Cerrone — Supernature

As promised, here’s some more Cerrone goodness for your listening pleasure. Supernature was the title track from Cerrone’s third album. It’s a 10 minute electro-disco adventure that details the dark side of man’s relationship with science. It’s a sci-fi dance track that’s part freak out, part boogie-down break and part critique on the prospects of genetic engineering.

Visit Beat Electric to download Supernature by Cerrone. Thanks Beat Electric for providing Funk Deli fans with access to this classis disco track!

Meet Tom Moulton

Alrighty Funk Deli fanatics, it’s time to get back to this whole Disco December thing. Today we’re gonna take a look at one of the most important and influential record producers of the disco era. Tom Moulton is a legend. The man is responsible for remixes, 12-inch singles and the ever-popular disco break phenomenon. A true audiophile and lover of funky music, Tom Moulton created his own brand of music production techniques. Any record that bears the label “A Tom Moulton Mix” is gonna be sick. It’s that simple.

When it comes to extending breaks, tweaking frequencies and building a bigger, better sound for disco, Moulton is a true wizard. The guy’s touched up 1000s of records in his day and he’s produced some seriously upbeat and funky disco tracks. From his work at the Salsoul disco label with bands like Instant Funk, First Choice, Double Exposure and O.R.S., to his classic remixes of B.T. Express and MFSB and The Andera True Connection, Moulton is a true disco propagandist. He spread the good word about disco before anyone knew what the genre was suppossed to be. Although he was never an actual DJ, Moulton is perhaps the most influential music producer in the history of disco music. Read the rest…

Ripple — The Beat Goes On

Ripple was a funk-soul-disco group that came out of Michigan. The multi-ethnic funk crew hooked up with the Salsoul disco label to produce some amazing funkified disco hits.

Here’s one of the group’s best gems — The Beat Goes On. Download the track. Give it a try. It’s one of those money songs that straddles the funk and disco labels oh so well. Thanks to My Favourite Sound for hookin’ up this track. Read the rest…

Disco December Starts With Disco Patrick’s Guest Mix on Ebony Cuts

The Funk Deli crew is happy to present you with our first Disco December dish. We came across this mix while visiting Gloria and DJ Cubism’s Ebony Cuts site. We’ll explore the ins and outs of this amazing site in future posts, but for now, we want to introduce Disco December with this Ebony Cuts guest mix by DJ Disco Patrick. Read the rest…

Listen Up! — DJ Blueprint Delivers the Goods

Funk Deli’s making friends out in there cyberspace land, and this is good news for all you funk-lovers. You see, we’re a bunch of funk evangelists over here at Funk Deli, and our goal is to spread the good word as much as we can.

The Internet is a media jungle. Some of this available online media stuff is crap, but some of it’s cash money funky. At Funk Deli, we chop through the knotted thicket of sites and blogs with our bedside machete. Our goal is simple — we uncover the funkiest stuff out there and deliver it to you, our loyal readers. The reason for this? We know you need more funk in your lives, and we want to share our funky discoveries with you. Read the rest…

Flea Market Funk Presents 100,000 Hits and Runnin’

DJ Prestige serves up some seriously funky hip hop tracks on his latest download-ready mix 100,000 Hits and Runnin’. For all of you funksters who wish hip hop still had a soul, this mix will bring you back to a time when hip hop still mattered. Classic cuts from start to finish, this is the type of mix you can put on once a day and still never get over it. Read the rest…

Get Your Fix at Flea Market Funk

Flea Market Funk is a blog operated by DJ Prestige. We stumbled upon this blog while looking for funky items to share with you. If you love diggin’ through crates of used records hunting for lost jams, forgotten 45s and funky hand-me-downs, you should certainly check this site out.

On his blog, DJ Prestige shares quality mixes, adventure stories from the front lines and lists of the treasured wax that he’s recently uncovered. DJ Prestige may look like Fidel Castro on acid, but he knows his funk. The purpose of his blog is to “open some people’s eyes to some records they otherwise wouldn’t be exposed to.” Read the rest…

Take a Chance on Italo Disco

At Funk Deli, we promote all things worthy of a funky label, because let’s face it — there’s just not enough funk going around anymore. Now when it comes to music, Funk Deli isn’t limited by the constraints of one genre. Sure we love James Brown, the Bar Kays and other classic funky acts, but at Funk Deli, we think that other forms of funky-like tunes also deserve some love.

Well, we love disco music, and we’re not afraid to say it. Disco gets a bad rap, but there are some quality disco gems out there that deserve to be featured in your iPod, on your turntable or in your CD player during your ride to work.

A Brief History of Italo Disco

When disco was dying in the States, it found new life in Europe. Euros have always had a soft spot for disco grooves. And really, who can blame ‘em? Read the rest…

Rediscover Your Old Mix Tapes

Remember all those funky mix tapes you collected in the mid-to-late 90s? Funk Deli does. At Funk Deli, we used to have stacks of sick house music mix tapes from all kinds of DJs.

Yea, mix tapes were fun. Problem is, there’s no use lugging cassettes around anymore. As music technology marched forward, the mix tape was left behind. So many timeless mixes have been relegated to the bottom of storage boxes. Even if someone felt the urge to break out the old tape decks and push hard on those boom box buttons, it’s still gonna be a challenge to track down all those old funky cassettes. Read the rest…