Four years in the wilderness, or somewhere like it.

The first question is what kept me? The answer is everything.

Four years of patching up mind, body and jeans. Yes, jeans, I am of that ancient generation. I don’t wear them in bed, and I never iron them. I do wear them when sleeping rough.

The second question: why now? The answer is, why not? I miss it. I had to delete a few million files to find the funk I found which felt sufficiently funky. I also found the usual way out tunes which aerate the smoking lounge.

Finally, it was boring without me. I know, I wasn’t myself.

The third question: how long did it take? Answer: four 12 hour days over two weeks. I also had to patch up my computer which had only 45MB space on the hard drive. So, having removed practically everything it’s working now, and so am I, just not in a regular ‘going to work’ way.

Work is finding tunes which go with other tunes, plus inserting speech and occasional interviews, feeding the cat, and remembering to honour the best ideas, the ones I write down and which still seem good enough to carry out the following day, or month. Sometimes year.

The fourth and final question: why did I bother?

My people, your people, all the people in the world who are oppressed by the appalling state of humanity, the fragility of nature, bad food, spite, aggression, lack of amity, endless poverty, mindless greed, nugatory utterances from politicians, lies, lies, lies, joyless poverty, shameful exploitation, and no decent funk.

And that’s me feeling a heck of a lot better, mostly fixed, still a bit twitchy. Might have a nice cup of tea.

Do you like him? Sometimes I do.

As my friend and architect of the funk Bootsy Collins posted:

So, funky brethren, no interviews this time, but there will be next time.

Deek Deekster

“Next time will be much sooner than last time”

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Many thanks to Mihandrahaja Rasolomanafaka aka KDFA

After being marooned on a series of remote desert islands and isolated in shanty town dwellings, Deek Deekster returns once more to take his place at this legendary funk station to remedy the state of the world. A glorious two hour comeback, featuring artists old and new, ‘Rejuvenation’ Pod of Funk is a rippling river of timeless, eclectic music.

Paying tribute to our ancestors who have left us with life-saving health enhancements in musical form as well as new works by Real Living People, ‘Rejuvenation’ also contains an interstellar slice of darkness made from light via Lagowski’s new release, ‘Secrets of Numbers’.

Pod of Funk is back – tell your mates.

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Thanks Paul Hutchinson!

Powered by funky eclectic grooves and piloted by Deek Deekster, the world’s favourite funk podcast launches a new satellite into the heavens. As it assumes geostationary orbit, feel the funk create a better world, a world you no longer dreamed was possible.

Includes tracks from The Poets of Rhythm, Jarvis Humby, The Triplett Twins, The Jive Turkeys, BadboE, Linoleum Lineage: Omanjamari & DJ Rylo, JD73, Los Sospechos, Talbi One, Durojaiye Versatile and all the hits you never heard.

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I’m back

Deek Deekster resurfaces in a glorious land far across the sea to bring you a podcast bursting with bass, tunes, grooves, crickets and boats, plus an exclusive interview with Kitten and the Hip, aka Ashley Slater and Scarlett Quinn.

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Celebrate and give thanks! for a new year is with us bringing a brand new Pod of Funk, an updated Funkpod.co.uk website and a brand new mix of funk, soul, drum and bass, and eclectic music from Deek Deekster, the nation’s 11th most beloved podcaster.

Tunes from Ikebe Shakedown, Poets of Rhythm, Dirty Honkers, Touchphonics, The Twin Cats, Tomas Phillips and Marihiko Hara, Paul Avgerinos, Film Noir World, Durojaiye Versatile, Sharon Lang, Betty Davis, and Pronto.

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Enjoy this funk podcast from Deek Deekster while musing on the transient nature of all things, as Deek prepares to take time out in order to wax lyrical in book writing form. No, this won’t be the last Pod of Funk, but yes, it sees the end of a era.

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Deep Blue Radio session, August 2008

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Deep Blue Radio session, August 2008

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Deep Blue Radio session, August 2008

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Deep Blue Radio session, August 2008

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