funky

Just received this one from Bear Funk. Soirée, labelowner Stevie Kotey’s new project with Max Essa is a real beast that fuses all the good bits from balearic house, disco, funk and anything soulful.

Some amazing digs here and a melting pot of brassy/psych/funky beats but I’ve chosen the big band fury of Bada Que Bash and the amazing Indian beat of “I am very sorry” by Noor Jehan.

Another joint show with Can Ayverdi/Cleansweep, you can realize the degree of soulfulness when you see the names Lee Hazlewood, Galt McDermot and Al Hirt in a row. There’s more to come though! Some of the highlights are brasiliera from Walter Wanderley and Charlie Rouse, more velvet soul from Bobby Womack and a cosmic ending with Build an Ark’s first effort.

Some old Dilla beats off Delicious Vinyl boss Mike Ross’ archive has seen the light now with Dilla’s younger brother John aka Illa J rapping over them which resulted in “Yancey Boys“.

Remember Clutchy Hopkins, the so called mysterious beat digger from Midwest?. Ubiquity has released an exciting new collabo between C.H and Britain’s exotic kookhead Shawn Lee.

First a soulful afrobeat on a funky beat from Cymande’s self titled 1982 album. Then a truly hypnotic track by the king of bearded disco DJ Harvey “Lovefinger” which I guess gives its name to the blog lovefingers.

There’s a rising trend in dance music for the last few years, and it’s now safe to say disco is back, at least in Europe, and mostly thanks to re-edits. Of course the nu-disco scene in USA has been flowering for years, with the likes of Metro Area, Daniel Wang & Kelley Polar but re-edits of prog/kraut bands like Alan Parsons Project?

Here’s Part 2 of our deep house selection for summer, including the funk induced dancer by Move D on Compost, as opposed to his usual minimalistic style, Marvin Belton’s deep summer tune from 2005, which is a appropriately titled an Early AM Mix and more.