Fierce Disco Remixed was released this morning - the second Fierce Disco compilation available as a digital download on .

Over the last five years, Fierce Angels have been releasing a great collection of Fierce Disco compilations, all compiled by the main man Mark Doyle and packaged up into a stunning set of collectible triple-CD packs.

This year, however, Fierce Angels have ventured into the world of digital download, first releasing Fierce Disco 3 back in March and now following it up with Fierce Disco Remixed.

Fierce Disco Remixed is available for download from for just £7.99 which includes 45 unmixed DJ-friendly tracks plus the 3 mixes as individual tracks at the end.

Not one to overlook the more popular CD market, Fierce Angels will be pressing just 100,000 CD copies of Fierce Disco Remixed so if you’re after a limited edition CD, make sure you pick up your copy quickly. Amazon are selling Fierce Disco Remixed for £9.98 (not including delivery), Play for £10.99 with free delivery and HMV for £9.99 with free UK delivery.

Fierce Disco Remixed is, in summary, a “best of” compilation from the last 5 years of releases. If I’m brutally honest, I’m not normally a fan of Best Of’s as I tend to lean on Fierce Angels for inspiration, delivering new and upcoming music that I haven’t heard elsewhere. That said, Fierce Disco Remixed is probably the only compilation I’ve heard in a long time that will get constantly played.

Mark Doyle has selected what could arguably be the ultimate collection of funky house. He’s mixed up some of his all-time favourites such as Praise Cats “Shined On Me” with some of my all-time favourites like the Bassmonkey’s “The Answer“. All the regulars are in there too such as Bonnie Bailey, Peyton, Buzzjunkies, Freemasons, Eric Kupper and Wideboys.

Each CD has a slightly different play on the disco house genre, all mixed by Mr Doyle himself for that added personal touch. I’m glad Mark has been a bit more creative with some of the transitions in this compilation too, making the most of the musical hooks of these disco house classics. It makes a pleasant change to Hed Kandi’s factory settings they tend to stick to.

Have a glance over the track listing to get an idea of the fine tunes featured…

Disc 1

1. Discrete ft Belle - Free (Club Mix)
2. Crystal Waters - Never Enough (Harlem Hustlers Love Club Edit)
3. Club 4 Life - Don’t Matter (12″ Club Mix)
4. Soulshaker vs Ce Ce Peniston - Shame Shame Shame (Club Mix)
5. The Wideboys ft Clare Evers - Bomb The Secret (Intention) (Full Club)
6. Fac15 ft Cathi O - Haven’t You Heard (EK’s Believe In The Magic Mix)
7. Whelan & Di Scala ft Nikki Belle - Teardrops (Hott 22 Mix)
8. Buzzjunkies ft Elesha - If You Love Me (Moto Blanco Club Mix)
9. Frankie Knuckles - Disco Shimmy (Eric Kupper Mix)
10. Eighteen ft Stephanie Mills - (You’re Putting) Rush On Me (Moto Blanco Mix)
11. Audio Fraud ft Peyton - Ride Like The Wind (Moto Blanco Club Mix)
12. Cahill ft Nikki Belle - Trippin On You (Extended Mix)
13. Marco Demark - Tiny Dancer (Moto Blanco Mix
14. Freemasons ft Amanda Wilson - Watchin (Club Mix)
15. Wi-Fi ft Melanie M - Be Without You (LMC Extended Mix)

Disc 2

1. Michael Grey - The Weekend (Main Mix)
2. Wi Fi ft Siobhan - Last Night (Club Mix)
3. Peyton - Falling (Eric Kupper Mix)
4. Bonnie Bailey - Kingdom Of Pretty (Bassmonkeys Club Mix)
5. Gusto - Disco’s Revenge (Freemasons Vocal Club Mix)
6. Grooveland - Tell Me Original (Vocal Mix)
7. Bassmonkeys ft Naomi Marsh - The Answer (Club Mix)
8. Dirty Old Anne - Turn Me On (Vocal Mix)
9. Riffs N’ Rays ft Kelly Llorrenna - Let The Music Play(Riffs N Rays Mix)
10. Elek-Tro Junkies - Don’t Hold Back On Me (Club Mix)
11. Freemasons ft Siedah Garrett - Rain Down Love (Walken Mix)
12. Whelan & Di Scala feat Nikki Belle Erskine - Sunset To Sunrise (Extended Mix)
13. Ultrabeat - Sure Feels Good Soulseekerz Mix
14. Stunt - I’ll Be There (Wideboys Mix)
15. Bassmonkeys ft Naomi Marsh - Here’s Where the Story Ends (Club Mix)

