Funkin' Full O' Ish

So... Turns out not only did I not keep it up but I also missed a week. Way to go with the vigilance huh.

Anywho the tracklist for last Wednesdays Get SoulFunkDub! If-There-Needs-To-Be-A-Theme-Then-It's-Kinda-Remixes-I-Guess-Sorta-At-A-Push Show was as follows:

Travelling - Mark de Clive-Lowe
It's A Pity - Tanya Stephens
Passin' By Close To Me - The CureCyde
Spanish Hustle - The Fatback Band
Depuis Que J'etais Enfant Remix feat. Fuzati - MF Doom
Tapa - House of Downtown
Go Get It feat. Ladi6 - Sepalot
Just Aint Gonna Work Out - Mayer Hawthorne & The County
No Surprises - Shawn Lee - Exit Music: Songs For Radio Heads
Hold It Down feat. Alice Russell - The Quantic Soul Orchestra
Massage Situation - Flying Lotus
Where I Belong (Red Astaire Remix) - Sia
Wink - Little Dragon
My Drive Thru feat. Santogold & Julian Casablancas - N*E*R*D
I Will - John Holt - Mellow Dubmarine
Peace feat. Joe Dukie - Pacific Heights
Sure Hope You Mean It - Raphael Saadiq
Bonafied Lovin (Tough Guys) - Chromeo
Dirty Peaches feat. J*Davey - 88 Keys
Family Rap - Breakestra
Heard It All Before (Quantic Remix) - Sunshine Anderson
Passionflower - Little Brother
Ghetto Heaven (9th Wonder Remix) - Common
Blue Girl - Q-Tip
Otha Fish (LA Jay Remix) - Pharcyde

The Funkle Bully's were slack once again but thankfully Aunty Shaarne keeps the homefires burning. The ahi kaa, if you will.

Contact 88.1FM from 6-8pm on Wednesdays is when you can get a piece of the awesome pie if you're in the immediate Hamilton East area. Shit outta luck if you aint. Rats.

Shout out to my boy Damien for pretty much single-handedly supplying the set list and many more to come. I'm organising the shower of Roses chocolates, just like the ad. You're phenomenal, B.

Keep it funky.

-SunShaarne!

What The Funk Is Up With The Slackness???

I know, I know...

Slacker McSlack over here but a New Zealand powerhouse of easy listening rock anthems once said that absence makes the heart grow fonder and damned if I disagree.

So here's the tracklist for last weeks Get SoulFunkDub show to compensate. No, really, you're more than welcome:

Hope - Fat Freddy's Drop
Love That Girl - Raphael Saadiq
Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder
Sunshines Through Your Love - Plantlife
Grandmas Hands - Bill Withers
Girl You Need A Change Of Mind - D'Angelo
Touch The Hem Of His Garment - Sam Cook
Somebody's Gonna - Alice Russel
Right Where You Are - Amp Fiddler
Welfare Bread - King Khan & The Shrines
Thank You For Talking To Me Africa - Sly & The Family Stone
Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City - Bobby "Blue" Bland
Beautifully Deadly - Nat Rose
So Fresh And So Clean B.cause Let's Get It On - B.Cause
The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker - Prince
Swing By My Way feat. John Legend - Will.I.Am
A Lotta Things To Do - Arrested Development
Hippy Skippy Moon Strut - Dave Cortez With The Moon People
On The Floor - Sa-Ra Creative Partners
Look Around feat. Cherie Matheson - Lewis McCallum
I Get Lifted - George McCrae
Record Ban Blues - Dinah Washington
Real Woman - Ayah
M16 - Lone Ranger
Something About Her - Plantlife

And real postings will commence more frequently henceforth.

Good day Sir. I said good day!

Melbourne Kids Keepsin it Cool Over Summer in Oz

You know what I love more than a hot summers day?
Hiphop
Especially that home grown shiznit.
One posse I’ve been fawning over for the past year is Outward Obtooce from our Southern City of spectacular, Melbourne.
OO is Joshua Hall on the mic and arrangements, Matt Povey on the mic and DJ Bacon doing all the sweet cuts. They stand out from the crowd with their HIGHlarious story telling lyrics with plenty of tongue in cheek social commentary ingeniously layered over some seriously catchy little melodies. The instrumentals are also highly play worthy..make that replay worthy.
Check em out here and bug them for new releases and tour dates.
Another Melbourne crew on the up and up from down under is Funk in Public. These guys are a super cool fusion of some first class talent.
The band was formed by David Wilkinson on drums and percussion (who learnt under legendary drummers David Wiltshire, Danny Fischer, Ian Smith) and Anthony Devine on bass and electric bass (having studied his craft with Wylie J Miller from Arrested Development, Tim Pryde from K Oscillate and Drew Deadman from Superhiest)
These bright sparks got hold of Lady Lash to do vocals (previously backup singer with Aboriginal band Coloured Stones), Travis Percy on guitars and Jeremy Blamey on sax and keyboards.
The band cruises along sounding like a sexy fusion of jazz, soul and ska and Lash takes to the mic to spit some solid ass rhymes broken up by angelically sung chorus’s.
Her lungs are a force to be reckoned with for real. Listen for yourself here.
We hear they will be touring soon.
We are excited.

Till next time bishes!
Jahmandee x

Brand Funkin' New Member!

