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Sweet Cherry Music is proud to present an exciting new package featuring some of today’s hottest house producers.
Curious Max is the alias of San Francisco’s Max Vangeli, who has been tearing up the charts with releases on Size, Refune, Ultra, Armada and countless others. Max uses this alias when he wants to explore quirky and different sounds, and as can be seen from this release, he doesn’t disappoint.
Washington DC’s Dave Cortex lays down a two-hour set of filter house and progressive for the WMC-themed epsiode of his radio show MENTALITY (original air date: March 19th, 2010).
It’s been just over five years since we first launched FunkyHouseMusic.com and for a while it was becoming clear that it was time to upgrade from our original completely custom website format to a more standard, flexible, and extensible website architecture — one that would allow us to better connect with you our readers in this new age of social media. After hundreds of lines of code and many hours of hard work, we’ve managed to import all of our content from day one into our new site, which is founded on a WordPress back-end. It’s been a long time coming, but we are excited about all of the possibilities the future holds…
Here’s a short summary of some of the new features of FunkyHouseMusic 2.0:
Social Sharing
Want to share something with your social network? At the bottom of every post are links to share that post on many of the popular social networking and social bookmarking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Digg, Tumblr, StumbleUpon, Reddit, and Yahoo Buzz.
Content Feeds
Get the latest house music updates not only from our website, but via our Twitter, Facebook, and RSS feeds which are synced up with our main site. This allows you to easily stay abreast of what is going on without having to leave your reader of choice.
Search
The search box at top of the page allows you to search the full text of the entire site — no need for an external search engine to find what you are looking for.
Tagging
See a post with your favorite artist? Click on that artist’s tag to quickly find other items containing that artist. See who’s getting talked about the most by browsing the most popular tags using our tag cloud on the sidebar to the right.
Comments
Want to speak your mind about a particular news item or track review? No problem — you can now post comments about each and every item on our website.
And much more to come in the future…
We’re really excited about this new format. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions please contact us and let us know what you think.
Fresh new DJ mix from Dave Cortex…
Check out this new DJ mix from Dave Cortex…
FunkyHouseMusic.com contributor Dave Cortex’s latest release is out now on Beatport, courtesy of Nellie Recordings. With support coming from big boys like Dirty Vegas and Tom Novy, Dave is slowly but surely making a name for himself in the industry.
View the release on Beatport.
CyberSutra is a live electronic music project that DJ/Producer and percussionist Scott Binder (SF) created with his good friend and talented producer Nathan Heal (Seattle). Weaving together elements of Electro House, Melodic Trance and live improvisation, with their recent radio hit “Summer Sutra” feat. Tiff Lacey, being featured on Pete Tong’s fast trax and having House Legend DJ Dan sign “Lick it” to his label, CyberSutra has quickly become a household name.
FHM: The New Miami Times describes CyberSutra as ‘an electronica outfit with the sensibilities of non-electronic musicians.’ Can you tell us a little bit more about that? What is your artistic vision?
CS: Both of us spent our early musical careers performing in live bands, so when we started CyberSutra it was very important to us to keep that live performance element in our shows. It’s more than just throwing in some loops and producing a dance track, or standing behind the turntables and spinning a prefabricated playlist. It’s about engaging the crowd, connecting with the fans in a more personal and energetic way. We like to bring the energy to people, and the more fun we’re having, the more fun the fans seem to have.
FHM: What motivated you to enter the dance music production realm? What do you hope to contribute to the music genre’s fanbase and industry as a whole?
CS: In 1998, we bought Paul Oakenfold’s ‘Tranceport’ album and have been hooked ever since! Around that time, we were both studying music production in college. That marked the beginning of our vision to share our music around the world. We are trying to give people something different and something they haven’t heard before, but most importantly, we want to make them dance.
FHM: Your debut single was picked up by DJ Dan’s ‘InStereo Recordings’ last year. How exactly was the group discovered? Do you have any advice for aspiring producers on landing on quality label deal? Read more
Fresh new DJ mix from Dave Cortex…
Sheeple is the collaborative alias of Washington DC-based producers Dave Cortex, Mike Haddad, and Royce Haven. “For The People” was the group’s debut release and received widespread support from names like Dr. Kucho, Saeed Younan, Pablo Ceballos, Bush II Bush and many others.
