http://futurefunkcollective.com It's All About Community Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:00:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Future Funk Collective will be backing S.K.I.P. of Nonsense and Alexandrah of the Sol.illoquists of Sound at The Social in Orlando! Funkin' all night! The Social 54 North Orange Avenue Orlando, FL 32801 Telephone:407.246.1419 Fax: 407.246.1380 http://futurefunkcollective.com/2007/ffc-the-social-orlando-fl/ Live art show, premiering the paintings of Juhli Greene and Jadahari.  Come see the creative wood crafting by Jeff Speicher who transforms locally reclaimed lumber into furniture and pieces of natural beauty. The gallery is also adorned with many glass pieces created and blown right here by Clint Corfman. Freshly made ... http://futurefunkcollective.com/2007/live-at-glass-onion-in-tampa/ Awhile back we did a track for an art exhibition in Belgium. It was an exploration of the creative state of black convicts in US prisons., and it was created by Daniel Sannwald. The words for this tracks are all numbers.  Specifically, the prisoner numbers of the participants in the ... http://futurefunkcollective.com/2007/numbers/ Today begins a new semi-regular feature on our blog, highlighting the community that is the FFC. We're starting Matthew Antolick, our primary drummer. Matt has been with the FFC since 2004. He's a kung-fu master (well, proficient anyways), and has Masters Degree in Philosophy from the University ... http://futurefunkcollective.com/2007/matthew-antolick-musician-and-scholar/ Here are three videos of the FFC backing S.K.I.P. at The Plaza Theatre in October 2007. Courtesy of Broken Machine Films. "Somebright" "John Was a Rich Man" "Sky Piece" Enjoy! http://futurefunkcollective.com/2007/ffc-live-wskip/ Here's a video of Kris Gruda weirding out on a nylon string guitar. Enjoy! http://futurefunkcollective.com/2007/kris-gruda-rox/ We have completed recording the rhythm beds for all songs on the new album, and we are in the final stage of overdubs now.  We'll be leaking some tracks to you soon... http://futurefunkcollective.com/2007/new-tracks/ We came in 3rd Place for Best Live Act category of the Orlando Weekly's Best of Orlando 2007! For all of you who voted for us, WE LOVE YOU! http://futurefunkcollective.com/2007/ffc-wins-in-best-of-orlando/ The FFC congratulates S.K.I.P. on the completion of his East Coast Tour with Joey Beats & Blak Lungz. For those of you who missed the tour, here's a video of S.K.I.P. performing the title track of his upcoming Nonsense release, "Autobiographicology". http://futurefunkcollective.com/2007/skip-video/ Especially when we're in it. The Future Funk Collective participated on the RTC Productions float in the University of Florida's Homecoming Parade on October 7. We brought the funk hard, and the proof was in the dancing, cheering crowds the entire time (including before the parade started). The band consisted of ... http://futurefunkcollective.com/2006/we-love-a-parade/