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All Good Funk Alliance – Jacks of All Trades

All Good Funk Alliance - Jacks of All Trades

Maelstrom & Napz Radio

Funk For All Time

DJNovaa Mix of all - part 2

monkey

Somebody's Watching Me

Somebody's Watching Me (Chorus Version) [feat. John Winston Berta]

buy the original track - No Rain by Blind Melon here: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/blind-melon/id14592815" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/blind-melon/id14592815</a>


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Blind Melon - No Rain (Pumpkin Remix)

Purchase Track

Asher Perkins - The Feeling of Bliss is Misery (Original Mix)

LA FUNDACION
Un gran dia en el barrio - Spanish Harlem Orchestra
Ramon Mendeville - voice
Amaia Izarzugaza - piano & coros
Rafael Palacios - bass & coros
Juanga Lakunza - trombon & coros
Lina Sommer - tenor saxophone
Roel van der Zande - trumpet
Roman Sielert - bongo & campana
Alberto Molina - congas
Matteo Bowinkelmann - timbales
Played at Grounds Podium, Rotterdam The Netherlands.

LA FUNDACION - Un gran dia en el barrio - Spanish Harlem Orchestra

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-AIFF-THE SEDUCTION

Composed, produced, arranged, and mixed by Nicholas Alvarado for Hiding Acorns Music.
Vocals and lyrics by Kyrstyn Pixton.
Mastered by Warp9 Mastering.
Artwork by Andrew Soria.

Shifting Things Ft. Kyrstyn Pixton

2014.10.08 Release
TVアニメーション「スペース☆ダンディ」O.S.T.2　Boobies Wonderland

Dandy's Fly

Frank - Remixes

In My Bed (Bugz in the Attic Dub)

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Every Ghetto, Every City

Doo Wop (That Thing)

Timeless

Mas Que Nada (feat. The Black Eyed Peas)

Euphoria

Cuando Me Enamoro (feat. Juan Luis Guerra)

Jacks of All Trades

I Don't Care If It's Your Birthday

Motivate

Throw Down

Time to Get Loose

Mr. Hipnoid

The Shakedown

The Shakedown (Say Yeah) [feat. Martha High & Myles Sanko & The Stilhouettes]

Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro

Baggy Pants

Yellow Soul Force (Parts II & III

Black Pitch EP

Miss U Right Now (Original Mix) [feat. 72 Soul]

Remix Spirit Catcher - Sweet Deal

Across 110th Sreet

Tun Tun Suena El Tambor

Escucha El Ritmo

Eyesdown

Eyesdown (feat. Andreya Triana)

Theory of Revolution

Theory of Revolution (feat. Georges Perin)

Here's a li'l remix I did for my favorite LA Band, The Mowgli's. 
buy the original song here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/loves-not-dead-ep/id572956668

The Mowgli's - San Francisco (Pumpkin Remix)

Mr. Confuse “Feel The Fire” (Not the complete album)

Catalogue number: LEGO 009 (CD/2LP)

LC: 14924 
EAN CD: 40 26424 00122 1
EAN 2LP: 40 26424 00125 2

Release date: Sept. 19, 2008

Mr. Confuse is a traveller between the styles. „Feel The Fire“ is the debut solo album by the producer, arranger, composer and DJ from Hannover Germany. Collecting 14 tracks on his album Mr. Confuse takes us on an excursion from HipHop to Afro, Electro and Latin back to Funk. „Feel The Fire“ comes as an organic statement for the analogue link between HipHop and Funk as well as an authentic and up-to-date plea for the original brass arrangements in the Funk and Jazz music of the Seventies.

As part of the producer team Breakout, Mr. Confuse was a household name in the Funk and HipHop community already in 2006. His idea to reinterpret Afrika Bambaataa’s „Planet Rock“ as a Funk tune and in a Jazz-Breaks version gained Breakout massive international attention. Breakout split in spring 2007 and released their last 7“ „The Funky Goofball/Lyve Wire“ during the summer of that year. Mr. Confuse kept being a requested producer. He had numerous of contributions for compilations (“Brazilectro”, “Battle Of The Year”, Viertelbar, etc.) and released three Mix-CDs („Catch The Beat“, „Confunktion“ and „Brazilian Cuts“), using a wide spectrum of styles. 

