Whatafunk "Life of an Underground Rebel" [ALBUM]

Whatafunk built Life of an Underground Rebel over about a year and a half, and the seven tracks bring together six guest MCs and one Austrian turntablist around the producer's MPC One. Whatafunk grew up in Turin, where his mother played rock, blues and jazz at home, and a first rave at around fifteen made him want to DJ. He later co founded the crew Crop Circle Unit and has since worked in Berlin, where the project was mixed and mastered by Lorenzo Chiabotti at his Tracks on therapy studio. The record comes out on Little Beat More, the independent label run by the Italian DJ and producer Woxow and based in Vienna. Awon appears on "Manifesto," Che Noir on "Stay underground," Aaqil Ali on "Notanotherlovesong," UnLearn the World on "Hood Thangs," Juga-Naut on "Who's still here" and Patch on "Outro." The Austrian turntablist Chrisfader adds scratches to "Introduction," "Stay underground" and "Notanotherlovesong," and Koralle contributed a jazz inflected remix. In an interview with Wordplay, Whatafunk named DJ Premier, Pete Rock and Marco Polo as his holy trinity and described starting each beat from a sample, then building around hard drums and a strong snare. "Manifesto" and "Hood Thangs" were released as advance singles, and he says a follow up to this project is already taking shape from his beat folder, while the tracks he recorded with Ty Healy could come out as an EP of their own.

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