Dirty Chunky Funky 5 – The Missing Funk Now available for download. See the article for a proper track listing. You can download it temporarily from YouSendIt or as a last resort from this blog. Please let me know if you like it or hate it. Feedback is all good in this game!

Hanging over the empty, black void on a spider’s thread, the sequence of events which brought me here are careering through my head like a train-crash. A schoolboy error, nothing more. So foolish. And my annoying inability to admit that sometimes I am wrong. Oh yea, and that foolish ego-driven bravado. We’re all young once. I just prayed silently that I’d live to get a little older.

With hindsight, of course I know what “spéléo” means. It simply hadn’t cropped up in the French course that I’d just finished. I saw the ropes and harnesses, karabiners and helmets and assumed this was a climbing club. If I’d looked a moment longer before plunging in headlong, I’d have seen the acetylene lamps and the tell-tale, all-pervading mud that I’d later appreciate as part and parcel of a caver’s life.

I’d come to Marseille not only for the prestige of studying at the Grande Ecole but for the lifestyle. I’d just done two tough years of Chemistry at York Uni and wanted a bit of spice back in my life. I could speak French (after a fashion) and wanted to travel a while before I finished my degree and joined the Army. With the Calanques in my back garden, I was going to have a great time climbing and trekking. Oh, and do a bit of studying too, to keep my tutors happy.

But I hadn’t joined a fucking climbing club, had I?

Finally I’ve rectified a gaping hole in my series of CDs. Somehow I managed to do DCFs 1 to 7 but missing out DCF 5. Well now it’s done and IT IS MINT!

For your delectation, I give you “The Missing Funk”. It’s a nice break from the harder electro stuff that’s doing the rounds these days. Let me know what you think.

For the moment, it’s downloadable from my site here. I say for the moment because last time search engines got hold of it and every man and his dog (strangely enough mostly from Korea) was caning my server to download it. I’ll probably change the link when it gets too hot.

The track listing and link is as follows:

Dirty Chunky Funky 5 – “The Missing Funk”

17 Feb 08 – Pete Simpson

1. Bodyrox – What Planet You’re On (Deadmau5 Remix)
2. Brad Hed – The Girlz & Boyz (Vandalism Club Mix)
3. Wez Clarke – Someday
4. Yves Larock – Rise Up (Raul Rincon Mix)
5. FR ft. Jenny B – Love Is The Music (Nx Connexxion Remix)
6. Cafe Groove – Why U Wanna Do Me Wrong (Soul Avengers Mix)
7. Freemasons ft Amanda Wilson – I Feel Like
8. Rihanna – Don’t Stop The Music (Bob Sinclair Remix)
9. Robyn – Handle Me (Soulseekerz Club Mix)
10. Calvin Harris – Colours (Seamus Haji Remix)

You can stream a low (128kbps) quality MP3 file directly here, but I recommend downloading the full ZIP.