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Funk-Punk-Ben

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I like to eat stuff and dance.I DJ punk funk. You should come and spazz out with me sometime, if you are so inclined.

Upcoming parties:
RSVP here

My Interests

modern art makes me want to rock out.

I'd like to meet:

Disco Punk kids from all over South Africa.

Any African musicians that are trying to create something genuinely new.

Punk-funk, electro-rock, space-disco and indie-dance bands/producers and labels; I am always looking for new stuff to DJ and would love to hear from you.

If your an international act making music that cannot be beat-mixed, I am not interested in getting a random request from you.

I am quite content with the post-rock, indie-pop, freak-folk, psych-rock and shoegaze bands that I already love and don't need to know about anymore, thank you.

I am even less interested in the thousands of bands out there churning out crappy metal, pop-punk, trip-hop, stoner-rock, nu metal, hard rock and hip-hop.

If you make crap music and randomly add me you will land up here. so everyone can see how sad and pathetic you are.

Music:

These South African bands:
Kidofdoom, Martian Martian, GO! TEAM, Green is for Turbo, Desmond and The Tutus, Unit R, Us Kids Know, Moranga, Eat This Horse, The Beams, Wild Eyes, Karr Disco, Foxtail, Rhino Shirt, My Skip Rope Team, Model C.

These Labels:
DISCHORD!!! MODULAR!! FRENCHKISS! DFA, Paper Bag, Saddle Creek

These Places:
WASHINGTON DC!!! Williamsburg NYC

THIS PUNK FUNK!!!:
Q and not U, New Young Pony Club, !!!, Whitey, ESG, The Rapture, Supersystem/El Guapo, Proffesor Murder, Paradise Boys, Klaxons, LCD Soundsystem, Disco Drive, The Gossip, Who Made Who, Gang of Four, A Certain Ratio, Tom Vek, The Slits, Radio 4, The Teenagers, Hot Chip, Adem Kesher, Foals, History Invades

This Spazz:
Enon, The Dismemberment Plan, So Many (Fucking!) Dynamos, Les Savy Fav, Thunderbirds Are Now!, Black Eyes, Le Tigre, Call Me Lightning, Brainiac, Hidden Chord, Apes, Martini Henry Rifles, Polysics

This Electro Rock: MSTRKRFT, Robots in Disguise, The Faint, Electrocute, Passions, Van She, Presets, Cut Copy

This Space:
Lindstrom, Delorean, Sorcerer, Prins Thomas, Thieves Like Us

This Post Rock:
Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies, Tortoise+Explosions+Godspeed+Mogwai=obviously, Do Make Say Think, Six Part Seven

Shouty:
Mae Shi, Plot to Blow Up the Eifel Tower, Racebannon/ Rappider Than Horsepower, Blood Brothers, Lost Penguin, Mewithoutyou

Mathy:
Battles, The Advantage, Don Cabalero

Awesomey:
ISLANDS!!! Saturday Looks Good To Me!! Ratatat! Ris Paul Ric, The Shins, Annuals, Elliot Smith, RJD2, Modest Mouse, The Evens, Firebird Band, Broadcast, Beauty Pill, Sleater Kinney, Giant Drag, The Go Team!, Nouvell Vague

The Williamsburg Holy Trinity:
YYYs! LIARS! TVOTR!

So last millenium:
PINK FLOYD!!! FUGAZI!! Zombies, James Brown, Can, Portishead, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Bikini Kill, Neu, Beach Boys, PJ Harvey, Syd Barret

These SA DJs:
King of Town, Data Takashi, The Brothers Grimm, Dario, Young Smuts, Philip Davies, Strack, DJs Pam, DJ Dexterity, Easy Tiger.

These Producers:
DFA, Erol Alkan, Tomboy, Linus Loves, Paul Epworth/ Phones, Dsico, Wierd Science, Mike Moggis, Jaque Le Cont/ Paper Faces/ Stuart Prince/ Thin White Duke, Kissy Sellout, Jagz Kooner

...AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD!!!

Movies:

Linklater, Hitchcock, Kubrick

Documentaries:
Instrument, Dig, I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, Burn to Shine I II III

Television:

Invader Zim, Look Around You, Sealab 2021, The Simpsons, The Office, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, League of Gentlemen, Mr Show, Six Feet Under, Cowboy Bebop, The Smoking Room

Books:

Love and Vonnegut and Rockets.

Heroes:

L.E.S.S.A.V.Y.F.A.V!
L.E.S.S.A.V.Y.F.A.V!
L.E.S.S.A.V.Y.F.A.V!

My Blog

Get ready to ignite!

First up - this is the same note I have just posted on Facebook. Yes, since my last blog on myspace I have joined Facebook - I was super reluctant, considering I came to myspace for the bands. Still w...
Posted by Funk-Punk-Ben on Tue, 29 May 2007 01:59:00 PST

Worst bands that have added me! UPDATED!

Okay, I'm pretty sick and tired of horrible bands, labels and producers adding me. Why, when I display absolutely no interest in the genre anywhere on my profile do abysmal nu-metal bands keep adding ...
Posted by Funk-Punk-Ben on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 04:20:00 PST

History Invades!

So the long weekend has been pretty cool.Friday - Green is for Turbo - Man I love them kids. Thier new songs are just to great. And they played a Trail of Dead cover. And I was very happy indeed.Satur...
Posted by Funk-Punk-Ben on Wed, 02 May 2007 07:38:00 PST

Get on the dancefloor it's a direct hit!

So this Saturday night, some pretty crazy stuff went down...For well over a year Paul and I have been discussing this idea - take Erlend Øye's "Singing DJ" bit, but instead of adding  pretty Norw...
Posted by Funk-Punk-Ben on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:50:00 PST

what looks like a cute squirell, flies like a bird and makes cool noises?

yesterday I went through to Pretoria to reherse The Critical Hits. Such fun and sounding too cool. Johnny Neon are gonna be in this months blunt magazine - it goes on sale on Saturday - WAYUH!Bat Powe...
Posted by Funk-Punk-Ben on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:27:00 PST

Good weekend!

My first weekend back home was too cool!When I arrived back in Jozi on Thursday, I must admit I was vaguely depressed. Difficult to put my finger down on why, but I think it was walking through the Ca...
Posted by Funk-Punk-Ben on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:08:00 PST

Home. Home agin.

I'm home! After three weeks away from my beloved punk funk city I am back. I've just gotten home from playing the late set at Tokyo star, sitting in my studio, sipping tea from one of my twee kitten m...
Posted by Funk-Punk-Ben on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:40:00 PST

I am in Stellenbosch!!!

So if anyone has been wondering why I've been so outta action on myspace - I've been in Stellenbosch since last Thursday :) it's been way to cool, nging out with super cool kids and having the most ch...
Posted by Funk-Punk-Ben on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:57:00 PST

ultra mega photo blog deluxe

Okay so over the past 3 weeks so much has gone down and I've hardly had the time to write about them all - bad Ben. Most importantly our city has been visited by two AWESOME bands from Cape Town - Eat...
Posted by Funk-Punk-Ben on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:22:00 PST

Sovereign Acdemy... I love you.

My set last night at Sovereign Academy was the most fun I've had in absolute ages! Thanks so much too all of you kids that faced the insane heat of that dancefloor and spazzed out with me - you were a...
Posted by Funk-Punk-Ben on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:13:00 PST