“Functory 03” is a manifesto for nobody; it is teenage spirits growing up wildly in the chaotic jungles of the internet. It also resonates with the absurdity of us living days as if they were years, in a time where everything changes on the scale of minutes.

FunctionLab’s distorted drum sounds faster and heavier in 2018~2019. After that, it directly entered a new starting point. In the "collective rebellion" of club music, it is more rebellious to return to a more inner essence of the sound - a form of more functional experimental music. GUAN’s powerful hymn, Yikii’s frenetic release, and the Generation X tear-worthy piece by Laughing Ears are the emotional support of this compilation. Zean, Akito, GG Lobster, Xhankonkon and Bela offer enough energy to start a fire on the dance floor. And with Mr.Peña, XOXO Miro, Mice and Kieran Loftus as other core forces, the BPM is climbs to over 150 while balancing weirdness and sensitivity.

In the process of selecting songs, there was no intention of approaching or circumventing genres popular in the current scene such as Trance and Gabber, although there are some producers who are very good at producing these styles in this compilation. Under multi-threading free choice, everyone contributed to this compilation had managed to achieve a very FunctionLab “flavour”, very personal yet removed from expressions of the self.

Mourning or shouting, the 75 species that are extinct every day in the world; celebrities that are knocked off their pedestal, and the ever-changing musical style of the club scene. Everything happens at the right time, and you can't refute it even if you think it's unreasonable. Just like the Music video of the ending track Laughing Ears - Polymorphic Reality, directed by Cheng Ran shows: The pigeons are flying in the flash of fire, but they still can't live without the house. If grief makes sense, do we have to dance? If dance makes sense, what else do we have to grief about?

--written by GG Lobster.


Functory 03 is the third compilation from FunctionLab released on August 5, 2019.

After the practice and introspection of the “localization of the vanguard scene” in the past two years, we proudly started from Hangzhou and have extended our tentacles to a farther geographical space; Collecting music from all over the world and converging into functionlab's own "smell”, self-centred yet separated from self-expression.

Functory 03 contains 12 tracks produced by Akito/ bela/ GG Lobster/ GUAN/ Kieran Loftus/ Laughing Ears/ Mice/ Mr.Pena/ XHANKONKON/ XOXO Miro/ Yikii/ Zean

The cover and MV are made by Hangzhou artists Zhou Yilun and Martin Goya Business & Cheng Ran respectively.

Tracklist/

Mr.Pena - X-Akii12 @mr-pena
GUAN - I Only Open My Mouth for Reading Disc @boyang-guan
bela - 玄武 Black Tortoise @6314
GG Lobster – Rivaldo Top 10 Goals @gglobster
Zean - Eyes @zeanmusic
Akito - Drown My Demons @akeytoe
XOXO Miro – 鼓一 Drum Studies 1 @xoxomiro
Kieran Loftus - Avoid as Teammate @iamahoe
Yikii - 蚀变 Alteration @yikii
Mice - 过肠 Intestinal Passer @inq7b4qx57vq
XHANKONKON - XXXME @xhankonkon
Laughing Ears - Polymorphic Reality @laughingears

Mastered by GUAN
Music Video by Martin Goya Business & Cheng Ran
Artwork by Zhou Yilun

©️all rights reserved

Released by:
FunctionLab
Release date:
5 August 2019

[FL009] Functory 03

Functory 03 is the third compilation from FunctionLab will be released on August 5, 2019.

After the practice and introspection of the “localization of the vanguard scene” in the past two years, we proudly started from Hangzhou and have extended our tentacles to a farther geographical space; Collecting music from all over the world and converging into functionlab's own "smell”, self-centred yet separated from self-expression.

Functory 03 contains 12 tracks produced by Akito/ bela/ GG Lobster/ GUAN/ Kieran Loftus/ Laughing Ears/ Mice/ Mr.Pena/ XHANKONKON/ XOXO Miro/ Yikii/ Zean

The cover and MV are made by Hangzhou artists Zhou Yilun and Martin Goya Business & Cheng Ran respectively.

Tracklist/

Mr.Pena - X-Akii12 @mr-pena
GUAN - I Only Open My Mouth for Reading Disc @boyang-guan
bela - 玄武 Black Tortoise @6314
GG Lobster – Rivaldo Top 10 Goals @gglobster
Zean - Eyes @zeanmusic
Akito - Drown My Demons @akeytoe
XOXO Miro – 鼓一 Drum Studies 1 @xoxomiro
Kieran Loftus - Avoid as Teammate @iamahoe
Yikii - 蚀变 Alteration @yikii
Mice - 过肠 Intestinal Passer @inq7b4qx57vq
XHANKONKON - XXXME @xhankonkon
Laughing Ears - Polymorphic Reality @laughingears

Release Date 2019/8/5
Mastered by GUAN
Music Video by Martin Goya Business & Cheng Ran
Artwork by Zhou Yilun
Released by FunctionLab

©️all rights reserved

Released by:
FunctionLab
Release date:
5 August 2019

Laughing Ears - Polymorphic Reality

Zean - Eyes

GG Lobster – Rivaldo Top 10 Goals

bela - 玄武 Black Tortoise

GUAN - I Only Open My Mouth for Reading Disc

Mr.Peña - X-Akii12

Label based in HangZhou, China.

demo / contact : flmusic@functionlab.cn