It's Christmaaaaaaaaasssssssss! As an old rocker from Birmingham once screeched into a microphone, but you'll not find any of the usual christmas perennials on this mixtape.
This is another cracking little mix on the previously featured Paris DJs website. This time they host a funk and soul festive mix from DJ Jan Kohlmeyer, a funk DJ outta Germany. God bless him too, while most people have the one cheesy christmas CD that they wheel out every year, this guy has a whole collection of christmas 45s for us to enjoy by the fire with the family.
The mix gets going straight away with a bit of Stevie Wonder, and doesn't stop for the whole 1h03m, with Kohlmeyer slapping that festive funkiness down again and again. There are a few cheeky little numbers from the gloriously grizzly Louis Armstrong and unsurprisingly the [God]Father Christmas of soul himself James Brown features heavily, but the whole thing is a non-stop flow of thick fudgy christmas sauce all the way through.
The tracks themselves are taken in part from a compliation called Santa's Funk & Soul Christmas Party on Kohlmeyer's own Tramp records, and the whole mix is helpfully narrated by a lovely, but wickedly dead pan German lady, who even gives us recommedation on a YouTube video of James Brown giving us a dancing lesson. I can't think of a better way to end a blog than that, so Happy Christmas everybody:
Hi Mixtapeselecta!
ReplyDeleteThanks for reviewing part 1 of my DJ mix - here you find the link to the second part of my promotional DJ mix containing some extra 60min of quality funk & soul Christmas titles:
http://funkychristmas.de/liner-notes/dj-mixes/