DJ FUNWITHAK's Podcast

Mixing a wide variety of movement music for the masses.

1) Jah Lloyd (King Tubby at the Controls) - Herbs of Dub
2) Isaac Hayes - The Look of Love (Break)
3) Amhad Jamal - Don't Ask My Neighbors
4) War - Get Down
5) Raphael Saadiq - Still Ray
6) Shaedhe Riddim
7) Sizzla - Hearts Mind and Soul
8) Dr. Victor Olaiya - Trumpet Highlife
9) Dj Premier - Unreleased Beat Vol. 3
10) Lauryn Hill - So Much Things to Say
11) Method Man - Say
12) The Police - The Bed's Too Big Without You
13) Michael Jackson - They Don't Care About Us (DVD Samba Mix)
14) Esther Phillips - Hurtin' House -
15) Lonnie Linston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes - A Chance for Peace
16) Boogie Down Productions - World Peace
17) Cannonball Adderly - Fun In The Church
18) De La Soul - Ego Trippin' (Part Two)
19) Bush Babies (featuring Mos Def) - The Love Song
20) Common - Forever Begins
21) Paul Simon - Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover
22) Seu Jorge - Tive Razao

1. Digital Underground - Nuttin' Nis Funky
2. The Headhunters - God Made Me Funky
3. Tower of Power - You've Got to Funkifize
4. Johnny Guitar Watson - Funk Beyond the Call of Duty
5. Dudley Perkins - Dudley Funky
6. Common - Funky For You
7. The Sequence - Funk You Up
8. George Clinton - If Anybody Gets Funked Up (It's Gonna Be You)
9. Prince - We Can Funk
10. Whodini - Five Minutes of Funk
11. Ohio Players - Take De Funk Off, Fly
12. James Brown - Too Funky
13. Positive Force - We Got the Funk
14. Sylk 130 - When the Funk Hits the Fan
15. The J.B.s - Everybody Wanna Get Funky One More Time

From the soul y'all... Jams for good times in 2009.

1) Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Stranded in Your Love
2) Mary J. Blige - Hurt Again
3) AL Green - What More Do You Want From Me?
4) Jill Scott - Betta At Home
5) Stevie Wonder - Hey Love
6) Estelle - More Than Friends
7) Aretha Franklin - Cry Like A Baby
8) Amy Winehouse - Some Unholy War
9) John Legend - Slow Dance
10) Anthony Hamilton - SInce I Seen't You
11) Lewis Taylor - How?
12) Lauren Hill - That Thing
13) Marvin Gaye - Go To Get To Cali
14) Sam and Dave - Rich Kind of Poverty
15) Raphael Saadiq - 100 Yard Dash
16) Curtis Mayfield - It's Alright
17) Dee Edwards -Make Love To Me
18) AL Green - I'll Be Good To You
19) James Brown - Fat Bag
20) Adele - Right As Rain
21) Sharon Jones & Th e Dap Kings - My Man Is A Mean Man

Absolute dance floor bangers for Denver and beyond, especially for Mere and Rico.
1. Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel (Accapella)
2. Prince - Housequake
3. Solo Sound - Get the Party Jumpin'
4. Zapp - Dance Floor
5. Digital Underground - Doowutchyalike (Playhowyalike Mix)
6. Outkast - Wheels of Steel
7. Mongo Santamaria - Me and You Baby
8. Technotronic - Pump Up the Jam
9. Trommeltanz - Din Daa Daa (Dub)
10. Herman Kelly and Life - Dance to the Drummer's Beat
11. Ray Baretto - Soul Drummer
12.Cambide DJ - Vem Com A Mao No Red Bull
12. Cee-Lo - The Art of Noise
13. Mos Def - Love, Sex & Money
14. Jay-Z - Change Clothes
15. Chaka Khan - Never Miss the Water
16.Soul II Soul - Fairplay (12" Mix)
17. Mystic - The Life
18. The Fugees - Nappy Heads (Remix)
19. Stephen Marley - The Traffic Jam
20. Trinity - 3 Piece Suit

A bunch of hype jams to celebrate Saturdays' vibes.

