Funkier Radio

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...

This episode was part tribute to two legendary women who have sadly left us recently - Roberta Flack and Gwen McCrae. Two tracks from each in my hour, and what wonderful tracks they are too. I also played a load of new promos in the second half, and ended on a bloody classic. Hour two was the second guest mix appearance from my good Danish friend and boss of Discoholics Anonymous Recordings, Ken A...

My hour was one of those unpredictable affairs when I’d just bought a load of music and was playing exclusively from that - a bucket of assorted tracks that were new to me, although not necessarily new new. Big basslines gave way to cosmic chug, and it mostly hung together surprisingly well! Hour 2 was a really fun new mix from Flick C, who recently did a mix for my Funkier Sessions series and has...

Most of my hour was taken up by mellow, deep electronic grooves, gradually cranking things up to squeeze in a couple of new bits from me right at the end. Hour 2 was all about my very special guest Mannix, boss of Dafia Records. He’s treated us to a very fine mix of disco, nu-disco and classy, jazzy house vibes, with a few from him and a few nice edits of tracks you should know. Truly lovely stuff...

I kept things bubbling around the 100 BPM mark for quite a while this time, because it felt good… then I picked things up with a little tribute to Sam from Sam & Dave who has sadly left us, a few promos, some disco, a few slightly more banging bits and some jazzy goodness to round things off. My guest this time was Stewart Birch, a wicked producer and DJ from up North. His set is full of big, fun...

A deep and slightly moody hour of simmering grooves from me this time, with not much chat to interrupt the flow. The tunes felt strong though, and I had a nice time mixing it. For hour 2 it was over to Kate Knox AKA My Mate Kate, who mixed up a storming, upbeat hour of funky bangers. Lots of fun this one, massive thanks to Kate for the top mix! Give her a follow please - https://www.instagram.com/...

My hour was a nice mix of slow ones, funky ones, lesser known ones and banging ones, with a little tribute to the late Quincy Jones to start. For the second hour I handed things over to Pete Lynch from Derry in Ireland for a frankly excellent guest mix - the first half was all slinky, loopy chuggers, picking up to some more lively disco vibes towards the end. Really enjoyed this one! Give Pete a f...

Opened my hour with another new (and free) one from me, then moved through flavours of disco, funk and various other delights- hitting soulful, exotic and jazzy notes along the way. In the second hour I handed over to Kellit for a very special all vinyl set. Kellit is label curator for the fab Disco Exotic, a wicked producer of chunky tunes, a great DJ and a very lovely bloke. His mix is high on t...

My hour was OK this time, but unhelpfully my decks crashed! Doesn’t happen often but it happened this time, so we had a little bit of awkward silence while I did a quick reboot. I could’ve edited it out but I decided to keep it in… it’s live radio, baby - it is what it is! Once we were back in action these was time for some funk, disco and boogie, a bit of housier stuff and a lovely epic finish. F...

I kicked off hour 1 with my new (and free) Etta James edit (grab it here - https://soundcloud.com/evenfunkier/night-people), and also dropped a new one from my good friend Pete Ellison (grab that one here - https://www.traxsource.com/track/12760183/get-down-to-james-brown-original-mix) as I darted through the genres with some vintage funk, hip hop, deep and dusty house and a few disco belters to f...

Episode 142 of Funkier Sounds is dedicated to the memory of Danielle Moore from Crazy P. I played a good few tracks featuring her divine vocals in the first hour, and did my best to put together a set of the sort of deep, sleazy, low-slung disco that Crazy P do so well. For hour 2 it felt like the only right thing to do was to replay the guest mix she did for me earlier this year. I was so thrille...

In the first hour of this show I played a mixed bag of bits I've downloaded reasonably recently. Still having all sorts of computer issues but I've managed to get them on a USB at least. Nice mix of vibes - some quite chilled and balearic stuff building towards a few soulful house numbers. I didn't manage to get a guest for hour 2, so I thought why don't I do a mix of my own stuff? So that's what...