K-OS (P-Funk Mix-Master)

Another outtake of Mix Master Suite. Some of the scratch mixing that wasn't cleared at the time of production of mixmaster Suite, for George Clinton's "R&B Skeletons In The Closet" album. These tracks, 1985.

Mike "Clip" Payne: drum programming, Anthony "Dav Id K-OS" Bryant: Turntables/Samples, Sa'd "The Hourchild" Ali: Keyboard Bass. Live tracking done at Hyde Street Studios, SF, Ca. February, 1994. One of those "P" tracks from 1994 slated for the T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. album but was lost in the shuffle along with the Mammoth Sessions and the release of "How Late Do U Have 2BB4UR Absent?"

On the morning of August 22, 1989. A friend called and asked if I had heard the news about Dr. Huey P. Newton. I turned on the news and started recording on my VCR. After gathering news footage that morning, I went straight for the Roland S-10. Here is the result of laying the bottom track straight to tape then overdubbing the sampled news footage. R.I.P. Dr. Huey P. Newton February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989

Another demo from the transferred cassette tape, also done for the project that was put on hold, Indefinitely. Just Funkin' around with myself. Dav Id K-OS: All instruments, loops, samples, scratches, etc.

I found these unedited, raw demo tracks I was working on for a project about sampling and musicians who have been sampled. I put these little pieces together as ideas for intros, segueways or segments. By the way, that project was put on hold, INDEFINITELY!

Excerpt from a long line of P-Funk loops and beds from the late 8o's / early 90's. Loops and Keyboard bass by Dav Id K-OS.

Had a little thing I called, "The Idiot Box". I would turn on the TV, record some shows, half ass edit them, then do a live scratch mix over it. Just a few hours in the Life Of K-OS. See if you can identify the shows and figure out what year this was done.

K-OS Funkin' around with PTFI. Old 4 - Track demo from the mid 90's. PTFI: keyboards. Dav Id K-OS: bass and guitar tones, samples. Chopped and Funked with by Dav Id K-OS.

I Wanna Know If It's Good To You? - Funkadelic. One of the first Live Remixes I did on a 4-Track back in 1989. One of my favorite Funkadelic songs of ALL-TIME, I've got a million scratch/remixes of this song, this is just one of them. Billy, Eddie & Tiki looped up into a dubadelic frenzy.

Was just Funkin' around with "Working Girl" by Shelly Thunder for the back beat, "P-Funk (Wants To Get Funked UP)" from Parliament Live Earth Tour.

I'll have some "Special Barbecued Seaweed Sauce" with all that Bull Shhh you servin' up, please. Another snippet of things to come. FunksTruMental/Loopadelic Rehearsal 07 - 23 - 2013. Dav Id K-OS: Guitar, drum loops & samples. PTFI: Keyboard bass. Juancarlos Emiller: Drums. Rickey Vincent: vocals

Just a snippet of "Do Fries Go With That Shake" live rehearsal for FunksTruMental / Loopadelic July 23, 2013. Juancarlos Emiller: Drums. PTFI: Keyboards. Dav Id K-OS: Guitar, Drum Loops.

Do That Stuff from Parliament Live and The Freeze (Sizzaleenmean) by Parliament. 1989, just got hold of a Roland S-10 Sampler, with only 30kHz (4 seconds) - 15 kHz (8 seconds) sample time. Scratch-mixed and sampled direct to 2-track cassette deck.

Just Funkin' around playing the drums to some loops. From the FunksTruMentaL/Loop-A-Delic Rehearsal 06-04-12 Disc 2. Dav Id K-OS: Drums, Drum loops, samples.

I Wanna Know If It's Good To You (Take 2) - FunksTruMentaL/LoopADelic Rehearsal 06-04-12 Disc 1. This is the second take from a live rehearsal for FunksTruMentaL/LoopADelic featuring Michael "Kidd Funkadelic" Hampton on lead guitar. The bottom tracks were done on 4-Track, Mike's guitar solo was added later and I played live drums over it for a rehearsal for my upcoming FunksTruMental / Loop-A-Delic project. The song was originally written by G. Clinton, B. Nelson, E. Hazel and C. Haskins. The photo was taken in 1996 by Andrea Brown (R.I.P.).

ZootZilla Live at The Rockit Room in San Francisco, Ca. January 20th, 2007. ZootZilla: vocals. PTFI: lead guitar. Dav Id K-OS: bass guitar. Carl the Big Drum Beater: drums. Round 1 of the Emergenza Battle of The Bands.

SuperLoopalisticProsiFunkstication. Another demo track from The Vaults Of K-OS. 1990. The beat is sampled from "Funky President" by James Brown, Samples and loops , Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication - Parliament, P-Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up) - Parliament and Mothership Connection (Star Child) - Parliament. Demo number 1.

