BZ - Funk

Mash & Munkee "The Good Vibe"

A song by David O'Connor recorded for his Senior Moments collection by Putty Road (Jane M Harding and Amanda Broberg).  Amanda's singing lead and playing bouzouki, Jane's doing harmonies and playing low whistle.

01 Next Time Around

I'll Take You There - Boukou Groove

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-AIFF-THE SEDUCTION

Hello Guys,

DOWNLOAD HERE:
http://www.jayl-funk.com/booking/

with this FREE WAVE DOWNLOAD i want to say thank you for all your nice support since 2008.

Jayl Funk - WASHED CAR was my first release. It came out on the German Label BLEENCHIC records and got a lot of nice support from awesome Artists and DJs around the World.

Thank you for ALL and big ups!
J

FREE Download - Jayl Funk - Washed Car (original Mix)

Best Of ..Movin' & Changin'

Movin’

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Every Ghetto, Every City

Doo Wop (That Thing)

Secrets

Doin' It

Car Wash

Car Wash (Long Version)

Feel Right

Feel Right (feat. Mystikal)

The Shakedown

The Shakedown (Say Yeah) [feat. Martha High & Myles Sanko & The Stilhouettes]

The Groove & its Synonyms

Dancing on the Scene (feat. Stuart Lisbie)

12" Vinyl (4 tracks) released 16 March 2018.

Soundway Records presents the debut EP from The Mauskovic Dance Band – a heady, tropical blend of cumbia, Afro-Caribbean rhythms and space disco, culminating in a vibrant hypnotic groove destined for bustling dancefloors.

With each band member of varying heritage, the group draws inspiration from diverse genres: primarily Afro-Colombian styles such as champeta, palenque, cumbia and the picó soundsystem culture, as well as the Afro-Disco and No-Wave scenes in their current base of Amsterdam. The city’s hotbed of underground producers has also brought an electronic edge to the band, with vintage drum machines and synthesisers effortlessly melding with Afro-Latin rhythms and slick guitar riffs to create a contemporary sound rich with cultural influence.

Down In The Basement EP

The Mauskovic Dance Band - Down In the Basement

BadboE is back in full effect with the second EP from his upcoming album Pump Up The Funk coming out in the end of 2012. 4 brand new hot funky jams from the funk master himself - all mixed up and road-tested to perfection. This time he’s gone way back into his crates of rare grooves and picked out some real diamonds on which he has based these 4 state-of-the-art party jams. 

With this release BadboE is stepping well into the world of Ghetto bass and electro vibes, but without loosing the funk and soul that he’s so respected and loved for. On a tour to Australia and New Zealand, BadboE meet up with the 2 vocalists featuring on this EP: MC Kitch from Brisbane who is known to rock dancefloors MCing for Paul Masters, and Claire G Phunk, who has already been heard on tracks by Pimp Soul and Busta. As and added bonus the one-man band phenomenon Michael Devellis from New York has laid Horns and Flute on 2 jams on this EP. Breakbeat Paradise Recordings continues to keep it real to wax by releasing this 4-track beast exclusively on 12” Vinyl.

A1.  BadboE kicks off the EP with the straight up funky banger Ghetto Funkalicious featuring MC Kitch doing his thang on the mic. A well-picked funky groove some banging beats and ghetto basslines and Michael Devellis getting busy on the horns and flues is all it takes for BadboE to create and instant Ghetto Funk classic. This jam is already getting support from some of the major players in the scene!

A1. Ghetto Funkalicious feat MC Kitch (Preview)

Basement Freaks return to Jalapeno with a 4 track EP of killer funk, heavy, heavy beats and deep blues vocals. Always one of the serious players in the Funk / Breaks scene – his music has always been able to transcend genres and gets dropped in clubs and parties round the world.

On Work It Out the Freaks teams up with MC Rayna for a guitar heavy hip hop excursion. A Blues Thang features that thing most often missed out by modern electronic producers – a harmonica solo – the proper way to do it….

Gotta Make Me A Gun is another blues tinged party bomb featuring the vocals of long time Freaks collaborator Georges Perin. The EP finishes up with the soulful flair of That Little Thing You Do.

Basement Freaks offer their Gold Digga edit for free download to celebrate the upcoming 12" . 

