RIP Funkstorung. Long Live Chris de Luca Vs. Phon.o! Holy crap. Chris de Luca & Peabird’s Deadly Wiz Da Disko is one of my all time favorite albums. A glitched out hip-hop tour de force, that album just wows me to no end. I’ve really been hop­ing there would be a follow-up. It sounds like there won’t be, but with the recent demise of Funkstorung, de Luca has been rock­ing shows with another artist named Phon.o. This shit is like Deadly Wiz Da Disko on steroids. Bass, big giant flanged beats, a notice­able bump in tempo, with more of a focus on mak­ing the club go crazy. Funkstorung meets Tim­ba­land meets TTC meets Man­nie Fresh meets Smaze meets speak­ers blown the fuck up. Check the web­site for news, tour dates, sound­clips of the week, ring­tones, and other good­ness. Also, mixes and livesets, which I’m link­ing up right hurrr:
Chris de Luca vs. Phon.o@Audiopixel Live Set (mp3)
Chris de Luca Main Streamed Mix (mp3)
Phon.o Cross­faded and Turned Tabled Mix (mp3)
Chris de Luca Glitch Mix (mp3)
Phon.o Bad­room Mix (mp3)