SS DJs Support Breakestra @ Becks bar

If ya a regular to this blog, you know your funk and you'd know Breakestra, so I guess Breakestra dont need no introduction. The gig dont need no selling either as its already sold out. The good news is that SoulShaker djs are the local support. Gimme a woop woop! We are playing before, in the middle & at the end of Breakestra.

To get ya in the mood Iv just laid a furious funk 45 mix. They're all original 45's cut in the same vein & style of what you'll expect to hear from Breakestra. Hell, I may even drop a few of these at the gig.

I start the set off with a sweet soul number that fellow Stones Throw recording artist Mayer Hawthorne recently covered. For a white boy, he did a sterling job at covering this 1969 gem. I hope you dig it.

Download: Furious Funk 45's

Track listing

1. New Holidays - Maybe So Maybe No.

2. Ruby & The Party Gang - Hey Ruby (Shut your mouth).

3. The Electric Express - It's The Real Thing. pt 1.

4. Benny Sharp & the Sharpies - Music (I Like it) pt 2.

5. Hot Line - How Funky Do You Do. pt 1.

6. Kal feat Mr Tee - The Boogies Here.

7. Jonathan - No Place Like Home.

8. Chase - Get it on.

9. Ballin' Jack - Super Highway.

10. Arthur Conley - Funky Street.

11. Hank Ballard - Come On Wit' It.

12. Poison - Let Me Lay My Funk On You.

13. C and The Shells - Funky Tamborine. pt 2.

14. Monica - Freedom

SAMPLED with MR THING from UK

Stop the press... Mr Glass is sharing the decks with Mr Thing from the UK this Friday. Check out his latest compilation offering on BBE. If that aint enough, Katalyst is also joining us fresh out of the studio after producing the super soul-fi Space Invadas project with Steve Spacek.

We've included Mr Things, The Portable Anorak mix below for your downloading pleasure. There's a mountainous plethora of dynamite funk breaks & left field soul. All cut, sliced & diced by the hands of Thing.

Down Load Mr Thing: The Portable Anorak mix

Check dis shit out:

http://www.myspace.com/mrthing

http://www.bbemusic.com/data.pl?release=BBECD096

http://www.katalystmusic.com.au/

Twenty Four Hour Lover

Ooh baby.... The Twenty four hour lover is keeping with my recent mix formats. All cuts are taken from 7" originals with the pace picking up with disco funk & boogie gems. No pilfered, stolen or acquired digital downloads here bro, and no cd or compilation prostitution. Its just two turntables and a one take mix of 45s, so its a little rusty in places cos' I had a few wines & cant be fucked starting again. None the less all the booty shakers are of the same vibe and a nice indication of the sound we're gunna to lay out for you this Sunday.

Dont freak out, I aint no purist chin stroker, any format is cool in my school. Its all about the music not the format. Buy, play, download it any way you can. I have thousands of digital files I'll manipulate into mixes and release on your ass someday soon.

Download: Twenty Four Hour Lover mix

Intro: 24 hour lover

1. Bloodstone - Nite time fun

2. Eugene Record - Fan the fire

3. Fatback - Take it any way you want it

4. Super Wolf - Anybody can do it

5. Slave - Just a touch

6. Cheri - Murphy's Law

Interlude: Naughty Stewardesses

7. Asphalt Jungle - Freakin Time pt 1

8. Avenue B Boogie Band - Bumper to Bumper

9. Denise La Salle - Move your body

10. Gloria Gaynor - Anybody want to party

11. Bombers - Lets Dance

12. LTD - Dance "n" Sing "n"

13. Joe Thomas - Make your move

Time for something important

Something important alright'. Sixty minutes of deep funky love from my funk 45 collection. There's a couple rockin horse droppings in here with a few more common tracks that sat well with the mood & tone. I did make an excursion off the strictly 45 pathway by unloading a 12 minute chugger from Richard "Dimples" Fields album, (it's finger lickin good) not the title track but rather "Dat Richfield Kat" named after his label. I wrapped the hour up with a kooky lil' Electric Company favourite from the reading freak "easy reader"

