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Markey Funk

(forgot the word)

About Me

Everything had started when I had my first record (The Beatles' white album) from my parents... or my first tape (some russian underground bands) from my sister... then "Smells Like Teen Spirit", then "One Hot Minute", then Goldie, then Portishead, then White Noise, then The Prodigy, then Aphex Twin, Orbital, Orb and FSOL, then DJ Shadow...
no... let's count another way...
Everything had started when I was studying in a music school. Then I started a band with a classmate... it ended too fast... just as I finished my music studies... and then i started experimenting with tapes, guitar, piano... recording, double speed, microphone overdubs one by one... then first experiments with computer... birth of O.B.Server... my first tapes made only for myself and almost never copied to anybody... then - completely next level... Acid 1.0... first radio appearance 7 months later... then 10Eyes recorded and produced in 2 months.. 10Eyes' radio appearance and moving to Jerusalem in 3 weeks... exactly one year later i played my first DJ gig... then - BangLaDeath... there's been good times and there's been bad times... since 2003 things started to change... starting AMN... back in Diwan... first BLD gig in Jerusalem... soundtrack for MYM... Saturday Night Shelter... freestyle DJ championship... meeting RadioTrip and The Apples... 2nd place... gigs-gigs-gigs, diggin-diggin-diggin... first radio appearance in Israel on RadioTrip's show at 106 FM... 2004... BLD touring with Rocky B.... Hug haTaklit... more and more gigs... starting to work with A7 and Boiler (2 months later)... recording BLD's demo... meeting Coolooloosh.. meeting ivo.lola... leaving BLD... developing directions in solo work... founding Agitpop, starting Templemir, soundtrack for UrbanShift... developing AMN Manifesto with Rocky B... 2005... 4deck show with DJ Mesh... Diwan closing... first A7's recordings... A MONTH IN Saint-Petersburg... vacation... +some gigs and digging... back in Jerusalem... Agitpop Records developement and opening... collaborative work with Rocky B... meeting Helix... recording and performing... warming up for Coolooloosh & The Apples... freestyle DJ championship... more gigs, more diggin, more writing... production of Markey Funk & Rocky B. "Windrose EP"... remix for Kobayashi Porcelain... soundtrack for "Wings" by Sasha Bushuev... "Windrose" release on 9.08.2006... "Go Ask Alice - A Tale of Psychedelia" 3-hour radio project for Kol ha-Kampus, Tel-Aviv... "Aeon Flux: To Live only Once but with Hope" imaginary soundtrack for Kol ha-Kampus, Tel-Aviv, "Outer Spaceways Incorporated" mix for the Blind Janitor magazine... "Soul Power" - weekly program on Mt. Scopus Radio, 106 FM, Jerusalem... band-dj with The Soulguards until august 2007... production and release of "BEATS!!!! vol. 1 - Beats from Amn Manifesto Shows 2003-2004" on June 9th 2007... warming up for Kid Koala and doing a 4-turntable showcase with RadioTrip, Walter the Einstein Frog, Todres and Galo... producing 2 tracks for Sagol 59... working with Noa Anava... support DJ-sets at the friday afternoons festival of Mishkenot Shaananim, Jerusalem... constantly perfroming with A7 aka Rebel Sun and Abirei haShulhan haAgol... doing James Brown and Sun Ra audio-visual tribute nights at Uganda... Music Explorer night at Uganda with visual support by Kimberly Clark (Robocop II)... supporting The Apples on their autumn israeli tour...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/3/2006
Band Website: markeyfunk.com
Band Members: Markey Funk a.k.a. O.B.Server, a.k.a. Knuf Yekram, a.k.a. Aquarela, ex-member of BangLaDeath, Templemir, Helix/Monstep and Soulguards.
Influences: My sister, my family, my girlfriend, my friends, places, Jerusalem, St-Petersburg (the original), Minsk, graffiti, art, design, photography, literature, cinema, music, crate digging.

Futurism, Avant Guard, Black Culture and Consciousness, Early Psychedelia, Absurd, Musique Concrete, Tape Music and Early Electronic Music, Surrealism & Dada, Costructivism, Brasilian & African rhythms, harmonies and instruments, 20th century composers, Art Noveau, Science Fiction and Reality, Hip-Hop culture, Anarchism, Planet Earth, Saturn, Solar System, Nature (earth and human), Human Soul and Human Mind...

Everyone I meet, everything I hear & everything I see...
Sounds Like: this:
And these:

Record Label: Agitacao Popular, Audio Montage
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The ending of 2006...

The same day when the Godfather passed away I had my new release finished. It's a collection of beats that I made in 2003-2004 and was using at the AMN Manifesto shows. Hope to let it out by april 200...
Posted by Markey Funk on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 05:36:00 PST

Markey Funk presents Aquarela

Uploaded a new track from my future jazz project Aquarela. "August Evening" - a collaboration with Zhen, my very talented friend from Moscow.   Come listen and tell me what you thi...
Posted by Markey Funk on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:58:00 PST

New projects finished.

First - remix of "Meoochar Midai (Too Late)"by Jerusalem local band Kobayashi Porcelain. Out soon. Second - soundtrack for "Knafayim (Wings)" - a short animation film by Sasha Bushuev. Catch...
Posted by Markey Funk on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 05:28:00 PST

100% MUST SEE!

Click on picture to download.   Alchemists of Sound - the story of BBC Radiophonic Workshop Tv-movie about british pioneers of electronic music. The ones that later made White Noise "An Elect...
Posted by Markey Funk on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 03:03:00 PST

Jay Dee R.I.P

It's sad how people, so important, so talented and so inspiring, pass away so early... It's sad that "Donuts" will become his farewell album... I have no more words to say... May your soul be ble...
Posted by Markey Funk on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 03:14:00 PST

First post...

Don't like the dots... dot means ending of something... I'm just in the beginning...   Still figuring out what is this new space... too many things for the first day...   Enjoy the music, fe...
Posted by Markey Funk on Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:45:00 PST