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Thursday, July 2nd, Sean Haney and Dori Hadar select disco gems all night long in the main room. Oji bangs out house in the Gold Room while Soul Brazil does if grande on the patio. Start your holiday weekend here!

Get your weekend started properly at Eighteenth Street Lounge. Sean Haney drops funk, soul, afro, latin, reggae, disco, house and miscellaneous genre twisting all night.

1212 18th St NW
10p-2a
No Cover.

We are taking things over from open til close. Funk, Soul, Afro, Latin, House, and Disco pressure all night. Holler at us for list.

1212 18th St NW
9:30-3

We do it big at our monthly. Party music for party people.

Get your weekend started properly at Eighteenth Street Lounge. Sean Haney drops funk, soul, afro, latin, reggae, disco, house and miscellaneous genre twisting all night.

1212 18th St NW
10p-2a
No Cover.

For the first time in 2 years, the entire crew, KidGusto, Neil Payne, Moose and Sean Haney, will be playing together. Just like the old days!

We are really excited to launch KidGusto’s European Tour. This will be his last stop before crossing the pond, so come party with us and wish him well and party with us.

Friday: Wonderland Ballroom
Where: 1101 Kenyon St. NW, Washington, DC 20009 (11th & Kenyon)
Metro: Columbia Heights, walk 2 blocks east on Irving St., turn left on 11th and walk one block north to Kenyon.
Time: 10p-3a
DJs: KidGusto, Neil Payne, Moose and Sean Haney
No Cover
No Dress Code
The Beer Garden is Open

DJ Hut officially announced that they will be closing their brick and mortar store and focusing strictly on their on-line shop. This is a sad day for DC as we no longer have a place to shop for new records. The entire FunkDC crew has spent countless hours in DJ Hut shopping and, more importantly, connecting with the staff and owners. Good luck to the DJ Hut family.

This track seems appropriate for the moment.  DC’s own 3 Pieces with their groove classic “Backed Up Against The Wall”:

To bring in the new 2.0 site with all it’s blog format glory, we are adding a new funkDC Podcast feature for all you high paced bloggers, and pod-casters alike. By subscribing to our podcast, you will be able to download our free mixes straight from I-Tunes or from whatever feed program you are subscribed to. 

KG has finished a new exclusive mix for the new site launch, so get ready for some of that old and new heat that will be sure to get your mood right.

For  i-Tunes users, you can subscribe to our Podcast via this LINK.

For all other live RSS feed programs, please click on this LINK to subscribe. 

For all the rest who aren’t sure how subscribe to a podcast or refuse to, we’ve made it easy for you to download or stream KG’s mix from this flash media player below:

I’m opening for Harvey this saturday at Eighteenth Street Lounge.  I’ll spin from 9:30 to 11:30.  Happy Spring.

Dj Harvey & Neil Payne 3/21/09

Lokee - Live at Bar Nun 2000, side A [mp3]

Live at Bar Nun 2000, side B [mp3]

KidGusto said:

“I was speaking with Lokee and he’s been digging up old mix tapes that he’s done from a while back and i suggested that maybe we could host his mixes on funkDC… i mean the dude is a DC legend, ya know? and in a lot of ways a part of the crew. he’s been a huge factor in our record knowledge as well, at least for me and Sean.”

info on the mix from Lokee:

“Email I sent out to people: I just dug up another mix. This one was done live at a happy hour I used to do every Thursday at Kaffa House (yes, we were doing a lot of stuff there, as Elias was open to our ideas).  The happy hour has some significance within DC’s Hip Hop community because it became the unofficial writers bench in DC, moving from me to Kelt NAA (rip) and then to Eon 2DK and Band MBS.  I dj’ed the happy hour for 2 years btwn 96 and 98, and then left, but it lasted all the way up until Kaffa closed in 00.

This particular mix is from early on, right around 96. It’s a mix of hip hop, r&b, with the last song on side a transitioning into reggae. I only had time to transfer side a today, so the mood tends to be mellow.  If I have time tommorow, I’ll transfer side b, which picks up in tempo and has a lot more hip hop and funk on it.”