Funk The World 24
by Fort Knox Five
July 2014
www.fortknoxfive.com

We are really happy to present number 24 in our Funk The World mix series! Enjoy a selection of tunes from around the globe, that will make you get up and dance!

Tracklisting:
1.KRAKOWSKI – BREAK ON TRU
2.PETER SELLERS & SOPHIA LOREN vs LUCIANO PERRONE – GOODNESS GRACIOUS ME (SKEEWIFF’S SAMBA VOCALIZADO REMIX)
3.ROSANTIQUE E CHAPEU ROGUE – WALK YOUR SHOES
4.DUNKELBUNT & BAREFOOT BASEMENT – AUGEN ZU UND DURCH FEAT. ALIX (CLUB EDIT)
5.NAPPY RIDDEM – ROCK STEADY (BOBBY C SOUND TV REMIX)
6.KITTEN AND THE HIP – SHUT UP AND DANCE (CAPTAIN FLATCAP REMIX)
7.BADBOE – HIT IT MAESTRO (LISTEN TO JPOD REMIX)
8.SLYNK AND SKIITOUR – FIGURE IT OUT
9.THOMAS BLONDET – CURRY FLAVA
10.MISTER T – THE USUAL
11.OMEGAMAN – A BAILAR FEAT. VINCENT SEBASTIAN
12.EL SONIDO – MOOMBAH RAGGA
13.OMEGAMAN – LOVERS SKANK FEAT. PATOU

This years Noisily Festival is now less than 60 days away (get your tickets) and the countdown to mayhem has officially started. Today we have an exclusive Noisily Promo mix from one of the main players in the UK Glitch Hop scenes, Mike Wallis whose new project Krymes will be playing on the Noisily stage this year.

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Check the new directors cut of the 2014 promo vid, read our interview and check out the mix at the bottom of the page.

1. Thanks for taking the time to answer our questions. For those that don’t know, who are you and what do you do?

I’m called Mike Wallis and I run Colony Productions with Sam Ashwell. I Dj under the name Krymes with Ben Parker.

2. So you’re playing at this years Noisily Festival right? What are you most looking forward too?

I’m really looking forward to opening the Noisily stage on friday alongside the rest of the UK Glitch Hop family, the funktion one system and seeing Joe Ford and Skope play myself and just having the chance to spend a bit of time listening to wicked tunes in such a beautiful setting. I’m counting down the days..

3. Noisily is a fairly new festival to the scene, whats so appealing to the UK’s underground DJ’s and musicians and festival goers alike?

I think that the festival scene has changed quite a bit over the years, it’s not just a way of seeing bands play like it was when I was a kid and electronic music has really got a stronghold now but there are some really big festivals and some very commercial dance acts playing them. Noisily is fresh, the people running it are passionate about what they are doing and they seem to have seen a gap in the market with the situation with Glade Festival. We played on The Meteor stage at Glade in 2012 and it was one of the best gigs I’ve played to date, I believe that weekend was a turning point for what has now become widely know as Glitch Hop or mid tempo in the Uk and massive props to Andy Ellis and Lowri for curating that and getting us involved. I’d also like to thank James at Liquid/Noisily for getting us involved at Noisily this year!!

4. Mike you have been a part of the Glitch Hop scene from the start really. How have you seen things progress since the early days?

It’s come a long long way. Dave (Tipper) and I were writing beats at this tempo back in 2000 and so were a lot of other artists. Danny Breaks, Harmonic 33, Tipper, Luke Vibert, Push Button Objects, the list is extensive if you go back to where I believe it all came from. Others would say it started with the Glitch Mob, Opiuo, Bassnectar abroad but I think it is widely acknowledged that the Uk has always had a thriving bass and breaks scene. I came in to production back in the days of Hardcore and early drum and bass along side a whole heap of electronica and found sounds often referred to as Trip Hop, all the Mo Wax stuff, Ninja Tune. For me it is a combination of all of that and the more abstract sounds that Warp artists like Autechre, Plaid, Boards of Canada, Prefuse 73 were producing, I also have to big up Aphex Twin just purely on the basis he’s a living legend in my mind. There are no real rules in glitch hop and that is what makes for good music in my opinion, the freedom to do what you want.

5. And out of the new breed of artists that are emerging, who are your favourites?

There are a lot.. my favourites at the moment are Mouldy Soul and Skope if I had to pick two out of a hat but there is a real feeling that a lot of producers are pushing into this genre, certainly that mid tempo 95-115bpm window.

