P-Funk & Reggae Dub meets Pink Floyd. Good Ole Funky Music by Funkadelic drum loop, organ and bassline mixed with Dogs by Pink Floyd.

Funk Yard Dog

From the Vaults of K-OS, 1988. I had LunchMeataphobia while Trombipulating a Warning. Samples from Trombipulation by Parliament, Lunchmeataphobia by Funkadelic, Warning by Slave, You Can Make It If You Try by Sly and The Family Stone, Agony Of DeFeet by Parliament, I think there's some Grace Jones in there somewhere. This is also a test. I uploaded direct from the computer into the upload/rec line to soundcloud.

Tromsampulation

Funky little ride through the Funkosphere. Contains sample of "Feel Free" by Soul ll Soul, "Good Ole Funky Music" and "Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow" by Funkadelic. Additional keyboards and drum program by Dav Id K-OS. One of those straight to tape mixing sessions from 1989. 

Oh Yeah, Well Don't Stop

ZootZilla Live at The Rockit Room in San Francisco, Ca. January 20th, 2007. ZootZilla: vocals. PTFI: lead guitar. Dav Id K-OS: bass guitar. Carl the Big Drum Beater: drums. Round 1 of the Emergenza Battle of The Bands.

ZootZilla - Hot Spank (Live at The Rockit Room 01-20-07)

I Wanna Know If It's Good To You (Take 2) - FunksTruMentaL/LoopADelic Rehearsal 06-04-12 Disc 1. This is the second take from a live rehearsal for FunksTruMentaL/LoopADelic featuring Michael "Kidd Funkadelic" Hampton on lead guitar. The bottom tracks were done on 4-Track, Mike's guitar solo was added later and I played live drums over it for a rehearsal for my upcoming FunksTruMental / Loop-A-Delic project. The song was originally written by G. Clinton, B. Nelson, E. Hazel and C. Haskins. The photo was taken in 1996 by Andrea Brown (R.I.P.). 

I Wanna Know If It's Good To You? (Take 2) - FunksTruMentaL / Loop-A-Delic Rehearsal 06-04-12 Disc 1

Do That Stuff from Parliament Live and The Freeze (Sizzaleenmean) by Parliament. 1989, just got hold of a Roland S-10 Sampler, with only 30kHz (4 seconds) - 15 kHz (8 seconds) sample time. Scratch-mixed and sampled direct to 2-track cassette deck. 

Loop That Stuff (SizzaLoopPoop Mix) Pt.3

Just a snippet of "Do Fries Go With That Shake" live rehearsal for FunksTruMental / Loopadelic July 23, 2013. Juancarlos Emiller: Drums. PTFI: Keyboards. Dav Id K-OS: Guitar, Drum Loops. 

Do Fries Go With That Shake - FunksTruMental Loopadelic Rehearsal 07 - 23 - 2013

Was just Funkin' around with "Working Girl" by Shelly Thunder for the back beat, "P-Funk (Wants To Get Funked UP)" from Parliament Live Earth Tour.

P - Funk Stylee (demo)

I Wanna Know If It's Good To You? - Funkadelic.  One of the first Live Remixes I did on a 4-Track back in 1989. One of my favorite Funkadelic songs of ALL-TIME, I've got a million scratch/remixes of this song, this is just one of them. Billy, Eddie & Tiki looped up into a dubadelic frenzy.

I Wanna Know If It's Dub To You?

K-OS Funkin' around with PTFI. Old 4 - Track demo from the mid 90's. 
PTFI: keyboards. 
Dav Id K-OS: bass and guitar tones, samples.
Chopped and Funked with by Dav Id K-OS.

Funk Drunk (demo)

Had a little thing I called, "The Idiot Box". I would turn on the TV, record some shows, half ass edit them, then do a live scratch mix over it. Just a few hours in the Life Of K-OS. See if you can identify the shows and figure out what year this was done.

The Idiot Box Pt. 3

Excerpt from a long line of P-Funk loops and beds from the late 8o's / early 90's. Loops and Keyboard bass by Dav Id K-OS.

Wants To Get Looped Up

I found these unedited, raw demo tracks I was working on for a project about sampling and musicians who have been sampled. I put these little pieces together as ideas for intros, segueways or segments. By the way, that project was put on hold, INDEFINITELY!

We Have Taught (To Get Looped Up?)

