Dedicated with love to Joy, Progress, the Brass Tax community, and my hometown of Asheville, NC. Curated for and performed at the Brass Tax 6:66 Halloween party Nov 2, 2024 in Petaluma, CA. Recorded live at Bowerbird. 

Vote like your ass depends on it. 

Track list:
Home Wrecker - Daniel Steinberg
Things are Gonna Get Better - Adelphi Music Factory
Koliko - The Allergies, K.O.G
Body & Soul - Jay Vegas
Party Diva - Deeper Purpose 
I Need You Tonight - DJ Soo
Love Vibration - ESSEL
This is America - Childish Gambino, Bombo Rosa/ Stanton Warriers Remix
Yo No Se - Leandro Da Silva/ The Shooters
Don't Touch - Busta Rhymes
Speak to tha Young - Paluma/ Tyson O'brien
Harm - Alistair Albrecht
Ginger - Riton and Kah-lo
Praise - Dale Move
Joy (Unspeakable) - Voices of Fire Feat. Pharrell Williams
Freedom (Homecoming Live) - Beyonce
Dog Days Are Over (Florence and the Machine) - The Social Singing Choir
Dog Days Are Over (Original Mix)- Florence and the Machine
(bonus track for Asheville) Hard Times - Gillian Welch

Halloween 2024

01 Supreme DJ Nyborn - Versatile Extension (A Remix)
02 Mark Rae - Clap When You're Slippin'
03 The Haggis Horns feat. Doc Brown - Take It Back (CMC & Silenta Remix)
04 Paul Sitter feat. Andy Cooper - Go Move (All Good Funk Alliance Remix)
05 The Pharcyde - Runnin' (DJ Caution Remix Instrumental)
06 The Crusaders feat. Bill Withers - Soul Shadows (Paul Older Edit)
07 DJ Marcon & The Palo Santos - A Journey South (Valique Remix)
08 Dephcut - Bon Voyage
09 DJ Deviant - Turn The Party Out
10 Krafty Kuts feat. TC Izlam - Ill Type Sound (KK Remix)
11 Pecoe - This Funky Beat
12 DJ Deviant & Swamburger - Get On The Floor
13 Prince - Controversy (Mighty Mouse Edit)
14 Los Fulanos - Kiss (Arima Soul Remix)
15 Fab Samperi feat. MC Rhombus - Frequencies
16 Fort Knox Five - Dodge City Rockers (All Good Funk Alliance Mix)
17 Ed Royal & Enne - Vamos Irmanos (Parov Stelar Remix)
18 Mongo Santamaria - El Dorado (Meets On Beat Edit)
19 Empresarios - Para Mis Amigos (Skeewiff Remix)
20 Skank - Garota Nacional

We Want Funk #37

I'm back, with another bunch of beauties for you.  There's some real crackers in this week's Bootlegs & B-Sides, so sit back, turn up the bass and get down.

TRACK LIST

De La Soul - Jeniffa Taught Me (Ross Go Re-Funk)
Clockwork Voodoo Freaks - Deaf Mick's Throwdown
DJ Bacon - Lettin' Ya Know How it is in Showbiz
Featurecast - What It Is
Lighter Shade of Brown - Latin Active (Ross Go Re-Funk)
Rory Lyons - I Got 5 on It (Pimpsoul Funk Remix)
Crash Party - Sounds Like This 
The Breakbeat Junkie vs DJP - Party Right Now
Mr Stabalina - Don't Stop
Featurecast - Channel Surfing
Kormac - Showtime
Gramophone Soul - The Get Up
Slappin’ Plastic - It Shocks (Pimpsoul Remix)
Ursula 1000 - Funk U Want 
A.Skillz - Eat My Shorts
Father Funk - Don't Stop


Bootlegs & B-Sides #137

This is Part 2 of my Summer Chillout 2025 Mix series, this time on a broken beat tip. Includes some nice summer heaters by the likes of Barry Can't Swim, Sofia Kortesis, Tourist, O'Flynn and Bicep.

May put together a final funky chillout mix later this summer if I have time...

Check out Part 1 here:
https://soundcloud.com/lebrosk/summer-chillout-mix-2025

My Chillout Mixes playlist here:
https://soundcloud.com/lebrosk/sets/chillout-mixes

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

Summer Chillout Mixes 2025 (Part 2 - Broken Beats)

This week on the RIPEcast we have Space Cowboy resident DJ rrrus with his recording live from Breakfast of Champions. Recorded at Great Northern January 1, 2025. 

From rrrus "I am here to light your fuse and warm your shoes.  Bump funk up your trunk and slam jam like a clam.  Damn, I’m hungry.  Let’s go to Breakfast of Champions and feast like beasts on bass so thick it sticks like a brick. Shake it!"

RIPEcast rrrus - Breakfast of Champions '25

01 Queen Omega, Chezidek, U Brown, Irie Ites - Three The Hard Way
02 Hempress Sativa - Boom (Wah Da Da Deng)
03 Poirier feat. Flavia Nascimento - Me Leva
04 Mato - "T" Stands For Trouble Dub
05 Mungo Hi-Fi & Eva Lazarus - Amsterdam
06 Ras Demo - Lyrical Designer
07 Smile Davis - Dogfish
08 The Dynamics - Walk On The Wild Side
09 The Bas Lexter Ensample - Candela
10 Danzón El Gato feat. Marina Y Su Melao - La Lucha
11 Daytoner - Bebo's Beat
12 Guts feat. Pat Kalla, Assane Mboup - Medewui
13 Balaphonics - Chewing Gum (Grant Phabao Remix)
14 Booboozzz All Stars - Make Some Noise
15 Beastie Boys - Root Down (Taggy Matcher Mix)
16 Q-Tip - Breathe And Stop (GBC Edit)
17 Jurassic 5 - Cabto De Ossanha
18 Mo' Horizons feat. Laurea Insausti, Nené Vasquez - Mascadito



