Funk The System! The recipe is simple: Dig deep, listen to your heart, record everything you got on a dusty old desktop computer, leave it to simmer for the time of a pandemic, and if it’s still fresh, serve it up on the finest plate of black wax!

This collaboration started in Düsseldorf in the year 2018. Locked up for a week in the Flanger Studios, Wolf Müller and Credit 00 recorded everything: from the jaw harp to smartphone apps, chopping up GDR Jazz breaks and squeezing the Funk out of every synthesizer and drum machine at hand.

You will hear the open mindedness towards all sorts of musical influences from the first note. Each of the five tracks showcases a wild mix of flavours: Disco Reggae, B-Girl Breakbeats, Protest Folk, Subway Funk, Tabla Rhythms, you name it... they’ll take it and shake it! It is obvious these two got sonically socialized and educated by the multiculturalism of Hip-Hop in their early days.

After the first Recording Session, the tracks fermented for some time until they were cracked open again. This time in Leipzig at Credit 00’s Westend Workshop. That’s also where Rizmi from Birmingham joined the team and lent her voice to the title track. She reinterpreted the lyrics of the obscure German 1980s Workers’ Rock Song, that Wolf digged out for the Intro Skit of „Funk The System“.

A long time in the making, Rat Life is very happy to finally publish this EP!

https://soundcloud.com/credit00ratlife
https://soundcloud.com/wolf-muller

PREMIERE⚡️Credit 00 & Wolf Müller - Yellow Fire [Rat Life Records]

Interior - Sculpture Of Time Part III (WRWTFWW)
Memotone - Fever Of The World (Soda Gong)
Ana Reme - Commode, Vendor (Blush)
Kaija Saariaho - Nocturne by Clara Levy from Outre-Nuit (Sub Rosa)
Ana Reme - Rendering No Position Immune (Blush)
Andrea Belfi & Jules Reidy - Alto (Marionnette)
Kakuhan - MT-RWV (Nakid)
Irene Bianco - Kronblade i (Permanent Draft)
Barbatuques vs Wolf Müller - Baianá (Optimo Music / Selva Discos)
Ricardo Dias Gomes - Fogo Chama (SZR)
Akira Umeda - Excerpt from A from Akira Umeda (1988-2018) (Lugar Alto)
Yara Asmar - Are These Your Hands_Do You Want Them back_ (Hive Mind)
Baldruin - Ohrenwurm (Quirlschlängle)
Laila Sakini - Like A Gun (Futura Resistanza)
Honour -  excerpt from Àl​á​á​f​í​à (PAN)
Bruce & Eris FM - The Fool In Reverse (Pain Management)
Honour -  excerpt from Àl​á​á​f​í​à (PAN)
Carmen Villain - Nutrition (Smalltown Supersound)
Stefan Ringer - Body Know (Black Acre)
Katatonic Silentio - Doom (Under My Feet.)
Vegyn - Blue Verb (PLZ Make It Ruins)
Zillas On Acid - Journey To The Server Room feat. Matt O'Hare (Neubau)
Bristol Pirates - Excerpt (Death Is Not The End)
Selfsame - 02 (False Aralia)
Lucy Liyou - Audition ( Self-Released)

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Playlist:

00:00 Dorisburg - Sagofabrik
02:36 Mayo - Suc666
05:31 Stevie R & Parisinos ft. Taltsie - Kunst Ist
09:19 Jon Beige - Complete
14:02 Mr. Ho - Contam1n8
17:42 Boards Of Canada - Telephasic Workshop
21:56 Gene Tellem - Nervous Planet
26:54 Objekt - 35
29:20 Harro Triptrap - Any System
33:57 Credit 00 & Wolf Müller - Never Mind The Gap!
37:22 Uone & Western - Tribal Paradise (Dreems Australis Borealis Vision)
43:31 Shokh - Torotam
47:17 Kingman Fire - Kingman Fire
52:05 Reptant - Snitches Get Glitches
54:10 Dino Sabatini - Dakarai

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