Here is a set of pretty much all the DJ Mixes I've put together. All are FREE downloads!!! ENJOY. 

You can find my Free Download tracks here: https://soundcloud.com/d-funk/sets/free-stuff
You can find all my releases here: https://soundcloud.com/d-funk/sets/releases

Website: www.dfunk.co.uk 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/dfunkbreaks 
Instagram: www.instagram.com/dfunkbreaks 
Soundcloud: @d-funk 
Twitter: www.twitter.com/dfunkbreaks 
Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/dfunkgritsngravy 
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6ZUH9yUJI74EASFVjviNVg

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DJ MIXES (Free downloads)

Gramsy (Gramophone Soul) - Filthy House Mixtape

A while ago I did the House Around Vol 1 mix, a mix of way more housey sounds than I'm usually know for (https://soundcloud.com/d-funk/doug-masters-housing-around-vol-1-free-dj-mix) I figured it was high time I did Vol 2. This one's a bit of a 'journey' through groovy nu disco, various forms house & electro. I very much enjoyed mixing it & I hope you enjoy listening... 

Track listing:
Nachtbraker - Gotta Act To React
Rainbow Team - Bite The Apple (Massimo Breardi Dub Edit) 
Recloose - Don't Get Me Wrong 
Giom - Play On 
Ferrari - Nene
Ess O Ess - Take You To A Secret Place (Original Mix) 
Around7 - M'as Tu Vu 
DJ Harvey - Berghain (Doug Masters Low Glow Mix) 
The Organism & Moscoman - Rite (Extended Mix)
Cole Medina - Tropical Funk 
Sauco - The Day The Earth Stood Still 
Brioski feat Andrea Noce - Sunday Morning 
Inland Knights - Little Bit More
Qubiko - Mono Tono (Original Mix) 
Solomun feat Atna - Tukl Tuk (Original Mix) 
Lucati - Like 17
Frank Degrees - O Samba E (Sandy Saxo Remix)
James Solace - Catalyst
Tim Taylor - Do You Like... 
Rebuke - Along Came Polly 
Relique - Rude Girl 
Marten Horger & SkiiTour - Redlight 
D-Funk & Hariku - Get Ramped Up 
Lowdown & MKJAY - Afterhours
Mele feat The Fossil - Highlander 
Bonobo & Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Heartbreak    

Here's some more info on the other music I do:
Website: www.dfunk.co.uk 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/dfunkbreaks 
Instagram: www.instagram.com/dfunkbreaks 
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/6ZUH9yUJI74EASFVjviNVg
More DJ Mixes: https://soundcloud.com/d-funk/sets/dj-mixes

More DJ Mixes

Doug Masters... Housing Around (Vol 2) *Free DJ Mix*

WINNING ENTRY! A disco twist on bass music. All sort sorts of familar songs but with better bass and more disco! Happy to report this entry wom the competition along with a quality selection from buba King. 

Swing & Bass @ The Jago. DJ Comp Roger Wilko

Break da House (Pier Pressure Afterparty). Sun 1st May. Aruba, Bournemouth.

Between 2004-2009 a group of friends put on a breaks, electro & eclectic beats party in Bournemouth, Uk. It was called Break da House. From what started as an excuse to play tunes we all loved, it turned into quite a successful night running at various venues. We even hosted a room at Ministry Of Sound!  We welcomed acts such as Stanton Warriors, Dub Pistols, Plump DJs, Freestylers, Killa Kela, Meat Katie, Lee Coombs, Nostalgia 77, A Man Called Adam, Bent, Evil 9, Will Saul, Krafty Kuts, A Skillz, Natural Self, Ali B as well as hosting labels parties for Air Recordings, Westway, Lot 49, Grand Central, Ninja Tunes, Breakin Bread & Upstart Music.

We recently got together again for a party in the town where it all started, Bournemouth in May. The event was a nostalgic trip down memory lane with lots of friendly faces & amazing vibes that felt like the night never went away. It was truly epic...

