thread of DâM-FunK

IMHO this dude is the shit -- nothing i like more than walking home from the bar/club/whatever dripping w/ sweat & bumping this wooshing synthy humid synth squeals ... so great & unique

http://www.stonesthrow.com/uploads/artist/95767b6b8f22de532f6ad66f71df63ca.jpg

this mix was bangin
http://music.stonesthrow.com/damfunk-bbc1-may2009.mp3

DâM-FunK – ‘Brookside Park’ (Stones Throw)
DâM-FunK – ‘Spacecapades’ (Stones Throw)
DâM-FunK – ‘This Time, Take It Out On the Groove’ (Stones Throw)
DâM-FunK – ‘Flying V Ride’ (Stones Throw)
DâM-FunK – ‘The Sky Is Ours’ (Stones Throw)
DâM-FunK – ‘Sidewayz’ (Stones Throw)
DâM-FunK – ‘Rollin’ (Stones Throw)
L.S. Movement – ‘Move Everything You Got’ (LA/Veg)

Kind of cant stop listening to this shit. ive heard his parties in LA are the shit also

shit shit shit

yall are sleeping. where's jaxon??

yeah, dam funk is the shit. I have to give Pipecock credit, I slept on this dude for a few weeks until he twisted my arm to check his shit out.

I have a copy of Rhythm Tracks IV and about half of it is bananas, the other half is alright. I still need to hunt down the other two records he has done.

http://infinitestatemachine.com/2009/05/06/dam-funky/

i've seen him live a few times. some of my friends (http://beatelectric.blogspot.com/) used to do a regular boogie/disco night and brought him up. i dig the way he talks into a mic over all his songs. i honestly had no idea any of the stuff he was playing. it all sounded like rare zapp and roger unreleased tracks. maybe a lot of it was his own stuff?

still have yet to hear his album.

killed at APT last night. Also, look for the (*PLUG*) Bim Marx "Stronger" 12" - Dam plays keys over "On Our Way".

haaa these videos pipecock linked to are great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S53cOe51W-s&feature=player_embedded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H6OP454O1Y&feature=player_embedded

his solo music is like 6000 weed&acid variations on kool & the gangs 'summer madness' opening snyths

this guy is legittt

i kinda refused to believe he wasn't from the late '70s/early '80s when dudes at groove merchant were playing this

i just cant believe he didnt have a thread on ilx before -- pretty unique stuff to be confined to the end of a stones throw thread

A few weeks ago one radio station around here had some guest dj on who was playing a bunch of late 70s early 80s stuff that sounded exactly like dam funk's shit and I was like man it has to be dam funk playing this

and thn it was

i endorse this thread

I haven't heard any of this but now I'm very interested.

I think he djs regularly at a bar within walking distance from my place but I've yet to go. =(

ha jaxon i just downloaded that 'night shift ii' mix that site has up after a friend linked me to it -- amazing stuff

this is great!!

Dam Funk is the shit. i'm sure it will be uncool to like him on ILM soon enough.

maybe when people hear his animal collective remix.

Dam Funk is the shit. i'm sure it will be uncool to like him on ILM soon enough.

― pipecock, Wednesday, June 24, 2009 4:57 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

???? everyone is going on about how good he is, wtf are you even bitching about

esp lol since your entire persona on here is abt how much cooler u are than everyone else for appreciating true genius & soul or whatever

cocks will be cocks

"esp lol since your entire persona on here is abt how much cooler u are than everyone else for appreciating true genius & soul or whatever

― zzz (deej)"

exactly, and as such it will not go out of style for me to like Dam Funk's music. it's cool that he seems to be hitting big in terms of wide appreciation right now, but it won't last long. 5 years from now people will be talking shit in this thread and i'll still at the very least be bumping the records he's already released.

ok ms cleo how about you stop bitching about things that havent even happened, at the very least

cant say i admire anyone's ability to force themselves to not get tired of something, though

"cant say i admire anyone's ability to force themselves to not get tired of something, though

― zzz (deej)"

i don't have to force myself to get tired of your bullshit.

no one asked u to be hear

*here

don;t feed the cock

he just pre-emptively lashed out against future backlash -- I for one am impressed and respectful

premature backlash-ulation

or something

like this.

bored. don't like it anymore.

lmao yah fukk dam funk -- now im into bmore club again

bmore passé now, kuduro for at least the next 10 minutes, them maybe funk carioca revival.

very disappointed that it's "DAME funk" rather than "DAMN funk" ... i take it back, this guy sucks balls

5 years minutes from now people will be talking shit in this thread and i'll still at the very least be bumping the records he's already released.

― pipecock, Wednesday, June 24, 2009 3:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://www.zshare.net/audio/591766334c2915da/

Live set tracklist:

