Name: Siren by Brian Juan
Duration: 5 min 31 s
Description: samples "Siren" by Chupacabra and "Old Pirate" by Sonar

Raspberry Blush

Built from the cool bassline at the beginning of the Pee Wee's Playhouse opening credits sequence. I recorded this song in the late '90s and decided to give it another pass this week now that I have better tools.

Playhouse

I wrote a song for a friend's video project. Then I decided it would be better if I added some RTJ so I cranked up the old AI acapella-rizer and added some Black Thought for good measure.

Run The Jewels -  2100 - Remix

Signal

Signal (Bodylanguage)

Surely someone else has already had the idea to mash-up Alphabet Aerobics with Bubblehouse, right? Well, I bet nobody put Randle Park and Lyrics Born in there too! Enjoy!

Medeski Martin & Wood: Bubblehouse, 1997
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Blackalicious: Alphabet Aerobics. 1999
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Lyrics Born: This Song's Delicious feat. Sitcom Dad (Randle Park) & Dan the Automator, 2022

Quannum vs. MMW

It's funky. Never forget that Black Americans invented Rock n' Roll. "Who stole the soul?", and such, so why not make a greasy funk version of a song about Rock n Roll?

Huey Lewis a cappella generated using: https://vocalremover.org/

Drums by Nate Smith from the Yurt Rock bundle.

All other instrumentation, mixing etc. by James Walton. 

Recorded on Reaper.

FUNK COVER Huey Lewis & The News feat. Nate Smith

samples "Siren" by Chupacabra and "Old Pirate" by Sonar

Post

Siren

Funk cover of Howard Jones' "Like to Get To Know You Well" from his excellent 1984 album Human's Lib.  

Another entry in my new project making 80s tunes as funky as possible. 

Drums from Nate Smith via Yurt Rock and the Tony Allen sample pack.   

Howard Jones Funk Cover "Like To Get To Know You Well"

FUNK COVER: INXS New Sensation

More funky covers of beloved '80's tunes. Can you dig it?

FUNK COVER The Human League (Keep Feeling) Fascination

This is a crazy one. I wanted to cover this Thompson Twins song that I've loved since I was a kid, but put a unique spin on it so I decided to try to channel the band Secret Chiefs 3 and in the process wound up changing the time signature and taking a hard turn into Flamenco. 

The vocals on this one are still scratch until I can find someone to do an original performance that sounds something like this. Wish me luck!

COVER: Thompson Twins "The Gap" featuring Israel Fernandez

Brian Juan acts like he doesn't care if you like him but secretly he does, but just a little bit, like a healthy amount.

Siren

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