Here's what I played: 
Les Rhythm Digitals - Hey You What's That Sound (D-Funk's Nobody Likes You Version)
Scott Grooves - Mothership Reconnection (Daft Punk Mix)
Tiga - Sunglasses At Night (Tom Middleton's Blue Monday Mix)
Solardo & Eli Brown - XTC (Stanton Warriors Mix)
Sub-X - What You Do To Me 
UFO Project - I Believe
Stanton Warriors - Slanty
Dogtown Clash - West London's Burning
Boogie Army - Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll (D-Funk's Da Funk Edit)
The Freestylers - Push Up
Stereo 8 - Can't Stop
Digitalism - Zdarkight (Stanton Warriors Mix) w/ Freeland - We Want Your Soul (Acapella)
Plump DJs - System Addict 
D-Funk - Party People 
Lee Coombs & Uberzone - Right Now (Club Mix)
MGMT - Kids (Santti Mix) 
Evokings - Back To The Funk (Extended version) 
Soulwax - NY Excuse (Kawasaki Dub)

Website: www.dfunk.co.uk 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/dfunkbreaks 
Instagram: www.instagram.com/dfunkbreaks 
Bandcamp: d-funk.bandcamp.com/music
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/6ZUH9yUJI74EASFVjviNVg
Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/dfunkgritsngravy

Break Da House, Bournemouth 01/05/22

A few weeks ago I joined @ezragb as a guest on his Ezra and amigos show on @orbital_radio, a cool digital radio station based in Marrickville, Sydney. It's handy a very short walk from my house! 

I played a bunch of funk forward tunes that I'm really feeling at the moment. There's a load of new & unreleased music by me, as well as some great tunes spanning from funk, through nu disco to house. 

We also had a chat about the state of the Sydney music scene, baseball, working in the studio, running a breaks night, heavy metal, marching bands & Glastonbury festival. 

You can find a list of what I played on my website: www.dfunk.co.uk

Orbital Radio (are broadcasting live right now):
https://www.orbital-radio.com
@orbital_radio

Website: www.dfunk.co.uk 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/dfunkbreaks 
Instagram: www.instagram.com/dfunkbreaks 
Bandcamp: d-funk.bandcamp.com/music
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/6ZUH9yUJI74EASFVjviNVg
Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/dfunkgritsngravy

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Orbital Radio; Ezra & Amigos Feat D-Funk (28/06/22)

My second Lebrosk & Friends show, this month heading down a chilled breaks & beats style featuring tracks by the likes of Bonobo, TSHA and Tourist, etc...

Big thanks to Roy from Amsterdam's Bang & Mash crew for putting together a very tasty Liquid D&B Guestmix!

Tracklist:
When time slows it feels weird - Loz Goddard
Views (Laurence Guy remix) - Mild Minds
Belief - Authr
La Perla - Sofia Kourthesis
58500 - Enfant Sauvage
The Mabe (Mixed) - Overmono
Can we still be friends (with Laurence Guy) - Barry Can’t Swim
Talia - O’Flynn
Giving Up  - TSHA
Stay (Justin Martin remix) - Henry Krinkle
Otomo - Bonobo
Bliss - COEO
Siren - Tourist
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Bang & Mash Guestmix

Bang & Mash Links
https://www.facebook.com/bangandmash
info@bangnmash.com
http://www.bangnmash.com/

Lebrosk links:
https://www.facebook.com/lebrosk
https://www.mixcloud.com/lebrosk
bookings@lebrosk.com

Life Support Machine blog:
https://www.lifesupportmachine.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/LifeSupportMachine
https://soundcloud.com/lifesupportmachine-co-uk

Lebrosk & Friends Podcast #2 (Guestmix by Bang & Mash) - Life Support Machine

Welcome to another edition of Beats & Breakbeats. This is an Ableton made mix of some funky chunky music with tracks i had floating around on my hard drive as well as some new and old music bought from Junodownload and Bandcamp. I've tried to use a lot of tracks that you might have not heard of before including new ones from me, all in all some great music to listen too. Enjoy :) x 

Tracklist

Intro
Uptown Funk Empire - Th Empire Strikes Back
Marc Hype & Jim Dunloop - The Antique Anthem
Smoove - De La Smoove
Boca 45 - La Bombonera
Breakerz Allstars - Face Off
Telephunken - FUEGO Y PO¦üLVORA
Skeewiff - Run & Hide
DJ Zlatko Simic - Music Power
Fissunix - Whole Sex Lotta Machine
DJ Fleg (Ft Lean Rock) - Dimension Five
Skeewiff - Put Your Hands Up
X-Ray Ted - Never Gonna Let 'em Say
Tommy - Keep On Going
The Ray Guns - Jumpin & Bumpin (Rockmaster Rus B Edit)
Andromeda Orchestra - Kano Lime Dance
Search - Choice37 (Dusty Planet Light Re-Edit)
Rhythm Scholar vs Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
Manmade - Party Block Rocker (Cut La Roc Remix)
DJ Greg J - The Way I Like It (Edit)
Double A - The Game
Boydex - Party
Funk Ferret - I Gotta Funky Thing
Pecoe - What You Feel
DJ Czech vs Otis - Hard To Handle (Re-Edit)
Hansi - Hot Pants Funk
Pecoe - Hot Pajamas
Outro

