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    album: Rapbassador  E-mail
    Written by funky49   
    Wednesday, 11 February 2009 12:50

    The Rapbassador EP has its own site! www.rapbassador.com 

    funky49 presents the RAPBASSADOR EP (for Tampa's Museum of Science and Industry)

     

     

    tracks:


    01 mad science
    02 thats not imax
    03 the future is calling
    04 your body (is a world)
    05 mosi got the party
    06 still nerdy
    07 still nerdy [chopped & funked mix]
    08 starblazer [2009 mixdown]

     

     

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    This album was made to promote Tampa's Museuem of Science and Industry. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
    was getting people to help promote MOSI Tampa online, including their new exhibit Body Worlds,
    as part of a "Virtual Ambassadorship". I'm not much of a blogger but I knew how to make some
    beats and rhymes! I appointed myself the unofficial rapbassador. (rap+ambassador)
    If I can get one extra person to Tampa's MOSI...  then its worth it!

    I've been the Chicago's MOSI, the Franklin Institute in Philly and the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
    I want MOSI Tampa to shine the brightest! Be sure to follow @mositampa on Twitter!

    Thank you for listening!

    -funk

    visit MOSI Tampa online at www.mosi.org
    or at 4801 E Fowler Avenue Tampa, Florida 33617

    friend me at myspace.com/funky49music and
    subscribe to my blog at funky49dotcom.blogspot.com

    Notes:
    01 'mad science' is a cover of a friend's song, fanatical
    02 'thats not imax' extoles the goodness of the imax theater
    03 'the future is calling' is a cry to reduce+reduce+recycle
    04 'your body is a world' tells you to go visit the Body Worlds exhibit
    05 'mosi got the party' is self explainatory
    06 'still nerdy' is autobiographical on funky49
    07  my chopped & screwed interpretation of 'still nerdy'
    08 'starblazer' originally released on the Starblazer album, available on iTunes/CDBaby/etc

    Thanks to Ham-STAR for being co-interested in portmanteaus which helped inspire the title "Rapbassador".
     
    How did you get the name 'funky49'?  E-mail
    Written by funky49   
    Monday, 24 November 2008 10:13

    funky49

    Back in 1997 I worked at an IBM helpdesk with my friend, Mike Fresh. One day he was frustrated because someone he was helping could not come up with their own new password. Finally, exasperated, Mike said "Fine! Your password is funky49!".

    I thought it was so hilarious someone wasn't able to come up with a password that included so many letters and a number plus 'funky49' just sounded cool. That night I made a mix tape of all of the beats, loops, audio projects, etc I was working on at the time. I labeled this the 'funky49 mix tape' and gave it to Mike to bump in his Prelude.

    The weekend prior to Mike Fresh's outburst, he was at his parents place digging through their records. It is possible that the James Gang song "Funk #49" got stuck in his mind.

    Mike Fresh later introduced me to redvoid and spilled a smoothie on the mix tape.

     

    Starblazer comes from one of my favorite cartoons as a kid... the Japanimation "Star Blazers" aka "Space Cruiser Yamato". It became a single and album name and then a second alias.

    Superfiends is a twist on the super-hero cartoon "Superfriends". It's the name that redvoid and I create our 'RPM Challlenge' projects under.

    2 Def Mice comes from "2 Bad Mice" who were famous for a song called Bombscare (which became a popular breakbeat to sample). This is another project moniker for redvoid and me.

    Doctor Basswave was a rap character invented for the Emergency Pizza Party album "Zombie Emergency Defense".

     
    "Milk & Doo Doo" Music Video  E-mail
    Written by funky49   
    Monday, 27 October 2008 11:46
     
    Here it is in all its awesome glory! The Milk & Doo Doo music video!
    Dance Choreographer: Kindra Ebanks
    Dancers: Stephanie Carding, Bianca Grassi, Amy Meyer, Yanielle Montero, Trista Trelles-Heard
    Costume Design: Christy Redd
    A-camera & video support: Mike Fresh
    B-camera: DJ Q
    Video Producer & Rapper: funky49
    Music: funky49 & DJ Q
     
    How about a high-definition link? Milk & Doo Doo in 720p
     
    Milk & Doo Doo Video Release Party!  E-mail
    Written by funky49   
    Friday, 03 October 2008 19:50

    You need to come to this! A video release party for "Milk & Doo Doo"

    more info: live.funky49.com

    From Milk & Doo Doo Video Shoot

     Saturday Night - October 25 - 8-10p

    Hip Hop Soda Shop (Tampa, FL)

    WORLD PREMIER of the "Milk & Doo Doo" video
    from that brand new album, Starblazer

    with live performerances by:
    Emergency Pizza Party
    Rocket Propelled Geeks
    Magitek
    funky49 & redvoid
    with DJ Q on the decks!

     

    funky49 video release party for Milk & Doo Doo flyer

     
    Calico Alley - 2008 Song Fight Live Winner!  E-mail
    Written by funky49   
    Sunday, 17 August 2008 01:54

    Emergency Pizza Party won the 2008 Song Fight! Live competition with Calico Alley!

    It's August 16, 2008. The Song Fight! song title of the week is Calico Alley. In the span of a few hours the backing track is created and verses written. The group heads out to Song Fight! Live in Tampa, Florida and performs a set and afterwards performed Calico Alley LIVE with incredibly little rehersing! After the show, food was had at Mema's Alaskan Tacos and the vocals recorded at funky49's.

    The verses are (in order) by mc wreckshin, Sir-Up, Jaylyn, Benjamin Bear and funky49. funky49 is the beatmaker (with some great feedback from bbear!). Samples were pulled from The Aristocats, Lady & the Tramp, Checker's/Rally "Rap Cat" commercial, Sublime and random cat sounds.

    Download Calico Alley | 4.7meg | 3:40min

    note: The Song Fight peeps were all cool, but the prize for awesome goes out to Hoblit. I'm not sure if he had more fun hanging out and being silly or running around being the sound engineer to make sure the show went on!

    Project-D's pictures from 2008's Song Fight! Live
    (yes, there are pictures of EPP here!)

     
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