Brothers Johnson ~ Ain’t We Funkin’ Now, picked by Paul

From 1978, George “Lightnin’ Licks” and Louis “Thunder Thumbs” Johnson at their most powerful.

Show 5 Track List & Download Link

To download this weeks show CLICK HERE
Here’s the track list for show 5.

Don’t forget, if you’d like a request please post it as a comment below and we’ll try and fit it in.

New York Port Authority ~ I Got It ~ 1977
Stevie Wonder ~ Higher Ground ~ 1973 / 1995
Karma ~ Funk De Mambo ~ 1976
Chuck Mangione ~ Feel So Good ~ 1977
Loose End(s) ~ In The Sky ~ 1982
Daryl Hall ~ Stop Loving Me Stop Loving You ~ 1994
Oran Juice Jones ~ The Rain ~ 1986
Grover Washington Jr ~ Just The Two Of Us ~ 1980
Light Of The World ~ London Town ~ 1980
Randy Crawford ~ Secret Combination ~ 1981
Wally Badaroo ~ Chief Inspector ~ 1985
Donald Byrd ~ Places & Spaces ~ 1975
Julia & Company ~ Breakin’ Down (Sugar Samba) ~ 1984
Unique ~ What I Got Is What You Need ~ 1983
Willie Henderson ~ Gangster Boogie Bump ~ 1974
Commodores ~ Too Hot To Trot ~ 1978
Bambarra ~ Shack Up ~ 1975
Average White Band ~ When Will You Be Mine ~ 1979
North End ~ Tee’s Happy ~ 1981
David Bendeth ~ Feel The Real ~ 1979
Billy Paul ~ Bring The Family Back ~ 1979
Jimmy Owens ~ Do It To It ~ 1976
Deodato ~ Super Strutt ~ 1973

It’s Thursday, It’s 2pm, It’s Show Five!

Here comes Thursday again and we’re up to show 5.

Thanks to everyone who’s been listening to the show on Morpher and also to those of you who’ve been downloading it. The great feedback on the Morpher message board and on our facebook pages makes it all worthwhile. Don’t forget, if you’d like a request please post it as a comment below and we’ll try and fit it in.

You can find Morpher radio here.
You can “tune in” using the panel on the left hand side of the home page.

Broadcast times are …
Thursday afternoon ~ 14:00 to 16:00 GMT
Saturday morning ~ 00:00 to 02:00 GMT
Tuesday morning ~ 02:00 to 04:00 GMT

We’d welcome your comments below, cheers!

The Rhythm Makers ~ Zone, chosen by Steve

Another blinding track for you all to get your groove thing shaking to (how’s that for DJ parlance?).

From a time when dance music with a solid beat was still relatively difficult to find. I once put this as the #1 track of all-time for me as a DJ. People just didn’t understand why. All I can say is “you just had to be …

Unique ~ What I Got Is What You Need, selected by Paul.

Steve was gutted when I had this on my playlist for this weeks show – lol

A real classic from 1983 on the legendary Prelude label.

This video isn’t the group, it’s Flick Colby’s Zoo – the Top Of The Pops dancers of the time.

Message from Steve

The radio shows on Morpher radio are going really well. They are fun to make, give Paul and I a chance to find out things we’d forgotten, or never knew in the first place and all the time they’re helping us hone our presenting/Djing skills, so that one day something spectacular might just happen. Who knows what’s just around the bend?

One thing we have found out since we started this whole thing is that handshakes no longer signify a deal is struck, otherwise we would have had a lot more exciting news to share with you all. However, at the time of writing we do have something very special up our sleeves for the new year, so as they all say…watch this space!

It’s back – and we’ll be there!

Here’s a date for your diary, 23rd December, Bliss, Southampton!
More details soon.

Click here for the early news

Rick James ~ Glow, posted by Steve

Paul’s better at blogging than me, so it’s back to the music. We’ve been rather engrossed by the radio shows, but now we’ve got them down to a fine(r) art and so have a little more time to start putting up tracks.
Today I’m going to share with you an absolute blinder from Rick james that should be on everyone’s iPod playlist or whatever. One of his lesser known titles and NOT on his greatest hits compilation (why not???) nevertheless, it’s an absolute cracker of a groove. One that should give you a warm one.

Bobby Caldwell ~ What You Won’t Do For Love, selected by Paul

Another track I’d completely forgotten about, which is really strange as I used to play it all the time in my slow set. Thanks to fellow Morpher DJ, Joe Barker from Montreal, who played it on his show which then sent me off to google and youtube to do my research.

If you want to know what I found out you’ll have to listen to our show – I’ll be playing it somewhen between now and Christmas. However I can tell you that, as far as I can see, he is not related to Minnie Caldwell from Coronation Street.

Cheers Joe!

The Lapstone & Children In Need

Thanks to everyone for the warm welcome at the Lapstone on Friday night – we hope to see you again soon. Special thanks to Sean and Chris who are now well and truly waxed. Together we raised a great amount per head, well done.

Because we were working I didn’t get to see a lot of the TV show on Friday but there are two things I think you should check out…
On Thursday night the Children In Need Rocks The Royal Albert Hall concert was broadcast. Gary Barlow pulled together a fantastic show and it’s available to view on the BBC iPlayer – well worth a watch.

On Friday saw the launch of the 2009 Children In Need single – it’s absolutely fantastic. Click here to go the official site for the seven minute “making of” video which will explain far better than I ever could. Check out Paddington as James Brown.

Children In Need do great work – if you can give a bit more please do.