6. You run the long standing Glitch label Colony, alongside Vent, whats coming up?

I wouldn’t say we were necessarily a Glitch Hop label exclusively. We like to think of ourselves as artist based rather than genre based. Saying that however we have released a lot of music in that vein from Vent, Opiuo, Schema, Bran Richards, Mouldy Soul, Krossbow, Earegular, Tryptich, Dephicit, Crunch, Crush (one half of DC Breaks) but we’ve also put out stuff from Bit_Meddler, Kelpe, Point B, Sevenark, Cane aka Funckarma, Funkstorung, Loden, Lone Drum both remixes and original material along the way. Coming up this year we have some really good music we are very proud to be releasing from Nimbus, Kursa & Duskky, Skope, a new Earegular EP, a long awaited Mouldy Soul album, the next Vent EP, a sweet release from a chap called R2EQ and two wicked tracks from Fybe:One. I put out a cheeky free d/l as Psi Spy last year and we just had a Kursa & Shamanic Technology track come out as a free d/l as a warm up to their tour of Canada which kicks off in June. We are always on the lookout for what we like to hear and always hoping we can get it signed up to the label. Sam and I work on the basis that if either of us would want to play it out we’d also like to release it whether it be mid tempo, down tempo or even straight up drum and bass or techno.

(Kursa and Shamanic Technology :: Power Animal)

7. And UK Glitch Hop is your baby too? Tell us about that. It’s a label but you’ve also got a radio show and recently held the uk glitch hop awards?

It’s not a label as such more of a collective although we did put out a free compilation at the end of last year and intend on putting out more. I am certainly a part of it and do consider it like another child if we are talking in terms of babies but props need to go to the one and only Morbidly Obese Midget aka Chris who really was the founder of UK Glitch Hop. Chris pulled myself, William Breakspear who runs Skanky Panky Records, Your Niece aka Rhys in early on alongside Mouldy Soul aka Rich and Harley Davies who runs Beta Test Records and Beta Birmingham and together we’ve been pushing the scene along as much as we can alongside the many other people who are making it what it is and is becoming and we’ve had a heap of support and mixes and guest dj’s from people like Wonkay Records, Omni Temple, Automaton, Krossbow just to namecheck a few. Koan Sound have really helped bring the scene in to a wider audience in the UK too as an example so we consider ourselves a part of something bigger really and are just pleased to be a part of it.

The idea behind UK Glitch Hop was to create an open platform to showcase the sound by way of a regular weekly show on Glitch.fm and via our soundcloud archive and with the help of the facebook page a way for people to hear about new releases and events going on. Since the conception we have ended up all pooling our contacts and have hooked each other up to the point where we now really are beginning to play as a collective and have been lucky enough to host rooms at Carousel Festival a couple of times with the next one on 13th June, at Liberated Empire where we played alongside Griz who played in the main room last Friday whilst we hosted the other room, at Sub Audio Festival later this month you can catch me and ben playing as Krymes alongside William Breakspear, Noisily Festival is a big one for us though!! We’ve roped Vent into playing with us too for that one. Really looking forward to it.

We are hoping to get a regular UK Glitch Hop residency sorted out later this year too but we need to find the right venue and we’d rather wait and get it right than to just do it for the sake of doing it. We’ve been doing the awards for 2 years now and we do a little tour to celebrate that anyway but a regular night will be wicked when we get there. The awards are our way of letting the people who actually listen to Glitch Hop give back a bit of a thank you for all the effort the promoters, producers and labels are making themselves really. Come check us out here.. https://www.facebook.com/UKGlitchHop and you can listen to some of the shows archived here.. https://soundcloud.com/ukglitchhop

http://ukglitchhop.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-uk-glitch-hop-volume-1

8. So the UK scene is really thriving? Why do you think that is?

The UK is a funny place for music, we have some of the best music on the planet originating here. Drum and Bass, Breaks the list is long (I’ve seen a flow chart online a few times) all the way back to the heyday of the Beatles, the Stones, the Happy Mondays, the Cure and all the music that has come in between that and now. It’s just something we seem to do well. Truth is though we make great music but we don’t party like they do abroad really, there is a different vibe partying somewhere that isn’t cold and wet most of the year and there are less people chin stroking and contemplating production methods but right from when I used to go to Speed on a thursday to see Bukem and Fabio to now there is nowhere else like the UK. I like to think that in 50 or a 100 years time people are going to look back and see what we’ve done for music and sub culture in the UK but what we are also good at is taking sounds and scenes from all over the world and making them ours, or our own take on them and I think we’ll always see fresh ideas coming from this little island we call home.

