Photos courtesy of Lyndsey Matthews

Funkademia photos with Neil Scott & Gareth Brooks from 17.07.10 at Mint Lounge by Go to Nathan’s website

First up this Saturday, Gareth Brooks – XFM Manchester’s weekend headline DJ – more renowned for his love of Indie & Electronica will be breaking from the norm & airing his favourite soul-funk-disco tunes.

Here are five reasons why Gareth Brooks is a must-see this weekend.

I’ve got soul and i’m super bad. Street talk from 1970 with JB using a positive for the word bad, step on 40 years to the streets of any inner city area and the youth of today will tell you “this track is well bad innit” Super Bad was originally released as a three part single, reaching number one in the soul charts and number 13 on the Hot 100. The following year the single also featured on the James Brown album of the same name.

Markie’s career began in the early 1980s as a performer, then a human beatbox for MC Shan and Roxanne Shante, among others. He signed to the Cold Chillin’ record label in 1988 and released Goin’ Off, an underground hit. He has been sued by Gilbert O’Sullivan for sampling Alone Again, DJs for the Beastie Boys and appeared in Men in Black II with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. Turn Tha Party Out is Biz’z comeback tune from 2001 – Okay, Okay, O-O-O-O-Okay we’re getting down to the funky sounds.

Huge Funkademia tune. Do it to the music was the first release from Raw Silk back in 1982 on the one of our favourite labels, West End Music. This tune has featured on many rare groove and dance compilations over the last 25 years, also sampled by a number of hip hop producers including the Jungle Brothers on their track Doin our own dang. You will also link the parts of the tune get moovin, get groovin, music’s hypnotising to a number of dance tracks from the early 90s.
　

New Jersey DJ Mark James was called the 45 King in the mid 80s, the nickname comes from his ability to make beats using obscure 45 RPM records. The 45 King first gained fame with his breakbeat track The 900 Number in 1987. The song featured a looping tenor sax solo from Marva Whitney’s Unwind Yourself. In July 1990 Manchester-born DJ Chad Jackson sampled The 900 Number on his single Hear the Drummer (Get Wicked) which reached number 3 in the UK Charts.

Drop It Like It’s Hot” is a 2004 rap number one hit single, it was actually Snoop Dogg’s first number one, also featured Pharrell of neptunes fame. The track is essentially just tongue clicks, keyboards and a drum machine beat which compared to much early 2000s rap is very minimalist. On December 11, 2009, the song was named the most popular Rap Song of the decade by Billboard. The Song also samples the first 10 seconds of That Word (L.O.V.E.) by The Rockmelons.

Check out Gareth’s show on Saturday & Sunday from 10am – Click to Listen

Funkademia is very pleased to announce that we’ll be returning to the Wickerman festival on the 23rd & 24th July.

Last year was unbelievable with 2 days of daytime disco courtesy of Manchester’s longest running club night. This year will be bigger and better as we take the party upstairs and play out of the Skiddle bus…

DJ’s on both days will be Funkademia residents Good for the Soul & Kid Blast. You can catch us in the Skiddle dance arena, don’t be late as we’ll be on at 2pm…

Get the full line up & tickets here

With the first half of the year over in a flash we continue to pull out all the stops to make your night the best ever every Saturday at Mint Lounge. We really do thank every person that passes through our doors on the night.

As a weekly clubnight that prides itself on the standard of our resident DJs (many who have been with us from the start) we continually try to push the boundaries. So leading up to our 15th Birthday celebrations in November we are going to be throwing in a few surprises, all with a mancunia theme, after all we have a massive pool of musical talent in our fair city.

Mixing it up with El Diablos Neil Scott on the 17th we have a debut from Manchester XFM DJ Gareth Brooks, a DJ that we have been trying to book for some time, but a hectic DJ and Radio schedule has made this a real challenge for us. One of the best parties of the year so far was when Dave Haslam brought his Sweet Sensation night to Mint Lounge in May, literally as soon as the night ended we was in talks with him to make it happen again, Saturday 24th July is the result.

Funkademia July 2010

Saturday July 3rd : Chris Massey and Jon Whaite from Bus Stop Records.

Saturday July 10th : Canteen DJs and Trafford Lovething with a Carwash Special

Saturday July 17th : Neil Scott and XFM Manchester’s Gareth Brooks

Saturday July 24th : Funkademia Vs Sweet Sensation with DJ Dave Haslam

Saturday July 31st : Myk Nolan and Les Croasdaile

Here’s a summer live mix to compliment the beautiful weather we’re having. Enjoy….

Delicious Allstars – Cobra Dub
Dave and Ansell – Double Barrel
Dawn Penn – No No No
Tape Loops – Never Do That
Horace Andy – Aint No Sunshine
Richie Davis – Lean Boot
Mikey Dread – Roots and Culture
Barrington Levy – Under Mi Sensi
Nice Up – Groove is in Jah Heart
Tenor Saw – Ring the Alarm
Desmond Dekker – It Mek
Bob Marley – Jammin
Althea and Donna – Uptown Top Rankin
Paul Nice – The Message
Toots and Maytals – Funky Kingston
Afrikan Brothers – Smoke Cronic
Toots and Maytals – 54 46 My Number
The Specials – Message to my rudy
Desmond Dekker – Israelites
Harvey K Tel – Boops Apocalypse

The Herbaliser are coming to one of Manchester’s coolest underground club, Moho Live on Tib Street this Sunday 4th July and they have kindly given us 10 pairs of tickets to give away.

To find out more about the night click here

To win free entry for you and your friend all you have to do is email guestlist@moholive.co.uk with “Herbaliser Giveaway” by midday on Friday in the subject box and your name and the name of your guest.

Check out more on the band here:

We really do like to treat you well, so we’ve hunted around and found this great live motown mix by Dimitri from Paris recorded at Djoon in Paris. Enjoy….

www.djoon.fr / www.myspace.com/djdimitrifromparis

Funkademia photos with Neil Scott, Les Croasdaile & Good Vibrations from 19.06.10 at Mint Lounge by Nathan Photo

This weekend we have Les Croasdaile and El Diablos Neil Scott in the main room, both very popular with the Mint Lounge massive. Doors open at 10:30pm on the dot and its worth getting down early this week as it’s a party from the start. We also have some ace cheap cocktails on the bar which are perfect early doors.

Big big news this week is that we have Good Vibrations hosting the back room, hot on the back of dj gigs at South and Ruby Lounge, Chris and Nicola make the short journey across town from Joshua Brooks, just for you.