Pecoe - Beats & Breakbeats Volume 7

Forward by D-Funk:
For the 2nd part of my D-Funk 25 mix series I’ve focused on the best, most important or my favourite tracks I’ve made or had a hand in making. Some are originals. Some remixes. Some are edits, bootys or whatever we’re calling them nowadays. It’s a real mix from across the years including my 1st release ‘Transitions’ on Barry Ashworth & Carl Loben’s Westway Records. Right up to my latest, a free download that will drop shortly after the mix goes live. It’s a mix of varying genres. For ages I’ve been known as ‘Europe D-Funk’ that plays funky breaks but, as you’ll see from this mix, my funk focused music covered all styles from hip hop to house, disco to breaks & electro. But don’t worry, I’ve included some of the mid-tempo music that got me really known on an international scale, how could I not! 

Some of the music on this mix has been released on my own labels Upstart Music, the breaks based label I started in 2008 & Grits N Gravy, the funk based label I started with Philly Blunt in 2010. There are also tunes on labels such as Sunday Best, ‘I’m In Love’ the 1st of my 3 remixes I’ve done for the Dub Pistols. The often overlooked, but I think my best mid-tempo tune ‘Bigger Than Baseline’ on Adapted Records. I’ve closed the mix with a recent, original hip hop song ‘Cruise Control’ that my longtime studio partner & good friend Mr Doris. There’s also music from the great series That’s Not An Edit, a track from the now deceased Rump Shakers Records & a rare release from Cakes at The World Bar, a Sydney institution that I was resident at for 8 years. 

I started making music seriously in 2006 when I met & formed a friendship with Barry Ashworth from the band Dub Pistols. He both inspired & guided me to my first few releases. I’m ever grateful for his words of encouragement & enthusiasm. From starting on a knock off copy of Reason on an old PC in the corner of the spare bedroom to now having a fully working dedicated studio, I can honestly say it’s been a wild ride of ups & downs. I guess music mirrors life that way. Even though I started producing & releasing music a while after I started DJing in 1995 on belt drive decks in my bedroom in Wiltshire (UK), I’ve now gone on to release over 200 tracks on over 30 different labels. These are the 25 that made the mix...

Track listing:
Mr Doris & D-Funk - Supernatural Lockdown [2Dogs Recordings 2014]
D-Funk & Some Dj - Loaded [Grits N Gravy 2011]
The Meters - Cissy Strut (D-Funk Edit) [Free Download / 2014] 
Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns - Fourplay (D-Funk Edit) [That’s Not An Edit 2015]
D-Funk - Big City Life (4/4 mix) [Free Download 2022]
D-Funk - Lonely Hearts Club [Grits N Gravy 2012]
D-Funk - The Boss [Grits N Gravy 2010]
D-Funk - Bigger Than Bassline [Adapted Recs 2017]
D-Funk - Been A Long Widow [Free Download 2014]
D-Funk - Get Up & Jam [Grits N Gravy 2016]   
D-Funk & Philly Blunt - Time To Move [Grits N Gravy 2011] 
Sugar Ray Johnson & D-Funk - Save Me [Grits N Gravy 2014]
Doug Masters - Jingo Back [Free Download 2018]
Doug Masters - Return Of The House Siren [Cakes Compilation 2017]
D-Funk - Don’t Need Nobody [Upstart Music 2011]
Dub Pistols feat Lyndie Layton - ‘I’m In Love’ (D-Funk’s Summer Of Love Mix) [Sunday Best 2008] 
Double 99 - Ripgroove (D-Funk & Some DJ's Rumble In The Bass Bin Mix) [Free Download 2011]
D-Funk - Rewind Selector [Rump Shaker Records 2015]
Rogue Robots - Off My Face In ’97 (D-Funk’s 2 Steppin’ In ’02 Mix & D-Funk’ Work It Out Mix) [Upstart Music 2014 & 2010]
D-Funk - Transitions [Westway Records 2007]
D-Funk feat Mc Manic - Bust This (Original Mix)[Upstart Music 2009] 
D-Funk - Party People [Upstart Music 2009] 
D-Funk & Hariku - Get Ramped Up [Upstart Music 2009] 
The Prodigy - Narayan (D-Funk Boot) [Free Download 2006]
Mr Doris & D-Funk feat MysDiggi - Cruise Control [Jam City 2020]

www.dfunk.co.uk 
www.facebook.com/dfunkbreaks 
www.instagram.com/dfunkbreaks 
d-funk.bandcamp.com/music
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D-Funk 25 (Part 1)

