A
clubnight
held at Timbuk2
on Friday 29th July. The event starts at 20:00.
IST DAS & BROCK OUT
Combine to bring you a true legend
DJ FUNK
Words that can describe the one and only DJ Funk? Pioneer? Party Rocker? Ghetto House Icon?
Funk grew up on the musically rich West Side of Chicago where he was exposed at an early age to Chicago, New York & Detroit dance music. DJing out when he was just a teenager at house parties, school dances, and neighborhood clubs; selling mix tapes in the hood with his former crew"do or die" to make ends meet.
Hip-Hop was also a big influence on DJ Funk and with his early DJ sets he helped push Hip Hop into the chicago club scene when it's wasn't yet popular or mainstream. Mixing House, Techno and Hip-Hop DJ Funk pioneered the"Ghetto House" sound and this sense of crossing boundaries. DJing professional for over a decade DJ Funk has produced anthem after anthem of bouncing"Ass & Titty" Dance Music for his very own record company Dance Mania Records. Plus, Funk's remix resum reads like the who's who of dance music: Basement Jaxx, Justice, DJ Sneak, Fast Eddie, to name a few. While licensing tracks to DJ's such as Carl Cox, Bad Boy Bill, Humpty Vision, Jeff Miles, Dave Clark for their mix CD Albums. Funk has played all over the world in high profile clubs in Chicago, New York, LA, Miami, Detriot, Paris, London, Germany, Scotland, Ireland, Amsterdam, Hawaii, Malta, Canada even Tokyo.
DJ Funk's prolific career lead to a featured roll in the history of Dance Music Documentary"Modulation". The movie has all of the greatest Dance Producers and DJ's in the World and has played in independent theaters across the Country. His biggest selling release to date is"Booty House Anthems" which has sold over 1,000,000 copies. A whole new generations of fans are finding out about what DJ FUNK is all about. As the sole figurehead of the entire musical genre called"Ghetto House" "Ghetto Tek" and one of Dance Mania top selling Artist. This man is truly an underground dance music legend.