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dj sun papa 3000 - UK Funky / BE Techno

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Just like the beginning of grime, UK Funky oozes potential.

Wiley's first white label's (Ice Rink, Freeze, Eskimo), Youngstar's tracks, bad stuff, minimal, punk, digital.

Here in Brussels in the beginning of 2000, we used to have a drum&bass oriented shop (Stress Da Bass R.I.P.) where they had mysterious white labels, straight from London.

Finding the Ice rink tunes could transform you. It made you see the music in a vectrex sort of dimension and feel the iced void after a REWIND...

What I want to say is, that UK Funky was just too exciting. Honestly the name UK Funky is poorly chosen, but I think that auto-sabotage was a great idea and a good kick-off.

I adore Crazy Cousin's hit "I see you" with Kimona's superb voice, but the thing I most fell in love with is the darker, minimal, funky step, LiL Silva wise, with the genious cover of Musical Mob's Pulse X or the last Kode 9's 12" "black sun" on Hyperdub.

Hyperdub is definitly the best British label all round for electronic music. Their stuff can refuel your senses, they come with a real proposition for something new and cold, commodore and mechanic.

After my mix the other night, I got a remark I didn't like too much "hey Sun Papa 3000, are you going Latin now?". Not that I don't like Latin but I need something a bit more rigid. Not the kind of stuff you can find in a lot of UK funky house where you can't help to think of annoying Berkeley Hippies, when you hear the ever present Bongo's. 

I feel closer to New Beat UK's  "Bostich" intro of Yello in loop mode.

You have to invent, go to new record shops, make new networks, find new galaxies, ways to mix and styles...You've got no choice but to make your OWN Funky House.