Younglee and Jake Sax are Ok_Ma. They produce and perform together
Artists who have remixed our music
Spiritual South
Crazy P
Conrad
Lanu+ Bennson (Bamboos / Tru Thoughts / Melbourne)
Opolopo (Sweden)
Bandmasters Flight (Latvia)
J-Star (London)
Tim Scott (Liverpool)
D'Nell (London)
Influences
YOUNGLEE - Electro street sounds 6 (My first ever album)
Good proper hip hop, early drum and bass, detroit techno, House (many spectrums of) broken beats, / Nu Jazz, Funk, soul, disco, boogie, Shiny pop, country rock and crack jazz.
Pink Floyd, Jam, Frank Zappa, Paul Weller, Beatles, The Who, The Clash, Ramones etc
I love music for ever and a day
Books/Poetry. English Comedy, Korean/Jap Cineama, Good food Fine wine, Scuzzy Cider, Blow, London, Barcelona, Mozambique, Italy, Chicago, Long train journeys, Birds of Prey, Devon’s Beaches and Countryside................................................................................................
JAKE -
Great funk and jazz 1972 is the year! Ecm, latin soul jazz reggae dancehall deep eclectic free psychadelic melancholy!! Music is life, life is music.
My saxes Yanagisawa Bronze/Silver Alto, HANSON Baritone Heath?(www.saxophonesdirect.com), Cubase on a pc! Good musicians, art, food
beauty!
Sounds Like
G FUNK ROLLERS with HEAVY DRUMS, SEEDY LONDON/UK NOISE and LADY BASS. FUTURE BOOGLE / ILLICT BOOGIE
Ok_Ma are Younglee and Jake Sax both self confessed musical beat junkies for life. They met whilst playing as part of D'Nell at Manchester's Electric Chair, they shared the hotel room a few bottles of Jack Daniels....the Ok_Ma project was formed. The Ok_Ma ethos is captured in their DJ / Sax sets where you can here everything from classic funk to booty broken beats on dubplate, dancefloor jazz to tougher electronic latin vibes and everything in between, When Jake joined Young at his DJ gigs playing sax and flute over Young's beats a firm musical partnership was formed. They've played alongside many heavy hitters such as Norman Jay, Gilles Peterson, Quantic, Coldcut, Herbaliser, DJ Vadim, The Scratch Perverts, Mixmaster Morris, DMX Crew etc etc
Ok_Ma have rocked gigs in Italy, Switzerland, Miami, Greece, Croatia, Ireland, Sweden and Spain..... there musical collection enables them to be able to drop uptempo beats to a packed dancefloor or more chilled vibes in intimate settings.
Younglee is resident European Dj for Google and has performed at many high profile European events for them including three years in a row at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, playing alongside Norman Jay to an audience that included Bono, the Queen of Jordan and many of the worlds elite!
Featuring various vocalists, this project is a a fusion of funk, soul, RnB and Afro / Funk rubs, global influence with a UK sound. With releases on London's R2 records, Liverpool's Sick Trumpet, Universal Vibes and Chicago's Still music and remixes for Arch_Type, Patchworks, Yellowtail, Jonny Miller, Choi, Tim Scott, Fred Wesley, Bernard Wright and featured on compilations from Philly, South Africa, Australia and Germany.
They have had support from heavy hitters such as Rainer Truby (Compost) Justin Unabomber / Elektrons, Blackbeard, Kev Beadle (Solar Radio), Alex Attias, Harris (RAW FUSION), Diesler (Tru Thoughts), J-Walk, Dom Servini (Wah Wah), Simbad (Raw Fusion), Kraak+Smaak (Jalpeno records), Andrew Ubiquity
2009 has started with a bang with a sell out gig at Cargo in Shoreditch / London for the infamous Wah Wah record label...... They rocked it out with a full 9 piece band.
The boys play and have played at most of London best venues such as 333, Turnmills, Fabric, Ministry of Sound, The Cross, Canvas, Chinawhites, Cafe de Paris, Cargo, Herbal and the like.
Their Saturday night residence 'Broken Souls' at the Bedroom Bar, Rivington St, Shoreditch, London packs in a full house of over 200 people each week and has done for the last 7 years...... surely one of London's longest weekly residencies.
VIDEOS @ http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=jakeOkMa
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Hey Young and Jake!! Hoe you doing - good to see you at Lea's gig last week. Ben has just set upi his MySpace (about 10 years too late!) - check it out and see what youthink - the stuff if still really raw... www.myspace.com/bendesonline
