Funkier Radio

First radio show for I think 5 weeks… whoops! Had a bit of stuff occurring, plus Christmas and all that, but that’s no excuse. It was a fun little session, just an hour to get a feel for it again. But it was alright. No real plan for this one, just played some tunes. TRACKLIST 1 Don Carlos - Alone Paradise 2 Jamie Antonelli - Divine 3 Robjamweb - Southern Breeze 4 Gee Lane - Neon Beach 5 Doc L. Ju...

This was my first one for a little while - personal and technological issues have been getting in the way once again. So it felt good to be back on for a full two hour mix! Started with a small tribute to the legend Jimmy Cliff, as the news of his passing broke a few hours before. Then into some moody and deep vibes for a while until I switched things up, we went to Africa for a while, slowed thin...

I’ve been unable to do my show for the last few weeks, so I was very happy to be back on Twitch for a full two hour sesh. I had no plan, so I jumped in at mid-tempo and worked my way up gradually. We had disco, deep house and boogie amongst other bits, and it was fun! TRACKLIST 1 First Choice - Love Thang (Dr Packer Rework) 2 Aurra - A Little Love [The Reflex Revision] 3 Even Funkier - Say The Wor...

So I very nearly didn’t have a free download for you this month - I was working on something but it didn’t work out and I had to abandon it. Then a family holiday took me out of action for a bit and left me with just a few days to rustle something up. I managed to pull it out of the bag by smashing two random tracks together, and I think it’s actually not half bad. It’s a Lady Gaga track called De...

Very happy to be back with a two hour session - my first for a little while. I’ve been downloading some new tunes recently so this was billed as a ‘new finds’ session, although it ended up being a bit of a mixed bag - some new bits, but interspersed with a few favourites from my collection. But a real mash up of styles and plenty of genre hopping! TRACKLIST 1 Fuga Ronto - L'uomo Invisible 2 Ben Ja...

Just a one hour session this week as I slowly recover from being ill, but since it’s my first one in three weeks it felt like I had to do some sort of mix. Kept this one slow and slinky, around the 100BPM mark throughout, and managed to cover a good amount of ground in 60 minutes - with some P-Funk, some Hip Hop, some R&B and some sexy disco vibes. WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE - https://youtu.be/...

I kept things fairly moody for this one, with a mix of deep house and broken beat kinda vibes - it was fun flitting between 4/4 and those looser percussive vibes. Then things went a bit bumpy in the last half an hour or so, with a few US and UK garage flavaz just because I fancied it. Don’t forget - my show is now on Twitch, and broadcasting LIVE every Monday (an upgrade from the old radio show wh...

Times are a’changing for my Funkier Sounds radio show - I’ve made the difficult decision to take it off NDC, its home for the last few years. It’s purely so I can be a bit more flexible with when I do it and the format - guest mixes have been a real pain recently, so now I’ve got the freedom to do one hour, or two, with or without a guest mix. I’m going to try and do it weekly too instead of every...

This episode was a rather special one - it’s my last on NDC radio as I’ve chosen to move on from the late time slot to somewhere with a bit of flexibility while I ponder my next move. I’ll be taking it on to Twitch for a bit. So for this final episode I thought it would be nice to take a look back at some of the guests I’ve had since my little show started back in May 2019, so every track was an o...

My latest show was just me on my own again, just for an hour. But nevertheless I managed to cram in no fewer than FIVE of my recent tracks - two compilation appearances, one remix and my latest two free edits. And the rest of the hour was mostly made up of other tracks on the compilations I’m on, plus a few promos. Links to those edits below! https://soundcloud.com/evenfunkier/daddy-cool https://s...

I’ve somewhat dropped the ball on guest mixes, so this one was two hours of me - you lucky people?! It was fun though - starting things off slow and soulful and gradually building things up from there. 38 wonderful tracks from the worlds of funk & soul, disco, latin, boogie, electronica, house and more… I hope you enjoy! TRACKLIST 1 Jill Scott - It's Love Remastered 2 Gil Scott-Heron And Brian Jac...

This one was slightly different - no guest and I planned to just play for an hour, but my decks froze after 50 mins so I called it a day then. Still packed in 20 tracks and was having a lovely time, need to work out why the decks gave up. So that’s that - enjoy, and normal service will resume in two weeks TRACKLIST 1 The Pharcyde - Passin' Me By 2 DJ Pippi, Willie Graff, Charlotte C. - Piel a Piel...

A lovely extended session for you - two whole hours of the finest in house, disco and disco house. Give Goozer a follow - https://soundcloud.com/goozer83

My hour was an ‘I’ve just spent a load on Bandcamp and Traxsource, let’s see what happens’ special - only tracks that I’ve just downloaded and don’t really know yet… these ones are always fun and a bit unpredictable. Started at a hip hop tempo and things quickly picked up, it was a fun hour and I cammed in 26 of the little beauties. Then in hour 2 I was very pleased to hand over to a rising star i...

I started this episode slow and slinky, but switched things up halfway to road test a few promos. Tried to keep it a vaguely summery vibe this time, and covered lots of bases as usual. This fortnight’s guest mix was from Leon Dahl, who’s an ace producer based in NZ that I’ve appeared alongside on some compilations. It also turns out he’s a wicked DJ, as shown by this mix - an hour and a bit of ecl...

After last episode’s 6th birthday special, I was back with more funkier fun for episode 160! I had a slightly shorter bit of the show due to a longer guest mix, but I still crammed in all sorts - disco, nu-disco, boogie, hip hop, funk and of course a bit of weirdness. The guest mix this time was a real treat - 70 minutes of beats, breaks, funk & soul and hip hop from DJ Russkins. Russell is a fan...

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...

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 D...

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,...

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 f...

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 TRACKLI...

This month’s freebie is my own version of a track I absolutely love. Most people know The Brothers Johnson for the classic and very good track Stomp, but the true heads among us know that The Real Thing is where it’s really at. The original slaps plenty already with its dramatic strings and falsetto vocal, but I’ve beefed things up a couple of notches and added some breakdowns for dramatic effect....

My hour of Episode 155 was, once again, a bit of a tribute to geniuses that have sadly left us recently. After bidding farewell to Gwen McCrae and Roberta Flack last show, I did the same this time for the great Roy Ayers, Angie Stone and Yam Who? of Midnight Riot. I opened the show with his remix of my own track that came out on MR a couple of years back, and fitted in a few from him and Roy, and...

Here’s episode 2 of my new series, a fifteen minute mini-showcase of a genre, sub-genre, vibe or theme close to my heart. This time we’ve got a quarter of an hour of sleazy, low-slung, squidgy late night fonk for your earholes from the likes of XL Middleton, Buscrates, Dam Funk, Opolopo and Dabeull. Stanky! TRACKLIST XL Middleton - Gentched Up XL Middleton - Tingle Down Below Buscrates - Evergreen...

Keeping things international with the latest Funkier Session with a mix from Ferry Funky, a Dutch DJ based in Manila. This mix is awesome, and perfectly captures an ideal Funkier Sessions vibe - a sublime unison of hip hop and funk, picking up the pace and veering into disco territory later on. Wonderful stuff! Please give Ferry a follow - https://soundcloud.com/ferryfunky https://www.instagram.co...