We couldn’t close this electro binge out proper-like without including the best electro jam of all time - Hashim - Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)! So much goodness. I came up on this 1983 Cutting Records classic like eight years ago while I was sifting through $1 record bins in a Santa Cruz Flea Market. The great thing about this non-video YouTube video is that it has that two-minute extra bonus beat at the end of Side A. Wait for it…
We can’t stop. There are just too many sick electro tracks wasting away on YouTube, when they should be living right here. This electro video isn’t even a video, but if you ever have an emergency Davy DMX - One For The Treble situation, you know where to go.
At Funk Deli, we’re always scouring through this crazy thing called the Internet to find nuggets of funk to pass on to our loyal readers. We came across a cash-money blog today that serves up hip hop jams and other goodies the way we like it — funky.
Do yourself a favor and check out The Essential Elements. The site offers so much goodness, we had to add it to our blogroll immediately.
On Monday, DJ Blueprint put up a guest mix from DJ Smoove on his blog This Is Tomorrow. Anyone who likes funky breaks will enjoy the skilled mixing abilities and funky music selections that DJ Smoove put on display in this solid 35 minute mix.
Utah needs more funk, and tonight, Salt Lake City is gonna get a heavy dose of funky music. Galactic, an intensely funky band from New Orleans and Chali 2na, the innovative rapper of Jurassic 5 fame will be performing tonight at The Depot in Salt Lake. Ohmega Watts, another versatile, funk-inspired rap artist, will also be in the mix. This show is guaranteed to be a foot-stompin’ good time.
Galactic is a band that’s loaded with talented musicians who can jam out funky licks for hours at a time. Galactic just released their sixth album From the Corner to the Block. It features contributions from many of hip hop’s most talented lyricists — artists like Chali 2na, Gift of Gab, Mr. Lif, Ladybug Mecca, Juvenile, Boots Riley and Lyrics Born.
The doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are available for $22. The Depot is located on 400 West South Temple in Salt Lake City.
After checking out the “Ashley’s Roachclip” post on the awesome Funky16Corners blog, we saw that Larry put up a list of songs that sampled the funky track from the Soul Searchers. Larry pulled this list from The-Breaks.com.
So we went to check out the site, and there’s a ton of great information compiled on sampling from all different types of music. The site divides sample lists by genre and artist, and there’s also a search function that makes it’s easy to find out who took what from whom.
“The Breaks”
Chemical Brothers’s “It Began in Africa”
De la Soul’s “Brakes”
DJ Shadow’s “Basic Mega-Mix”
KRS-One’s “MC’s Act Like They Don’t Know”
Not Enough ft Kurtis Blow’s “The Breaks”
Poison Clan’s “Rough Nigga Gets Busy”
T La Rock ft Jazzy Jay’s “It’s Yours”
So the next time you want to track the journey of a sample, visit The-Breaks.com and find out quickly where samples originated and where they turned up.
On a side note, my buddy Saif still owes me money for stepping on my Kurtis Blow 12-inch and busting to pieces my copy of “The Breaks.” I haven’t forgotten bro…
Yes Yes Y’All - The Experience Music Project Oral History of Hip-Hop’s First Decade is a compilation of first-hand accounts that chronicle the early development of hip hop. Pulling quotes from over a hundred rappers, DJs, producers, dancers and artists, this book pulls together a variety of perspectives to create a layered musical narrative that’s impossible to put down.
The collection of takes contained in this book is based on the “Hip-Hop Nation” exhibit at Seattle’s Experience Music Project. Anyone who wants to learn about how hip hop grew from an underground party scene in New York to a worldwide music phenomenon should pick this book up.
Once you start reading the stories compiled by Jim Fricke and Charlie Ahearn and told by Russell Simmons, Grandmaster Flash, Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and others, you’ll be hooked. It’s a quick, fascinating read that shouldn’t be missed.
It’s the 21st century people, and funky finds are everywhere. The Internet is home to a massive collection of disco, funk, soul and dance-happy hip hop enthusiasts. When you explore the Web looking for sites devoted to funky music, you rarely come across a site as sick as Ebony Cuts.
Ebony Cuts is a storehouse packed with free MP3 downloads that feature amazing mixes loaded with the rarest, most delicious cuts of disco, funk and soul music. Seriously, you need to check this place out.
DJ Cuebism, the man beyond the operation, is a dude from Stockholm, Sweden that has great taste in music. The mixes he puts together are amazing. It’s the tunes you absolutely love but can’t ever find. You’ll enjoy chill breaks from an old school era, funky tracks that bounce like there’s no tomorrow and disco jams that rarely get their due.
When Funk Deli first stumbled upon Ebony Cuts, we were downloading mixes by the dozen. Once we were done with all the available mixes from DJ Cuebism, we ventured into all the guest mixes posted on the site. Ebony Cuts just keeps on delivering the goods. We want to thank DJ Cuebism for offering up these cash-money mixes to all the funky kids around the world.
Highlights from the guest DJs include the Disco Patrick stuff, mixes by Paul Phillips, Al Kent, DJ Coldcut, Rotary Soldier, Tom Savarese, DJ Gino Grasso, DJ Luuso, Tom Noble, DJ Friction, Super Disco Paolo and so much more.
We all know that hip hop sprang forth from disco. Without disco breaks, rap just wouldn’t exist. To celebrate the connection between disco and hip hop, Funk Deli wants to share this classic Joe Bataan track with you. “Rap O Clap O” wasn’t a big hit in the states, but the single shot to the top of the charts in Europe. Read the rest…