1.JOHN TEJADA - "Loose Change" | '04
2.JOHN TEJADA - "Progressive Patterns" | '04
3.DEZ DICKERSON - "Modernaire" (Complexxion version) | '08
4.WAS (NOT WAS) - "Out Come The Freaks" | '81
5.STONE CITY BAND - "Bad Lady" | '83
6.PRINCE - "Controversy" | '81
7.PRINCE - "Sexy Dancer" (UK only Long Version) | '79
8.CHANGE - "Don't Wait Another Night" | '83
9.O'BRYAN - "Be My Lover" | '84
10.KLYMAXX - "Man In My Life" (UK Fred Dove & Froggy Remix) | '82
11.THE CURE - "Let's Go To Bed" | '82
12.SOFT CELL - "A Man Could Get Loot" | '82
13.TRANS-X - "Living On Video" (Dub Version) | '84
14.GOSUB - "Love Like The Past" | '07
15.FINGERS INC.- "Distant Planet" | '88
16.SCOTT SELLARS - "Let's Dance Shall We?" | '91
17.EAST 17 DIVISION - "Textures" | '92
18.B.F.C.(aka Carl Craig) - "The Climax" | '90
19.FIREFLY - "Love Is Coming" (Remix) | '83
20.STONE - "Girl I Like The Way That You Move" | '82
21.DâM-FunK - "Galactic Fun" | '08

good lookin

yeah played it about 3 times yesterday, really good fun

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/arts/music/26dam.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=funk&st=cse

MUSIC REVIEW | DAM-FUNK
A Chatty Fan of ’80s Funk, Serving It Slow and Low

“Ladies, if any guys ask you to dance, do not refuse. I repeat, do not refuse-use-use.”

<3

holy shit

First Volume (of 5) from Dam-Funk's debut full length album, Toeachizown, which will be released as a 5LP set in Fall 2009.

“1983, y’all — a great year for funk,”

that live set looks funking weird and awesome

that mix was wicked. i like a good talking DJ.

reminds me of when i saw moodymann. "the bar is still open, people!" then, more ominously: "THE BAR IS STILL OPEN."

checked the videos, dl-ing the mix cuz ms cleo told me so

http://www.thefader.com/2009/07/08/dam-funk-toeachizown-mp3/

XDDDDDDDDDDDD

http://www.thefader.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/toeachizown-1.jpg

also, http://twitter.com/damfunk/status/2475498208

if u guys were curious i had to know!!

this song is amazing

fresh

i want to hear him rmx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBB8RVZ3a4E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89HK0H_-cA8

relistening to this now i can TOTALLY see why this would be his fav

great track! the bass line is so juicy!

not a D-F rmx, but an edit by my man Jitterbug who has since gone on to release on Uzuri:

http://cornwarning.com/tomcox/Maze_-_Twilight(jitterbugsLostEdit).mp3

nice slow weed enabled repeptitive edit.

Everybody needs to listen to that 7" he did as Wavelength. It really is some of his best stuff. Both tracks can be heard here:

http://www.moovmnt.com/2009/07/05/slept-on-sunday-wavelength-funk-dreams/

yeh all this shit bangs

that Wavelength one is my fav so far, i think.

"funk dreams" woah

this shit makes me wanna walk with a limp

I'm gonna have a gangsta lean for a at minimum

another mix: 'funk is NOT a fad'

lolz at soft cell "a man can get loot" from that first mix

*could

he should do a record with amp fiddler.

though i think hes way better than amp.

better how? he is not a better singer or songwriter than amp fiddler, that's for sure. i don't really see how you can compare them at all. i guess it isn't very cool to like Amp Fiddler, maybe that's it.

way better name, which is key

man back with a force, pipecock. just keep bringing the disdain of people who actually like something.

anyway, excited about this
http://profile.ak.facebook.com/object3/1714/94/n121005044611_8230.jpg

"Let's Take Off" is a tremendous mix starter. And can we talk about the swagger-inducing "Hood Pass Intact"? That one most definitely makes you want to walk with a mean limp.

you think so? i think Dam-Funk's name is a weak point for sure, when i try to tell people about him they always give the "Dame Funk?!?!?!"....

all these guys have bad names.

having funk in your name = generally bad idea for modern artists

you're right. Amp Fiddler is better.
when you're making music that sounds like it's from 1982, I think it's appropriate.

it looks cooler than it sounds, i'll give you that.

i always hoped for more masturbatory puns from amp fiddler.

i'm with pipecock on this...Amp Fiddler is light years ahead of that DF is doing...and while i really like it, i have yet to be anywhere near as blown away as I have been with Amp's material. and let's not even talk about live...

that = what

light years ahead? they do totally diff things

live i have no idea

i want to know more about how dam funk produces his stuff... he said in an interview somewhere that it was without the use of sequencers. how's that possible? unless he means, like, sequencing programs like logic or ableton, the synth arpeggios and drum patterns must be sequenced... no?

theres no way he doesnt use sequencers. the stuff i heard sounded like some old p funk sessioner playing over madlib beats. maybe he meant for the synths or something.

Perhaps what he means is that he programmes the drum machine to play the beats (true, that is a sequencer of sorts, but an external sequencer is what most people think of by the term 'sequencer'). He then plays in free time over the top, recording successive passes to multitrack tape (or maybe a digital recorder acting as a multitrack). That would be exactly what most people did in the early '80s.

My guess is that he uses old hardware and plays the keys by hand into whatever he uses to record.

A lot of older synths use a +5volt trigger to step their arpeggiator. This allows you to play arps by hand and still have the arpeggiator locked to the drum machine. He is definitely using a drum machine, you can't get that stiff jitter that his drums have by hand.

