FUNK-ERRIFIC {Part Two}

Anyone would think it’s the writer’s birthday or summin..’

Let the BIG TIME party continue …

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S.O.U.L. – Get Ready

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MANDRILL – Mandrill

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MANDRILL – Funky Monkey

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THE METERS – Stretch Your Rubber Band

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THE JACKSON SISTERS – I Believe In Miracles

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GIL SCOTT-HERON – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

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REAL THING – Can You Feel The Force?

FUNK-ERRIFIC {Part One}

Celebratory balloons, whistles, streamers and decent looking party hats are in full effect today – as we welcome in the clientele & hierarchy echelons of Grade A funk.. soul.. and disco sunbeams, radiating for 2012 and imminent decades to come.

Its time to gleam …

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FUNK, INC. – Bowlegs

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FUNK, INC. – The Thang

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FREEDOM – Get Up And Dance

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THE FATBACK BAND – Let The Drums Speak

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LED ZEPPELIN – The Crunge

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POWER OF ZEUS – The Sorcerer Of Isis (The Ritual Of The Mole)

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THE SOUL SEARCHERS – Blow Your Whistle

Feature :: VULTURE MUSIC ::

Created and run by Alan Braxe, Vulture Music provides the platform for a total free realm of space for artists to write and produce some of their closely held ideas, and freshest new material.

For artists such as Fred Falke, Lifelike and Kris Menace, productions such as ‘Discopolis,’ Running’ and Chrystal City’ are to name but a few anthems that have already breathed life into the label and have created an already existing following in the process.

This acclaimed producer, DJ and composer in Alan Braxe has already made an etch into our hearts with a numerous array of impressive remixes, collaborations and solo productions through his work with Thomas Bangalter (one half of Daft Punk), Jamiroquai, Justice, Björk, Kylie Minogue, Goldfrapp, Kelis, Britney Spears and numerous others.

So with Vulture Music always being on course to embrace a release structure that holds no compromise alongside a mindset that pushes & nurtures its acts fully, groups such as Fenech Soler, Kids At Midnight, Pacific!, Starsmith and Das Glow are relentless in helping to fuel Vulture Music’s global reach and continued growth.

Here lies the latest in what Vulture Music has to offer …

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HUMAN LIFE : INFLUENCES – THE EXCLUSIVE MIX SERIES {2012}

Drooling with plenty of power-pop surprises and Garfield the Cat smiled wonders; this is crafted in a Human Life way to make you melt. I’ve already listened to this five times already!

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KIDS AT MIDNIGHT – Let You Slide EP {2012}

Australia’s duo in charge, Kids At Midnight horsewhip four tiny pearls together where one of them is fit for the radio and the other three are fit for late night sexy remedies, the beach – and swirly blue sky & green grass moments. 

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KIDS AT MIDNIGHT – No No Yeah Yeah (Teenage Bad Girl Dub Mix Edit) {2012}

Its big, its bold, its large enough to put a crater through your beloved pair of Mackies. Its Teenage Bad Girl refusing to submit on K.A.M.’s ‘No No Yeah Yeah.’

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KIDS AT MIDNIGHT : Songs For Dancers & Lovers Mixtape {2012}

Expressively charged, with cowbells, ocean tendencies, phasers, brightly lit keys and the typical make up that makes the 80s as strong as it always once was – is the Kids At Midnights’ unpolluted and sensitive joy as a full-of-life DJ Mix.

TRACKLIST:

  1. Chilly Gonzales – You Can Dance (Edwin Van Cleef Remix) 
  2. Polographia – Tropic Fruit (Frames Remix) 
  3. Lancelot – We Can Dance (Goldroom Remix) 
  4. Friendly Fires – Hurting (Tensnake Remix) 
  5. Justin Faust – High Hopes (Jay Lamar & Jesse Oliver Remix) 
  6. Ride The Universe – A Little Better (Featuring Jane Elizabeth Hanley) 
  7. Mondo Rock – Come Said The Boy (Dublin Aunts Deflowering Edit) 
  8. Kids At Midnight – Let You Slide

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TEENAGE BAD GIRL : THE EXCLUSIVE MIX SERIES {2012}

Top Of The Pops time with Teenage Bad Girl is about to commence, but not in the way that you would first think … Blending together the inspirations that make them jiggle / develop those goosebumps on skin moments, Teenage Bad Girl serve up another DJ mixed portion of eclectic specialism. And only where showing-off is allowed!