D-Funk 25 (Part 2)

This month Cuttin’ It Fine welcomes long term bretherins Shaka Loves You onboard the guest mix choo choo!
 
As always, the party rocking duo bring the vibes from the jump and deliver one hour’s worth of delicious disco edits.
 
Track list can be found below, don’t forget to subscribe for more guest mixes and more Roast Beatz vibes in the months to follow!
 
Peace for now!

1. Al Green. - I gotta be more (SLD Dusty Edit)
2. Donna Summer - Love to love you baby (SLY Edit)
3. Lyn Collins - Give it up or turn it loose (SLY Edit)
4. Gap Band - Shake (SLY Edit)
5. Instant Funk - I got my mind made up (SLY multi-track rework)
6. Cymande - Bra (SLY Edit)
7. Art of tones - All night (SLY ‘Candi’ Edit)
8. Stewart Birch - I need your love
9. Basement jaxx - Red Alert (Grant Nelson remix)
10. Kayper - Rain
11. Kink - Perth
12. Frank Hooker - This Feeling (SLY Edit)
13. Cerrone & PDM - Summer Lovin’
14. War - Galaxy (SLY VIP Edit)
15. Da Lukas - Disco Manteca

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Science Is Whatever We Want It To Be

Alice and The Hairy Beaver

This month BBP power hour comes from the funky beat smith Sonale, who also just dropped his 4-track debut EP called Rockin Ya House on BBP last month.

Hear all tracks of the new EP along with some other goddies from the funky bass scene in this entertaining 60 minute mix.

Will be sure to get you ready for the weekend!

Tracklist:
01. Stabfinger - Disc jockey
02. Pecoe - Its your thing (Boydex remix)
03. Sonale - No satisfaction
04. Ninjula - Take my hand
05. Mr Stabalina - Money
06. Sonale - Funkin ya house
07. Mr Stabalina - Do you like it
08. WBBL - Grapevine
09. Slynk & Mr Stabalina - Keep the party jumping
10. Phibes - Belong to you
11. Sonale - Start groovin
12. Gramophone Soul - Day by day
13. Stabfinger - Simple et fonky
14. WBBL - Foxy Lady
15. WBBL - Whole lotta wub
16. JFB & Dancefloor Outlaws - Israelites
17. Mr Stabalina - Bassrider
18. Hiphoppapotamus & Father Funk - What Ray'd say
19. Featurecast - Bam

Be sure to check out Sonale new EP out now in all digital music stores:
https://bbp.fanlink.to/funkinyahouse

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Breakbeat Paradise Power Hour #72 - Mixed by Sonale (Free Download)

D-FUNK'S DISCO DELIGHTS! 
***Free Download from player***

Here's a mix of a bunch of disco, nu disco & housey tunes that I've had a hand in making over the past few years. Starting off chilled & slo mo then ending up more dance floor & housey. Let my disco delights take you on a journey... ENJOY!   

Track listing:
Seun Kuti - ‘So Many Things’ (D-Funk Edit) [That’s Not An Edit // Free Download].
D-Funk & Mr Doris - ‘Perfect Timing’ [Forthcoming].
D-Funk - 'I Got The High(My Name Is)' [Grits N Gravy]. 
Eddie Harris - ‘Alright Now’ (D-Funk Edit) [That’s Not An Edit // Free Download].
The JBs - ‘Four Play’ (D-Funk Edit) [That’s Not An Edit // Free Download].
D-Funk - ‘Shake Ya Booty’ [That’s Not An Edit // Free Download].
D-Funk - ‘What Can You Bring’ [That’s Not An Edit // Free Download].
Blondie - ‘Rapture’ (Touchsoul Mix // D-Funk Edit).
D-Funk & Sugar Ray Johnson - ‘Hold Me Back’ [Grits N Gravy].
D-Funk & Sugar Ray Johnson - ‘Give Me Your Love’ [Grits N Gravy].
D-Funk - ‘Everybody Loves A Filter’ [Grits N Gravy].
D-Funk & Sugar Ray Johnson - ‘Save Me’ [Grits N Gravy]. 
Kings Of Tomorrow - ‘Finally’ [D-Funk’s Deep Disco Version]. 
D-Funk vs Tori Amos - ‘Been A Long Time’ [Free Download]. 
D-Funk & Philly Blunt - ‘Bad Piano Habit’. 
Doug Masters - ‘Jingo Back’ [Free Download].
Doug Masters & Nicc Johnson - ‘Never Knew’ [Free Download].
Doug Masters - ‘The House Siren (Believe In)’ [Free Download]. 
Doug Masters - ‘So Much Love’ [Free Download].

