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Friday, November 5
Elbo Room
647 Valencia St.
San Francisco, CA
10 PM
Adv
Tickets: $10
“Future Funk” featuring:
Hairy Apes BMX
W/ Motion Potion
The San Francisco Funk Festival presents a night of Future Funk, honoring the artists who have continually striven to move the funk in new directions. From LA producers re-imagined funk with synthesizers and created “electro” to Chicago where producers merged funk with drum machines to create “house” to San Francisco where Primus merged funk with punk and created… well “punk funk.” Because funk is such a malleable format, perhaps as much a “feel” as a “genre” artists have continually reformed it into new sounds and ideas. “Future Funk” night presents two entities (Hairy Apes BMX and Motion Potion) that are steeped in funk traditions, but are not beholden to them. Come down and get your groove on with “some next shit.” |
About the Artists:
Hairy Apes BMX (Austin):
Hairy Apes BMX are a band knitting their own deep pocket in the Post-Modern Experimental
Revolution. Featuring Mike Dillon on vibes, tablas, percussion and vocals,
E Clarke Wyatt on keyboards and electronics, John Speice on drums and percussion
and JJ "Jungle" Richards on bass. The Apes will rock your world with music that is infectious, innovative and extremely energetic. Formed in1997 by members of such heroic monster bands such as Critters Buggin' and Billy Goat, the Apes bring an exciting new sound and a unique instrumentation, that has been flooring audiences and raising a chorus with music fans all over. They’ve also been rousing open-eared critics while showcasing to ferocious industry conferences like the CMJ, the NAMM Conference and South by Southwest. From sexy cumbia to acid jazz to sounds that satiate the true groove junkies, Hairy Apes BMX offer up a deviant and infectious live show that schools while it entertains.
http://www.habmx.com
Motion Potion (San Francisco)
One of the nation’s foremost eclectic club DJ’s, Motion Potion has spent 7 years proselytizing the funk to people in the Bay Area and beyond. In 2004 alone, he has played the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Tennessee, Jamcruise II in Florida, the prestigious “What the Funk” party in Paris, France and club shows in New York City, New Orleans, Seattle, Boston, and San Diego. Though known as a funk DJ, “MoPo” is an eclecticist, merging various genres, from funk, hip hop, breaks, disco, rock, latin, reggae, brazillian, jam music, even comedy into a coherent funky flow. Artists as varied as Sheryl Crow, Isaac Hayes, Maceo Parker, Widespread Panic, Dr John, Jurassic 5, Govt. Mule and the Meters have employed MPpo’s flow in their show. A resident at Bay Area hot spots like “the Real”, “Steppin’ Out” and “Funk Shui” MoPo recently kicked off “FlowRide” his first Los Angeles residency at the Conga Room. In his spare time, he helps to produce the North Beach Jazz Fest and San Francisco Funk Festival.
http://www.motionpotion.com
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