This remix is one of the first productions I did since completing my album "Instinct", so it has plenty of similar references. Yet, with it I was already exploring some new territories within the world of haunted groove music. Based on the song's title, I imagined one of the main streets of Tel Aviv in its darkest and emptiest hours. A kind of contrast, full of urban demons, to the image of the "city without a break".


Written by Hila Ruach;
Produced and arranged by Markey Funk for Agitação Popular, January 2016;
Available on "Rofaa Bamaarav PIMPED!".

Rofaa Bamaarav PIMPED!

Hila Ruach - Allenby (4AM Remix By Markey Funk)

Jerusalem-based musician/producer/DJ/turntablist/crate-digger and music archivist, Markey Funk is a staple of the Israeli groove scene. Starting off as a Hip-Hop and Funk DJ, Markey's musical palette has grown constantly wider and deeper throughout the years, embracing everything between Folk, Psychedelia, Early Electronic and Library music from around the world. While being famous for his explosive Soul-Funk-Psych-Groove DJ-sets, he’s also known as a freak of the 1960′s style, cinema and counter-culture. Besides collecting records and playing them for happy audiences, Markey has been writing and producing his own music for more than a decade: from hip hop beats, through fully sample-based debut album, to remixes for a wide variety of local artists. Recent years also saw his first globally distributed releases on vinyl: sitar-beat 7inch single under the moniker Les Hippies and the concept space-age groove full-length album "The Mystery of Mordy Laye", based on unfinished recordings by an anonymous local band from the late 1970's.

More radio voices, muted speech, sub-aqua dial tone triad, hiss and crackle, transmissions, cheap Japanese plastic tape recorders, radiophonic fizz, verbal voyages across time zones...

The music painted onto the tapes, hard disks, rather than merely produced in the old sense of the term.