9. Who else from overseas is doing it right in the Glitch Hop scene?

Opiuo is wicked, Gramatik although he’s his own monster, Stickybuds who played at our awards this year, I’m partial to a bit of JPod and some Gruff, far too many to mention them all really but Mr Bill needs a big ups, his Collaborative Endeavors was something else with my favourite track on there being Rmyth.. Go and d/l this right now if you haven’t got it, you need this in your life!!

10. Krymes is the new project? What can we expect?

Ben and I are in the studio and we put up a free track a little while ago but we’re slow, lots started and just left as we move on to the next thing, it’s a learning curve and we are really focusing on getting out sets right at the moment primarily but we plan on getting a single out later this year. Ben is working on another project with a friend of ours Q called Shake N Herb which is coming together really nicely and Sam and me have been back in the studio writing together as Basik and just had a track out on a 12″ that Beta Test Records pressed up earlier this year. As far as what to expect from Krymes though, a rocking party set of solid mid tempo, glitchy goodness with some unreleased edits from us and anyone else we are digging at that point in time too and a single later this year and a follow up EP and a couple of remixes we’re working on somewhere in between. Links below..

11. Any possibility of some new collaboration material with Tipper?

Haha.. Well we’ve been talking about it for the past two years on and off but I don’t want to be in a situation where we are sending each other stems whilst he’s in Hawaii and I’m over here so when I get round to going there or when I can get him in to a room here and lock the door and hide the key you may just see something else emerge from us. We put our whole discography up for free d/l over a year ago and it has had quite a few d/l’s and fundamentally we are both still very much into what we were back then and in a similar headspace still so let’s see. Luckily his surgery went well last year so we’ve got time on our sides I hope. I’ve been listening to his latest work a lot recently as he just released Forward Escape and it’s next level as always.. Again if you haven’t got that in your life get over to addictech.com now and purchase it immediately!! You won’t regret it, I guarantee you that or I’ll personally refund your money!!  If you’ve never heard any of the Crunch material you can check us out here too.. https://soundcloud.com/crunchdiscography

12. Anything else you’d like to add?

Yeah, thank you for giving me the opportunity to spout off about what I love most, glitchy goodness. Hope you like the Noisily promo mix and look forward to seeing some of you at Sub Audio Festival, Carousel Festival or Noisily Festival over the next couple of months!! Gonna be a good summer..

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So big thanks to Mike for his answers and now onto the mix. A pumping, fast paced riotous mix of all things Glitchy, taking in Funk, Swing, Ghetto, House and many other influences all Glitched up and whomped out! This needs to be played at high volume!

Don’t forget you can still grab your Noisily Tickets HERE.

1) Kursa & Duskky – Crypsis – Colony Productions
2) Steely Dan – Peg – Dj Twister Edit
3) TC – Burning Starlight – Stickybuds Remix
4) Hit it Maestro – Listen to Jpod
5) Skope – Roll Em – Caliber
6) Love & Light – Monster
7) Vent – Monkey Chew – Hardcore Beats
8) Dephicit & Don Johnston – Babushka Remix
9) Vent – Jump – Skope Remix – Colony Productions
10) Tipper – Off Kilter VIP – Tipper Music
11) Kill Paris – Catch You – Owsla
12) Slynk – Fried Chicken Remix – Rufus Thomas
13) Slynk & Crazy Daylight – She’s Got That
14) Cheshire – One More Dance – Adapted Recs
15) Tipper – Bubble Control VIP – Tipper Music
16) Romor – Kicking Auld Styles
17) My Love – WBBL Remix
18) Tryptich – Eucalyptus – Colony Productions
19) Basik – End of Days – Beta Test Records
20) Krymes – La Dubiously
21) Sammy Senior – Goin’ Crazy

KRYMES – Noisily Promo Mix + Interview

Beating The Crates 20140331 by Hong Kong Ping Pong on Mixcloud

Morphosis ‘Beating The Crates’ in a Hong Kong Ping Pong Styleeeeee in association with www.ghettofunk.co.uk brings you a super upfront exclusive peek at Scoured Cream Vol 4 in it’s entirety due out on Scour Records later this month, 8 slabs of chunky funky glitchy goodness served up by Minoru, Lakeshore Drive, J-Sound, Father Funk & Howla, Lack Jemmon, Sammy Senior & WBBL, Mr Stabalina and SkiiTour, hear them here first!

