AND A LOT MORE OF THE MUSIC I'VE (co-)WRITTEN
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POLYCYMAKERS DUB
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Evening, late
Temperature's high
Basslines pulsing in the mind
Images of coloured clouds pass by
He is
Lying on his bed
Spaced out,
Can hardly move
Spotlight, blue
Klaus on the turntable
Wow and flutter
Gentle trance
Arpeggio after arpeggio
Alpha waves keep slowing down.
poem by jah Funkey, dec 2006MUSICJah Funkey started making music around 1987. He first played in a band called "the Soap" which evolved into a band called "Oortcloud" (the original one founded in 1990) first with Chris Lybeert, later with David van Belleghem ("Savana Station", "Agent Cooker" , "Dela Vega"...), Kris Van Daele, Alan de Boeck ("Galanjah"), Christophe van den Hende ( "Los Bastardos del Bronco" ) and sometimes Fifi, Jens and Natasha.
An impression of an Oortcloud live jam, brussels 1995
Oortcloud getting ready for a gig, spring 1995 Leuven
Oortcloud : Open Di Gate + Dubious Dub, March 21, 1995 at Leuven
Oortcloud, 1995 Herzele Belgium, playing Trancesensidance
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Jah Funkey also was ocasionaly asked to play synths on other bands CD's like "Living Dead Girls" from the Sint-Niklaas Band "Orgasmaddix" (with Jan d'Hooghe ("Vive la fète","ringel-S", "Implant","Crash 32", "Spacca",...)
Jah Funkey also had a solo project called "Colour Dot" (1997) and coöperated with Sint-Niklaas poët Norbert de Beule (winner Oost-Vlaamse Poëzieprijs 2006) on a project called "Het Stenen Tijdperk" (The Stoneage)(2001). This was together with "I.O.M"., jah Funkey's Project with David Bauwens("Mr Bones"), Sven van Mol("Djamel"), Inne van de Velde, Bram van Meervenne("Sunscape") and also with David Colman("Nailpin", "As You Like it") and Pieter Vandeveire (who played bass on the "Björk" tour that year).
Listen to "Het Stenen Tijdperk" (The Stoneage) by clicking on one of the songtitles in teh player below.
Jah Funkey has had an influence on the local music scene, that cannot be underestimated. For a while he was one of the driving forces behind the local radiostation "Radio Progres", where people like Mark and Alex Callier(Hooverphonic), Jan D'hooghe (ringel-S, Orgasmaddix), Miguel Defontaines (Doodt Illegaal, Airunseth), Michiel van Poucke (Agent Coocker), Bert Cornelis (Sitarplayer) , Rodrigo Fuentealba (Gabriel Rios) and many more met each other and contributed to the broadcasts, or had their own shows.
Jah Funkey's house also has been and still is a rehearsal place for various bands (most recently Savana Station). Together with Michiel van Poucke, Jah Funkey started "The Higher Grow Recording Studio", where local bands recorded their demo's and CD's ( amongst others :"Ail Fion", "Orgasmaddix", "Oortcloud", "Sunscape",...
Jah Funkey did visuals and lightshows for bands as well. First for "The Weirdo's", later for Oortcloud and Sunscape (at Vooruit, De Singel, Sfinx Festival, Hove Live, ...).
JAH FUNKEY'S INVOLVEMENTS
From 1983 till 1986, Jah Funkey's owned a café at Sint-Niklaas (Funky's). He also was very active in all kinds of associations like "De Prins" (youthclub), "Clichee" (youthclub, now called "OJC Kompas"), "The Greenroom" (meeting space), "Het Pandjen" (recycling store, with Marina Verhelst), and from 2001 till 2005 :"Mix" ,"Roze Waas"and "Holebifederatie" , etc etc
Some other, unacomplished projects were "Several Species" with Jan van den Berghe, Stefan van Uytvanck (Nico van Gendt project, Bastard Nation), Nordine and Mustafa Ketami("Mighty Sunscape", "Grasjas"," Skarabian Skwad"),and Cloud 99, with Dries van Meervenne ("Dizzy") and Wesley"Gordon and Veronica" Ferket ("Evil Twins",) etc, etc... In 2006, Jah Funkey enters a remixcompetition ("Brussels By Night" by Raymond van het Groenewoud ),and was one of the 4 finalists, out of 64 entries (chosen by Stijn, Buscemi, Styrofoam and Lefto,...) Jah Funkey also has a small contribution in the short film "Koffiebreek", by Torino Schiettecatte (the film is nominated out of more than 200 entries for the "One Minute Film and sound Awards 2006).
JAH FUNKEY NOW
2007In 2007 Jah funkey has written some new dubs together with Bram van Meervenne. He also made a video clip for Ringel-S together with Torino Schiettecatte (viewable below), and some other video's. For the first time since 2001, he's also back on stage for a jamsession with Christophe van den Ende and Jan Van den Berghe at an open air party at Belsele.
2008 April 2008, jah Funkey makes his most recent song "the news factor".
June 2008, jah Funkey was asked (amongst many others) by Carlos Dyckmans to do 2 remixes for the forthcoming Koala remix album. "Easily I Clectically" is an ambient dubversion of "Easy Reading", and "Lost My Shadow" is a dubby version of "Shadowland" (the latter with David van Belleghem (drums), Jo Hermans (trumpet) and Vincent Brijs (bariton sax) . These mixes will soon be available at "I Tunes".
jah Funkey is currently starting to work on a new live set (still looking for musicians).
MORE INTERESTSNext to Jah Funkey's musical interest, he's also into graphical design, 3d design, drawing and painting, video editing, writing, etc, etc...
jah Funkey studies interior design at the Sint-Niklaas Arts Academy (his teachers are Luc Ramael (interior architect and designer (he's created some amazing lamps and furniture) and Peter Vandecapelle (architect))
As Jah Funkey believes in the power of art, he's hoping to create something meaningfull one day, and thus contibute in his own modest way to a better and again progressing world... (Jah Funkey 's got the feeling we're progressing backwards...)
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