Electrifying Mojo, MidNight Funk Association
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- čas přidán 8. 05. 2011
- The Electrifying Mojo and the Midnight Funk Association with another cut of pure electromagnetic funk. With a little techno just the way we like it. More still to come. Hope you enjoy it, and May The Funk Be With You Always!
- Hudba
Umph, umph, umph! The Electrifying Mojo midnight hour. This is when those of you from Detroit remember staying out late hanging at Belle Isle park. Man we'd be BBQ, drinking, smoking and sitting around telling lies and listening to Mojo. Best part was when you would reach that perfect point of euphoria from drinking Seagrams w/grapefruit and some perfect hits of the Thai Stick. Mojo would play a serious mix session and we'd lay back and relax...ya dig?
Yes!! :)
Yes sir He would
ABSOLUTELY
Yessssss we didn't have no worries
Damn this sounds so classic
Thanks for relating that experience big homie. ✌
This show had so much impact for so long. I was a kid from Sterling Heights who knew nothing about anything and “found” The Electrifying Mojo because I had trouble sleeping. What I didn’t realize is that my life was changing forever. Led me to a life in music as a profession and way of life and I can say for a fact that Mojo had a HUGE part in that.
I’ll never forget the night he put Mesopotamia (B-52s) on repeat!
I remember that well!
What a night! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
The electrifying Mojo needs his own statue in the downtown Detroit area. The dude is a legend.
Yes, that would be incredible!!!
Why not
If this is not Detroit, I don’t know what is!
Best days of my life when Mojo was on the radio. I still have my Midnight funk Association pin from 1982. 😁
"When you're nearing the end of your rope...don't slide off...tie a knot...keep hangin'...keep rememberin'...that there ain't nobody bad...like you..."
I miss this guy. He taught me what it meant to really be cool in the early mid-80s. More importantly, he made me feel proud to just be who I was, like what I like, and know...that what I liked...was fricken cool... :)
Many people did not commit suicide due to those words!
@@TheMusicalEmpress That is an awesome statement my brother.
AWESOME!!!!!
I wish I knew the exact month/day I posted the above. I'm now wheelchair bound, have many related medical issues, and severe chronic pain on top of it all. "Don't slide off..." I'm trying, brother. I'm really trying... 😕
Amen brother! I totally forgot that he used to say this at the end of his show, before he left every night on the mother ship. MOJO was one of the coolest Mofo's on the planet back in the day...
I used to be glued to my radio with my cassette deck ready to record! I was too young to drive, but man on man sneaking to stay up to listen to MOJO sealed my love for music. It literally changed my life! He was also the ONLY on Prince gave interviews to back in the day while in Detroit. Prince loved us Detroiters and shouted us out in several of his songs. Thanks to the Electrifying Mojo!💜💜💜🔥🔥🔥🔥📻📻📻🎧🎧🎧🔌🔋🔋
Detroit was a 2nd home to Prince...
Now live in DC, but grew up in Detroit listening to Electrifying Mojo, and watching The Scene.
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Oh, The Scene: the Motor City's version of Soul Train.
Hell yeah
Oh, those were the days back when Mojo was on WJLB late nights. He was the first DJ in Detroit to play Prince WAY before he became a star and the first one to play rap music regularly on the radio.That's how I was introduced to Prince, The B-52's, The Gap Band, Devo, The Time, Kraftwerk, Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force, Midnight Star, Chic, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Zapp, Was (Not Was), Planet Patrol, Yaz, Kurtis Blow, The J. Geils Band, Art of Noise and many other Funk, Hip Hop, Rock and New Wave artists as a very young teen. Hell, he would even throw a Van Halen song in the mix from time to time! Whammy Woah!
Listened to Mojo in college in the early 80's at the U of Michigan Ann Arbor. Came home from the library after a night of studying and jammed.
This was the best DJ on planet earth.. Mojo shaped the D when it came to dropping records on 107.5 FM. I missed one of the RUN DMC concerts at Cobo Arena in the 80’s. Mojo that night played nothing but RUN DMC, he made me feel like I was at the concert. He did this every time an artist would give a concert in the D. Big ups to this icon🙌🏾
Yeah, he did the same thing when Prince came to down. He'd play nothing but Prince from the time the show ended until the time Mojo's show ended.
