BZ - Funk

Okay, this is a complicated one...
Back in 2006, Plushgrizzly from Aykaism.ch (now defunct) invited Jon H from Fort Knox Five to play a gig in Switzerland. He recorded the whole evening for a later broadcast on our common radiostation bigbeat.ch (now defunct). I'm not sure, we did ever play it, though... Not even sure if it was ever published in any way.
15 years later, I found this gem on my harddrive and played it during two episodes of my radioshow Eclectix, airing every Sunday, 6pm (cet), on evosonic.de.
First, I didn't want to upload it since I didn't know if it's okay with his friends and family over in DC, but after being asked by FK5 to upload it somewhere public, so they can share it with the world, I guess it is okay... ;)

For those not in the know: Jon H was 1/4 of Fort Knox Five, who died 6 years ago way to early in August 2015. He was an inspiration for way more people all around the world, than he could ever think of and I'm one of them. Thank you, Jon, for everything.

Plushgrizzly:
https://www.facebook.com/PlushGrizzly

Fort Knox Five:
https://www.facebook.com/FortKnoxFive

TapTab:
https://www.facebook.com/taptabschaffhausen

Me:
https://stimpy.me

aykaism presents the new Gold Standard at TapTab, SH, CH

Jon H (Fort Knox Five) live at TapTab, Schaffhausen, CH, 2006-10-21

Got another mix of some quick and dirty hip hop edits ...

(1.) Funk Pump (2.) Startripper Fish (3.) Nappy Possibilities (4.) Back in The Day (5.) Gangsta's Paradise (6.) Inez One (7.) Rock On (8.) Stop the Violence (9.) Mecca Bro (10.) Lost Ones (11.) Lose Yourself (12.) Next Episode (13.) Breakadawn (14.) Biz (15.) Summertime (16.) OPP (17.) Stand Up (18.) Goodthing (19.) Red Hot (20.) Feel The Beat (21.) Jump Around (22.) Numb / Encore (23.) Scenario (24.) Soul Clap (25.) Family Affair (26.) Im Your Pusher (27.) Breath & Stop (28.) Ch-check It Out (29.) Got Your Own Money (30.) Ya Mama (31.) Where's Your Head?

The Shorty Sessions Mixtape | Vol. 3

A mix from w-a-a-a-a-a-y back :D

A bit of a journey - a Choir, a Brass band and an A capella group go toe to toe with The Cure, Joe Cocker, Amy Winehouse and Elliot Smith (sounding like a chipmunk), nuff said.

Heartbeats - Jose Gonzales
Heartbeats - Scala & Kolacny Brothers
Close to me - The Cure
Woman to woman - Joe Cocker
California love - 2Pac & Dr Dre
Hotel California - Rockapella
Sound of silence - Simon & Garfunkel
SOS - Trinity FM
1976 - RJD2
Toxic - Mark Ronson ft ODB & Tiggers
The seed 2.0 - The Roots
Underdog - Sly & The Family Stone
You know I'm no good - Ghostface & Amy Winehouse
Man next door - Dennis Brown
Mama says - Box Clever
Les Fleur - Minnie Ripperton
Lucky Gold Pager - DJ LeeRoy/Cool Kids/Aurevoir Simone
Throw some seas - Rich Boy/The Shins
I didn't understand - Elliot Smith
Ghostwriter - RJD2
Ethnic majority - Nightmares on Wax
Sexual healing - Hot 8 Brass Band

What is this Rubbish

The dust has finally settled after Shindig Festival 2024 and reality has returned. 
Leading up to the festival I spent most of my free time writing / producing and crafting this set of unheard music only to have the cruel fates of festivals decide that a power cut less then half way into my set was to end the hard work I had put in.

Gutted does not cover how I felt when it happened, but shit happens. All I could do was pack up and make way for the next DJ and hope that the power was restored for their set as the show must go on. 

No one was to blame, just a rubbish situation made worse as this was due to be my first real set IRL since before lockdown (yep, 4 odd years in the making). Alas it was not to be.

I've now recorded the whole set, as it was meant to be for your listening enjoyment. 

A little background to this set, it was part of the Global Funk Fam Takeover of the Ghetto Funk Nightclub at Shindig Festival. The sets were 20mins long to fit in all the DJs that came together from across the globe, hence this being more of a showcase set of some of the music I have coming out this year.

Due to the length of the sets I decided to go for a Cut n Paste inspired set of never heard before music from me for the first half, and then the second half was longer tracks.

During the my set the Kurnel MC was due to join me on stage to perform the final track with live vocals, for this recording I have use the acapella from the track.

