Funky Vibes On Your Radio

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'Get On The Funk Train' blijkt enorm aan te slaan. Ik sta er zelfs mee in de top 5 van Mixcloud! Vandaar dat ik nog maar een paar funkplaten uit de kast heb getrokken en er een vrolijk funkfeestje van heb gemaakt, met een kleine serieuze noot hier en daar. Let vooral op de Duitse funk van Jan Delay. Op de 1 of andere manier klinkt dat erg komisch. Je verwacht geen Duitse zang op een straffe funkbeat. Zijn cd 'Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Soul' is net uit. Beluister 'm eens, je zult versteld staan!

Dit is de tracklist voor de 'Funky Vibes On Your Radio':

Joe Quarterman & Free Soul – (I Got) So Much Trouble In My Mind (1972)
Backyard Heavies – Soul Junction (1971)
The Nazty – It’s Summertime (1976)
Madhouse – Get Some Of This (1972)
Breakestra Feat. Choklate – Take My Time (2006)
The Isley Brothers – It’s Out Of The Question (1969)
Edwin Starr – If My Heart Could Tell The Story (1969)
Tower of Power – So Very Hard To Go (1973)
Ohio Players – Who’d She Coo (1976)
James Brown – Get Up Offa That Thing (1976)
Sound Experience - Sha Na Na Na Boom Boom (1975)
Larry Graham & Graham Central Station – My Radio Sure Sounds Good To Me (1978)
Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson – The Planet Funk (1982)
Charades – Gimme The Funk (1982)
Atlantis – Keep On Movin’ And Groovin’ (1982)
Ohmega Watts – That Sound (2005)
The Meters – Good Old Funky Music (1971)
Bohannon – Getting To The Other Side (1972)
Jan Delay – Überdosis Fremdscharn (2009)
Esther Williams – Last Night Changed It All (1976)
Marvin Gaye – “T” Plays It Cool (1972)

De fraaie foto is van Ian Hayhurst


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