Remains at flowing
An interview with Funki Porcini

One of the further successful attempts to abstract Beats and sounds can be found on Funki Porcinis long playing record ' Hed Phone Sex '. As Funki explains, the Beat is the principal item with its mode of operation, and which is to sound sinnlich. The usually ambient well-behaved sound landscapes, which are then web around this core, sound in addition strangely animated - like a combination made of reptile and insect about. Did not only fascinate me at the disk the great result, but also that Funki Porcini thereby achieved somewhat, that the vielgehypten Future sound OF London already tinkers for years.

Decisive for the fact it could be that ' Hed Phone Sex ' sounds completely unangestrengt. The different styles, from those that Network around the Beats exists, seems even coincidentally from Funkis memory to have been recalled. Thus they become the categoryless sound, and do not have as with many other productions a certain style represent.

And so ' Hed Phone Sex ' can be simply subtle, erotische music. She should be heard in being situated, then these sounds can spread best in the room. No matter whether they are used for easing or someone thereby to become alone or too secondly active would like. Completely unnecessary foolishness on the Cover like smudgy slogans or a Sex as reading Vegas organization annoyed me first, but Funki describes excusing:

' it should be simply a fun. Because I like the thought that you buy a disk and when opening the Covers the feeling have to have small toys before you. You find exact with me: small, toy-like bits information. Opposite what I do, I would not like to be so seriously adjusted, because in the long run it is Popmusik. When music making I can become very serious, in the sense that I would like clean-putting as much as possible from me. But at the end it is only one record '.

With which also the Unangestrengtheit of this music is avowed. Still their last fundamental aspect remains, and that is their movement. It slides slowly forward, whereby it holds after all directions look out, where it can continue. A parallel in addition can be found in Funkis personal record, is marked by stations in all directions. Funki in addition:

', perhaps this comparison can be employed. Here a few things take up, there a few things take up. You remain at flowing.'

Grown up in England, he goes with 19 to L.a., where he can be carried forward from Warhols film director Paul Morissey on Parties. As it of it enough has, decides it after Seattle to further-tighten, creates it however only to San Francisco, at that time a center of the Industrial scene. In this it moves, can be influenced by the Residents, Monty Cazazza, the early Tuxedomoon and Survival Research Laboratories, which build enormous remote controlled machines. Thereupon it returns briefly to England, and after a just as scarcely measured stay in Berlin it decides for Italy. From there it only last year returned to England. In the house of its parents he built himself his own studio, by bringing in and producing personally all parts of ' Hed Phone Sex ' - up to an organ solo one -.

At the nachhaltigsten apparent the film scene in Los Angeles coined/shaped it. On the question whether it when music making a certain sound in the heading, which he would like to achieve, answers it has:

' no, I have pictures in my heading. It occurs really to a large extent with pictures. If I begin a piece, is its conception first visually.'

Under the name Pear it published a Ambient disk, which brings such operating on the point. With 20 people they drove up and tried the Themse there, to transfer the impressions in sound. Also the film-adhered for Funki is central item in the music, which I would like to call times Abstract Hop. With the success of DJ Shadow, DJ Krush, he sees an extension of the term ' Popmusik to the labels Mo ' Wax and Ninja Tune '.

' is really again not at the music anything. Is new, which is accepted as music. The people now sound themselves a disk, which like a TRACK of sound of film sounds, without thinking that it is a sound TRACK. Before ten years the first thought would have been: " Oh, it is a sound TRACK ".'

Since in the last years in England a scene formed, whose musical Herangehensweise on evenly that idea of the sound TRACK without film constructs, Funki decided then in the last year to the return. It enjoyed in Italy a rested life, but was it there after ten years the space for musical experimenting too small. Now the surrounding field is correct again:

' there is a large community feeling. There are many people, the music makes and a large quantity dopes smoking for People, which a large quantity dopes smokes. Thus is the Beats so slowly become; the people want to rest. And ever cinematic it is, the more it after Experience sounds the better.

In addition there are people, which organize meetings in the whole country. There you see then again and again the same people and become acquainted with her.'

This scene thought receives further lift by the situation of the British music industry. ' the music industry is complete even apart-blown up. It lost its self identity and even no more does not know, how it continues. That is well like that, that is a very healthy situation. Such periods last not for a long time, and we will soon already have a new structure, to which we are bound. But at present the happening is very exciting, and it makes fun, to participate in it.'

This new bindingness in form of a MTV compatible trend could in view of the present self referringness British Medien-und Music scene faster there its, than somebody can be dear. I fear anyhow already that the scene is defined as ' typically British ', discovered for this bad reason and celebrated as memorandum to the Ami HipHop. That is exactly the mechanism of the British music press in the age after Grunge hollow Britishness triumphs. Already times Menswear belongs? But who knows, where Funki concerned up to then. It describes its last TRACKS as ' snaps, crazy Beats ', but too only times it plans a route. ' it is to become a 90-minuetiges video, with which pictures and music will synchronously run. Much reaming it becomes, and the suitable workstation for it is in the theatre.'