A MESSAGE FROM THE STARS :: B.BRAVO :: KMAXX :: SWEATER FUNK DJ'S

Saturday, November 19th 2011

Sweater Funk Presents

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B. Bravo & The Starship Connection

K-Maxx (KPOO) Live P.A.

Sweater Funk DJs

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Som Bar
2925 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

9 PM til 3 AM
$5 presale / $10 door
21+

Tickets: http://bbravosf.eventbrite.com/

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These are our favorite local homies that we've been digging lately. If you haven't heard B. Bravo & The Starship Connection it's some of the best funk we've heard in a long time. We first heard K-Maxx's tune "Super Drunk" when he passed us a cdr last year at a Dam-Funk show. These are the people we think of when you ask who the funkiest people in the Bay are these days.

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B. Bravo & The Starship Connection

– Bay Area modern funk sorcerer B. Bravo has assembled a crew of intergalactic badmen to form The Starship Connection - a synthesizer funk / future bass quartet featuring Bay Area instrumentalists Teeko (F.A.M.E./FourOne Funk), Daren Grant (Bayonics), and Bob Menacho (Bayonics). Like a space age love-child of Parliament, Zapp and Mtume tinged with modern electronic dance sensibilities, The Starship Connection's colorful sound and genre transcending style is sure to blow your musical mind wide open while you sweat it out on the dancefloor. In addition to playing classic B. Bravo joints like Midnite and Computa Love, the crew performs brand new original bangers live on their dazzling array of analog gear. Their debut EP (Jointly produced by Bravo & Teeko), featuring the massive bounce cut 'The Roll Out' and mid tempo funk-bomb 'More than Just a Dream' is set for release in early 2012 on Frite Nite Records.



K-Maxx

- K-Maxx, aka Ken Hopkins, lives for the music. He's a Bay Area original from San Francisco, who's been involved with artists such as Dan the Automator, Too Short, Lenny Williams (Tower of Power), King Tech (Wake Up Show) and more. Releasing two acclaimed underground albums during the Bay's initial reign in the 90's, K-Maxx began the early 2000's with his seminal "Ghetto Gumbo" radio show which can be heard Friday Nights on KPOO in San Francisco. He returned to the music forefront in 2006, producing for artists like 05' B.A.R.S Underground Artist of the Year, Andre Nickatina and co-writing and producing the hit single "Tuesday" for R&B Legend Lenny Williams, which was recently in the Top 30 Urban AC nationwide. A multi-instrumentalist using many methods to create his soundscapes, K-Maxx draws from a diverse array of influences and experiences to create a truly original sound. K-Maxx is working on releasing a single for his tune "Super Dunk" with the help of Sweater Funk's Sean Boogie. Of course, it'll be on vinyl so you can hear loud in the basement!

SWEATER FUNK WITH DAM FUNK & MASTER BLAZTER

Saturday, November 5 2011

The SF Funk Festival Presents...


... Dam Funk & Master Blazter

Matthew David

Devon Who

The Sweater Funk Crew DJs in the upstairs mezzanine and between bands

@ Mezzanine
444 Jessie (btwn 5th and 6th, behind the Old Mint)

9 PM Doors
$20 Presales: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/64075?utm_source=fb1&utm_medium=amp

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DAM FUNK + MASTER BLAZTER
Known as Los Angeles' "Ambassador of Boogie Funk," Dãm-Funk represents the citizens of the Funkmosphere. Headquartered in the Leimert Park section of L.A., Dãm (pronounced: 'Dame' as in Damon) spent the last few years cultivating a musical renaissance rooted in the early-'80s styles known as Boogie, Modern Soul and Electro-Funk.

Master Blazter demonstrates how the LA modern funk and boogie scene is starting to bubble and boil over. Three musicians with their own distinctive styles have come together to form Master Blazter. Each individual is an integral part of the whole - each necessary to keep funk music alive and drive it to unforeseen heights. Computer Jay develops hard hitting tracks built upon moog, rhodes and personally tweaked electro systems. J1 provides the backbone of rhythm on drums, while equally being comfortable producing quality funk laced beats. D-F adds his signature vocals and provides layers of deep grooves with his own keyboards and keytar.

MATTHEWDAVID
A willowy figure with wide smiles, his gentle presence and generous talents made him a welcome addition to internationally applauded LA creative circles: dublab, Poo-Bah, Low End Theory and Brainfeeder. Constant collaboration with these collectives helped inspire Matthewdavid to a build a platform of his own. His Leaving Records label has an ear to the next and an eye on the original. Through all these outlets Matthewdavid is dedicated to sharing elevated sounds and visions.

Matthewdavid's live performances are akin to watching a sorcerer conjure spirits from the deep. He pulls tones like artifacts from an astral trail that ebbs and flows with fresh discoveries. Along the way Matthewdavid collects exotic sound figures: spiraling amethyst cones and wild flowering buds. He treats each found sound like a bright fiber to be weaved into new waveforms. Outmind pulsates with this sense of constant discovery. It is a mosaic sparkling with mystic, radiant matter.

DEVONWHO
L.A based via Portland producer Devonwho drops some spacey electronic funk vibe of West Coast producers like Dam Funk. He has been making some noise in the West Coast’s thriving beat scene. His set at Portland's Do-Over was said to be "a producer's delight!"

SWEATER FUNK CREW
San Francisco's Sweater Funk crew have been repping boogie, modern soul, and steppers for 3+ years in a tiny basement in China Town. Having hosted and played with heavy international DJs/musicians such as Kon & Amir, Daz I Kue, Onra, Mayer Hawthorne, Dam Funk and Steve Arrington, the crew has been known to rock a party and leave a trail of happy sweaty dancers in their wake.

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