TRACKLIST:

  1. Fotomaker – The Other Side 
  2. Olivier Cheatham – Something About You 
  3. Brian & The Eden – Sonsy Girl 
  4. Carlos Futura – Bacchanal 
  5. Mouse On Mars – Polaroyced 
  6. Kill Frenzy – Make That Booty Clap 
  7. Brown Bag Allstars – Rottweilers 
  8. Telex – En Route 
  9. Paul McCartney – Temporary Secretary 
  10. The Beach Boys – Meant For You

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FUNKTIONS Ultra Bonanza

If all the non-sickly desserts in the world were laid out across one big dining room table, and you had ample room in your stomach to sample at least nine of them – then of course not.. you wouldn’t be called greedy.. just overly eager to try out the musical equivalent to a quintessential spread of everlasting strawberry cheesecakes / ice creams / non-fattening cakes named FUNKTIONS.

Showing glimmers of old skool Sir Armand van Helden, and FUNKTIONS own modern twist to all things vintage & disco, this nine-par-course of FUNKTIONS miracles are incredulity bright and stunningly great.

With a lot on offer to tickle everyone’s taste buds then there is quite enough to go around for seconds, thirds and fourths.

Now where’s my spoon?

PART I

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FUNKTIONS – Ally (Club Mix)

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FUNKTIONS – Harmonieux

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FUNKTIONS – Shock Shop

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FUNKTIONS – Sola Dosis Facit Venenum

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FUNKTIONS – The Funkers Come Out At Night

PART II

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FUNKTIONS – Trouvere (Club Mix)

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FUNKTIONS vs. Breakbot – Shades Of Black Re-Edit (Club Mix)

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FUNKTIONS vs. Justice – D.A.N.C.E. Re-Edit (Club Mix)

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SHIELD YOU EYES – Young Love (FUNKTIONS Remix)

THE JACKSONS – State Of Shock (with Mick Jagger)

Dumfounded in how a certain person can send you a definitive text message from the evening before – and then from out of nowhere by a 360 degree angle: take back their decree in the morning much like the UK coalition government of late …

The Jacksons instead – decide on bestowing a more refined & integral intelligencer (quite similar to a Jen SX 3000 synthesizer) and insist on calling out all back-sliders, contradictory persons.. and incompetent, kiss-ass management sheeps to bend over..
roll their finite mindsets in a ball.. to take that son-of-a-bitch sideways …
And stick it straight up – your Candy Ass ! …

Now that Elevenses is nicely prepared for party people.. I am going to enjoy some more buttered scones and freshly poured Earl Grey. Anyone want to join me?

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THE JACKSONS - State Of Shock (with Mick Jagger)

DAYTON – The Sound Of Music (Chip Chabralle ReUp)

Pitch bending its way through vortexes and chic decorated living rooms, Chip Chabralle follows on from his last two diamonds on Aerialnoise, and names his tune after a movie with no Julie Andrews in sight. Eight minutes and ten seconds of enduring dancing soul.

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DAYTON – The Sound Of Music (Chip Chabralle ReUp)

Introducing.. FLUTTERT

Introducing Fluttert from out of the safe havens of Utrecht, The Netherlands, disembarks a tale of two stories with one leading the way in hard-ironed disco house and the other trailing the funkier end of melancholy debauchery.

Watch out for a certain Salsoul Nugget sampled bomb being dropped towards the first half of Fluttert’s amazing Live Funk Beach Mixtape Aerials & Aerial-ettes, plus another one listed soon after being full of indie punk surprises. Wonder-Fluttert-ful!

TalkFine – Water’s Gettin’ Too Hot

Out on May 2012, “Lesser Known Hits” by TalkFine includes this Beatles coiffured melody royally hindered by an unimaginable 70s mystic.. and a lackadaisical unhurried streak.

Anyone for a cuppa?

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TalkFine – Water’s Gettin’ Too Hot

Weapons of MASS PRODUCTION

Unmistakably apparent with as much identical ‘greatest of all time’ + ‘best ever’ tendencies in regards to Triple H’s and The Undertaker’s epic battle @ Wrestlemania 28 this past Sunday, The Undertaker solidifying his legacy into the upper crests of echelons via his emphatic 20-0 Wrestlemania win – is as pretty much the same as these two unbelievable fascinations from Mass Production in their golden years.

Coming back down from those MP skies, we land on their world with a major groove in our armoury steps.

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MASS PRODUCTION – Welcome To Our World

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MASS PRODUCTION – Groove Me

Introducing.. BA$SY

WWE’s Sheamus might have created a record at Wrestlemania XXVIII in beating Daniel Bryan for the World Heavyweight Championship in under 30 seconds, but in equal quick and (unquestionably) sharp measures, United States producer BA$SY decides on teasing us with these six 25 to 42 second samples – indicating perhaps that there is more to come from him or that these chosen tracks are currently unfinished. Either way, the slow but low pitched style sounds good – and by-rights.. should all be a little longer.

Listening to them all at once could even make up a single lone track itself, so not a bad job for an under-the-minute-mark BA$SY young man.

OVER THE TOP – On Fire [Scion A/V]

Provider of the best in original and goosebumps-on-your-skin-retaining-sounds, Lincoln Hawk (aka Over The Top) will be celebrating a forthcoming “Looking For You” EP release containing three spanking new, O.T.T. productions.