Another track from that garbled tape. 1989. Music For My Mother Land (Ins Tru Mental)later went on to become a demo track for Roller Rink, an as of now, unreleaeased P-Funk track. Contains samples of "Back To Life (However Do You Want Me)" by Soul ll Soul, "Music For My Mother" by Funkadelic. Also an interpolation of "Bop Gun" by Parliament (that's near the end). Additional keybords and drum program by Dav Id K-OS.

Funky little ride through the Funkosphere. Contains sample of "Feel Free" by Soul ll Soul, "Good Ole Funky Music" and "Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow" by Funkadelic. Additional keyboards and drum program by Dav Id K-OS. One of those straight to tape mixing sessions from 1989.

From the Vaults of K-OS, 1988. I had LunchMeataphobia while Trombipulating a Warning. Samples from Trombipulation by Parliament, Lunchmeataphobia by Funkadelic, Warning by Slave, You Can Make It If You Try by Sly and The Family Stone, Agony Of DeFeet by Parliament, I think there's some Grace Jones in there somewhere. This is also a test. I uploaded direct from the computer into the upload/rec line to soundcloud.

This is one of my rejected demo tracks for Digital Underground's 1993 album, "The Body Hat Syndrome". Hope I don't get in trouble for uploading. Samples are from, "You Can Make It If You Try" by Sly & The Family Stone, "Strangers in the Night" by The Young - Holt Trio and "In A Stranger's Arms" by Attitudes.

Taking you back to 1988. Another excursion through The Vaults of K-OS. This is what it sounds like when you take "Cow Punk" by Scott Goddard, "Weathered Statues" by TSOL and "Comin' Round The Mountain" by Funkadelic. Throw in some feedback from "Synchronicity ll" by The Police. With Eddie Hazel's guitar solo from Comin' Round The Mountain included. Sampled and Scratch-Mixed live, direct to two track.

P-Funk & Reggae Dub meets Pink Floyd. Good Ole Funky Music by Funkadelic drum loop, organ and bassline mixed with Dogs by Pink Floyd.

Enter, if you will, the Lo-Fi Underground Labyrinth of The Original K-OS. Another excursion through the Vaults of K-OS. The Nightmare Of Readjustment is upon you. The sounds you hear are, "Come in Out Of The Rain" drum loop, "Eulogy And Light" Scratch/Mix, and Dave Id K-OS on guitar. All due respect to George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic. I do not claim copyright on any samples or loops just credit for rearrangement and composing of pre-existing material, plus my original guitar licks with the exception of March To The Witch's Castle interpolation. Recorded, mixed and performed by Dave Id K-OS (A. Bryant) 1993.

And yet another excursion into the depths of the K-OS Vaults. Clearly made with the George Clinton Sample Series cuts. I threw in some cuts from, well, you'll figure them out if you are into listening to what is going on, that is.

An interview of George Clinton by Rickey Vincent back in 1989. Rickey had asked GC if he remembered doing some work with a DJ back in 1985. I chopped and sampled parts of it to this obscure palette of sounds including samples from, well, see if you can figure them out. Another lo-fi Funkstravaganza from General K-OS, Mix-Master, Loopadelic Division of Uncle Jam's Funk Army.

54 years ago today a 22 year old Buddy Holly died in a plane crash along with 17 yr. old Ritchie Valens and 29 yr. old J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson. It is known as "The Day The Music Died". I woke up this morning thinking, "What would it have sounded like if Buddy Holly and The Crickets were to jam with James Brown & The JB's"? I came up with this. Done live with no SERATO or any of that stuff, just 1 turntable and 1 CDJ. Made this at 2:45 pm 02/03/13. Hope you like it.

Another 4-Track demo I recorded back in 1989. Everybody was sampling, trying to get a hit. There was a lot of biting going on too. So I sent this message out there. I put this track down live to 4-Track. No sync tones or sync tracks or midi on this one. Two turntables and a sampler, live to tape.

This is a demo version of Mix-Master Suite. What was originally done as a remix to Funkadelic's One Nation Under A Groove by Dave K-OS, morphed into several versions. George's label at the time couldn't or wouldn't give clearance to any of the P-Funk songs that were originally scratch/mixed throughout One Nation so all of those were cut out of the mix. George had sent me a rather clean cassette copy of what he and Debra Barsha were able to sample then re-arrange into a bottom track that was in the same tempo of One Nation. The cuts that survived were the Fishbone, Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Real Roxanne scratches I had done in the fall of 1985. I did a version at a local studio with that cassette copy cleaned up a bit and put some more P-Funk cuts in it, sent the tape off to him but the package came back opened with no tape inside. The package never made it out of the post office. By Spring of 1986 the song was released on R&B Skeleton's In The Closet . I had forgotten all of the previous scratch/mixes I did so I sat down and produced a 4-Track demo version in 1989 and called it Re-Mix Master Suite. This is almost close to what was originally done.