motherfunk on Soundcloud

Motherfunk has arrived on Soundcloud.
All the shows on BLN.fm have been moved to Soundcloud for your convenient listening pleasure.
All the motherfunk shows will be uploaded to this page.
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motherfunk #17

motherfunk with a feature on The Original 7ven. We all loved them as the antagonists of Prince in the movie "Purple Rain" in the challenge for the coolest band in town.
Too bad, that in real life the purple one owns the trademark at "The Time". So now they are called The Original 7ven and released their great album "Condensate". Mijk van Dijk introduces the album and plays some tracks.
Of course there can't be missing a tribute to the late great Whitney Houston, who sadly passed away on February 11th 2012. And a lot of NuFunk from the likes of Lorenz Rhode, Tad Willy, Munk, Soul Clap, Sample Jack, Le Crayon and Kolombo. Also introducing Manscape, Mijk's new forthcoming release on nuFunkFiles.
Listen to it on www.BLN.fm, Tuesday March 13 at 8pm CET, Wednesday March 14 at 9 pm CET, Sunday, March 18 at 10 pm CET.
Boogie down, funksters!

mijkfunk on Resident Advisor

Now there's a mijkfunk page on the crucial web service Resident Advisor.
You are most welcome to follow it for all updates on my NuFunk stuff.
So what is it that mijkfunk is and that Mijk van Dijk is not?
I grew up with that great Funk sound of the early 80s.
That was the golden aera of the Boogie as well as a breakthrough for artists like Prince and that whole Minneapolis sound.
In those days I was playing the bass in a youth Funk band called "Joystick" in my hometown. Although I was the only bass player in my hometown who could slap and pop the bass in a Funk style, I was so convinced of electronic sounds, that I also bought a Moog Prodigy to play those amazing Boogie bass lines in our live shows. Our percussionist Jürgen also got a Boss Handclapper and we felt that we almost sounded like a real American Electro Funk band. ;-)
After moving to Berlin, I bought my first drum machine to program those Electronic Funk grooves, but soon had to find out that a Roland TR-505 is not a Linn Drum.
A year later Acid-House hit Berlin and I was sucked into the House and Techno groove.
The TR-505 being a stripped-down version of the TR-707 and TR-727 was a nice machine for House beats and so it was a great start into my career as Techno and House producer.
But my passion for Funk never faded and so I am happy to finally revisit my first love in music, The Funk with a radioshow on BLN.fm called "Motherfunk" and my own digital imprint nuFunkFiles under my second artist name mijkfunk! How does it sound like? Check on my Mixcloud!
I reckon I have been a bit lazy on this blog. Say no more: I'm gonna change that! So stay tuned for more mijkfunk info and gossip!

motherfunk #7: Get D.O.W.N.!

Summerdaze in Boogieland.  Mijk van Dijk opens the Funk summer. Girls & Boogie, Tiger & Woods, Music & Lights. Throw down, come down, boogie down, funksters!

Tune in to www.BLN.fm on May 10, 8 pm CET, May 11, 9 pm CET or May 15, 10 pm or listen on-demand after the timed transmissions.

Playlist:

1. Amalia – All The Funk I Need (Volta Cab Remix) / Tokyo Dawn Records
2. Vindahl – Sometimes (12″ Groove Version) / Tokyo Dawn Records
3. Carmen – Time To Move (F.U.N.K. Edit) / Presents Records
4. Carmen – Throw Down / Presents Records
5. Tiger & Woods – Come Down / Editainment 001
6. Evelyn King – Love Come Down/ RCA
7. Tiger & Woods – Gin Nation / Editainment 002
8. Imagination – Music And Lights (Dub-Version)/ Red Bus Records
9. Tiger & Woods – Dr. Burner / Editainment 003
10. Cassian – I Like What You’re Doing (Lorenz Rhodes Remix) / Bang Gang
11. Henning – Grand Theft Auto / Bandcamp
12. Henning – Early Sunrise / Bandcamp
13. Hot Toddy – Summer Daze /Winding Road Records 014
14. Moonshoes – Boogieland / white

motherfunk #6 pays tribute to the great and late Loleatta Holloway

The forthcoming edition of motherfunk on www.BLN.fm will be dedicated to the late Loleatta Holloway, who died on March 21, 2011. Her songs will be with us forever, especially her voice, that has been sampled off acapella tracks more often than probably any other female singer in the world. Mijk van Dijk will spotlight some of her best originals as well as tell the story behind some of the most ridiculous sampling records. Also we shall remember Kurt Hauenstein of Supermax who passed away on March 20, 2011.

