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...Ryles has long been a proving and training ground for many Berklee students. Undoubtedly, Frankie has visited before, playing under the lithograph of the venerable Lester Young. This night, Frankie seemed especially welcome, hamming it up with the capacity crowd and coaxing from his sidemen a uniquely smooth jazz-funk sound under Ryles’ sweaty lights...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: V Is for Victory | 11/30/2001 | See Source »

...anyone to name the most groundbreaking figures in electronic music, and he’ll more likely than not look to Europe for the answer. It is, after all, home to the world’s most recognizable studio wizards, from robo-funk androids Daft Punk to drum & bass icon Roni Size and the ever-mad scientist, Aphex Twin. Electronic music is a source of national pride in the United Kingdom, Belgium and Germany, boasting a rich history and diverse musicians that continue to bring challenging, unprecedented sounds into the world...

Author: By Ryan J. Kuo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Electronica from Down Under | 11/16/2001 | See Source »

...human voice: sweet guitars, soaring strings, flutes and whistles, tinkling piano keys, sung choruses, beatbox, random chatter. Their incredible prowess at arranging complex layers of unorthodox and delightful sound-bites with satisfying house and breakbeats amounts to amazingly compelling dance music. With a better command of both funk and melody than your average Tall Paul van Oakendyk, one wishes the Avalanches would take over Ibiza with an army of dusty records and their brand of sun-drenched bliss...

Author: By Ryan J. Kuo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Electronica from Down Under | 11/16/2001 | See Source »

...band has pushed forward the musical style of many of its members from the keyboardist, Alex Zander Gordon 04, who learned to play fewer notes and be funkier, to Scheuer, who has had to meld his rock and roll background into the spirit of funk. The band is full of jazz musicians who play funk and funk musicians who play jazz, he says. Its about listening and adaption of music for the good of the group...

Author: By By EUGENIA B. schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FinkFankFunks Den of Worldly Pleasures | 11/15/2001 | See Source »

With the graduation of its founding members last year, the band might have have died. It was up in the air for a while, but at some point it was plain we were getting somewhere, says Scammon, explaining his purchase of the House of Funk. Knowing how long it took to get this going so well...to do it all again seemed so unecessary. The lease is only for a year, but, as Scheuer says, Were not going to end FinkFankFunk right now, because were on a funk odyssey, and its not going to end until were old and crippled...

Author: By By EUGENIA B. schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FinkFankFunks Den of Worldly Pleasures | 11/15/2001 | See Source »

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