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I'm pleased to announce THE LIQUID AMBER EP. This single/EP serves as the opening salvo in what I hope is a long string of music, by myself and others, on my new imprint: LIQUID AMBER. There's two new songs, "Ghost Town" and "Mob," and a nifty remix of "Six Days" by Machinedrum.

"Ghost Town" is an ambitious ride through many of the micro-genres within the Future Bass umbrella that have inspired me recently, while "Mob" is an intentionally stripped-down, Cali-certified head-nodder. Both songs were written, programmed, and mixed by myself, and they represent the forward steps I feel I've taken as an engineer. The "Six Days" remix was something I asked Machinedrum to knock out as a tour weapon, and he crushed it (naturally), so I felt it deserved a proper release.

I'm excited about this music and the new imprint, and I really appreciate everyone's time and consideration.

Download "Ghost Town" now on @edm at: bit.ly/DJS-GhostTown

The Liquid Amber EP

Six Days (Machinedrum Remix)

Second track on the new album "Low Fi Classics" - a collaboration with UK Soul singer Greg Blackman - is out now via BBE Music. Get on it!

https://soundcloud.com/greg-blackman/

https://soundcloud.com/bbemusic/

http://www.bbemusic.com/releases/BBE244ADG/Mr%20Bird%20featuring%20Greg%20Blackman%20-%20Low-Fi%20Classic#.VAMTWEuE7jQ

Buy from BBE

Mr Bird Ft. Greg Blackman - Save Me

Whatcha Gonna Do featuring Mustafa Akbar 
By Fort Knox Five

Premiered by EARMILK - April 10th 2015 http://www.earmilk.com/2015/04/10/fort-knox-five-ask-whatcha-gonna-do-with-mustafa-akbar-premiere

Check out the first premiere of a song from our upcoming album 'Pressurize The Cabin' dropping worldwide on April 28th, 2015.

Whatcha Gonna Do features veteran Fort Knox Vocalist, Mustafa Akbar, with a blazing future funk jam!
Taken from the album Pressurize The Cabin (FKX078) out worldwide 4/28/2015


CD & DIgital

Whatcha Gonna Do (feat Mustafa Akbar)

Hey guys! I hope you enjoy the summer vibes in this jungle track. And just in time for 420 on Monday next week ;)

Congrats to Jay Macleod for winning the cover art design competition! Please get in touch with me with your address. I'll be mailing you a copy of my Ghetto Funk Vinyl GFP015.

Check out more of Jay's work here: http://jaymacleod.ca

Big thanks to everyone else who entered. It was a really tough to choose a winner. I'm going to mail some of the runner-ups a couple of Slynk stickers. Stay tuned on my Facebook fanpage :)

More music to come so don't forget to follow me here on Soundcloud!

Peace.
- Slynk

★ SLYNK ★

Listen - http://soundcloud.com/slynk
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Slynk - Know Your Roots [Free Download]

Happy 420 everyone

Thanks to @busta for the rad artwork

Beenie Man - Dude (Sammy Senior Remix)

A healthy dose of Japanese Funk, Soul, and Breaks, many of them my own remixes of old Japanese Soundtracks, Funk groups etc. Keep it funky y'all, and please buy and support!!! 

Buy!!!!

DJ FLEG - JAPAN FUNK & BREAKS MIX

General Levy - The General - Ed Solo Remix

OUT NOW on Junodownload

http://www.junodownload.com/products/the-general/2772790-02

Buy On Juno Download

General Levy - The General - Ed Solo Remix - OUT NOW

The All Good Funk Alliance drop a new EP featuring 4 different styles of funk for their
Super Hi-Fi label. “Make it Go-Go” featuring Big Tony of Trouble Funk has that classic DC Go-
Go sound but updated for the 2000’s. It's full of clanking percussion, horn blasts, and funky
synths making for a dope mid-tempo jam.
“Do Work” featuring Mustafa Akbar, goes for that Motown sound but updated in that
Mayer Hawthorne meets Mark Ronson way. This one is really catchy and you will find yourself
singing along to it.
“Funk This Jam” featuring Soul Suit is classic AGFA. A funky mid-tempo number that
feels like something that they would have put out on Funk Weapons back in the day. It's got call
and response vocals and insane breakdowns. Classic AGFA!
Finally we have “On - Off Boogie”. This nu-disco funk jam has got some squawky talk
box, funky beats, and really intricate synth work. It leans more on AGFA's “boogie funk” style
which rounds out this EP perfectly.

ALL GOOD FUNK ALLIANCE - FUNK THIS JAM FEAT. SOUL SUIT

Brand new freebie from me! Free download here: http://hypeddit.com/index.php?&fan_gate=0bmYLoF8uTOHaeZNmZzD
Spotify Link: spotify:track:0TKnSjcMW5qpuStZRqcNdF

Sign up for my MAILING LIST here: tinyurl.com/ChamberMail - I will only ever email you when there is a new free tune available.

