Make it Funky Presents...

West Coast Vibin'
The Funk Hunters (British Columbia)
Freedom Danish and the Root Sellers (Nova Scotia / British Columbia)
krNfx (Canadian Beatboxing Champion)
w/ DJs Big League Chu vs. Dave Saddler (on 4 decks!)
Farbsie vs MickeyD
Bingobob (Massive Saturday's)
Saturday September 11, 2010
Annex WreckRoom - 794 Bathurst Street
Northwest Corner of Bloor and Bathurst
www.theannexwreckroom.com
Doors: 9 PM

Get on the $10 reduced list by emailing makeitfunkyparty@hotmail.com with full names of guests.


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Our Special guests:


The Funk Hunters [Moo Crew / Regrooved Canada]
aka DUNKS & THE OUTLIER
Vancouver, B.C.
www.thefunkhunters.com



The Funk Hunters are Dunks & The Outlier. Producers by day, DJs by night, their fun and funky vibe has proved unstoppable since they first teamed up on a small island off of BC’s west coast. The duo have gone on to collaborate with artists across Canada, often working with MCs and live musicians, and their unique genre-blending DJ sets are in high demand. This will be their first appearance in Toronto, having just smashed dancefloors throughout Canada's West Coast on their summer festival tour playing at Hidden Music Festival, Soundwave, The BassCoast project, and two sets at the legendary Shambhala Music Festival. Expect party rocking dancefloor funk at its finest, complete with 4 turntables and an exclusive crate of original productions and edits!

LINKS:

"Open Season" - Homebreakin Records Exclusive Mix by The Funk Hunters by The Funk Hunters








The Root Sellers [popandlockrecords.com]
www.myspace.com/rootsellers

featuring: Freedom Danish

The Root Sellers’ music is the result of a unique and imaginative creative process. Urban artists have long sampled and reinterpreted sounds and songs from earlier sources such as records. This process is often called “digging in the crates”. Music technology has evolved and it is now possible to record musicians and sounds of all kinds both in the field and in home studios. This allows the Root Sellers to create using a simple philosophy: “dig the planet”. The Root Sellers album was created by traveling around the world with a laptop computer and a digital hand recorder and it includes sounds and atmospheres from the forests of Africa, rolling hills of California, rugged beauty of Nova Scotia and the pristine Yukon as well as instrumental and vocal collaborations from some of the top players and singers they have encountered in their travels.

The Root Sellers musical Journey has recently taken them to major performances at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. They have continued to record people and atmospheres on beaches in Indonesia, rivers in China and the mighty rainforests of British Columbia. Remixes by Myagi, the Utah Saints, Nick Thayer, DZ and Si Begg have been published on Pop and Lock and Westway Records, reached the charts in Mixmag and IDJ magazines, as well as dance floors around the world, bringing international acclaim to the Root Sellers sound.





Freedom Danish [popandlockrecords.com]
www.freedomdanish.com


In the last year Freedom Danish has made a big splash on the East Coast playing headlining slots all three nights at Canada's #1 Music Festival Evolve's tenth year anniversary, multiple days of Sunseeker's Ball, the internationally admired Montreal Fetish Festival and tearing it up on the Pop and Lock Records tour performing live with Myagi and the Root Sellers.

Signed to Myagi's Pop and Lock Records as an artist, he was quickly promoted to A&R because of his keen ear and passion, with a mandate of widening the label's scope to all types of breakbeats and seeking the best of glitch and bass music.

His first release on P&L came out in May, a remix with label head Myagi of The Root Sellers, a group Freedom Danish has been touring and producing with since 2007. This year the Root Sellers have been on fire with a second album set to drop on Pop and Lock Records and full on live shows at the 2010 Olympics. They produced an awe-inspiring show with 400 backup dancers to a 60,000 person sold out audience at BC Place for a half-hour Paralympic opening games ceremony.

With over 100 live shows last year Da Don Danish has been gathering a reputation as a wild ball of big bass energy in the club and festival circuit that ignites soundsystems. Known to "straight up murder" dancefloors, this bass rebel is cocked and loaded. Let the bass kick.





krNfx (Canadian Beatboxing Champion)

krNfx is a vocal percussionist hailing from the city of Toronto. He has travelled internationally to compete in battles and has performed all over the world in destinations such as France, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, South Korea & the USA. krNfx's list of achievements in the beatbox world include being the 2009 South Korea Beatbox Champion, the 2010 Toronto Beatbox Champion and a top10 finalist for the 2009 Beatbox Battle World Championships. He has been invited on radio stations across the world, including Toronto's own fLow 93.5. He has also appeared on several TV shows across the world, including Toronto's own Breakfast Television. At the age of 21, he is slowly rising to the top of the game.





Big League Chu vs. Dave Saddler (on 4 decks!)

From their earliest days in the New Orleans of Canada (London, Ontario), to the scene building Warehouse parties of the early 90's, to their infamous residency at System Soundbar of Toronto's past, they established a reputation as the definitive sound of Breaks in the Great White North.

AUDIO LINK: Big League Chu & Dave Saddler's The Bronx Shuffle Mix




On a serious note, As many of you know a good friend of ours DJ A.Skillz was scheduled to play in Toronto on Sept 11. A.Skillz has been forced to cancel as his family is going through a hard time and we need your help to help him through. A.Skillz, a Make It Funky favorite for many years has recieved news that his son Quinn's Cancer has become terminal. We have put together a show to help support his family in this time of need and we hope you will all come out and show your support.

A portion of the proceeds as well as all donations collected will go towards the cause detailed in the facebook link below, please come out and show your support for this worthy cause. Make It Funky sends its prayers out to Adam and his family wishing them strength in the times ahead.

Please join this group to show your support.

On the 7th April 2010, just before Quinns first birthday, he was diagnosed with malignant rhabdoid cancer. This is a rare and aggressive form of cancer.

On the 4th August, Adam and Suzy were told that Quinn has 3 more tumours and that neither chemotherapy nor surgery will be able to prevent these from growing or more from appearing. Because of the aggressive nature of the cancer they were told that Quinn has 4-6 weeks quality time left and 4 months overall.





MAKE IT FUNKY COLLECTIVE

Founded in 2005, when like-minded heads in Toronto scene set out to create a party series that could help the city put the funk back in its rump. What has help set Make it Funky apart is the cutting edge DJs line-ups and positive, fun vibe. Make it Funky’s mission is to explore the funkier side of all things breakbeat. MiF promises and always delivers an exceptional night of music, dancing and good fun, with a focus on bringing the best of funk, breaks, hip hop, and beat-driven live music to the masses. Just a few of Make It Funky’s many highlight performers include: Afrika Baambaataa, Z-Trip, Krafty Kuts, The Herbaliser, Fort Knox Five, Mat the Alien, DJ NuMark, Ursula 1000, Killa Kella, and DJ A.Skillz and we are just getting started!

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