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Hello everybody... New Funked Squad track, homemade demo version... You like it? Just leave a comm'.
Voici, ci dessus, le premier titre de notre groupe, enregistré il y a peu, mixé et arrangé par nôtre cher Fantaz. Il s'intitule "Open your mind". Le message est donc clair. les paroles seront bientôt postées dans la rubrique blog, avec leur traduction pour les non anglophones. Well, ce n'est qu'une démo pour l'instant mais on apprécie plutôt le rendu. On espère que vous aussi.
Funked Squad "Open your mind", produced by Fantaz, composed by the Funked Squad, words by .maxiM, peace. Turn the bass up, lay low on the treble, HEADPHONES ADVISED!!!
NEW Fantaz remix, Beastie Boys "Triple trouble"!!! www.myspace.com/djfantaz
Changes about to come... Nouveautés imminentes... Stay tuned, y'all!!!
1er EP Funked Squad - "Funked Squad is for the children", comin' soon...
Tracklisting:
01 - "An introduction to..."
02 - "Pistol"
03 - "Chinese dreams"
04 - "Open your mind"
05 - "In the shadows with Kelly & Herbie"
06 - "Musiquality"
07 - "Dilla forever"
08 - "Crazy"
Now back to the past...
FUNKED SQUAD live on March 22nd 2006 at Grenoble: VIDEOS ONLINE at the bottom of this page. It's a great memory for us. We had the pleasure and the opportunity to open for the band named Hocus Pocus (www.hocuspocus.fr www.onandon-records.com), which is probably the greatest French Hip Hop band today. I've never seen such an incredible live performance than the Hocus Pocus one, except maybe Amp Fiddler at Montreux in 2004 and Femi Kuti last summer at Chambery... Thanks to everybody who came and encouraged us, who gave us props after the show, and who got wild helpin' us feel good. Fuck the others, who "talk the talk", but never "walk the walk". Hope you'll enjoy these videos.
New songs coming as soon as possible. Until then go check:
WWW.MYSPACE.COM/DJHELLB
WWW.MYSPACE.COM/DJFANTAZ
"Tell the people what you're here for..."
We, the FUNKED SQUAD, play... our own definition of Hip Hop, replayin' live some classics, and it's a beautiful thing cause the French crowds gets wild when we get live. It warms our hearts. We mix different songs together, from old Soul to modern Hip Hop, from Jazz to Rock, Funk to Reggae, Punk to Drum'n'Bass. I put my own flows and lyrics on it, and we replay these freedom songs our own way. We do it mostly to promote the Hip Hop culture in France, such as all the A Tribe Called Quest / Q-Tip / Jay Dee legacy for example, because these geniuses are nearly unknown in our country!!!!!! So we do it to restore the Truth. But we don't do only covers Then we, the Funked Squad, really compose some songs. You'll hear it soon. A fusion of rythms, ideas, musicS, flows, instruments, turntables freakin', and energies, mostly funky. And we work hard on it. But y'all musicians know it's hard to record something in your modest home studio and bein' satisfied enough to put it on your own myspace. Still we release our common bomb, our crazy minded drummer and beatmaker Fantaz is the Squad's first influence and inspirator: WWW.MYPSACE.COM/DJFANTAZ Here's the Funked up sounds foundation, you fuckin' biatche!!! No, I'm kiddin', we love you
TRADUCTION: Nous, le FUNKED SQUAD, jouons nôtre propre définition du Hip Hop, reinterprétant les classiques en live, et c'est beau car le public en France devient souvent dingue. Ca nous fait chaud au coeur. Nous mélangeons différentes chansons ensemble, de la vieille Soul au Hip Hop moderne, du Jazz au Rock, de la Funk au Reggae, du Punk à la Drum'n'Bass. J'y mets mes propres flows et paroles, et nous rejouons ces chansons de liberté de nôtre propre façon. Nous faisons celà principalement afin de promouvoir la culture Hip Hop en France, telle l'épopée de A Tribe Called Quest / Q-Tip / Jay Dee pr exemple, car ces génies sont quasiment inconnus dans nôtre pays!!!!!! Donc nous faisons celà pour réétablir la Vérité. Mais nous ne faisons pas seulement des reprises... Ensuite nous composons nos propres chansons. Vous les entendrez bientôt. Une fusion de rythmes, d'idées, de musiqueS, de flows, d'instruments, de platines étranges et d'énergie, principalment funky. Et nous travaillons dur pour celà . Mais vous tous musiciens savez qu'il est difficile d'enregistrer quelque chose dans son modeste home studio et d'en être assez satisfait pour le mettre sur son propre myspace. En entendant de balancer nôtre bombe commune, nôtre batteur et beatmaker fou Fantaz est la première influence de nôtre escouade funkée: WWW.MYSPACE.COM/DJFANTAZ Ce sont les fondations des Funked sons, putain de salopeuh!!! Non, je plaisante, on vous aime.
The Funked Squad (imaginary) radio playlist:
Pharoahe Monch - Free
Ahmad Jamal - Swahililand
Q-Tip - Work it out
Common feat. KanYe WeSt & Dwele - The people
The Game feat. will.i.am - Compton (Gangsta boogie)
Hi-Tek feat. Q-Tip & Kurupt - Keep it movin'
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Fantaz - Triple trouble remix
Pharoahe Monch feat. Alchemist & Showtyme - Desire!!!
Hocus Pocus feat. The Procussions & T-Love - Vocab
Jill Scott - Good morning heartache
Talib Kweli - Soon the new day
La Moza - Neiges éternelles (Live)
Pharoahe Monch - When the guns draw
Bobby Caldwell - What you won't do for love
Bilal, J Dilla, Mos Def & Common - Reminisce
Fantaz - Sunset in golden horn
J Dilla - The $
Deftones - Engine n°9
Pharoahe Monch - The trilogy
DJ Jazzy Jeff fet. Baby Blak & Pauly yamz - For the love of the game
Hocus Pocus feat. Kohndo - Du sable sur les paupières
KRS One feat. Raphi - Gimme the gun
Pharoahe Monch - Welcome to the terrordome
KoRn - It's on
Assassin - L'ombre du silence
De la Soul - Stakes is high
Gorillaz, Danger Mouse, Bootie Brown & some kids - Dirty Harry
Ahmad Jamal - I love music
Q-Tip, Stevie Wonder & Mario Winans - Shame on you
Dwele & Roy Hargrove - Red clay
Beyoncé & Jay-Z - Déjà vu
Fantaz - Mesca la casa
Rage Against the Machine & Cypress Hill - How I coul just kill a man (Live at LA)
The Strange Fruit Project - All the way
Mr J. Meideros - Constance
La Moza - Processus
Organized Konfusion - In vitro
Q-Tip & J-Dilla - Official
Chrsitina Aguilera and DJ Premier (!!!) - Ain't no other man
Busta Rhymes, Q-Tip & Jay Dee - Can't hold the torch
Fantaz - Sunset in golden horn
Hocus Pocus - Géométrie (Live à l'Elysée Montmartre)
Q-Tip - Black boy
JayLib - Smootherness
Minnie Ripperton - Inside my love (ah again and again!!!)
Mos Def - Umi says
Organized Konfusion - Question
Heavy - Unbelievable
Dot.Mental - Lost Soul's Light
Pharoahe Monch feat. Common & Talib Kweli - The Truth
A Tribe Called Quest - The Hop
J Dilla - Won't do
Music is life.