I would make sure I'm in the bed so I can listen to MOJO and dance on my back. LOL!
I've read about the influence this guy had on lots of great musicians, producers & DJs from Detroit that I love & now I'm listening to him in 2019 all the way over in Manchester, England.
Dope ✊🎶
I grew up in the Detroit area, in this era. It was a great time, filled with great music😊
Manchester wow....tell me what's up ???
Mojo is definitely the reason a lot of us now listen to all types of music. We lost our minds the night he broke Frequency 7 by Visage, or Walk The Night by the Skatt Bros., Clear or R9 by Cybotron….The list goes on.
Detroit at it's best...#Mojoforlife#
mojo was a detroit icon!!! let's hit the strip on belle island and all synchronized our radios to wjlb!! does anyone remember??
Mojo brought folks together of all races by playing Jam on it!!!! 😁
Radio....theater of the mind.
Mojo was a master at imagery and crowd participation.
R.I.P. Prince. One of the baddest to ever do it. Used to love when Mojo played Prince and did the Prince and Michael Jackson battles.
Yyyyyyyyyyyes!!!!!!! No one did it better than Mojo!!! He played everything. This generation does not have enough diversity in the music they listen to. Those battles were EPIC!
Used to sit up with my cassette ready for the MFA in Toledo! Wish I could find his mix of Lady Cab Driver! Mojo, the Legend!
Keith, you ever find it? I'd love to have it, too!
Great song!
Detroit had the best DJ's across the dial, no matter what you listened to...Electrifying Mojo, Mason, Dino Day, Arthur P, JJ and the Morning Crew, Dick Purtan, Ken Calvert, Steve Konstat, Drew and Mike and I know I'm forgetting others, sorry
Alan Almond pillow talk
Donnie Simpson
Lynne Woodison, Harper & Gannon and Doug Podell too!
Damn I miss this era....so funky...so deep
Loved this show
My buddy in Detroit used to record it and give a copy to me in Chi town back in the day
Super cool
Man I loved this show! It was a big part of my youth.
Salutes to all the members of the MFA!!!!!!!!!
Whammy Woah!
Mojo had a lot to do with why I loved such a wide variety of music! Radio was more interesting without repetitious playlists I totally remember lying down and daydreaming with this music. Thank you Mojo!
Had no idea back then how great and special this really was! Thanks for sharing here, love to remember and reminisce...
I still flash my lights at midnight..LoL!
Mojo you just be YOU!! LOVE YOU!!!❤️
I hope somebody out there posts recording of when he'd start his show by coming down in the Mother Ship. That was my favorite.
Check CZcams, and share with others those golden Mojo memories!
Oh my.classic🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🔐
Listening to this back in the day laying in bed at night in the Metro Detroit Area, baby!
ZombieMommy hell ya 6 mile and middlebelt here
Damn i loved my MFA card showed it off like it was a AMEX card 🤣
Damn. This brings back so many memories. Thank you.
the best radio of time directly from space
A true detroiter experience/ Can you feel it !!!!
Laying in bed on 15 waiting to hit record. I remember the night he introduced the world to PE.
"Miuzi weighs a ton"
Flint Michigan had my cassette ready at 11:59 and record for my Walkman or the boom box
The only dj I ever heard play "Womantown" by Gang of Four! Radio was a great place to hang out back then; such breadth. Nowadays, not so much.....
I really miss Mojo and radio of the early 80's
Holy shit I remember him back in the day wow nothing like him in America
the conception of Techno and the universal groove!
Right on brother!
A lot of people don't realize how smart this guy was. The reason he never showed his face because he didn't want to get caught in the ego of being a local celebrity. First and foremost the music always took center stage every night. When we saw him in public it was like talking to a next door neighbor
Those were the Nights & Days!
was at the university of windsor in the mid 80s when mojo was at whyt. The MFA kept me sane!!!
first time I heard situations by Yazoo was on the MFA. Erotic city by Prince...Ditto!!!
Ain't nobody bad like Mojo.
AWESOME 84!
Mojo, got us on point....
This is bringing back awesome memories
Ah yes! In the bedroom and my brother has his boombox hooked to outside antenna to get the best reception..although it was bedtime for me I couldn't fall asleep. We Toledoans loved it! Mojo made me fall in love with hip hop and so many genres. A true legend!
