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About Me

Funkpig arean improvisational rhythm-section, based at Hangar 18 studios, a secret location in Birming Ham, England, we create carbon-based funk using live bass and drums with samples and loops triggered in real-time.Between us we have been honing our skills for long enough to get a pension.The joy of midi allows us to make a big sound - playing lead and synths from the bass guitar and vocal samples, keys, brass, percussion and anything we like from the drumkit and drumkat. All live.The music is intended to be modular and constantly evolving. Sometimes this gets recorded, sometimes tweaked, often neither. When it does its a kind of musical snapshot. This gets mixed and released as free downloads via our website www.funkpig.com.We also work as session musicians and a freelance rhythm section.But mainly we just like getting Foinky.

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Member Since: 09/09/2006
Band Website: www.funkpig.com
Band Members: Mark Hartley - Bass & midi, and Minal P Minal - Drums & midi. We also have a crew of other collaborators who join us onstage and in the studio, these include: Fin - Vocals, Aunty Paul - Guitar and midi, Swivel - Swivelling, Laura Ige - Vocals, Steve Owen - Keys, Chuckie - Guitar, Phroyter - Phroyterage, Swerve and Switch - Decks, Gemma T - Vocals, Alvin Ewan - Saxamophone... and a cast of thousands.
Influences: Bill Hicks, Mark Thomas, Johnny Dawes, John C.Lily, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Ray Harryhausen, George Lucas, Rob Bottin, Dick Smith , John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman-Hunt, Seymour- Powell. Oh, yeah and anything thats good music.
Sounds Like: You tell us....? Some people have said Lamb, Moloko, Zero 7, Tackhead, Junglefunk, A Certain Ratio, The Doobie Brothers, Chick Corea, Portishead, Prince, Propellerheads..... Feel free to suggest some others!
Record Label: Unsigned, own release cds and free downloads

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At last

So finally we got around to putting ourselves on myspace. Dragged kicking and screaming into the new millenium albeit a few years late. If only we'd done this last year we'd have got the 'funkpig' URL...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 10:07:00 GMT