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Boogie

Let's Get Naked

KK Bday/dundee

NORTHEN SOUL / MOTOWN

Serious Bangers all genres

disco funk 8

northern vs disco 3

appears on "FEMI vs KCRW Soundclash!" (Downtown/Mercer Street Records) © Obrooni, ASCAP 2009

"(One of my) Top 10 tunes for 2008!"
- Nickodemus (Wonderwheel / ESL - NYC)

"The Musaics man connects with the Kuti dynasty with Ticklah in the mix. Righteous and bumpin' all at the same time!"
- Natural Self (Tru Thoughts - UK)

"At last - the combination of Femi's horns and voices and JSole's beats and bass gives Fela's legacy its proper dues. Hot."
- Lightning Head aka BiggaBush (Lion Head recordings - UK)

"JSole, Ticklah and Femi is a remix made in the thunderclouds of the African plains. This is EXACTLY how I like my Afrobeat...dirty, funky and raw."
- Dan Ubick/Connie Price (The Lions, The Keystones/Big Daddy Kane - LA)

"Classic afrobeat sound for future afrobeat heads. Jsole brings his Afro Funke' vibe to life on this remix!"
- J Boogie (Om Records - SF) 

"Serious dancefloor pressure. Really digging how hard the drums hit!"
- Jamie Strong (Stones Throw, The Do Over - LA)

"That's a bomb! Such an addictive groove and brilliant organ lines - pure energy on the dance floor!"
- Dusty (Jazz&Milk records - Munich)

"This Femi remix is tight, and Ticklah kills it!"
- DJ Sabo (Sol Selectas - NYC)

FEMI KUTI - "Tell Me (Jeremy Sole Remix feat. Ticklah)"

--- Boogie Belgique: travelling ---  Ancient Astronauts: break my heart in 2 --- Tab & Anitek: upbeat --- Beat Gates: blowjob --- Suhov: i need some weed --- BrockBerrigan: fresh canvas --- Kali Uchis: mucho gusto --- Jenova 7: harlem sunset --- Coffee Break Cookies: gnossienne de cookies --- Babel Mètis: ode to motion ---

Mix Tape 43 - Boogie Belgique: Ancient Astronauts: Tab&Anitek: Beat Gates: Suhov: BrockBerrigan...

now available on limited 2 x 7" coloured vinyl
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My spine is the bassline(tt re-edit)

Boogie funk mix Mayer Hawthorne (aka DJ Haircut) made back in 2005.

Shoot The Duck Vol. 1

Bandcamp

Positive Force - We Got The Funk (Pontchartrain Edit) - Free DL

The Essentials

Superfly

Merry Clayton - Southern Man

The Atco Sessions

Feelin' Alright (2007 Remastered Version)

Freedom - Get Up And Dance

The Pointer Sisters - Send Him Back (Pilooski Re - Edit)

Funky Kingston

Lean on Me: The Best of Bill Withers

Lovely Day

The Very Best of Hot Chocolate

Every 1's a Winner

Zombie

Rapper's Delight: The Best Of The Sugarhill Gang

Rapper's Delight (Long Version)

The Best Of

Atmosphere

Definitive Soul: Spinners

It's A Shame (Remastered Version)

Pillow Lips

I Melt With You (Rerecorded)

Hustlers Convention

Sport

Was trying to overlap these tracks for possible inclusion in a mix, when it turned into a mash up in its own right. Keep on Keeping On is one of my favorite Northern Soul songs and I was very hesitant to mess with it out of reverence, but I think it works quite well as a slowed down, delay heavy bit of trippy cosmic funk.

Original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYzcWY8Cj0o

Nolan Porter / It's A Fine Line - Keep On Keeping On/Grease (KF Edit)

I Need You Baby-Jesse James

Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

Midnight Train To Georgia

The Bramblemen All Stars starring Rich Bloom, The Box Tops (Bill Cunningham & Gary Talley), Arno Hecht, Bryan Owings, Jack Silverman, Harley Fine, Scott Ward, from the Dan Penn/Spooner tribute album: "Do Right Men."