This show is now available to download from the NSB Radio Archives and to stream on Mixcloud!

Tracklist:

01 Minoru – Ain’t No Coolin’
02 Freestylers vs Gioman & Killacat – Easy Swinging Painkiller (HKPP Mash-Up)
03 Beat Fatigue – Chronic Fatigue
04 Eric B & Rakim – Laid In Full (Rakim Suite) (Qdup & Sons of Satin Re-Twerk)
05 Cheshire – Tha Beat
06 Stickybuds & Featurecast – 3-6-9
07 Dibadubdub – Inter-Intra
08 Lakeshore Drive – Two For the Crates
09 Wicked City – Reach
10 Splatinum – Octopus Bangbang
11 BadboE Feat MC Rayna – Hit It Maestro (Listen To JPOD Remix)
12 J-Sound – Funky Flow
13 B-Side & Detta – Paper Jam
14 Hotline Zero – The Scat Empire
15 Beat Fatigue – Smudged Fudge
16 Cheshire – Get Down (Staunch Remix)
17 Lack Jemmon – Theory Test
18 Hotline Zero – Dribbly Dribbly Sound
19 Father Funk & Howla – Got Swing
20 B-Side – Warzone
21 Detta – Rollin’
22 Slynk – Flip It Up feat. Timothy Wisdom
23 Howla – Horns & Hussies
24 Father Funk – Sheriff Shooter
25 Tonic – Bodymovin’
26 Sammy Senior & WBBL – Soul Rocka
27 Skullee – Ginnystyle (Original Mix)
28 Wicked City – Sensation
29 Bryx & Neon Steve – Loves Me
30 Mr Stabalina – Money
31 Funk Efemdzemov – She’s On Fire (Bo Saris – Funk Efemdzemov remix)
32 Shantisan – Avenida Atlantica (Dj Farrapo Remix)
33 SkiiTour – The Program
34 B-Side – Groove In The Heart (B-Side remix)
35 Bryx – The Fool
36 Doctor Stereo – Zangano
37 The Jenova Collective – Living The Halcyon Days (1)
38 Conte Crux – Take Me To The Q-Tip
39 Jason Laidback – Fools Gold 2014
40 Wes Smith & White Boy Awesome – Bring Back That Funk
41 Conte Crux – With A Beat Like This
42 Kid Digital & Rubi Dan – Attack

** Scoured Cream Vol 4 in bold

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This show is now available to download from the NSB Radio Archives and to stream on Mixcloud!

Tracklist:

01 Fort Knox Five – The Wonder Strikes Again (feat Sleepy Wonder – Jon Ohms Remix)
02 DJ Tzinas ft Clinton Sly – Real Good Gal (DJ Maars rmx)
03 Dodge & Fuski – The Clap
04 Odjbox – Saraghina
05 Snow – Informer (Yanvi Remix)
06 Beat Fatigue – Chronic Fatigue
07 Mat The Hat – Pass Me A Dubplate
08 Beat Fatigue – Shake ‘N Bake
09 Cheshire – Tha Beat
10 Dibadubdub – Inter-Intra
11 Jamie Berry – Carnival
12 BadboE Feat MC Rayna – Hit It Maestro (Listen To JPOD Remix)
13 El Bomba – In & Out
14 Cut La Roc – Sunday Morning People (Herbgrinder Remix)
15 Father Funk – Like This
16 Cheshire – Get Down (Staunch Remix)
17 The McMash Clan – Swing Break feat. Kate Mullins (Opiuo feat. Russ Liquid Remix)
18 Splatinum – Octopus Bangbang
19 Route 94 – My Love (WBBL Remix)
20 James Brown – Sex Machine (Funk Ferret & Goodgroove Remix)
21 Splatinum – Pop Let It Drop
22 The Funk Hunters & DJ Wood – Nasty
23 Marten Horger Feat Funkanomics – Oh Girl (Lewd Behaviour Remix)
24 Lack Jemmon – Hello World, Hello Lorde
25 Pirate Jams – Happy Days (Howla Remix)
26 Funk The System – Crush On You
27 DJ Love – Easy Fire (Myagi Remix)
28 DJ Twister aka Vinyl Cat – Hammer Banger
29 Skeewiff – Lets Have Scratch For Break-Fest [2013 Remaster]
30 DJ Format – Im Good (Dj Format Remix)
31 The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter (The Phunk Junkies Remix)
32 Wes Smith & White Boy Awesome – Bring Back That Funk
33 The Phunk Junkies – Big Spender
34 Dub Pistols – Alive (Hollaphonic Filthy Remix)
35 Kuplay – Blackberry Sucks
36 Rory Lyons – Raging Speed Horn
37 Radiokillaz – Unity
38 Mechanical Pressure – Depth Vision feat Dice
39 King Yoof & Jacky Murda – Dub Nurse feat Gregory Isaacs