Now, for 2009, Dave Cortex has completely reworked the original tune into a dark, driving, and twisted tune with a subtle dash of funk – check it out here.
Check out this new DJ mix from Dave Cortex…
DJ, producer, label owner – Sharam Jey from Cologne, Germany, is a real allrounder. Sharam Jey’s roots may be in soul music but he gained stage experience as a singer for a rockband. At the same time his Dj’ing skills became hugely popular on the party scene and among his friends. His Dj’ing started out as a part-time gig but soon turned into a passion when Sharam discovered his love for house & techno in the early 90s.
We caught up with Mr. Jey to find out about his plans for 2009, current taste in music, and more.
FHM: It seems you have taken a very strong liking
to the nu:disco & indie dance emerging sound based on
your recent releases. What is it about this new breed
of artists that is appealing to you?
SJ: Well, in the end it’s just a new term
for electronic-house,disco,bangin. .-music. It’s a
good mixture of some powerful varying sounds with a
funky, more proper sound-oriented structure. It’s a
sound for the main-time-sets. no wasting time for
pling-plong 
.
FHM: What is your opinion on the growing blog music
exchange scene where producers and dance music fans
are posting high quality MP3 files for free? Is this
good for the artists? Is it good for the innovation of
music production? Is the idealogy behind website
services such as Beatport & Juno Download fading as we
speak?
SJ: Times are changing. Sales are going
down. As an artist you have to go new ways to promote
yourself and reach a lot of people. For the label of
course it’s more difficult, you invest in artists and
don’t get enough money back. The value of music is
about to go down.
FHM: Do you foresee a new emerging, dominant trend
Read more
Fresh new DJ mix from Dave Cortex…
San Francisco-based DJ and producer Max Vangeli is quickly establishing himself as one of the fastest ‘rising’ names in house music, going virtually overnight from an unknown bedroom producer to be championed by Pete Tong and signed to Chris Lake’s ‘Rising Music’. FHM had a chance to talk with Mr. Vangeli about his success, his music, and more.
FHM: Max, your first ever release, the “Crazed EP”, came out on Chris Lake’s Rising Trax last month. What was it like to work with Chris?
MV: Yeah it was amazing stuff, I mean I’ve always been a big fan of Chris Lake’s stuff and now to have the honor of working with him is dope. What’s great about him versus bigger labels is that everyone was really involved in the EP. From the marketing standpoint to tweaking the white noise on the builds with Chris Lake, Rising really showed me a warm welcome.
FHM: And one of the EP’s tracks was even showcased by Pete Tong on Radio One, correct?
MV: Well, yes. I actually got a lot of love from Pete Tong on this EP. To tell you the truth I would say he was a huge part of my success with Rising. I had just finished up the first track off the EP called “Crazed” and was kinda sitting on it. A few months later I sent it over to Tong and he showcased it on Fast Trax. I had a lot of offers instantly, but I waited for the right one and here we are now. After that I sent over some other stuff I was working on, “iRock” and “K.E.J.I.” which were amazing collaborations with Digital Lab. Both tracks were instantly picked up by Chris and “iRock” got big support on BBC Radio 1 by Pete Tong.
FHM: You mentioned your collaborations will Digital Lab – who is a Florida-based producer, correct? How did the two of you start working together?
MV: I have been on Laidback Luke’s forums for a while and when Pete Tong played “Crazed” I had a lot of new producers approaching me about production tips and such, and Digital Lab contacted me wanting to do a remix of “Crazed”. I sent him the parts and he just slammed it hard. I mean his drums are just so sick. After that we just started working as a team, made “iRock”, which once again was a success for Tong. It’s now a very solid relationship and we have a lot more in the bag for the near future. Read more
Check out this new DJ mix from Dave Cortex…
For the final installment of our WMC 2008 interview series, we talked with Vancouver’s Lazy Rich, who has been recently blowing up the download charts with releases on Plasmapool, StereoSoul Recordings, and more.
FHM: Your personal favorite tune of the 2008 WMC?
LR: Cocotte – Teenage Bad Girl
FHM: The overall biggest tune of the 2008 WMC
LR:Give it up for me – Sydney Blue
FHM: Best party of the 2008 WMC?
LR:SOS @ Pawn Shop
FHM:Who rocked it?
LR:Ewan Pearson
FHM:What are your plans for the rest of 2008?
LR:Hookers and / or blow
