I travelled up to Birmingham on the train from Wales and caught up with my good mate DJ Jim ‘Shaft’ Ryan from Miss Moneypennys / Chuff Chuff. Luna Springs is an open-aired nightclub in Digbeth, a great clubbing zone in
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Tag: funky house
Punky Funky
Electronic dance music enthusiasts are the modern day punks. Electronic music represents youth culture and the stuff top DJs hammer out in wild night clubs to glammed up audiences is about as punky as it’s gotten since the seventies. This
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The phoenix is a mythical sacred fire bird. It is described as a bird with a colorful plumage and a tail of gold and scarlet (or purple, blue, and green according to some legends). It has also been described as
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There’s been a bit of a delay in getting this latest mix together as I’ve been busy enhancing the Wez G studio, spending over £4000 on it in the past month… I’ve been learning how to use all the new
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Well – It’s been a busy week… My new Native Instruments Maschine turned up and I’ve been busy learning that – the aim is to develop my digital DJing to incorporate Maschine eventually and it should certainly revolutionise the Wez
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Nothing like a midmorning natter with caffeine flowing through your veins. Catch up on the weekend’s events, look forward to the week ahead, find out the latest goss, everyone loves their coffee break. This funky little mix starts with some
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Jacking your body has always been a part of house music and this mix has a few ‘Jack’ references. My own interpretation of the required picture and actual mix name comes from one of my greatest Christmas presents back in
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The best time for dance music in my opinion was the early 1990s. It was the heyday of the Rave Scene and dancefloors were packed with sky high dancing bods. The reason I like this period is not that the
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It’s been a long summer and there’s been a break in my regular mixes. Anyway I’m back with a bang and keen to ‘Free The Planet’. Watching the news here in the UK over the past year or so and
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Haunted House? Well – for want of a better title – I thought there was some spooky theme going on in the track titles for this deep and funky mix which explores some of the finer elements of 2011 deep
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The songs included on this mix seemed to me to have a lovey dovey theme and feel so hence the title ‘True Romance’. Deep and funky, it flows nicely, with stand out tracks from Glimpse and Vincenzo and obviously the
Continue readingSolar Flare
A solar flare is a sudden brightening observed over the Sun surface, which is interpreted as a release of a massive amount of energy. Here in the UK we are experiencing a great deal of sunshine and warmth which is
Continue readingStroll In The Park
When I release a DJ Mix across the internet I picture listeners tuned in on their ipods as they go about their day to day lives, all across the world… For this mix there is a certain mellow ambience and
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I’ve been munching fruit Menthos all week – can’t get enough of them so a sweet theme seemed appropriate, that and the first two songs are about sweets, including a great remix of the eagerly anticipated new Billie Ray Martin
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A journey through house, from disco and deep through to upfront prog and breakbeat. This is a mix I was excited to do as I managed to fit in three of my own productions (a bootleg, a remix and an
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This is a nice groovy deep house DJ mix. I’m keen to embrace DJ technology and having made the transistion to Traktor I’m trying to push myself to the limits as a creative DJ. I decided to utilise 4 Traktor
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An eagle soaring high above the clouds, blissed out beats ranging around the mountain tops, this mix takes you on a journey through funky and progressive, fresh for 2011. From the soundscape of Dave Seaman’s Global Underground Lithuania album to
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It is September already and the summer is almost gone… Sunshine and Showers preside. This rainbow mix of house flavors begins with some fairly light breezy Italian House and simmers to the boil via lush tribal sounds to a boiling
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You are on the dancefloor, trapped in a tunnel of light… The swirls guide you on your way but to the outside of the light all is dark… A sea of graves, desolate. You need the light to continue your
Continue readingShaman Of The Tribe
In ancient times, every tribe had a shaman who was the medecine man and spiritual leader of the community. Often under the influence of locally produced drugs such as Mescaline or Ayahuasca or Iboga, in ecstatic trances, the shaman would
Continue readingOn The Road
‘… one night we suddenly went mad together again; we went to see Slim Gaillard in a little Frisco nightclub. Slim Gaillard is a tall, thin Negro with big sad eyes who’s always saying ‘Right-orooni’ and ‘How ’bout a little
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It’s easy to fly into the clouds and I seem to spend half my life dreaming in the Jetstream. There’s been a break in the podcast so here it is back and mad as ever to steer you like a
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This mix spans from laidback tribal grooves through to slamming Laurent Garnier techno. It starts off with a hot off the press forthcoming single from Shuffle Music’s very own Tricia Lee Kelshall in her awesome collaberation with up and coming
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Beautiful Stranger
Beautiful Stranger is about that random woman you cross paths with in the street. The casual glance, the seductive smile, a breath of fresh air in an otherwise dull day. Soundtrack to your mystery encounter, ‘Beautiful stranger’ is melodic, progressive,
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High Horses
This mix takes you on a ride across a tribal plain. It’s like you are traversing the Steppes on a flying horse, a stomping course of deep and funky beats, a journey through house finishing with some wild Arabic grooves.
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Camembert
Camembert is made from unpasteurised cow’s milk, and is ripened by the moulds Penicillium candida and Penicillium camemberti for at least three weeks. It is produced in small rounds, about 350 grams (.55 lb) in weight, which are then typically
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Stark Raving Mad
Repetitive Beats make you go slowly insane so zone out and get bonkers to this funky, groovy selection of house stompers. :::TRACKLISTING:::
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Fire And Brimstone
A boiling hot mix of upfront house with an electro feel and plenty of reedits of old classics. Showering hellfire! :::TRACKLISTING:::
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