funk covers!!! (MPSU #26)

Been a long time since we posted a mix sent in by one of y’all. Which isn’t intentional…for awhile there we weren’t posting mixes of any kind.

But now that we’re back, and in full(ish) effect, we’ve been sifting through all of the mixes you’ve sent us for something that really blew our wigs back.  Enter DAU AL SET of Iceland, who hit us with an ingenious mix of FUNK MUSIC, covered by contemporary artists.

We were skeptical at first.  I mean, funk is one of those things that can’t be improved upon.  It’s like the jelly donut, or the Mona Lisa or Nicholas Cage’s hair…you just cannot improve on perfection.  And although the songs in this mix doesn’t improve on funk, it takes it to a sublime place, where it builds a coccoon and gracefully emerges as something else altogether.  Not bad for a bunch of cover songs.

LISTEN!!! FUNK COVERS by DAU AL SET

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Malcom McClaren, January 22, 1946 – April 7, 2010

Thanks for the music Dude!  dope MMc related mix:

August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009

REST IN PEACE

LISTEN!!! – DEAR MICHAEL PART 1 and PART 2

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LISTEN!!! – COOKING SOUL’S MICHAEL TRIBUTE

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LISTEN!!! – DJ SLIMM’S TRIBUTE TO THE KING

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the rep

When I was working at the RECORD STORE back in the day we had this policy that we couldn’t hold records for customers longer than three days. That was it, we’d had enough carrying your crap you ain’t gonna buy.  We didn’t bend the rule for anyone.

Well, except for DAM. That fool would have us hold like 8 records and we always them held until he came back. It might take a couple weeks but Dam always came back for those records, knew exactly what he had and how many. The man loves to dig. REALLY LOVES TO DIG. And that earns you rep in the record store.

It makes me feel like all is right in the world seeing Dam come up right now. The machine doesn’t always allow for good cats to get theirs. But on top of doing what he loves and in a way that no one else is doing he is also the coolest motherfucker you will meet.

LISTEN!!! – DAM FUNK on ONE DAY LATER

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timeless

This weekend. DJ NUTS, MADBLIB, ARTHUR VEROCAI in Los Angeles as part of MOCHILLA’S TIMELESS SERIES.

If you don’t know act like you do and pick up a ticket. They’re only $35.  I know you probably can’t afford it.  Hell, I can’t afford it, but you will probably never see anything like this again in your lifetime. Holler back.

LISTEN!!! – DJ NUTS; DISCO CULTURA VOL. 1