Keeping things international with the latest Funkier Session with a mix from Ferry Funky, a Dutch DJ based in Manila. This mix is awesome, and perfectly captures an ideal Funkier Sessions vibe - a sublime unison of hip hop and funk, picking up the pace and veering into disco territory later on. Wonderful stuff!

Please give Ferry a follow - https://soundcloud.com/ferryfunky https://www.instagram.com/ferryfunky

Funkier Session #028 - Ferry Funky

My hour of Episode 155 was, once again, a bit of a tribute to geniuses that have sadly left us recently. After bidding farewell to Gwen McCrae and Roberta Flack last show, I did the same this time for the great Roy Ayers, Angie Stone and Yam Who? of Midnight Riot. I opened the show with his remix of my own track that came out on MR a couple of years back, and fitted in a few from him and Roy, and one from Angie too. Come on 2025 - stop it! 

Hour two was very special this time. I brought you a guest mix from a very talented producer who caught my ear late last year - Bralan Arias from Bogota, Colombia. His mix is almost all his own stuff, and almost all of it is unreleased. It’s an absolute treat - loads of his trademark jazzy house sounds, some cheeky samples, plenty of Rhodes, some acid… and things pick up a fair bit towards the end. If this is the standard of his unreleased music this guy is seriously going places… give him a follow right now! https://soundcloud.com/bralanarias https://www.instagram.com/bralanarias

HOUR 1 TRACKLIST

1	Even Funkier - Don't Go Nowhere (Yam Who? Remix)
2	Lokkhi Terra, Dele Sosimi, Peppe Citarella - Cubafro (Peppe Citarella World Latin Mix)
3	Bralan Arias - Being Aware
4	Elado - Blame
5	Even Funkier - Gnarly Calv
6	Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Everybody Loves The Sunshine
7	Roy Ayers - Boogie Back
8	Billy Paul - How Good Is Your Game
9	Reel People, Angie Stone - Don’t Stop The Music (Art Of Tones Modern Disco Mix)
10	Yam Who? feat. Natasha Watts - I'm In Love
11	Romanthony - Bring U Up PBR Streetgang Remix
12	FYI Chris - Banana Bread
13	Bralan Arias - cerros orientales
14	Roy Ayers - Get On Up, Get On Down (Joey Negro Revibe)
15	Alma Negra - Endless Summer (Soulphiction Remix)
16	Clive From Accounts - Without Your Love
17	Nuyorican Soul (MAW) ft. Roy Ayers - Sweet Tears
18	Dubplate Disco - Pick Up (Yam Who Remix)


BRALAN ARIAS GUEST MIX

1 Bralan Arias, Craftsmanship - Rythm Roulette (Scruscru Remix) [Unreleased]
2 Bralan Arias, Craftsmanship - Autowah [Unreleased]
3 Bralan Arias, Craftsmanship - Acid House [Unreleased]
4 Bralan Arias - Moreno [Unreleased]
5 Bralan Arias - Nothing But The Music
6 Bralan Arias - Jazzy Late Afternoon
7 Bralan Arias - Continues [unrelesead]
8 Bralan Arias,Tebü - Call it House
9Joint4nine - What a Lovely Way To Burn (Forthcoming Ritmo Terco)
10 Emilio Mustafa - Cat O Jazz [Unreleased]
11 A.Naranjo The Adventures of Fuzz Aldrin
12 Bralan Arias - Unruly [Unreleased]

Funkier Sounds Episode 155 - Bralan Arias Guest Mix

This month’s freebie is my own version of a track I absolutely love. Most people know The Brothers Johnson for the classic and very good track Stomp, but the true heads among us know that The Real Thing is where it’s really at. The original slaps plenty already with its dramatic strings and falsetto vocal, but I’ve beefed things up a couple of notches and added some breakdowns for dramatic effect. I’m so pleased with how this one has come out, and I’d love for you to download and enjoy. And yes, of course I kept the sax solo!

