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Download: Dam-Funk “In Deep Glide Mode”

Hot off the Twitter from D-F—the unreleased “In Deep Glide Mode”! Grab that and see you at the Toeachizown release party next Thur., Nov. 19, at the Echo!

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Download: Dam-Funk “Hood Pass Intact”

(off Toeachizown Vol. 4: Hood out now on Stones Throw)
Dam-Funk (as anyone lucky enough to cross paths with him knows) is one of the realest people operating in the city of Los Angeles, and his 5XLP/2XCD monsterpiece Toeachizown (out now on Stones Throw, though the vinyl has been rescheduled to release [...]

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Dam-Funk grew up on “Scooby Doo” and sessioned for Westside Connection but his life’s work was and will be the stewardship of the true spirit of funk. He’s remixed Baron Zen and Animal Collective and he’s just about to release the 5XLP monster Toeachizown on Stones Throw. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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Not even Shuggie Otis ever got so far into the abstract ozone as Dam-Funk does here, with the manic karma-mechanics at the end fading out like a warehouse party you just left two right turns ago. This is funk digitalized for a portable and far-grittier age in which a party—or other terminal action adventure—is not far and likely searching for you.

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Download: Dam-Funk “Toeachizown”

(from Toeachizown Vol. 1: LATrik out now on Stones Throw)
Unflagging funk believer Dam-Funk will release a monumental 5 LP set called Toeachizown this October on Stones Throw, but he’s releasing each volume digitally during the coming weeks to better ease the process of total funkification. Look for Dam-Funk in the L.A. RECORD video [...]

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