Motherfunky is Saturday nights at Porch

115 Ave C. 10 - 4 !

Motherfunky Party tonight, Thursday 9/27/2007
9pm until
at
PORCH
115 Avenue C, bet. 7th and 8th Streets
NYC

Motherfunky came back around 3 years later and had a baby,
the Soulchild. Even though most of my mixes are in an uptempo
style, my gigs start with 2 to 3 hours of RNB, NuSoul, Hip Hop,
and downtempo eclectic soul. All of my favorite artists were getting
bootleg remixes all of a sudden. RNB and Neo Soul in an underground house style
was my dream come true. I was so in love with what house music was
doing with soulful remixes, and still in love with MAW
mixes as you can see from the tracklist. Most of these you can't find anymore
or never made it to CD. Enjoy.

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Playlist:
A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebum (Sir Piers Mix)
Sade - Slave (White Label)
Erykah Badu - Next Lifetime (Migs Remix)
Jill Scott - He Loves Me (Scott Free Mix)
Sylk 130 - Happy
D'Angelo - Spanish Joint (White Label)
James Ingram - Lean On Me (MAW Mix)
Musiq Soulchild - Just Friends (Sunny) (MAW Mix)
Lucy Pearl - Don't Mess With My Man (Mood II Swing Remix)
Maxwell- Everwanting: To Want You To Want (White Label)
Little Louie Vega Featuring Arnold Jarvis - Life Goes On (Dance Ritual Mix)

I mixed this on two Technics 1200 MKII's, with a Technics 1200 Battle Mixer.
No edits, no post processing.

Spillway

Since I quit my regular gig at Starlight Bar and Lounge I have been djing here and there, but mostly I have really gotten a chance to hang out and hear my favorite NYC djs, as well as all of the great djs that come through our fine city. This time out has reaffirmed my love of soulful dance music, be it house or otherwise. Over the past year I have had the pleasure of hearing and dancing to some of the worlds finest deejays. Some of my highlights were: Afronaught, Ben Watt, Quentin Harris, Derrek May, Miguel 'Migs', Marques Wyatt and Osunlade. Of course I enjoyed the local talent immensely too: Kevin Hedge, Little Louie Vega, Emjay, Sharee, Ubiquita, Timmy Regisford, Danny Krivit, Joe Claussell, Spinna, Rich Medina, The Freeskool/Federation boys, and everyone else that dropped a needle on the record.

This mix was an attempt to highlight my favorite sounds of the past year, a bold attempt to bridge the gap between my favorite styles and avoid a sound of sameness, and also honor those tracks that are a few years old but have never left my crate. I like my house eclectic. I love four on the floor beats, but when the nujazz and broken beats roll, they really drive me crazy too.

Another part of this summer has been travelling upstate to the Woodstock area of New York. My daughter's godmother's house is on a back road near a reservoir's spillway. The spillway is a structure designed to start a controlled flood in order to prevent a real uncontrolled flood. I began to realize the significance of this when I applied the idea as a metaphor to using music and dancing as my emotional spillway, controlling the flood.

I mixed this on 8/31/2006 on two Technics 1200 MKII's, with a Technics 1200 Battle Mixer.
No edits, no post processing.

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Roisin Murphy - Sow Into You (Bugz In The Attic Boot)
Status IV - You Aint Really Down (Jazzanova Hey Baby Remix).
Quizz Featuring Emilie Chick- Bag You Should
Jazzanova - Boom Clicky Boom Clack
Radiohead - Everything Is In Its Right Place (Afefe Iku Re-Edit)
Kanye West - Addiction (Kenny Dope Remix)
Marc De Clive Lowe Featuring Monique Bingham - Fools Got Nothing
Jay-J Featuring Latrice Barnett - Illuminate
Ms. Dynamite - Dy-Na-Mi-Tee (Yoruba Soul Mix)
Donnie - Rocketship (Quentin Harris Shelter Mix)
Kem-Without You (Woz's Shelter Vocal)
Amel Larrieux - 4 Real (Deep House Mix)

Motherfunky is my definition of a funky soulful eclectic house sound, and my personal favorite mix. I mixed this the same week as brasil 5000, which was in April of 2000. It was a pre 9/11 world - sunnier, happier, and a great time for house music. Enjoy. Motherfunky has been born. As always, right click or control click (on macs) to download the file. Please don't listen in your browser.