1. Kool & the Gang - Summer Madness
2. Earth Wind Fire – Saturdays
3. Tower of Power – Ebony Jam
4. De La Soul – A Tune Called Saturdays
5. Jimmy Castor Bunch – It’s Just Begun
6. Billy Squier – Big Beat
7. Rhythm Heritage – Baretta’s Theme (Looped)
8. Run DMC – Peter Piper Instrumental
9. P-Funk All-Stars – Pumpin’ It Up
10. NPG – Deuce & A Quarter
11. Gangstarr – Zoning
12. Eryka Badu – Soldier
13. Latyrx – Lady Don’t Take No Tek
14. Mary J. Blige – Ooh!
15. Omar – Saturday (Her Mix)

A harvest of ripe, vinyl jams unearthed from Boston’s yard sales, flea markets and junk shops during the summer of 2006.

Disc One
1) Big Bird - Grin & Giggle
2) Minnie Riperton - Loving You
3) Peter Brown - Do Ya Wanna Get Funky With Me
4) The Memphis Horns - What the Funk Is Going On
5) Ohio Players - Funky Worm
6) George Duke - Dukey Stick
7) The Indisputable Truth - Hole in The Wall
8) Connected - Totally Connected
9) Deodato- Also Sprach Zarathustra -
10) Incredible Bongo Band - Let There Be Drums
11) Ozone - We Bad
12) The Sequence – Funk You Up
13) Totally Connected
14) Fatback - I Like Girls
15) Brass Construction - Get Up to Get Down
16) Brick - Dazz
17) Mandrill Happy Beat

A harvest of ripe, vinyl jams unearthed from Boston’s yard sales, flea markets and junk shops during the summer of 2006

DISC 2
1) Cameo - Flirt
2) Kraftwerk - Trans Euro Express
3) The Time - Get It Up
4) Positive Force - We Got the Funk
5) Foxy - RRRRRRock
6) Vaughan Mason and Crew - Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll
7) Earthquire - Soul Long
8) Increbible Bongo Band - Bongo Rock
9) Princes Charles - In the Street
10) Rick James - Standing on the Top
11) War - Galaxy
12) B.T. Express - Look at the People
13) Parliament - Funkentelechy
14) Chaka Khan - A Woman in a Man’s World
15) Minnie - Memory Lane
16) Roy Ayers - Is It Too Late to Try?
17) Dave and Ansel Collins - Double Barrel

Strictly inna Hip-Hop state of mind last Friday night:

1) Arrested Development - Raining Revolution
2) RZA ft. Rugged Monk - Drama
3) Tribe Called Quest - Stressed Out
4) Cockroach Click - 9's Revisited
5) Nas - Purple
6) Talib Kweli - Too Late
7) Pharcyde - Why? Jay Dee Mix
8) Distrakt - On the Reg
9) Big Shug - The Way It Is
10) J-Live - Be No Slave
11) Jungle Brothers - Straight Out the Jungle
12) EPMD - So Wat Cha Sayin'
13) BDP - Ghetto Music
14) Biz Markie - Studda Step
15) Eric B. & Rakim - Step Back
16) Melle Melle - Melle's Groove
17) Beastie Boys - Egg Man
18) Kurtis Blow - AJ Scratch

Continuing to bring us those Hip-Hop jams that motivate life. Set it off!

Settin' it off with some of them raps ina reggae style - then banging them funky boom-baps!

Starting off with a bunch of get-the-funk-down Hip-Hop joints. Turn it up!

One wacky night I pitted a stack of 7" reggae versions against a slew of hip hop instrumentals and BLAM, out came a bouncy little mix. Easy listening.

After a long summer of digging back in 2006, I ended up with a massive stack of 45s. Here's a funky selection of thirty-four of 'em, cut up for my ADD pleasure. Let me know!