Download here: Something Important. funk 45 mix

Intro: Oscar the grouch

1. Willy Wily - Push & Shove

2. Thomas East - Funky Music pt 1

3. Detroit Emeralds - You're getting a little too smart

4. The Gaturs - Cold Bear

5. The Voices of Harlem - Can you feel it

6. Hot - Just 'couse Im guilty

7. All Points Bulletin Band - Sexy ways - Pretty legs pt 1

8. BT Express - Happiness

Interlude: "J" Friends

9. The Sunshine Band - Hey J

10. Sounds of Alfred - Superfunk City pt 1

11. Willie Hobbs & the Dirte Four - Gloria

12. Ricky Williams - Discotheque Soul Pt 1

13. Richard "Dimples" Fields - Dat Richfield Kat

14. Chakachas - Jungle Fever

15. Marvin Gaye - Funky Space Reincarnation pt 2

16. Electric Company (Raposo/Laron) - Easy Reader

HARBOUR FUNK: SUN 21st DEC

Harbour Funk! Its a day of water bound funk festivities on board the Lady Rose. Here's the deal, and its a f#%king steal, for $55 bucks you get a day out on the harbour with none other than the SoulShakers Robin Knight, Mr Glass & Frenzie dropping a tug boat load of funk nuggets on you all day long. We'll be setting sail on our soulful voyage in search of paradise lost at 12:30pm from King st wharf and returning at 5pm. At

which time, we reclaim the land and storm the Civic for the continuation of our journey.

Shit, I should also mention that Cookin on 3 Burners are doing a live gig on the boat, big bad pirate Russ Dewbury will conjure up a storm of his own and the little Latino flavoured maestro from the Bamboos, Lanu will also be creating waves on the high seas. Add to the cabin crew, Huwston & the capt'n of this funk junk JC. Now that's an unsinkable tonnage!

Check out the MoFo Money Mix 2 for a sample of the of what I may stow away for the cruise.

Here's 16 straight up funk 45 nuggets I put together this arvo. All but one are original 7's, unfortunately the Nathan Bartell is on reissue as there is only 3 known copies in the world (apparently) Some are well known, others are rare as hens teeth, some are a little scratchy and others in mint. However, they are all fuckin crackers. I hope you enjoy the mix and please leave me comments below both good and bad are welcome. Btw, I have finally started using zShare. It's dead easy to download all the new posts!

Listen: MoFo Money Mix 2

Track list:

1. The Daley Diggers - I can dig it

2. Starborn - Real real thing

3. Calvin Arnold - Funk way

4. Otis Redding - Hard to handle

5. Ground Hog - Bumpin

6. Ju-Par Universal Orchestra - Funky music

7. Nathan Bartell - Top goin' down, goin' up

8. Free Fare - Birth of a soldier

9. Earth Wind & Fire - C'mon children

10. Eddie Harris - Funkaroma

11. Rick James The Stone City Band - Get up and dance (instrumental)

12. Ellison Chase - Let's Rock

13. The Philadelphia Story - People users

14. Avalanche 77 - Mister boogie man

15. Charles Mann- Shonuff no funny stuff love (instrumental)

16. Wardell Piper - Captain boogie

Funk 45 MoFo Money Mix

Funk 45 MoFo Money Mix, that's 45 minute worth of funk 7". Remember those things in the picture, they're my turntables and seven's I just used and dj's used them way back in the day kids... The mix is a little rusty, I threw it together in one take tonight with 17 of my fav 45's and a couple of nasty shaftman samples. I recorded on our super cool Roland Edirol 24bit hand held recorder (this mix is straight of the SD card) This thing is so dope, you just drop it in your top pocket and plug straight out your mixer in any venue and hey presto! you have a mix down. Expect to see loads more up on the blog thanks to this lil gizmo.

Listen: MoFo Money Mix

Trax:
1. The Relations - Funky Monkey pt 1
2. The People's Choice - Big Ladies Man
3. Barinno Brothers - Born on the Wild Side (instumental)
4. Thunder Lightning & Rain - Super Funky pt 1
5. Ray Jamel & Bob Johnson - Walking on the Moon
6. Mr SuperBad & the Mighty Super Power Band - Mr Superbad's Theme
7. The Kay Gees - Hustle Wit Every Muscle (Disco Version)
8. Flame - Rock n Soul
9. Natural High - The Whole World is Dancing
10. Ultra Funk - String Your Jaws pt 1
11. Yvonne Fair - Your Can't Judge a Book by its Cover
12. Willie Hutch - Use What You Got pt 1
13. Little Sister - You're the One pt 2
14. All Dyrections - Soul Makossa
15. High Voltage - Here Comes a Streaker
16. Law - Tootin'
17. Barrett Strong - Stand Up and Cheer for the Preacher (instrumental)