More bass heavy mixes of funk stuff, kinda like midtempo party breaks but more funk based.

Ghetto Funk

Mostly live recordings from Funkademia, and some older mixes in the same vein from my old Jazzy Kex days.

Funk, disco, soul, old school hippety hop, amongst other stuff.

Funkademia style mixes

Original productions, remixes, edits, mashups etc

No Diggity vs Bucovina Barbeque mash up.

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Kotch & Monetrik vs Balkan Street - No Bucovina (Kid Blast mashup)

Heavily influenced by Funkadelic and Greg Nyce, this is my first midtempo party breaks tune, also influenced by gigs at Funkademia in Manchester. I've tweaked a few things that I noticed were missing previously, and shortened the outro down now.

Thanks for all the support with the previous version, over 100 plays in a week! Lets see if we can better it with this one!

If you like this track please show some love in the comments section.

Kid Blast - Feet Don't Fail Me Now

Mashup of Queen - We Will Rock You and Epic Bootleg. It was awesome before, but this takes it to a next level festival tune, it was my last tune in the closing set at the Wickerman Festival 2013, went right off at 5am!

If you like this track please show some love in the comments section.

Enjoy!



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Faith No More vx Queen vs Utah Saints vs Kid Blast - Epic Bootleg

Kid Blast, live @Lucha, 26 April 2014 part 2

Kid Blast, live @Lucha, 26 April 2014 part 1

The Clash - Rock The Casbah (Kid Blast remix)

This was a live recording of my set at the For No Reason party in April 2009, expect lots of block party, funk, old school hip hop and disco goodness, 62 tracks in 2.5 hours. 

Enjoy!


Tracklisting:-
Skeewiff ft Young MC – Bump Bump
Biz Markie – Nobody Beats The Biz
Fdel – The Crew
Insane Bangers – Beat Don't Stop
Kool &amp; The Gang – Jungle Boogie
Parliament – Give Up The Funk
Nickodemus – Give The Drummer Some
A Skillz – Peaches (A Skillz remix)
A Skillz &amp; Beardyman – Got The Rhythm
Da Wiesel – Cool Hot Grits
Insane Bangers – Rock The Box
A Skillz vs Beat Vandals – Blowin Up
Nick Thayer – Shoot The Gap
Tom Booze &amp; DJ Agent 86 – Downside Up
Nu Shooz – I Can't Wait
A Skillz vs Beat Vandals – Sunshine
Most Wanted - Calm Down
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien – The Wacky World Of Rapid Transit
Run DMC – What's It All About
Stone Roses – Fools Gold
Rhythm Heritage – Theme From S.W.A.T.
Feature Cast ft Kool Keith – Channel Surfing
Caveman – I'm Ready
Insane Bangers – Hot Dogg
Insane Bangers – Another One Bites The Dust
Grandmaster Flash – The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel
Trouble Funk – Pump Me Up
Trouble Funk – Hey Fellas
Skee Lo – I Wish (Johnny Showbiz Nod Of The Head To Skee Lo &amp; Soulwax)
Nick Thayer – Get Up
Insane Bangers – With You
Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band - Apache
Sugarhill Gang – Apache
Insane Bangers – Eat My Shorts
Nick Thayer – Thizz Shake
Beat Vandals vs A Skillz – Funky Sounds
De La Soul – Say No Go
A Skillz – The Funky Drummer
DJ Dekline &amp; Red Polo - Let It Bump (feat Missy - Hydroz remix)
Aldo Vanucci - Blue Grassed Devil
Run DMC – Mary Mary
Funkadelic – Knee Deep
De La Soul – Me, Myself &amp; I
Diplo – Shake It Over &amp; Over
Mashed Up Funk – Beastie Disco
Black Grass – Nice Up
Freestyle – Don't Stop The Rock
Newcleus – Jam On It
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Tom Tom Club – Wordy Rappinghood
Kahuna Kawentzmann – GoGo Sitar
Fdel – Ladies &amp; Gentlemen
Qdup Foundation – Renegades Revenge
Calagad 13 – Fonky Feeling
Malente - The Law Is Wrong
DJ Mink – Hey Hey! Can You Relate
Chase &amp; Status – Against All Odds
Fort Knox Five – Insight (A Skillz mix)
A Skillz vs Beat Vandals – Simply Playing
The Hump Day Project vs Aston Shuffle – Real Hot For Everyone
Backstage Sluts – L.S.D. (A Skillz remix)
Epps – Bongo Rock