FREE DOWNLOAD

Chamber - Blast Off FREE DOWNLOAD

"Swinging On A Rhyme (featuring Flex Mathews)"
by Fort Knox Five
http://www.fortknoxfive.com

from Fort Knox Five's new album "Pressurize The Cabin"
out worldwide Tuesday April 28th, 2015

Buy CD & Digital Album Here (CDs Shipping Worldwide):
https://fortknox.bandcamp.com/album/pressurize-the-cabin

Also available on these fine digital outlets:
http://www.junodownload.com/products/pressurize-the-cabin/2736623-02/
https://pro.beatport.com/release/pressurize-the-cabin/1485941
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/pressurize-the-cabin/id973297434?uo

Buy CD & Digital

Swinging On A Rhyme (feat Flex Mathews)

Hit Buy for free d/l! Cheerz!

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/ecd2bb'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

Strange Message & Things

Proud to announce the release of my project with the Afiara Quartet entitled "Spin Cycle". This project was produced over the last 8 months in collaboration with 4 Canadian composers (Laura Silberberg, Dinuk Wijeratne, Kevin Lau, Rob Teehan). Here's how it worked:

Phase 1: 4 composers wrote 4 original pieces for the Afiara String Quartet. Pieces were recorded.

Phase 2: Skratch Bastid remixed each of the pieces, using select parts that were replayed by the string quartet, sampled, and scratched. 

Phase 3: The 4 composers remixed the remixes by writing new pieces based on the remix. Skratch Bastid & Afiara Quartet performed these pieces live and recorded them. 

This track is Phase 3 of Laura Silberberg's piece, titled "Dirty Laundry - Heavy Load".

Check out our feature pieces and interview (30 mins) on CBC Radio's "Q": http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/schedule-for-monday-may-11-2015-1.3066925/skratch-bastid-and-the-afiara-quartet-blend-scratch-and-strings-1.3068985

Available via purchase link below the above waveform.

We premiered the project May 23rd at the 21c Music Festival at Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music in Koerner Hall. 

For more on the artists, visit:
http://www.skratchbastid.com
http://www.afiara.com/

Buy the album

Skratch Bastid & Afiara Quartet - Spin Cycle: "Dirty Laundry - Heavy Load"

Recent Mr Bird remix for the mighty Savages of Hungary, out now via Mana Mana Records outta Budapest! Taken from the compilation Bunny Beats compiled by DJ Sannan.

https://manamanarecords.bandcamp.com/album/bunny-beats-the-taster-of-easter

https://soundcloud.com/savages

Savages - You're My Chocolate (Mr Bird's Hip Jazz Remix)

This remix was already released on the Bombastic Jam label that was run by Basement Freaks. The remix wasn´t availbale after the label has quited. But it is too good to be forgotten. So it will be re-released on "Lime Sorbet compilation VOl. 5". Out on Timewarp Music, June 8th 2015.

pre-order

Jayl Funk - We got the funk (Quincy Jointz remix)

Mastered by Timewarp Inc (Angelos Stoumpos)

Jayl Funk is back on HONKEY PHONK with his fully Original Tune HOLD THAT GROOVE. 
Follow the stomping´ beat, get into the funky treat and: "Hold That Groove - Hold that Groove! - Ho-Ho-Ho-Ho-Hold That Groove!"

OUT NOW - Jayl Funk - Hold That Groove (Original Version)

It's New Zealand music month 2015 and I am going to give away a free track each week.. here's the last one! 

Please share if you like it :)

Busta Vs The Spank - Badboy Jammin' (Sammy Senior Remix)

Here's my brand new remix of https://soundcloud.com/dj-vadim song "If Life was a Thing" featuring the legendary Demolition Man. A song about social inequality, the divide between rich and poor. 

This was my favorite song off Vad's latest album "Dubcatcher" and I was really stoked to remix it. We are giving it away for free, click the DL link and a simple click on "hypeddit" will get you a download in exchange for following Vadim and I on Soundcloud.

All the best!

