Radio Funk Live – DJ Tarek sets the groove on fire: Saturday March 7, 2026, from noon to 8 p.m. on radiofunk.radio
At a glance
Show: Radio Funk Live – March 7, 2026
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (non-stop)
Location: Live from the Radio Funk studios in Paris
DJ: Tarek – master of underground disco funk & boogie
Style: Funk, disco, soul & rare grooves – deep cuts, B-sides, extended mixes
https://radiofunk.radio
Replay: Mixcloud Radio Funk Live
Hey you.
Yeah, you – with that little smirk and your speakers just waiting for something heavy.
You think you know funk?
Wait until you hear DJ Tarek live from the Radio Funk studios this Saturday March 7: eight hours of pure groove built for people who love music that breathes, sweats and shakes the room.
Not the playlist stuff an algorithm spits out – the real thing that hits you in the chest and reminds you why you fell in love with music in the first place.
Some sets you simply listen to. And some sets you feel.
Radio Funk Live with Tarek is firmly in the second category: a time-travel mission, a sonic ritual, a conversation between 70s soul ghosts and futuristic drum machines.
So before you crank the sub, grab a chair, pour yourself a drink, and let me show you why this Radio Funk Live is not just another show – it’s a proper event.
🎧 Listen live on radiofunk.radio
The Radio Funk sound: groove in its purest form
Let’s be clear: Radio Funk is not your average nostalgia station looping the same ten “best of disco” tracks all day.
This is a curated webradio built by real diggers who live and breathe the culture. Here, we dig. We unearth. We revive.
Because funk isn’t just a style or a decade – it’s an attitude.
Funk is that stubborn groove that makes anything feel possible. Born in Black American communities in the 60s, refined in Detroit and Los Angeles studios, reshaped in Harlem clubs and Philly block parties, it became the soundtrack of resilience, joy and wild freedom.
It’s improvisation, sweat and community, pressed into wax.
And that’s exactly what Tarek is bringing back to the surface: raw, unfiltered groove. No shortcuts, no safety net, no polite background music.
Just that head-nodding, spine-tingling, “what the hell is this track?” kind of funk.
Why Radio Funk Live hits different
100% human curation, 0% algorithm – every track is handpicked for its groove, not its streaming stats.
Vinyl at the core – original pressings, obscure 12”, dusty B-sides and extended club versions.
Deep label culture – expect heavy doses of Prelude, Salsoul, West End, Solar, Tabu and more.
Storytelling transitions – every blend is there to build tension, release energy and tell a story.
A living sound – slightly rough around the edges, warm, saturated, but absolutely full of soul.
DJ Tarek: from crate-digger to mix alchemist
This guy is not “just” a DJ. He’s a sound archaeologist.
Tarek is obsessed with tracks nobody has heard in 40 years.
He hunts, listens, tests them on real speakers, then stitches them together into something new when he’s behind the decks.
His mission: give forgotten records a second life and make them hit even harder than they did back in the day.
A path built on wax
Before becoming one of the core pillars of Radio Funk, Tarek spent more than fifteen years digging records in Paris, Tokyo and Berlin.
From dusty basements in Shibuya to Paris flea markets, he built up a ridiculous vinyl collection – not to show off, but to play.
He knows each record like a friend: where the break hits, where the horns explode, where the crowd loses it.
He likes to say:
“A good set is like a good meal: you need rare ingredients, controlled fire and just enough madness.”
And that’s the madness he pours into Radio Funk Live. No pre-cooked playlist, no “perfect DJ software list” – just a direction, a mood, and then pure instinct.
The March 7 set: from vinyl to digital, without killing the feel
The theme of this session? The Unbreakable Groove.
Eight solid hours jumping across decades, connecting sweat-drenched dancefloors in Dayton in 1978 to futuristic funk producers in 2026. Yes, 2026 – because funk is not a museum piece; it’s still evolving, mutating and hitting speakers today.
What you can expect to hear
Foundational anthems – you might catch a slice of Parliament’s cosmic funk, Evelyn “Champagne” King’s dancefloor fire or McFadden & Whitehead’s unstoppable uplift.
Global deep cuts – Nigerian synth funk, Brazilian grooves, forgotten UK boogie and Japanese city-pop-funk that never crossed over.
