A mix in tribute to the magnificent Daft Punk, which might not be an obvious Funkdub choice, but they were always playing in our houses and on the dancefloor, particularly in the early days. The session takes a deep dive featuring tracks from all the studio albums including Daft Club and The Tron Soundtrack, as well as remixes by them and the likes of Erol Alkan, Soulwax & Digitalism. It also includes various Daft Punk adjacent artists like Cassius, Kavinsky, DJ Mehdi, Etienne De Crecy, Alex Gopher, Midnight Juggernauts, some re-edits and a couple of very recent robot influenced tracks from Kraak & Smaak & Levantine and of course some Giorgio Moroder. Selected and mixed by GK, artwork by 3DJ.

Originally posted on mixcloud in 2021, but it was taken down in 2023 despite hurting no-one.

The French Connection

I found this in the garage yesterday, it's a mix I recorded in 2003, before Funkdub had started officially. It was recorded live on two decks on to a tape player, as a result the audio quality is not too clever. The name of the mix refers to the, (much missed), grand central records; it's so long ago that the tracklisting is missing and I can't remember the name of all the tunes at the moment, i'll put them up shortly, but it might be of some interest anyway. (and listening back I could pick numerous technical holes in the mixing, but what the hey!) UPDATE, i've worked out the tracklist, thanks to funkdub for the valiant efforts!:

The Deadbeats – I Can Break It Down
Mark Rae featuring Veba – Lavish (Deadbeats Remix)
Luke Vibert - Get Your Head Down
Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist
Jurassic 5 – Jurass Finish First
Kenny Dope – Boomin In Ya Jeep
The Amalgamation of Soundz – Jus’ Listen
Stereo MCs – Rhino part II
J-Walk featuring Veba – Scarlet Menace

Centralised Beats (2003)

Found another one, this is the first mix I recorded on my own, yet again a live vinyl mix on to a tape recorder, so the audio's not crash hot. I remember not being too happy at the time as I marginally muff a couple of the mixes, (the pressure of the tape rollin'!). It's a got a backbone of chill out, bookended with hip hop and it ends with Stevie Wonder, so it can't be all bad, i'm really really struggling with some of the track names on this, any help appreciated! UPDATE, with some excellent help from a man like skutch i've got most of the tracks, one is still a real struggle though, FINAL UPDATE - had a brain wave & remembered the missing track!

Q-Ball & Curt Cazal - Boon Dox
Terranova - Turnaround (Kutmasta Kurt remix)
Quannum featuring Jurassic 5 - Concerntration
Nightmares On Wax - Finer
Karma - Let's Go Thrillseeking
Coldcut - Autumn Leaves
Tosca - Boss On The Boat
Flytronix - Smoke-Ringz
Aim featuring Q-Ball & Curt Cazal - The Force
Luke Vibert & BJ Cole with Tom Jenkinson - Tom 'n' Us
Stevie Wonder - Superstition

A Brew with g-kush (2000)

Here's what I think is a fantastic piece of work from my good friend Skutch (he's too shy to set up his own account). This is 18 minutes packed with nearly 40 classic jungle and drum n bass tunes from the mid nineties in the main, to quote the man himself it was made like this: "sampled it all from 12"s via technics 1210s to unknown soundcard and looped it/compiled it on jeskola Buzz" and "I also edited the audio into sampleable loops in Cool Edit". I'm fairly sure it pre-dates the annie-mac mini-mixes (certainly before i'd ever heard one) and, for my money, stands up pretty well against them (albeit in a slightly longer format). Anyway, enjoy!

Tracklist (although note it's not strictly in order as it jumps around quite a bit):

45 Roller - Shotz
Alex Reece - Touch Me
DJ Ascend - 123
DJ Ascend - New Style
Black Star - Radical (DJ Kane Remix #2)
Blackstreet - No Diggity (Urban Takeover Remix)
Dope Skillz – 6 Million Ways (Remix)
DJ Die - Something Special
Ed Rush - Skylab
The Fugees - Ready Or Not (DJ Zinc Remix)
Ganja Kru (DJ Zinc) - Super Sharp Shooter
Ganja Kru (DJ Hype) - True Playaz Anthem
DJ Hype & MC Fats - Peace Love & Unity (Remix)
IQ Collective - Mode 1
Krust - Blaze Dis One
Lemon D - Change
Lion Of Judah - Jah Set It
Lion Of Judah - Emperor Selassie 1
Mask - You Rang
Nuyorican Soul - It's Alright (Roni Size Remix)
Origin Unknown - Valley Of The Shadows (96 Remix)
Rayner - Silver
DJ Red - Enta Da Dragon
Redlight - Future Is Dark
Roni Size - Only A Dream
Roni Size - It's Jazzy (Felix Road Mix)
Shimon & Andy C - Night Flight
Shimon & Andy C - Quest
Shy FX - Wolf Remix
Scorpio - Li Li
DJ SS - England
T-Power - Amber Light (Shy FX Remix)
The Terrorist - Chopper (Shy FX Remix)
DJ Zinc - Pranksters
DJ Zinc - On Fire Tonight
DJ Zinc - Reach Out
DJ Zinc - What Is It?

Skutch's classic jungle megamix (2003)

Resident DJ & co-founder of Funkdub, been DJing for ages and slowly moving towards recording some of that business

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