Future Classic: Throwback Zack “Messages From the Stars”
For this week’s show, I had the immense pleasure to introduce a guest mix from Shred One (Cherries Records/Sweater Funk), who will be at the next Voyage Funktastique monthly night (in Montreal) on Saturday August 2nd, alongside Lexis, Dr.MaD and yours truly. I often keep songs that I dig on …
Future Classic: Midnight Runners “Drive Into the Night”
Weeks after weeks, I realize that the Funk is truly worldwide. For this edition of the Voyage Funktastique show, I wanted to expose this fact by featuring Midnight Runners, a duo of modern funksters, hailing from Bandung, Indonesia. “Midnight runners consists of two people having two different musical backgrounds, but …
DIGGS DUKE “Forgotten Treasures Mix #18″
Here is the 18th mix in our FORGOTTEN TREASURES series where we ask some of our favorite artists to make us a mix showcasing a few of their influences. We give them carte blanche to play anything as long as it’s very personal to them. We are happy to present …
Mix of the Day: “Bad Boy Original Samples Mix” By Frank The Butcher & DJ7L
Remember the Bad Boy era, above all the jiggy shit and the shiny suits, Puffy & Cie “proceeded to give us what we needed” in terms of housing some of the finest NYC producers. The label’s dominant run topping the charts was a mix of crossover hits and some undeniably …
Future Classic: Secret Xrigins “Lurk”
For this week’s edition of the Voyage Funktastique radio show, I wanted to shed some light on one of my favourite producers, DOC Mastermind, based in Paris. The homie just released a new EP under the moniker Secret Xrigins (a collaboration project with Profesor Panson), entitled Strange Fruit, on StillMuzik …
Future Classic: Ron Richardson “Ooh Wee Babe” (Frankfurt Fonk Remix)
Back at it for another Voyage Funktastique chronicle, with this week’s featured producer, hailing from Germany; Frankfurt Funk/Chris Neal. I started the show with his latest collab (with Gila Funk) – Summer Madness, but I really want to showcase his remix of a forgotten treasure; Ooh Wee Babe by Ron …
Northern Soul: the beginning of club culture
About a month ago I was visiting New York City for a mini-vacation to catch up with some friends, do some record digging and play some gigs. My first night in Brooklyn I was kicking it with my man, DJ Concerned, who informed me that my last full day in …
Future Classic: Temu “Body Move” (Magic & Sorcery Stankafied)
Since the beginning of the Voyage Funktastique show, I’ve been emphasizing on playing different songs in each show, in order to give each producer some visibility, and show them my appreciation to their work. Of course, there’s some songs that I would like to play more than once, and for …
Future Classic: Dabeull “Don’t Stop”
In last week’s Voyage Funktastique radio show, I was blessed with a new jingle/theme song, produced by Dabeull, a French producer from Paris. In this week’s episode (presenting a guest mix by my homie Eddie Pendregrass), I featured two of Dabeull’ songs, including Don’t Stop feat Michael Tee. The production is …
Forgotten Treasure: Laid Back “Bakerman”
I imagine or like to assume that most people have heard Laid Back’s classic dance floor hit White Horse. But I’m not here to tell you all about chasing that white pony or to discuss the many versions of who sampled what. If you don’t know it, go get familiar …
Onra & Lexis “Throw’Em Up 3″
Volume 3 is the edition that required the most work so far because while Volume 1 was about 3/4 classics and Volume 2 about 1/2 classics, this one features some heavy digging, including a lot of rare remixes and slept-on jams. As usual, a few classics too! Tons of artists …
Future Classic: Diamond Ortiz “Calling All Squares”
For this week’s Voyage Funktastique show, I had a special guest in the studio: Scott C of The Goods collective in Montreal. On my part of the show, I absolutely wanted to play the latest release on MoFunk Records by Diamond Ortiz. I just received 2 copies of his 45, …