Just downloaded this mix of african house & uk funky (plus other bits). It's great for several reasons:
1. The music's great
2. It has almost all the good african house tracks I know of, from Dr Duda and Dr M-bee, DJ Cleo, and DJ Mujava (almost all downloaded off some dissensus thread last year, prob the same place this guy got them from).
3. In addition to having some great UK Funky, it also neatly demonstrates why I wasn't quite as blown away as some other observers when Funky started to be really noticed in the last half of 08: funky really ain't that much different from a lot of afro/caribean house sounds. The main difference being that funky is made by black youths from london and is therefore the new IT super important and inovative music (fuck an anglophile!). That said I am liking a good chunk of the funky I'm hearing and could easily see myself falling in love with this stuff over the summer. It is definitley summer-time music!
(Final side note: I like how Funky, like Minimal before it, has dispensed with the noun and just gone with the adjective as genre name. I'm looking forward to Speed, Hard, and Juicy coming up in the future...)
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DJ Cleo and Mujava also in my collection and I rate them highly..
Even anglo-philes can download my latest UK Funky effort: "This Charming Mixtape" including tracklists here.
http://www.zshare.net/download/599438901df19ac1/
http://www.zshare.net/download/59942084ac05d425/
http://www.zshare.net/download/599439282812e11c/
The mixing's a bit hit and miss but the selection covers lots of what's good in the UK Funky scene.
Mikey Dee Passin' Thru
For more new UK Funky... http://www.ukfunky.net
- The uk funky house blog -
If you wanna do a link swap drop me a comment or e-mail info@ukfunky.net
Cheers!
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