Funky Friday – Episode 35: LibraSonic
- Noah McDonough
- Oct 2
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 3
Airdate: 10.03.25 - 9am Pacific Time on KDOG & 9pm Pacific Time on KCSM HD2
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🎧 Listen live on KCSM HD2 9pm Pacific Time→ Here (On mobile scroll down to the KCSM HD2 player)
🎶 Catch the Replay → Comming Soon
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Happy Funky Friday!
Welcome to Episode 35: LibraSonic — a celebration of balance, harmony, and duality in funk.
This week also marks a milestone: Funky Friday now airs every Friday at 9PM on both KCSM HD2 and KDOG Radio. One show, two stations, one unstoppable groove.
And as the art promises — this episode is gonna blow your wigs off.
We open with Earth, Wind & Fire’s In the Stone (1979) — a bold statement of funk built on orchestral jazz roots. From there, the scales tip back and forth: Miles Davis’s chaotic fusion on Right Off countered by James Brown’s locked-down precision on Cold Sweat. By the time George Duke, Chaka, Prince, and Tower of Power roll through, the wigs are already airborne. Cameo sweetens the groove before Weather Report’s Palladium restores cosmic balance to close.
🎧 Track List – Funky Friday Ep. 35: LibraSonic
In the Stone – Earth, Wind & Fire (1979)
Right Off – Miles Davis (1971)
Cold Sweat – James Brown (1967)
Higher Ground – Stevie Wonder (1973)
Ain’t Nobody – Chaka Khan (1983)
Hang Up Your Hang Ups – Herbie Hancock (1975)
Pop Life – Prince (1985)
Don’t Change Horses – Tower of Power (1974)
Reach for It – George Duke (1977)
Candy – Cameo (1986)
Palladium – Weather Report (1977)
♎ Why LibraSonic?
Libra is the sign of the scales — a dance of balance, duality, and harmony. Funky Friday: LibraSonic tilts between chaos and control, grit and polish, groove and flight. By the end, the balance is restored… but not before blowing a few wigs into orbit.
🔗 Quick Links:
🎧 Listen live on KCSM HD2 9pm Pacific Time→ Here
🎶 Catch the Replay → Comming Soon
📖 Full Episode Recaps + Setlists → Here
🎟 RSVP to Episodes → Here
📂 Renegade Radio Site → Here
Funk Facts
🎹 Funk Facts
🎸 “Cold Sweat” – James Brown (1967) Often called the birth of funk, Cold Sweat stripped R&B down to rhythm. James Brown’s band hit “the one” so hard that it set the blueprint for funk drumming and bass lines that would define the genre.
🎷 “Right Off” – Miles Davis (1971) From A Tribute to Jack Johnson, this was Miles at his funkiest. With John McLaughlin on guitar and Herbie Hancock on organ, the session kicks off like a bar brawl in 7/4 time — raw, messy, and unmistakably funk-fusion.
🎹 “Hang Up Your Hang Ups” – Herbie Hancock (1975) Herbie returned to the funk groove after Chameleon with this Headhunters jam. The horn stabs and syncopated bass cemented it as a jazz-funk standard, later sampled by countless hip-hop producers.
🎤 “Reach for It” – George Duke (1977) Duke’s party anthem became a funk call-and-response classic. Its crowd-shouted hook (“Jam!”) captured the energy of late-70s funk stages and remains a guaranteed dancefloor igniter.
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