Released 2023

One of the key dance tracks from the 1980's. Watch their video and you will get the idea!

Pure Retro Pop

Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round

Used by Funkleberry as the backing track to his 2020 hit version, his instrumental version deserves a listen in its own right.

Cher - Believe

I knew Sparks as a two-hit wonder from the 1970's. However, thanks to Netflix, I watched "The Sparks Brothers" documentary on their career which started in 1966 and they have been influencing, collaborating and filling auditoriums and stadiums since having produced 25 albums of quirky songs over their long career. . 

I am a belated Sparks convert!. 

This hit from 1994 which made #7 in Germany.

Funkinova

Sparks - When do I get to sing 'My Way'

Wikipedia says the Gabrielle's 2001 hit, "Rise", "takes extensively from Bob Dylan's 1973 song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", albeit reportedly with Bob Dylan's permission. 

That is probably the understatement of the 21st century and I took the two songs and mashed them together to find that only the melody and lyrics had changed. Everything else aligned perfectly.

So this is hopefully an interesting curio for Gabrielle, Guns N Roses and Bob Dylan fans alike.

Gabrielle - Rise/Knocking On Heaven's Door (mash-up)

Herb Albert's classic 1979 Disco Hit; mostly played when the pizzas were being served or when you wanted to give the punters one last slow disco dance before turning the cleaning lights on. 

The advantage of this track was that you could both slow dance with your partner if things were going well, or dance awkwardly apart from each other longing for the bright lights being turned on before beating a path to the toilets and planning your escape! :-)

Herb Albert - Rise

What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No, not just for some but for everyone

Lord, we don't need another mountain
There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb
There are oceans and rivers enough to cross
Enough to last 'til the end of time

What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No, not just for some but for everyone

Lord, we don't need another meadow
There are corn fields and wheat fields enough to grow
There are sunbeams and moonbeams enough to shine
Oh listen Lord, if You want to know

What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No, not just for some, oh, but just for every, every everyone

Burt Bacharach - What the World needs Now!

Cilla Black's break-through 1964 single, albeit a cover of the Dionne Warwick original. Together with the Beatles, Stones, Who, Kinks et al, 1964 was the year that really cemented the launch of the swinging 60's. Along with Dusty Springfield going solo, and Lulu these were the female trailblazers of 60's pop.

Burt Bacharach (Cilla Black) - Anyone Who Had A Heart

Abba's 1979 hit from the Voulez Vous Album. Disco meets Rock.

Abba - Does Your Mother Know?

When first released as a single in 1967, it reached number 19 on the UK Singles Chart and number 103 in the United States in 1968.

With a re-release in 1972, it made #2 in the US and has since become a stand-out "60's" hit.

Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin

Amazing Queen song and theme from Highlander the movie (1993)

Queen - Who Wants To Live For Ever? (Theme From Highlander)

This is an academic exercise to practice my new-found Ableton sampling skills. No interpretation is intended, or should be implied, from this exercise which manipulates the two songs to combine into a single track.

Lets Get It On_Thinking Out Loud Mash-up

Exercising my new-found Mellotron sound font on a classic King Crimson track from the early 1970s

King Crimson - Starless And Bible Black (Part 1)

My instrumental cover version that is different from both the original by Joan Baez (about her time with Bob Dylan) and Judas Priest's which are both awsome in their own right,

Joan Baez - Diamonds And Rust

An epic track which, I hope, conveys its "epicness" in this instrumental rendition!

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

A classic epic rock track. Best played loud!

Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do

Legendary 60's organist Jimmy Smith track. If you don't know his music, check him out!

Jimmy Smith - Chicken Shack

The original is really slow and melancholic, and as my student colleagues wanted to do a cover track (to the original tempo), I thought it would be fun to produce a Dance version. It actually turned out much better than I thought it would!  :-)

Radiohead - Exit For a Film (Instrumental Dance Mix!)

Just a gentle groove for a historic song!

Nelson Mandela. 

"I detest racialism because I regard it as a barbaric thing whether it comes from the black man or the white man."

Simple Minds - Mandela Day

A bonus track to Funkinova's Tribute to Camel album that was released in May 2022. If you like crazy time signatures, this one's for you!

Camel - Lunar Sea

Classic 1997 Dance track which started out as a Dance Instrumental and then Alice picked it up and put lyrics to it.

Alice DeeJay - Better Off Alone

Hi all, so from 2016 to 2024 I assembled and produced a large collection of covers of many of my favorite tunes as my own hobby (and many during COVID lock-downs!) and I have accumulated over 2,900,000 plays across the world which is awesome!

I am much more of a producer that a musician. These first 8 years of my music was mostly based on midi cover tracks often downloaded from the Internet but heavily reproduced and re-imagined variously on my two Yamaha keyboards (Clavinova and PSR 975), but also using PC midi editing & DAW software.

Towards the end of that period, I added some of my more original electronic music which I produced over the past two decades under the name of Funkleberry in order to consolidate my Soundcloud accounts. 

But in 2024 I got into AI music generation and I am now  a freelance sonwriter and AI music producer. It's been a fun journey!

My first 4 AI Albums can also be found here:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4iZUxtVnHl09U3UJ0nbt2L OR

in Apple music (search Funkinova and/or AI Collective)

If you like anything you hear, please pass them on!