Jay Funk Dawg

that felt good! enjoy! I'm out to Waterloo for Wassabi Collective at the Starlight.. sweet!

http://www.toronto.com/bars_clubs/article/509642

I was hoping for some type of Zuul or Gatekeeper type question.

here's the pre and after rheostatics poster.. also fyi

i miss Driftwood music... oh the tapes I've bought there...

whoa! I'm super pissed I'll have to miss this one! Congrats for getting the CD out... ... now all hell is going to break loose for you guys!

$10 advance

thanks LUKE!

naming the tunes doesnt do it justice cause A-skillz mashes them beyond recognition. check it out. THIS IS FUNK. Lets Start the show intro Jurassic 5 ultramagnetic mc's Do whatcha like digital underground footloose james gang a-skillz mix sound of the police dont stop the beat WICKED 70's funk interludes Trickatechnology A-skillz/Krafty Kuts funky drummer James Brown remix Give the drummer some We got the groove we got the sound we got the vibe www.breakbeats.ca/mif/as.mp3

To each their own. I like 'em.

MAKE IT FUNKY PRESENTS MIF's 2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION!! Featuring DJ A-SKILLZ (Finger Lickin, UK) www.myspace.com/dja-skillz Listen to the new A-Skillz Mix Here!: www.breakbeats.ca/mif/AS.mp3 wordPEOPLE(7 Piece Hip Hop Funk Collective) www.myspace.com/wordpeoplemusic Also featured on this massive lineup: BIG LEAGUE CHU (Make It Funky) www.bigleaguechu.com ROBB G (Make It Funky, Promo Records) www.promorecords.ca JAMIE KIDD www.JamieKidd.com ZIRCA (Make It Funky, Mixed Bag) www.djzirca.com DAVE DUB (Make It Funky) FARBSIE VS SUNPREDICTABLE (Make It Funky) www.myspace.com/makeitfunky Mickey D (Make It Funky) Taro (Make It Funky) REVERB, 651 Queen St. W , Toronto, ON TICKETS $15 advanced more at the door get your tickets early this one will be big! Tickets available at: Rotate This, Play De Record, Sonic Temple, Sound Scapes, 2TheBeat, Shanti Baba and www.ticketweb.ca ROAR PLUR 10PM - 4AM A-SKILLZ Adam 'A.Skillz' is one of Sussex's most talented beatmeisters. At just 23 years of age, Adam has been producing music and DJing for more than five years. Since starting out playing drums in the rock band Sabio, which for several years took him on regular tours across Europe, Adam has fast gained a reputation for himself as studio wizard, musical maestro and tantalizing turntablist. His incredible deck talents involve fusing funk, hip-hop and breaks with his own style of highly innovative scratching and sampling, and have won him prime-time slots across the UK including FabricLive, Ministry of Sound, The Apollo, 93 Feet East and Chew The Fat in London; Supercharged, The Boutique, Catskills, Ocean Rooms and The Event in Brighton and Blowpop in Bristol, as well as gigs across the world playing at major events and music industry parties such as the Hit Factory Studio (New York) and Transmusicales Festival (France). A.Skillz has also been a busy boy in the studio with his impeccable engineering talents being utilised by high profile labels such as Defunked, Arista, Curious Records and Planet Funk. He also co-produced the flip to the UK No.1 smash hit "Breathe" by Blu Cantrell with fellow producers Ed Funk & D Rok, as well as "Feel The Love" with Funk n' Flex. Adam has also mixed and engineered compilations for the UK's leading dance music magazine Mixmag, and has written and produced tracks for pop groups T-Girl and Tribe. Over the past two years, Mr Skillz has been working in the studio with a certain other Brighton breakbeater and scratchmaster: Finger Lickin's very own Krafty Kuts, producing their highly acclaimed album "Tricka Technology". With a nod towards De La Soul, Ugly Duckling, Gorillaz and Jurassic 5, it is true Finger Lickin' Funk, and the future certainly looks bright for these two! Enlisting the talents of some of the world's best hip-hop and funk artists including Kurtis Blow, Real Elements and Ashley "Freakpower" Slater, the duo have created an album that just oozes a summertime vibe full of hip-hop beats, party licks, deck tricks and spontaneous skits. He is currently working on his first solo artist album which will see him team up with DJ partner Krafty Kuts as well as other major names for some seriously hot collaborations! You read it hear first: you'll be seeing plenty more of the amazing Skillz in the future! wordPEOPLE www.myspace.com/wordpeoplemusic Sometimes timing is everything. Driven by the common objective to assemble an all-live manifestation of a love for beats, rhymes and life, wordPEOPLE was formed in summer of 2003.The band's desire to record the material that had matured in front of live audiences materialized when 91.5fm The Beat hosted the "Rhythm of the Future Showcase" in Kitchener, Ontario. An outstanding performance of original music earned wordPEOPLE first prize in the group performance category and $18, 000 in studio time. The resulting recording, a five song EP entitled Vol. 1: PLAYONWORDS, musically and thematically fulfills the emcee's lyrical declaration; it is a mix of "the physical and digital, the sensible and whimsical". With current online distribution through Maple Music, wordPEOPLE is poised to continue the soul mission to make music that satisfies the mind and body. wordPEOPLE's positive vibe and live instrumentation is at the heart of their ability to entertain audiences of all ages and musical interests. wordPEOPLE has garnered the attention of festival promoters, propelling the act into the public eye at such events as the Nike "Who Runs This Town?" rock festival in spring of 2005. In the same year wordPEOPLE was well received at the 2005 Oakville Jazz Festival, where festival-goers eagerly embraced the contemporary urban sounds alongside a line-up of traditional jazz ensembles. More recent dates have seen wordPEOPLE share the stage with God Made Me Funky, Mr. Something Something, Ike Turner, The Pocket Dwellers, K'naan, Sekoya and Nick Ali's GruvAsylum. Currently recording their first full-length offering set for release in mid-March 2007, wordPEOPLE continues to perform for steadily increasing and receptive crowds, proudly delivering carefully crafted Canadian urban music. THANK YOU! What an incredible two years for the fledging collective! Make it Funky has raised the bar in Toronto by putting the party back in party. The collective has focused on introducing new acts and old favorites to the Toronto scene and has developed a loyal following. Some of the outstanding acts presented to date include: DJ Krafty Kuts (Brighton, UK), Afrika Bambaata (NYC), Malente (Hamburg, Germany) Freddy Fresh (Mineapolis), DJ Czech (Vancouver, BC), Mat The Alien (Whister, BC), Greg J (San Francisco, CA), Vinyl Ritchie (Victoria), Fort Knox Five (Washington, DC), Wax Romeo (Calgary, AB), Smalltown DJs (Calgary, AB), All Good Funk Alliance (Washington, DC), MC Killa Kella (London, UK), The Jimmy Swift Band (Halifax, NS), God Made Me Funky (Toronto, ON), King Sunshine (Toronto, ON), High Plains Drifter (Toronto, ON), Chameleon Project (Toronto, ON), Moses Mayes (Winnepeg, MB), Kobayashi (Montreal, PQ)... and the list goes on! And it all started by a group of fans who had the foresight and determination to bring the Canadian underground funk scene & burgeoning international mid-tempo break scenes together, re-definining dj & live events in Toronto. We would like to take a moment to thank all our fans and supporters who have come out to make Make It Funky what it has become. We could not do it without your unwavering support.

