Enter the collectors. The diggers. The DJs who believed that a 1973 B-side from Ohio could sit perfectly next to a 2024 lo-fi house cut from Osaka, as long as the feel was right. FUNKYMIX was their secret handshake. What started as a series of cassette tapes—passed hand-to-hand at after-hours spots and underground record fairs—quickly became a movement. Each mix was a puzzle box: a frantic, four-on-the-floor heartbeat layered with psych-rock guitar stabs, Latin percussion rolls, squelching Moog synthesizers, and vocals chopped so fine they became their own instrument. The core tenet of the FUNKYMIX COLLECTION is simple: Funk is not a genre. It is a frequency.
features the legendary crate-digger DJ Static Wax , whose 45-minute journey through Ethiopian soul and New Orleans bounce remains a touchstone for anyone who claims to "know" rare funk. Volume 4 sees the debut of The Phantom Horns (a session trio from Detroit who refuse to show their faces, only their blistering brass arrangements). By Volume 7 , we introduced the world to Synthea —a Japanese producer who builds entire tracks using only the sound of a malfunctioning drum machine and her own whispered counting. FUNKYMIX COLLECTION
Welcome to the vibration. You’ve just stumbled upon more than a playlist, more than a record label, more than a brand. You’ve found the wormhole. The FUNKYMIX COLLECTION is a living, breathing archive of sonic alchemy—a relentless, sweaty, glitter-dusted celebration of the funk that lives in every crackle of vinyl, every syncopated bassline, and every moment a dancer closes their eyes and lets the rhythm take over. Origins of the Pulse Born in the dim light of a basement apartment stacked with milk crates full of forgotten 45s, the FUNKYMIX COLLECTION began as a rebellion against the sterile. The early 2000s had sanitized so much of dance music; radio was linear, clubs were predictable, and the true spirit of the breakbeat—the raw, unpolished stank face of a drummer locking into a pocket so deep it felt illegal—had been pushed to the margins. Enter the collectors
The rule? If it makes your shoulders move involuntarily, it belongs in the collection. If it makes a stranger across the room nod at you in knowing recognition, it belongs in the collection. If it has a cowbell that isn't ironic, a clavinet that sounds like it's sweating, or a hi-hat pattern that swings like a pendulum in a hurricane— The Artists & The Architects The collection is not the work of a single ghost. It is a constellation of freaks, geeks, and groove merchants. FUNKYMIX was their secret handshake
It is chaotic. It is loud. It is funky .
Keep it loose. Keep it greasy. Keep it mixed. Now available on limited 180g magenta splatter vinyl, high-bias chrome cassette, and lossless digital. For the true believer: Volume 44 ("The Ghost of Meters Past") drops on the next full moon. Do not sleep.