(links are to discogs.com entries, not sound files)
intro by Gil Scott-Heron
The Ananda Project - Cascades of Color
Lonsome Echo Strings - Plein Soleil - MAW mix
Nightsource - Rise Above
Cunnie Williams - Spirit - MAW mix
Swag - Felony Funk
The Brand New Heavies - Apparently Nothing - Artful Dodger Mix
Full Intention - Everybody Loves the Sunshine
Sfere -Walkin' into the Sunshine
Moloko - The Time is Now
Bob Marley vs. Moody Boys - Sun is Shining
Tom and Joyce - Vai Minha Triseza

Mixed on Two Technics 1200's, with Technics Mixer.
All vinyl, live nonstop mix.

Sometime around the year 2000 house music fell in love with Brazil. There was the seminal remix of Moloko's Sing it Back, then include the usual suspects, MAW, Kerri Chandler, Bob Sinclair, Grant Nelson, etc... And, Body and Soul's Joe Claussell remixed a song by pan-latin revivalist Snowboy called Casa Forte. Clocking in at eleven minutes and fifty seven seconds, it began innocently enough. First some drums... hot drums ... then a bassline ... a hot bassline ... once the Body and Soul dancers recognized the song, the place went wild, walls and ceilings sweated for this one. I caught the fever real bad, freaked this mix out and called it Brasil 5000. As always, right click and download or control-click on a mac. Download the file, don't listen in your browser.

Moloko - Sing it Back
Negrocan - Cadavez
Kerri Chandler - Coro
Masters at Work - Brazilian Beat
Joe Claussell - Je Ka Jo Dub and Vocal
Snow Boy - Casa Forte - Joe Claussell Mix
Saudacao Aos Orixas feat. Vera Maria - Orixas

mixed with love
by dj dave trouble
April 2000
This is a live mix, mixed on two turntables, no editing.
Encoded as 320 bitrate mp3. Enjoy.
Photo is from Body and Soul at Summerstage.

Next up: the Genesis of Motherfunky!

Thanks to all of those who listened to side A of my mixtape, Days Like This. I promised side B and here it is. In usual b-side tradition I take it a little deeper. Side B was called Faith after the lead-off track, and goes deep into the house soul underground with some nice long tracks to stretch out the mind out with, closing with the Francois K. and Matthias Heilbronn's remix of Big Muff, another Body and Soul classic. Coming up for the next episode: the birth of the Motherfunky style, and Brasil 5000, a snapshot of the Body and Soul inspired explosion of Brazilian House. As always, please download the file to your computer instead of listening to it from the site (keeps my hosting cost down).

dj Dave Trouble - Faith - 1999

side b Tracklist
the good reverend dr. gary henry - faith (silent prayer mix)
blue6 - sweeter love
incognito - nights over egypt
luis salinas - pienso en ti (house mix)
scott grooves - bumpin on the underground
big muff - my funny valentine

The year was 1999 and Body and Soul was in full swing. Motherfunky had not yet been born, I was a Thursday night resident at Wonder Bar, and I was handing this cassette out to all of my friends. The song of the year was the Masters at Work Remix of Days Like This, by Kenny Lattimore, which became the name of my tape, and the lead off track. It was a really special year for soulful house music, and this was my soul symphony.
Enjoy the Vibes. I'll post side B of the tape next. Note to listeners, please Download the mix to your computers instead of listening to it from the site over and over again.

dj Dave Trouble - Days Like This - 1999

Tracklist:
kenny lattimore - days like this
mass syndicate feat. su su bobien -you don't know
stetsasonic - all that jazz (dub)
luther vandross - are you using me?
kenny bobien - rise above the storm
a.v.h. feat. roland clark - flowerz