Shaun Slaughter is a DJ from Sacramento who has been at the decks for more than nine years. With about six years of mixing under his belt this boy is sure to stick it to the beat. He runs a few night clubs in Sacramento(Lipstick, Vicious) and even has a residency at club night Nouveau in New York City. The DJ’s and musicians that he’s shared turntables with is too extensive to list, and he has won numerous awards for his talents.
His mixes are not your ordinary remixes. They don’t stray too much from the original song, yet still make most of these older songs sound new and refreshing. It’s good to hear someone pulling off original material with just hands and records. Not only is he not a laptop DJ(no offense) but he has a great personality and he “loves fucking music.”
Check this guy out if you see him on the bill and go read his blog here, where you can download many of his mixes for free. This is the beginning of a beautiful relationship.
If you are in San Francisco go check him out for Club Loaded at the Rickshaw Stop with Nightmoves(Kitsune) and DJ’s Omar, Audrock, and Ricky Hailey on Friday February 2nd.
Daft Punk- “Primetime of Your Life” (Shaun Slaughter Remix) (mp3)
Spacek - 1st Stroke (Funkstörung Remix)
I've been a big fan of Funkstörung ever since I first heard their remix album, 1999's Additional Productions. Their remixes of Björk's "All Is Full Of Love" and East Flatbush Project's "Tried By 12" totally blew my mind. Clicks and whirs, blasts of low-end bass, and grinding, crunching beats, but always coupled with beautiful melodies, Funkstörung's remixes felt like the next step in the logical progression of Aphex Twin, hip-hop, and young Germans fascinated with heavy machinery and computer technology.
Some of you who are fans probably already know this, but I'll still relate the news for the rest of you: Funkstörung officially called it quits in 2006. They're still working on music, just no longer with that name attached to it.
During their run, they put out three full-length albums, at least a dozen EPs, and even ran their own label called Musik Aus Strom. This song is from their last official Funkstörung release, called Appendix, a final compiling of another dozen their remixes. The CD is out now on !K7, so it is available everywhere music is sold - you can get it direct from !K7's website, or from iTunes and eMusic (it isn't available for download yet, but I'd expect it there in the next week or so). The album includes remixes of Phon.o, Barry Adamson, Lamb, and Ravonettes among others, and is definitely worth checking out for the faithful. Check out the Appendix microsite here for more information and to preview some more tracks.
ALSO to help celebrate this final Funkstörung release, the folks at !K7 were kind enough to give MFR two SIGNED copies of the double-LP Return To The Acid Planet, their 2005 acid-house release that hearkens back to Funkstörung's beginnings. So, to win, just email me -- blair (at) music.for-robots.com -- with the correct response to the following question:
What are the names of the Funkstörung guys' solo projects? (I'm looking for their names and album titles) We have our winners! Justin and Marcel correctly identified the guys' solo albums: Michael Fakesch's Marion and Chris De Luca's Deadly Wiz Da Disko - I don't know what Fakesch is up to right now, but Chris De Luca is working on an album with Phon.o that sounds dope - check their website here to grab tunes, mixes, ringtones etc.
Funkstörung is dead, long live Funkstörung!
Stop it Austalia. You would think they’d be done by now, but… here’s Gameboy/Gamegirl. Gameboy/Gamegirl sounds like an ode to Spank Rock but with that big party Australia twist. Whatever. “Sweaty Wet/Dirty Dampâ€? is gonna get a lot of play at camp BIGSTEREO. I only wish there was more…
Big ups to 20jazzfunkgreats for pointing this track out. They’re totally on the money with this one:
Gameboy/Gamegirl - “Sweaty Wet/Dirty Damp�(mp3)
And then check out Miami Horror. I’m in love with everything on this guy’s MySpace… which says a lot considering there’s a f’ing Tegan and Sarah remix.
Like shockwaves across the Internet: RIP Disco D. The world lost a great producer. You will be missed.
