What started as a casual Madchester session to nod to Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield (Stone Roses & Primal Scream) slipped fast into a full psychedelic plunge through Andrew Weatherall’s heaviest basslines, dubbed-out shadows, and Factory-coded deep cuts. A detour that became the destination — the Manchester Effect in full flight.
This mix moves through the key zones that shaped the city’s sound:
the Madchester pulse, the Haçienda haze, the crossover where indie psychedelia, rave pressure, and low-slung groove blur into one continuum.
The current that carried Manchester from rehearsal rooms to warehouse floors and into club culture’s long memory.
All tracks selected and mixed by @thefunkassassin
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What started as a casual Madchester session to nod to Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield (Stone Roses & Primal Scream) slipped fast into a full psychedelic plunge through Andrew Weatherall’s heaviest basslines, dubbed-out shadows, and Factory-coded deep cuts. A detour that became the destination — the Manchester Effect in full flight.
This mix moves through the key zones that shaped the city’s sound:
the Madchester pulse, the Haçienda haze, the crossover where indie psychedelia, rave pressure, and low-slung groove blur into one continuum.
The current that carried Manchester from rehearsal rooms to warehouse floors and into club culture’s long memory.
All tracks selected and mixed by @thefunkassassin
DD013.
Step into the neon afterglow of the 80s — a decade where every synth line shimmered and every beat carried pure attitude.
This mix glides through iconic 80s energy reimagined for the modern dance floor.
From Kurtis Mantronix firing up ‘Got To Have Your Love 2022’, to Tears For Fears drifting into Balearic bliss with Talamanca System on ‘Head Over Heels’, to BLOND:ISH flipping Foreigner’s ‘I Want To Know What Love Is’ into sunrise magic — the vibe is pure retro-future rhythm.
You’ll hear legendary tracks reworked with fresh dancefloor sparkle:
Prince ‘Kiss’
Sade ‘Sweetest Taboo’
Madonna ‘Holiday’
Alexander O’Neal ‘Criticize’
Freeez ‘IOU’
Lisa Stansfield 'People Hold On'
Depeche Mode ‘Enjoy The Silence’
Roxy Music ‘Don’t Stop The Dance’
Pet Shop Boys ‘West End Girls’
All woven into the flow with modern house flavour.
Top-tier remixers bring the heat throughout the mix:
Kraak & Smaak, BLOND:ISH, The Reflex, Michael Gray, Talamanca System, Ken@Work, Softmal, Nytron.
From glossy synth-pop glamour to deep-night club groove, this is the 80s — elevated, reimagined, and rebuilt for right now.
Turn it up. Feel the glow. Let the 80s take over.
1. Kurtis Mantronix – Got To Have Your Love 2022
2. Zimcerla, Lisa Stansfield – People Hold On
3. Tears For Fears, Talamanca System – Head Over Heels (Talamanca System Tribal Persuasion Remix)
4. Foreigner, BLOND:ISH – I Want To Know What Love Is (BLOND:ISH Sunrise Jungle Remix)
5. Erdinc Erdogdu, Kivanch K – Enjoy the Silence
6. Martin Brodin, Mikael Surdi, Alexandra Hamne – Don’t Stop the Dance (Kraak & Smaak Remix)
7. Ken@Work – Sweetest Taboo
8. Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls (New Lockdown Version)
9. Rafael Cameron, The Reflex – Boogie’s Gonna Get Ya (The Reflex Cosmic Dub Revision)
10. Softmal, Nytron – My Girl
11. Nytron, Samuel Boogie, MOB, Benjamim Ayra – Holiday (Original Mix)
12. Block & Crown, Laurence Jones – Criticize (Club Mix)
13. Raze, Michael Gray – Break 4 Love (Michael Gray Rework)
14. Stefane – I.O.U.
The Funk Assassin
What started as a casual Madchester session to nod to Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield (Stone Roses & Primal Scream) slipped fast into a full psychedelic plunge through Andrew Weatherall’s heaviest basslines, dubbed-out shadows, and Factory-coded deep cuts. A detour that became the destination — the Manchester Effect in full flight.
This mix moves through the key zones that shaped the city’s sound:
the Madchester pulse, the Haçienda haze, the crossover where indie psychedelia, rave pressure, and low-slung groove blur into one continuum.
The current that carried Manchester from rehearsal rooms to warehouse floors and into club culture’s long memory.
All tracks selected and mixed by @thefunkassassin
DD013.