Get you hands on http://soundcloud.com/basement-freaks/gold-digga here

All Tracks writen by Basement Freaks
Produced by George Fotiadis
Mastered by Bombastic Jam Mastering

Vocals/Talkbox & Harmonica by Georges Perin
Additional Vocals on A1 by Mc Ryana
Guitars & Bass by George Fotiadis
Lyrics by Panayiotis Skraparlis

Basement Freaks - Gotta Make Me A Gun

Stare Decisis

R.A.W. (Russians at Work)

Where's The Love

"Don't Walk Away" is an award-winning song written by Grace Piper Fields.  This is a rock-n-roll remix by her producer, Chris Bihuniak.

Don't Walk Away by Grace Piper Fields (Cristo Remix)

Mr. Confuse “Feel The Fire” (Not the complete album)

Catalogue number: LEGO 009 (CD/2LP)

LC: 14924 
EAN CD: 40 26424 00122 1
EAN 2LP: 40 26424 00125 2

Release date: Sept. 19, 2008

Mr. Confuse is a traveller between the styles. „Feel The Fire“ is the debut solo album by the producer, arranger, composer and DJ from Hannover Germany. Collecting 14 tracks on his album Mr. Confuse takes us on an excursion from HipHop to Afro, Electro and Latin back to Funk. „Feel The Fire“ comes as an organic statement for the analogue link between HipHop and Funk as well as an authentic and up-to-date plea for the original brass arrangements in the Funk and Jazz music of the Seventies.

As part of the producer team Breakout, Mr. Confuse was a household name in the Funk and HipHop community already in 2006. His idea to reinterpret Afrika Bambaataa’s „Planet Rock“ as a Funk tune and in a Jazz-Breaks version gained Breakout massive international attention. Breakout split in spring 2007 and released their last 7“ „The Funky Goofball/Lyve Wire“ during the summer of that year. Mr. Confuse kept being a requested producer. He had numerous of contributions for compilations (“Brazilectro”, “Battle Of The Year”, Viertelbar, etc.) and released three Mix-CDs („Catch The Beat“, „Confunktion“ and „Brazilian Cuts“), using a wide spectrum of styles. 

Mr. Confuse decided to produce „Feel The Fire“ in a kind of style which is typical for HipHop: „I work sampler based. You look for parts of drum loops and other pieces in a record and build new music from it. This album was created in exactly that way.“ But sampling alone is not enough: „When the structure is there I will go and meet the musicians I work with. I work pretty much autodidactic and very intuitive - this can turn out really bizarre from time to time. Sometimes I’m humming or buzzing the melody I’m looking for to the musicians. I do not play an instrument myself, except that I use the MIDI-Keyboard to be able to work with Plug-ins and think of melody and rhythm. The musicians I work with will turn the ideas which I have in my head into music.“

This concept is as exciting as it is hard work: „I will return to my Sampler with what the musicians played and often do a completely new cut. You may say that I use a musician as a sample library.“ Consequently recording „Feel The Fire“ took quite some time, exactly „from the end of 2006 up to January 2008. In the end the complete album consists now of about 10000 samples. To finish an album like that it is a matter of sweat and tears ...“.

So it comes as no surprise that Mr. Confuse can very clearly define his references and inspiration: „At the moment everything is Electro or Techno actually at least in my town. The sound is very much Eighties, so clean, full of Synthies and 808 programming. When we did Breakout in the summer of 2005 we felt completely different. It was all too clean for us, especially the mixes. I draw my influences from HipHop and I want to work on something I can identify with. HipHop is pretty much the only style I like in the Eighties, apart from Punk probably. Today everything sounds so calculated. It was the snare in the Eighties, today it is the Kick drum. What I tried is to transfer the idea, better say the musical basis of HipHop, from the Nineties back to today. This is what it was like in the Nineties: HipHop tried to transform the sounds of the Sixties and Seventies into the here and now. So it was just natural for me that I tried to keep my sound dirty like it was in the Sixties and Seventies. My main idea by doing songs like “Planet Rock” or “Lookout Weekend” was to put the Eighties back into Seventies or Sixties by using technology of the Nineties – got it!? In the UK and elsewhere there are so many new bands who release handmade organic sounding Sixties and Seventies music right now and I think that is brilliant – it sounds authentic!“

„Feel The Fire“ will be released as a download and on CD, as well as a limited edition double vinyl album.  The first single „Lookout Weekend“ is coming with remixes by Lack Of Afro and Mash & Munkee, the second single „Imóvel“ will feature mixes by Rephrase, Smoove, AIFF, Ed Royal and The Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra.

