Professor Groove & The Booty Affair are finally back with a regular residency that has the potential to rival their legendary stints at the Harbourside Brasserie and Kinselas. The venue is a brand new live music club called Blue Beat in Double Bay, Sydney, and the Professor has been warming up weekends since mid-December.

Now about to concentrate on Saturday nights from February onwards the Professor plays 3 sets of his inimitable hybrid of funk, dance, boogie, rap and soul from 10pm until late, usually 1:30/2am.

With an A-Grade Booty Affair comprising long term alumni Josh Beagley (guitar and synths), Michael di Francesco (bass and synth bass), Terepai Richmond (drums) and Rich “Diamond Cut” Sanford (synths, talkbox) joined weekly by guests from the onestopfunkshop family like Berni Love, Don Dolla, Paula “Miss P” Baxter and Juanita Tippins (Confection) this is a serious funk showdown EVERY week.

Jump on the Professor’s Facebook page for more info:

https://www.facebook.com/professorgrooveandthebootyaffair

Professor Groove & The Booty Affair are finally back with some brand new freakfunk, and as always it is worth the wait…

“Don’t fight the funk, don’t show no shame!” 

”Love Story” sees the Professor takes a stroll through his old school days with a captivating story rap that brings to mind the work of rap pioneers Spoonie G and The Sugarhill Gang.

Already getting good rotation on FBI Radio, we hear The Booty Affair laying down a languid, percussion and slapbass-fuelled slow groove as The Professor tells us of his drug-riddled youth and sexual misadventures with a hussy called Louise.

“I’m a fly guy who likes to go too far”

It’s all great fun and downright funkfilled, capped off with an insanely catchy “Dang dang diggity” chant.

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PG&TBA are a Sydney institution: flagbearers of the freakfunk since the late 90’s, home and playground of some of Sydney’s best musicians and always recognised as one of the most awesome live experiences around, consistently rocking crowds with their marathons of funk since their legendary early residencies at Kinselas and The Harbourside Brasserie.

They effortlessly conjure up a dancefloor-filling groove that sounds like the Chemical Brothers, James Brown, Prince and the Sugarhill Gang all showed up for the same gig and are fighting it out for supremacy on stage. The Professor is a captivating presence – alternating between amped up party master, old school rapper and straight up raw funksoul power. And the band’s combination of electrofunk synth madness with genuine live funk is unique and unparalleled.

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www.facebook.com/pages/Professor-Groove-and-the-Booty-Affair/289414339069

www.soundcloud.com/professorgroove

The Fat Woman EP features the single  “Fat Woman” along with live favourites “Rubbity Dub,” “Hobbit” and “Elvis Is Dead,” and two extended mixes.

With a sound that’s influenced by Rick James, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Zapp and Prince, the sound is funky as hell and brings a few smiles to the mix with the Professor’s paeans to his “supersized, heavy hitting lover” sliding through. And when he tells the object of his affections that “I’m like your puppet, You’re like my hobbit,” we know we are dealing with a sly, evil, intelligent kind of funk.

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The Professor rants…..

“Say it Loud! The Professor is a Feminist and Proud!”

“Wake up! Fat is STILL a feminist issue. And now its Professor Groove and the Booty Affair’s issue too.

What EVER happened to feminism? Things looked pretty good in thesixties and seventies. Simone De Beauvoir, Betty Freidan, Germaine Greer… good times, good times.

Now what’ve we got? Bullshit thats what. Things are worse for fat chicks than they have ever been. Catherine Lumby? She thinks porn is ”liberating.” Bell hooks? Judith Butler? Who can even understand what they’re on about? GOD help us. Lipstick feminists so pleased to be wearing their strappy sandals and fuck-me boots.

FAT WOMAN is the Professor’s Call to Arms! Fat Chicks rise up! Time to stop worrying about your size and start jiggling those thighs.”

Introducing Berni Love!!! Australia’s newest soul sensation’s debut single “Lonely Teardrops” is out today on iTunes on onestopfunkshop!

Produced by Don Dolla, it’s a cover of the classic Jackie Wilson track originally released in 1958! It’s also been recorded by a very youthful Michael Jackson, the hirsute Michael McDonald and was a big country hit in the 70′s for Narvel Felts. That’s right, Narvel Felts.

Lots more amazing Berni Love tracks coming soon….

Confection are offering a limited time Free Download of their sublime version of the Spinners’ 1972 classic “I’ll Be Around.” This is unlikely to be an album track so grab it now. Click on the “Music” tab of their Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/Confection.sweetfunk?sk=app_182222305144028

Confection “Save Your Precious Time” 

Confection "Save Your Precious Time"

It’s been 4 years since Confection burst into the boogie and nu-disco world with their debut self-titled album, and now Australia’s best kept boogie secret are back, finally, with their sublime new release “Save Your Precious Time”….call it boogie, soul, disco, nu-disco, whatever, it just feels so so good….

Save Your Precious Time’s infectious mid-tempo groove recalls the glory days of Prelude disco, with it’s soulful, organic, fluid instrumentation and gospel-tinged vocals that reach down your throat and grab your soul in a powerful vice-like grip. Vocalist Juanita Tippins has never been in better voice and her passionate, yearning vocal cries out for attention.

This is modern soul at it’s best.

“I absolutely love it! So, so good…”                                                                                      DJ Saul, The 54 Mode, Radio Cardiff

“Wow!.. Its a very sweet groover… 80’s/70’s groove crossover…… LUVIT!!!!!!”
Di-Lee, Soulchoonz Radio

“Worth the wait! its a fuckin’ great song!”
Tony Massera, Diva Radio, Boogie Times France

Save Your Precious Time is OUT NOW with single and Extended Mix on iTunes
http://itunes.apple.com/au/album/save-your-precious-time-single/id460357198

and Juno Downloads
http://www.junodownload.com/products/save-your-precious-time/1795750-02/

Released August 1, 2011 on One Stop Funk Shop Recordings.

Production Credits:

Written by Josh Beagley and Juanita Tippins                                                          Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Josh Beagley at the One Stop Funk Shop, Sydney, Australia.

All instruments by Josh Beagley except:

Live bass by Michael di Francesco and

Moog solo and horn contributions by Don Dolla.

Vocals by Juanita Tippins

Backing vocals by Rob Edwards, Juanita Tippins and Houngah Latukefu

Additional mixing and finalising by Diamond Cut

Mastered by Will Bowden.

Hi there, welcome to the new onestopfunkshop website. Just done a major overhaul and changed from an iWeb site to a WordPress site, cos iWeb is going to be discontinued soon with Apple’s transition to iCloud. There’s still plenty of details that need to be added but the basic info is all there and now we can update easily and regularly.

Please check out the acts and releases currently on 1SFS.

And there is SO much stuff coming up soon on 1SFS…..

Please contact us at onestopfunkshop@mac.com for any further information, media enquiries, production/remix requests, licensing or live opportunities etc, or just to say hi.