THIS THURSDAY we have a VERY SPECIAL guest DJ in
the house flying in from NYC for his very 1st TIME spinning in Los Angeles!
DJ Frank Gossner of VOODOO FUNK fame in NYC is going to BRING IT
to AFRO FUNKE'....DO NOT MISS THIS EVENT.
Plus we are premeiring a summer long promotion
with Street Food Cinema so please see details below!
++PLEASE SPREAD THE GOOD WORD++
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Afro Funké
WEEKLY FUNK INVOCATION
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Afrobeat, Brazilian, Dub, Reggae, Cumbia,
Samba Disco, Batucada, Afro-Latin House,
Indian Beats, Makossa & other deep-rooted
Funk music from around the world
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Thursday May 17, 2012
guest deejay:
FRANK GOSSNER
(Voodoo Funk / NYC)Frank Gossner's career as a DJ began 1994 in Berlin where he had a major success with the promo
parties for the re-release of the Soundtrack to Jess Franco's psychedelic sleaze classic Vampyros
Lesbos. After touring all over Germany with this event, Frank left Berlin for NY in summer of 1996.
Under the moniker DJ Franc O. he established the legendary and decadent club classic Vampyros
Lesbos Party featuring exotic dancers in a custom built, chrome plated go go cage, French 60s Pop
and obscure European soundtracks.In 2000, Frank moved back to Berlin where under the alias DJ Soulpusher, he started a party
called Soul Explosion which soon became Europe's biggest regular night for rare and
hard-hitting funk 45s.In 2005 Frank again felt the urge to find new musical horizons so he took a plane to West Africa
where he spent a total of three years traveling countries like Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Benin
and Nigeria to build up a unique collection of rare West African Funk records. For a while, he also
hosted a radio show in Freetown and held club nights at various nightspots in the Guinean capital
Conakry. At times he had to flee through countries under martial law, spent days stranded due to
broken down bush taxis, got robbed at machete-point and braved thousands of miles of unpaved
roads. All of this in the purchase of rare and unknown grooves to share with the rest of the world.His record digging road trip adventures are chronicled on his critically acclaimed blog
www.voodoofunk.com, together with more than 30 one-hour-long mp3 mixes and countless
photographs and record cover scans.Frank Gossner still returns to Africa once or twice every year and has established a network of
Ghanaian and Nigerian agents who regularly ship him hundreds and thousands of records from
the Continent straight to the Voodoo Funk headquarters in NYC.Frank Gossner's DJ sets burst with exclusive tracks that are so rare that they can't be heard anywhere
else on this planet while his over 15-year experience in selecting tracks for a dancing crowd keeps
him from sacrificing accessibility for the mere sense of obscurity. Expect to hear deep but always
funky and infectious Afro Funk, Highlife, Afrobeat and Nigerian Disco.
resident deejay:
