On May 12th, 2010, Mos Def and Preservation Hall’s Ben Jaffe met in New Orleans to collaborate on a song to benefit The Gulf Relief Foundation, an organization providing relief for those affected by the Gulf oil spill catastrophe. In an all-night jam session less than 12 hours later, they recorded the song at Preservation Hall with the newly formed Gulf Aid Allstars: Mos Def, Lenny Kravitz, Trombone Shorty, Tim Robbins and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The result: a remake of the New Orleans rhythm and blues classic “It Ain’t My Fault”.

Ben Jaffe, recruited Mark Farina, Chuck Love, and Joshua Heath to do remixes of the track. This is the final result!

Chuck Love’s Hot Mess Dub (Example) by Preservation Hall

Mark Farina Mix 2 by Preservation Hall

Joshua Heath’s Faulty Horns Dub by joshuaheath

To learn more about how you can collaborate for the cause, please visit:

http://www.gulfaidremix.com/

The USA’s Chuck Love charts several of his ‘Network Rework’ mixes along with releases from Salted and OM Records.

01 Mark Farina – That’s How (Chuck Love Network Rework) [Great Lakes Audio]
02 Joshua Heath, Colette – Call On Me (Chuck Love Network Rework) [Candy Talk]
03 Bravo Mike – Someone Like You ft. Monica Lynk (Chuck Love Network Rework) [Shifted Music]
04 Kruse & Nuernberg, Fred Everything – Chopped (Fred Everything Mix) [Lazy Days Music]
05 Christopher Sylvester – Loaded [Large Music]
06 Atnarko – Close Your Eyes (Soul Minority Remix) [Onethirty Recordings]
07 Dave Mayer, Justin Michael – Lost In The Music ft. Maiya (Christian Alvarez Saxaphonic Freak Dub) [Salted Music]
08 Samantha James – Subconscious [OM Records]
09 Groove Armada – Paper Romance (Pezzner Club Extended Remix) [OM Records]
10 South Of Roosevelt – Found Me A Lover [Guesthouse Music]

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Chuck Love via The Love Network provides this efficient documentation of a house head’s WMC experience. The highlight is the always brilliant Lisa Shaw rocking the energetic crowd with that magical voice we sometimes take for granted in house music.

Large Music celebrated their 9th annual WMC opening night event this year in Miami. With a stacked line up that included Roy Davis Jr., Jask, Chuck Love Nathan G, Jonn Hawley, Fred Everything and Mr. V, this is one video we highly recommend kicking back and enjoying!

Episode 3 of the Interactive Podcast series between FunkyHouseMusic.com & Junodownload.com is now live and available for download.

The track list and sequencing was designed for the home/headphone listening experience focusing on a wide range of funky house sub-genres. Implicit & Suneel weave through layers of lush funk to uplifting French house all the while integrating an endless array of organic instrumentation and vocal styles. Check out what Junodownload.com had to say about the mix:

US selectors Implicit & Suneel from FunkyHouseMusic.com explore the realms of funky house in the third installment of their Juno podcast series. The recording features a diverse range of high quality 4/4 flavors with an overlay of addictive, feel-good funk.

The podcast includes tracks and mixes from across the funky house genre including deeper elements from Chuck Love, Ralf Gum, Dubtribe Sound System, Dennis Ferrer, and Rasmus Faber before taking off with stompers from Michael Gray, Alex Kenji, Jay-J, Fred Falke, and The Groovelab.

Implicit vs Suneel – Juno Funky House Podcast – Episode 3

The track list is now available for Episode 3 of the Juno Funky House Podcast series and explores new realms of the genre by U.S. selectors Implicit & Suneel from FunkyHouseMusic.com.

01. Ralf Gum – All This Love For You (Original Mix) [Gogo Music]
02. Chuck Love feat. Colette – UR Everything (Main Mix) [Love Network]
03. Rasmus Faber – Give It To Me (Extended 12″ Mix) [Farplane]
04. The Jinks – What Happened To Us [Jinks Inc]
05. Dubtribe Sound System – Do It Now (Knee Deep Club Mix) [Defected]
06. Stephanie Cooke – Rain (Dennis Ferrer Rainforest Mix) [King Street Sounds]
07. Rasmus Faber – Are You Ready (RF Club Mix) [Farplane]
08. Ministers de La Funk – I Feel Love (Michael Gray & Danism Remix) [Subliminal]
09. Milk & Sugar feat. Ayak – You Got Me Burnin’ (Alex Kenji Remix) [Milk & Sugar]
10. Jay J feat. Latrice Barnett – Keep On Risin’ (Jay-J’s Shifted Up Mix) [Bargrooves]
11. The Groovelab – Uncut Funk (Part 6) [San Trincha]
12. City Life feat. DD – San Francisco (Fred Falke Remix) [Wasted Youth]

Implicit & Suneel – Juno Funky House Podcast 03 Track List

Two FHMDC favorites Chuck Love & Colette join forces, and the results are spectacular! An additional layer of significance associated with the release is the announcement of The Love Network – Chuck Love’s new dance music label and production home.

Chuck Love and Colette have collaborated on a new track called “UR Everything”. The track features Chuck’s signature layered deep house melodies paired with Colette’s hypnotizing sugary vocals. On remix duty, Potty Mouth’s Santiago & Bushido provide a club banger (with hints reminiscent of MANDY vs. Booka Shade “Body Language”) featuring dubbed out / cut up vocals.

Chuck Love & Colette – UR Everything

FunkyHouseMusic.com proudly presents this exclusive interview with one of the most exciting house music performers currently in the world. Not just an inspiration to house music and dance, but an inspiration to the art form of music in general. Enjoy this insightful dialogue with the one & only Chuck Love!

FHM: Please describe how it all began. Your love for music, instruments, and performance’if it’s possible, provide the readers of FunkyHouseMusic.com who aren’t as familiar with your history with a short synopsis of how you became the multi-talented artist you represent today.

CL: Wow. My history with music has been a long one indeed.
I started my fascination with music at a very early age, for some reason I just “got it.” I was able to pick out melodies on the piano, and sort out harmonies and sing them at an age where my parents, and teachers etc..were pretty amazed.
My strongest asset seems to be my ability to analyze what I hear and repeat it or add harmony.
This may describe why I have a thing for parrots!

FHM: What was it about house music that originally drew you to it?

CL: I first heard House music in the early-mid 80s when the world first heard it and the term was born.
I was interested in it then because I was recording electronic dance music, and House had a real “do it yourself” feel. Lots of samples, and crazy drum programs.
It was clear to me that this music was driven much more by the end-use dancefloor deployment, than some fancy studio, or some expensive producer’s take on what people should like.

It wasn’t until the late 90s that I purchased turntables and started spinning acid jazz, broken beat, atmospheric rrum and bass, etc. The final piece of the puzzle was the CDJ-1000 which I adopted immediately as a mechanism to play my own productions, and I started making tracks that were more about the beatmixed 4/4 house music format that we know, and my productions and DJing evolved in that direction. Read more