{"id":54,"date":"2010-01-24T02:17:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T02:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=54"},"modified":"2010-02-09T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T02:45:00","slug":"funky16corners-radio-v-78-forbidden-city-funk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Funky16Corners Radio v.78 – Forbidden City Funk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally Posted 12\/27\/09<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Funky16Corners Radio v.78 – Forbidden City Funk!
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Parliaments \u2013 Good Ole Music (Revilot)
\nMarlena Shaw \u2013 California Soul (Cadet)
\nSoulful Strings \u2013 Zambezi (Cadet)
\nMystic Moods \u2013 Cosmic Sea (WB)
\nBobby Byrd \u2013 I Know You Got Soul (King)
\nWillie Smith \u2013 I Got a New Thing (Genuine)
\nLouie Ramirez \u2013 Do It Any Way You Wanna (Cotique)
\nWillie Tell & The Overtures \u2013 Kick-Back (Chess)
\nHoctor \u2013 Gold Coast (Hoctor)
\nLa May \u2013 Free the Soul Man (SPQR)
\nIncredible Bongo Band \u2013 Apache (Mr Bongo reissue)
\nMelting Pot \u2013 Kool and the Gang (Ampex)
\nDanny Delaney \u2013 Stop and Think (Palmetto)
\nCymande \u2013 Fug (Janus)
\nChuck Carbo \u2013 Can I Be Your Squeeze (Canyon)
\nLouis Chachere \u2013 The Hen Pt1 (Paula)
\nDavid Batiste & the Gladiators \u2013 Funky Soul Pt1 (Instant)
\nNanette Workman \u2013 Lady Marmalade (Pasha)
\nLaura Lee \u2013 Crumbs Off the Table (Hot Wax)
\nJames Brown \u2013 Hot Pants Pt1 (People)
\nLyn Collins \u2013 Think (About It) (People)
\nRoger & the Gypsies \u2013 Pass the Hatchet Pt1 (Seven B)
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<\/strong>Head over to the Funky16Corners Radio Podcast Archive to hear this Mix<\/a>
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\nThe view from behind the decks at Forbidden City<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nGetting ready to pull the trigger on Hoctor’s ‘Gold Coast’.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Greetings all.<\/strong><\/div>\n

The end of another year is at hand, and I thought I\u2019d try something different this year. The fam and I are hitting the road for some relative-related visitation, so this will be it until the New Year.
\nLast Wednesday I had the honor of sharing the decks with my Asbury Park 45 Sessions<\/strong> cohort DJ Bluewater<\/strong> at his new Master Groove night at Forbidden City <\/strong><\/a>in Manhattan (the evening\u2019s other guest selector was none other than the mighty M-Fasis<\/strong>). Forbidden City is a chill venue with some very cool people, and despite the holiday traffic and huge heaps of snow in the street I had a great time.
\nA couple of folks (specifically members of the Funky16Corners<\/strong> group on Facebook<\/a>) requested a set list for the night, and while I was recovering from the Christmas festivities I thought it might be a cool idea to record the evening\u2019s selections in a new edition of the Funky16Corners Radio podcast. The only real difference between this and any other edition of F16C Radio, is that the tracks herein were selected on the fly, as I DJ\u2019d. Certainly there was a level of selection inherent in what went into my DJ box (which holds about 75 singles) but the set itself was assembled on the spot at Forbidden City<\/strong>.
\nWhat you\u2019ll be listening to is just over an hour of hot funk 45s (many breaks within) including a couple of new arrivals that will most certainly be blogged about separately in the coming months.
\nThe evening was marked by an interesting (thought certainly not unprecedented) incident toward the end of my set. While the bar wasn\u2019t packed, there was a crowd, including a particularly lively group of young ladies who came in right before I started spinning and proceeded to whoop it up with several rounds of drinks. Nothing out of control, but they were clearly deep in the holiday spirit(s).
\nAbout 45 minutes into the proceedings, one young lass approached me and informed me that she had come from an entire table of flamenco dancers (I was worried for a minute that she was going to request actual flamenco music, a genre that I rarely<\/em> carry with me). She then asked me \u2013 right in the middle of a set of tight, slamming funk (see above list for confirmation of same) if I might \u201cplay something dancey\u201d<\/strong>?
\nNow, in situations like this, I always try to maintain my icy veneer of cool. I\u2019m certainly not averse to taking requests, as long as they are \u2013 how do you say<\/em> \u2013 of an \u2018appropriate\u2019 nature. I\u2019ve seen some weird ones, i.e. a kid requesting anything by KISS during a set of Northern Soul, and I\u2019ve also dealt (as almost any DJ has) with surly, drunken booth-monkeys who seem to feel that it\u2019s OK to crawl on\/into the DJ booth, bumping\/placing their drink on the turntables, causing the tone arm to jump as they demand something specific (which I immediately counter with a demand that they remove themselves from my immediate vicinity with the greatest possible haste<\/em>).
\nThis particular girl was polite, but I couldn\u2019t help but recoil slightly at the idea that a self-proclaimed dancer could not find it in themselves to move to any or all of the records listed above.
\nI mean, honest to god<\/em>, funk is, by definition, funky<\/strong>, a state of being that gets its name by its ability to cause people to move in a rhythmic fashion, often described by observers as \u201cdancing\u201d. Not everyone who feels compelled to move by these records is a good dancer, but they are all dancing. Even those wallflowers who are prevented \u2013 by timidity, inebriation or physical infirmity (or a combination of any or all of the above) \u2013 from dancing usually react to the power of the music by some seated version of the dance, with the foot-tap, the head-bob, the seated-shimmy or something else along those lines. Anyone confronted by a 45 like Bobby Byrd\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018I Know You Got Soul\u2019 who doesn\u2019t move at all, should be checked for a pulse.
\nThat said, I was in a festive mood, so I dipped into my DJ box and pulled out my number one slice of guaranteed Becky-bait, Nanette Workman\u2019s<\/strong> French language version of LaBelle\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Lady Marmalade\u2019, which gives them all the easily recognizable Top 40 vibe they can handle while simultaneously allowing me to save face by offering quality funk to those in the know. I followed this with some James Brown <\/strong>(\u2018Hot Pants\u2019), Lyn Collins<\/strong> (\u2018Think About It\u2019) and since my time was just about up, I whipped a little Roger & the Gypsies<\/strong> on the assembled masses, figuring if that wasn\u2019t \u201cdancey\u201d enough, there was nothing anyone of my powers could do, and HO HO HO, and what the fuck, and \u201cGood evening ladies and gents!\u201d and what not.
\nHappily, after I sort of\/kind of answered her request, these people actually got up and danced, to four 45s that were in essence EXACTLY<\/strong> the same as the sixteen others that preceded them, proving once again that human nature is a funny thing, and sometime giving the people what they want is exactly the same as giving them what they need, and everyone walks away from a night at the pub with a wobble in their step and more importantly, a smile on their face.
\nIt is in that spirit that I wish you all a Happy New Year, and the best of all things in Twenty-Oh-Ten (man, who saw that coming???<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Peace<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/p>\n

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NOTE: The Funky16Corners Radio Podcast Archive has been updated (see link in sidebar) , and all seventy seven previous mixes are now represented.
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PPS – Make sure to fall by Iron Leg for a year-end wrap up mix.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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