Washing Machine by Mr. Fingers is a classic example of this. Its a Juno 60 being played by hand and the arp is being fired by a 707 trig out.

what i do is just play something once into Logic, then select that little bit and keep copying and pasting it as many times as i want, pretty easy and way easier than messing around with old weird apreggiators and shit, i can't never figure out old keyboard at all.

apparently there's this program called ableton that does that all for you now. you don't even have to play anything, just click "make beat" and voila.

that sounds pretty cool.

i don't know much besides logic cuz that's what i've messed around with

i think dubmill has it right:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiNs3C0UyL4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gg4KYRwrBc

hey this stuff is really neat...stuff like this will always be why i love ILM would have never been hipped to this but yeah this is great! : )

this EP bangs yall

there are some songs that i wish sounded more like whiney g-funk and less like complex chromeo beats, but hey i love chromeo all the same so it's no biggie

i have not yet gotten to the 9 min song called "searchin' 4 funk's future" just yet - i'm excited about that

dam-funk and chromeo both trying to sound like the gap band or whatever (and going about it in entirely different ways) /= dam-funk sounding like chromeo

listen to "LAtrifying"

Fly is Vol. 2 of the 'digital release' from my new project Toeachizown. The 1st 3 joints on this volume consist of my continued steps into the 'electric-space-funk' style I'm humbled 2 share with U from my mind, yet this time out, with a more 'danceable' vibe 2 it. U know, for the clubs...worldwide! The first 3 tracks “Flying V Ride” (which is a reference 2 the fabled UFO that many have reported seeing in their lifetime), “Candy Dancin’” & “Burn Straight Thru U” co-exist as a 'suite' called “The Move Suite”. Yes, 3 songs that are joined together as 1. This is why the 'drum machine pattern' is the same on these 3 particular songs. “Candy Dancin’” also features a wicked synth solo & vocoder contribution by the 1 and only Mark de Clive-Lowe.

The remaining 3 joints of this volume on this 'digital release': “10 West”, “I Wanna Know” (a vocal) & “Rollin’” represent exactly what the title of this volume is: Fly. They're joints that U can roll 2. Let your hair down 2. Vibe with a lady 2 (or vice-versa), + stay 'fly' 2. I know there's still some fly ladies & gentlemen out there. This Vol. 2 from my Toeachizown project is...4 U.

- D-F

<3

there's a free mp3 of "10 west" here http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2009/08/dam-funk-toeachizown-fly

it is of course incredible, as is the whole thing

bass on "10 west" is so sick

these things are so dope too

http://www.stonesthrow.com/uploads/news/5eea2352440f4709b610ff7bcfccba7c.jpg

i want huge ass posters of them all

http://www.stonesthrow.com/images/2009/damfunk-shaunbloodworth-2.jpg

imo if you aren't playing the hell out of dam-funk your summer sucks balls and you should be deported to the north pole

it's kind of amazing to me how great his long form stuff is. the suite here and "searching 4 funk's future" have a great build and aren't really content with just settling into a groove and riding it out

seeing him live tonight

http://www.stussy.com/april_feature_damfunk.html

"Dam-Funk's debut album Toeachizown will be released this Fall as 5/LP set - two and a half hours of music"

5LP?

i love that egon of all people is putting this sort of stuff out ;)

imo if you aren't playing the hell out of dam-funk your summer sucks balls and you should be deported to the north pole

― heave imho (J0rdan S.), Thursday, August 6, 2009 4:18 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is a truth bomb

one for the sticker (real talk not zing)

im supposed to see him next wednesday but ill be at work that night til like midnight (ugh)

i hope i dont get there too late

his music sounds like it couldn't exist before midnight, i'm sure you'll be fine

i'm just worried this will be a repeat of my experience seeing d4rshan jesr4ni of metro area, in which i expected to hear a bunch of metro area-ish tracks and instead was treated to a two hour set of boring (to me) unclassics revivalism. which also led to a really butthurt personal email from d4rshan after i posted about it on ILM.

i would much much rather hear dam funk spin his own music than spin a two hour set of gap band and prince tracks, so i'm hoping that's what happens. i assume he's not playing live or anything.

he does great boogie mixes tho ... i mean, hes a party DJ, thats what hes known for, so he might be BETTER at unclassics revivalism ...

he cleared the floor by playing lots of g-funk and lots of instrumental early 80s tracks with super-loud bass. didn't really sound anything like his mixes. he did sing along to nearly every track though, making up really silly lyrics

at this point i'm pretty used to having my expectations busted by DJ sets from producers i like

imo if you aren't playing the hell out of dam-funk your summer sucks balls and you should be deported to the north pole

― heave imho (J0rdan S.), Thursday, August 6, 2009 4:18 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

jeez glad i downloaded that EP wouldn't want to get in trouble with the autogoon higher-ups!

i like this guy but less of the if you don't know hitler youthisms please

i've only heard the benji b mix but it was good, that said I think I'd like if someone played all old gfunk. or made music like it. nobody is doing this really even tho there's a big crossover between 80s boogie and gfunk imo...cocaine crossover.

i like this guy but less of the if you don't know hitler youthisms please

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3351/3270043293_d27ec3572c.jpg

i think hes an amazing musician but some of his programming is kinda zzzz. its kinda like 90s smooth jazz with someone soloing all over jazz+hip hop beats except hes just doing it with old 80s quiet stormy drum machines.

i like this guy but less of the if you don't know hitler youthisms please

― I for one welcome this new Nazi ILX (Local Garda), Friday, August 7, 2009 5:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

pretty sure j0rdan was joking yall

jk r0nan hope u have yr passport

man, i got into some major beef with a jerk on ISM about Dam-Funk, where i said that his productions are excellent but his DJ sets are spotty. the guy attacked me for no reason, saying i had no right to diss such a great producer, and i was like, "dude, you can't read. if a guy train-wrecks again and again and again during a DJ set, i'm not going to lick his balls."