1) Barbara Fairchild -(You Make Me Feel Like) Singing A Song
2) Teresa Brewer - The Piano Man
3) Cricktone Children's Chorus & Orchetsra - Do-Re-Mi
4) Ralph Paul - The Rock (Part 1)
5) Blackbyrds - Happy Music
6) Moby Grape - Omaha
7) Charlie Earland - SIng a SImple Song
8) Johnnie Taylor - Who's Making Love
9) Jessie Hill - Mardi Gras
10) Grahame Bond - Stiffnecked Chicken
11) Charlie Blackwell - Midnight Oil
12) Curtis Mayfield - Underground
13) Gwen McCrae - Rockin' Chair
14) Sugar Billy - Super Duper Love - Part 1
15) The Sweet Things - Mama's Song
16) Marvin Gaye - I Wish It Would Rain
17) Johnny Adams - Reconsider Me
18) Dionne Warwick - What the World Needs Now Is Love
19) Roberta Flack - Feel Like Makin' Love
20) The 5 Stairsteps - O-o-h Child
21) Chairmen of the Board - Since the Days of Pigtails (and Fairy Tales)
22) Universal Robot Band - Dance and Shake Your Tambourine
23) Ramsey Lewis - Wade In the Water
24) Isley Brothers - Get Into Something
25) MFSB - Let's Clean Up the Ghetto
26) Leon Haywood - Don't Push it Don't Force It
27) McFadden & Whitehead - Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now
28) Starpoint - I Just Wanna Dance With You
29) Sweat Band - Freak to Freak
30) Dexter Wansel - Disco Lights
31) The Jimmy Castor Bunch - Potential
32) Ramsey Lewis - What's the Name of this Funk (Spider Man)
33) Skyy - Skyyzoo
34) ElChicano - Viva Tirado Part II

Teaching in Boston can tax your energy and slap you in check, especially in the winter. Here's one I mixed up to power through the winter of 2007/8. Serious music! Listen to dem lyrics.
Big up the educators and others who love the youth. Stay strong.

Here's a mix of super funk jams and intimate classics. Very few lyrics. Nasty tracks!

My original roots and culture reggae mix from 2001. So many anthems! Strictly positive!

Here's the second batch of 7 inch, 12 inch and CD roots and culture selections I was feeling back in 2004. Massive!

From 2006. Strictly roots and culture reggae, strictly bumpin'. The last of my Selects series. Yes!

Some serious reggae selections that have been skankin' me brain all winter long.

1. Alpha Blondie - Jah Houphouet Nous Parle (DJ FUNWITHAK version)
2. Burning Spear - Walking (version)
3. Jah Earl - Bring the Cotuchit Come
4. Triston Palmer- Joker Smoker
5. Carlton Livingston - 100 lbs. of Collie Weed
6. John Holt - Police in Helicopter (version)
7. John Holt - Police in Helicopter
8. Everton Blender - Sensi
9. King Tubbys - Disc Jockey Skank
10. Peter Ranking & G Lucky - Number One
11. U Brown - Gimme the Music
12. Ini Kamoze - World A Music
13. Damian Jr. Gong Marley - More Justice
14. Josey Wales Meets Early - B - DJ Origination
15. Wayne Wonder & Nardo Ranks - Sound Boy What Happen
16. Candy Man - Drum Pan Sound Boy
17. Beres Hammond & Flourgan - Feel Like
18. Frankie Paul - Who Touch The Style
19. W. Riley - Real Rock (version)
20. Sizzla - Azinando
21. Garnet Silk feat. Charlie Chaplin & Cocoa T – Every Knee Shall Bow
22. Sizzla - Give Thanks to Jah
23. Josey Wales - Throw Mi Corn
24. Richie Spice - My People
25. Truth + Rights Riddim

Here's a mix of Santana jams that chronicle his career. I spun these tracks to honor the love between my lifelong-brother Len Davis and our sister Analia. I give thanks for the incredible music Carlos has shared with us throughout his lifetime. Heavy inspiration!

I've included a flic I captured as Carlos and friends rocked the Agganis Arena in Boston back in April 4, 2008.