Should you want the authentic, real life version of this... Stand in a muddy puddle, poor a watering can of water on your head and then stop the playback about 8mins in and you would be close to what it was like at the time (minus the tent of smiling happy folks that were enjoying the music until it stopped).

https://www.crashparty.co.uk/links.html

Crash Part - Shindig 24

Links

Crash Party - Shindig Festival 24 Mix

Been looking forward to announcing this one for a little while now as it has been sitting in the vaults….so here we are!
Absolutely delighted to have recorded a mix for Fort Knox Recordings recently for their Funk The World Mix Series, as they are legends in the funky breaks game as DJs, Producers and Record Label owners! Been playing their tracks for years, so putting this mix together was fun! Squeezed a load of stuff into an hour, but expect the normal blend of funk, reggae, hip hop and breaks!!


Tracklisting:
Beenie Man 'Who Am I?'
Beenie Man ' Romie' (Acapella)
Too Short 'Blow The Whistle'
Buffalo Records 'Bam Bam'
Blu Cantrell 'Breathe (X-Ray Tedit)'
Krafty Kuts 'Street Hop'
Onra 'The Anthem'
20 Dolla 'Get The Fork Up'
A Skillz 'Flirting With Shirley'
Bazza Ranks & Imagine This 'That Stuff (The Allergies Remix)'
Calski 'The Clap'
Regulate Recordings 'Rumpshaker'
J Period 'Move (feat Q Tip)'
Shaka Loves You 'Enjoy Yourself'
Jim Sharp 'Musky Nutta'
Krafty Kuts 'Colombia'
Act of Sedition 'Corre Riba (Aceedo Domingo Edit)'
Kraak & Smaak 'Money In The Bag (Allergies Remix)'
DJ Bacon 'Mad World (Brass Band B Boy Edit)'
Aroop Roy 'P.I.M.P'
Ninetoes 'Finder'
Nas 'The Don (Hot City Mix/Shepdog Edit)'
Freestylers & Jiro 'Elastic Mind (Freestylers Mix)'
Borai & Denham Audio 'Make Me'

Funk The World 80

Aaron's Ghetto Funk Mix

Some serious heaters in this edition of Bootlegs & B-Sides, so crank it up.  Much love to all, who support the show.

TRACK LIST:
Z-Trip - Immigrant Noise
Phibes - Belong to You
The Funk Hunters - Soul Man
Fort Knox Five - Ready Go feat. Raashan Ahmad (Slynk Remix)
Lack Jemmon - Sofi T
Tom Drummond - Fool's Hands
El Bomba - Rockin' Fly Kicks
Basement Freaks - Funk It Up Like This
Vancara - Disco Balls
Parov Stelar - Booty Swing (DJ Wood Reboot)
DJP & The Breakbeat Junkie - Represent The Style
Thomas Vent - Essential Blues
X Ray Ted - Chopsy's New Groove
The Breakbeat Junkie - Party Block Rocker (Breakbeat Junkie Remix)
Mr. Fitz - Funky Bukaki
Ali B & Nick Thayer - N E Way

Bootlegs & B-Sides 

Bootlegs & B-Sides #28

This week's edition of Bootlegs & B-Sides is full of heaters.  There's some real beauties in the mix, with tasty fresh tunes, as well as some classics from the vaults.  

TRACK LIST:
The Captain - About a Grapevine (Nirvana vs Marvin Gaye)
DJ Bacon - Funky Men
Timothy Wisdom - Rockin’ The Party
Black Sheep - Strobelite Honey
The Breakbeat Junkie (with DJ P) - Let The Record Play 
CMC & Silenta feat. MC Fava - Get It On Now (Basement Freaks Remix)
Florence Funk - Dancing 
Pecoe - Get It Together
Florence Funk - Get Off and Jam 
CMC & Silent - Let's Dance
Funkin' Basstards feat. BNC - Return of the Originals 
Funk Ferret - Ecstasy
Andy Cooper - Sky Scraping
Kool Hertz - Funky Music Till You Die 
Mr Stabalina - In The Air 
Mr Bristow feat. Phil Ramocon - Drunk On Funk (B-Side Remix)
SkiiTour - The Program
D-Funk & Some DJ - Phantom Can't Dance

Bootlegs & B-Sides - RapTz

Bootlegs & B-Sides - Mix #132

I've selected loads of cool tunes for the latest episode of Bootlegs & B-Sides.  Check them out.

TRACK LIST

Pecoe - It’s Your Thing (Boydex Remix)
The Breakbeat Junkie - Linguistics
Second Hand Audio - Celebrate feat. The Kurnel MC (Shaka Loves You Remix)
Second Hand Audio - Married to the Music feat. Natty Speaks (Mr Stabalina Remix)
Florence Funk - Feel The Heat 
Jimi Hendrix - Freedom (Fernan Dust Funky Remix)
The Beatles - Yellow Submarine (Jimi Needles Big Beat Mix)
Tha Fun Police - My Nikes ft. Claire G (Fort Knox Five & Kenny Beeper Remix)
Tonbe - Juicy Juice
Africa Bambaataa - We Funk This Party Out feat. Grandmaster Flash, Mele Mel & Kurtis Blow (Qdup & AGFA Remix)
The JBs - Pass The Peas (Pecoe Edit)
James Brown - Give It Up Turn It Loose
Busta Rhymes - Don't Touch Me (A.Skillz ‘Be My Love’ Edit)
Father Funk & Slynk - Cosmic Quest
The Breakbeat Junkie & DJP - Rock The Place 