FREE DOWNLOAD

The Brothers Johnson - The Real Thing (Even Funkier Edit) FREE DOWNLOAD

The first half of this episode of Funkier Sounds was very much a Southport Weekender affair, thanks to me making my second visit there last weekend. It was, with one exception, all tracks I’d heard there, so after a little warm up it was more or less wall to wall soulful house with a splash of gospel house for good measure. I ended my hour with something brand new from me, that will be available for a free download later this week. 

For hour 2 it was time to hand over to Alessandro Oliveira, a DJ and radio host from Brazil. Alessandro has kindly invited me to be on his show, and I’ll be his guest this week! Alessandro’s mix is a brilliant disco house selection, but not that slightly annoying type of jacking disco house - this is refined, beefed up interpretations of classics, with a few lesser known gems in there too. It really is very good! 

Huge thanks to Alessandro for the mix - give him a follow… https://www.instagram.com/discodanceradioshow/ https://soundcloud.com/discodanceradioshow …and keep an eye out for my mix for his show, dropping soon! 

HOUR 1 TRACKLIST

Moca - Post It
Crackazat - Can't Blame A Soul (Mana's Dub)
Captain Rapp - Bad Times (I Can't Stand It) (Greg Wilson Edit)
Art Of Tones - Bootyshaker (Under The Influence Of Red Greg)
Dam Swindle - That's Right
Imagination - Burning Up (Soul Clap Remix)
Roisin Murphy - Incapable (Dimitri From Paris and Aeroplane Remix)
Glenn Underground - Funki-Ghetto
Mark Grant - U Can Lift Me Up (Boom Boom Room Mix)
Neighbour - Bro Chant
Kem - Heaven (Marlon D _ GA club mix)
The Astro Trax Team feat. Shola Phillips - The Energy (Feel The Vibe)
Joe T Vannelli Project - Sweetest Day Of May (Knee Deep's Vocal Hymn Mix Remastered 2k18)
Blaine Connell - Lovin
YASS - I Go Deep
Peven Everett - Stuck (Phil Asher's Soul Heaven Version)
2fox - Elevation with Laville
Alex Finkin, Rocco Rodamaal - In Da Hood
Splendor - All Night Long
The Brothers Johnson - The Real Thing (Even Funkier Edit)

Funkier Sounds Episode 156 - Alessandro Oliveira Guest Mix

An hour of House, Nu Disco, Disco House and Big Room sounds from Manchester's Steve Hookway for our latest Funkier Session. Enjoy! 

Give Steve a follow: https://soundcloud.com/steve_hookway https://www.instagram.com/steve_hookway

Funkier Session #029 - Steve Hookway

My hour started off nice and funky, quickly built up the tempo to cram in a few promos, and ended up with a few dusty disco belters north of 130BPM. Fun times!

I was lucky to snag a very special guest for the second hour. French DJ, singer, composer, multi instrumentalist, producer and audio engineer David Baluteau AKA Joi N’Juno. He’s another one of my favourite producers, specialising in funky, danceable tunes with African influences. His mix is bloody brilliant - lots of tropical sunshine sounds, some solid nu-disco and housed up worldwide oddities, with a few of his own in there, including a bit of unreleased stuff. Loved every minute of this one, and I hope you enjoy it too. 

Give Joi N’Juno a follow - https://soundcloud.com/joiandhappinessmusic  https://www.instagram.com/joiandjuno/

HOUR 1 - EVEN FUNKIER

1	James Rod  - 'Disco Rocket' [Situation Remix]
2	Stevie Wonder - Boogie On Reggae Woman
3	Change - Change of Heart (Special Extended Mix)
4	T Connection - Funky Lady
5	Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly - Time Is On My Side
6	Buscrates 16-Bit Ensemble - On My Own (feat. Laura Benack & Nice Rec)
7	Tweet - Boogie 2Nite (Fat Camp Mix)
8	Above and Beyond (Young Pulse Instru Retouch)
9	Scott Diaz - The Truth
10	Shabi - Boogie Feet
11	Hurlee - In The Sunshine
12	Mahogany - My Chance To Dance
13	Ricky Montanari & Discoplex - Garagesque
14	Arpy Brown - Attention (Extended Version)
15	Gigi Croccante - Y'all Feel Dat
16	3kelves - Magic
17	Retrofract - The Free Movement Association
18	The Brothers Johnson - The Real Thing (Even Funkier Edit)
19	Congress - Something That You Got (Real Hot)
20	Vera - Take Me to the Bridge