Wow, isn’t life busy! There’s lots going on at the moment… big releases coming out, NYE parties to plan, and festive cheer is in the air! Over at Swing Towers we’re getting ready for our next event (shameless plug – poster is above) where we’re delighted to be welcoming the mighty Electric Swing Circus. If you’re in the West Midlands area of the UK come on down – I guarantee it will be fabulous. I’ve heard a few whispers about Boomtown and once again the lineup is looking incredible and tickets are flying out. For all readers of Free Breaks Blog it has to have the best lineup going. The other big announcement is that Swingamajig is back again in Birmingham on the 4th May with arguably the best electro swing lineup of any festival, well, ever I reckon! Apart from that we have heard that there may be a bit more competition in the blogosphere, but forget the young upstarts you know where the best info is…

Free Music Ahead of their first EP which is coming out very soon, the Jenova Collective have given away two swinging stompers for free:

Ghetto Funk have released a great free EP from Howla which features this banger for free. Aren’t they kind?

Enjoying the drum & bass grooves on this swinger. Great stuff.

Ecklectic Mick has been having fun mixing up the Andrews Sisters:

There’s a nice swinging house groove on this from Electro Swing Stuttgart:

I seem to have missed this one when it came out a bit ago, definitely worth a repost though. Great funky grooves!

Here’s a nice bluesy remix featuring Howlin’ Wolf, download from facebook.

And last up is this, entertaining if slightly strange version of Jingle Bells from Skeewiff. It does slightly remind me of happy hardcore in places, which is well disquieting to say the least…

New Releases White Mink Black Cotton 3 The release of the moment is certainly still White Mink Black Cotton 3 on Freshly Squeezed. DJ Switch has provided a mashed up version of it which gives me a great excuse to post it again. Highly recommended and available from here.

The WooHoo Revue – Remixed Vol.1 Ragtime Records have been busy gathering together a rather fine EP remixing Australias The WooHoo Revue. I road-tested a couple of these on last Friday and I have to say they go down really well. The remixes range in style from gypsy house to glitch hop, breaks to minimal from artists such as Skeewiff, donJohnston, Sound Nomaden and Audioprophecy.

Jemstone – Well Oiled Machine EP After getting truly hooked on his Pack Your Trunk release with Kid Creole it’s great to have Jemstone back with some more bass heavy groovers. There’s three tunes to check here on his latest EP available from bandcamp.

The Young Punx – Kowloon Kickback (Gramophonedzie Mix) Really loving this – it has to be worth £1.73 of your money – big horns, loads of excitement – dancefloor gold. This weeks essential release.

Leygo – Raggy Mop If you like your harder edged ghetto swing then you should check out the new remix EP of Leygo. Available from Juno and personally I reckon this is the one to pick out:

BadBoe – Hit It Maestro My ears certainly pricked up when I heard this on BadBoes Pump Up The Funk Remixed LP. The rest of the album is more straight ahead ghetto funk, but this one certainly has a bit of a vintage flavour to it. Available from Juno.

Dutty Moonshine – Rauchester EP 2 (teaser) It’s good to see a follow up for the Rauchester EP is on the way:

DJ Mixes Been enjoying this all round mix from The Swing Bot. Plenty of chilled stuff mixed in with party bangers.

Gramophonedzie have released for me the pick of this roundups releases above, and so they earn a place for their recent DJ mix too. A bit of swing and plenty of house.

That’s it for this week. If you’ve got anything you’d like included in future roundups hit me up on soundcloud. To find out more about my own events check out the Electro Swing Ball.

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