Tag: Funk
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RC 290: Well Tempered
A listener once said they knew if it was a good podcast if I sounded pissed off at the start. Well, welcome to an extremely good episode then! A well tempered Clash, forged in the heat of online battle, which raises the question, where’s the real one? (oh it’s an old joke, and not even…
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RC 288: Milk and Honey (and other scaphic desires)
The Soviets are Coming! And the Beat it uses you, Comrade! Novichoka Can (or bottle, or milk and honey). Too soon? Here is an international disco and funk episode, mostly from the former Soviet region and Eastern Europe (Uzbekistani cosmic disco anyone? Latvian funk? Try it you might like it!) but also from Spain, Italy…
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Girlfriend
Loving the new song by Christine and the Queens (or just Chris?) – Girlfriend featuring DâM-FunK…lovely summery funky Chic-style vibes, sounded great at Duckie last night. The French version seems more serious, it’s called Damn Dis-Moi (Damn Tell Me) and I wish I had a better translation of it that Google Translate. Songs are similar…
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RC 285: War of the Roses
Sun is shining, the weather is sweet, make you want to move your plant pots out of the way of builder’s feet… Welcome to the jungle, how does your roses in your garden grow? Badly in my case, the builders are in and wrecking the place. This was the view from my window – but…
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RC 276: Shallots Not Hot
Love is in the air, but oddly it’s the love of onions, even the Ladies of Shallots, and Big Shaq. Going from disco, mashups, Cuban and Haiti genre-clash oddness, acid, jungle, metal, funky scary kids and some new(ish) indie tunes. Even some Terry and June, going out to the luvvers out there… Shallots Not Hot…brap…
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African Disco Electro
We’re no stranger to African electronica, Afrobeat highlife, and African funk on this blog – previously mixed, remixed, played or blogged about William Onyeahbor (RIP), Victor Uwaifo, Benis Cletin, Supermax, Fela and Femi Kuti, Lijadu Sisters and many more. So it’s not a surprise that I’ve been listening to a lot of Nigerian and South…