DJs Z-Trip & Qbert Headline Make It Funky's 10 Yr Finale May 16th at The Phoenix

[Jay Funk Dawg]

 

The Masters Series Presents 

in association with NuFunk, Activate & Rockpile Events 

Make It Funky's 10 Year Anniversary Finale
Saturday, May 16th, 2015, 9:30PM
DJ Z Trip (Champion Sound, LA) & DJ QBert (Thud Rumble, SF)
plus
The Gaff (Saskatoon, SK),
KC Roberts & The Live Revolution  (Toronto 9 pc live funk act) 

& special guest Phatt Al (of God Made me Funky)
The Phoenix Concert Theatre - 410 Sherbourne St., Toronto
Doors at 9:30pm
Tickets available at Ticketweb.ca, Soudscapes & Play De Record.
sponsored by Moog Audio, Kops Records, Slammin' Media & Fusicology 

 

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With over 80 installments, Make it Funky Toronto's Funk, Breaks & Bass production team goes out with a bang with their final party featuring Z-Trip, best known as a pioneer of the mashup movement and an award-winning global DJ (2009 recipient of the "America's Best DJ Award), the only DJ to headline SARS stock in Toronto where he played to 400,000 fans and who currently serving as the tour DJ for rap legend LL Cool J is joined by "The Jimi Hendrix of Turntables," DJ QBert, who gained fame as a DMC competition-winning battle jock and as one-fifth of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz DJ crew (w/ Bestie Boy's Mix Master Mike) and was the 2010 recipient of the "America's Best DJ Award.  In addition The Gaff, Canada's turntable wizard come back to Toronto after his debut performance opening for DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist's Renegades of Funk Tour opener plus Toronto's very own funk-rockers KC Roberts & The Live Revolution who are hot on the heals of their brand new release "Parkdale Funk 2 sides" and brand new video "Drift Away".

 

 

DJ Z-Trip (Champion Sound, LA)

http://djztrip.com/

 

Z-Trip is often referred to as a young Rick Rubin. His roots are based in Hip Hop, but he covers and loves all music styles. Considered by many as the godfather of mash-ups, his style of mixing and producing reaches way beyond that. Z-Trip received the award for America’s Best DJ and still remains on the top 10 lists year after year. He has collaborated with some of the very best to ever do it: Nas, Bassnectar, Public Enemy, DJ Shadow, Rakim, Shepard Fairey, Talib Kweli and many others.

As a performer, Z-Trip is one of the very few able to play traditional festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, SXSW and Australia’s Big Day Out, as well as the EDM circuit. His Electric Daisy Carnival and Electric Zoo sets were both festival highlights.

Z-Trip also remixed tracks for Nirvana, The Beastie Boys, Dead Weather and The Jackson 5 to name a few. Most recently, he collaborated with Lee Scratch Perry to rework Bob Marley’s classic “Punky Reggae Party” and with Brillz for Jay Z’s hit “Dirt Off Your Shoulder”.

No stranger to TV, Z-Trip performed alongside LL Cool J, Chuck D, Tom Morello and Travis Barker closing out the 2013 Grammy Awards. He has also appeared on Jimmy Fallon, Carson Daly and Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Z-Trip’s work with film is equally diverse, having scored music for the documentaries “Infamy”, “Scratch All The Way Live” and “Bob Marley: Legend remixed”. His music and scoring have also been featured in the movies “Battle of the Year”, “Warrior” and “Small Soldiers”. Most recently Z-Trip was the music supervisor and composer on the Documentary “La Bare” directed by Joe Manganiello.

 

 

 

DJ QBert (ThudRumble, SF)

http://djqbert.com/

 

DJ QBert, born Richard Quitevis, is widely regarded as the most highly skilled skratching dj that has walked this planet. His long-standing career of innovating the DJ culture has set off a worldwide generation of DJs who are now regarded as musicians and not just DJs that play records, from A-Trak to Craze to C2C to Z-Trip; they would testify to DJ QBert’s influence in their sound and successful careers.

DMC World Championship appearances since 1991-1994 gave global exposure to DJ QBert’s unbelievable skills and performances. Since then no other has matched his command of the DJ scene on and off the turntables. Hailed as the ambassador of skratching for today and to the future, he has been recognized by his peers as innovating more styles and systems of skratching. He comes from the era of experimental battle DJs who in the mid-90’s gave shape to the infinite sounds of 2 turntables and skratching vinyl. Honorably knighted “Grandmixer” by legendary pioneer GrandMixer DXT. An honor dignified by hip-hop’s most hallowed Knighting tradition; securing his place as one of hip-hop’s living legends. 

As a founding member of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz, he has been the focus of two major documentary films Scratch and Hang The DJ, both of which were selected at Cannes and Sundance Film Festival. DJ QBert’s acclaimed first album, Wave Twisters was reverse engineered from sound into visuals also becoming his first feature film, which was also selected into the Sundance Film Festival.

Through his partner Yogafrog and company Thud Rumble, QBert has been able to expand his influence in the culture; designing and releasing innovative DJ products, collaborating with the most successful DJ companies in the industry seeking his stamp of approval, teaching on his online DJ school QBert Skratch University, appearances in various video games including DJ Hero 2 and doing post -production for the animated feature Turbo. 

His latest albums, which started as a Kickstarter project, is the most successful hip-hop project to date and Top 20 all-time music project on the popular crowdfunding platform. Partnering with iTunes, Morning Breath Inc. and Novalia UK, DJ QBert will be  changing the way music albums are presented. The possibilities are endless as the culture continues to grow far and wide with DJ QBert leading the way.

 

More about Make it Funky

 

Founded in 2005 by Bryan "Farbsie" & Jay Cleary, Make it Funky Collective set out to create a semi-monthly party series to explore a global phenomenon of turntablism, mash-ups & the funkier side of all things breakbeat.  Over the past 10 years Make it Funky has brought together cutting edge DJ & live line-ups for an inclusive, positive, fun vibe.  Make it Funky's mission has always been hell bent on bringing the best of funk, breaks, hip hop, and beat-driven live music to the masses. Just a few of Make It Funky's many highlights over the past 10 years include sold out shows with: DubFX, Beardyman, Grandmaster Flash w/ Afrika Baambaataa, Z-Trip, Breakestra w/ DJ Stickybuds, Krafty Kuts & A.Skillz, Lee Fields & The Expressions, The Herbaliser, Fort Knox Five, Mat the Alien, DJ NuMark (of Jurrasic 5), Ursula 1000 w/ Thievery Corporation, DJ Swamp (Beck's DJ) w/ Tittsworth and DJ QBert...  In addition to globetrotting DJs, the series has hosted Canada's top bands and DJs including Five Alarm Funk, God Made Me Funky, Soul Motivators, KC Roberts & The Live Revolution, King Sunshine, Skratch Bastid, Big League Chu, DJ Illo, Keener, Marcus Visionary, Marty McFly and more.

[Jay Funk Dawg]

This Saturday!