anyway, yeah, seen him live a few times, totally spotty. can be so damn good you drip just listening to it or so bad that you get 'tard tingles.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Garda_front.jpg

tie looks good but jacket could be more fitted IMO

i dont give a shit abt 'trainwrecks' though

he 'trainwrecks' all over the place on that BBC mix & its still my fav mix ive heard this year

i loved it for the first hour i listened to it, then got a little bored second time, not sure I've even listened once since.

not even a criticism necessarily...but that's what happened.

i have to say his mixing was fairly tight last night and his "vocal stylings" were in key and on point ... i just found the selection of music he played to be much, much less compelling than what i've heard from toeachizown

everything he played sounded like a version of "atomic dog" minus the mids and treble, which is not the great thing it sounds like on paper

i like some of the vocal stuff except the part in the bbc one where he says something about "if a fella asks you to dance and you say no, i'm going to be annoyed." or something.

i mean seriously that's pretty creepy.

blah blah blah 'i don't care about trainwrecks.' maybe true, but i do. if you're not going to do proper mixes, then just play the songs sans mixing. it will be much more pleasant that way, imho.

nah i find your techno purism about a dude spinning funny funk traxx and speaking into a mic over them to be silly

isnt the bbc mix only 30 mins long, ronan? are you talking abt something else?

actually I mean the benji b one, I just called it bbc cos he's a bbc dj...

i love that egon of all people is putting this sort of stuff out ;)
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, August 6, 2009 10:20 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not sure what the winky face is about, but makes so much sense. i've got a buddy who's a record dealer, and friends w/dam and the stonesthrow crew, and all he deals in anymore is boogie and modern soul. told me he sold a boogie 7" for $4000.

omg, he's playing plastic people on 21 oct - CANNOT FUCKING WAIT to hear him on that soundsystem

"candy dancin" is my jam

can't wait for this shit to come out, bad live show aside ...

the pic at the top of the thread changed right?

when i saw him spin live it was super fun -- his stuff sounded better than the boogie he played tho

his remix of that "i should tell ya momma on you" song is brilliant

alright what the fuck, i been banging vol 1 for months now and JUST REALIZED that there are like, four volumes? this shitty week is looking a bit better.

"candy dancin'" is fucking epic

the album's about to drop! only glanced at the tracklisting but it looks like it'll be comprised of all the eps...

interviewing this dude tomorrow :)

is his name pronounced damn funk or damn funkY

cos im sure its meant to be the latter but everyone says it the second way

either way hes cool and everything but i still find it funny that people like annie mac play him but would prob never touch a freddie jackson record lol

ok not that he sounds like freddie as such but oh never mind

it's actually dame funk. cause his first name is damon. not sure if he realizes it makes him sound like a lady knight.

dame? in that case he should def be dressing more imaginatively

i think id like him more if he dressed flamboyantly

old funk artists were so much more characterful

damn funk just seems like another beatnerd type, albeit with more of an 80s taste

Listened to "Toeachizown 2" on my way home from work, not only excellent but lasted the exact same time as my journey as well

the second EP is just insanely epic & amazing

so stoked about the fourth one dropping

dude has flyers up at some of the venues on this tour and i'm always tempted to call a sick week and stick around town for his set

Hood Pass Intact crushes everything in its way.

the pic at the top of the thread changed right?

― plies matters (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 October 2009 21:10 (1 week ago) Permalink

Just noticed that, nice blazers

volume 2 is life-changing shit

i got those blazers

i could listen to flying v ride -> candy dancin' -> burn straight thru u all damn day

Hood Pass Intact IS unstoppable. unfortunately, i don't really find any of the other tracks on 'Hood' as compelling. but that track alone is just....damn.

just fyi he was fucking mind-blowingly good last night~~~

"candy dancin" was revelatory

vibes squared

damn this flu, i am hellz of jealous, lex...

I for one welcome Jordan's prior HitlerYouthisms as they got me into this. Hoping the proper album drops in time for me to convince everyone to make it "album of the week" on our "funk" episode of DAA.

Just grabbed the album now. As usual, I am two to three months behind ILM on everything. Perpetually sleeping. Missed seeing him in Montreal back in September at a tiny loft/club. Will smack myself in the head repeatedly for the next day or two.

Is it still possible to track down those original EPs, though? It appears as though the tracks have been significantly shortened on the full-length album. Or am I misreading this information?

really? it's being released as a 2CD and a 5LP...

as far as i know, the "album" is just the 5 EPs...

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=232433

Look at the track lengths. All I know is that my version of the title track is 2 minutes long and on the original EP it is apparently 5. This is not the only instance of this. Also, there are at least two tracks not on the full-length? Can't figure out which ones.

But confused bitching about album/EP inconsistency aside, this is really something else.

