DAM FUNK ON TOUR!
GET READY.
Dam Funk is on the road in support of his epic five volume masterpiece, Toeachizown. Released last fall on Stones Throw, Toeachizown was embraced by critics and fans alike. Keeping the funk movement alive and well at his club night, Funkmosphere, in Los Angeles, Dam is ready to give the rest of the country a taste.
Check out the love for Dam Funk, because there’s a lot:
Dâm’s specialty lies in 80s-style analog fizziness once spearheaded by the likes of Roger Troutman and Prince. His grooves are thick and synth-y and beatifically mid-tempo; they conjure champagne glasses clinking in soft focus or day-glo block parties filled with boomboxes and barbecue. PITCHFORK
Dam-Funk’s D.J. sets run headlong toward shimmer, with glorious winding synths that are a Los Angeles hallmark. NY TIMES
[Dam’s] compositions are full of blown-out synthesizers, thwapping drum machines and vocodered vocals, all wrapped in a thick purple fog. It’s the kind of stuff that would blare from the stereo of a homemade spaceship. LA TIMES
Channeling the past, L.A.’s Dam-Funk brings funk back to the future. XLR8R
Los Angeles ambassador of boogie grooves, Dam Funk, taps into the warmth of the sun with this five-volume effort. SF BAY GUARDIAN
To hear him talk about funk is to hear an alchemist orate on the elixir of life—he speaks of its untold power, its limitless influence, of its ability to help, and furthermore, to heal. THE FADER
Toeachizown is a must-hear for all the lush terrain it visits and fertilizes. If you’ve an interest in the rubbery bounce of Zapp, the synthesized sexual obsession of early Prince, the re-evaluation of the G-Funk Era happening every morning and afternoon on the Los Angeles freeways thanks to the way-ahead-of-the-curve KDAY-FM, or LA’s nascent “bedroom funk” scene….. or LA’s throwback-soul movement … Toeachizown is the first, uh, “project” with the grapes to even try to condense it all, and go one or two further. Dustedmagazine.com
What makes it so exciting is the way in which [Dam] threads his singular vision with a scholastic and soulful reverence for the past. Like a missing quadrant between the sparkling sequin sheen of Slave, the talk-box groove of Roger Troutman and Zapp, and the G-Funk glide of Dr. Dre and DJ Quik, Toeachizown is quintessential California ride music. LA WEEKLY
The master of Modern Funk will bring the house down on the following select dates.…
Thurs 3/4 – Toronto @ The Drake
Fri 3/5 – Montreal @ Lambi
Sun 3/7 – Boston @ Great Scott’s
Wed 3/10 – NYC @ Bowery Ballroom (Full Live Band Show)
Fri 3/12 – Philly @ Robotique at Kung Fu Necktie
Sat 3/13 – DC @ 411 NY Ave. (DJ only)
Sun 3/14 – Baltimore @ Ottobar
Tues, 3/16 – ATL @ Bar CV
Wed 3/17-20 – Austin, TX @ SXSW
Sat, 3/27 – Miami @ WMC
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