Quotes about Dave's Music

"We love the funk. You've got it!"
(Fort Knox Five)

"A Brighton Jazz Rooms classic already. Firing Funk from Perth, Australia"
(Russ Dewbury)

"Party funk which I've been caning"
(DJ Spinna)

"Flow Dynamics got the beats that'll make ya say DAAAAAAAM!!!!!! Much respect! Still haven't managed to stop playing "Live in the mix". I've done it to death but I still have to drop it every set!"
(Askillz)

"Really dope, james brownish, upbeat and funky as hell"
(All Good Funk Alliance/ Funk Weapons)

"This 12" is the bomb. It's what 'funky breaks' should actually sound like! - Killing it at Boogie Down every week. This is not leaving my box"
(DJ Regal, Wiseguys/ Bronx Dogs)

"Have to say mate, I absolutely love it - the A side in particular is awesome. Really looking forward to playing it out."
(Flevans, Tru Thoughts)

"Dancefloor dynamite!"
(Quinton Scott- Harmless/ Strut Records)

"If you DJ to a dancefloor then you need this. If you don't, then get it anyway: it's that good."
(Lack of Afro)

"Upbeat dancefloor funk"
(Knowledge Magazine UK)

"Timeless"
(Adam Freeland)

"Funk bomb!"
Paul Gamblin (Black n Blue Radio)

"Live-meets-electronic dancefloor funk"
(DJ Magazine UK)

"Great tracks on your album... definitely a funk bomb!"
(Kid Gusto)

"Played it last night. The party-crowd went mad. A real burner, man. Will be in my record-case for months"
(Quincy Jointz - Radio42/ Citrona Recordings)

"Banging funky party tracks on Freestyle... Very dope. Highly recommended"
(Groove Distribution)

"Your 12" on Freestyle Records is a bomb! it won't leave my box..."
(Pascal Rioux - Disques Rotax)

"What a slice of funky club pressure" - Jelly Jazz

DJ Mashup Set, Live in Sydney - Review: Straight Up Radio (AUS)
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 downmash-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 R Master 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.

Flow Dynamics goes down a storm internationally, in all his musical guises, being spun regularly by influential DJ’s such as the inimitable Gilles Peterson (UK). The forthcoming European tour is highly anticipated by many appreciators of a true jazz-funk temperament. 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

Music Review: In The Mix Australia (AUS)
On the Live In The Mix, McKinney plays bass, drums, guitar and horns and is joined by Sunny Amorganda on vocals, Graeme Blevins on flute and DJ Pawel on turntables. When the song begins, the percussion and beat tells you that the funk has landed. The production in this song is as strong an element as the skills of the musicians. Amorganda’s vocals make you think they caught James Brown while on tour in Australia and lobbed him into the studio. When the vocal sample is vinyl-scratched halfway through you realize that you’re being let in on the joke bit by bit, which makes you listen intently the whole way through.

Better Onstage sounds like it could be the theme tune to a blaxploitation flick with its wah-wah guitar and snare-driven drum beat. Featuring DJ Select on turntables, Tom O’Halloran on Rhodes and McKinney on drums, bass, horns and clavinet, McKinney’s multi instrumental-ism is matched only by the sensational job he has done at channeling the funk style.

For those who like funk, dance or any form of great music, you would be doing yourself a massive favour to have a listen to Flow Dynamics. - Review by Spokey Dokey.

Music Review: Piccadilly (UK)
Australian combo Flow Dynamics keeps the party vibe going on this awesome Freestyle double header: Side A's 'In the Mix' features James Brown sound-a-like singer Sunny Amorganda free forming over the infectious 70s style disco-funk backing, making for perfect dancefloor flavours. On the flip is the slower groover 'Better on Stage' which has DJ Selekt cutting up a hip hop vocal sample into a horn-riffed groove. Record of the Week.

DJ Mashup Set, Live in Perth - Review: InTheMix.com.au (AUS)
A return to the main room revealed the crowd going nuts for one of the best funk producers this city has spawned, Flow Dynamics. His set was tearing holes in the speakers as he unleashed a barrage of funk unlike anyone has seen from one single human. Few DJs or Producers in Perth let alone the world could match this performance as the crowd was given a history lesson of Funk and Break as the man in the tracksuit jacket dropped bomb after bomb.

The only criticism being that their was no chance of a respite as funk classic blended into funk classic. Loops from Kool and The Gang, James Brown and other luminaries were mixed into a modern set that can only be achieved with the high tech setup that Flow brought to the table, or of course a crazy dee-jaying octopus.

It was great to hear so many old and new school tracks layered onto each other in such a way that kept the crowed pumped. Flow also displayed many of his trademark beats from his debut album as he wound up proceedings.

Not a moment or riff was spared as the Funk Club’s residency came to a unique and dramatic crescendo. As the crowd spilled out onto the street there was a feeling that it wasn’t the end but rather that this was just the foundation for this unique and special night to continue from now and into the future. With the place packed to the rafters and booty shakin’ like a tribal gathering, the future of The Funk Club looks complete.

DJ Mashup Set, Live in Sydney - Review: InTheMix.com.au (AUS)
Headliner time now though, and that meant Flow Dynamics stepping up to the stage with a laptop and a whole bunch of kit of some indeterminate electronic origin. He knows what he’s doing with all that kit, and he spent the next two hours showing us just how. There were beats, there were breaks, there was funk, there was soul and we got to see him take apart and back together tracks from the really rather right-on album he was launching tonight (my favourite being the way he pulled the flute line out of Live In The Mix and used it to toy with dance floor). One of the things I rate most about seeing
live sets from producers I love is seeing them manipulate their own music in ways that others just can’t. This set scored very high points from me for that (and indeed, high points in every other category as well). Highly, highly recommended.