Music like...

[Charlie Brown]

Kool & the Gang - Fresh - YouTube

I'm trying to update/work on my background music and I'm after cool/funky tunes like this.

Anyone got a few suggestions?

Cue Steve. :sj:

[Alchemy]

How about Level 42?

Level 42 - Lessons In Love - YouTube

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

Kool & the Gang - Fresh - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NChc__dH3jA)

I'm trying to update/work on my background music and I'm after cool/funky tunes like this.

Anyone got a few suggestions?

Cue Steve. :sj:

Why is that background music?

Good dance tune IMO.

[Charlie Brown]

Why is that background music?

Good dance tune IMO.

Yeah, I used it the other night and everyone danced - worked well with I'm coming out for some reason.

I'm just after really upbeat classics as an alternative to swing/jazz/90's boy bands/80's slow stuff.

Hard to explain really.

[Alchemy]

Steely Dan- Do It Again - YouTube

[WWDJ]

Sister Sledge - Thinking of You
Tavares - More than a woman
Emotions - Best of my Love
George Benson - Give me the night
Stevie Wonder - Signed Sealed Delivered
The 3 Degrees - The Runner.

[paul1404]

Charlie - I think I get where you coming from try the 80s groove albums from ministry of sound

[Ryu]

The Whispers - And The beat goes on
The Whispers - Its a love Thing
The Fatback Band - I Found lovin'
Pointer Sisters - Automatic

But I am with Darren, these are by no means background songs ...would probably get me dancing, let alone the punters!

[discomobiledj]

Al Stewart - Year of the Cat

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

Al Stewart - Year of the Cat

How is that cool or funky then? :confused:

[Corabar Steve]

How is that cool or funky then? :confused:
Come on, we've already had level 42 suggested, cool as a furnace.

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

Come on, we've already had level 42 suggested, cool as a furnace.

Have you listened to any of their early jazz funk/Brit funk? That was pretty cool. :beatnik:

[Corabar Steve]

They were never cool

[WWDJ]

They were never cool

:agree: there seems to be a bit of level 42 obsessing going on! :D

Charlie, if you fancy some interesting funky, cool tracks try the Supafunky or Bar Essentials CD series, some interesting tracks a mix of mainstream and non mainstream (no level 42 either!!)

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

They were never cool

In your opinion not in mine.

[Alchemy]

They were never cool

Please................not the "cool" or "uncool" debate again :rolleyes:

It's subjective, we are never going to agree :D

[Corabar Steve]

It's a law of musical physics that it is impossible to be cool when the bass is being held at a level higher than Simon Cowell's waistline.

[discoinferno]

How about this classic?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi49eeCwnVQ

[DeckstarDeluxe]

^ great tune ^

[discoinferno]

And this :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd4Si1XKq3c

[DeckstarDeluxe]

Night to remember is a popular one for me early doors....

[DeckstarDeluxe]

Maze featuring Frankie Beverly - Back in Stride - YouTube

Imagination - Flashback - YouTube

The Blackbyrds-Rock Creek Park - YouTube

LOOKING UP TO YOU - MICHAEL WYCOFF - YouTube

Which reminds me of the Zhane - Hey Mr DJ

[Alchemy]

It's a law of musical physics that it is impossible to be cool when the bass is being held at a level higher than Simon Cowell's waistline.

PMSL :Laugh: :Laugh: :Laugh: I never knew that.

[Charlie Brown]

Thanks guys, much appreciated.

Much appreciated. More stuff like 'a night to remember' would be grand.

I've got most of these tunes in my library, just haven't thought to play them as background music!

[dj foureyes]

How about Come into my life- Joyce Sims?

[Shakermaker Promotions]

Great tune.
SOS band too!
Mantronix - Got to have your love.

This is all old skool stuff and good to hear it again.
By the way, I still have the David Joseph 'You can't hide your love' 12" here.

...oh, and I didn't think Level 42 were that bad. I loved 'Hot Water' and 'The Chinese Way'.

[Danno13]

Jocelyn Brown - Somebody else's guy
Carl Carlton - She's a bad mamma jamma
Cameo - Word up
Maze - Joy & Pain
Jackson Sisters - I believe in miracles
KC & The sunshine band - Get down tonight
Patrice rushton - Forget me knots
Cheryl Lynn - Encore or Got to be real
Oliver Cheatham - Get down saturday night

Loads of this stuff mixes well too, which used to keep me entertained early doors!