WEFUNK Ad2k Records & Filmworks Present's
 
"Cacophonic
FM"
The New Solo Joint by company founder Michael Clip
Payne. This follow up to his ciritically acclaimed debut album is
ready to go to press. Featuring guest appearances by an international
cast of all-star musicians; P-Funk All Stars, Garry Shider, Mike
Kidd Funkadelic Hampton, Lige Curry, Danny Bedrosian,420FM's Lili
Haydn, Ted Orr and the 420FM International crew Gael Barbiere, Jean
Gillet, Hamid Saidj: with vocal performances by Belita Woods, Elizabeth
Withers and Joe Eppard from 3, Including two tracks produced by
DJ Etienne De Crecy, the Pope of Techno.
Besides being the leader of the 420 Funk Mob and
DRUGS:The Prescription for Mis-America here in the United States.
There is an international aspect to this award winning producer
and songwriters career. Clip had his first international blockbuster
producing and writing the International Dance Hit "The Baby"
by Jordie. He then wrote and produced tracks for MC Solaar on his
breakout album "Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo", the album that
broke hip-hop in France and Europe. He also wrote and produced tracks
for the critically acclaimed debut albums of French Pop Sensation
Sinclair and legendary Afro-Beat drummer Tony Allen.
Clip has collaborated with French DJ's, Alex Gopher,"
You My Baby and I" and the Pope of Techno Etienne De Crecy,
"Tempovision," producing hits and winning awards while
creating a new style of Techno house music know as French Touch.
The French Satellite and Cable giant Canal + unscrambled their signal
for a special broadcast after France won the World Cup. The show
featured an appearance by Alex Gopher and the 420FM International
Crew with Clip as front man in a band which included Garry Mudbone
Cooper from Bootsy's Rubber Band, Elizabeth Withers, French Pop
Star Mattheu Chedid and Gael Barbieri. The performance of Pary People
the tune he co wrote with Gopher was seen by over 10 million people
across Europe. Clips collaboration with Etienne De Crecy on Tempovision
featured Belita Woods, lead singer and producer of the 70's band
Brain Storm. In 2003 Clip went into the studio with Psycho on da
Bus leader Doctor L on "Boom Goes the Big Bang" the single
became a hit in 2004 after the US invasion into Iraq. The song features
Clip, Doctor L and Tony Allen.
2004 could be described as "The Live Year".
Clip's solo projects the 420 Funk Mob and Drugs:The Prescription
for Mis-America headlined at festivals n the United States and in
Europe in the breaks from P-Funks busy schedule. The 420FM Super
Meltdown TripFest has evolved into a scene that unites artists and
fans from different musical genres for an evening of music that
crosses all musical boundaries. This year 420FM shared the stage
with the hottest posse on the music scene, The Muzik Mafia out of
Nashville, part of the show to be broadcast on Country Music Television
in January as part of the MAFIA's tv series. The band broke new
ground when Clip brought a mixed posse of 420FM, Drugs members and
special guest George Clinton to Zaragoza Spain for the 25th Anniversary
of Spanish Radio 3. The show was nationally broadcast and a TV special
featuring the band, the festivals hit, aired the following week.
This historic night has been captured on the new WEFUNK AD2k release
"ALIVE IN SPAIN", a 3cd set. The package also includes
as a bonus the bands first DVD, "What Time is IT?" featuring
performances 420FM performances at the Freebird Cafe in Jacksonville
Florida & the Universal Church of Love and Music's Freedom Fest
in Pennsylvania.
2005 started off with an appearance at the biggest party in the
world. SUPER BOWL 39 as the official ESPN/NFL TAILGATE PARTY BAND.
Performing under the pseudonym WEFUNK FM , Clip led a combined posse
of 420FM and DRUGS into history as the only unsigned acts ever to
take part in a Super bowl Sunday Celebration. WEFUNKFM rocked the
Stadium Parking Lot at the Tailgate Party while Gretchen Wilson,
Alicia Keys, and Paul McCartney were the pre-show and halftime entertainment.
In August Clip succeeded in bringing WEFUNK's showcase
event, the 420FM Super Meltdown Tripfest to Europe. 420 Funk Mob
with their Special guests DRUGS, Kidd Funkadelic, Fred Wesley, Kendra
Foster and George Clinton over to Heidelberg Germany as the headliners
at the 2005 AUDIOSOUL FESTIVAL. 7.000 people crowded into the courtyard
of the famed HEIDELBURG SCHLOSS, a 1200 year old castle that by
day is the third largest tourist attraction in Europe to catch DRUGS
and the 420 Funk Mobs German debut.
Clip returned
to America in time to take part in the promotional tour for the
debut of George Clinton's C-Kunsphruzy Label and the release of
his first album in 10 years.He became the 5th member of the Red
Hot Chili Peppers when they did a tribute to Pfunk during George's
50th Anniversary celebration at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles,
Despite the rigorous P-Funk touring schedule and the 420FM/DRUGS
off days parties, Clip managed to find time to hit the studio and
produce the latest Cacophonic FM record "Funky Jazz 2"
as well as laying the groundwork for the upcoming 420 Funk Mob studio
album and another secret project known only as Girl.
THE VIDEO WHIRL OF THE CACOPHONIC FM POSSE
aka
WORLD WIDE FUNK
"M".....Matthieu
Chedid
Live in Paris
"M"
....A Few Hundred Thousand People can't be Wrong!
Red
Hot Chili Peppers w/ Clip '85
Red
Hot Chili Peppers "Jump" '85
Etienne
de Crecy & Belita Woods "Tempovision"
Etienne
de Crecy "Am I Wrong"
Alex
Gopher "The Melt Festival"
Garry
"Mudbone" Cooper
Joey
Eppard "Live in Albany"
Lili
Haydn with Chaka Kahn
Elizabeth
Withers on Broadway
WEFUNK
World-Wide
Links
TEMPOVISION
- The award winning collaboration between French House Guru
Etienne De Crecy and Mike "Clip" Payne. Hear the tracks, see the
video The second release of a new house genre called "French
Touch", featuring Miss Belita Woods.
Alex
Gopher's "You, My Baby & I-
The award winning album that created "French Touch". French DJ Alex
Gopher's album featuring tracks Co-produced with Clip Payne. Performances
by Garry Mudbone Cooper, Clip Payne, The Flash and members of the
Woodstock Posse.
Tony
Allens "Black Voices"- Afro Beat meets Funk.
The collaboration between Legendary Nigerian Drummer Tony Allen
(Fela) and Clip Payne
w/ special guest Gary "Mudbone" Cooper
Dr.
L Online-The official site French DJ Doctor L. Go to
the Discography section and check out the body of work amassed by
Clip and one of France's most innovative DJ.s
MC
Solaar - "Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo" The breakout
album by MC Solaar that put rap on the map in France, w/ tracks
produced by
Mike "Clip" Payne.
Kraked
- The site for Kraked, Drugs:The Prescription for Mis-America French
label. Check out the French take on D.R.U.G.S. The Prescription
for Mis-America.
www.thefunkstore.com
- The place to buy the entire Wefunk Catalogue.
www.GeorgeClinton.com
- The official site of the biggest dog in the game George Clinton.
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