HOUR 2 - JOI N'JUNO

1-Busy Twist - Levis Vercky's - Meca (The Busy Twist remix)
2-Joi N' Juno- Wake Up Song
3-Raz & Afla - What's Going On?
4-Joi N'Juno - Unreleased track
5-Letta Mbulu - Kilimanjaro (The Revenge Edit)
6-LONDON AFROBEAT COLLECTIVE - MY WAY (KIKO NAVARRO DISCOTERRANEO
REMIX)
7-Sue Wright-I Believe In You-Sue Wright-Believe In You (Joi N' Juno
Rework) out 11th April on Canopy records
8-Les Inferno - Yeah C'mon
9- Hotmood - Love To The Music (Original Mix)
10- Joi N'Juno - The Storyteller
11- Joi N'Juno - Douala Boogie (Original Mix)
12- The Funk District - Gogo Mama (Original Mix)
13-Joi N'Juno- Samemala
14- Bosq, Kaleta, The Ibibio Horns - Song for Ehi feat. Kaleta & The
Ibibio Horns (Disco Dub)
15- Flamingo Pier - Remedy

Funkier Sounds Episode 157 - Joi N'Juno Guest Mix

Time for another one of my minimixes, with as much musical action as possible crammed into a tiny space! This time we’re exploring some forgotten disco gems, with a couple of tunes you might know and hopefully a few that you don’t - all bangers though! 

TRACKLIST
Linda Evans - You Control Me (Young Pulse edit)
Sandra Feva - If You Want It You Got It (Imfromull Edit)
The Raes - A Little Lovin' Keeps The Doctor Away
East Coast Love Affair - Confrontations
Paradise - Keep the Fire
Bileo - Lets Go
Kokomo - Use Your Imagination
L.T.D. - You Must Have Known I Needed Love
The Brothers Johnson - The Real Thing
Higher Consciousness (Young Pulse retouch)
Crown Heights Affair - I Struck Gold
East Coast Love Affair, United Spiritual Singers - A Minute Too Late

Watch me do this mix on YouTube - https://youtu.be/MkzyhRPs6Gk

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Funkier 15 #4 - 15 Minutes of... Lost Disco Gems

Keeping the tradition of doing every 10th session in my mix series myself, here I am with a fresh mix for your ears. This time I’m going big on the funky basslines - a mixture of genres but unified by the large bottom end in each of the 29 tunes crammed into this hour and a bit. Loads of big, sticky, chunky synth bass business here - just the kinda stuff I love. 

I’ve got some wicked mixes coming up over the next few episodes, but if you want in I’m always on the lookout for more - drop me a message to get involved! 

TRACKLIST
Fred Simon - Island Of Magic (feat. Amalia)  
Planet Jumper - Embracing Entropy  
Change - Change of Heart (Special Extended Mix)  
George Howard - Steppin’ Out  
Hitomi Tohyama - Wanna Kiss  
William Stuckey - Country People (Flying Mojito Bros Refito)  
Diamond Ortiz - Pretty Please  
OLMOS - Luna’s Groove  
Winfree - Work It Out (Extended Version)  
Dutch Robinson - Drive Me Wild (Opolopo Remix)  
Dunn & Bruce Street - Shout For Joy  
Joses - No Mo  
Moon B - Anything  
Earth Boys - Fully Blazed  
The Sunshine Disco Club - Softly Infusion  
North of Loreto, Zampera - Muttofunk - Cruel Summer (Part I)  
Spirit Catcher - Threesome  
Buscrates 16-Bit Ensemble - On My Own (feat. Laura Benack & Nice Rec)  
Saucy Lady - Why  
Jungle - Candle Flame (Opolopo Remix)  
George John, Rhode & Brown - Haemoglobin / Iron (Rhode & Brown’s 1987 Remix)  
Even Funkier - Got To Go Funk  
David Walters, Captain Planet - No One (Captain Planet Disco Edit)  
Voilaaa - Vampires  
Jamiroquai - Hooked Up  
BB & Q Band - Riccochet  
Harry Wolfman - Epiphany Five  
Shook - Wasp  
Loure - Step In


