Live Remix and Mashup DJ Set

To support the release of the Flow Dynamics album on Freestyle Records I'm doing a run of shows in UK, Europe and Australia. I wanted to do something a little different, so I'm doing a special live remix and mashup DJ set. I basically have a pile of loops, grooves, songs, acapellas, and song snippets, and then use midi controllers and computer gear to trigger bits and pieces in and out. It means I can do live remixes of my own stuff as well as improvise mashups on the fly. Lotsa fun ;) You can expect to hear lots of exclusive edits, live remixes and general mashup madness including Flow Dynamics favourites, old school dusty funk classics, and the latest tunes from around the globe. Funk, soul, hip hop, latin, disco, beats, and breaks. Feel good party styles all the way...

Hungary
Belgium
Germany
Austria
England
England
Spain
Spain
Spain
England
France
Australia
Australia
Australia

28.09.07 Budapest, West Balkan
29.09.07 Antwerp, Stereo Sushi
05.10.07 Ingoldstadt, Maki
06.10.07 Vienna, Club U
12.10.07 Bath, Moles Club
13.10.07 London, Big Chill House
18.10.07 Granada, Afrodesia
20.10.07 Madrid, Marula Cafe
25.10.07 Barcelona, Tba
02.11.07 London, Fingerlickin' Birthday at Heaven
03.11.07 Lyon, La Marquise
15.11.07 Perth, Artrage
30.11.07 Perth, Funk Club, with Ohmega Watts
01.12.07 Margaret River, with Ohmega Watts

Flow Dynamics DJ Set Review - Sydney, Australia 24.08.07
Review by Straight Up Radio

"Despite a series of torrential downpours, the good-time party people (and one of the friendliest crowd I’ve partied with in all of Sydney), turned out to Bar Broadway’s first floor on a tempestuously rainy Friday night, to begin an evening packed with top-quality beats and breaks, in a Hip Hop-Jazz-Funk-groove-yo’ass-get-down-mash-up stylee. Easy Now.

The Dusttone party people hosted a night showcasing the self-titled debut album from producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and DJ Flow Dynamics, AKA Dave McKinney. Awarded the WAM song of the year prize for electronic dance music in 2006 and nominated for a host of others, his music features internationally on a variety of platforms including original music and lyrics, remixes and one-offs. This bad-boy came to a little town called Sydney and made one hell of a funky mess. Fantastic. Capital Funk.

Easing into his set with a few choice jazz and soul inspired cuts of historic and dance-a-bility note, Flow Dynamics’ own favourites included a mash-up of ‘Giorgio’s brother’, a ‘Lack of Afro’ vs ‘Cmon on & get it’ mix, with a little jazz flute and scratching over an Eddie Roberts’s roughneck original. His own ‘Live In The Mix’ turned up the funk, and the ‘Superjam’ vs ‘Shock your mind’ remix started well and ended even better.

Smoothly dropping rmaster into a funk/soul/jazz and rare-groove set was quite the accomplishment. Flow Dyanmics took the edge off the raw mix and made it his own, and followed with a quite breathtaking amalgam of new and old, including everybody loves the sunshine – which on the same weekend of Notting Hill carnival in London, took me straight to Norman Jay’s Good Times Sound System for some good old-fashioned sharing of the love.

Flow Dynamics has an easy, accomplished style, only possible when you truly master your art. He knows what he’s doing and what he likes, and delivers it very well. There is no hint of pushing it over the commercial edge, unless you really want him to, and he showed that dipping your toes in doesn’t do anyone any harm. It can actually feel very nice.

Using a combination of Serato, Ableton Live and MIDI controllers, this is a technically and musically gifted individual. Often playing most of the instruments on his own cuts, his live DJ set brings happiness to an occasionally hard-to-please crowd. And my feet. I do not exaggerate when I say that his set flowed so well, and kept up the mix at such a pace, that I forgot to write a thing whilst he was on-deck.

Look out for the next Flow Dynamics collaboration, the new Soul Harmonics album. And catch him live if you possibly can, you will not be
disappointed".

By K.M.D.
Straight Up Radio
http://www.straightup.com.au

Some music getting much love on the Flow Dynamics stereo this month

Lack of Afro - Press On Album (Freestyle). Absolute dynamite this one. Get on it.
Will Holland et al- Tropidelico (Tru Thoughts). Finest grade columbian madness.
Lance F et al - Black Feelings (Freestyle). Another rekkid from the king. That's four albums this year!

And, last but not least, here's Charlie getting busy on the saxophone. Honk Honk!