Kid Blast live at For No Reason April 4th 2009

Here is a little mashup that I used to do live with my Dicers, so I recorded it for y'all and it's for your pleasure. Its a good one for festivals or for ending a set with, just a bit of fun.

Due to Soundcloud clamping down on people giving away stuff like this I have disabled the download, however if you really REALLY like it leave a comment and follow me.

Kid Blast - Let Me Clear The Dancefloor

Live recording of Disasters At Work (aka Kid Blast and David Dunne) from Funkademia at Mint Lounge, Manchester UK on the 14th of April 2012.

A back to back battle with Dave and I playing 3 tracks each, using 4 decks, 2 mixers and two laptops, Dave running Traktor Scratch and me running Serato Scratch.

Amazing night, great crowd, as the mix progresses you can tell how much fun we were having. The recording starts from when the club was full and builds from soul, reggae and hip hop through to disco, funk, northern soul with various other flavas thrown into the melting pot to keep people on their toes. Probably the best night I’ve ever done in there. It's a big mix, so I've split it into two parts - this is part 2, towards the end of the night. Full tracklisting below:-


Part 2
Doobie Brothers – Long Train Running
Rory Hoy – Big Beat Stevie
Stevie Wonder – Another Star
The Clash – Rock The Casbah – (Kid Blast Funkademia remix)
Giorgio Moroder – Electric Dreams
Yazoo – Situation
Rob Base &amp; DJ E.Z. Rock – It Takes Two
Young MC – Know How
Justice - We Are Your Friends acapella
Crooklyn Clan – Wanna Jump
House Of Pain – Jump Around
A Skillz – Sex Machine
DJ Twister – Loopers Delight 
GOTYE vs Bucketheads vs Chicago – Street Sounds That I Used To Know
The Source ft Candi Staton – You Got The Love
Groove Armada – Superstylin
Frankie Valli &amp; The Four Seasons - Beggin (Pilooski remix)
Deee-Lite – Groove is in Cutloose’s heart
Deee-Lite – Groove Is In The Heart re-edit
Stealers Wheel – Stuck In The Middle With You (Todd Terje edit)
The Third Degree – Mercy
Jackson Sisters – I Believe In Miracles
Stevie Wonder – Superstition
Ini Kamoze - Here Comes The Hotstepper
Luther Vandross – Never Too Much
Aretha Franklin – Respect
Loleatta Holloway – Love Sensation
Jackson 5 – ABC (A Skillz remix)
De La Soul – Say No Go
Dandy Warhols – Bohemian Like You
The Jam – A Town Called Malice
John Legend – Rolling In The Deep
Toddla T ft Shola Ama - Take It Back
Emeli Sande – Heaven
Madness – It Must Be Love
Electric Light Orchestra – Mr Blue Sky
Electric Light Orchestra – Sweet Talkin Woman

Disasters At Work (aka Kid Blast and David Dunne) live from Funkademia, 14th April 2012 part 2

Live recording of Disasters At Work (aka Kid Blast and David Dunne) from Funkademia at Mint Lounge, Manchester UK on the 14th of April 2012.

A back to back battle with Dave and I playing 3 tracks each, using 4 decks, 2 mixers and two laptops, Dave running Traktor Scratch and me running Serato Scratch.

