A devoted music lover from Jerusalem and his radiant collection of signals of well-being and joy - binaural fusion acoustics, evaporating jazz hypnagogia and the waltzing flight of the spirit of life over the valley of death.

Recorded specially for Grains of Peace - recreational zone and charity marathon for Ukraine on 20ft Radio, Kyiv. 

Listen to music and stay with Ukraine: www.20ftradio.net

Grains of Peace w/ Markey Funk @ 20ft Radio - 28/03/2022

“Journey To The Centre Of The Eye” is an hour long mix I did with JJ Whitefield in anticipation of his upcoming “Ethio Meditations” Remixes project I’m very happy to be a part of!
The title and cover design are heavily inspired by two of my favorite psychedelic albums:
Nektars debut album of the same name and “Psychedelic Psoul” by The Freak Scene! The mix features a vast variety of psychedelic grooves and styles from around the world! Dig!

JJ Whitefield & Thur Deephrey - Journey To The Centre Of The Eye

Dj Fontana x Markey Funk 25.8.25

Spectrum Road (26/09/2024)

The story of "Inner | Outer" begins in 2015, when two members of Berlin bass combo X.A.Cute and Jerusalem's psych grooves expert, Markey Funk, set up a spontaneous jam session in the basement of an ex-spring factory building.
The outcome of that meeting - now known as "Aquasonic Research Society" (Som Recordings, 2020) - was so inspiring for the three that they determined to record again the next time Markey is in Berlin. Eventually, two more sessions took place in consecutive years at Oberbaumstübchen, overlooking river Spree, U-Bahn tracks and Universal Music headquarters. The change of location also led them to depart from the bubbling aquatic motives towards darker mesmerizing soundscapes that explore themes and mysteries of deep outer space and the human body (sometimes described as "inner space").

Recommended to be played in the dark

https://confusedmachines.bandcamp.com/album/inner-outer

https://soundcloud.com/confused-machines

Inner | Outer

PREMIERE: Kosmologic Research Society - Going Home [Confused Machines]

Telepathic Fish co-founder DJ Food, aka one part of Openmind, takes us on a trip into the world of 90s chill out.

Strictly Kev likes the company of plants whilst working on music so that's handy for us isn't it?! We're assuming he's talking about a beautiful Calathea sitting in the corner for inspiration, tho his dream plant setup - a conservatory packed with Romanesco broccoli, trippy Caladiums, and Persian Shields - is something we'd be well on board with too.

Enough of the plant talk for a second and back to the music, ambient music to be clear. For those that weren't squatting in South London back in the early 90s, Openmind were the four-piece behind the mighty Telepathic Fish - the legendary ambient afterparty that transformed chill-out rooms from dub-playing afterthoughts into proper destinations.

Kev, along with Chantal Passamonte (Mira Calix, RIP), David Vallade, and Mario Aguera, started in a shared house above a shop with no neighbours to complain/bash the door down. What began as art school parties quickly grew into Sunday afternoon sessions in squatted venues - a former dole office in Brixton and even the derelict Roundhouse on New Year's Day. They hosted everyone from Aphex Twin to Mixmaster Morris among wall-to-wall mattresses, UV installations, and  Coldcut's Matt Black with his boundary pushing video projections.

The idea was simple: recreate that post-clubbing comedown vibe but on a massive scale, as an "aural and visual blanket" for club-rattled minds. They even published a fanzine called Mindfood and worked at the scene's hub, Ambient Soho record shop, helping shape what Simon Reynolds called a "wombeldelic sound-and-light bath" in contrast to the current trend of hardcore and it's relentless assault.

Thirty years on, that spirit's having a comeback. Events like London's A Loose Ting are bringing back the bedding and the hushed reverence, while Berlin's Overflow is going full sensory overload with vibrating mattresses, fountains, and harpists. New York's Planetarium gatherings have people mostly horizontal, inspired by psychedelic therapy sessions. There's even and ambient sauna in South London you might have come across via the wonder of Music To Watch Seeds Grow By's recent takeover.  Our very own Watching Trees dabbled in said chill out space this year, pairing the abstract and the ambient with projected dappled sunlight visuals from the mighty Jamie House. Turns out people still need those little havens away from the madness, especially in this day and age!

Also handily 30 years on the Openmind crew have just compiled the first-ever Telepathic Fish retrospective for Fundamental Frequencies - a double vinyl love letter to those hazy early-90s mornings when the music finally slowed down.

For this Seeds Mix, Kev has leaned into his love of minimalism and systems music - repetition built from layers of loops offset against each other to form subtle polyrhythms. There's a deliberate avoidance of drum machines here in favour of organic percussion, and around the eight-minute mark, a section from Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia that captures the feeling of being deep in the forest, phone abandoned, discovering that paradise was just a forage away.

Full interview here: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/seeds-mix-005-openminds-leave-your-phone-at-home-discover-paradise-after-a-forage-in-the-forest/

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INTERVIEW

Seeds Mix 005: Openmind's Leave your phone at home & discover paradise after a forage in the forest

UNTITLED RADIO - Royce - 24.11.25

1. Heavy D & The Boyz – Black Coffee
2. Quantic Feat. Spanky Wilson – Don't Joke With A Hungry Man
3. Tadashi Goino Group – Aoi Galasu Dama
4. Kamasi Washington – Askim
5. MC Solaar – Armand Est Mort
6. Ibex Band – Yezemed Yebada
7. Pyrope – Broken Spell
8. Francois De Roubaix – Poursuite A Anvers
9. Vikica Brešer – Sunčano Ljeto
10. Teddy Pendergrass – Believe In Love
11. Charlie Antolini – Nofretete's Headache
12. Bahamadia – Total Wreck
13. Azar Lawrence – Warriors Of Peace
14. Sun Ra – Space Mates
15. Dorothy Ashby – My Ship
16. Tim & Maia – Paisefilhos
17. Lauri Kallio – Vainajala

Bandit & Misha Panfilov Programme 12.12.25

Written by Josef Laimon and Orel Tamuz. Performed by Umlala.

Remixed, rearranged and produced by Markey Funk at Nowhere Studio, February 2012.

An Agitação Popular production.

Original version available on album "StandGoShowShout" (2011-2012).

This remix is the first production I've done after me and Mule Driver completed the Mordy Laye album, and I think it was very much inspired by this exciting project. When I started working on it, I only had the first part in mind - until the breakdown of the first verse. But, the more I was listening to the female vocals -  the more they brought images from science fiction in mind: Rene Laloux' animated classics, like "La Plente Sauvage" and "Gandahar"; movies like "Forbidden Planet" and "The Andromeda Strain"; Ray Bradbury's "The Illustrated Man". Even when I decided to bring in synth solo part I still couldn't imagine that this will be the result - it all just happened spontaneously.


More Umlala's music here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/umlala

Umlala - Floor Dolls (Modular Remix by Markey Funk)

Straight up Liquid Drum n Bass with the master, Markey Funk

This set was originally streamed live on 18/08/20 on Mazkeka Radio

The photo image here is a screenshot from an animation short called "Lend" by Rein Raamat which was featured in a special talk about Soviet animation by Markey Funk here: https://vimeo.com/479757096

Breaks to the Future b2b w/Markey Funk <<<18/08/2020 live on MAZKEKA RADIO>>>

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.