Disc 3

1. Soul Searcher - Feeling Love (Soulsearcher Club Mix)
2. Milk N Sugar - Stay Around (Club Mix)
3. Steven Anders vs Andrea T Mendoza - Can’t Fake It (Tibet Vocal Mix)
4. Inaya Day - Nasty Girl (Riffs N Ray’s Extended Mix)
5. Marly - You’ll Never Know (Morjac Extended Mix)
6. Gadjo - So Many Times (Extended Mix)
7. K-Klass ft Bobbi - Let Me Show You (2008 Re-Master)
8. Herd & Fitz - I Just Can’t Get Enough (Full Club Mix)
9. Blaze ft Barbara Tucker - Precious Love (DF Future 3000 Mix)
10. FR ft Jenny - Love Is The Music (Original Mix)
11. Praisecats - Shined On Me (Bini & Martini Mix)
12. Freeloaders - So Much Love To Give (Basscore Remix)
13. Therese - Put Em High (LMC Extended Mix)
14. Evoke - Arms Of Lloren (Steinway Mix)
15. Rhythm Fatale ft Redd Angel - Man In The Mirror (Extended Mix)

If you’re a fan of disco house (and those who enjoy my Funky House Finesse podcast are quite likely to be), I suggest you get yourself a copy of Fierce Disco Remixed right away. Whether you get in early for a CD or go for the digital download, you will not be disappointed!

Regular visitors of this website will know, I’m a huge advocate of the record label Fierce Angels. Mark Doyle has successfully managed to migrate his trademark style of dance and house music he founded in Hed Kandi into another fine brand which has gone from strength to strength over the last few years.

In the last year, Fierce Angels have started to broadcast their own radio show around the globe on a multitude of different radio stations. Recently, they managed to land some great slots around the UK but distribution still hasn’t reached all the local or regional stations (although I know Mark and the team are working hard to improve this).

Thankfully, there are some people around the globe who are recording and archiving the shows for the rest of us to hear while Fierce Angels resolve the issue.

With agreed permission from the Fierce Angel team, I will be doing my best to keep up with the latest Fierce Angel Radio MP3 offerings from around the Web and linking to the downloads from here, starting with (the rather late) Week 15.

Download the two separate MP3s from Mediafire

Track Listing

Part 1

1. Doman & Gooding - Pacific State (Main Mix) [White]
2. Nadia Ali - Love Story (Album Mix) [White]
3. Milk & Sugar - You Got Me Burnin (Milk & Sugar Mix) [Milk & Sugar]
4. (Unknown Artist) - Praise [White]
5. Degrees Of Motion - Show Me (RJ’s Original Vocal) [White]
6. Calvin Harris - I’m Not Alone (Extended Mix) [White]
7. Dino Lenny ft Ann Nesby - The Pressure (90’s Mix) [White]
8. Peyton - All That Matters [White]
9. Loletta Holloway - Love Sensation (Felix Baumgarter Mix) [Newstate]

The Fierce Angel Classic

Bel Amour - Bel Amour

Six Degrees of Fierceness

1. Sykes N Sugarstar ft Bonny Ferrer - Toda Minha Vida [Global]
2. Milk N Sugar - Let The Sunshine (Milk N Sugar Global Mix) [Milk N Sugar]
3. Alicia Keys - Hold Me (Eric Kupper Mix) [White]
4. Agnes - Release Me [3Beat Blue]
5. Elektra vs Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Thru The Grapevine [White]
6. Elektra vs The Stranglers - Always The Sun [White]

Part 4

1. Natsuyo ft Alexandra Prince - Rise Over [Avex]
2. Soul Avengerz - Someday [Soda]
3. JCA - I Begin To Wonder (2009 Mix) [Great Stuff]
4. Shanie - Read My Lips (Alex Graham Mix) [White]
5. Audio Guru - Down Below [Axus]

Before anyone asks for a podcast of the show, I can’t actually deliver that due to the techniques implemented on file sharing services like Mediafire who cover their download costs with surrounding adverts. It really is a small price to pay waiting 10-60 seconds for a free download to activate.

According to Feedburner statistics, the first Funky House Finesse was downloaded over 10,000 times - that is more than double of any single episode of the One Phat DJ Podcast. It just goes to show that funky house is still hugely popular online and there is a market for it.

The problem is this: I know that only a tiny minority of that figure actually spent money on the featured tracks. Naughty, naughty!

The reason Funky House Finesse is produced is to promote the latest funky house tunes to everyone, especially those tracks that don’t get prime time coverage but deserve it. Seriously, if you’re enjoying the tunes, reward the artists and producers for their efforts by purchasing the track. Nearly all the tracks featured are linked to legal download websites where you can buy the track, normally for about £1.

With the lecture out the way, let’s move on to the second show from the Funky House Finesse series.

Featuring some monster tracks from the likes of Bassmonkeys, De’lacy, Jay J, One Foot In The Groove, Rudenko, Bimbo Jones, Ricky Luchini, Moony and a sexy remix by Jazz N Groove of Soulsearcher’s classic “Can’t Get Enough” kicking the show off, you’re in for 90 minutes of pure class mixed up by your resident One Phat DJ.

As before, the show will only be available to download for 1 month so make sure you don’t delay and download it right away.

Download Funky House Finesse 2 (April 2009)

Funky House Finesse 2 will also be broadcast on Lifted Radio soon. Dates and times are still to be confirmed but I am over the moon about landing the slot. I’ve been keen to broadcast the Funky House Finesse shows since the start and its an honour that Lifted Radio have offered me the slot. I’ll be sure to announce where and when you can check it out.

