OUR BEATS GOT SOUL
Recent releases from; Children Of Zeus, Darkhouse Family, Tawiah, Souleance, Kaidi Tatham, Ross McHenry, Olivier St. Louis, Myele Manzanza, Takuya Kuroda, Eric Lau and much more.
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Strictly Kev aka DJ Food aka Openmind - Music producer, DJ and Graphic Designer. I've worked with and for Ninja Tune since 1993, designing covers, mixing radio shows and producing records as well as touring the world DJing. 

Releasing the best in funk, jazz, soul, reggae & more since 2003

http://fortknox.bandcamp.com/

Some seriously funky groups come in Five’s - The Jackson 5, The MC 5, Jurassic 5… and of course Fort Knox Five.

Fort Knox Five is known for bending genres and using a broad range of musical elements in their creation of highly original music. This approach ultimately pioneered a funky scene where FK5 continues to top charts today.

Forget about tempos and genres, let Fort Knox Five take you on a musical journey that unites the funk, soul, jazz, hip hop and electronic generations.

"Athens finest Music Operators and Producers since 2006!"

Sammy Don

Butsku is a one-man project that's all about creating new sounds and experimenting with song structures. Many of the songs are based on loops and utilize abstract methods of composition. The music is influenced by 60s psychedelic rock, shoegaze, funk, hip-hop and modern experimental music. 

"Dub Demo" is currently featured in http://vimeo.com/33548193

I used to moderate the following groups;
Fuzz
Looping
Psychedelic hip-hop
Music from Helsinki
Jangle-pop

Like an old football player who discovers a gaping hole in his life where The Game once was,Hector was lost without the regular fix that only industrial quantities of vinyl and some SL1210's can provide.Where once he travelled the world entertaining tens of clubbers with his mixing skills and cheese-based humour,Hector and his alter-egos have found solace in music,mashups and mathematics.After spending  his millions on drugs,women,alcohol and gambling,and wasting the rest,he is now poor but happy,contented simply to sharing great music and terrible puns.

Remember when going out used to be fun? Do you prefer dancing to posing? Does your idea of dressing to impress have nothing to do with designer labels and everything to do with finding a gorilla costume in the perfect shade of purple? Bored of identikit ‘edgy’ nights called Fraktion, Elastik, and other ironically misspelled words? Well despair no more because THE HONG KONG PING PONG CLUB is here to restore your faith in the weekends!

During the late 00’s in the farthest flung reaches of the South West a group of friends were brought together by a mutual love of good music. With roots in Funk, Hip Hop, Big Beat and Breaks they had a no holds barred attitude
to their tune selection, playing a multi genre smorgasbord each bringing their own flavour to the mix.

Refusing to be pigeonholed and taking inspiration from nights like ‘The Heavenly Social’ and ‘The Big Beat Boutique’ ‘The Hong Kong Ping Pong Club’ was conceived. They rapidly gained a loyal party loving following at their spiritual home and residency ‘The Watermans’ in Falmouth and were soon playing host to the great and good within the scene.

Thrusting themselves in to the limelight with the infamous ‘Mixtape’ series the next logical step was to take the show on the road and bookings for booths in clubs and stages in fields quickly followed.

They have become a main stay at Shindig Festival, Shambala, Leopallooza and The Great Estate and have recently started to once again promote their own night’s back in Falmouth at The Underland Bar.

They love The Hong Kong Ping Pong Club and if you are inclined to dance like a drunken-hands-in-the-air Viking to bootie shakingly good music you’ll like it too!

Hailing from the Washington DC area, the Empresarios are adept at mixing diverse cultures and sounds together. This five man collective led by Javier Miranda (Vocals, Congas, Producer) alongside John Bowen (Video DJ, Producer), Paul Chaconas (Guitar, Bass, Keys, Producer, Engineer), Sonny Cheeba (Brazilian/Latin DJ, Producer) and Sammy Arsam Khosh (House DJ, Producer) bring their own personal style to every track. There is no shortage of creativity among these talented musicians and DJs and their influences, from downtempo, dub, Latin, house, trip-hop and reggaeton can all be heard in their definitive, eclectic sound.

<< House | Minimal | Breaks | Garage | LoFi >>

....sometimes a few random genre's mixed in there. Whatever it takes to make ya groove. No rules or restrictions.

Based out of Chicago. 14 years in the making. Direct message for booking info.

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