Funkier Session #030 - Even Funkier

No guest mix this time, so I kindly stepped in to supply the whole 120 minutes of grooves. We kicked off with some lovely soul a’la Aretha and Marvin, then went into some low tempo boogie, some weirdness, some African vibes, more weirdness, and via a few stop offs along the way we ended up with some beautiful, lesser known disco. I had fun! 
TRACKLIST
1	Jill Scott - A Long Walk
2	Latimore - Let's Do It in Slow Motion
3	Aretha Franklin - Day Dreaming
4	Marvin Gaye - Ain't That Peculiar
5	Nuyorican Soul - I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun (feat Jocelyn Brown)
6	Debra Laws - How Long
7	Loose Change - Rising Cost Of Love
8	Nate Evans - Main Squeeze
9	Imagination - Music & Lights [The Reflex Revision]
10	Gary Wright - Comin' Apart
11	Barry Dow - Sly & Wicked 
12	T-Connection - Everything Is Cool
13	Stargard - Which Way Is Up
14	Loose Ends - Hangin' On A String
15	Dr Packer - Move That Bottom
16	Prince - Wonderful Ass
17	Amadou & Mariam - Filaou Bessame (Cerrone Remix)
18	Dele Sosimi - You No Fit Touch Am (Medlar Remix)
19	Takao - Mi Mosquito
20	Classonix - Aeo Aeo
21	Pigeon - Yagana
22	Conway Brothers - Turn It Up
23	Tantra - A Place Called Tarot (Idjut Boys Re-Edit)
24	Bold Parade - Proxy 17
25	Crackazat - Fire Drift
26	Sauco - Donna Is in Control
27	Bralan Arias - Jazzy Chato
28	S-Express - Nothing to Lose (Subterranean Edit)
29	LV Premier - Hooked On This Feelin' (Dimitri From Brooklyn Edit)
30	Platinum Hook - Standing On The Verge (Of Getting It On)
31	Joe Bataan, Specter - Latin Lover (Specter Edit)
32	Nina Dunn - If You Want My Love (Do It)
33	Sylvester - Doin' It For The Real Thing
34	The Gap Band - Gap Band Party
35	Val Young - If You Should Ever Be Lonely
36	Cultured Pearls, Hoff - Mother Earth (Hoff's Optimistic House Edit)
37	Ce Ce Rogers - Someday

Funkier Sounds Episode 158 - 2 hours of Even Funkier

Everyone knows that Say You’ll Be There is the second best Spice Girls song (Who Do You Think You Are edits have been done a few times, and I’ve shelved my dark acid edit of that for now… but will finish it one day!). So anyway, here’s my version - done my usual stems thing to add some vocal solos and the like, beefed up the percussion and bass, got rid of some of the annoying bits and dialled up some other bits. Not much else to say except dig in, enjoy, and thank you.

(Usual copyright nonsense to get this uploaded successfully - the download doesn’t have 10 minutes of silence at the end!)

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Spice Girls - Say You'll Be There (Even Funkier Edit) FREE DOWNLOAD

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Disco Waltons member and Global Funk Fam resident

London-based DJ, producer and radio host Even Funkier weaves together Disco, Funk, House, Soul, Boogie, Jazz, Hip Hop and Global delights to create something fresh, irresistibly funky and downright groovy. He plays tunes from across the decades, genres and BPMs, mixing up hidden gems with tried and tested favourites, with a focus on sweet, sweet Disco music brought right up to date for modern dancefloors.

As a DJ he’s taken his trademark rollercoaster genre-fluid sets to locations including Glastonbury, ADE and Westival, playing parties for Midnight Riot, Good Custard, Project Bango, Pineapple Police Horse and DiscNoTheque. And as a producer he’s released on over 20 labels labels including Tropical Disco, Hot Digits, Mango Sounds, The Disco Express, Midnight Riot and TheBasement Discos.

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