Funky Friday: Psychedelic Space Funk
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So, here's my contribution for funky friday. As I'm nearly collapsing under my current work load, I have to take a musical break from now to then, exploring my favorite online record stores just to keep alive. This week I stumbled thereby over the label "Melting Pot Music" in Cologne. They are quite new (five years), were founded by a guy named DJ Olski - apparently a big one in the HipHop scene from Cologne. He is also member of "Soulstrut":http://www.soulstrut.com - a site, I got aware of though the "post of burningdervish":http://mog.com/burningdervish/blog_post/77606.Thanks again burningdervish for that site, if you should happen to read this - the mix of DJ Staffro is still rotating heavily in my playlist. They are specialized on HipHop and Funk. I'm citing now their "About" page, not having to repeat all that stuff:
" Melting Pot Music was founded in 2002 by Oliver "Olski" von Felbert, a DJ, music activist and former Groove Attack / Superrappin A&R from Cologne, Germany. The first commercial release was a 45 single by Lefties Soul Connection from Amsterdam. 500 copies pressed and sold-out within three weeks.Some four years later MPM is the home of artists like DJ Day, A-ko, Devil McDoom, Hawkeye, Le Scratchfunk, Upskiboo and Imperial Breed. The MPM sound is rooted in hip-hop (culture) and the artists come from all the place (Amsterdam, Palm Springs, Kopenhagen, Paris, Hamburg...). MPM is taking the old to the new and we have just begun! " (end of citation)
If found them via "Tunes":http://www.tunes.co.uk and they seem to be a real burner for this record shop - musically as commercially. My favorite HipHopper from that label is the U.S. American "A-ko":http://mog.com/Hermes/blog_post/87164, which I presented to you yesterday. Today I want to show you my favorite funk artist from that label up to now, who's from Tel Aviv (Israel) and his name is Kutiman
I heard his tracks on Tunes and had to buy them immediately - couldn't wait until I can afford the vinyl. As I'm not the big funk specialist I just tagged the artist as Tunes did: Psychedelic Space Funk. I have no idea, if this is appropriate, I leave it up to you to find a better category or to be happy with that. I just love his style and I must have heard those tracks until now up to 30 times. The singles are available on vinyl only, but they have two compilations out with their label artists and both tracks, you can hear here. I would have prefered to get those, 'cause I hardly found a bad track on them. But they are not available via emusic, so I had to stick to the singles. Enjoy the space ride.
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