Modern funk & nu-disco – producers like Dam-Funk, Dabeull, Mofak, Kaytranada or Bybo Funk channeling that same soulful low-end into the present.
Every transition is built for one purpose: trigger a physical reaction. This isn’t music to overthink. This is music to move to.
And when Tarek locks a bassline from 1979 under a synth line from 2024, you’ll hear it: that “holy shit” moment when timelines blur and all that matters is the groove.
Labels, clubs and rarities: where funk really comes from
Without the right labels, nothing we love about funk and disco would exist.
Salsoul Records in New York took the rhythm of Latin music and fused it with disco to create a new, lush sound.
Prelude turned the dancefloor into a place of elegance and sensuality. Solar brought that shimmering West Coast flavor, while Tabu and West Endquietly invented ideas the house scene would later run with.
Tarek doesn’t just play records – he plays histories. Between two beats, he loves to drop facts, shout out labels, lift the curtain on who produced what, who played the bassline, where it was recorded. It’s education via subwoofer.
He often sums it up like this:
“The day Larry Levan blew up Paradise Garage, disco didn’t die. The world just realised dancing could be a radical act.”
Legendary rooms that shaped the sound
Paradise Garage (NYC) – the spiritual home of deep disco, where Larry Levan turned mixing into a religion.
The Loft – David Mancuso’s invitation-only temple of pure sound and pure community.
The Warehouse (Chicago) – where disco, gospel and electronic drums fused into what we now call house.
Paris nightlife – from Régine’s clubs to underground spots, where European chic collided with American funk.
Disco-funk crossed oceans, soaked up local cultures and became a shared language: groove.
No translation needed.
Legacy and modern influences: why funk never dies
Think funk faded away with flared pants and glitter balls? Not even close.
Today, its DNA is everywhere: in modern R&B, French touch, nu-disco, G-funk, lo-fi beats and even in certain strains of house and techno.
Those deep basslines, those syncopated drums, those buttery chords – that’s the funk talking.
Artists like Dam-Funk, Kaytranada, Mofak, Dabeull, Yuksek and a whole new wave of producers are carrying the torch.
They keep the essential ingredients – analog synths, swung drums, melodic bass – but twist them with contemporary sound design.
The core ideas that never changed
Funk is not about perfect polish; it’s about feel.
It belongs to no single generation – it moves to wherever people need to dance.
It keeps coming back because it taps into something basic: body, heart, and a little bit of attitude.
In other words: funk is less a “genre” and more a state of mind. As long as someone is willing to push the low end and chase that perfect pocket, funk is alive.
And of course, if you want that full immersive experience, dig into the Radio Funk Mixcloud archive for previous Tarek sets – it’s a goldmine of blends you won’t hear anywhere else.
Radio Funk Live – FAQ
Q: Will there be a replay of the March 7 set?
→ Yes. A replay will be available on Mixcloud on the Radio Funk Disco channel after the live broadcast.
Q: Can I listen to Radio Funk outside France?
→ Absolutely. Radio Funk is an international 24/7 webradio – just head to radiofunk.radiofrom anywhere in the world.
Q: Does DJ Tarek take requests?
→ Yes, but don’t send him basic stuff.
Hit him with deep cuts, lost favourites, or tracks you think nobody else remembers – he loves a challenge.
Q: How can I support Radio Funk?
→ Easy: listen regularly, share the link, subscribe to the newsletter, spread the word on socials, and if you’re a vinyl head – buy records from real stores.
The more the community moves, the stronger the radio becomes.
Final word: where the groove becomes eternal
On March 7, 2026, this is not “just another show”.
It’s a celebration of funk, of real music, of that raw pleasure only a perfectly placed bassline can give you.
It’s a loud “no” to soulless playlists and a big “hell yes” to human selection, sweat and passion. It’s a tribute to diggers, collectors, DJs, dancers and anyone who still believes music can change the temperature in a room.
If groove is a religion, then Tarek is its modern preacher.
And Radio Funk is his temple.
So plug in this Saturday, turn the volume way up and let the funk flood your living room, your kitchen, your headphones – wherever you are. Because one day, people will forget the algorithms.
But no one will ever forget the groove.
📀 Catch the replay: Mixcloud – Radio Funk Live