BUMPSHOP w/ DJ Soulpusher, a/k/a Frank *Sat, 6/2*
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DJ Soulpusher, a/k/a Frank from "Soul Explosion", a/k/a Franc O ("Vampyros Lesbos") returns to NYC.African rhythms in full effect!
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Friends & fam PM for comps.
Friends of tomorrow please email: [email]bumpshop@aptwebsite.com[/email] for reduced $ list access. (No need to wait for a confirmation reply; you will be automatically added to our reduced list. As John Brown would say, that's just how Bumpshop rolls.)
Hope some of youse can make it.
Peace,
Mao
It's a nice club and the sound system is really good,
can't wait to hear all these records over a club system for the first time.
I brought my hottest finds from the past year of digging in West Africa.
A lot of these records have not yet been on any of my mixes so you can
expect to hear a lot of fresh stuff.
More on Soulpusher (a/k/a Frank) from the Bumpshop Ministry of 411:
DJ Soulpusher first came to New York during the summer of 1996 when under the name Franc O. he established his legendary and decadent night ???Vampyros Lesbos??? featuring exotic dancers, French ???60s pop and obscure Euopean soft porn soundtracks. But under the Guiliani crackdown on nightlife it became more and more difficult to continue a night that included scantily clad go-go girls, ???70's soft porn projections, and a notoriously misbehaving clientele. So in August 2000, Franc O., along with Go Go Girl Manuela, packed their bags and moved back to old Berlin where, now as DJ Soulpusher and Boogaloo Pussycat, they together started a party called ???Soul Explosion??? which soon became Europe's biggest night for rare and hard-hitting funk 45s.
This continued until 2005 when again the two felt an urge to change the scenery; they got married and moved to Conakry, the Capital of Guinea on the coast of West Africa. Here DJ Soulpusher dedicated all of his time to building up an incredible collection of rare Afrobeat and African funk records.
After digging for old vinyl in various local stores, DJ Soulpusher started traveling all over West Africa. His first trips led him to Sierra Leone where he explored the cities of Freetown, Bo and Kenema. The largest finds he turned up, however, were in Benin ??? the only country in the world where Voodoo is officially recognized as state religion and practiced by the majority of its people. The Funk music that was recorded in Benin from the late 60???s until the late 70???s was partially influenced by the hypnotic dance music of the Voodoo ceremonies, most notably the Sato, a traditional rhythm that sounds pretty much the same as what later was called Afrobeat. Benin had a multitude of record labels and two even operated their own pressing plants, a very unique feature for such a small African country.
Soulpusher???s adventures across Africa (as well as lengthy mixes featuring his most coveted finds) are documented on his highly-traffic-ed blog, www.voodoofunk.blogspot.com. Joining the Bumpshop crew???s resident team of funk junkies at APT, expect Soulpusher to drop a mix of super-heavy African funk and Afrobeat the likes of which are rarely heard Stateside as well as the occasional ???Vampyros Lesbos??? classic.
The vibe here is always A+++, which continues to surprise me considering the contrast with the street above
Thanks to all from the board who braved the dreaded meatpacking district & supported: Faux & Co, JP, Se??or Futurefunk, Doc Delay et al. You get props over here.
I had a great time. It was amazing to hear these records over a club system for the first time.
It's unbelievable to see what the meatpacking district has mutated to...