UK sound label Inspiration Sounds has released of Funked Up Complete, the final volume in their “Funked Up” series.
Funked Up Complete features all of the separate volumes in the “Funked Up” series plus an additional 35MB of funky drumloops.
“Funked Up Complete was in development for just over 10 months. Our goal was to create a [...]

 

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March 10: It’s free electronic music month at Synthtopia. All month, we’re highlighting great music that’s available for free on the Internet.
Slave is a great track from modern soul artist Nadir’s Distorted Soul 2.0 cd. If you’re not familiar with Nadir, think Lenny Kravitz with better lyrics.
“You were mother-something ruthless baby,
A jack-the-ripper in high-healed shoes
You [...]

 

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Big Fish Audio has announced the release of Funky House Grooves, featuring 1,450 of the house loops, licks and samples.
Description:
Over 1,450 of the freshest, sexiest house loops, licks and samples - all meticulously recorded in industry-standard 24-bit. Includes 100s of phat and funky beats at 125, 127 and 130bpms, vintage Rhodes II and Wurlitzer loops, [...]

Kraak & Smaak’s debut release, Boogie Angst, is a hook-filled funkfest.
The Dutch trio (Mark Kneppers, Wim Plug and Oscar De Jong) dance around hip-hop, funk, jazz and house genres, mixing them up to create “Dance music to listen to.” While they may hop from genre to genre, wherever they stop, they give the style a [...]

Need more fibre in your musical diet?
Jon Godsell at Superfibre sends word about the latest mix on their podcast, the Superfibre Mix of the Month. It features a mix by Nashville’s premier lady of funk, MissKai.
Here’s what they have to say about MissKai’s mix:
On The Beaten Path is a full length broken-beat marathon, and features [...]

Raistalla, the self-titled debut CD from “electro-funk, soul punk” artist Raistalla.
Raistalla previously worked as a professional dancer, working with Madonna, Outkast, Missy Elliot and others. More recently, she’s been making music and touring to promote it. She’s had #1 singles in both Europe and Canada, and her CD brings together these singles with a set [...]

Motown Remixed is a fun collection of remixes of Motown hits from artists like the Jackson 5, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder.
The remixes do a good job of providing an updated look at some familiar hits, while not veering off so far from the originals to be distracting. Most of [...]

Ilya’s Dreaming Loud is a polished set of 14 original trance compositions.
Ilya’s background as a professional engineer and dance music producer and 17 years of experience show on Dreaming Loud. The tracks are polished, professional and propulsive.
The tracks are presented as a continuous mix, and the they are catchy enough that it almost sounds like [...]

On this creative collaboration, Japanese producer Hoppy Kamiyama joins avant-bassist Bill Laswell to create a groove-filled jazz electronic experiment. Bill Laswell works with percussionist Kiyohiko Semba to create some rock-solid jazz-funk grooves, while Kamiyama adds freeform electronic effects that seem to integrate tightly and react to the tight rhythm section. The result is true world [...]

Rick James, the original Superfreak, passed away August 6th in his sleep of natural causes at his Los Angeles home, according to his spokesperson.
James’ electro-funk hit its peak in the late seventies and early eighties with tracks like Give it to me, baby and Superfreak. More recently, his work has been sampled extensively by rap [...]