Sit down excitable chitlin's, I have exciting news for you!

We have a fancy new member of the "What The Funk?" whanau to bring you all things blog-worthy on the other side of the Tasman when it comes to sizzounds.

Jahmandee is our Sydney based roving reporter that will be contributing so things will be named from now on so you can keep track. the accents should differentiate enough in any case, she's the nasally one and I'm the lazy-slurring one.

I jest!

So yes, funky lil' readers, we're international now.

Australasia represent-represent-sent!

-SunShaarne
Hells funkin' yes.

Pacific Funkin' Heights

I'm only going to say this once so listen up good: Go get In A Quiet Storm. Put down your toast or whatever you're holding. Just stop it and get this album.

Devin Abrams aka Reno is a bit of a bloody genius, just quietly. If it weren't sickening enough that he is partially to blame for New Zealand's dub/dance/fun darlings Shapeshifter he comes and drops this slice of heaven.

Music for the grown and sexy, that's what I would call it. Tasty morsel after tasty morsel is offered up and you devour them, gratefully, until you are sated and a bit sleepy because it was that satisfying.

Using some of our country's finest talent including bandmate PDigsss, Joe Dukie and the previously gushed over Lisa Tomlins and Mara TK, it really couldn't go wrong but the sweet production of Reno ensures that it is funkin' genius.

You start off Dreaming, midway are at Peace and just Breathe and by the time The Show Is Over you are well and truly spent.

That's right, it's so choice that it makes me both corny AND lame. And that's fine by me.

Pretty much going to thrash it on Get SoulFunkDub this Wednesday from 6-8pm on Contact 88.1FM. Umm yeah, changed the show name. Just keeping you on your toes.

Thank you Pacific Heights. One clever little funker you are.

Myspace!!!
Website!!!

Funkin' Love That Conch

This may not be quite so timely because of my tardyness (double drats) but I'm pretty sure that there are a few kids out there that don't know about it. This is for you.

Conch is bloody choice. Bloody choice as. Snuggled in the bosom of Ponsonby Road, but don't hold it against it, it waits for you with open arms, a steaming cup o' joe and delicious records.

If I weren't a vinyl-phobe with my klutzy fingers it would appeal even more to me. Thank friggen goodness it doesn't because with a limited, sexcellent selection with appropriately elite prices I would be pawning many of my things.

Amazing records including the new Samon Kawamura and crazy good sandwiches, how can it get any better Shaarne?

I dunno, maybe if the little nugget sitting on P-Money's shoulders in the Jam Of This Summer worked there.

Oh wait, yeah Bobby Brazuka works there too. Little nugget.

Muey bueno Conch, muey funkin' bueno.



http://www.conch.co.nz/

Funkin' Lazy

It has been put to me by one Micaspam that I am lazy and neglectful of this here blog.

Yes that was unecessary but it still cracked me up something wicked.

Anyway, he does have a point and a good one at that. Thus why you are getting another today!!! Cue the celebrations.

I'm sorry, that's enough of that. I know I've used up the quota of needless hyperlinking.

Us WebMedia08 types are quite enthusiastic about our class, yes I speak on behalf of all of us. The ones that don't fall into this category probably wont read this anyway so that doesn't matter.

It makes one reflect on ones dependency on the intraweb and how you can spend so much time on it and yet come out with nothing productive. My main scapegoats would be the time-consuming mistresses that are social networking websites like Facebook and Myspace. Having two is somewhat unnecessary and yet I have quite the dependancy. I tend to break out in cold sweats just at the thought of not being able to check to see what's been happening with my pals and if they've sent me any Maori Kai applications. Sad yet true.

Another one of the other sources of internet crack that I just can't kick is none other than Perez Hilton which is even more sad yet true.

Noone really wants to admit that they love all of the addictive schadenfreude that he dishes up in his bitchy little way and yet here I am, hand on heart, confessing to you. I am a crackhead and he is my pusher.

The redeeming feature for all of these sites that I frequent way too frequently is the music linking. Not so much for Perez but he does promote some indie artists which tend to appeal to my camp sensibilities but that's about all. Mostly crap.

Myspace in particular is one of my main sources for feeding my musical fiendery. I couldn't even try to put a number on the amount of artists that I have found courtesy of this motherload. Naturally the selection of their songs is somewhat limited and I'm not all that appreciative of the new format which I find to be hard to navigate but it's still my good pal and the friendship is likely to grow and flourish.

Facebook is helpful to establish my fanmenship (that is a new word, academia is all about jargon) and keeping tabs on my buddies likeminded tendencies musically. We just tend to share the love.

Imeemis a bit more for the hardcore musical-social-networker and I find it handy but it's a bit selective, harder to link and whatnot but still good to trawl through and find specific songs. Yes, yes. We all know about Lastfm etc.

Blogging is probably one of the best things that happened to my life. Period. Obviously not so much mine because it's *cough* fairly average as of right now but other more involved types are my idols.

As you will find in my delicious there are a few that I'm pretty much engaged to including but not limited to Musical Schizophrenia and OkayPlayer's very excellent blog of note Blogarhythms. Where Musical Schizophrenia tickles my jazz/soul/hip hop fancy, Blogarhythms does include these genres of excellence but also branches out to pretty much everything everywhere. Me likey.

Now, to Give Up The Funk, get into this. It's delicious, especially Phone No.

You're welcome.