(the charts appear in the order they arrive at funk-me/charts are compiled exclusively for funk-me)
current ten favourite tunes out the record box - april 2000
funk-me - ben jolly - dj slim - dj detox - dj debbie - pete adarkwah
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1. johnny corporate - "sunday shoutin'" (4th floor) 2. mj cole - "crazy love" (todd edwards mixes) (talkin loud) 3. angie stone - "life story" (arista) 4. ministers de la funk - "believe" (defected) 5. barabra tucker - "stop playing with my mind" (positva) 6. masters at work - "brazilian beat" (mr bongo) 7. people under the stairs - "youth explosion" (om-records) 8. lenny fontana presents black sun - "spread love" (estereo) 9. cajmere - "brighter days" (emotive) (cheers tom!) 10. herbie hancock - "hang up your hang ups" (cbs)
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ten tunes from the record box by ben jolly of barely breaking even clubs (not in any particular order):
ben can be seen djing in and around london with pete adarkwah at night people @ bar rumba on fridays, bubbling over @ bar rumba on sundays and at other one off's.
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1. black science orchestra - save
us" (afro art)
2. francine mcgee - "delerium" (rca) 3. la boppers - "wrap you up" (mca) 4. mateo and matos - "idris rises" (spiritual life) 5. brass construction - "happy people" (united artists) 6. lachandra - "just started" (movin') 7. santa esmerelda - "black pot" (phillips) 8. passion - "don't bring back memories" (prelude) 9. mt aka bayaka - "mi latino americana flor" (life line) 10. one way featuring al hudson - "music" (mca)
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ten tunes in the record box by dj
slim of da
firin squad (not in
any particular order):
dj slim can be seen djing in and around london with da firin squad - also check their radio show on monday nights between 22:00 to 00:00 on london's kissfm (100.0fm)
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1. black rob - "whoa" (bad boy) 2. the lox - "ride or die bitch" (interscope) 3. jagged edge - "he can't love you" (columbia) 4. dr dre - "still dre" (interscope) 5. destiny's child - "say my name" (columbia) 6. q-tip - "breathe and stop" (arista) 7. mary j blige - "time" (mca) 8. kelis - "caught out there" (virgin) 9. toni braxton - "he wasn't man enough" (la face) 10. jay-z "big pimpin" (def jam)
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in da box by
dj detox
(not in any particular order)
dj detox can be seen djing at "outcaste" @ the notting hill arts club - second saturday of the month. also at various one off's in and around london.
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1. various - "blue
Juice vol.1"
(blue note) 2. the baby huey story - "the living legend" (curtom) 3. box saga - "positive sweat ep" (universal island) 4. massive attack - "unfinished sympathy" (circa) 5. pepe deluxe - "woman in blue" (bootleg) 6. sutra sonic - "shalimar" (outcaste) 7. dj cam - "loa project" (columbia) 8. idjut boys & quakerman - "radio rage" (glasgow underground) 9. dj assault - "belle isle tech" (mo wax) 10. dzihan & kamien -
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| dj debbie - global beats – current faves (not in any particular order) – likely to be playing on my outernational vibes show on www.gaialive.co.uk alt sats between 4-6pm (next up april 15th, 29th etc) i dj at various places – when asked! |
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virginia rodriques - "nos"
(hannibal) - (the
most beautiful voice and sheer presence – yoruba culture transported to brazil:
solo acoustic to full funk) 2. u-cef - "halalium"
(apartment 22) - (gnawa
and aarwash roots of morocco eased into dance hall grooves without
compromise and total disregard of genre boxes) 3.
jolly mukherjee with the madras cinematic orchestra
- "fusebox"
(inc badmarsh & shri and underwolves mixes) (swathes
of orchestral hindi vibes presented in crisp hypnotising remix style – one
which everyone asks about when i play out) 5. macka b
- "power of the mind" (ariwa) (just
about ready to blow your mind mad professor stylee with the radical lyrics
we now expect from macka ) 6.
musa
mboob - "chossun"
(griotworld) (one
of the most successful digitalisations of pure tradition with a live rhythm
section and vocal interplay to die for. mussa is from gambia, recorded in uk
) 7.
various - "21st
century ska" (m21) (ska-punk
deliciously reworked with some of the finest fusion originators from adrian
sherwood to zion train and the subculture sound system) 8. north
african various
- "couscous
beat"
(nascente) (a
wonderful selection of north african music – mostly moroccan with artists
you wouldn’t easily come across like najat aaitabu and nas el giwane ) 9. nsimba foggis & taxi
pata pata - "makumba"
(nyirangongo records) (the
soukous maestro in panafrican style – the sweetest voice, melodies that go
somewhere and dance grooves you’d be hard put to resist) 10. baata
michwimie - "rose
dede tetteh"
(rdt) (yet
to realise her full powers, rose has gained great respect with her new take
on hilife wherever she’s performed)
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top ten by pete
adarkwah of barely
breaking even records (not in any particular order)
pete can be seen djing in and around london with ben jolly at night people @ bar rumba on fridays, bubbling over @ bar rumba on sundays and at other one off's. don't forget to check the latest bbe releases.
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1. common law - "like
water for chocolate"
(mca)
2. jill scott - "slowly surely" (touch of jazz) 3. pete rock - "walk on by" (bbe) 4. george benson - "the ghetto" (verve) 5. various - "disco spectrum 2" (bbe) 6. kool & the gang - "open sesame" (delite) 7. fluid x - "change" - (wave) 8. ghostface killah - "one" (epic) 9. ann peebles - "i can't stand the rain" (hi) 10. the ninth creation - "bubble gum" (pye)
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