(Oh, Tunnels is one of the missing trax)

this is weird... kinda interested to hear the songs in that order, seems almost like a totally different album

yeah. anyway. is it worth it tracking down the EPs as well? or should 24 tracks of LP fulfill all my dam-funk needs?

once i get the fifth EP i think i'm gonna make a playlist with the songs in that order

also i think it goes without saying that these are the album covers of the year

you should be aight with that album, if you really want the missing EP tracks send me a fb message and i'll send em back to you

xxp i dunno, i've gotten used to (and fallen in love w/) the songs in the order they are on the EP...plus apparently they'll be the actual full songs?

kind of curious why he'd edit down some of these...longer versions of tracks in funk are always better, as a general rule.

cuz there are only so many minutes of music that can be on a cd?

the track lengths don't look to be that big of a deal tbh - "search 4 funk's future" & "LAtrifying" seem to have been cut down a few minutes but every other track just has a few seconds on at the end and i'm sure that's because he had to mix all the songs into each other differently than on the EP & because of time constraints

a few seconds off*

he's done a collab with Trus'me on the latter's new album...sounding pretty good from Trus'me's myspace. http://www.myspace.com/trusme

(oh it's also a re-visioning of WasNotWas' 'Wheel Me Out.')

in with a late pass but yeah toeachizown is fuckin rad

free show tonight at Brooklyn Bowl
http://www.brooklynbowl.com/event-detail/?id=1339

mix up on pitchfork - http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/13526-ibeautiful-music-4-beautiful-peoplei-mixtape/

the fader feature mentioned that he was rehearsing w a full band playing his stuff, presumably for a tour

!!!

i don't listen to much instrumental stones throw type ish but dam-funk is like the first dude where i really feel emotion, or at least identify with the emotion - the long, winding, whiny synth lines are so evocative imo

vast and warm funk. good stuff.

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3893&Itemid=104

dam funk picks 5 records

01: ALFREDA JAMES & BILLY RAY - 'BACK TO LOVE'
02: NITE JEWEL - 'WHAT DID HE SAY'
03: SAVANNA - 'NEVER LET YOU GO'
04: MR. FINGERS - 'YOU'RE SOMEONE SPECIAL'
05: HARRY RAY - 'LOVE IS A GAME'

needs to collaborate with Daift Punk...

@damfunk NORWAY: Obama + 'strange' lights seen in the sky on the same day? Now, tell me how fools can't realize that this Tiger biz is a distraction?
5 minutes ago from web

<3 his mad ass

The Nite Jewel track was pretty hot, hope they do more stuff

Nite Funk*

Every time I see the album title I think it's some weird faux-germanic spelling of "Touchdown"

volume 3 is growing on me so much. i love how each volume can be perfect for me depending on the mood i'm in

http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/13910-i-want-to-thank-you-for-steppin-into-my-life-piano-version/

pretty sure this is my fav dam song now

btw rev wtf u r loving dam all over this thread iirc

the fader feature mentioned that he was rehearsing w a full band playing his stuff, presumably for a tour

!!!

― soiceybot (J0rdan S.), Friday, November 6, 2009 12:21 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark

really want to see this

btw rev wtf u r loving dam all over this thread iirc

― vag gangsta (k3vin k.), Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:32 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ahaha rev is who pipecock was talking abt upthread apparently

hahaha

that video is great

I dig him for like one track at a time and don't mind his shit coming up on shuffle, but way too samey to listen to for longer than that.

i should probably try listening to the rest of this guy's output but on the one ep i only like one track particularly, although i LOVE that track (hood pass intact).

the one ep i've heard. jeeeeez

http://www.fuel.tv/TheDailyHabit?bcpid=6051564001&bclid=1390018585&bctid=67020644001#

Dam & live band performing "Mirrors" on some xtreme sports show.

apparently dam has a new song (9 mins!) called "don't let the smile fool u" that passion of the weiss posted but the link is dead now & i didn't see anyone else posting it, so he might've let an exclusive slip by accident or something

seems odd to day this about anybody, but he sings much better live than on record

damn can't find it...looks like it was leaked like feb 6th tho?

he's also produced a track on fatima's new ep (fatima = the girl of shafiq husayn's "lil girl" last year) - it's really gorgeous

LA needs one more blunted 80s revivalist besides funk + nite jewel and i can start pitching a trend story

playing optimo this sunday :O

feeling this joint he produced for fatima

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbzmB6YtmhI

(her whole mind travellin' ep is rather good btw)

xp. I don't even want to think how stowed optimo is going to be since this is the 4th last or whatever.

and it's a bank holiday. I'll be there but it's bound to get ugly

damn, forgot about that, i work daft shifts so don't tend to notice that type of thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLDiUvFeOic&feature=player_embedded

ok that is awesome. what is the OG version?

human league

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1SS7owyLbw

I was serious. Afaik the only Human League songs I've heard before are "Don't You Want Me" and "Human".

being boiled is a tuuune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvJSUNoJdxw&feature=related >>> toeachizown

guess i'm just gonna post live versions of "i wanna thank you" from pitchfork itt

http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/episode/2148-dam-funk/1

hello DâM-FunK fans. some of you may enjoy this:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PepmczULL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Boogies-Gonna-Getcha-80s-New-York-Boogie/release/2063946

Spotify!! : http://open.spotify.com/album/2039uRalDO8WBVoycPnUKK

PPU

http://homepage.mac.com/claymovie/ppu2/_Media/ppu_logo.gif

http://www.stonesthrow.com/uploads/news/c94fd8807fd65ccb61880b8be3628393.jpg

Love this poster.

i believe i shall 'cop' that poster

awesome poster!

this guy is so fucking good

wow! seriously considering buying that

poster is now coppable

bought it :D

Show in LA was awesome. Special guests: Jody Watley and MC Eiht!

you can download the pretty good mc eiht track w vocals i don't love by Steve Arrington of Slave @

http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2010/07/damfunk-mceight-hoodpassintact

my god

drûnk and can't stop listening to DâM-FunK

fam-drunk

This is good music. It makes LA feel even more so

fucking love "hood pass intact," this is a proper summer jam

yeah it's kind of a banger!