Another demo from the transferred cassette tape, also done for the project that was put on hold, Indefinitely. Just Funkin' around with myself. Dav Id K-OS: All instruments, loops, samples, scratches, etc. 

Uh huh, Yeah!

On the morning of August 22, 1989. A friend called and asked if I had heard the news about Dr. Huey P. Newton. I turned on the news and started recording on my VCR. After gathering news footage that morning, I went straight for the Roland S-10. Here is the result of laying the bottom track straight to tape then overdubbing the sampled news footage.

R.I.P.
Dr. Huey P. Newton
February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989

Panther Power (T Y H O O M I I N U A)

Mike "Clip" Payne: drum programming, 
Anthony "Dav Id K-OS" Bryant: Turntables/Samples, 
Sa'd "The Hourchild" Ali: Keyboard Bass.

Live tracking done at Hyde Street Studios, SF, Ca. February, 1994.
One of those "P" tracks from 1994 slated for the T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. album but was lost in the shuffle along with the Mammoth Sessions and the release of "How Late Do U Have 2BB4UR Absent?"   


Don't Make Me Dance (Beatstrumental demo)

Another outtake of Mix Master Suite. Some of the scratch mixing that wasn't cleared at the time of production of mixmaster Suite, for George Clinton's "R&B Skeletons In The Closet" album. These tracks, 1985.

Mix-Master Suite (Demo Mix)

An 8 week college for "The Phony Tough and The Crazy Brave"
A 1988 4 Track Mix I did right after I bought the soundtrack album. Immediately after hearing the opening song, 'Full Metal Jacket" by Abigail Mead and Nigel Goulding. 
I played the "Leonard" motif with added extra keyboards. I scratch mixed and sampled the audio from the movie and from the soundtrack album. No infringement intended. Just an appreciation of  Full Metal Jacket and the work of Stanley Kubrick.

The Phony Tough & The Crazy Brave (4-Track Mix - Full #1)

This is a demo version of Mix-Master Suite. What was originally done as a remix to Funkadelic's  One Nation Under A Groove by Dave K-OS, morphed into several versions. George's label at the time couldn't or wouldn't give clearance to any of the P-Funk songs that were originally scratch/mixed throughout One Nation so all of those were cut out of the mix. George had sent me a rather clean cassette copy of what he and Debra Barsha were able to sample then re-arrange into a bottom track that was in the same tempo of One Nation. The cuts that survived were the Fishbone, Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Real Roxanne scratches I had done in the fall of 1985. I did a version at a local studio with that cassette copy cleaned up a bit and put some more P-Funk cuts in it, sent the tape off to him but the package came back opened with no tape inside. The package never made it out of the post office. By Spring of 1986 the song was released on R&B Skeleton's In The Closet . I had forgotten all of the previous scratch/mixes I did so I sat down and produced a 4-Track demo version in 1989 and called it Re-Mix Master Suite. This is almost close to what was originally done. 

ReMix-Master Suite (Dave K-OS Remix 1989)

Another 4-Track demo I recorded back in 1989. Everybody was sampling, trying to get a hit. There was a lot of  biting going on too. So I sent this message out there. I put this track down live to 4-Track. No sync tones or sync tracks or midi on this one. Two turntables and a sampler, live to tape.

They Can Sample All They Wanna Sample (Bite Off Some Mo' Man)

54 years ago today a 22 year old Buddy Holly died in a plane crash along with 17 yr. old Ritchie Valens and 29 yr. old J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson. It is known as "The Day The Music Died". I woke up this morning thinking, "What would it have sounded like if Buddy Holly and The Crickets were to jam with James Brown & The JB's"? I came up with this. Done live with no SERATO or any of that stuff, just 1 turntable and 1 CDJ. Made this at 2:45 pm 02/03/13. Hope you like it.

That'll Be The First Time - James Holly and Buddy Brown

An interview of George Clinton by Rickey Vincent back in 1989. Rickey had asked GC if he remembered doing some work with a DJ back in 1985. I chopped and sampled parts of it to this obscure palette of sounds including samples from, well, see if you can figure them out. Another lo-fi Funkstravaganza from General K-OS, Mix-Master, Loopadelic Division of Uncle Jam's Funk Army.

