Fight on: ALI OMAR 16/03/58 to 23/06/09

I chose "Fight on" instead of RIP, because just like the great Mohammed Ali was a fighter, so was Ali Bin Mohammed Omar. Not often with his fist but always with his voice, his heart and his actions. Ali fought the good fight for the underdog, for the independent merchants, the indigenous, the young and the old. He stuck it to the man and the empty leaders when they turned their backs on the small guy, the common man and the underprivileged. Although small in stature himself, he roared like the lions in Zion with his words and actions.

This mix is a collection of smoking beats and leftfield soul that remind me of Ali and his attitude to life. Its emotionally charged, so sit back, roll a fat one, pour a long one and enjoy. I hope you can feel a little of what Im saying in these tracks.

I can see the selecta now, still fighting the good fight. Ali's on stage, taking the mic off MJ, pushing both him & Farrah aside and sitting them in their places as he now prepares to shake down the universe's biggest stage in a rubbadub style.

Download My Ali smoking mix here:

Track listing

Intro: Ali Bombaye - Michael Masser & Mandrill (loop)

1. Same ol thing (ft Rich Medina) - J Boogie Dubtronic Science

2. I choose you - Nightmare on Wax

3. Sweet Music (ft Tony Moses) - J Boogie Dubtronic Science

4. SSS 002 - Super Smoky Soul

5. Sax & Violence - Phantom Slasher

6. The beat experience - Pepe Deluxe

7. Millers's Lattice - Harvey Lindo

8. Together (ft Jennifer Johns) - J Boogie Dubtronic Science*

9. Set your flag on fire - U -Tern edit

10. Acetate Prophets - Jurassic 5

11. Dusk you and me - Groove Armada

12. All that you give - Cinematic Orchestra*

13. Maggot Brain - Funkadelic*

Outro - Long road (loop)

*sorry for distortion on last couple of trax. Poor lil' Edirol dont like it if level's get hot.

Michael Jackson RIP

Well who would have thought MJ would be next on the list... what a shame.

I went through a few tracks before settling on this... it wasn't easy as you could imagine.. didn't want to do the absolute obvious stuff as I'm sure you've already reloaded you ipod for the weekend with Rock with and Billie Jean, but here's one you may not of thought of straight away...

one of my fav's anyway.

Baby Be Mine - Listen or Download

Keep em' close

Wet, Damp, Drizzle and any other adjective you care to think of for poxy weather.

Hope you're well anyway.... here are some top notch tunes to help you though these tough winter months... all 3 of em' hahaha... life is sooo tough living here.

right the tunes, here's the list;

intro - michael corleone

Time to Get Down- The O'Jays

Funky Express [Re-Edit] - Duncan Lamont

Bougainvillea - Karl Denson Feat. andy Bey

Soul Sauce - Timebox

It Ain't Like it Used to Be - Randolph Brown

Stoned Out Of My Mind - The Chi-Lites

Where Is The Love - The Whispers

unknown artist - love to fly

Just a Little Bit of You - Michael Jackson

Is This The Best (Bop Doo Wah) - L.A. Boppers

Touching In The Dark - Walter Jackson

Can't Get Enough Of You - Tyrone Edwards

Save Your Love for Me - Vivian Reed

download the mix here

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

SoulShaker SexMachine

6pm til 9pm next Sunday, (hey frenzie, what happened to the time on the artwork?)The rest of the info is obvious so dont make me repeat the copy on the artwork..... I can add that it's free pub gig upstairs at the Beach Road and comes with beer, mmmm good, golden, glorious amber delights with funk, boogie & uptown beach side beats.

Here's a sample of Robin's plans

Download: RK's SexMachine Mix

funk throwdown

I played a little gig on Sunday night at Tonic, and although it wasn't well attended I still had fun and manage to rip an hour & half of funk straight of the desk live. So plug in and get off to my funk throwdown, it starts off with some more familiar soul-funk tracks as it then moves into deep funk, a touch of disco funk and rounds off with some more obscure Israeli funk & Afro funk. To be quite honest, Im pretty happy with it for a live set.

I'll go back over the mix for another listen in the next day or two and write up the track listing. If by chance I've not done this by the time you are reading the blog post, drop me a comment or a question and I'll let you know what some of the more obscure or unknown tracks are here.

Enjoy!

Download: FUNK THROWDOWN live cut mix:

TONY ALLEN. The Godfather of Afro Beat

Nigerian bandleader Tony Allen is coming to town. Known best by many as the former drummer and music director of the late Fela Kuti's band, Africa 70 from 1968 until 1979 and Egypt 80 organization.Tony Allen is regarded as the co creator of the Afro-beat sound, pioneering the unique beat and vibe of music which combines polyrhythmic influences of Africa with the breakbeats and extended jams of the American funk and R&B which reached Nigeria in the late 60s and early 70s. Afrobeat music has since re-influenced western dance music in fusion genres like broken beat and future jazz, as in the music of Bugz in the Attic. Allen as well refused to remain stagnant, incorporating dub and avant-garde hip-hop influences into his modern African dance music.

