Dam Funk Live at FADER Bowl

Though it’s already been a little over two short weeks, it seems like just yesterday that our Dam-Funk issue released and Dam himself rewarded our prescience by delivering a modern funk extravaganza at Brooklyn Bowl. That magical night was the first of many in an upcoming series of good, wholesome FADER getdowns, the next of which we will be announcing soon. Dam’s album, Toeachizown, happened to drop around the same time as the party and is chockful of the modern funk synth carols and keytar mastery we saw in his performance. It’s also five volumes, or a grand consolation for those who didn’t make it out to see his two hour plus performance.

Theophilus London & Dam-Funk on BBC Radio

Our dudes Theophilus and Dam shared the spotlight last night on Gilles Peterson’s show. TL was in studio after finishing up a jaunt through the UK with Jack Penate and Dam beamed his section in from Planet Funkazoid (his house in LA). Before and after, Gilles plays his regular mellow jams. Light some “incense” and get your day going.

Stream: Theophilus London & Dam-Funk on BBC Radio

Bonus Dam with cat photo from FADER Issue 64 by Jason Nocito.

Dam-Funk 4 Clae, Beautiful Music 4 Beautiful People Mixtape MP3

During one of many interviews for his F64 cover story, in response to a question about who he considers his musical peers , Dam-Funk made sure to shout out Mono/Poly and Nite Jewel, who are, coincidentally, two of the first three artists to appear on this mixtape he curated for sneaker brand Clae. The rest of the tracklist happens to include legends like The Whispers and Anita Baker, and takes it all the way back to ‘82, which we can only hope means that some of our younger siblings were conceived to these songs. Download the Beautiful Music 4 Beautiful People mixtape below and be sure to pick up Dam’s double CD Toeachizown, in stores now.

Download: Dam-Funk 4 Clae, Beautiful Music 4 Beautiful People mixtape

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NYC: Dam-Funk Comes to the FADER Bowl

Tomorrow, Tuesday October 27th, our cover star, West Coast boogie maven, Dam-Funk comes east to celebrate the release of his impossibly funky new album Toeachizown. We’ve invited him—along with like minded bumpers Snack n Cmish, Duane Harriot and Master Khan and Cubic Zirconia—to inaugurate the first FADER new monthly party at the extraordinary new, massive Brooklyn Bowl. This is both stellar venue perfect for a lot of furious jamming and a real live bowling alley, so make sure to bring both your dancing and your bowling shoes. We’ll be doing both at the same time. While playing air keytar. Come through! No RSVP necessary, just a positive mental attitude (Dam-Funk made us say that).

The FADER Issue 64 Free Download

With domestic issues weighing so heavily on every American’s mind these days, it felt appropriate to focus our sixth annual photo issue inward. We started by selecting two cover stories that represent seemingly opposing factions of this country—the values of small town America via Eau Claire, Wisconsin’s Bon Iver and the hard grind of big city life through South Central Los Angeles’ Dam-Funk—and found more common ground between them than most talking heads and politicians would care to know. For the feature photo story, Peter van Agtmael’s plaintive portraits of widespread citizens and Victoria Sambunaris’ landscapes of geological sites along Interstate 80 create a visual dialogue between man and land and will hopefully leave you asking questions rather than giving answers. And because the future prosperity of the US will depend on the dreams of its newest residents as it always has, we focused our fashion story on first generation Americans and new emigres living in New York’s five boroughs. Not to mention our regular selection of Gen F profiles, including Kris Kristofferson, The XX, Neon Indian, Kurt Vile, Kyle Hall and Warpaint, plus interviews with RZA, Janka Nabay, Andrew Weatherall and tons more. So feel free (because it is literally free) to check it all out, and if you make TheFADER.com your homepage you won’t miss our treasure trove of extras and outtakes from above and beyond the issue.

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Having lived and worked in New York City just long enough that I barely even notice
anymore when a giant rat swaggers across the subway platform but totally
freak out when a certain goat cheese isn’t in stock at the farmer’s market, I
find myself less and less in tune with the rest of America with every passing
day. This place does that to people, it seems. But I’ve lived in 12 cities and visited
47 states in my life—Oregon, Washington and Alaska, the holdouts—taken
countless road trips across the country and seen just about every historically
significant landmark on the map. This has always been a great source of pride
for me, a unique experience thanks to parents with a wanderlust not seen
since Genghis Khan. It actually worries me that one day I might wake up and
be nothing but another New Yorker.