Mr. Confuse decided to produce „Feel The Fire“ in a kind of style which is typical for HipHop: „I work sampler based. You look for parts of drum loops and other pieces in a record and build new music from it. This album was created in exactly that way.“ But sampling alone is not enough: „When the structure is there I will go and meet the musicians I work with. I work pretty much autodidactic and very intuitive - this can turn out really bizarre from time to time. Sometimes I’m humming or buzzing the melody I’m looking for to the musicians. I do not play an instrument myself, except that I use the MIDI-Keyboard to be able to work with Plug-ins and think of melody and rhythm. The musicians I work with will turn the ideas which I have in my head into music.“

This concept is as exciting as it is hard work: „I will return to my Sampler with what the musicians played and often do a completely new cut. You may say that I use a musician as a sample library.“ Consequently recording „Feel The Fire“ took quite some time, exactly „from the end of 2006 up to January 2008. In the end the complete album consists now of about 10000 samples. To finish an album like that it is a matter of sweat and tears ...“.

So it comes as no surprise that Mr. Confuse can very clearly define his references and inspiration: „At the moment everything is Electro or Techno actually at least in my town. The sound is very much Eighties, so clean, full of Synthies and 808 programming. When we did Breakout in the summer of 2005 we felt completely different. It was all too clean for us, especially the mixes. I draw my influences from HipHop and I want to work on something I can identify with. HipHop is pretty much the only style I like in the Eighties, apart from Punk probably. Today everything sounds so calculated. It was the snare in the Eighties, today it is the Kick drum. What I tried is to transfer the idea, better say the musical basis of HipHop, from the Nineties back to today. This is what it was like in the Nineties: HipHop tried to transform the sounds of the Sixties and Seventies into the here and now. So it was just natural for me that I tried to keep my sound dirty like it was in the Sixties and Seventies. My main idea by doing songs like “Planet Rock” or “Lookout Weekend” was to put the Eighties back into Seventies or Sixties by using technology of the Nineties – got it!? In the UK and elsewhere there are so many new bands who release handmade organic sounding Sixties and Seventies music right now and I think that is brilliant – it sounds authentic!“

„Feel The Fire“ will be released as a download and on CD, as well as a limited edition double vinyl album.  The first single „Lookout Weekend“ is coming with remixes by Lack Of Afro and Mash & Munkee, the second single „Imóvel“ will feature mixes by Rephrase, Smoove, AIFF, Ed Royal and The Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra.

„Feel The Fire“ – Track by track in the words of Mr. Confuse:

Hurricane Jane
I am a big fan of Joe Farrell and the CTI Label. „Hurricane Jane“ is from Farrell’s 1974 album „Penny Arcade“. I took a break of that song as a basis for the intro of „Feel The Fire“. The drums are not programmed on this track, but being played live by Lars Heindorf from the band Sugarhat.
 
Lookout Weekend
„Lookout Weekend“ is a cover version of Debbie Deb’s 1984 single on Jam Packed. A bonafied Latin-Freestyle Electro classic which was originally produced by Tony Butler! I quite like the contrast to turn an 80s track into a Funk track with a dirty bass line.

Going Somewhere
„Going Somewhere“ was recorded together with my graphic designer Florian Bochnig who plays the guitar on it. Actually, he is not a professional musician, but his style fits perfectly. The trombone by Matthias Brennecke really moves this song.

Balkan Funk
Coco, Steel & Lovebomb had this 1999 track „Yachts“ together with A Man Called Adam. They sampled this 60s Brazilian sounding piano and used it as basis for their song. I found this piano very interesting and inspiring. So I had the idea of doing a similar piano line, but with a horn section and also way faster. This worked out good and gave the Latin sounding piano line, I thought of, a Balkan feeling by being played that fast with a brass section.
 
It’s Just A Blues
Emma Pujadas a.k.a. Lady EmZ from Barcelona is a MySpace connection. I think she has a brilliant voice and thought: Why not work together on something? It took months until I received the parts from her, because she did not have recording equipment at home and had to look for a studio to be able to record the song. In the end it worked out good and she had a brilliant vocal line for the song.
 
Do It Right Now
Martin “Margot” Gontarski plays bass on this track, Martin actually was the bass player of the well known German funk band Spice. This track features a really nice battle between the Hakan Türközü’s Hammond C3 organ and the incredible trumpet play by Szabolcs Smid.

Feel The Fire
„Feel The Fire“ is my highlight on the album. Henrik Pfeiffer was working on the guitar for „Lookout Weekend“ and this track at the same time, so they both sounds perfect together. Matthias Brennecke plays this incredible bass trombone which goes through the whole track and which makes it really special, just like Lalo Schifrin had this special bass trombone in his soundtracks during the Seventies. We’ve been doing the sax solo when Simo Schneider came up with the idea to do an interpolation of De La Soul’s „Ring Ring“ in it.

