Yo what's this tune called? It's dope!! Pretty sure its got the same riff sample that DJ Revolution used in one of his really early layered up turntablist tracks.

BBC Radio 6 Music Interview with label boss Trevor McNamee and label artist Izo FitzRoy on The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Show. Featuring a 'Jalapeno Trunk of Funk' DJ Mix by The Allergies. 

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We're celebrating our 20th Anniversary! We've highlighted 20 tracks to give you a taste of the heat we’ve had the privilege to release over the years! 

Listen to: VA.lnk.to/TwoDecadesofFunkFire

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2000 was the year. 

The start of a new millennium was the time to settle down to the serious business of THE FUNK and Jalapeno Records was brought to life by Elliot Ireland and Alex Rizzo better known as Skeewiff. Their quirky and exotic take on funky breaks gave Jalapeno its special flavour and attracted killer talent like the Dutch masters Kraak & Smaak. I took over running the label a couple of years after its birth and have been proud to build on what they started ever since.

Jalapeno is a label that supports artists. 

Many of our long-term acts do much of their own A&R and have the final say on exactly what they release. It’s been a formula that works. Skeewiff released 3 albums with us, ephemerals released 4 albums, The Allergies have released 4 albums, Kraak & Smaak released 5 albums and Smoove & Turrell have just dropped their 6th album (our first official UK chart Number 1). Alongside those we have had incredible albums from (deep breath...) Alexia Coley, Izo FitzRoy, Gizelle Smith, Dr Rubberfunk, Flevans, Basement Freaks, Soopasoul, Aldo Vanucci, Featurecast, Radio Trip, Quasamodo and Max Sedgley as well as numerous singles.

I’m exceptionally proud that many of these acts have chosen to stay with Jalapeno Records for such long periods of their careers. 

The evolution of the label from sample based high jinks to full band studio recordings and touring bands has been an exciting one. That’s not to say we don’t still love a dancefloor rocker made by a DJ / Producer, but there is something special about releasing and publishing great original music. You know things are going right on that front when your catalogue is sampled for a massive dance hit or selected for an iconic sync placement.

In our 20th year we are still experiencing new highs and getting excited about new music all the time. 

So to all the artists who have made the label what it is, the great people on the Jalapeno Team and the fans who have supported the label, by buying records or streaming or coming to gigs - it’s a massive cheers from me.

Trevor McNamee – Owner – Jalapeno Records.

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Jalapeno Records 20th Anniversary BBC Radio 6 Music Special // The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Show

Here's another edition of Beats & Breakbeats, lots of funky business in this one and a slapping of rolling funky breaks, bouncing beats and disco treats. Once again a bit of everything in this Ableton mix from low slung grooves to upfront party breaks with new music and old music to boot all in a mid tempo setting.

Tracklist

Intro
Krafty Kuts - Shoes
Mr Fitz - Sharons Land
Fats Comet - Dub Storm (Mr Scruff Edit)
Tom Booze - Shake Ya Body
Vested Soul - Unite Forever
Suckaside - T.Y.T.D (Instrumental)
The Allergies - Seven Days
The Breakbeat Junkie - UZI (Pinky Ring) - Instrumental
King Bee - Money Gone (Smoove Remix)
Double A - Old Skool Bounce
Lack Of Afro - The Outsider
Funky Destination - Make It Fuzz
Aeon Seven - Seven Breaks (Instrumental)
Chop Juggler - Bring Some Funk
DJ Snatch - Groove Island (Funk Busters Edit)
Aldo Vanucci & Featurecast - Walk Like a Man
Smoove - Main Sourced (Part 1)
Boca 45 - Steady Rockin
Skeewiff - Cruise Control
Saison - Equal Religion
Quantic Soul Orchestra - Pushin On ft Alice Russell
Soopasoul - Funky Hot Gritz
Rephrase - Catch Ya
Silk Sonic - Fly As Me (Mikeandtess Edit) Pecoe Cut
DJ Creem - Confused
Mark Rae - Ozark Funk (Instrumental)
Sonic Funk Foundry - New York Street (Disco Rework)

Pecoe - Beats & Breakbeats Volume 6

"Get The Party Started Right!" 
by Fort Knox Five 
http://www.fortknoxfive.com

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100% Vinyl mixed in one take from 2004, one of the first Fort Knox Five mixes ever made.

Tracklisting:
Juca Chaves - Take Me Back To Piaui
Ugly Duckling - Einstein's Brazilian Travelogue
A.Skillz and Krafty Kuts - Ain't it Funky featuring Ashley Slater
DJ RSL - Beanflicker
Dynamo Productions - Hit The Floor (One Cut Remix)
Mark Ronson - Ooh Wee (Instrumental Mix)
Dragonfly - Angel Dust
Freddy Fresh - Corillo
Pressure Drop - Funkee Joint
Lyrics Born - I Changed My Mind (Stereo MCs Rattlesnake Mix)
DJ Ole - Epidemic	
Journey Man DJ - Journey Man Blues
Beatphreak - Gospel Nights
Deadly Avenger - Brooklyn Scraps
DJ Shadow - The Number Song (Cut Chemist Remix)
Fort Knox Five - The Brazilian Hipster
Dr Rubberfunk - Bossa For The Devil

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Get The Party Started Right!

