocal from Oliver Cheatham’s 1983 classic Saturday Night with the extraordinarily funky For Those Who Like to Groove by Ray Parker Jr (yes, the Ghostbusters theme tune guy!) from 1980. Not a huge amount more to say about it to be honest, except that it’s a free download… and I hope you...

My first proper set with my new DJ isolators, so excuse some over-enthusiastic knob twiddling! Started with some disco bangers, moved into some lesser known boogie cuts and then veered into some phonky business. Fun one! TRACKLIST George Duke - Reach Out First Choice - Love Thang [GDE Edit] Rumple-Stilts-Skin - I Think I Want To Dance With You Secret Squirrels #3 - Track A Paradise - Sizzlin Hot C...

First one in a few weeks as I've been upgrading the kit, which left me sans decks for a while. The new setup is in place, it's nice, and this was my first proper go on it. I've dowloaded some new tunes as well, so this hour is entirely new (to me) bits, and a correspondingly mixed bag. Haven't quite nailed the recording levels on the new kit, so apologies if this gets a bit crunchy in places! TRAC...

Those free downloads just keep on coming, and this time I’ve got one that’s been on my list for a while. I was listening to I’m Not Gonna Let You by Colonel Abrams a couple of years back, and I thought it might sound good with a house beat over it. So that’s just what I’ve finally done - I’ve well and truly housed it up a notch or two. Aside from that I’ve not done a whole lot - general beefing, c...

Episode 41 has just landed, with a massively enjoyable mix from my pal Grant Richards. Grant’s an excellent DJ and a lovely guy, and he brings us a very fun 90 minute session filled with dope disco edits - lots of tracks you’ll know, high energy... wonderful stuff. Check it out, won’t cha? And don't forget to give the big man a follow - https://soundcloud.com/djgrantrichards