Funk Deli can’t get enough of the money jams featured on Beat Electric. This blogging crew has delivered time and time again, and their funky, disco and “lazer soul” tastes are as good as it gets.
Every time we come across their site, it’s like someone told them exactly which tracks we love to listen to over and over again. From B.T. Express posts, to Skyy and the Voice of Q, Beat Electric just knows how to deliver the goods. This site provides all sorts of goodies that will please any funk-lovers palate. To get a taste of the sounds you’ll hear on their site, check out the Beat Electric post on “Feel Alright” by Komiko.
This jam has it all — spacey funky synths, stomping grooves, a chill breakdown and vocals that will make your day.
Alright Funk Deli fans, 2008 is almost here! To celebrate the New Year we’re gonna close out Disco December with a bang. When you’re gathering for your New Year’s Eve festivities, don’t reach for lousy tunes — cuz tonight your gonna party like it’s 1978!
That’s right, 2007’s ending on a high note — a disco note.
To put you in the right mood, the mix starts with a chill, soulful intro. Start the party slow. Pace yourself. Grab your honey and just kick back and dance it up close. It’s a perfect introduction to an evening of disco madness.
By minute 12, the mix starts to pick up a bit — just in time for you to get your boogie on. As the mix begins to bounce, the pace of your New Year’s Eve party will pick up.
Thirty minutes into DJ Tom Savarese’s mix, there should be full-on dance floor grinding going on. We’re talkin’ end of the year get down-style.
Just when the energy of the mix starts to dwindle — in comes Gene Chandler with his classic track “Get Down” (yea, there’s a theme here). The one hour and nineteen minute mix finishes strong, setting the tone for a perfect end to 2007.
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.
Holiday cheers to all. We’re nearing the end of our Disco December month, and it’s time to throw down a music history post to explain how disco gave birth to house music.
Here it goes…
So a gay guy and a black dude walk into a warehouse….just kidding! Well, actually that’s not too far off. Here’s the short version.
Soon after Disco Demolition Night (when white kids killed disco at a White Sox game), Chicago started developing a new, electronic, drum-machine happy sound.
Frankie Kunckles brought his gay-friendly crate of thumping disco tracks to Chicago and the kids got into it. Stuff like “Let No Man Put Asunder” from First Choice (off the Salsoul disco label) rocked the Warehouse in 1983.
Soulful, bangin’ disco tracks collided with wtf-sounding beats from Jesse Saunders, Farley Jackmaster Funk and a bunch of other DJs, remixers and record producer types in Chicago.
All the kids wanted to buy the records that were playing at the Warehouse in Chicago, and after some abbreviating –- the house music label was born.
In Detroit, Juan Atkins (/Cybotron), Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson originated a techno touch alongside the Chicago house music sound.
Look — there’s a video on it – Pump Up the Volume- a documentary that outlines the history of house music’s muddied origins. From swinging disco tracks to squelching experimental knob-turning to the base kick of techno’s first producers, this three-part video has it all. Special thanks to the fine people at ToTheDisco.com for pointing this vid out. Pump Up The Volume - History of House Music - Part 1
In Part 2, you can learn about how Brits got hold of the stuff and used their Northern Soul infrastructure and connections in Ibiza to club the music out to the Euro masses. Detroit’s take on house also gets attention.
Part 3 takes you through some of the more recent house music scenes, you know — all that splinter faction definition label stuff. Anything Goldie says is hilarious, and Armand Van Helden seems like a pretty chill dude.
Sure, these Google vides don’t offer the best presentation. And yeah, some of the music you’ll hear is a bit wack, but this documentary from 2001 is a bridge that connects the house music of today to the disco classics of yesteryear.
Okay Disco kids, this next You Tube clip is a bit on the budget side. Actually, it’s not even a video at all. Funk Deli scoured the Net so in an effort to post a download to one of our all-time favorite disco tracks. This is the only thing we turned up. Rather than shy away from this horrible looking clip, we decided to post it anyway so that you could enjoy the song without having to go out and buy a used record somewhere.
This has to be one of the most misunderstood records of all time. Machine was spitting socially conscious material on top of a thumping disco beat. This record caused all kinds of controversy when it came out, but if you follow the lyrics and listen to what the band is saying, it’s more of a criticism of existing intolerance than anything else. While you listen to the song, take a look at the lyrics and judge for yourself.
Carlos and Carmen Vidal just had a child
A lovely girl with a crooked smile
Now they gotta split ’cause the Bronx ain’t fit
For a kid to grow up in
Let’s find a place they say, somewhere far away
With no blacks, no Jews and no gays
Chorus:
There but for the grace of God go I
Poppy and the family left the dirty streets
To find a quiet place overseas
And year after year the kid has to hear
The do’s the don’ts and the dears
And when she’s ten years old she digs that rock ‘n’ roll
But Poppy bans it from home
Chorus
Baby, she turns out to be a natural freak
Popping pills and smoking weed
And when she’s sweet sixteen she packs her things and leaves
With a man she met on the street
Carmen starts to bawl, bangs her head to the wall
Too much love is worse than none at all
Let’s face facts — if you know someone who is hosting a New Year’s Eve party, you are obligated to purchase a disco ball for this person for Christmas. I mean seriously, a disco ball is the gift that keeps on giving. No party is complete without the reflective glimmer of a mirror ball. Disco enthusiasts everywhere will love this gift, but even kids who don’t like disco music can appreciate the one-of-a-kind party ambiance that a disco ball provides.
The great thing is that disco balls come in a wide range of sizes. You can find a disco ball that will fit any budget or dance floor. Cheap DJ Gear has a solid selection of mirror balls at great prices.
So what are you waiting for. You know this is a gift that is sure to please.
Here’s an old music video for Gino Soccio’s classic jam “Try it Out.” At the end of the 1970s, when Americans were getting over their disco dreams and moving on to other music genres, the Euros picked up the disco torch and kept on producing quality disco music. The Canadians got in on the action too. Gino Soccio is by far Canada’s most valuable contribution to the Disco era. Read the rest…
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!
The disco hits just keep on comin’ all month long here at Funk Deli. Here’s another classic track from one disco’s greatest producers. Cerrone was a Euro disco producer from Paris who began making beats at a young age. He developed a spacey disco sound that evolved over the years. Cerrone’s discography is loaded with amazing tracks that will be familiar to many house music heads. Bob Sinclair, Studio Nova and other DJs and house music producers have liberated bass lines and funky hooks from Cerrone. Remixes of his disco tracks still shake the floors of clubs around the world. Read the rest…
Funk Deli can’t get enough of the money jams featured on Beat Electric. This blogging crew has delivered time and time again, and their funky, disco and “lazer soul” tastes are as good as it gets. 