Qdup DC Funk Parade Mix 2014

Qdup delivers a massive funk bomb of a mix to celebrate the first ever DC Funk Parade, which will take over the U-Street neighborhood in North West DC Saturday, May 3rd 2014. The mix features Nappy Riddem’s Mustafa Akbar and Erica ‘Edy Blu’ Deskins delivering Public Service Announcements from the DC Department of Funk advising all citizens not to miss the funk parade.The days festivities include a day fair from noon-5pm, The Mighty Funk Parade from 5-7pm (the main event) and The Funk Parade Music Festival 7-10PM. Come celebrate with us on May 3rd as Fort Knox Recordings & U Street Music Hall present live performances by Washington, DC's Go-Go Legends Sugar Bear & EU (a.k.a. Experience Unlimited) & Nappy Riddem along with DJ sets by Fort Knox Five and Qdup. ***100% FREE*** 7-10pm***18 & Up Only.

Event Link-

https://www.facebook.com/events/1484285631783611/

U Street Music Hall
1115 U Street NW
Washington, DC
http://www.ustreetmusichall.com/

Funk Parade
http://www.funkparade.com/

Track List-

1 Average White Band - TLC (Illingworth Remix)
2 Jean Knight - Do Me (Skeewiff Re-wiff)
3 Brother Bones & his Shadows - Sweet Georgia Brown (Skeewiff Remix)
4 AfroQBen - Hypnotize Me 
5 Gramatik - Obviously (Feat. Cherub & Exmag)
6 Erykah Badu & Angie Stone & Queen Latifah & Bahamadia - Love Of My Life Worldwide (Party Break By Dj Black) 
7 The Fort Knox Five - Funk 4 Peace featuring Mustafa Akbar
8 The Black Seeds - Fire (The Real Molloy Remix)
9 James Brown - The Boss (Adski Edit) 
10 E.U. (Experience Unlimited) - Da Butt (Qdup Funk Parade 2014 mix edit)
11 Qdup - Rock On It Ft. Flex Mathews (Original Mix)
12 Empresarios - Maria Juana (Fort Knox Five Remix)
13 Basement Freaks - Funk For Freaks (feat. Charlie Funk) (Basement Freaks Remix)
14 Roger Troutman - You Should Be Mine (Jim's Crossover Edit)
15 Dads On Display - Do You Disco

** Public Service announcements by Mustafa Akbar, Erica ‘Edy Blu’ Deskins & the DC Department of Funk

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Nu-Skool Hip-hop beats. Only positive, conscious lyrics, and well produced musical settings make it into this mix. Remixes, re-edits and latest entries in the world of US hiphop, made for the sunny days and warm nights. A mix bespoke for pool parties, block parties, beach festas and barbeques. Get your bikinis on and like, comment and repost to support the artists!

Pool Party Skunk Hop

New Jalapeno signings, @theallergies, step into the DJ booth to take you on a trip through their favourite tracks from the latest Jalapeno Funk compilation — Enjoy!


The Allergies — Be With You
Ephemerals — Call It What You Want
Soopasoul — Funky Hot Grits
The Allergies — Heartbreaker
Quasamodo & The Q Orchestra feat. Thaliah — My Friend Is Blue (Soopasoul Remix)
Boca 45 feat. The Good People — We're Right Here
Smoove & Turrell — Have Love
Alexia Coley — Beautiful Waste Of Time (Smoove Remix)
Skeewiff — Interlude Dude


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Jalapeno Funk Vol.6 - Mixed by The Allergies

Second part of my tribute mix to the Northern Soul era. Free Download

Gramophone Soul - Northern Soul Mixtape Part 2

1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your record collection.

I produce, DJ and perform live with my band Daytoner and I've been making records for 10 years under this artist name, although I have been DJ'ing since the mid 90s and collecting records since I was a teenager. I live in the far west of the UK (in Cornwall) and spend a lot of my spare time either in my studio shed or out in the lovely Cornish countryside and coastline with my wife and kids.

2. 45/7 is all about celebrating the 7". Can you tell us a bit about what you love about the format. 

It's been great to see the revival of 7" vinyl, which is a lot less back-breaking than a DJ bag of 80 12" vinyls! As a producer, the format also focusses the mind, condensing track length to less than 4 minutes, which is more than enough for most ideas anyway. The 7" also makes vinyl production affordable for DiY labels such as mine (Cabin Pressure Recordings) as they can be made relatively cheaply in short runs of 300-500 copies. 

3. One hour of vinyl goodness... can you talk us through your selection for your 45/7 mix?

I thought I'd supply a varied mix to include a lot of the genres that I enjoy, along with some of my major influences, so I've included a favourite from my youth (Primal Scream's 'Loaded' that I bought back in 1990 when I was at University) and a very dusty old Chess copy of Fontella Bass' 'Rescue Me', right through to brand new releases such as my own 'Apache Street' edit. I'm also very grateful to producer and label friends such as Smoove, Aldo Vanucci, The Allergies, 45 Live and Dinked Records for supplying me with their funk-fuelled 7s.

