Desert Island Disco - November

24th November

Today’s Castaway is Graham Braid (AKA Ice Dad, so named by his daughter Hannah after the In Case Of Emergency entry in her phone). He lives on The Wirral.

He says: “I thought it about time that I threw my discs into the ring for Desert Island Disco, but with a funky twist, as I am basically a 'funkateer' at heart.

It all started with a pioneering DJ up here in Merseyside called Terry Lennaine, who used to play the most inspirational funk tunes. My friends and I enjoyed doing the ‘Wicky Wacky’ on the dance floors of the Top Rank in Liverpool, experiencing ‘Jungle Boogie’ blasted at us by Kool and the Gang at the Empire Theatre, and dancing around to James Browns ‘Get Up Offa That Thing’ on our holidays down in Cornwall, at the Sailors Arms and the Tall Trees Club in Newquay. Good days!

I have had the privilege of growing up in a golden era of music, from an early age listening to the glam rock of T.Rex, Roxy Music onto funk, or as my Dad used to call it "heavy soul", through to northern soul, disco, then ska, reggae and punk, with deviations into the electro sounds of Devo, and Kraftwerk and my favourite band Talking Heads.

I can honestly say I have experienced and love all types of music and that is why I am an avid listener to 6 Music and its smorgasbord of music. I find it refreshing that there is still a wealth of great funk out there, with the likes of New Cool Collective, Nils Langren, Smoove and Turrell, Brother Strut, Push and many more (on the list below). Even locally, in Liverpool, we have Galactic Funk Militia and Funkafonix keeping the funk alive. I hope you enjoy my list.”

Full Tracklist
Underwater - Harry Thumann
Disco Lights - Dexter Wansel
You're The One For Me - D.Train
Drunk On The Funk - Neighbor
Do It For Me - General Cook
Better on Stage - Flow Dynamics
Do What You Wanna Do - T.Connection
Funky Kingston - Toots and The Maytals/Bootsy Collins
Made of Stone - Kylie Auldist
One Note Brown (Lanu Remix) -The New Mastersounds
Blast it - Brooklyn Funk Essentials
House Party - Nils Langren Funk Unit
Well Run Dry - Phat Phunktion
Wicky Wacky - Fatback Band
Funkin Around - Down To The Bone
What Do I Have To Do To Prove My Love - Marva Whitney
Boogie - Uptown Funk Empire
Live It Up (Pt 1 and 2) - The Isley Bros.
Got To Get Your Own (7"short edit) - Reuben Wilson
Standup - Breakestra
The Traveller Part Two - Haggis Horns
Soul Makossa - Manu Dibango
Theme from Which Way Is Up - Stargard
Get The Funk Out Ma Face-The Brothers Johnson
Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boy-The Equals
High Time - Ole Borud

17th November

Today’s Castaway is the Scissor Sisters’ Ana Matronic, who shares her Disco Devotion with Radio 2 listeners on Saturday nights.

In the same week that the record-breaking Saturday Night Fever soundtrack turned 40, Ana will be presenting a Cinema and TV Disco special, from midnight.

“Here are my choices - I chose seven because I like a nice lucky number xxA”

Donna Summer - Lucky
Earth Wind & Fire - Serpentine Fire
Barry White - Your Sweetness Is My Weakness
The Bee Gees - Love You Inside Out
Hot Chocolate - Mindless Boogie (or Everyone’s A Winner)
Claudja Barry - Sweet Dynamite
First Choice - Let No Man Put Asunder

For more on The Bee Gees, listen to Ana's Radio 2 documentary, Night Fever: The Rise of the Bee Gees

3rd November

Ed Garrie was part of the the club night collectiveBabble Collective Soundsystem which started in Leicester in 1993. Ed's DJ name was "Lobstafari" and he was a regular at Babble Collective Soundsystem's club nights. Ed has dedicated his Desert Island Disco to Babble Collective Soundsystem's 24th Birthday Party. The collective are celebrating their birthday on 18th November in Leicester.

The collective are dedicated to playing the funkiest house music for the nicest people around. It's an ever changing line-up of regulars - DJs, organizers, lighting designers and no less dedicated associates - lifting kit and handing out flyers. An early member of the group was Banksy who designed some of their flyers!

They've put on parties in some wonderful locations including a Babble bus party, a Babble boat party, street parties, warehouse parties, festival slots and the odd knees-up in a forest somewhere.

Ed says he has the fondest memories of partying with the Babble Collective Soundsystem - "I moved away from Leicester a few years ago, got married and now have a beautiful 2 year old daughter. Naturally, I have lost touch a little with the great friends and amazing people I used to lift PA with, paint canvas with, plug in lights for, play records to and get down with, but those times remain some of the happiest of my life, and Babble people some of the nicest folk I have ever met."

Babble Collective Soundsytem Desert Island Disco Featuring:

Edwin Starr – Contact
The Fantastic Four – Alvin Stone (minus the dramatic interlude, for timing reasons)
Goody Goody – It Looks Like Love
Le Tigre – Nanny Nanny Boo (Arthur Baker Vs. Coleman & Spencer Smashter Remix)
Gus Gus – David

You can party with the Babble Collective Soundsystem on the 18th November in Leicester.

Full Tracklist:

Call The Police - Ini Kamoze
Kings of the Sounds and Blues - Zion Train
Spank Rock - Bump
Body Baby - Pharoahe Monch
Interlock - Stereolab
You Did It - Ann Robinson
Get Off your Seats and Jam - South Side Coalition
Insane (Tambourine Mix) - ESG
Nanny Boo Boo (Craig C's Turn It Up Vocal Mix) - Le Tigre
Eye to Eye Contact - Edwin Starr
Everybody Dance - Chic
Yellow Sunshine - Yellow Sunshine
Alvin Stone (Birth & Death of a Gangster) - Fantastic Four
It Looks Like Love - Goody Goody
Tenderoni - Chromeo
You and I - Rick James (the long version please)
Kids (Soulwax Remix) - MGMT
She's Good for Business - MSTRKRFT
David - GusGus
Sing It Back (Mousse T's Feel love Mix) - Moloko

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