thread of DâM-FunK

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.

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