Name: Fritz Great Lakes
Nights: Northern Funk / Funkademia

Top Ten Twenty
Here's my current chart of Saturday floorfillers for Funkademia, Mancunia. Keep the faith! Love Fritz x

“I just can't wait 'til Saturday!" and you are all the reasons!

Here's the tunes that send us all spinnin' when Payney let's me loose. It is a privilege to play our music to you! Funkademia, Mancunia! When you dance...

You know it's coming when I start jigging around Payney, with a stupid grin getting ever broader and broader. I'm looking 'round: Podium posse to the right, Soul crew all in front. Dry ice and people everywhere, and I mean everywhere!. The cheers start and then the bassline...

1. Chic Cheer - Chic
Everyone's worked hard all week long.I've been buzzing since Tuesday, packing the records all week. People start texting and phoning on Wednesday. By Thursday, people are singing aloud and Friday, they're bustin' all their new moves, jus' getting ready, won't be long. We just can't wait 'til...

2. Saturday - Norma Jean
If anyone still doesn't get what our night is all about, the next one sets them straight.

3. A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturday's" - De La Soul
I'm just one big grin behind the decks. "I'm so glad, so glad to be back in your arms."

4. Glad To Be Here - Jackson 5
And sometimes it's so easy - to know what we all wanna hear - here!

5. ABC - Jackson 5 [DJ Spinna remix]
It's Jackson 5 Reggae!
We play so much Hip Hop and R'n'B at Funkademia and never make a big deal outta it, and you always groove on it. It just feels right. Here's the current jams!

6. Peter Piper - Run DMC
Oldest of old school; still fresher than fresh!

7. Playloaded - Primal Scream versus Kool Keith
This mash-up was just made for the Funkademia dance floor, "... Just what is it that you want to do?"

8. Let Me Clear My Throat - DJ Kool [original live mix]
The girls all sing along to their sections, "...If you got your own hair! If you got a job! If you're to goin' to school!"

9. Be Faithful - Crooklyn Clan feat. Fatman Scoop & Faith Evans
Yes, we have been playin' this for years. No, we've never played the British chart mix.

10. It Takes Two - Crooklyn Clan versus Rob Base & DJ Ezee Rock

11. Dr's In Here - Dr's In Here
When these two chart, you'll know you helped them along their way. Both hot on our 'floor for well over a year now.

12. Crazy In Love - Beyonce [Danny Krivit re-edit]
The first time I played this out was amazing. The guitar riff repeats endlessly and Beyonce just wails forever. Twice as long but no filler!

13. Billie Jean's Milkshake - Kelis versus Michael Jackson

14. The Dutch Thriller - Missy Elliott versus Michael Jackson
Mash-up mayhem. We can't resist these naughty little bootlegs. Blink and you'll miss 'em. Fear not! Funkademia's panoptic eye never sleeps; always searching for the one...

15. King Of The Beats - Mantronix
So old, even I was young when this first rocked my Adi-clad world... an' still the best hip hop tune ever!

16. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
No-one ever believes I get away with this, but we know it's a soul tune... it gives me goosebumps.

17. Like I Love You - Justin Timberlake
For Stella Podium & The Podium Posse every time.

18. Hey Ya! - Outkast
I think this has become the quickest ever Funkademia anthem. The only tune I've ever played twice on a night.

19. Rapper's Delight - The Sugarhill Gang [Ben Leibrand remix]
When the sirens kick on this remix, you can't see anyone, there's that much smoke! We hit the strobes until the last verse, when the Blackley Soul Crew all start making devil-horns and ask, "When?"

20. Sympathy For The Devil - The Rolling Stones versus Lost Vegas
I'm lost in the rafters, over the speakers, out by the air-con, climbing over the dancers' heads, lost in music... climb down or caught, lost dancing on the 'floor... Funkademia, Mancunia! Keep the faith!

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