Posted by: Jay

Summer is winding down for us here in the Northern Hemisphere, but we still have a bit more juice left in our long-ish days and nice-ish weather. To help you get the most out what’s left of your summer here are two fantastic, recently released funky mixes that will hopefully inspire you to have one last BBQ, go to one last beach or catch on last ball game.

Enjoy it while you can!

Fort Knox Five - “Endless Summer”

This is an awesome mid-temp funky set that *gasp* actually lets all the great songs play instead of mixing out after 30 seconds! This has become my favorite Fort Knox mix of all time and has to be a top five of 2011.
Endless Summer Mix by fortknoxfive

DJ Dan - “Stereo Damage Ep. 14″

The incomparable Funky/Electro House master is back with fantastic of blend of new grooves and fun, bouncy tracks. Now why ohhhhh why did he not play a set like this at Burning Man this year?? For those who didn’t witness it his Friday night Opulent Temple set was uninspired techy nonsense.
DJ Dan Presents Stereo Damage - Episode 14 (Live @ King King) by djdanmusic

Posted by: Jay

Happy Friday!

I’m sure you’re all eager to come out to our Happy Hour tonight, so to get your primed here’s a brand new set from funky breaks/mid tempo masters Fork Knox Five! Caution: this set may cause involuntary head bobbing and spontaneous dancing. Talk to your DJ before listening.

Fort Knox Five: “Peaceful Invasion Mix 2011″ by fortknoxfive

BONUS TRACK!

As a special Friday bonus, and an advanced thank you for all of you great SF party peoples who’ll be getting down with us tonight, here’s the brand new, just released A Skillz remix of Marlena Shaw’s transcendent soul classic “California Soul”! (Remember to download hit that little arrow on the left)

California soul (A.Skillz Remix) by A.Skillz

More Fort Knox Five!

Tracklist:
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Posted by: Cor

As I’ve said many times before, good funk is hard to come by in today’s electronic music climate, so it’s especially refreshing to find a record label dedicated to our funkin’ cause. Jalapeno Records is that label, and in their recent compilation Jalapeno Funk Vol. 2 is a tour de force of modern funky production. The track list includes originals and remixes from the likes of A Skillz, Fort Knox Five, Max Sedgley, Kraak & Smaak, All Good Funk Alliance and many other heavy-hitters in the funky house and breaks field. Though some of the tracks can be a bit heavy on the vocals for my taste*, I nevertheless highly recommend the compilation to anyone looking to add more head-bobbing and booty-shaking to their beats. Some highlights…

The Beekeepers - Transcript

Kraak & Smaak - Squeeze Me (A Skillz Remix)

Neighbor - Pistachio Ride

Max Sedgley - Super Strong *

All Good Funk Alliance - Sock It To Ya (Kraak & Smaak Remix)

PLAY ALL

The full album contains 16 individual tracks, and a skillfully mixed hour-long set of the same songs. It’s a solid purchase, and Jalapeno is definitely a label to keep an ear on.

Buy the album at Amazon, Beatport or iTunes.

*Ahem.

Posted by: Jay

So for those of you aren’t avid followers of my status updates on Facebook (one of these days I’ll graduate to Twitter… I’m a classic “late majority” guy) I had my first gig down here in La Paz, Bolivia last Friday night! How’d it go?  Well, you kinda got to understand the dynamics of the club a bit.  We will defiantly get there, but first, I wanna share the ridiculous story of how I actually GOT the gig in the fist place.

Getting gigs as a DJ is other worldly hard.  Unless you own a club/series of successful parties, are friends with the former, or produce music and are backed by a label your path to the decks are full of more perils, pitfalls and booby traps than Eddie Murphy’s quest for “The Knife” in “The Golden Child”.

I’ll sprinkle in some the tracks I played that went over well throughout the post:

Fort Knox Five - “The Party Pushers” - Romeo Remix

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