In the meantime, Over The Top has been featured on Thee Mike B’s latest Scion A/V compilation entitled “Los Angeles Tite At Nite” encased by seven other electronic toasties with one of them being ‘On Fire’ by Over The Top.

Listed below is that very track plus his highly special “Looking For You” preview mix.

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OVER THE TOP – On Fire

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TRACKLISTING:

  1. Beat Street – We Came To Party (Acapella)
  2. TZ (aka Jackie Janetson) – Go Deeper
  3. Louis La Roche – F.U.B.A.R.
  4. Viceroy – Unwind
  5. Moon Boots – Off My Mind
  6. Grouplove – Tongue Tied (Gigamesh Remix)
  7. Sharam Jey, Tom Breu – Holy Ghost!
  8. Over The Top – Looking For You
  9. Modern Amusement – Cold as Ice (Miguel Puente Remix)
  10. Doctor Dru, Adana Twins – Juicy Fruit
  11. Suzanne Vega – Tom’s Diner (Acapella)
  12. Honom vs. Madonna – Swedish Disco Holiday
  13. Cassian – I LIke What You’re Doing (Nightriders Remix)
  14. Over The Top – So Fine
  15. Alan Braxe, Fred Falke – Love Lost
  16. Daft Punk – Around the World (Acapella)
  17. Over The Top – On Fire
  18. Wisdome – Off the Wall (Olav Basoski Remix)
  19. Big Sean – Dance (J Paul Getto Remix)
  20. Mr. Oizo – Camelfuck
  21. Over The Top – I’ll Give You Love
  22. J. Cole – Work Out (Sammy Bananas Remix)
  23. Fifteenth – Tomorrow
  24. Oliver – Dirty Talk
  25. Midnight Magic – Drop Me A Line (Holy Ghost! Remix)
  26. Jean Jacques Smoothie – 2People (DCUP Remix)
  27. Prince – I Wanna Be Your Lover (Geisha Twins Remix)
  28. Nist, Ellijah Collins – Love’s Down
  29. Odahl – Just Be Easy (Honom Remix)
  30. Jackie – Supersoul
  31. Treasure Fingers – Rooftop Revival

JECHT RYE – Bloom

As an avid creator and audio programmer through the opportune brooks of Adobe Audition, Cubase and Reason, Matt Jones (aka Jecht Rye) falls back onto his learnings of the piano to create a plethora of material that is highly interesting to listen to – as well as to get wholly lost in also.

‘Bloom,’ as one of his self-produced examples is airy, atmospheric and gushes like a long open air stream, running well into a crisp waterfall soon looming.

‘Birdcry’ featuring Chris Calvert, unravels the mind via an around the Earth Pluto-orbit of dream states, and ‘Kiara’ concludes with a play-by-play classical & downtempo brilliance; – targeted by optimal drum-arranged soul.

Having a production partner to collaborate alongside with is always handy for more inspiring ideas, so with his nearest and dearest studio buddy named Chris Calvert on board.. any other instrument which is not heard as the guitar, then Calvart is your man responsible. Let’s listen together.

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JECHT RYE – Bloom

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JECHT RYE – Kiara (Bonobo Cover)

UMBERTO LUMBER – Blue Velvet (Original Mix)

Released on a very, very special day in my overflowing calendar, Umberto Lumber makes a ‘Blue Velvet’ quilt for us all to wrap up in, makes George Michael sound even more better than he did back during his Wham! & “Older” LP eras … And finishes it all off with a handmade Moroccan Berber carpet – containing ‘Silk Fedora.’

Umberto Lumber’s stunning “Sacre Coeur Mixtape Vol. 1” features also. Turn it up!

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BOSSASONIC – Club Tropicana (Umberto Lumber ‘Icy Mojito’ Edit)

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GEORGE MICHAEL – Fast Love (Umberto Lumber ‘True Love’ Edit)

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UMBERTO LUMBER – Silk Fedora

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  1. Vanguard – Le Jeune (Original Mix)
  2. Vertical Smile – Ghetto Blaster (Original Mix)
  3. Dj Eq – Feel The Sunshine (Original Mix)
  4. Reset! – Sabrage (Original Mix)
  5. Geisha Twins – Everythang Nice (Original Mix)
  6. Louis la Roche – Fake Tan (Original Mix)
  7. Solidisco – Together (Original Mix)
  8. Jean Tonique – My Baby (Original Mix)
  9. Yelle – Que Veux Tu (Madeon Rmx)
  10. Roman D’amour – Make Love Tonight (Lifelike Re-Edit)
  11. Mooncut – Don’t Leave (Stereocool ‘In The Morning Light’ Radio Edit)
  12. Fossi Figo – Tiro a Campari (Original Mix)