Tropical BBQ 9

Fort Knox Five presents
"Endless Summer Mix"
August 2011

Streaming on Mixcloud:
https://www.mixcloud.com/FortKnox/endless-summer-mix/

Brand New "Endless Summer" Spotify Playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4s6q9JBL8pFwefVTuNpnQu


Tracklisting:
Pretty Lights vs Summertime - Pretty Lights
This City Means no love - JViews
The Dude (feat. Lady Faye)- Palov
You Do it to Yourself - Mark Ronson
Sister Nancy vs. Lauryn Hill - Never Lost One (Wick-it Remix) - Wick-it the Instigator
Knockdown - Timothy Wisdom
Ready Steady - Bobby C Sound TV 
Under The Sun - Kidda
Skankin' Riddim - Omegaman
Cyaan Rock Steady - tOtALcULt
Pa'lante (Empresarios Remix) - Los Chicos Altos
Stop, Look, Listen (Whiskey Barons Edit) - Ricardo Ray & Whiskey Barons

Endless Summer Mix

Gina X Performance - 	Nice Mover
Midnight Generation -	Fear No More
Grace Jones -  Williams Blood (Aeroplane Remix)
Soulwax - Heaven Scent (feat. Chloë Sevigny)
Teilz - Main Mix V2 Mastered 8824
Cornelius Doctor- Sparkling Plasma (feat. Fringe Society)
Soulwax - Missing Wires (Edit)
Misty Lane- Contrôle
King Sporty- Safari (Lexx Discomix)
Daphne Guinness x Joe Goddard- Mishima (Joe Goddard Remix)
Daniele Baldelli, Marco Dionigi- Imago (Original Mix)
Diskjokke- 1987 (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
Ilya Santana- The Warriors (Ilya Santana Improv)

Gazing Over Golden Fields

01 Chali 2na x Cut Chemist x The Funk Hunters - The Rock
02 Black Machine - Blood Bass
03 The J.B.'s x Riton feat. Kah-Lo - Rince Hot Pants Repeat (Suckaside Mashup)
04 Marc Hype & Jim Dunloop - Wah Wah Wah
05 Tom Caruana - Penguin Strut
06 Mister T. - Everybody Is Going To Be There (Instrumental)
07 Dedy Dread & SoulBrigada - Respekt
08 Mr. Doris & Dazzla - Everything Is Anything
09 Vested Soul - Just One
10 Icey Amigos - Pusher (Funkafied Edit)
11 Stereo MC's - Set Me Loose
12 X-Ray Ted - Tribute To The Original Artform
13 Arnold Zack - Loaded Man (Sonic Funk Foundry Edit)
14 The Breakbeat Junkie - Don't Scandalize Mike
15 Moz-Art & Master Freez - Let The Music Move Me
16 Djar One feat. Andy Cooper - Lighter Fluid
17 Flatwound - Again (Valique Remix)
18 Mobb Deep - Shook Ones, Part 2 (Jengi Remix)
19 Zamali - Slap It Hard
20 LTJ Sound Machine - Don't Stop The Sax

We Want Funk #41

For the latest edition of Bootlegs & B-Sides, I've selected some absolute beauties, to help put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip. 

TRACK LIST:
Tom Drummond - Hit it 
Chali 2na & Cut Chemist - Melt Like Plastic
Charlie Beale - Wang Dang Doodle
The J.B.'s - Givin' Up Food For Funk Part. 1 
Chali 2na & Jurassic 5 - Hip Hop Hand's High Krafty Kuts Edit
The Allergies & Andy Cooper - Freak the Speaker
Nas - Made You Look (Krafty Kuts & Jimi Needles Edit)
Featurecast - Crazy
Akshin Alizadeh - Inner Struggle
Basement Freaks - The Last Train
Outkast - Spaghetti Junction
Charles Bradley - The World (Forrest Funk Edit)
GRiZ - Rock N’ Roll
The Doors - Break On Through (Rework by Sonale)
Wiccatron - B-Boys Drop (feat Badboe)
Mister T. - The Party
Biggie vs. Das EFX - Hypnotized Hip Hop (Jimi Needles Edit)


Bootlegs & B-Sides #148

Sugar Ray Johnson & D-Funk - 'Give Me Your Love' [Grits N Gravy]
[GNG018 // The Return Of Sugar Ray Ep]

Buy from Junodownload - http://www.junodownload.com/products/the-return-of-sugar-ray/3188859-02/
Buy from Beatport - https://www.beatport.com/release/the-return-of-sugar-ray/1836068
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4PckVg24FjA8B0c608fOcC?si=9E6aS8oYSo-SLtRlSl4KJg

I got back in the studio with the Sugar Ray to cook up another sublime soul/disco Ep that's out now on Grits N Gravy! 

Web:
@grits-n-gravy
https://www.facebook.com/gritsngravymusic/
@niccjohnson
https://www.facebook.com/djniccjohnson

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

The Return of Sugar Ray

Stream/Download

Sugar Ray Johnson & D-Funk - 'Give Me Your Love' [Grits N Gravy 018]

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.com.au
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dfunkbreaks
Insta: https://www.instagram/dfunkbreaks
Bandcamp: https://d-funk.bandcamp.com/music
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/6ZUH9yUJI74EASFVjviNVg