Mr Darftphunk AKA Steve Jeffery, Other Members- DJ Carl sayers, BeatBoxing Filter, Vocals Claire G, Sax Will Savage.
Influences
influences range from james brown, parliament, george clinton, eddie bo, bobby byrd, or anything funky on a dusty 45!! Drumattic Twins, Plump DJ's, soul of man, brothers bud, JDS, myagi, groove alliegence, coldplay, red hot chilli peppers, jack johnson, fun lovin criminals, too many to think of right now!!!!!
Sounds Like
A night out which consisted of dirty funk and dancing with a fish on ya head.
Some people are serious, others silly, but some people take being silly very seriously. Rising like the phoenix from the centre of culture that is Peterborough, Darftphunk (Steve to his mum) has been secretly conducting all many of strange experiments in the studio of Darftphunk.
Steve, no stranger to the world of Djing, has been playing for nearly 16 years, after being raised on a strict diet of Motown, funk and soul he pulled the face that we pulled when he first heard house music back in the day and from that point on he was hooked. Steve had flirted with break beat while he was still playing drum and bass, then by his own admission the music lost its funk and breaks seemed to be going in the direction I was coming from.
After his friends entering him in a DJ competition he took part and won, this comp was being run by non other than Nick Slater (Drumattic Twins/Shades Of Rhythm), Steve went on to become one of the residents at a weekly night called Bungalow (its a different kind of house) and played along side many great jocks (Norman Jay, Krafty Kuts, Freddy Fresh, Rennie Pilgrim, Plump DJs to name but a few). After enjoying 4 happy years, Bungalow finally closed its doors and Steve was out on his ear and Darftphunk was born.
Biting the bullet Steve worked the streets to get enough cash together to get a studio going, after emerging to what seemed like a year (more a week really) Steve was wise in the ways of programming.
2005 saw DarftPhunk unleash his various beasts on CDR and was given the nod by fellow otter botherers Chris and Jonny from Splank! Records and was asked to remix Myagis Release The Hounds which got the nod from many of breaks leading men (and women). Darftphunk is set to take over Splank! Records and rinse Jonny and Chris for the no good Bombay bad boys they really are, you have bothered your last otter!!!!
Darftphunk also do a live(ish) show with beatboxers, vocalists and sax players, they've been doing plenty of shows this year and so far its been going rather well!!!
Zamali, ManMade, Basement Freaks, The Cuban Brothers, Featurecast, Black Market Audio, South City Allstars, Ronnie Hudson, A Skillz, The Fatback Band, Herman Kelly and Life, Soul Disciple, Rick Ski, The Funkmasters, Erykah Badu
well, it sounding indeed fresh on your page, really diggin' your productions' which would be nice to hear somewhere on the dancefloor...our fav._tune is *the big O*, like your bassline & the snythchord soundz simply amazing...
if u catch a little time, it would be nice to know what u reckon about our stuff...
cheers & have a nice one dA._pHunk'Z from Switzerland