Website: www.dfunk.co.uk 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/dfunkbreaks 
Instagram: www.instagram.com/dfunkbreaks 
Bandcamp: https://d-funk.bandcamp.com/music
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/6ZUH9yUJI74EASFVjviNVg
Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/dfunkgritsngravy 

The tunes on this mix from the @thats-not-en-edit series are free downloads & can be found here:
https://soundcloud.com/thats-not-an-edit/sets/d-funk-showcase
The tunes on this mix release on @grits-n-gravy can be found here:
https://soundcloud.com/grits-n-gravy

D-Funk's Disco Delights

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D-Funk's Disco Delights [Nu Disco/Disco DJ Mix]

Funkin Basstards present FUNK THE WORLD 59!!! A mix, put together by the Greek duo. They've got some classics & new tunes, their own remixes & edits and best of all, Intro & Outtro vocals done by the mighty Mustafa Akbar Music.
https://www.magneticmag.com/2020/06/fort-knox-five-funk-the-world-59-funkin-basstards-guest-mix/

Funk The World 59

Funk The World 59 by Funkin Basstards

I've been sitting on a bunch of unfinished, lost and dead end sessions for awhile and thought a mix might be a good way to move on from them ...

The Shorty Sessions Mixtape | Vol.1

Twenty-five years is a fair chunk of time by anyone’s estimation but for Doug Masters, he remembers his first ever DJ gig at The Depot in Bristol like it was yesterday. “I was so nervous I thought I’d never do it again,” he says. “Little did I know that I’d end up playing thousands of times more and at some of the best clubs and festivals all over the world.” 

Marking 25 years that has seen Doug release on labels including Sunday Best, Bombstrikes and Westway with his D-Funk alias, become one of the architects of the funky breaks sound with his mid-2000s night Break Da House and play everywhere from Ibiza to the US, Canada, Europe and his adopted home of Australia, Doug has embarked on two mixes to celebrate his two and a half decades in the game. 

“I’m lucky to have been through so many scenes,” says Doug. “I caught the tail-end of the rave scene in the UK, zipping around to find parties in fields and in disused railway tunnels and then moved through progressive house to trance to UK garage and breaks and then on to my own production journey in the 2000s. I wanted to put together some mixes that reflected all of that.”

The first mix of the two-part series is a collection of tunes that have influenced Doug over the years, touching on everything from disco & house to UK garage & breaks to jungle, while the second collects together 25 of Doug’s personal favourites from his illustrious career as a producer. 

“I was lucky enough to spread a style of music I loved and helped create around the globe,” says Doug. “I want to celebrate that and everything that influenced me along the way with these two mixes.”

Track listing:
Fort Knox Five - The Brazilian Hipster
Krafty Kuts feat TC Izlam - Ill Type Sound
Featurecast - Sniper
Mongobonix -Mas Pito
Pete Hellar - Big Love (The Dronez Mix)
Diana Ross - Love Hangover (Joey Negro Club Mix)
Lovestation - Teardrops (Flava Mix)
MJ Cole feat Elizabeth Troy - Crazy Love
Azzido Da Bass - Dooms Night (Timo Maas Mix)
Chicken Lips - He's Not In (Stanton Warriors Mix)
Dogtown Clash - West London's Burning
Sono - Keep Control (Hydrogen Rockers Vocal Mix)
Yothu Yindi - Treaty (Peace Division Mix)
Gaberial Anadna - Dopplewhipper
Delerium - Silence (Original Fade Sanctury Mix)
Hand's Burn - Good Shot
Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar (Three In One Mix)
Sonique - Feels So Good (Break Beat Mix)
Love 4 Sale - Feel So Right
The Brothers Grimm - Exodus (The Lion Awakes)
Artemesia - Bits & Pieces
Pendulum & The Freestylers - Fasten Your Seatbelts
Natural Born Chillers - Rock The Funky Beats
Aldo Vanucci - When I See You Smile
Ian Brown - F.E.A.R
Plus lots of samples & acapellas from other amazing tunes. 