Bootlegs & B-Sides - Mix #133

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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Every Ghetto, Every City

Doo Wop (That Thing)

The next instalment of my Golden Era Podcast series is here, Including an interview with Legendary British Funk act Cymande. These are Funk tracks from the 60's - 70's which are my personal favourites and inspired me to do what I do today. Funk is a style, genre a way of life that has been the biggest influence in my career. In this mix it takes in everything that I love about how Funk can be Latin, Jazz, Folk, Rock but if it's Funky then it can fit under that bracket !!

D/L HERE

A Golden Era Of Funk Podcast

The Shakedown

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

BadboE is back in full effect with the second EP from his upcoming album Pump Up The Funk coming out in the end of 2012. 4 brand new hot funky jams from the funk master himself - all mixed up and road-tested to perfection. This time he’s gone way back into his crates of rare grooves and picked out some real diamonds on which he has based these 4 state-of-the-art party jams. 

With this release BadboE is stepping well into the world of Ghetto bass and electro vibes, but without loosing the funk and soul that he’s so respected and loved for. On a tour to Australia and New Zealand, BadboE meet up with the 2 vocalists featuring on this EP: MC Kitch from Brisbane who is known to rock dancefloors MCing for Paul Masters, and Claire G Phunk, who has already been heard on tracks by Pimp Soul and Busta. As and added bonus the one-man band phenomenon Michael Devellis from New York has laid Horns and Flute on 2 jams on this EP. Breakbeat Paradise Recordings continues to keep it real to wax by releasing this 4-track beast exclusively on 12” Vinyl.

A1.  BadboE kicks off the EP with the straight up funky banger Ghetto Funkalicious featuring MC Kitch doing his thang on the mic. A well-picked funky groove some banging beats and ghetto basslines and Michael Devellis getting busy on the horns and flues is all it takes for BadboE to create and instant Ghetto Funk classic. This jam is already getting support from some of the major players in the scene!

A1. Ghetto Funkalicious feat MC Kitch (Preview)

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

BadboE is a truecore musichead born in Denmark in 1980. Located in the northern part of Denmark, where the weather always suxx, which gives BadboE a good excuse to sit in his music lab throwing pumpin' beats at his 18" bass sound system all day long. BadboE�s primary music inspirations come from the oldskool funk productions from the late 60s and the 70s. Like many other breakbeat artists, this musical legacy is where BadboE dig in to bring new life by cutting and mixing the pieces into new danceable songs. The specialty has become sophisticated mixing of old funk samples with 80s rap vocals and hooks. BadboE started out making music in the mid 90s - doing mainly euro hardcore techno, but soon found out that his real passion and fascination was for breaks and bigbeats. After trying out just about everything in the electronic music genre from - house, trance, club, happy hardcore to drum&bass, triphop and Breakbeat the conclusion was that funky breakbeat is what he does best. So now BadboE pretty much combined it all into one with an emphasis on breaks, which has become the BadboE-style. 

In 2006 BadboE formed his own digital recordlabel together with his fellow musician Wiccatron called Breakbeat Paradise Recordings (BBP Recordings). The goal with the label was to ensure faster access to the market as well as open doors for some of the great artists that are doing funky breaks. Since then the nu funk scene has come to live and the BBP label is set to be one of the digital leaders in this genre. 

BadboE has been keeping busy releasing his unique flavour of b-boy funk and uptempo partyfunk on his own label and on various other labels. After releasing a few vinyl records in 2007 - the debut EP: "Loose Your Funky Self" and a remix by Break The Box called "Walk out Laughing" the successful EP "Dynamite/Nothing But the Funk" was released in Oct 2008 with remixes from All Good Funk Alliance! This was followed by the successful 4-track Good Groove 11 vinyl that managed to stay at the no. 1 spot on the breakbeat chart for several months. A lot or remixes has been coming out on various labels and they have all contributed to settling BadboE�s name in the funky breakbeat scene. In 2008 BadboE got active as a live DJ playing at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark and at the electronic Boom festival in Portugal as well as other local gigs. 

BadboE's music is going in 2 directions - the first is making funky breaks and trippy lounge breaks without using uncleared samples (material to release commercially) and the other is for the scene mixing, breaking and bootlegin' with the oldskool funk tunes. In the upcoming years BadboE will focus on getting his music out there with a full length album coming out in 2009 as well as touring the world with his funky partyrocking DJsets. Stay tuned... 

A1. Ghetto Funkalicious feat MC Kitch (Preview)

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