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Inside of the bay area’s sweater funk crew is k-maxx, one of modern funk’s most prolific voices and producers to emerge over the last half dozen years. K-maxx lets it be known on ‘For The Record’ that he is in a lane of his own. As soon as you hear the game within the sexy dialog and his infectious voice that hypnotizes you over his masterful arrangements, there is no doubt he’ll have you coming back for more. Only someone who baptizes his whole city every week with the gospel of the funk can write like he does, let alone transcend the vibe of every dude in the city moving through ladies they can’t let go. That’s real life transcended on ‘For The Record’, K-Maxx has walked through the darkness with the torch of his music, lifting the experience of his record to a plateau where we doubt he’ll be a underground secret for much longer. K-Maxx’s production wizardry is just as masterful as the wind through the pipes, as he clowns the lyrical boundaries of love songs with stuffin for your muffin, then lights it up on the one with masterful 808 breakdowns just for fun, forever cementing his place in modern funk for the record.

FIRST TOUCH presents a six song EP “KNOCKOUT”, a highly anticipated release for this duo out of Germany who is clearly operating on all cylinders as far as modern funk dance music is concerned, carving out a lane all of their own a long time ago! KNOCKOUT blasts the dance floor striking first with the BEWEG DEIN KÖPER, moving that body with a sophisticated level of uptempo modern funk built upon hard basslines and masterful synth arrangements. DO IT TO IT won’t let you leave the dance floor with bouncing bass and infectious chord arrangements, displaying the master craftsmanship of groove control this duo brings to modern funk music.Love songs don’t have to be slow jams as revealed on IT MUST BE LOVE, this jam will have lovers dancing close to the silky rhythm and juicy chords that sweet talk listeners with dialogue of a Hardcastle lead! ITS LIKE PARADISE WHEN YOU’RE WITH ME electrifies that notion with a refreshing poolside melody that pulls you in closer with its bubbling bass that won’t let you escape as it electrifies with vocoders and hypnotizes with an infectious breakdown. JUST A GROOVE is one to glide the streets to, this tuff baseline carries the rhythm on skates with its slick simplicity highlighting masterful synth arrangements that go back and for between this duo steady riding the groove. Closing out the EP with a jam that is a pure funk anthem that will take over dance floors as FIRST TOUCH gives you the KNOCKOUT!