How it's made
Funky House Radio is one person's station. Here is exactly how it comes together, and which parts a machine does.
The records
Every record is picked by hand, from nearly fifty years of dance music: seventies disco, the Chicago and New York years, and this week's releases. Each show is a running order of around four hours, sequenced and mixed in blocks of three to five records by someone who learned to mix on vinyl, with a stopwatch.
The music is licensed through Live365, and every play is reported, so the people who made the records are paid for it.
The stories
Every record was made by somebody, and the DJs tell you who: the singer who never got the credit, the label that nearly didn't happen, the mix nobody has heard in full. The stories are researched and checked: dates, charts, who played on what. When a story can't be confirmed, the DJs say so.
The DJs
Hank, Lisa and Mike are written characters. Their histories, their personalities and their running jokes are written by hand. Their voices are generated with AI.
They are inventions, not imitations of real people, and their Chicago is a fictional one, set inside the real city.
What the machine does, and what it doesn't
The machine
- The DJs' voices
- The music under the talk
- The pictures and videos
A person
- Every record chosen
- Every mix
- Every story, researched
- Every line the DJs say
The tools made three voices. Everything worth hearing comes from the records and the people who made them.
Who's behind it
A former professional club DJ who started in 1979, played for a living until 1995, and never stopped digging through crates.
Questions about the station are welcome at studio@funkyhouseradio.com.