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All Funked Up

Nils Landgren - Funk Unit - House Party

i-sha feels through a deeply personal session of emotional resonance and cathartic intensity for this week’s Fact Mix.

https://www.factmag.com/2023/04/03/fact-mix-i-sha/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 902: i-sha (Apr '23)

A funk rhythm, based on drums and bass, creates the background for a melodic line played on the synth. A horns section make some accents counter balancing the melody.

Gotta Get Funky

Jurassik Funk - Pick Up On Your Line

Deep Street Soul, since signing to Freestyle Records in 2008, have earned a reputation as being right at the grittiest end of the hard funk scene. From their debut self titled instrumental long player, to the 2011 follow up ‘Look Out, Watch Out’, (spotlighting the addition of vocalist Mighty May Johnston) earned the group accolades from everyone who heard their music. Not to mention the audiences who saw them in concert during two spectacular live tours of Europe - the crowning moment being their appearance at 2013's Saint Paul Soul Jazz Festival in France - which brought home to everyone just how confidently the band had moved up to the next level.

2016 sees them return with this quite spectacular new collection; ‘Come Alive!’. Whilst the diamond hard, driving grooves remain undiminished, the albums opening track ‘Out Of The Gates’ should banish any thoughts that this incredible collective could ever slow up or go soft! There is also no doubt that the band’s song writing has developed to an equally assured level. Case in point is ‘Souls Come Alive’ - from Monique Boggia's Wurlitzer electric piano intro, the blistering horns and May Johnston's simply exemplary singing - the song’s instant appeal will be lost on no one with an ear for genuine organic soul music.

Joshua Tavares, from Melbourne, adds further weight to the idea that Australia is the current hyper fertile nursery for 21st century soul talent. ‘The Hardest Part Is Knowing’ is a dynamic and sultry ballad that encapsulates precisely what is required when delivering an authentic song of heartbreak just like the way it used to be done.

Guesting on the amazingly catchy ‘Love On Tap’ is another renowned Australian songbird Kylie Auldist, who as well as being a successful solo artist in her own right, supplies her gilt edged voice to both Cookin' On 3 Burners and The Bamboos. Two special mentions must also be made; firstly, to the Deep Street Soul rhythm section - Warren 'Waz' Hunter's bass lines are always the perfect partner to Agostino Soldati's tighter than Lycra drumming - between them, these two don't let the pressure drop for a second! And secondly, to the new boys - whilst being in the band for four years are only just getting their first taste of the action. The ultra catchy horn hooks of Dorian Broomhall and Will Cassell along with the in-the-funk-pocket guitar playing of Mitch Power, have done so much to round out the band’s sound to what you are now about to aurally enjoy.

Deep Street Soul - Done Me Wrong (clip)

This is a portion of a Johnny "Hammond" Smith song entitled "Dreams." Johnny is on piano and Grover Washington Jr. is on saxophone. This is just a sample from the song for the purpose of this remix contest. Enjoy.

Dreams-remix

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Deep Street Soul - Done Me Wrong (clip)

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