Released 2020

Music_part2

Funkinova - Complete Works Part 1

1960's and before

The Beatles - Hey Jude

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

This is an EDM  cover version of the Radiohead song "Exit for a Film" with vocals by Lia.

Exit For a Film

Exit fo a film (Dance Mix)

Exit For a Film (Feat Lia)

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

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

1963-1973: The Abbey Road Decade

Anyone Who Had a Heart

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

Hey Jude (The Beatles cover by Steve)

Album Original

Henry Mancini: Baby Elephant Walk

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

Very happy with this original track based on a beat by LJandpad. Have used Ableton to my fullest extent so far and have included words in English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, German and Italian in that order. Please pass on to your friends who speak those languages. Having used a number of translators and text to speech functions, I expect that the results will be very funny, but also my first international hit!

One World, One Club, One Beat!

One World, One Club, One Beat

An instrumental version of an old rocker.

Funkinova

Ram Jam - Black Betty

A cool instrumental version of this classic 80's track

Chris Isaak - Wicked Game

David McWilliams - Days Of Pearly Spencer

Dave Berry had a few hits, particularly in Europe, but this is the best one!

Dave Berry - Crying Game

The Searchers - Needles And Pins

Ray Conniff - Bahia

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 songwriter 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!