Booche, Maybe you could eloborate on your stance that Slowcoaster does only 2 chords vamp songs with no hooks and are dull as sh!t.

can't go.. wasssabi for me!

ok... I'm hyping the show next Friday... here's some thing to get you psyched: Stream / Download the following: Wassabi Collective live @ EVOLVE FESTIVAL 2006 http://www.archive.org/details/wc2006-08-05 Wassabi Collective live @ SHAMBALA 2005 http://www.archive.org/details/wc2005-8-14.sbd.flac16 Wassabi Collective live @ MAVERICK's in OTTAWA 2007 http://www.archive.org/details/wc2007-03-09.oktava.shnf

havin' a listen this this now... sounds like GTB are re-inveting themselves again! thanks for posting this Brad!

things are looking big!

I hope that wasn't the last show..!!

Slowcoaster still have a long way to go, and I think that the CD they are about to drop is going really blow up their profile in Canada. Some of the sounds I'm hearing out of Sloco include: Hot Hot Heat, The Clash, Shane MacGowan, Sublime & Strokes... plus enough Cape Breton folk tradition to kill ya laughin'.

close... I wish I had a webcam to document this...

...guess who is over for dinner! LOL!

updated listing...

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whether it's 2 chords or 3 chords, Slowcoaster always keeps it engaging... which in my opinion is the most important part of a live performance. Dima, you didn't mention the shoot the boot part!! lol! Great to see you there. Slowcoaster rulez.

I wish we could have linked these two shows.. . FUSSY PART > VANDERPARK > GTB > SLOWCOASTER ...could have been a mega show! In ode to the Bus, we played some of GTB's first album at the end of the night at the El Mo.