Amazing night, great crowd, as the mix progresses you can tell how much fun we were having. The recording starts from when the club was full and builds from soul, reggae and hip hop through to disco, funk, northern soul with various other flavas thrown into the melting pot to keep people on their toes. Probably the best night I’ve ever done in there. It's a big mix, so I've split it into two parts - this is part 1, from the middle of the night. Full tracklisting below:-

Part 1
Fred Wesley – House Party
Skeewiff ft Young MC – Bump Bump	
Ohmega Watts – That Sound
Harold Mabern – I Want You Back
Daigo – Jungle Jazz
Eric B &amp; Rakim – I Know You Got Soul
Lisa Lisa – Let The Beat Hit Em
Gwen McCrae – All This Love I’m Giving
En Vogue – Never Gonna Get It
Jazzy Jeff &amp; The Fresh Prince – Boom! Shake The Room
Bob Marley – Could You Be Loved (Johnny Showbiz edit)
Arrested Development – Everyday People (Afro Jackson edit)
Cheryl Lynn – Encore
Alexander O’Neal – Fake
Prince – Kiss
Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke
Sister Sledge – Thinking Of You
Salsoul Orchestra ft Loleatta Holloway – Runaway
KC &amp; The Sunshine Band – Get Down Tonight (Pied Piper remix) 
Michael Jackson – Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough
Diana Ross – I’m Coming Out
Sugarhill Gang – Apache
Greg Wilson vs The PTA - Two Sides Of Sympathy
Javier Morillas – Sugar Free Style
A Skillz – Tip Ya Cup
Black Machine – How Gee
AstroSnooze – Beethoven Flex
Pockets – Come Go With Me
Teddy Pendergrass – Get Down Get Funky (Leftside Wobble edit)
Rockers Revenge – Walking On Sunshine


Disasters At Work (aka Kid Blast and David Dunne) live from Funkademia, 14th April 2012 part 1

Enjoy the mix, and thanks for the support.


Mix done using 2x 1210 decks, Serato Scratch Live with SL3, pair of Novation Dicers controlling Serato FX, Allen & Heath Xone 42 mixer

Tracklisting:-
Breakbeat Junkie & DJ P - Freak hop (Kid Blast edit)
The Dixie Cups - Iko Iko (Qdup’s Future Go-Go edit)
Aretha Franklin – Respect (Funky Bass remix) 			
Funk Ferret & Goodgroove - Rockin rollin
Funkanomics - Superstation			
Sam & Dave – Hold On, I’m Coming (Phat Tony Ghetto Funk remix)
Rollomatik – More Sound
WBBL – Check Menina
Aelian – Cave Funk
Featurecast – The Shaker
Benny Goodman – Sing Sing Sing (Nick Thayer bootleg)
Crooklyn Clan – Wanna Jump
Featurecast – My Thing
Funk Moguls – Fresh Prince re-fix (KB intro edit)
Russ Cuban - Smells Like A Banger
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
Foreigner – Cold As Ice (A Skillz & Nick Thayer bootleg)
Bill Withers – Lovely Day (B-Side & Detta remix)
Some DJ – Arrested Everyday
Madness – My Girl


Kid Blast - 30 min Ghetto Funk party mix

Live recording of my set from Funkademia, Manchester on the 8th of December 2012. A little rough around the edges in places, but hey, that's live recordings for you.

I played the first half of the night (2.5 hours), so part 1 is a relaxed warmup, and part 2  steps things up a gear. The mix contains everything from Dusty Springfield, The Hackney Colliery Band and Ray Charles to  The O'Jays and the Rolling Stones via an 80's breakdance tribute

Great gig, great club!


