nuFF003 announced! manscape! Tool EP!

Dear Friends of The Funk, 

we are very pleased to present you the third release on our little NuFunk label nuFunkFiles.
This time it's not just mijkfunk alone: I teamed up with Joshua Kirkby aka DJ Box from Sydney, a long time friend and true ambassador of the Funk in his hometown.
On a hot summer day, Mijk van Dijk and long-term friend Joshua Kirkby from Sydney sat down in Mijk’s studio in Berlin and created „Tool“, a slow boogie burner, that Mijk has been road-testing ever since in his NuFunk DJ sets. It was clear that this little gem had to be released on nuFunkFIles.
Their original recording is based around a funky keyboard break sitting tight on a slow and phunky 109 bpm groove. Yes, it’s really that slow, the groove is just so uplifting, it feels much faster. And yes, it’s the boys working the mic as well.
Mijk wanted to create a faster variation based on the sound of his boogie monsters „Funkit“ and „To The Groove“ of his „Kids Want Revolution“-EP (nuFF002) and recorded a 117 bpm corker featuring his already iconic trademark boogie bass sound. And while on it, he also pushed the variations a bit further by remixing a wonderfully relaxed Balearic version as well as a Tool Tool that lives up to the name of the track also in the purpose.
Mijk is spreading the word and sound of NuFunk in Berlin through his radio show „Motherfunk“ on BLN.fm, his resident night „Funkit“ at Delicious Doughnuts and his DJ sets as mijkfunk. Down under in Sydney Joshua is a missionary of the Boogie under the name DJ Box. After recruiting his local record store (SPANK Records) staffer Matthew Cowley to “do something a little different” the Matthew Cowley Remix was born. A deep Tech House melancholic dense little builder of a track – It’s a fine addition to this EP and we are proud to have Matt on board.
Despite living on opposite sides of the planet, Mijk and Joshua share their love for The Funk with the help of the social media network, celebrating every new discovery in the still young galaxy of NuFunk/ FutureBoogie/ or whatever you may wanna call it.
We hope you dig our third release on nuFunkFiles and play it, chart it, talk about it. 
Boogie down, funksters!

motherfunk #17

motherfunk with a feature on The Original 7ven. We all loved them as the antagonists of Prince in the movie "Purple Rain" in the challenge for the coolest band in town.
Too bad, that in real life the purple one owns the trademark at "The Time". So now they are called The Original 7ven and released their great album "Condensate". Mijk van Dijk introduces the album and plays some tracks.
Of course there can't be missing a tribute to the late great Whitney Houston, who sadly passed away on February 11th 2012. And a lot of NuFunk from the likes of Lorenz Rhode, Tad Willy, Munk, Soul Clap, Sample Jack, Le Crayon and Kolombo. Also introducing Manscape, Mijk's new forthcoming release on nuFunkFiles.
Listen to it on www.BLN.fm, Tuesday March 13 at 8pm CET, Wednesday March 14 at 9 pm CET, Sunday, March 18 at 10 pm CET.
Boogie down, funksters!

Funkit becomes delicious

As if Mijk's Berlin based NuFunk night had not been tasty enough yet, after several nufunky sessions on the floors of Katerholzig, Ritter Butzke and Soju Bar. Now „Funkit“  has finally found a home every 2nd Wednesday of the month at legendary revamped relaunched Delicious Doughnuts, Rosenthaler Strasse 9 in Berlin-Mitte.
Kickoff is March 14th with a „mijkfunk all-night-long special“ to set the fundament of this residency at a reduced admission of only EUR 3,- Also introducing nuFF003. the latest release on Mijk's digital imprint nuFunkFiles.

Stay tooned and boogie down, funksters!

Funkit at RA     Funkit at Zitty

mijkfunk Set on GlobalBeats.fm

Tune in to Global Beats.fm tonight at 22pm CET for Kevin Weigel's Clubpink Hedgehog show featuring the final hour of a fresh mijkfunk DJ set recorded live on February 11th at Ritter Butzke Club in Berlin.
nuFF said: Boogie down!

mijkfunk on Resident Advisor

Now there's a mijkfunk page on the crucial web service Resident Advisor.
You are most welcome to follow it for all updates on my NuFunk stuff.
So what is it that mijkfunk is and that Mijk van Dijk is not?
I grew up with that great Funk sound of the early 80s.
That was the golden aera of the Boogie as well as a breakthrough for artists like Prince and that whole Minneapolis sound.
In those days I was playing the bass in a youth Funk band called "Joystick" in my hometown. Although I was the only bass player in my hometown who could slap and pop the bass in a Funk style, I was so convinced of electronic sounds, that I also bought a Moog Prodigy to play those amazing Boogie bass lines in our live shows. Our percussionist Jürgen also got a Boss Handclapper and we felt that we almost sounded like a real American Electro Funk band. ;-)
After moving to Berlin, I bought my first drum machine to program those Electronic Funk grooves, but soon had to find out that a Roland TR-505 is not a Linn Drum.
A year later Acid-House hit Berlin and I was sucked into the House and Techno groove.
The TR-505 being a stripped-down version of the TR-707 and TR-727 was a nice machine for House beats and so it was a great start into my career as Techno and House producer.
But my passion for Funk never faded and so I am happy to finally revisit my first love in music, The Funk with a radioshow on BLN.fm called "Motherfunk" and my own digital imprint nuFunkFiles under my second artist name mijkfunk! How does it sound like? Check on my Mixcloud!
I reckon I have been a bit lazy on this blog. Say no more: I'm gonna change that! So stay tuned for more mijkfunk info and gossip!