shld be rendered "chea!" not "gyeah" imo smh stones throw

http://i32.tinypic.com/25pmsug.jpg

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DaMFunK In the studio now w/ Steve Arrington sound checkin his drums & Teen Inc (Andrew & Daniel) gearing up on guitar & bass. I check my keys next.

best twitterin artist out there imo

DaMFunK Oh well,...Funkin' 4 life!! Peace. #InTheWind.... - D-F DâM-FunK about 19h ago via web

DaMFunK Southeast Asia just let me 'tell my story' & let me 'do my thang' w/o puttin' me in a box. Both sets in Singapore/Jakarta were 2 hrs. Thanx! DâM-FunK about 1d ago via web

DaMFunK *It's my wish that every human on earth hear this entire piece of music at least once in their lives: http://bit.ly/dd9BgB. #Goodnite. - D-F DâM-FunK about 9m ago via web

DaMFunK DâM-FunK
Anyway, back 2 the 'public poll'. I wanna know: Are we 'leaving/checking voice mails' anymore in 2010 or are we going 'strictly text'? Thx.
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DaMFunK DâM-FunK
+ w/ the new 'I'm not checking a voice msg vibe' it now invites the infamous 'text of a number you've never seen B4' on your cell. #TheWorst
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DaMFunK DâM-FunK
Yet, I've always believed in giving as much info as possible, via a detailed 'voice message'. But, it seems we're @ a crossroads w/ v.m.'s.
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DaMFunK DâM-FunK
*Because 2 be honest, my v.m. box has been full for months & haven't checked any for months. The phone company makes 'em 2 hard 2 review.
10 minutes ago

DaMFunK DâM-FunK
Peace. Check it; I'd like 2 begin w/ a simple 'public poll' 2day: Is it STILL cool 2 leave 'voice messages' or just 'text only'? Weigh in.
14 minutes ago

http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/281/121/996/12199632/300x300.jpg

Not sure about it yet - seems like it relies a little too heavily on the whole throwback joke.

seems to rely heavily on the underdeveloped music of a teenager noodling around. stones throw cash-in

So he's working on an album with Slave's Steve Arrington and this 1st single is AMAZING:

http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2011/05/steve-arrington-goin-hard-produced-by-dam-funk

Great track.

The last minute is sublime.

These new projects are 4 U. Unlike others..I don't make music 'just 4 me'. I make it '4 U'. Please stay tuned. [EP: soon. Full length: 2012]
about 3 hours ago via web

yes

that steve arrington song from the last revive is pretty good too

DOWN IN THE TRENCHES BABY, I BE GOIN' HARD

Good news, excited.

Steve Arrington track is fucking genius, can't wait for a whole album worth

Best news I've heard all week!

wow that steve arrington song is great

persecute the funk, oh no, that don't fly with me

http://soundcloud.com/user4438121/angel-reflections-d-m-funk

into this

i would buy a full-length album version of this

he just released a free ep in collaboration with scion. via passion of the weiss: http://passionweiss.com/2011/09/20/dam-funk-inafocuseddaze/

Embarrassingly, I'd never heard of DaM-FunK before this thread got revived. A few sound clips in, a quick trip to the record store to see if they had a copy of the 5-LP Toeachizown box (THEY DID), a few sides deep, and HOLY hell this is brilliant shit. I'm grinning like an idiot at pretty much every single track, and there are still 2 1/2 LPs to go. He makes keyboard pitchbending seem like simultaneously the most elemental and most out-there thing I've ever heard. I kind of feel like if everyone in the world could listen to one of his tracks simultaneously we might be able to achieve world peace.

http://coconutsdisk.com/yoyogi/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/jpdf.jpg

yes

Saw him play in St Louis last weekend.
It was good, he really give his all.

ha I tried to convince a friend to go to that but he had to work

I've only seen him DJ (it was fun)

http://www.waxpoetics.com/blog/dj-mix/a-prince-mix-by-dam-funk

oh man this is gonna own, trying to save it for the weekend tho

http://soundcloud.com/wax-poetics/wax-poetics-presents-a-prince?utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fwax-poetics%2Fwax-poetics-presents-a-prince&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_source=soundcloud#_=

Dam-Funk put together a Prince mix for Wax Poetics, featuring him covering 17 days and a bunch of live stuff/remixes/etc.

Oh shit. Ignore that.

My brain is just not working today. But the mix is worth bumping again. It's A++.

new rec in july apparently

amazing live

@DaMFunK I'm about 2 throw up a ‪#preview‬ from the new LP. Fu*k it. It'll only be up for 30 minutes. And, it's some ‪#Gangsta‬ sh*t! In a minute ya'll.
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fuck!

http://soundcloud.com/damfunk/the-code-d-m-funk-feat-mc-eiht
real nice

that's not bad but i find him a lot less interesting when he's doing straight rap shit like that

IMO the more guest vocalists he gets, the better

great live

i love how the picture at top keeps changing every time the thread gets refreshed

Rare Dâm-Funk interview on collabos and the upcoming singles and album Invite The Light. Including unusual sharp words on 'Niggas In Paris' / Tyler The Creator from 5:30 on

http://www.mixcloud.com/Sterrenplaten/dam-funk-interview-dour-festival-2012

^ Extract from the interview with Damon:

