Our favourite Italian ragazzis, Il Crookers – currently sweating in the studio on their upcoming studio album – sent us a link to their brand new “We Make It Good” mix. Crookers say about the mix: “it seem like have pizza with spaghetti with Chocolate and Caramelle inside..strange…but sounds good!”. Enjoy this spaced out mix with a nice fat spliff.

Download it here: http://wemakeitgood.com/mix-series/volume-07-crookers

TRACKLIST

Marino Marini “Era scritto nel cielo”
DATA “Rapture part2″
Rusko “Boo Woost” / Caspa “Where’s BEST SH*T RIGHT NOW!
Equipe84 “Io ho in mente te”
Bombaman “Exia” (Setsuna mix)
Isa GT Feat. Crookers “Pelao”
DropTheLime “Hear me” (BSS Mix)
Hugo Moya “Move”
Dj Mujava “Township Funk” (Radioclit mix)
Sound of Stereo (Nic Sarno re-trix)
Dj Cleo “Rutheless”
Mr.Oizo “Cut20DIck”
Lucio Battisti “Il Veliero”

Just got off tour with MPHO as support for Mongrel last weekend. It was two weeks a heck of a lot of fun. During this trip, I managed to break my headphones and get addicted to Roast Chicken flavoured crisps. Everything went pretty smoothly, everyone showed up on time for the gigs, except for one time when Drew, Mongrel’s guitarist, who missed his train from London to Sheffield. Dude turned up ten minutes before the show, calm and composed, just picked up his guitar and do his thing. Respect! I guess being in a band with Pete Doherty means that nothing can faze you, eh? Anyways, Here’s a pic.

Now to why this post is called what it is.

After the Brighton gig, we went and checked out Dj Donaeo play. Man, I love me some UK Garage/Funky. Donaeo smashed it, as well as Nice and Niche, who gave me a mixtape. The tape is sick (you can down download it from their myspace here), and the last track freaked me out. The tune is called “Make it funky for me” by Attaca Pesante ft. Shea. Its a Funky version of the Will.i.am track “Make it funky”, which is his take on Baile Funk. I’m being a music nerd now, but I get excited about stuff like that! You know, just how one type of music influences another… maybe I’ll come up with a UKG inspired Baile Funk track someday.

So attached are the two tunes I was talking about…. I had to take the Attaca Pesante track straight off the mixtape… I couldn’t find it anywhere! If anyone knows where I can buy UKG tunes online please let me know!

Will.i.am – “Make it Funky”

Attaca Pesante ft. Shea “Make it funky for me”

DJ Edgar, Rio´s world famous baile funk MPC slayer sent us his new 2009 mixtape. Edgar is currently gearing up for his Europe summer tour 2009 – if you´re up for booking him, please contact Halleluja Booking, lars@blenda.com

DJ EDGAR MIXTAPE 2009

Prelude
Na Europa é assim ohh (Mr Jack feat. DJ Edgar)
Push it (Salt-n-Pepa feat. DJ Edgar)
Funknotronic (Technotronic feat. DJ Edgar)
Funk com Kuduro (Buraka Som Sistema & Pongo Love feat. DJ Edgar)
Funk com Reggaeton (Don Omar feat. DJ Edgar)
Everybody Dance’Funk’now (C&C Music Factory feat. DJ Edgar)
Boogie Down Beat (Earth, Wind and Fire feat. DJ Edgar)
MSN (DJ Edgar)
Money 4 nothing (DJ Gordura)
Out of Space (Max Romeo and The Upsetters feat. DJ Edgar)
We don’t play (MC Shy-D feat. DJ Edgar)
Made in Brazil (Mr Jack feat. DJ Edgar)
Samuel vs Mister Doubalina (Del Tha Funkee Homosapien feat. DJ Edgar)
DNA (Feat. MC Gi feat. DJ Edgar)
Sax Survive (DJ Edgar)
Back To (DJ Edgar)
Ser amante (BomBom feat. DJ Edgar)
Hello Moto (DJ Edgar)
Solta esse ponto (DJ Edgar)
Fogo no Put… (DJ Edgar)
Pianinho Mix (DJ Edgar)
Miss Fatty-Funk (Million Stylez feat. DJ Edgar)

Download it from here: http://www.zshare.net/audio/545658374a027f04/



For me, The Specials are one of the best UK bands of all time, right after The Beatles and The Clash. Inspired by 1960s Jamaican ska, Jerry Dammers, Terry Hall and their band The Specials started with cover versions of Jamaican ska classics such as Prince Buster´s “Al Capone” or Dandy Livingstone´s “Rudy, A Message To You” in 1978, entering the UK charts with their fresh new sound. One of their most classic tunes is “Ghost Town”, probably the biggest song to emerge from the 2 Tone label (which defined the 2nd wave of ska produced in UK ). “Ghost Town” still mesmerizes with it´s Oriental melody, Rico horns and child choirs embedded in a song about the decaying UK inner cities of the Thatcher years. If you look for one of the main roots of, err “tropical”, use this as your late early 1980s starting point.

Wtf? Timberland going baile funk? You´d sweat yo ass in Rio with those uglies: