Remembering Funk

For as far back as i rememba

me always organized mah music in biographical order

The stages in my life’s trajectory

Those memorable events that shaped us into who we are today and going forwards

Those never to happen again but never to be forgotten

Those life shaping moments

I particularly rememba mah groove soul funk period

The seventies funk the cheek and sleek of it all!

t’was Graem aka Boeta G pon the decks who was making us groove and gyrate

Back in cape town otherwise known as Kaap Staad 

at a place call 206 with a red chillie sign hanging there

Down in the basement and up pon the roof top

upstairs we usually skanked to some reggae beats

while downstairs would usually be funk hip hop jungle drum n’ bass

Live bands dj sets afro funk seventies funk cape town funk

Muslim gals foreign blondes local dreadies and dem gugulethu rude bwoys

Everybodi and anybodi,  burning down the house at 206

Dub master China was in the running of tings even then

and the Fong Kong Bantu Sound System was still not conceived even then

and Moodphase 5ive was still an underground band/outfit then

and DJ Ntone had not started Chimurenga then

he was heavily rotating in the dj circles

and he would hit us with his own special blend of funkadelic afro souol funk

of days gone by  long side Boeta G 

t’was about grooving t’was all about blending

Tings times space moment

They happen they don  happen

They become memories trajectories

To be encountered and perhaps retold

For what is man without his story…

A wombman for iver lives out her story

In ya dis ya time