Dam-Funk - Sidewayz

I came across this Youtube featuring Dam-Funk DJ'ing at a Stones Throw party for the WMC back in 2008. First tune playing is his own... "Sidewayz". FUNKY ASS SHIT!! Expect it on September's Radioplayer. No doubt!



Buy it here on the Stones Throw site... http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/various/b-ball-zombie-war... it's only $0.99 for fukks sake!

August Radioplayer

A website I like to check in on every now and again belongs to DJ Deep - http://djdeep.com/. He has a section called "Deep Library" in which there's numerous podcasts featuring music that he just likes. Some tunes mixed, and some not. I like the concept, and as my day job also takes up such a significant chunk of my life, not mixing records enables me to get cd's ready for the car drive to work on a regular basis. So I came up with my version... the "Radioplayer" series. I started it back in July 2008 for music I like. It's not mixed and it's barely sequenced using Adobe Audition. Here's one made recently, August 2009, and there's more to follow...



http://www.divshare.com/download/8286437-fc1

Tracklisting as follows:

1) Yaw – Where Would You Be
2) James Brown – People Get Up & Drive Your Funky Soul
3) Roy Ayers – The Memory
4) Lionel Richie – Serves You Right
5) Boz Scaggs – Lowdown
6) Patti Jo – Ain’t No Love Lost
7) The Jackson 5 – I Am Love
8) Hamilton Bohannon – Let’s Start The Dance
9) Walter Jones – Living Without You Love (Original Mix)
10) Zodiac – Pacific (Pete Herbert Remix)
11) Shit Robot – Simple Things (Work It Out (Todd Terje Version)
12) Orbital – The Girl With The Sun In Her Head

Downtempo mix... 5th year anniversary

This is a mix I did back in August 2004. During that summer I had been tapping up Fat City Records in Manchester (where a lot of the vinyl here came from), and really wanted to lay down a mix featuring a rather nice blend of soul, funk, disco & hip hop... totally eclectic. Seeing as it's almost the 5th anniversary of the mix... here it is again... still totally relevant, and having never been far from the stereo in all this time.

Anyway, here's the link:

http://soundcloud.com/david-saker/david-saker-downtempo-mix-august-2004

Tracklisting as follows:

1) Antonio Pinto & Ed Cortes – Meu Nome E Ze
2) Ambelique – Talk Like That
3) Blendcrafters – Lola
4) Master Ace – Music Man
5) The Fort Knox Five – The Brazilian Hipster
6) Little Brother – Whatever You Say (DJ Hoop Re-Max)
7) Freddie Cruger – The Hustle (B-Boy Disco Edit)
8) Aretha Franklin – Rock Steady
9) Razzy Bailey – I Hate Hate
10) The Soul Disciple – Boom Bangin’
11) Quantic Feat. Spanky Wilson – Don’t Joke With A Hungry Man
12) Beatfanatic – R.A.W. (Discolick Remix)
13) Madlib – 1980’s Saturday Morning Sample
14) Lono Brazil – Ooh! Love Is (Mr. K Edit)
15) Gladys Knight & The Pips – Bougie Bougie
16) Mekon – What’s Going On Mekon (Deckwreckaz Remix)
17) Bobby Humphries – Young Warrior (Madlib Remix)

Michael Jackson tribute (of sorts...)

Ok... I think the guy was a complete tool, of dubious morality/sanity/maturity (delete as appropriate). But, he did make some really good music and the boy could dance. I thought his early stuff, and his time in the Jackson 5, was head and shoulders over anything he did in the 90's and beyond.

So as a tribute to his recent passing... here's a great video for the Jackson 5's "I Am Love". Some hilarious dance moves!!

In my thirties and still dancing like a gooner...

Just before christmas 2008 I decided to do a new mix... dedicated to being in my thirties. No real purpose behind the track selection, other than just good tunes that keep me grooving despite me getting ever closer to the grave. All house music, on a deep tip,with a sort of old school vibe thrown in for good measure...

Anyway, here's the link:

http://soundcloud.com/david-saker/david-saker-in-my-thirties-but-still-dancin-like-a-gooner-mix-12-04-08

Tracklisting as follows:

1) Mark E – Human (Original Mix) (Runnin Back)
2) Shur-I-Kan – 287 (Original Mix) (Dark Energy Recordings)
3) Ron Trent – Journeyn2u (Original Mix) (Futurevision Records)
4) Wipe The Needle – The Rhythm, The Drum (Vinyl Edit) (Deeply Rooted House)
5) Brothers’ Vibe – Like It Used 2 B (Altered Vibe Mix) (Mixx Records)
6) Franck Roger – Mind Illusions (Original Mix) (Earthrumental Music)
7) Dominic Martin & Hiro – Dom In Tha Groove (Original Mix) (Tronicsole)
8) X-Press 2 – Muzik X-Press (Original Mix) (Skint Records)
9) Franck Roger – Passages (Original Mix) (FR Productions)
10) Jack Coleman – Relax (LilRoj Remix) (Sub Sensory Recordings)
11) David Alvarado – Aurora (Original Mix) (Bomb Records)
12) Chez Damier – I Never Knew Love (Made In Detroit Mix) (KMS Records)

Rollerboogietastic!

I hadn’t heard this one in ages, in fact… I can only recall ever hearing the early ‘90s Cathy Dennis cover. This is the Fonda Rae original from 1984. I was listening to an OOFT Music mix over the weekend – Live In Soul City – and they had the “touch me baby all night long” sample wedged into their Q-Tip, Breathe & Stop rework. Very nice boys… very nice indeed.

Introduction...

This be my first blog site. An outlet for my frustrated DJ inclinations, since I arrived in Bermuda in October 2005. Soul, funk and disco, let alone house music, is dead on this island. The usual shit US pop/rap music is an unrelenting assault on my aural senses. Let the headucation begin...