Website: www.dfunk.co.uk 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/dfunkbreaks 
Instagram: www.instagram.com/dfunkbreaks 
Bandcamp: d-funk.bandcamp.com/music
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/6ZUH9yUJI74EASFVjviNVg

D-Funk thanks…. 
My Mum & Dad for buying me my first set of decks. The Calne bedroom crew for putting up with hours of shoddy mixing in the early days. Alex Blackburn for helping my get my first ever gig. Pedro, Davey, Dai, Big Dave & the Wolves uni crew for the mad nights. Matt for first introducing me to hip hop. ‘Honest’ Lloyd. Jit at Canal Club. Nick Stevenson. Howard & all in the early days of Rotation. Charlie Lang. Naz, Doris & Ben Logue. Garry White. Tim Lyall. Mark Berry. James Bronson. Everyone at 176 over the years. The Turk. Josh at 2020. Shab & Dan. Wille Drum kit & his insatiable love of funk. Uncle Barry Ashworth, Carl Loben & Billy at Westway. Sang, Devastating Dave & all at Adicts. Phil Berrick. Paul Master. Evan Slynk. Tomas & everyone at Danio. Nicc Johnson. Scott Pullen. Shamozzle & Stacey Butler. And last but not least my wife for constantly backing me up but mostly listening to me whinge.

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Sydney-based, British born DJ, D-Funk has amassed a fair few achievements in his 25-years on the decks. Making his club debut at The Depot in Bristol in 1995, he’s gone on to DJ all over the world, playing notable sets at Space Ibiza and Ministry Of Sound and released on labels including Sunday Best and Bombstrikes. 

Getting his first set of decks at 14, Doug initially fell for the sounds of jungle and techno before a night dancing to house icon Tony De Vit in 1997 turned him towards the slinkier sounds of house music. 

His DJ career began to take off during his time at university in Wolverhampton where he started to pick up gigs at the Canal Club and Mezzanine, playing alongside DJs including Joey Negro, Mr Fingers, Scott Bond and Lisa Lashes, before a move to the South-Coast town of Bournemouth led him to eventually start his own night ‘Break Da House’ in 2004. 

The night took off, attracting big names including The Stanton Warriors and Plump DJs and eventually led to D-Funk’s first release, the ‘Electrotek’ EP after Dub Pistols headlined one night and Barry Ashworth from the band decided to release Doug’s music on his Westway label. The track found its way onto a TV ad in Portugal, as well as becoming a mainstay on Kiss FM’s breakbeat chart and gave Doug the confidence to pursue a career as a producer as well as a DJ, eventually leading to releases on Adapted Records and Ghetto Funk among countless other labels over the next 15 years. 

Moving to Sydney Australia in 2009, Doug started his label Upstart Music, releasing his own productions alongside tracks from the likes of Crackerz & Jam, Niko & Lyall and Rogue Robot and later started the funk label Grits N Gravy alongside friend and funk producer Philly Blunt, with the label winning the ‘Best Label’ award at Perth Dance Music Awards in 2010. 

Since living in Sydney, Doug has held down residencies at The World Bar and The Standard/Middlebar for the best part of a decade, as well as regular slots at Sash, Ivy, Goros, Hugos and many others. He’s played events for high profile companies such as Blackberry, Telstra, Jagermeister,  Sydney Cricket Ground & Saatchi & Saatchi. But there was still demand for him back on the side of the world and he regularly returned to Europe to play at Space Ibiza (including a set at the penultimate night of Carl Cox’s Revolution party) as well as touring in the UK, Europe, Asia and Canada. 

Now 25 years into his career, Doug is about to mark the 10th anniversary of his label Grits ‘N’ Gravy, with a compilation due this year mixed by himself and Philly Blunt, and has been busy producing house, hip hop and nu-disco with his current production partner Mr Doris.

Website: http://www.dfunk.co.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dfunkbreaks
Insta: https://www.instagram/dfunkbreaks
Bandcamp: https://d-funk.bandcamp.com/music
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/6ZUH9yUJI74EASFVjviNVg

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