4. Where can people catch you / listen to your music? 

In the last few years I've been focussing on producing and performing with my band and we've been out and about across the UK playing at over 50 festivals and events. This Summer we'll be playing at another 6 festivals including Mostly Jazz, Wilderness, Love Summer & Beautiful Days, plus we'll be supporting Craig Charles at his Funk and Soul Club events as we have been doing regularly since 2016. Online there's lots of my music in the usual places including Soundcloud, Mixcloud, YouTube and Spotify, not forgetting record stores such as Juno, Jazzman etc

5. Top 5 all time fave records

I always find these Top 5 lists really hard as it's always changing, but right now I'd have to go for...

Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Tamla 1967)
One of the few records that always gives me goosebumps no matter how many times I hear it and it often seems to be an emotional moment when playing it out, especially when everyone sings the chorus in unison. I think its the Jamerson bass line that's the goosebumps trigger, but I just also love the whole Berry Gordy, Tamla Motown hit factory story in that tiny Detroit basement, during such upheaval in US society.

Googie Rene Combo - Smokey Joe's La La (Class 1966)
I remember buying Wah Wah 45's re-release of this for 99p from a little Cornish record shop (Solo Records) and I still treasure it as it's always been a go to record for almost any DJ set. I feel it distills all the excitement and optimism of the 60s into 3 minutes of jazz piano, breaks and crowd noise.

Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band - Apache (Pride 1973)
The importance of this record in the birth of hip-hop is well documented in the movie 'Sample This'. Personally I've always loved this break and as my 'Apache Street' 7" reveals I still use it today.

Primal Scream - Loaded (Creation 1990)
In my teens I was an indie rock fan, then this release became my introduction to the wide world of dance music and it still sounds fresh nearly 30 years on.

Daytoner - Little Wonder (Wack 2009) 
Indulgent I know, but it was my very first Daytoner vinyl release (and it's got a young Stevie on it)!

45/7 #59 ARTIST: DAYTONER

One hour Daytoner DJ set in the Hong Kong Ping Pong Club at Leopallooza 2019 featuring some fave funk, soul and ska edits, a few of my own 'shedits' and an Apache themed ending. Big love to James, Jack, Harry and all involved for their hospitality at this gorgeous festival in the Wyldes near Bude, Cornwall (UK).

"Thank you for letting me by myself, again."

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DJ Set at Leopallooza 2019

A little something to help us in this time of lockdown... A second Fajita mix in 3 weeks, among the million others also doing the same at the moment!
This is strictly laid back hip hop and vibes, under 100bpm, just in time for the sunshine round the corner, and BBQs (in your garden of course)...
Expect a more uptempo mix in the coming weeks to accompany this, and give you a weekend soundtrack...
Please like, comment, share, repost etc etc!

Peas

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The Great Outdoors Mix

As you guys know i make a lot of music, each weekend i sit in my music room and kick out 1 or 2 tracks each weekend. Not every tune you make ends up a banger but every now and then you nail it just right and end up with a great tune. This mix reflects that, pretty much every tune in this mix you guys haven't heard before and it's a combination of bangers and fillers, original works, remixes and edits. Most of these tunes i have made over a 6 month period minus the tunes that i have made for labels and upcoming releases. Hope the mix gives you just the right amount of funk, enjoy x :)

Tracklist

01. Keep It Funky
02. Guitar Boogie
03. Like My Style
04. That's the Jam
05. Sunny Side
06. Star Struck
07. Boogie Woogie
08. Ain't It Funky Now
09. Superstar
10. Fort Knox Five - Funk 4 Peace (Pecoe Remix)
11. Love
12. Wait A Minute
13. Calling Out
14. A Good Funk
15. Butter Fingers
16. Saxamaphone
17. How We Sample
18. Head Nodding
19. On & On
20. Kick It

Pecoe - Unreleased Jams Mix

BBC Introducing Artist 2012
Reloop DJ Mixtape of the Month February 2021

Fajita Funk are a group of  South West DJs, bringing uptempo party cuts breaks, beats, reggae, hip hop, latin and all inbetween to many clubs and bars across the South of England, and beyond (Oxford, Exeter, Woolacombe, Bristol, Bath, London). They currently hold residencies in Oxford, (The Library), and in Reading (Milk).

Their mixes have been pleasuring the ears of the internet community for years, with the boys appearing as guests across various internet radio shows.

Their production work is still in its relative infancy, but already they have had one release on Tru-Funk Records, 'Edwin's Phat Man!' The work has also been getting support from DJs such as Hong Kong Ping Pong, Cut La Vis, Ewan Hoozami, Dropsteady Freddy etc etc. Other tracks have been recognised through the renowned Spinforth Scour. As DJ support for the likes of Boca 45, Dan Greenpeace, Breakin Bread, Itchy & Scratchy, and Smoove amongst others, they are a sure fire winner!

Please keep peeled for more mixes and tracks on this page. 

For DJ bookings please contact elsprucho@hotmail.com

The Great Outdoors Mix

Fajita Funk

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