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My last Funky Friday with MOG was quite some time ago. As I don't have access right now to my "funk repository", I decided to post some mixture of Funk and Breaks. You might now the "The New Testament of Funk" series of the German Unique Records. The first compilation of that series had the undertitle "Exploring the Funkier Side of All Things Breakbeat" which was quite a bummer. And the undertitle fits the content quite well. You won't find purist funk tracks on it but rather a very dancable mixture of Funk and Breakbeats.

I'm not as fond of the 5th reincarnation of the series as I am with the first album but it still contains some nice tracks, one of which you'll find in the comments.

Jalapeno Records, home of such luminaries as Dr. Rubberfunk, Skeewiff Kraak en Smakk or Kid Creme, released with their compilation "Jalapeno Funk Vol. 1" a similar record, that I'd rather recommend than the latter mentioned. Nontheless I'm sill not convinced to 100% of the compilation and I don't know if this is due to a propensity towards purism regarding funk on my side as I listened to a lot of old stuff in the recent months. That showed me that the whole mixture thingy is not as ingenious as the some of the groundbraking stuff in the 70s. To my shame I just recently listened to the fantastic "Hot Buttered Soul" of Isaac Hayes, which was the founding album of blaxploitation, as far as I know. And damn, that was and still is an album! Check it out if you haven't.

Anyway if you like funkier breakbeats, check out the first album of "The New Testament of Funk" or the Jalapeno Funk here. The title track and the last track in the commentary stem from this compi.

I selected rather less breaky and more funky tracks for today, simply as I like them more.

The man behind Soopasoul is Danny Hybrid, originally from Manchester, which "grew up" in the rave genre but at some point was fed up with the genre and went back to the roots of Funk. He also released music with The Nufunk Allstars.

The chief of Jalapeno took him under contract, when he found out that he didn't sample his stuff, what the latter simply assumed, but that he had composed and recorded all of it himself. Danny found at some point, when working for a radio station this gospel singer Nikeya from Missisippi. I guess that she is the singer on the title track, but I'm not 100% sure about that. If you want to read more about him, check out > Jalapenos website, that's where I have it from. 

Funk on!