Free Download

Dj Vadim Ft. Demolition Man - If Life Was A Thing (Stickybuds Remix) - Free DL

When Featurecast & The Gaff got a chance to play together recently, it didn't take long to get to talking about their mutual love for Stevie Wonder's "Hey Love" and how the world needed an edit of it, and just like that, a few sleepless nights, some dusty records and a little bit of finesse: "Ain't Got Time" was born! The ultimate Marvin Gaye meets Stevie Wonder track that never existed......So why did a collabo between these two legends never happen? They both recorded for Motown at the same time and were fans of each other!....Here's a little history lesson: 
 "Too busy thinkin bout my baby" was written by the Motown team of Whitfield, Strong, and Bradford in 1965, and first recorded by The Temptations a year later.
Marvin's cover of the tune came out a few years later, and was his 2nd biggest hit of the 60's, right after "Heard It Through The Grapevine" in 1969 at the age of 30...Curious who was in Marvin's heart as he was singin this? If You do the math, it's none other than Tammi Terrel, who he fell deeply in love with as they began working on their tracks ("ain't no mountain high enough) around the same time....Unfortunately, Tammi wasn't into Marvin in that way! She was much younger, early 20's, and apparently favored "darker men", Marvin was a light skinned brother, and perhaps wasn't what caught her eye? Well, that's the breaks, Tammi put on a good show for sure...
Now, Marvin Gaye was 11 years older than Stevie Wonder, who, at the time, was about to breakthrough to his hugely successful crossover lp's at only 19 with "Signed Sealed Delivered"! 
Stevie Wonder's "Hey Love" had come out on his album "Down TO Earth" in '66, at only 16, and a dope version was covered later by SoulSister Bettye Lavette, You should check it! Not many know about that cover :-)
So, there was a big age gap, with marvin bringout out songs of soulful love in his 30's, and Stevie bringin the Funk in his 20's!!!
in 1991, almost 25 years after it was released, De La Soul would flip "Hey Love" into "Talkin bout Hey Love" where it was brought back all over again for a new generation of Hip Hop heads around the world (a young skateboarding gaffer and a LIl Featurecast being 2 of them :-) 
25 years after that, we added in the horns from an early Serge Gainsbourg record so this tune would appeal to fans of De La Soul, be enjoyed by Motown lovers, and any fans of DJ's with dope cuts.....Sampled the OG records to provide the instrumental parts used...
We kept this mix so classic, for old and young alike, even your grandma can still appreciate it, nod her head to the fatback drums, dope cuts and scratches....we hope this version makes its rounds for a long time to come, giving you the Marvin & Stevie collaberation that you always wished for.......cheers! 
Gaff and Featurecast, June 9th 2015....
                                             
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Artwork: Mr.Fudge


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Featurecast & The Gaff Ain't Got Time

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CATALOG #: FKX082 ARTIST: Qdup
RELEASE: Funk and Dance LABEL: Fort Knox Recordings RELEASE DATE:
Beatport: 6/9/15 Worldwide: 6/23/15


Washington, DC’s funky music ambassador Qdup returns to Fort Knox Recordings after his 2014 release, the Lone Star EP. The Warp 9 remix of “Electro Funk Boogie feat Bavu Blakes” was Mixmag’s October 2014 “Breaks Tune of the Month”. This time Qdup brings a heater of a single featuring the vocal styling’s of Mustafa Akbar. The funk is strong with this one and to make it even stronger, Qdup has enlisted a few of his favorite producers from different ends of the globe to remix this jam and get the dance floor bouncing.

Mustafa Akbar who is well known from his work with Nappy Riddem, and collaborations with Fort Knox Five, Thunderball & Basement Freaks lays down some funky vocals on “Funk & Dance”. Mustafa’s vocals compliment the heavy funk banger vibe on Qdup’s original mix. Auckland, NZ’s keytar wielding, glitch hop funk master K+Lab infused his remix with his signature edgy bass, synth chords and slinky lead solos. Rounding off the single with some nice variety is Whistler, BC’s own retro après ski party gurus SkiiTour bringing their fun, energetic style to flip the track on it’s head into a bass driven Nu-Disco direction. Try not to shake your butt to any of these tunes. We dare you!

Qdup has done it again here keeping the funk alive in dance music. This one has you covered for all of your funk breaks, funky glitch hop and nu-disco needs. The Funk & Dance Single is set up to be DJ friendly with Instrumental mixes on all versions and ready to wreck dance floors worldwide.

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Keep up with Qdup online-

twitter.com/QdupMusic

soundcloud.com/qdupmusic/

www.facebook.com/QdupMusic

www.youtube.com/qdupmusic

Funk & Dance Featuring Mustafa Akbar (Original Mix)

Gramatik & Lowtemp present:

Super Gravy.

Official Music video here> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An83j85rZSc&feature=youtu.be

Two heavyweights of the glitch hop scene, K+Lab and Stickybuds, join forces for a funk-filled release on Gramatik’s independent label Lowtemp. Featuring guest vocals from Laughton Kora and Bailey Wiley, the track they’ve cooked up is hotter than a fistful of chilies. With its irresistible horn hooks, banging drums and heavy bass, “Super Gravy” is a summer anthem in the making and everything one would expect from two top notch producers at the top of their game.

K+lab, Stickybuds - Super Gravy ft Laughton Kora & Bailey Wiley

Nu Funk:Breakbeats:Funky Bass Music:Hip Hop:illShit...

For Gigs, bookings and more, please check my social media or send me a message.

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