Tune in to www.BLN.fm on April 12, 8 pm CET, April 13, 9 pm CET or April 17, 10 pm or listen on-demand after the timed transmissions.

PLAYLIST

1.     Click Cick & Microbodies – Mr. Pseudo Funk

2.     Confection – You Got The Love (Reeno-Remix)

3.     Loleatta Holloway - We’re Getting Stronger

4.     Loleatta Holloway – Rainbow 71

5.     Loleatta Holloway –Can I Change My Mind

6.     Loleatta Holloway –Cry To Me

7.     Loleatta Holloway –Hit And Run

8.     Loleatta Holloway – Dreamin’

9.     Loleatta Holloway - We’re Getting Stronger (Acapella)

10. Dan Hartman – Relight My Fire (Acapella)

11. Loleatta Holloway – Love Sensation

12. Black Box – Ride On Time

13. Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch – Good Vibrations

14. House Of Venus – Dish & Tell (Club-Mix)

15. Ellis D – My Loleatta (Dish-Apella)

16. Armando – 100% Of Dissin’ You

17. Loleatta Holloway  - Mama Don’t Papa Won’t (Mama’s Mix)

18. Supermax – Love Machine

19. Supermax – Dance Dance Dance

Swedish Funk Dynamite

Amalia and Opolopo both released magnificient albums within the last 3 months, both produced by Peter Major aka Opolopo and both released by Munich-based Tokyo Dawn Records. 
Mijk took the opportunity to talk with both of them for the latest edition of motherfunk on BLN.fm. If you haven't stumbled upon both of them yet,  do yourselves a favour,  check the show,and fall in love with their music.

PLAYLIST

1.     Munk – Rue de Rome

2.     Amalia – Welcome To Me

3.     Opolopo – Kobayashi Maru

4.     Opolopo feat. Amalia – Life’s A Dance (After Hours Glide Mix)

5.     Sekoya – Love’s In Need

6.     Opolopo – Glide

7.     The Time – Jungle Love

8.     SOS-Band – Just Be Good To Me

9.     Amalia - Freeze That

10. Janet Jackson – Control

11. Opolopo – Ballad for Amalia

12. Amalia – 4 U

13. Amalia - Art Slave

14. Amalia - All The Funk That I Need

motherfunk #3 with BIG Chomeo Special

Mijk van Dijk met Chromeo, the Montreal duo we all love, to talk with them about The Funk right before their great show at Club Maria in Berlin. Check the highlights of the interview and of course a lot of music from Chromeo, A-Trak, Zapp, Jodeci, Steely Dan, Hall & Oates and The Temptations, Opolopo and Reeno live on the net on January 11th (8pm), January 12th (9pm) and January 16th (10pm, all times CET) and after that also on demand on BLN.fm. Listen HERE!

motherfunk #2 with Jimmy Edgar Special

For the 2nd edition of motherfunk, Mijk had the pleasure to meet Jimmy Edgar from Detroit, now located in Berlin by choice and creator of one of the master pieces of 2010-NuFunk, his great album XXX on !k7. The show was aired in December 2010 and has been moved to the on-demand-section on BLN.fm.

Listen here, my dear!

motherfunk #1 with G.I. Disco

This is 1st edition of Mijk van Dijk's show motherfunk on BLN.fm and it all starts in Berlin with the cool guys of G.I. Disco, who bring back the 80s funk to the clubs to revive an almost forgotten aera of club music in Germany of the early 80s, when black G.I.s, blond German girls and some guys like young Mijk went to clubs, where the DJ would spin Funk music from the US and the UK. Daniel W.Best and Kalle Kuts are so successful with their G.I.Disco parties, they even released a compilation with their favourite 80s Funk tunes.
Listen here!