1981.766* (HNY!)

Last year, in September, i was contacted by the calendar with some ‘news’. I had turned 30.

Responding in a typically British fashion, i decided to bolster my collection of 70’s + 80’s funk-disco records and make a 30 track mix (it has been pointed out to me that technically i am in my 31st year. thanks, douche bag)

Anyway, slightly belatedly, Happy New Year!

* 1981.766 is what you get if you’re on a long and boring train ride, and decide to look up the year of each song add them together and divide by 30, resulting in the mean. occurred to me afterwards that the median might have been more appropriate, but i decided i was sad enough already.

Holiday

Going on holiday. This was the most ridiculous version of ‘Holiday’ i could find. Dutch guys shouldn’t rap….

Then, in the related items i saw this: yes, he is body popping to the Holiday Rap.

Peace

Insta Marc

 

Working in an Ad agency with loads of Art Directors + Designers around, you can imagine my surprise/delight when I discovered that Marc our resident IT genius turned out to be a sick photographer.

Wanted to share some of his instagram biznizz here, (i’m digging his kubrick style surreptitious tube photography) but you should really head to his instacanvas page to check out the rest.

You can even order yourself a print there, should you so desire.

Keys Cut Here

New mix of beats i’ve picked up on travels through soundcloud this year. Most of these guys aren’t well known, so I posted links to their soundcloud pages in the tracklist (after the jump), case you wanna find out more….

Trickin’

Had no idea most of this was physically possible. Wouldn’t want to see him try it in a car park though….

Who’s Flaunt Edwards?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apparently it’s this guy called JRocc.

In an act of what some would call benevolence and others might call lunacy, he’s made a series of edits of some classic funk + rare groove tracks, and stuck them up on his soundcloud page for free download.

The Blackbyrds, Otis Redding + Andres amongst others get the rework treatment.

Bangs’ Life Is Hard

When he’s not writing songs about love or meeting girls (sometimes on facebook), Bangs is mostly writing songs about life being hard and never having a good time.

I hope Bangs’ life improves.

Dear …….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

via share some candy

 

It’s March 8th

So, i was late with this. and now i’m really late. i have no excuses, but i promise that this mix was at least 99% recorded in February.