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Phoneyz Phavez
A Compilation with Music for Nerds by DJ Phoney
01 Mr. Kato feat. Lionel Wharton “Keeping it raw”
02 International Criminal “Lies”
03 Ernest Drake & Drumboy “So kalt”
04 DJ Flea “Life..s boring”
05 Fangkiebassbeton “Yo! DJ”
06 DJ Phoney feat. Rich “Staatenlos”
07 Mr. Kato feat. Steer M. “Lass uns geh..n”
08 Timon Lee “Titanic”
09 DJ Phoney feat. Eduardo “Mr. Politiker”
10 DJ Phoney feat. Cheese & Highsnow “The Globe”
11 EmCee Lynx “Throw your Hands up”
12 DJ Phoney feat. Stephanie Standerwick “Funny”
13 Paul Smith “Useless Life”
14 Till Stellmacher “Eine Tonne Moderne”
15 Three And A Quarter „Joylin“
16 Dub Sea “The Scales fell from my Eyes”
This compilation-CD you might be listening to right now was put together by DJ Phoney during the last two years. It contains songs that were chosen out of a few hundred tracks.
DJ Phoney did lots of collabos within those 24 months – so some of the material on this release are direct collaborations. During the work with these artists Phoney listened to what feels like a million songs by all musicians that crossed his path. Judged by his personal taste the best of these tracks are put together on this compilation.
Musically a pretty wide range is covered: oldschool and newschool of abstract beats and electro glued together in the opening track “Keeping it raw” by Mr. Kato feat. Lionel Wharton, the bold breakbeats of Ernest Drake reworking a Drumboy-track basis on “So kalt”, Lo-Fi Post-Waverock on Till Stellmachers “Eine Tonne Moderne”, the dubby song “Mr. Politiker” by Reggae-singer Eduardo and DJ Phoney, the pumping aggressive and danceable clubtrack “Life..s boring” by DJ Flea, a good dosis of rootsy Reggae meeting Rock with “Joylin” by Three And A Quarter to the soulful Pop of Timon Lee..s “Titanic” and the supersmooth grooving Hip Hop-track “Throw your Hands up” by EmCee Lynx. ...and that..s still only half the story. Listen yourself.
That..s 16 great tracks to discover and most of them are released for the first time on this compilation. To be exact; only two of the songs have been released elsewhere on medium.
The artists featured on "phoneyz phavez":
Ernest Drake is banging a rebelstyle Electropunk that kinda matches DHR and Peaches, so that (quoting the man himself here) “Gucci-punks will be sent back to their mommies”.
Dub Sea really goes in deep with the track “The scales fell from my eyes” (if you like Shadow’s “Endtroducing” and Unkle’s “Psyence Fiction” better pull out your handkerchiefs...).
Fangkiebassbeton is celebrating his purely ‘Handarbeit’-styles at the turntables with the psych-scratch-number “Hey DJ!”. Not by chance this man managed to earn a reputation that’s based on 25% steadiness, 25% heart, 25% sweat and another quarter for weirdness. ‘Hiphop can be so much more’ kinda coulda been his secret slogan.
Stephanie Standerwick shows a great talent to deliever diverse emotions through her vocals on "Funny". The mood of this song really is something special...
Paul Smith runs the great Burning Ear-studios where he recorded many a vocal-take of collabos DJ Phoney had with singers and MC’s. Besides that he’s the mastermind of one of the angriest, most honest rock’n’Roll-bands with punk-attitude I know in this world - Dumbell. “Useless Life” is a great tune, although much smoother than Pauls usual material.
Drumboy is doing that 8bit-thing as if PC’s and Macs were never invented. But how many people manage to get this done without sounding like either Breakcore or a C-64-game-soundtrack?
Post-Hiphop-production that integrates Funk and Soul as well as Detroit or Chicago-house-elements and still be able to integrate a deconstructive wink.
Till Stellmacher presents a form of distance from matter in “Eine Tonne Moderne” which might remind the listener of early Wave-recordings done from 1978 to 82 (meaning those from the UK as well as Kraut-stuff). This feeling is transposed into a very present sort of homerecording that positevely lacks the usual touch of “stayin’ with the inner circle” – if you know what I mean. No, you don’t... well, never mind.
Mr. Kato contributes the tight electronic track "Keeping it raw" (feat. Lionel Wharton) and the melancholic Hip Hop-tune "Lass uns geh..n" (with Steer M.) demonstrates his impressive sound-production skills and with these two songs.
EmCee Lynx is an anarchist MC from Frisco who’s definitely speaking his mind. I don’t know a guy who’s further away from Gangsta-clichés than he is.
He usually combines music and message very well. If you heard him, you might think to yourself: “Well, is there anything left to say?”. It’s like everything other rappers might lack in content he’s adding. The beat has been produced by kdubbs.
Three And A Quarter from Portugal are basing their tune around a very rootsy reggae-feel. But still it’s not what you would call entirely purist. In fact they have this hihat-thing goin’on that only very few white drummers tryin’ the reggae-thing are able to play for real. Plus those vocal-harmonies...
I’d really describe them as a cool mixture of early Police or Clash with the Upsetters and the Beasties joining in, sometimes even a tiny bit of Noiserock showing off. One hell of an interesting band.
International Criminal is a multi-talented dude from Canada (he’ll love and kill me for that sentence in a row), living in Madrid. He produces some mighty fine beats as well as vocalise them a-class. His vocal style is dirty as a coalminer’s shack. If he wouldn..t be so heartful at times he could scare little children to death by just clearing his throat.
DJ Phoney would..ve loved to put one of their collabos on this sampler but since the goal was to feature the artists and not mainly himself here, the choice fell on one of Criminals solo-tracks, “Lies”.
For those who need some style description; blend Roots Manuvas and Saul Williams sophistication with Busta Rhymes voice and Tom Waits poetry and you..re still just halfway there...
This way the CD had a real chance of being focused on the quality of the songs featured.
Artists that take their shit seriously (or not so seriously, depending on an occasional ironic attitude) and whose material is deep as it could be. Guys and girls that put their heart and mind into their music and have the guts to go against the grain of industry-prescribed stupidity and monotony. That’s what Phoney wanted this CD to be all about.
Find out yourself how close “Phoneyz Phavez” actually came trying to reach that goal...
If you like to order a copy of this beautiful CD just send us a mail through "send message" on this site.

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Member Since: 01/10/2007
Band Website: http://www.phoneytapes.com
Band Members: Mr. Kato International Criminal Stephanie Standerwick Ernest Drake DJ Flea Fangkiebasbeton Timon Lee Drumboy Eduardo EmCee Lynx Paul Smith Dub Sea Till Stellmacher Three And A Quarter DJ Phoney
Influences: any creative music with heart and backbone
Sounds Like: a sophisticated sound-trip through Electronic, Hip Hop, Reggae and Rock
Record Label: Phoney Tapes
Type of Label: Indie

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