Funky Ladies

Keeping the funk on, here’s a mix I made of feisty female fronted funk. The tracks are about half and half old and new, the newest being Gizelle Smith & The Mighty Mocambos, from the album ‘This is Gizelle Smith & The Mighty Mocambos’ which came out this year (well worth checking out), all the way through some psychedelic afro – beat poetry from Wanda Robinson, hymns of heartbreak and struggle from Mary Love and Marva Witney, some rare soul from The Sisters of Righteousness, a bit of Big Lebowski worship from Sharon Jones (also new) . .anyway there will be some tunes you know, hopefully a good few that you don’t, all good sassy funky vibes from some beautiful and talented ladies. Enjoy !

This is a mix, split into the individual tracks for ease of navigation, so you may want to listen to it without gaps if you need to do that with your player, I use winamp which doesn’t leave a gap between tracks . .anyway . . .

Download – Dave Fireball presents – Funky Ladies

Tracklist

001 - Strugglin (Original) - The Snugs.mp3

002 - Seven Nation Army - Nostalgia 77 ft. Alice Russell.mp3

003 - Settle The Score - Cookin On 3 Burners.mp3

004 - (Oh No! Not) The Beast Day-Marsha Hunt .mp3

005 - Working Woman - Gizelle Smith & The Mighty Mocambos.mp3

006 - Born To Live With Heartache - Mary Love.mp3

007 - Im Tired, Im Tired, Im Tired (Things Better Change Before Its Too Late) - Marva Whitney.mp3

008 - Wanda Robinson - A possibility back home.mp3

009 - You-Spanky Wilson.mp3

010 - Just Dropped in (to See What Condition my condition was in) - Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.mp3

011 - It Aint What You Do Its How You Do It-Laura Lee.mp3

012 - Gimme Shelter-Maxayn.mp3

013 - Liberation Conversation - Marlena Shaw.mp3

014 - Thats How I Feel-The Sisters Of Righteous.mp3

015 - Supercool - Pat Hunt.mp3

016 - What A Man - Linda Lyndell.mp3

dsco downBeats

Been listening to that Mount Kimbie stuff that Jim posted the other day and quite liking it and was trying to think what I listen to when I fancy a nice warm aural soak with plenty of analogue bubblebath. And it's generally SonicSunset mixes - they're great, not least for the completely over-the-top yet totally charming descriptions that they put together for their mixes. "starts the night with a sunset of hazy feedback, a cluster of scintillating Chain Reaction chords, and then onward into the starry skyway"? Aye alright then, cheers.

They mash up all sorts, early British electronica, old Chicago material, softer end of dubstep, big washy synth material, and all things nice and warm and fuzzy.

Check it out here - www.sonicsunset.com

PS The site's nowt to do with Juan Atkins by the way, they just took the name from the Model 500 track above, and I thought I'd embed cos you all love a bit of instant gratification and general eye candy.

Thomas Truax

This guy makes his own bizarre instruments, and has just made an album of songs from David Lynch movies. Here he is introducing his strange musical creations



and this is him performing a song called 'Full Moon Over Wow Town'. Looks like a good fun performance, he apparently played in mono during the Glasgow Film Festival . . .



Here's his myspace
Purchase "The Songs of David Lynch" here
Audrey's dance is in my opinion the best tune off the album, get it  ?j3nyz4g1103heqg

Best thing in... six months?

Another (more recent) Sun Ra Documentary

This one is from 2005 and is made by the legendary Don Letts

This is the full documentary. It's pretty amazing.



SECOND EDIT  -  Download the full movie to keep here (big thanks to the uploader)

mount kimbie

the whole album is great, was listening to it today picking mushrooms in the forest. beautiful use of samples and soothing noise in various electronic flavours. get it if you haven't already.

Bow down and worship . . .Larry Graham

Prince comes on to help with some guitar work during an Encore of 'Thank You' with master of Funk bass, Larry Graham.


Larry Graham INVENTED slap bass.
If that fact doesn't immediately make him worthy of worship, let me tell you some more about this guy, a god to me and a genuine hero of modern music.

Morphamish-Improbable Mix by morphamish

Morphamish-Improbable Mix 3 by morphamishThis is an anything goes Improbable mix originally made for that point about noon at a rave/afterparty where everyone's still partying, but some folk are tired of mostly electronic music and want more organic 'real' music - things with lyrics etc, but you've also got some spangled people who want to keep dancing to beats, and a hell of a lot of drunk people who didn't realise they wanted to dance again.So there's Ivor Cutler, Pixies, Zappa, Talking Heads, King Tubby, Bonzo Dog Dooda Band, Adult, Beasty Boys, Captain Beefheart, Sonic Youth, Le Tigre, Bridgette Bardot and loads of other stuff all intertwined with electronic beats taken from hiphop, techno, breaks, electro, french house and dnb/jungle to keep it freaky with the familiarity. Stuff like Freq Nasty, Kid 606, Shitmat, Anti Pop Consortium, Alex Gopher etc. Recorded this a fair few years ago.........

Summer 2010 tracks by morphamish

Summer 2010 tracks by morphamish 3 totally new ones, plus other recent tracks. All pretty warm sounding, different from the more face-melting stuff you may have heard from me. Still plenty bass, steppy breaks, dubbiness and ass shaking material:)

The Marauding Moroder

It's time for some Moroder on this here blog - Giorgio is God.

A brief introduction, as if any was needed...

Slim Gaillard

Slim Gaillard - Jazz legend. Check out the dancing at the end there, fuckin hell that looks like fun, literally throwing each other aboot. Need some kind of superhuman strength but . . .

jazz casual

The Jackening

After Scobie's extremely interesting post about Jakbeat I went off to try and get me some, without much success, so here is a wee sample of what I found mixed up with some old Chicago House, disco, synth pop,techno and whatever the fuck else. I had great fun making this actually, plenty of looping and fannying about with tracks goin on, hope yis like it.

Download - Dave fireball presents . . .The Jackening

Tracklisting

The Hills of Tantra (re edit) - Jamal Moss

Moonbootation 2002 -  Moonbootica

King of the Box - JTC

Shake Shake Shake (Shake your Booty) - K.C and the Sunshine band

Jack 2 the Future - Bobby Peru

Don't you want me (Extended edit) - Human League

untitled (re edit) - Jamal Moss

Walk (DJ Rahaan re edit) - Bent Boys

Ghetto Shout Out(feat Wax Master) - Parris Mitchell

Jack your Body - Steve "Silk" Hurley

The Second Night Cycle(Feat. Ellis Monk) - James T Cotton

We invite you to expand your total self - Salamandos

Other Voices - 16db