funky49?

Back in 1997 I worked at an IBM helpdesk with my friend, Mike Fresh. One day he was frustrated because someone he was helping could not come up with their own new password. Finally, exasperated, Mike said “Fine! Your password is funky49!”.

I thought it was so hilarious someone wasn’t able to come up with a password that included so many letters and a number plus ‘funky49′ just sounded cool. That night I made a mix tape of all of the beats, loops, audio projects, etc I was working on at the time. I labeled this the ‘funky49 mix tape’ and gave it to Mike to bump in his Prelude.

The weekend prior to Mike Fresh’s outburst, he was at his parents place digging through their records. It is possible that the James Gang song “Funk #49″ got stuck in his mind.

Mike Fresh later introduced me to redvoid and spilled a smoothie on the mix tape.

Starblazer comes from one of my favorite cartoons as a kid… the Japanimation “Star Blazers” aka “Space Cruiser Yamato”. It became a single and album name and then a second alias.

Superfiends is a twist on the super-hero cartoon “Superfriends”. It’s the name that redvoid and I create our ‘RPM Challlenge’ projects under. These are more experimental joints.

2 Def Mice comes from “2 Bad Mice” who were famous for a song called Bombscare (which became a popular breakbeat to sample). This is another project moniker for redvoid and me.

Doctor Basswave was a rap character invented for the Emergency Pizza Party album “Zombie Emergency Defense”.