Talking of Lifted Radio, good friend Paul Velocity who also hosts a fortnightly show every Thursday afternoon kindly allowed me to sort out a guest mix a few weeks back. Thankfully, you can download and listen to the Platform Six show any time you want as all the shows are archived in a podcast. Check it out - I start about 25 minutes in.

Finally, if you enjoy the Funky House Finesse series, how about contributing to the production and download costs? A lot of work goes into the show behind the scenes and those downloads don’t come for free - bandwidth for 10,000 MP3s over 100MB in size isn’t cheap so if you’re feeling generous, how about donating to the cause via PayPal? Click the button below.

With all that said and done, I present to you Funky House Finesse 2 (April 2009).

Don’t forget to send us feedback on the show and spread the word. Even a mention on Facebook or Twitter will do the job.

Track Listing

1. Soulsearcher - Can’t Get Enough (Jazz N Groove Nu Disco Vocal) [Defected]
2. Jay J ft Latrice - The One (Original Mix)
3. Passionardor - There’s A Candle (Passion Vocal Mix)
4. Leon Lopez - Dance (One Foot In The Groove Club Vox) [One Foot In The Groove Records]
5. Kings Of Groove ft Andrea Love - Dreaming About You (Original Mix)
6. Boheme ft Angie Brown - Music In My Life (Matt Williams & Steve Price Vocal Mix)
7. Bibi ft Malou Beauvoir - Got To Believe (Original Mix)
8. Ministry of Funk - Way Back (Clubzound Remix)
9. Rudenko - Everybody (Morjac Remix)
10. De’lacy & Marco Gee - Bodyswerve (Soulshaker Remix)
11. Bimbo Jones - And I Try (eSQUIRE Mix)
12. Ricky Luchini ft Moony - Little Bird (Disko Kriminals Klub Mix)
13. Bassmonkeys - Purplehaze (Original Mix)
14. Alessia Kay  & Cannyrock - Cube AH Reloaded (Soul Power Mix)
15. Da Slammin’ Phrogz - Something About The Music (Kamasutra Extended Mix)
16. Star Pilots - In The Heat Of The Night (Dave Armstrong Remix)
17. House Bros - Let The Music (House Bros Back To Funk Mix)

With the One Phat DJ Podcast finally laid to rest after December’s “Encore“, it’s time to start something a little different.

Funky House Finesse is a new programme of mixes produced by myself, One Phat DJ, with the same intention of promoting the finest in funky house music.

Each 90 minute show will highlight the latest funky house music doing the rounds of the club scene, tunes that you may hear from industry leaders like Hed Kandi, Fierce Angels, Defected and Ministry of Sound as well as the smaller independent labels, plus exclusive white label and bootleg tracks from upcoming producers.

You may be thinking “This sounds remarkably like the podcast, what’s different?” - well here’s the catch…

Each show will only be available for download for one month!

At the end of the month, the mix will be taken offline and you won’t be able to download it after that. The reason for this is to ensure only the hottest music of the moment is available for download at any one time.

There are also plans to broadcast each show on selected internet radio stations - more details of this will be posted later.

So, without further ado, I present the first in the series of Funky House Finesse.

(Download links removed)

Let me know what you think of the new format by leaving a comment below.  All your input is welcomed.

If you’re interested in broadcasting the show on your radio station, please email licensing@onephatdj.com with some details.

Finally, if you enjoy any of the music featured in the show, please support the artist by purchasing the track. All the tunes that can be purchased online are linked to in the track listing so you have no excuse.

Enjoy!

Track Listing

1. Mobin Master ft Robin S - Show Me Love (Hot Rats Remix)
2. Evolve ft Margo Reymundo - The Way Back (Random Soul Mix)
3. Danny Clark, Jay Benham & Michelle Weeks - Hold On (Classic Vocal Mix)
4. Ronnie Maze ft Deremius - Love The Music (Funkellers Love Remix)
5. DJ Dealer ft Lisa Millett - Cool Lovin’ (Ralf Gum Classic Vocal)
6. Quentin Harris ft Jason Walker - Can’t Stop (Joey Negro Remix Edit)
7. Chanel - If You Love Me (Disco Lips Mix)
8. Solange - Sandcastle Disco (Freemasons Club Mix)
9. Doman and Gooding ft Lincoln - Runnin’ (Main Mix)
10. Solitaire ft Shena - Fantasy (Club Mix)
11. Freemasons ft Hazel Fernandes - If (Freemasons 2008 Re-Rub)
12. DJ Bradd & Pepper Mashay ft Salsoul Nugget - Heaven (Fed Konti Mix)
13. Dave Lambert & Sir G ft Terri B - Holding Out 4 Love (Original Extended)
14. Eddie Amador ft Pepper Mashay - Release Yourself (Eddie Amador’s Club Mix)
15. Treasure Fingers vs Soulsearcher - Can’t Get Enough Of The Dancefloor (Jay Santi Bootleg)
16. Dr Kucho - Groovers Delight (Original Mix)