En Movimiento
This was the last track I recoded for the album. Contrary to the other songs it was completely conceived with samples plus an incredible brass line by Matthias Brennecke.

Groovin’ On The Spot
„Groovin’ On The Spot“ was recorded with Lionel Berton from “The Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra” out of Paris. Lionel is a great percussion player, also to be heard on „The Arrrgh Theme“ and „The Groove Merchant“. You simply do not find this authentic afro style where I come from. Same goes for a good baritone saxophone. 

The Groove Merchant
Hakan Türközü is one of the best Hammond organ players in Hannover. I am happy that he played the Hammond C3 on „The Groove Merchant“. After a long recording session for other songs we have been trying the sketch of “The Groove Merchant” just jamming around and at the end of this long day Hakan went really mad on it. 

When I Hear Music
“When I Hear Music” is the second Debbie Deb cover version on “Feel The Fire”. Inna Vysotska sings on this one as well as on “Lookout Weekend”, additional drums come a courtesy of Lars Heindorf a.k.a. DJ Soul Surfer.

Imóvel
„Imóvel“ is a collaboration with Marc Amadeus Figge who is the man behind Mo’ Horizons. Marc wrote most of the stuff with Mo’ Horizons, he is a versatile and brilliant musician and plays piano, saxophone, bass, German flute, samba percussion, melodica, drums and I do not know what else...

The Arrrgh Theme
The „Outroduction“ is dedicated to my graphic designer Florian Bochnig. He has this great street art project called Arrrgh (www.arrrgh.org) which really needs his own theme - and he plays the distorted guitar, of course!


Label Contact
Légère Recordings * Helmut Heuer * Lindenallee 19a * 20259 Hamburg, Germany 
Phone: ++49 (0)40 87 97 69 13 * helmut@lounge-records.de

Booking Contact
frank@bureau45.com


When I Hear Music

Phreek Plus One - La spirale - j's loveboat mix

Theme of Kilimanjaro

Sympathy

A DJ mix for the moments in between.
The first Pumpkin mix ever recorded, sometime around 2009ish.

Tracklist:
moment (pumpkin edit) - damian lazarus
oh superman - m.a.n.d.y., booka shade
haunting (sleeper thief rmx) - chopstick, eyerer
orgsa - sis
white elephant - h.o.s.h.
the case (kollektiv turmstrasse rmx) - raz ohara & the odd orchestra
for a friend - stimming
black river (gui boratto rmx) - bomb the bass
nngg - champion
this sweet love (prins thomas edit) - james yuill
you're so cool - hans zimmerman

The Sweetness

A DJ mix for the moments in between.
Recorded sometime around 2010ish.

Tracklist:
You've Got The Love (The XX Remix)	Florence + The Machine	
The Funeral (Buckmaster Remix) Band Of Horses	
Think About You (DJ Koze Remix) Heiko Voss	
Azzurra (It's Not The Same Version)	Gui Boratto 
I'm Small (Chuck Brody Remix)	 Phantogram	
Shelter (Tiga Remix)	 The XX	
Heaven (Nicolas Jaar Remix)	 Kasper Bjorke 
Get Up And Go (James Yuill Remix)	Broadcast 2000	
Undercover Martyn (Passion Pit Remix/Pumpkin Edit) Two Door Cinema Club 
Rescue Song (RAC Remix)	 Mr. Little Jeans 
Home (RAC Remix)	 Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros	
:: much respect to all the artists ::

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Lemongrass

For remixes, mixing, or mastering email: agfamusic@gmail.com.

For DJ bookings email funkweapons@gmail.com

Made up of Frank Cueto and Rusty Belicek, the All Good Funk Alliance has opened up for James Brown, DJ'd all around the world, written songs for commercials, T.V. and movies, and have appeared on the Breakspoll Top 50 list and was included in The Little Big Beat book,. In other words, these guys are no strangers to the funk. And while their musical tastes range the gamut, when Frank and Rusty join forces the end result is always the same: they deliver a sound that is funky, fun and fresh.

Side Projects:
B-Team
Vested Soul
E1sbar
Rockmaster Rus B
Sons of Satin
LNW

Mr. Hipnoid

ALL GOOD FUNK ALLIANCE