Niche Productions Presents, for the first time in Australia…Tony Allen

Friday 13th March - The Forum, Sydney

Moshtix for ticket info

Check out these boss downloads

Tony Allen & Africa 70: Afro Disco Best

Tony Allen: Crazy Afro Beat

Tony Allen: Home Cooking

Tony Allen: Ariya (Catalyst remix)

Merenia Gillies

Merenia Gillies & full band supported by Eon Beats perform for the Catalyst Recordings label showcase at:

The Vanguard - Newtown,

Wednesday Feb 11th.

If you are new to Merenia Gillies, she is the multitalented, beat throwing musician, who sings in 5 languages and takes great joy in mischievously bending the rules when it comes to her music. Merenia will seduce you with the sounds of her own distinctive fusion of Dance, Soul/Funk, Electro, Latin and House.

Born in Rotorua New Zealand with a mixed heritage of Maori, Romany Gypsy and Welsh, she embraces and indulges in an eclectic array of musical influences and once on stage becomes a powerhouse performer with the most instinctive vocal talents of her generation.

Merenia Gillies is constantly in demand to collaborate on both studio and live performances. For a sample of her music, click the link below to listen & download KILLA

Listen & Download KILLA here

To purchase entire album from INTERTIA RECORDS click here

Merenia myspace

SOULSHAKER DOUBLE HEADER SUN 25

AFROLICIOUS San Francisco

This is the sound of New Years Day in San Francisco with a Tom Thump mix ripped straight from the desk of Afrolicious @ the Elbo room . Afro-tropical-samba-funko-bossa-beats inspired and delivered to you from the rich tribal rhythmic continent..... maybe, just maybe witch doctor Thump will be on a tour of duty down our end of the South Pacific sometime in o nine.

mix is back up on DivShare (zshare sux)

Pump it down the tube & into your ear here from Divshare

SoulShaker djs support Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings @ the launch of Sydney Festival!

Yo, that's right my soulcats, SSDj's Mr Glass & Mr Knight have been bestowed with the honour and privilege of supporting Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings at the launch party for Sydney Festival. This Saturday 10th Jan 9:00pm at the Palm Stage. Its a F F F FREAKIN, FREE CONCERT. We'll be dropping all original funk n soul 45's to keep with flava of the feature act. We're not on for a long time but how long do you need on a stage like that? It'll be nice to know some of you are in the crowd. For more Sydney Festival First Night info/details click here

NOEL BOOGIE in the Disco mix

PRODUCER / DJ / SCRATCH ARTIST
Noel Boogie - DJ par excellence, and amazing young Sydney based music producer. Noel recently toured Canada where he astounding audiences with his super-dextrous 4-deck set and creating dancefloor mayhem everywhere he went whilst dropping his own tracks in the mix. From Canada, Noel then went on a crate-digging expedition in NYC and Colombia and arrive home with a fresh booty of dusty grooves, some of which he has dropped in this tasty lil disco boogie mix.

In all NB's sets you'll be treated to a fine selection of funk, disco, afro beat, soul, hip hop, breaks, dub, IDM and oddities, all precision mixed, sliced, diced and cut with the skills of a turntable surgeon. Noel’s latest party trick is a solo set on 4 turntables, where he splits tracks into parts for exlusive live remixing, using the other 2 decks for scratching and sound effects. Noel Boogie is also a member of Silent Partner - expect to hear much, much more from this incredible talent.

Get more of Noel here at www.myspace.com/noelboogie or Catch him Sundays at Cream Tangerine's Sunday Best @ the Swiss Grand on Campbell Parade Bondi from 4pm til late.

Listen to Noel Boogie Disco Mix Here

Christmassive mix from harbour funk cruise

A merry ol Yuletide to ye all. I prey the spirits run freely from your chalice tonight and all the next day. In lieu of a special Christmassive mix, here's a bonus 3 hour raw mix taken straight from the decks at the Harbour Funk boat party.

It starts abruptly (no time for edits, I promise to polish it in the new year) and features Santa's lil selectors, Lanu from the Bamboos/Cookin on 3 burners, Frenzie, Mr Glass & Robin Knight.

It was a kickin day on the harbour, the sun was shinning and the soul was burning. The mix gets a little quiet two thirds through as we pulled the SoulShaker floor volume down on the mixer to compensate for everyone running to the lower deck when Cookin on 3 Burners fired up. Fair enough I say, who can compete with a bunch of 45's compared to this tight unit banging the authentic sound out live. Nice work guys, nice work. The after party down the Civic saw Kylie Auldist join the 3 burners on the mic. It's a shame so many people missed this gig. Nice work John for putting it together and brings Kylie & the Burners to town. I'll be sure to get them back in the new year for some more shows.

Big ups go out to Toon from the Soul Pole dancing academy. Photos coming soon my man.

Down load, plug in and get off on three hours of soul, jazz, funk, hip hop, boogie & disco. This one is for the car on that summer road trip to Byron Bay. Click link below to get it.

After blowing our limit out, I have reposted the mix on DivShare!

Get it here from DivShare

F.U.B.A.R.

In other words... Funked Up Beyond All Recognition. In anticipation of a rocking good afternoon aboard the good ship Funk-able I thought I'd put a little something together to put us all in the mood. As usual I didn't do a playlist yet... if wanna know the tunes give me a shout through the comment section below.

Enjoy...

Click on this link to listen or download; Funked Up Edit 1