FUNK

LIve at ClouD 9 2013  "The Yoshi's Pre-Party"

A little something we did for our bro EASE / Nightmares On Wax. His new album is out on Warp, and we did a remix for one of the tracks.

Get Feelin' Good!

Nightmares On Wax - Be, I Do (The Planty Herbs Remix)

F2BFREE

Taken from the album 'Friendly Bacteria', released 19  May 2014 on Ninja Tune. Featuring @matthewhalsall on trumpet/fx & @taz-modi on rhodes & stringy synths. Mastered by Kevin Metcalfe at Soundmasters. Heavy!

Check the 'Render Me' video> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEZz8xMH6fQ

Ninjashop - http://smarturl.it/friendlybacteria
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/friendlybacteriait
Amazon - http://smarturl.it/friendlybacteriaam

Album launch party at the Roundhouse in London on 31 May, plus gigs in Manchester, Southampton, Norwich, Hay on Wye, Blackpool & tons of festivals.. Full list of gigs here: http://mrscruff.com/gigs/

Buy on Ninja Tune

We Are Coming

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

Soulful track with PFunk inspirations from former Parliament Funkadelic singer - Songwriter Kendra Foster. Currently Kendra co-wrote 8 songs on Black Messiah, the critically acclaimed follow up album by D'Angleo, which debuted at #1

PROMISE TO STAY HERE / Kendra Foster

Last year Russian Funk band C.L.O.N.E and Danny Bedrosian did a track called Funky Tools.
Natasha, from the band, and I talked about making a remix of that, so we did.
I recently got permission to upload the track to here.

I hope You will enjoy

Funky Tools (MotherFunkin Remix) - MotherFunkin (2014)

Want That Smoke

Uptown Funk We Come To Jam MP3 Mashup

This is a song from my first cd. It's about loosing a lover to suicide.

Take It Back

Feel good B-Soul describing the essence of the New Mexico landscape.

Garden

New Mexico

This track is an affirmation. It is a realization of and a promise to maintain my inability to give up. It's a song for all who fight through adversity purely because they have no quit.

Going For It

Please check out my SLY STONE cover album on iTMS !!
http://itunes.apple.com/album/electro-voice-sings-sly-stone/id558484224
or Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Electro-Voice-Sings-Sly-Stone/dp/B00BR2G2CU/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366208829&sr=301-1

5 (Junie Morrison Cover)

Parliament Funkadelic - Tales of Kid Funkadelic (instrumental) 1973

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.


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

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