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

Let's Go Another Round!

The Chænge will return to Hamburg.
Anyone who missed the NuFunkband in February at Zur Seuten Deern receives a second chance on the FormResonance Label Night at Übel & Gefährlich on March 17th 2011.
Florian Schirmacher on vocals, Mijk van Dijk on bass and Catharina Behr on drums will play songs from the forthcoming The Chaenge album "Rebellion" on FormResonance.
DJ support comes from Pelle Buys, Jendrik Rothstein, Taman Noor.

If you would like to support The Chænge, then like our Facebook Page attend our Resident Advisor event, share our Facebook eventand come down to Übel & Gefährlich and boogie with us.

Bass In Your Face

The Chænge played their first test gig at Hamburg's "Zur Seuten Deern" located in the heart of the notorious Reeperbahn district and it was a nice success. Florian Schirmacher immediately caught the crowd with his fascinating voice, Catharina Behr delivered the driving back beat on the drums and Mijk van Dijk finally dusted off his bass guitar again.

The trio will reappear in Hamburg on March 17th at Uebel & Gefaehrlich.

Are you ready for The Chænge?

They are!

The Chaenge LIVE

Besides his project mijkfunk, his label nuFunkFiles and his radio show motherfunk on BLN.fm, Mijk's latest enterprise is the exciting NuFunk band The Chaenge together with Florian Schirmacher, beloved singer of bands like Wareika, Federleicht and Hatikvah. The dynamic duo just finished recordings on their debut album Rebellion and is ready to take it on the streets and in the clubs. First sneek-peek show will be in Hamburg on Friday 11th 2011 in the club Zur Seuten Deern, right in the heart of the Reeperbahn. So if you happen to be in Hamburg this weekend, boogie down, join us and dance The Dance Electric!

motherfunk gets closer to the edit

This time it's all about edits on Mijk's show motherfunk on BLN.fm. Mr. van Dijk dug out some nice gems from Soundcloud and the Blogs and talked to Alkalino and Jack Tennis.

And he'll drop favourite new tunes by Oliver, Cassette Schwarzenegger, StardonE and will grant a first glance on the great new album my Amalia on Tokyo Dawn Records.

Boogie down, funksters!

That's What The Papers Say...

First press reactions on nuFF 001 are totally sweet.

Bleed wrote a really nice review for De:Bug (German), saying somthing like this:

"Mijk van Dijk? Really. I am surprised. And excited. The tracks really have an own vision, somewhere at the edge of Elektro and pull through their very own version of warbling Funk in such a good and elaborated way that one has to admit them to be one of the most unique pop blueprints out of Germany this year. And the magic downtempo hit "Skintight" which is one of the hymns of the year for me. I still don't get it."

Raveline from Germany already released a brief news about mijkfunk & nuFunkFiles already in October 2010.

nuFF said: "Thank you!"

mijkfunk @ WOMB Japan

When Mijk van Dijk DJed at Tokyo's super club WOMB during his tour through Japan in November 2010, he was filmed by the good people from Red Bull TV for their program Night Flight, that transmits complete sets from the best DJs of the world in the best clubs in the world.

Of course it was a big honour for Mijk to be picked for such a program and it was no doubt that he had to drop one of his mijkfunk tunes during a set full of House and Techno.

And it created such a buzz!

Many thanks once again to Kana Fujimaki and a her staff at WOMB, Tim Sproten and his Red Bull TV crew and of course to everybody dancing at WOMB that night.

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!