It's The P-Funk Nation

Enter, if you will, the Lo-Fi Underground Labyrinth of The Original K-OS. Another excursion through the Vaults of K-OS. The Nightmare Of Readjustment is upon you. The sounds you hear are, "Come in Out Of The Rain" drum loop, "Eulogy And Light" Scratch/Mix, and Dave Id K-OS on guitar. All due respect to George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic. I do not claim copyright on any samples or loops just credit for rearrangement and composing of pre-existing material, plus my original guitar licks with the exception of March To The Witch's Castle interpolation. Recorded, mixed and performed by Dave Id K-OS (A. Bryant) 1993.

Eulogy At The Witch's Castle

What started off as a hardcore Funk/Thrash/Reggae band in 1981-82 Oakland, Ca. simply phased out due to growing pains (all members were in the 10th grade). Anthony Bryant a.k.a. Dave Id K-OS pushed on and took
his Funk, Rock, Reggae and Hardcore influences to the turntables. After getting hired at a local record store in 1984, K-OS unleashed his style of mixes and scratches with hip-hop beats cut over his musical influences, which
included: Parliament/Funkadelic, Jimi Hendrix, Sly & the Family Stone, Black Flag, Flipper, and Killing Joke.

The year was 1985, Hip-Hop was in it's infant stage and samplers weren't even popular, George Clinton discovers K-OS mixing P-Funk records at his job. In the Spring of 1986, K-OS was featured on Clinton's
"R&B Skeletons In The Closet" LP which also featured Vanessa L. Williams' vocal performance on "Hey, Good Lookin'". Always the pioneer, Clinton foreseen what was to become the next big thing in music, Scratchin' and Samplin'. As part of the Mix-Master project, Clinton released a series of 12 inch singles labeled as Scratch Pads in order for DJ'S to do their "Thang" with.

By 1987, sampling became dominant, drum machines were putting drummers in the unenjoyment line, Punk Rock became 'Alternative music'. K-OS was introduced to DJ Ricky Vincent (History of Funk's Uhuru
Maggot), and DJ Illenstein. Joining Rick's DJ squad giving P-Funk parties around town in addition to spinning at the Berkeley Square as opening acts for headliners such as Primus, Limbomaniacs, Smoking Section and
Fungo Mungo.

Hip-Hop was bubbling on the West Coast and DavId K-OS along with EmCee Quick (Naru Kwina) were starting to make some noise. Digital Underground was starting to make some noise too, Then Rickey introduced Quick & K-OS to Shock G. D U wasn't afraid to sample the 'P-Funk' and K-OS had plenty of it and started work with their pre-production crew for the Humpty Dance. The song became a rap anthem, the group blew up very rapidly and the rest is history.

After this explosion of Hip-Hop and Funk fused together, the Original K-OS went back to George Clinton & P-Funk in the fall of 1989 merging the Funk with Hip-Hop in various ways. Uncle Jam (Clinton) then arms General K-OS with an arsenal of FUNK from then, on to this day.

1991: K-OS becomes an underground legend in his own right, occasionally resurfacing to work with longtime P-Funk percussionist Muruga Booker, James Gurley (Big Brother and The Holding Company),
and Buzzy Linhart .

May of 2001: K-OS performes with Buzzy Linhart and The Big Few with Leon Hendrix (Jimi's brother) on guitar at Eric Burdon's 60th Birthday Party
at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, Ca.

2002: saw the merger of Spoken Word/Hip-Hop and Funk with a 5 song E.P. by his short lived duo, Isolated Compound.

2003 - 2005: K-OS joined forces with Bay Area Funk band ZootZilla. Playing rhythm guitar, live sampler, drums and turntables. Landing an opening act spot for George Clinton and The P-Funk All-Stars at Studio Z in San
Francisco May 11th, 2004.

2005-2012: K-OS is the DJ for P-Funk All-Star RonKat Spearman in his band, RonKat Spearman's Katdelic.

2006 to present: K-OS starts a residency at John Lee Hooker's Boom Boom Room, opening for an endless amount of bands such as, The Monophonics, Wil Blades Trio, Benny D and SpyBoy, Con Brio and Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds to name a few.

2012: the Original K-OS can be seen and heard around the Bay Area, Funkin' around with various Muggz at various clubs & studios. Joins forces again with PTFI and Bay Area Funk phenom ZootZilla for a spot at the 2012 Long Beach Funk Festival.

2013: Who knows. You may just get a long awaited CD/album from this guy.


K-OS (P-Funk Mix-Master)

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