Hackney Colliery Band – No Diggity
Gil Scott Heron – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Karim extended edit)
Parliament – A Blow For Me, A Toot For You
Maceo & All The Kings Men – Got To Getcha
The Meters – Cissy Strut
Lou Johnson – The Beat (Karim extended edit)
Norma White & Brentford All Stars – I Want Your Love
Lauryn Hill – Lost One (T. Melody remix)
Shimi Sonic – Beat Of A Preacher Man
Buffalo Springfield vs Honey Drippers – For What Its Worth, Impeach The President
Doc Severinsen – I Wanna Be With You (Leftside Wobble edit)
Lynda Lyndell – What A Man (Fdel mix)
Etta James – You Can Leave Your Hat On (JR. Dynamite re-edit)
Aretha Franklin – One Step Ahead (Featurecast re-edit)
James Brown, Fred Wesley & The J.B.’s – People Get Up And Drive Your Funky Soul
James Brown – My Thang (Pied Piper extended remix)
Parliament – Rumpofsteelskin
Ozomatli – Cut Chemist Suite
J Star – Regulate Rock
PM Dawn – Set Adrift On Memory Bliss


Kid Blast Funkademia 8th December 2012 part 1

Live recording of my set from Funkademia, Manchester on the 8th of December 2012. A little rough around the edges in places, but hey, that's live recordings for you.

I played the first half of the night (2.5 hours), so part 1 is a relaxed warmup, and part 2  steps things up a gear. The mix contains everything from Dusty Springfield, The Hackney Colliery Band and Ray Charles to  The O'Jays and the Rolling Stones via an 80's breakdance tribute


O’Jay’s – For The Love Of Money
J.T. & The Big Family – Moments In Soul
DJ Shepdog – Groove Is In Jah Heart
Ohmega Watts – That Sound
Harold Mabern – I Want You Back 
Sam & Dave – Soul Man (DJ Twister edit)
The Hole In The Wall Gang presents… - Brown Soul
Jimmy Bo Horne – Dance Across The Floor
Daigo – Jungle Jazz
Bob Marley – Could You Be Loved (Johnny Showbiz edit)
Zenit Incompatible – Big Stuff
The Notorious B.I.G. – Mo Money, Mo Problems
Diana Ross – I’m Coming Out
The Chi-Lites – Are You My Woman? (Tell Me So)
Michael Viner’s Incredible Bongo Band – Apache
Sugarhill Gang – Apache
Greg Wilson vs The PTA – Two Sides Of Sympathy
Slynk – Slide Slide
A Skillz – Get Up
Javier Morillas – Sugar Free Style
Kid Blast – Feet Don’t Fail Me Now
DJ Twister – Got To Be That Real Thing
Cheryl Lynn – Got To Be Real
Prince – Alphabet Street (DJ P remix)
Run DMC – Christmas In Hollis
Smoove – Ray’s Woman
Dawn Penn – No No No

Kid Blast Funkademia 8th December 2012 part 2

As a self confessed 'split personality dj basket case', Kid Blast aka Johnny Showbiz aka James Wilson aka Ian Williams is a reclusive guy who seems to have more aliases than MI5. With a history stretching from the late 80s, he has been spinning records now for 22 years under a variety of names (“I change my name each time I start playing a new style of music, don’t ask me why!”), and has played at pretty much all of the venues that kickstarted the Northern rave scene, before taking a break in the late 90s, re-discovering funk and old school hip hop, and reinventing himself as a block party dj extraordinaire, along the way playing alongside the likes of A Skillz, Prodigy, Krafty Kuts, and Rob Da Bank, and establishing himself as a Funkademia resident since 2009 at Manchester's longest running club night of 16 years. 

These mixes have previously only been available on Mixcloud, so now they are available for download too. Due to only having 12 hours of time available for uploads, I will be deleting older mixes to make way for newer mixes, however the older ones will still be available on Mixcloud, and if you want a download send me a message and I'll send you a link. Also check out the Johnny Showbiz and James Wilson pages below for previous productions.

Alter ego's :-) 
www.funkademia.net/djs/kid-blast
www.mixcloud.com/kidblast
www.mixcloud.com/jameswilson
www.soundcloud.com/jameswilson
www.soundcloud.com/johnnyshowbiz

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