Aaron Funk

About Aaron Funk

Who is it?: Electronic Musician
Birth Day: January 11, 1975
Birth Place: Winnipeg, Canadian
Birth name: Aaron Funk
Origin: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Genres: Breakcore, IDM, drum and bass
Instruments: Drum machine, Renoise, synthesizer, sampler, softsynth
Years active: 1992–present
Labels: Planet Mu, Sublight Records, Hymen Records
Associated acts: Bong-Ra, Cex, Daniel Lanois, Doormouse, Fanny, Hecate, Poemss, Speed Dealer Moms, Speedranch, Stunt Rock
Website: Bandcamp

Aaron Funk

Aaron Funk was born on January 11, 1975 in Winnipeg, Canadian, is Electronic Musician. Aaron Funk is an electronic musician from Canada who gained immense fame after composing albums such as ‘Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole’ and ‘Rossz Csillag Alatt Született’. Like many other celebrities, he too had a humble beginning. As a teenager, Aaron Funk recorded ambience noises on his tape recorders and tried several experiments with these sounds. He later claimed that such experiments with music during his teens changed his life for the better and is one of the prime reasons behind his success. He grabbed the attention of acclaimed British musician Mike Paradinas later on, who gave Funk an opportunity to work with his record label. During the 2000s, Aaron Funk released several albums which were widely appreciated and catapulted him to the status of a legend. His memorable trip to Hungary inspired one of his most famous and commercially successful works, ’Rossz Csillag Alatt Született’. The songs from this acclaimed album went on to become chartbusters too and helped Aaron Funk garner critical acclaim as well. Although Funk has been maintaining a low profile these days, some of his albums, released a decade ago, continue to be popular among music lovers even today.
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Popular As Aaron Funk
Occupation Musicians
Age 49 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born January 11, 1975 (Winnipeg, Canadian)
Birthday January 11
Town/City Winnipeg, Canadian
Nationality Canadian

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Aaron Funk’s zodiac sign is Aquarius. According to astrologers, the presence of Aries always marks the beginning of something energetic and turbulent. They are continuously looking for dynamic, speed and competition, always being the first in everything - from work to social gatherings. Thanks to its ruling planet Mars and the fact it belongs to the element of Fire (just like Leo and Sagittarius), Aries is one of the most active zodiac signs. It is in their nature to take action, sometimes before they think about it well.

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Famous Quotes:

I'd use a bunch of ghetto blasters playing all at once to play different sounds I'd recorded with some shitty ghetto blaster. Most of my sources I'd get riding around on my bicycle and just listening for interesting sounds. I'd use garbage bins and streetlights and anything else I could find that was hollow or metallic to bang out rhythms on. Then I'd set up all the ghettos and record them all playing into that same ghetto blaster. Then I'd play a bunch of those tapes all at the same time and record that and so on. Then I would do cut-ups or pause-ups of those tapes to create a more startling rhythmic effect. A strange ritual in retrospect.

Biography/Timeline

1992

Funk began producing music as early as 1992, when he was experimenting with several 'ghetto blasters':

1999

He would self-release several cassettes during the 90's, before making his first official release with the 1999 12" EP, Greg Hates Car Culture, followed by a split album with Stunt Rock, Fuck Canada // Fuck America, and more EPs in the next year 2000, including Salt, 7 sevens.med, Shitfuckers!, and his first full-length album, printf("shiver in eternal darkness/n");. Funk then moved to using a PC sometime before 2000, producing music in MED Soundstudio, a Windows port of OctoMED.

2001

After hearing Greg Hates Car Culture while browsing a Minneapolis record store, Mike Paradinas (also known as μ-Ziq) immediately signed Funk on to his record label Planet Mu, leading to three releases for the label in 2001, a collaboration album with Speedranch, Making Orange Things, a 7" EP, Defluxion, and a full-length album, Songs About My Cats. In addition, he also released Doll Doll Doll, as well as split 12" with Cex and a raggacore 7" as Snares Man!, all in the same year. The following year, 2002, Funk released three full-length albums, Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits 1972–2006, 2370894 (Under Vsnares), and Winter in the Belly of a Snake, plus a 15-minute limited edition EP, A Giant Alien Force More Violent & Sick Than Anything You Can Imagine. 2003 saw the release of The Chocolate Wheelchair Album, Find Candace, a 7" EP Badminton, two split 7" EPs, one with Fanny under BeeSnares, and the other with Phantomsmasher, and an experimental collaboration album with Hecate, Nymphomatriarch. Following 2004, Funk released Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding, three EPs, Horse And Goat, Infolepsy EP, and Moonglow/This Bitter Earth and a remix of Doormouse's Skelechairs. During this time period, Funk started using Cubase next to MED.

2005

Funk first released in 2005 his tribute album to his hometown, Winnipeg is a Frozen Shithole, before releasing Rossz Csillag Alatt Született, an album inspired by Funk's recent Hungary trip that combines fast breakbeats with classical strings and trumpets, to critical acclaim. Tiny Mix Tapes called it Funk's '...most accomplished album to date', describing the album as '... of uncouth beauty that is at once sublime, timeless, cinematic, sporadic, and moving from start to finish for the uppity junglist or the CBC Radio 1 listener in your family'. At the same year, Funk has also released another album, Meathole, and debuted under his new acid-oriented alias, Last Step, in You're a Nice Girl.

2006

In the later years, Funk's amount of releases would decrease to at least one each year, compared to as many as six earlier before. The next year, 2006, Funk released one album, Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms, and a single EP, Hospitality. 2007 saw the release another classical-styled album, My Downfall (Original Soundtrack), an EP, Pink + Green, a 10" series of dubstep-styled Black Sabbath covers under Snares, and his first full-length self-titled album under Last Step. Funk followed it next year, 2008, with another Last Step album, 1961. He also released the Detrimentalist album and the Miss Balaton single in the same year. 2009 saw the release of the album Filth, and the Horsey Noises EP. Afterwards in 2010, Funk released the My So-Called Life album and a 12" collaboration with Red Hot Chili Peppers Guitarist John Frusciante under Speed Dealer Moms. Funk's only release in 2011 is the EP Cubist Reggae. 2012 saw three new releases by Funk, with two EPs Fool The Detector and Affectionate, and a Last Step album, Sleep. After an unusual absence in 2013, Funk's next release came in 2014 with a new album, My Love is a Bulldozer, as well as a self-titled debut collaboration album with Joanne Pollock, Poemss, and a self-released Last Step EP, Lost Sleep. Funk released the EP, Your Face, the following year 2015.

2015

On August 26, 2015, Funk posted on his Facebook page that he was '...suddenly in very serious financial trouble,' and announced that he has launched his own Bandcamp page, re-releasing a majority of his releases, especially those previously out-of-print. Funk topped the whole Bandcamp best-selling list within the next 24 hours. As thanks to his fans, Funk self-released Thank You For Your Consideration on his Bandcamp page for a pay-what-you-want price. Funk later announced a new album coming February 19, 2016, called Traditional Synthesizer Music, with a preview single available to Listen to now. This album was the product of Funk's experimentations with modular synthesizers, and was created exclusively on modular synthesizer hardware.

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