nuFF said: Kids Want Revolution

nuFF said: Kids Want Revolution
mijkfunk's second release on nuFunkFiles (AKA nuFF) ties in where "Are Friends Digital?" ended: 
again no House nor Techno but more NuFunk from Berlin.
Written in early 2010 "Kids Want Revolution" seems like the definite description of what we see on the streets of the world these days: a young generation with a new sensation, once again expressed by the flaming voice of Jette von Roth. 
Check the video on YouTube or Vimeo and start your own NuFunk revolution!
nuFF 002 will be out on Nov 30 2011 on all major digital shops.

funkit @ Kater Holzig: Mixes online

On September 29, 2011 Mijk played a funkit Party at Berlin's new hot spot Kater Holzig together with Corin Arnold aka ED2000. Due to public demand here are the recordings of his DJ mixes of the night, hosted on Mixcloud.
Enjoy!


funkit @ Kater Holzig, Slowgrind Intro Mix

funkit @ Kater Holzig, Peaktime Mix

motherfunk #8 - Tiger & Woods & more

On this edition of his Funk show "motherfunk" Mijk talks to Tiger & Woods - or rather: they talk through the computer about "Through The Green" their debut album on Running Back.
Also introducing new albums by Bootsy Collins, SoulParlor and The Chaenge, Mijk's very own NuFunk duo with Florian Schirmacher, yes kids, "Rebellion" will be out on June 20. Also remembering the great late Gil Scott-Heron, R.I.P.

Showtimes are:
Tuesday,  June 14th 2011,   8 pm
Wednesday,  June 15th 2011,   9 pm CET
Sunday,  June 19th 2011, 10 pm CET

Let's Go Another Round!

The Chænge will return to Hamburg.
Anyone who missed the NuFunkband in February at Zur Seuten Deern receives a second chance on the FormResonance Label Night at Übel & Gefährlich on March 17th 2011.
Florian Schirmacher on vocals, Mijk van Dijk on bass and Catharina Behr on drums will play songs from the forthcoming The Chaenge album "Rebellion" on FormResonance.
DJ support comes from Pelle Buys, Jendrik Rothstein, Taman Noor.

If you would like to support The Chænge, then like our Facebook Page attend our Resident Advisor event, share our Facebook eventand come down to Übel & Gefährlich and boogie with us.

mijkfunk at Dada Shanghai

Mijk van Dijk toured China and Japan in October/ November 2010 and played a 3-hour-NuFunk set at Dada in Shanghai, a nice must-visit club. Mijk played right after an exciting live show by LA-electro pop duo Pop Levi & Bunny Holiday and took over with some crowd pleasers before digging deep into the magic of NuFunk and 80s-Edits. Thanks to promoter Michael Nee Bing and club owner Michael Ohlsson for the warm hospitality in Shanghai. Enjoy the mixtape, comment at will!

mijkfunk NuFunk-Mix 2010

And one more from the Soundcloud archives: this mixtape is Mijk's personal NuFunk definition from Summer 2010, before establishing nuFF. Get the tracklisting from Dancefloor Mayhem, a blog that we like to follow.

And least we forget: free download!

TESTIMONY by label founder Mijk van Dijk

I grew up with 80s Funk myself, slapping the bass in a local Funk band called Joystick (we thought that name was way cool back then....;-). Living in Berlin I bought my first drum machine in order to sound like Prince, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis but soon found out that a TR-505 is not a Linn or DMX.
Then House music hit Berlin and I turned to House and Techno, understanding them as logical step childs of electronic funk. In the late 80s and 90s I helped to create the Berlin Techno scene as we know it, contributing as a journalist, producer, live act and DJ.
In the 00s I rediscovered Funk and worked on concepts, how modern funk could sound like.
The year 2010 finally brought a new wave of NuFunk that does not match with categories like NuDisco, NuRave or Indie/ Dance anymore.
In October 2010 I established a digital label called "nuFunkFiles" and launched my new alter ego mijkfunk for the first single Are Friends Digital?, organized a party series called funkit and a radio show called motherfunk at BLN.fm.

This blog is about NuFunk and the nuFunkFiles.

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