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Yesterday's News: a thorough re-cap of the finest in punk, noise, garage and other ratty guitar sounds from the past few decades.

Dirty Funker

Dirty Funker

Dirty Funker has been played on NTS in shows including Mark Leckey, featured first on 23 August 2016. Songs played include Whole Lotta Love (Starship Dub).

Formed in London in the dark winter of 2002 and signed to the prolific Spirit Recordings label, Dirty Funker dropped his first bomb after a his demo caught the sharp ears of the Spirit A & R team, the double a side "Disco sucks" and "jump 2 it" both tracks gaining heavy rotation from the likes of Zane Lowe, Pete Tong, Steve Lawler, charged up with enthusiasm of the first release, DF went back into his underground bunker and penned the mighty "Future" which blended hop licks, progressive house grooves and dark tribal poetry in a true "mash up" style, vinyl sales grew and grew in the pre beatport age of file sharing downloads and Future went on to shift over 20,000 vinyl sales, and was Pete Tongs acclaimed "Essential New Tune"

2003 saw the release of Don't Stop" and in 2004 followed by "This Is Dirty Funker" and sales hit the 12,000 mark, A big Fan of Seattle's finest Nirvana, DF embarked on a trilogy of remixes kicking off with "Lithium" followed by "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Come As You Are" international gig offers fly in and Dirty Funker travels to USA, Russia, Siberia, France, Ibiza via Italy.

Spurned on by the worldwide reaction to the Nirvana remixes, Dirty Funker hits the studio and takes on the likes of Pink Floyds "Welcome To The Machine", The Sisters Of Mercy goth classic "Alice", ACDC's "Back In Black", Metallica's epic "Enter Sandman" and 2 rock Classics from Led Zeppelin "Immigrant Song"and "Whole Lotta Love", 2008 saw Coldplay, Pablo Decoder and Australias Sgt Slick get put through the DF blender!

http://www.myspace.com/dirtyfunker http://www.facebook.com/pages/DIRTY-FUNKER/50792657102 http://www.spiritrecordings.com

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Dirty Funker

Dirty Funker has been played on NTS in shows including Mark Leckey, featured first on 23 August 2016. Songs played include Whole Lotta Love (Starship Dub).

Formed in London in the dark winter of 2002 and signed to the prolific Spirit Recordings label, Dirty Funker dropped his first bomb after a his demo caught the sharp ears of the Spirit A & R team, the double a side "Disco sucks" and "jump 2 it" both tracks gaining heavy rotation from the likes of Zane Lowe, Pete Tong, Steve Lawler, charged up with enthusiasm of the first release, DF went back into his underground bunker and penned the mighty "Future" which blended hop licks, progressive house grooves and dark tribal poetry in a true "mash up" style, vinyl sales grew and grew in the pre beatport age of file sharing downloads and Future went on to shift over 20,000 vinyl sales, and was Pete Tongs acclaimed "Essential New Tune"

2003 saw the release of Don't Stop" and in 2004 followed by "This Is Dirty Funker" and sales hit the 12,000 mark, A big Fan of Seattle's finest Nirvana, DF embarked on a trilogy of remixes kicking off with "Lithium" followed by "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Come As You Are" international gig offers fly in and Dirty Funker travels to USA, Russia, Siberia, France, Ibiza via Italy.

Spurned on by the worldwide reaction to the Nirvana remixes, Dirty Funker hits the studio and takes on the likes of Pink Floyds "Welcome To The Machine", The Sisters Of Mercy goth classic "Alice", ACDC's "Back In Black", Metallica's epic "Enter Sandman" and 2 rock Classics from Led Zeppelin "Immigrant Song"and "Whole Lotta Love", 2008 saw Coldplay, Pablo Decoder and Australias Sgt Slick get put through the DF blender!

http://www.myspace.com/dirtyfunker http://www.facebook.com/pages/DIRTY-FUNKER/50792657102 http://www.spiritrecordings.com

Original source: Last.fm

Tracks featured on

Most played tracks

Whole Lotta Love (Starship Dub)
Led-Zeppelin (Dirty Funker mix)
Spirit Recordings2005