„Feel The Fire“ – Track by track in the words of Mr. Confuse:

Hurricane Jane
I am a big fan of Joe Farrell and the CTI Label. „Hurricane Jane“ is from Farrell’s 1974 album „Penny Arcade“. I took a break of that song as a basis for the intro of „Feel The Fire“. The drums are not programmed on this track, but being played live by Lars Heindorf from the band Sugarhat.
 
Lookout Weekend
„Lookout Weekend“ is a cover version of Debbie Deb’s 1984 single on Jam Packed. A bonafied Latin-Freestyle Electro classic which was originally produced by Tony Butler! I quite like the contrast to turn an 80s track into a Funk track with a dirty bass line.

Going Somewhere
„Going Somewhere“ was recorded together with my graphic designer Florian Bochnig who plays the guitar on it. Actually, he is not a professional musician, but his style fits perfectly. The trombone by Matthias Brennecke really moves this song.

Balkan Funk
Coco, Steel & Lovebomb had this 1999 track „Yachts“ together with A Man Called Adam. They sampled this 60s Brazilian sounding piano and used it as basis for their song. I found this piano very interesting and inspiring. So I had the idea of doing a similar piano line, but with a horn section and also way faster. This worked out good and gave the Latin sounding piano line, I thought of, a Balkan feeling by being played that fast with a brass section.
 
It’s Just A Blues
Emma Pujadas a.k.a. Lady EmZ from Barcelona is a MySpace connection. I think she has a brilliant voice and thought: Why not work together on something? It took months until I received the parts from her, because she did not have recording equipment at home and had to look for a studio to be able to record the song. In the end it worked out good and she had a brilliant vocal line for the song.
 
Do It Right Now
Martin “Margot” Gontarski plays bass on this track, Martin actually was the bass player of the well known German funk band Spice. This track features a really nice battle between the Hakan Türközü’s Hammond C3 organ and the incredible trumpet play by Szabolcs Smid.

Feel The Fire
„Feel The Fire“ is my highlight on the album. Henrik Pfeiffer was working on the guitar for „Lookout Weekend“ and this track at the same time, so they both sounds perfect together. Matthias Brennecke plays this incredible bass trombone which goes through the whole track and which makes it really special, just like Lalo Schifrin had this special bass trombone in his soundtracks during the Seventies. We’ve been doing the sax solo when Simo Schneider came up with the idea to do an interpolation of De La Soul’s „Ring Ring“ in it.

En Movimiento
This was the last track I recoded for the album. Contrary to the other songs it was completely conceived with samples plus an incredible brass line by Matthias Brennecke.

Groovin’ On The Spot
„Groovin’ On The Spot“ was recorded with Lionel Berton from “The Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra” out of Paris. Lionel is a great percussion player, also to be heard on „The Arrrgh Theme“ and „The Groove Merchant“. You simply do not find this authentic afro style where I come from. Same goes for a good baritone saxophone. 

The Groove Merchant
Hakan Türközü is one of the best Hammond organ players in Hannover. I am happy that he played the Hammond C3 on „The Groove Merchant“. After a long recording session for other songs we have been trying the sketch of “The Groove Merchant” just jamming around and at the end of this long day Hakan went really mad on it. 

When I Hear Music
“When I Hear Music” is the second Debbie Deb cover version on “Feel The Fire”. Inna Vysotska sings on this one as well as on “Lookout Weekend”, additional drums come a courtesy of Lars Heindorf a.k.a. DJ Soul Surfer.

Imóvel
„Imóvel“ is a collaboration with Marc Amadeus Figge who is the man behind Mo’ Horizons. Marc wrote most of the stuff with Mo’ Horizons, he is a versatile and brilliant musician and plays piano, saxophone, bass, German flute, samba percussion, melodica, drums and I do not know what else...

The Arrrgh Theme
The „Outroduction“ is dedicated to my graphic designer Florian Bochnig. He has this great street art project called Arrrgh (www.arrrgh.org) which really needs his own theme - and he plays the distorted guitar, of course!


Label Contact
Légère Recordings * Helmut Heuer * Lindenallee 19a * 20259 Hamburg, Germany 
Phone: ++49 (0)40 87 97 69 13 * helmut@lounge-records.de

Booking Contact
frank@bureau45.com


BZ - Funk

Rainer Griesbaum