"I'm tired of people making songs like 'Niggas in Paris'. You got millionaires like Kanye and Jay-Z who still have the nerve to use that kind of word and have the whole world running around talking about niggas in Paris. What are you doing? You got millions, fool. What are you doing making my race look bad? You don't ever hear people say 'Kikes in Paris', 'Chinks in Paris', 'Wetbacks in Paris'? So why do you degrade my race and my people? I'm tired of it, I'm not degrading my black people in my music, I won't. I won't be like those other coons doing it right now."

spiritual gospel funk mix by Dam-Funk earlier this month for the Stones Throw podcast. just started playing this morning but it is greeting the morning right

The first installment is also the business: http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2011/12/dam-funk-spiritual-flight-full-unedited-presentation

https://soundcloud.com/stonesthrow/steve-arrington-dam-funk-good/

^ I don't have much to say about this other than the lyrics are hilarious

"10 west" is just the dopest song

7 Days of Funk == luuuuush

Dam Funk is the shit. i'm sure it will be uncool to like him on ILM soon enough.

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pipecock was right i havent checked for him since 2010 :(

not sure if i'll ever listen to another dam funk record but i will always have time for toeachizown

oh guys the Steve Arrington collab is brilliant, this new one with Snoop isn't as brilliant but still sweet, i could live in Damon's woozy head-world forever tbh

streaming on npr

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=247408342&m=247348000

this is pretty great

some hipster dude told me it's better than snoop's first album to which my response was LOL

still it made me excited to hear it

did he actually use the phrase "snoop's first album"

actually, i think he said "early snoop"

it's definitely the best thing (at least that i've heard) that snoop has done in awhile, just because i think dam-funk's sort of drifting clouds of synth funk sort of fit what snoop can do now, just be a sort of amiable presence and do some nice sing-songy routines and stuff

it's real dreamy sounding

yo, you guys heard snoop's FIRST album?

he produced a snoop dogg album?

5 years from now people will be talking shit in this thread

there's still time people

it really seems like a natural pairing, psyched to listen.

ugh not feeling

snoop just needs to make an album with quik or dre or just retire already

I thought Quick retired

he should go play golf with quik

I think he coaches youth football

This is kinda low key nice. Nothing v exciting tho. Every song holds the same tempo, pretty weak drums too. The synths sound super. idk just made me want to listen to the new Dom Kennedy album which I think is in the same lane but much better.

yeah, this starts really well (certainly hearing snoop sound fantastic and urgent in 2013 is a shock, anyway) and ends low-key nice. pleasant little curio to end the year with, i'm happy with it

like deej my 2010 love for d-f has otherwise completely and inexplicably dissipated

I guess DF was always just kind of a dreamy, vibey thing without a lot of substance to me...cumulus clouds of funk, this didn't really feel that different

Always felt like he needed an MC or at least someone else to bring his music into a bit more focus, so I'm looking forward to this.

didn't really like "Faden Away." some moments on this are a little better than that but overall this album is a mild disappointment. snoop's voice doesn't sound very interesting. also they took all the funkiest parts out of "Feels So Real"!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qanbo7-4N3I

I guess DF was always just kind of a dreamy, vibey thing without a lot of substance to me...cumulus clouds of funk, this didn't really feel that different

― My Chief Keef Keef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, December 5, 2013 8:36 AM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah basically the trick lasted for about a year or two for me, scratched an itch, didn't really move anywhere

i think i'm benefitting from only having listened to one of those early mixtapes quite a bit and i kind of forgot so i never really burned out on it

I can totally see that, I'm sure this stuff is as good as the earlier stuff, which seems like the nature of his work in general. there's no risk of failure, really

Its all a little too comfortable for repeat listening.

i'm all about comfort and repetition tbh

then enjoy!

i agree his aesthetic is pretty narrow and unchanging but the guest vocalists he's used add a little salt to the mix and i think the whole thing is designed to create a certain woozy flow as discussed upthread, but you cd also mix this with the harder lockgrooves of classic G-Funk if you wanted

https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/q71/s720x720/1441203_10153535888365063_977275905_n.jpg

photo in the op is a 10/10 classic

Still waiting for his project with Nite Jewel to come to fruition

Nite Funk

Woah Egyptian Lover and Steve Harrington!

Really wish I lived in LA

got the cassingle today

http://www.stonesthrow.com/uploads/news/0523167ab9e0e64770e6941cafec0d3c.gif

dam funk is really fun and cool live

Dâm just posted an old Level 42 track on his Facebook feed <3 <3 <3

Ha, so did I!

Which track?

live verzh of "Waterfalling"

*nods* that's pretty awesome tbh

kind of equivalent of "delightfully unexpected people you admire hanging out together" photo thread

lol he's touring with todd rundgren

!!!

Bizarre

<3 this guy:
https://vimeo.com/28281071

New EP is good too. It sounds like Dâm-FunK

I watch this video at least once a week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjffUs1HbrI

nice

Yes the new one is super funky. And smooth.

Also has a very positive Twitter feed but is a little too verbose.

DON'T GO SWAG

Love that video

Also has a very positive Twitter feed but is a little too verbose.

twitter feed is like groot but with #funk

this dude is sooo amazing

this whole summer i have been looking for what will be my summer music and nothing has been catching, it has been super depressing
then i found dam-funk, i am obsessed with this dude

apparently he's coming to the Independent in SF in awhile, might not be able to pass that up

he is so delightful live, and a really friendly chatty dude

new ep is sooooooo good

this dude is my spiritual center love u all btw yessssssssss

just positive vibes

geniuses

native americans

drums

loooool I've been thinking about posting that for like a week now

Explain?

