{"id":5787,"date":"2024-12-05T08:57:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T07:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/?p=5787"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:10:47","slug":"pearsall-presents-there-back-008-august-uk-funky-2008-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/pearsall-presents-there-back-008-august-uk-funky-2008-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearsall presents There &amp; Back 008: August, UK Funky 2008-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/thereandback\/Pearsall-ThereAndBack008_August_UKFunky2008-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/thereandback\/Pearsall-ThereAndBack008_August_UKFunky2008-2011.mp3\">Pearsall presents There &amp; Back 008: August, UK Funky 2008-2011<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><em>right-click, save as to download<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1974071363&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/sonicrampage\" title=\"Pearsall\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Pearsall<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/sonicrampage\/there-back-008-august-uk-funky-2008-2011\" title=\"There &amp; Back 008: August, UK Funky 2008-2011\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">There &amp; Back 008: August, UK Funky 2008-2011<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Recorded in Berlin, September 2024<br \/>100% Vinyl<br \/>(60:10, 142 MB, 320 KBPS MP3)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/thereandback\/Pearsall-ThereAndBack008_August_UKFunky2008-2011BIG.jpg\">Big cover<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/thereandback\/Pearsall-ThereAndBack008_August_UKFunky2008-2011.cue\">Cue file<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Direct link to the mix:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/thereandback\/Pearsall-ThereAndBack008_August_UKFunky2008-2011.mp3\">https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/thereandback\/Pearsall-ThereAndBack008_August_UKFunky2008-2011.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tracklisting:<\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cooly G &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/2405240-Cooly-G-Up-In-My-Head-Phat-Si\">Up In My Head<\/a> [Hyperdub]<\/li>\n<li>DVA &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/2115677-DVA-Natty-Ganja\">Natty<\/a> [Hyperdub]<\/li>\n<li>Altered Natives &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/3209402-Altered-Natives-White-Label-Series-1\">Love Switch Off<\/a> [Eye4Eye]<\/li>\n<li>Untold &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/1835790-Untold-Just-For-You\">Just For You (Roska Remix)<\/a> [Hotflush]<\/li>\n<li>Hard House Banton &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/1430324-Hard-House-Banton-Siren-EP\">The Music<\/a> [Spoilt Rotten Entertainment]<\/li>\n<li>Emvee &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/1803782-Emvee-Glitch-Dub-Nocturnal\">Nocturnal<\/a> [Wireblock]<\/li>\n<li>Doc Daneeka &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/2474480-Doc-Daneeka-Television-EP\">Mario&#8217;s Mushrooms<\/a> [PTN]<\/li>\n<li>Mosca &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/2250251-Mosca-Square-One-Remixes\">Square One (L-Vis 1990 Remix)<\/a> [Night Slugs]<\/li>\n<li>Sticky &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/2052867-Sticky-Jumeirah-Riddim\">Look Pon Me ft Natalie Storm<\/a> [Mixpak]<\/li>\n<li>Cooly G &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/1819366-Cooly-G-Narst-Love-Dub\">Narst<\/a> [Hyperdub]<\/li>\n<li>Girl Unit &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/2250196-Girl-Unit-IRL-EP\">IRL (DVA&#8217;s Hi Emotions Remix)<\/a> [Night Slugs]<\/li>\n<li>Lil Silva &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/2389542-Lil-Silva-Night-Skanker-EP\">Against Yaself<\/a> [Night Slugs]<\/li>\n<li>Champion &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/3070017-Champion-Lighter-EP\">Bongoshot<\/a> [Formula]<\/li>\n<li>MJ Cole &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/2253685-MJ-Cole-Riddim-EP\">Flux Riddim<\/a> [Prolific]<\/li>\n<li>Martyn &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/3024604-Martyn-Masks-Viper\">Viper (London&#8217;s Arches Edit)<\/a> [Brainfeeder]<\/li>\n<li>Beneath &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/4058868-Beneath-Illusions-EP\">Prangin&#8217;<\/a> [Keysound]<\/li>\n<li>Walton &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/3803090-Various-Keysound-Allstars-Vol-1\">Cool It VIP<\/a> [Keysound]<\/li>\n<li>Lil Silva &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/1674770-Lil-Silva-Pulse-vs-Flex-Funky-Pulse\">Funky Pulse<\/a> [DDJS Productions]<\/li>\n<li>Lone &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/2407051-Lone-Pineapple-Crush\">Pineapple Crush<\/a> [Magic Wire]<\/li>\n<li>DJ Zinc &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/2136258-DJ-Zinc-Benga-Feat-Ms-Dynamite-Wile-Out-My-DJ\">Wile Out feat Ms Dynamite<\/a> [Bingo Bass]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are few cities that have seen as much musical innovation over the years as London, and UK Funky is one of those lesser-known examples of just how vital the London music scene has been. A relatively briefly-lived scene, it emerged in the late 2000&#8217;s as a London take on the classic &#8216;funky house&#8217; sound, where American-style soulful house was kidnapped and taken to a South London council estate and fed on a strict diet of soca, African percussion, dubstep, grime, UK garage, and broken beat in order to produce something that was completely London and absolutely, compulsively danceable. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t actually have a ton to say about this mix &#8211; I&#8217;m not really an expert on the sound or the artists, I just like it. This was the era when the dance scene was transitioning from vinyl to digital, so lots of the best tracks never even made it to vinyl, but I managed to pick up a few. Great music!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0YHC69wa9JA?si=6Ii9dEfoVcMAN426\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit of a weird one as to why this sound wasn&#8217;t bigger in the end, because it&#8217;s super fun, super danceable, and you would think that it could have been huge in a way that it wasn&#8217;t. I mean, Drake sampled the UK Funky classic &#8216;Do You Mind?&#8217; on &#8216;One Dance&#8217; and that was a mega-hit, so it seems like people would have been open to it, right? Somehow the stars never aligned.<\/p>\n<p>This mix is not strictly 100% stuff that would be considered UK Funky, but it all has that vibe (in my opinion), and I like the stuff, and I never made a full mix, so I figured why not?<\/p>\n<p>If you want to read more about UK funky, here are some articles:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/djmag.com\/longreads\/uk-funky-isn-t-back-it-never-left\">UK Funky isn&#8217;t back &#8211; it never left<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatportal.com\/articles\/399902-the-lasting-legacy-of-uk-funky\">The lasting legacy of UK Funky<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mixmag.net\/feature\/why-didnt-uk-funky-break-the-mainstream\">Why didn&#8217;t UK Funky break the mainstream?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Funky was a highly under-rated genre &#8211; here Pearsall goes in on a selection of 20 gems from this scene!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,263],"tags":[18,265,264],"class_list":["post-5787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mixes","category-there-back","tag-house","tag-there-back","tag-uk-funky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5914,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions\/5914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}