2024

Released 2024

Funkinova - Complete Works Part 2

1960's and before

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

A classic 60's song that has stood the test of time IMO!

Funkinova

Marmalade - Reflections of My Life

This was fun to do. Inspired by Doja Cat's hip hop sampling for her Paint the Town Red song based on Walk On By, and funking up this 60's classic without the swearing!!

Doja Cat/Dionne Warwick - Walk On By

The latest 2023 release by Funkinova and his Latin American Steel Band performing Jimmy Nail's 1992 classic hit!

Jimmy Nail - Ain't No Doubt

The Pet Shop Boys break-through single from the 1980s.

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

One of the best dance tracks of the 21st Century!

DNCE - Cake By The Ocean

Calvin Harris (Feat Ellie Golding) 2014. A real banger!

Calvin Harris - Outside

21st Century Dance Tracks

Swedish House Mafia - Don't You Worry Child

Vaguely Coldplay-ish in its instrumentation, this 2009 dance track stands out in its own right!

David Guetta - When Love Takes Over

Some of you may be be aware of Simon and Garfunkle's rendition of Silent Night while news of the Vietnam War is read.

This is a homage to that seminal track.

Simon And Garfunkle - The Sounds Of Silence

English band Keane's second success in 2003 after "Somewhere only we know".

Keane - Everybody's Changing

Pom Pom: The Essential Cibo Matto

Moonchild (2006 Remaster)

These tracks were edited using the CVP705 and demonstrate the audio capability of the excellent keyboard. I am hoping that Yamaha will address the major weakness of having very limited free available memory after which I would give the keyboard 10/10. 

Monkeys - Daydream Believer

These tracks were edited using the CVP705 and demonstrate the audio capability of the excellent keyboard. I am hoping that Yamaha will address the major weakness of having very limited free available memory after which I would give the keyboard 10/10.

Mason Williams - Classical Gas

Glenn Miller - In The Mood

@banana-hill make the transition from party to label with a 12" from resident @cervo-uk. Moroccan oud and guembri player Majid Bekkas gets twisted into a smooth, rolling house edit.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2017/04/04/premiere-majid-bekkas-mrhaba-cervo-edit/
Listen on Youtube: bit.ly/mrhaba-cervo

BHILL001

Listen on Youtube

Majid Bekkas - Mrhaba (Cervo Edit) (STW Premiere)

Cinema

So it is never quite clear why one cover track might get a few thousand plays and others just a few. So I thought I would put this that I produced around three years ago back in the spotlight to see if it can get some more plays this second time around.

As one of my earlier tracks it is one of the first where I gave it a treatment that didn't try and be too close to the original.

2018 V1

David Bowie - Space Oddity (Instrumental)

Chuck Berry - Johnny Be Good

watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WqcPYOr--g

taken from the album Time 'n' Place coming soon

I got so much time today
I got hopes and dreams and plans all yet to be made
So get out the way
'Cos I'm coming through now
I got something to do

And I'll try
As I might
To keep up with the light
'Til I'm into bed for the night

I got so much more to say
I got books and tapes and canvas bearing the weight
But they're not arranged
'Cos it takes too long and
I'm still moving on

But I don't
Even know
Where I should be trying to go
So I guess I'll follow my nose

And I can't help but think about
If the sun ever stays down
Will I notice or will I
Just be sitting around
Ticking a list off
Rueing what I said wrong
But dawn still greets my windowpanes
And as long as I shall
Wake up in the morning
I got plans

I got so much time today
I got so much time today
I got so much time today
I got so much time

Time Today

Your Dystopic Creation Doesn't Fear You (feat. Awkwafina)

Your Dystopic Creation Doesn't Fear You

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 2,800,000 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!