Lyric from the Steve Arrington "higher" album, "good feeling"

Also outic I read your post too fast!! thought it was jesus native americans drums lol

though if you heard geniuses who ami to argue

also I want some of that bomb german chocolate cake

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otm

His beats are like a little off time or off kilter on occasion, no?

p common w modern r&b ime

http://boilerroom.tv/recording/collections-dam-funk/#/video

HOLD MY CALLS FOR A WEEK I'M VIBING

loving this

It's a good one, always found some good rare tracks in his mixes you won't hear anywhere else.

Besides this record collection thing above, which is so great, he just dropped a little EP called Glyde 2Nite:

https://itun.es/us/ydYF9

https://open.spotify.com/album/2TGHO5ifcg4nxghdAmrPYb

oh damn...the Hood Pass Intact EP is incredible. D-F's stuff is really great I've come to realize but he's better when he works with a vocalist. new album looks to be full of that kinda thing which is a good sign!

loving that mix posted upthread muchas gracias!!!

Dâm seems like the archetypal guy who has figured out how to live

btw http://www.npr.org/2015/08/26/434358222/first-listen-dam-funk-invite-the-light

^^awesome thank you! (still need to hear the mix you posted earlier though)

digging the new album a lot, much more energetic party feel imo, less of the spacier out-there funk of "come on outside" or "searchin 4 funk's future" which are two of my favorite tunes from toeachizown so i'm a little bummed it doesn't quite have that spacey vibe (though "acceptance" on the new one works pretty well)

ariel pink tune is one of the weakest here, pretty much exclusively b/c of ariel lol (and i am a fan of AP at least the pre-before today albums)

new album dj kicks is even more mellow than usuAl

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/damfunkdjkicksalbumartwork.jpg

sweet

I can't keep up w this guy, but he is awesome

Dude is playing the museum of natural history in New York next month. Fap!

Moodymann, now this, DJ Kicks is on a bit of a roll...

this DJ Kicks set is incredible

He just did a 2-track single with Ekkah as well.

"Space Between Us" is the better of the two songs, but "What's Up" is the only one on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ffZOZkq-7w

enjoying the DJ-Kicks, it sounds p much exactly what you would imagine a Dam Funk DJKicks to sound like, which is good.

Surprised there's almost no discussion of "Invite the Light" on here. is it because this thread is hard to search for or are people tuckered out on the dude's sound? I'm on listen #4 now, it gets a bit better each time, the longer tunes like "O.B.E." and especially "Floating On Air" are excellent, I also dig "Surveillance Escape" for its sheer campiness. The Ariel Pink tune pretty much bites it though, I'm afraid.

Thanks for the reminder - slept on that one! The Nite-Funk EP is really nice.

Don't love it as much as Toeachizown or the Steve Arrington joint, but that's just relative points on a scale of stuff I love

wasn't a huge fan of the Arrington album - it is nice but to me it just feels like he's adding lyrics to already-finished D-F tracks, several of which I'm pretty sure were released already. The title track rules though. 7 Days of Funk is pretty nice.

Arrington is such a fun lyricist and I love his voice so I feel like it's his record as much as Damon's. Funkzilla is fine too but just a bit lesser on my scale

I dig his SoundCloud funk better than the albums and I'm not sure why. He's got a recent one up there, "I smoke music"... I mean that's the greatest title ever.

https://soundcloud.com/damfunk/i-smoke-musik

whoaaa I did not see this guy's Soundcloud

anyone happen to catch this album

https://soundcloud.com/music-from-memory/sets/garrett-private-life

I dunno if its "officially" been outed as Dam Funk yet but it definitely is

Nice find

str8 fire beautiful kix
https://soundcloud.com/dkmntl/dekmantel-podcast-184-dam-funk

two thumbs up

keeps the momentum for the whole 3.5hrs too

new EP is dope... reminds me of the old stuff. final 2 mins of "compos mentis" are O_O

Nice, I was just listening to STFU (1) last week

ain't he doing a real studio album this year?

"deeper" is almost his version of minimal techno

I hear Ramona’s voice (in my head) all over “compos”

Digging private life 2 a lot more than vol 1... supreme mellowness

just walked home from the bar in (fucking finally) 79 degree bedstuy jamming the new ep and it may have been a 2019 highlight

“awaiting the light” from private life ii is like the spacey intro to Arnie Love’s “I think I’m out of your life” by Arnie Love stretched out over 5 minutes <3

typo

DJ Kicks set is still out of this world

i highly recommend any and all Moon B records

will check it out, everything on this comp is great but a lot of these artists have only released like two singles

vinyl version is quite a bit different, only 12 tracks but a few of the tracks show up in different versions & it's unmixed so most tracks are like a minute or two longer. "True To Yourself" is like 8 minutes longer

was able to get a copy of Invite the Light for $20. would call it a steal but it looks like most copies are similarly priced. its such a good album too, kind of like his own Songs in the Key of Life in how it stretches his sound to every corner he can take it. packaging is super cool too, ultra shiny, almost like a hologram. all three records are white with different color labels. actually kind of sucks that so many copies are out there, suggests this was a gamble that didn't work. doesn't mean you have to miss out though

Nice one for the collection