listen to "LAtrifying"
― meme-first attitude (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
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
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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
― heave imho (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 6 August 2009 09:13 (fifteen years ago) link
bass on "10 west" is so sick
― heave imho (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 6 August 2009 09:14 (fifteen years ago) link
these things are so dope too
http://www.stonesthrow.com/uploads/news/5eea2352440f4709b610ff7bcfccba7c.jpg
i want huge ass posters of them all
― heave imho (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 6 August 2009 09:15 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.stonesthrow.com/images/2009/damfunk-shaunbloodworth-2.jpg
― heave imho (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 6 August 2009 09:16 (fifteen years ago) link
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, 6 August 2009 09:18 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― heave imho (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 6 August 2009 09:49 (fifteen years ago) link
seeing him live tonight
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 6 August 2009 10:03 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.stussy.com/april_feature_damfunk.html
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 6 August 2009 10:15 (fifteen years ago) link
"Dam-Funk's debut album Toeachizown will be released this Fall as 5/LP set - two and a half hours of music"
5LP?
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 6 August 2009 10:20 (fifteen years ago) link
i love that egon of all people is putting this sort of stuff out ;)
― heave imho (J0rdan S.), Thursday, August 6, 2009 4:18 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this is a truth bomb
― butthurt (deej), Thursday, 6 August 2009 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link
one for the sticker (real talk not zing)
― butthurt (deej), Thursday, 6 August 2009 14:04 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― butthurt (deej), Thursday, 6 August 2009 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
his music sounds like it couldn't exist before midnight, i'm sure you'll be fine
― Stoked for DinoWaco! (stevie), Thursday, 6 August 2009 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
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 ...
― butthurt (deej), Thursday, 6 August 2009 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 7 August 2009 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
at this point i'm pretty used to having my expectations busted by DJ sets from producers i like
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 7 August 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
jeez glad i downloaded that EP wouldn't want to get in trouble with the autogoon higher-ups!
― moonship ay to bay bay (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 7 August 2009 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
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, 7 August 2009 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
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 for one welcome this new Nazi ILX (Local Garda), Friday, 7 August 2009 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3351/3270043293_d27ec3572c.jpg
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 7 August 2009 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 7 August 2009 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link
― 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
― butthurt (deej), Friday, 7 August 2009 23:50 (fifteen years ago) link
jk r0nan hope u have yr passport
― butthurt (deej), Friday, 7 August 2009 23:51 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― nice! he have the balls to say the truth! (the table is the table), Friday, 7 August 2009 23:55 (fifteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Garda_front.jpg
― I for one welcome this new Nazi ILX (Local Garda), Saturday, 8 August 2009 00:03 (fifteen years ago) link
tie looks good but jacket could be more fitted IMO
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 8 August 2009 00:05 (fifteen years ago) link
i dont give a shit abt 'trainwrecks' though
― butthurt (deej), Saturday, 8 August 2009 00:07 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― I for one welcome this new Nazi ILX (Local Garda), Saturday, 8 August 2009 00:08 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 8 August 2009 00:09 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 8 August 2009 00:10 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― I for one welcome this new Nazi ILX (Local Garda), Saturday, 8 August 2009 00:11 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― nice! he have the balls to say the truth! (the table is the table), Saturday, 8 August 2009 00:14 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― butthurt (deej), Saturday, 8 August 2009 00:25 (fifteen years ago) link
actually I mean the benji b one, I just called it bbc cos he's a bbc dj...
― I for one welcome this new Nazi ILX (Local Garda), Saturday, 8 August 2009 09:36 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― jaxon, Saturday, 8 August 2009 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
omg, he's playing plastic people on 21 oct - CANNOT FUCKING WAIT to hear him on that soundsystem
"candy dancin" is my jam
― lex pretend, Friday, 11 September 2009 08:47 (fifteen years ago) link
can't wait for this shit to come out, bad live show aside ...
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 12 October 2009 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
the pic at the top of the thread changed right?
― plies matters (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 October 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
when i saw him spin live it was super fun -- his stuff sounded better than the boogie he played tho
― i got nothin (deej), Monday, 12 October 2009 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
his remix of that "i should tell ya momma on you" song is brilliant
― lex pretend, Monday, 12 October 2009 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― idyll of october 2009 (k3vin k.), Monday, 19 October 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
"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 :)
― lex pretend, Monday, 19 October 2009 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 19 October 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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