Oh, the Mothership just landed!!! This brings it all back.
Cruisin Gratiot!!
LEGENDARY!
New Wave Techno Funky up in here!
DETROITS OWN!
We need mo jo back now djice
Mojo was da shit! He paid homage to all the funk masters....James Brown, George Clinton, Bootsy, zapp, prince, it was an experience! Especially when everyone around was tuned in on the same station! Belle isle was da place to be! Da strip baby!
Cars. Gary Newman
Fun memories!!!!!
Currently 999👍on this video. I don't know why but that's a cool # (at least to me, right now). 😎
(6:17) ...what is on his mind tonight? I have to admit a long time ago, I was told how to act, I just didn't act that way... 😎🤘
when i was growin up in livonia michigan this was hot shit first place I heard beastie boys and first time i heard you be illin by run dmc shit I cant believe this is on youtube
WGPR!!!!!
I had the distinct pleasure of talking to the (very secretive) Mojo on the phone about 7 years ago. He was very gracious and kind to a young white musician like me... He is a first class gentleman but also very secretive and I do not know if anyone knows what he is up to these days...
The D, we in here baby!!!!
Ray Parker Jr. and Raydio, Still in the Groove
It was a sweet girl in 1980 name Eartha from The East Side of Detroit Michigan that listened to the radio just to hear Mojo voice. Eartha obsession with Mojo got so bad she couldn't function. The doctors suggested her mother take Eartha to meet Mojo. Mojo agreed and they came back home talking about how short Mojo was. Eartha still obsessed the man and when he told her she was too young, she flipped out mentally. At the time Eartha was around 14 yrs of age and took so many drugs and died in her mid 30's. REST IN PARADISE EARTHA...
Mojo had the radio rockin in the Fli !!!!( Flint) for those that dont know....Bedrock Baby!!!!!! Flintstone!!!!!!
Lol....SM.
Anthony Benta Late 70's,early 80's....true member of the MFA(Midnight Funk Association).....lol
All good bro
Ohh yeah I was tuning in! Flint Beecher area. Coldwater Rd BABY!! I still have my MFA button.🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊💃💃💃💃
love you man come on back now i got you mojo from your boy djiceman in detroit mi.
@unabobby I stand and recognize my Fellow Brother In Funk. That has got to be the top statement in radio, although I'm sure there are others (and I would love to hear them!). I have a couple of weeks until a bit o' surgery so I've been trying to find things to bring me up and/or have defined me. Just...you know, cause...you never know... ;) But I am SO sad that this recording ends when it does! It brought me right back and I wanted it to continue but then it ended... :( Rock on, Members!
waving my whammy cloth and tying my knot, to keep hanging!
grew up in Toledo lived this
GRATIOT&GUNSTON FROM: CHARLAMAGNE,GLENFIELD,ST.PATRICK FLANDERS,SANFORD,WHITHORN, FINDLAY,CHRISTY, MINDEN NASHIVLLE,ENGLESIDE,KENMORE&KENNEBEC!!! HOLDING IT DOWN IN THE 80'S!!!!!!
Sanford 💪💪💪
Yea THE BELLE ILSE THE AAY IT NEED TO GO BACK TOO TIMES !!!!
And you thought Ray Parker Jr. only did Ghostbusters.
Please rise
Cars by Gary Numan
Second Song is Ray Parker Jr. and Raydio. I will come up with the name in a minute.
anybody know what's the second tune?
@tappingeddie Still in the Groove by Ray Parker Jr. and Raydio
This super Song!!! Very,very , very, nice, nice, nice!!!!! Super nice🎈🎈🎈
GTA Vice city
name of first track ????
Cars by Gary Numan
MICHIGAN KNEW
MO WAS DJ.
MEMORIES
I called myself electrifying Romeo back then trully a mojo fan nobody bad like mojo besides electrying Romeo
Man those were the days U don't hear me!!!
Still have a Whammy Cloth
Mojo let me talk for about an hour on air about my sister Gail Lykes after she passed away. Love you Mojo
MOJO WAS THE THEME FOR THE M$M FLYNNS IN DETROIT( MID 70' S TILL ABOUT 1981).FLYNN'N R.I P.TO SNAKE,SAVAN,MIKE WILLIAMS,HORCE NECK,PAPA,AND OTHERS.
Huh?