Six years ago, I took my last cross-country road trip, from Washington, DC,
to Los Angeles, California. I drove down the southern Atlantic coast, turned in
to Atlanta, went down through New Orleans and San Antonio, then back up
through El Paso, Las Cruces, Flagstaff and the desert, before finally reaching
the Pacific Ocean. Along the way, I met a bunch of gas station attendants,
even more bartenders and one disoriented young couple who’d just rolled
their pickup truck off the side of the highway. I had a long conversation with a
voodoo doll in the French Quarter, talked to myself for several hours in White
Sands and stayed in the Michael J. Fox room at the Hotel Monte Vista. I have
pictures of all this if you want to see them. My dog, Mookie Wilson, was with
me, and because he had his head out the passenger window the whole trip,
we ended up talking to people every time we stopped. Of all those people
along those 3,477 miles, not one told us to get out of town. In fact, I felt like we
could have stayed in any of the hundreds of places we drove through for as
long as we wanted.

Hopefully, reading this issue, you’ll feel the same way. Along with Peter
van Agtmael’s and Victoria Sambunaris’ stunningly disparate portraits of
America, our covers feature stories on two disparate Americans: Justin Vernon
bka Bon Iver, from Eau Claire, Wisconsin; and Dam-Funk, from Los Angeles,
California. Each has a bond with his place of birth that both reflects normal
loyalty and transcends it. Dam never really left LA but is trying to bring its vast
diversity together through time-capsule boogie, and Vernon came back to Eau
Claire to prove its worth to the rest of the country with his particular brand of
indecipherable folk rock. Both are heady aspirations, but wildly inspiring. As
someone who’s never really had a hometown but been all over, they make me
think about the places I’ve been and where I am now, whether I want to ride
for this city or try to reconnect with another one. Maybe the only way to find
out is to grab the dog and some beef jerky and head out on the open road.

—PETER MACIA

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Citinite x Luckyme Mix du Funk

We’re obsessed with London-based label Citinite, both for their roster of futuristic electronic funkyshit (Sweat.X, Gosub, Rozzi Daime) and the warpspeed space of their cover art, all crafted by label owner Manuel Sepulveda, who we interviewed in FADER #63. Clearly we have a mindmeld going on with them, because their next party with LuckyMe features our latest coverstar Dam-Funk, along with Rustie, Jimmy Edgar and Gosub. Manuel made this dope mix to portend what Citinite may have in its future and to get us ramped up for the show we can’t go to (sorry dudes we’ll be in New York), but if you’re in London, prepare to be rocked by deep crevices of synth bass and people who can possibly dance better than anyone. Further evidence we are sharing the same spiritual plane: he included Lil Kenny in the first five minutes, our biggest obsession right after Sweat.X’s Spoek Mathambo. Wild! Jump the jump for tracklist and flyer.

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The FADER Issue 64 Podcast MP3

For our annual photo special, we focused our sights on issues in contemporary America through the stunning domestic and landscape photographs of Peter van Agtmael and Victoria Sambunaris. And who better to reflect the state of the States than Bon Iver, who’s attained cult fame worldwide but prefers to live in the sleepy Wisconsin town of Eau Claire, and Dam-Funk, who resides in middle class South Central Los Angeles but whose music inspires funk utopias. Hence the roster of our latest issue podcast, including Family Band, Volcano Choir, Dam-Funk, Neon Indian, Kyle Hall, Warpaint and Kurt Vile, represents all corners of the USA’s urban decay and rural ramshackleness—with the exception of Fuck Buttons, whose new album is so galactic we think they might be ambassadors from another universe. Download the whole shebang below, and don’t forget to permanently blogline us since we’ll soon be dropping the entire issue on you in pdf form, for free—because in the immortal words of George Michael, you’ve got to give what you taaaaake.

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The ABSOLUT FADER Visionary Podcast #2 — Things

And now for part two of the Visionary Podcast series, curated by The FADER and presented by ABSOLUT, as part of our ongoing efforts to advance and advocate the art and music we love. With these words—Doing Things Differently Leads to Something Exceptional—and accompanying awesome visual interpretations of those words by director Rupert Sanders as inspiration, we set about scouring our music libraries for the new songs that are doing it for us the most these days.

This round is inspired by the word and image for “Things,” which is obviously quite broad, so we decided to make it as random as possible, with songs about computer files (we think), good days, real songs, funky mirrors and digital wildlife. Take these zeros and ones out into the real world and enjoy. Download the Visionary Podcast #2 with music from Get Back Guinozzi, Restless People, Konshens, Dam Funk and Zomby below, check the tracklist after the jump, and come back on Friday for #3, in tribute to the word, “differently.”



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Hawthorne Headhunters & Dam Funk, “PCH” MP3

As of an hour ago, the Hawthorne Headhunters were a total mystery to us and apparently most everyone else. But HVW8 just sent this link over to the group’s new LA discofunk jam with FADER favorite Dam Funk, and we are now fully in the throes of an office-wide mid-tempo dance routine. Think Surface minus the singing and budget… any budget at all. Check after the jump for video proof.



Download: Hawthorne Headhunters & Dam Funk, “PCH”

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