06. You Really Know How To Hurt A Guy

Amy Winehouse - I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know (Live De La Semaine)

03 Crystalized - Milton Hamilton

01 Jaguar - That's Your Problem Baby

01 I Feel Good, Put Your Pants On - Jackson Jones

Electrodub Experiment Lonely Man Dub

T-Connection Groove to get down

You Don't Even Know Me - Milton Wright

Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs were an American doo-wop/R&B 
vocal group, active during the late 1950s and early 1960s. 
Originally "The (Royal) Charms", the band changed its name 
to "The Gladiolas" in 1957 and then "The Excellos" in 1958, 
before finally settling on "The Zodiacs" in 1959.

Williams was born April 26th, 1938 in Lancaster, South Carolina. 
He had his first experience with music in the church, where his 
mother and sister both performed. By the time he was six, 
Williams was performing regularly there. With his childhood 
friend Earl Gainey, Williams formed the gospel group... 
'The Junior Harmonizers', but as rock 'n' roll and doo-wop 
became their primary interest, the Junior Harmonizers 
changed their name to 'The Royal Charms'.

The Royal Charms and The Gladiolas... In addition to Williams 
and Gainey, The Royal Charms were made up of Willie Jones 
(baritone), William Massey (tenor, baritone, trumpet), and 
Norman Wade (bass). In the winter of 1956, while still in high 
school, Williams and his band traveled to Nashville, Tennessee 
to record for the Excello record label. At the time they were 
still going by the name 'The Royal Charms,' but the founder 
of Excello Records, Ernie Young, convinced them to change 
their name to 'The Gladiolas.' At the time, there were at least 
two other bands using the same name. 
The song "Little Darlin'" was a #11 hit on the R&B chart in 
1957, but did not break the Billboard Hot 100's Top 40. 
However, when the song was covered by the Canadian 
group 'The Diamonds', it moved up to #2.

Maurice Williams finished high school and while on the road 
with the band (after their station wagon broke down in 
Bluefield, West Virginia), the band came across a small car 
known as "The Zodiac" and the band changed their name 
-one last time, to, "Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs". 
Shortly thereafter, Henry Gatson replaced Earl Gainey. In the 
spring of 1959, Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs performed 
at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. 
Around that time, the group split and reformed. The members 
were then Williams, Gatson, Wiley Bennett, and Charles Thomas. 
Later, Little Willie Morrow along with Albert Hill were added. 
One month later, in the early summer of 1959, the band 
recorded in a Quonset Hut on Shakespeare Road in Columbia... 
The recording engineer, Homer Fesperman, recorded several 
tracks that the band had hoped would fetch them a hit...

One of the last tracks that they recorded that day was "Stay," 
a song that Williams had written a couple of weeks before. 
After taking the demo of "Stay" to Al Silver at Herald Records 
in New York City, the song was pressed and released in early 1960.

"Stay" is the shortest recording ever to reach Number One on 
the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States - at 1:39, although 
the label read 1:50.

Later versions of "Stay" recorded by The Four Seasons (1964), 
and Jackson Browne (1978) also reached the Top 20, each selling 
over one million copies in the United States alone. 
At the end of 1963, British band "The Hollies" covered "Stay", which 
gave the group their debut Top Ten hit single in the UK, peaking at #8.

The inclusion of "Stay" on the soundtrack to the film "Dirty Dancing" 
in 1987 led to the song selling even more records than it had during 
its original release in 1960.

A 1961 recording by "Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs", "May I", 
also released by Herald Records, eventually became another 
million selling record.

Maurice Williams continued recording, touring, and releasing 
music through the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. 
Maurice still tours, performing at over 150 show-dates per year 
and is still very active in the music industry.

Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs - It's Not Unusual (MASTER/1968)

Dance in the street

Fron the 'Big Brother is Watching' UNKLE Compilation

Fleetwood Mac - The Chain (UNKLE Sounds Edit)

The original is ridiculously good and you should buy it, but it's also quite long for modern dancefloor attention spans so I made this dub edit using various parts of it plus some extra vocal bits and locked it at 118. Spot the sample. Thanks for the support everyone :)

Free Download

Shina Williams and His African Percussionists - Agboju Logun (Hober Mallow edit)

Nolan Porter / It's A Fine Line - Keep On Keeping On/Grease (KF Edit)

Kalandra Fel