The Floozies & Dirtwire – Neon Sundown Tour

Brothers Matt and Mark Hill are the sonic visionaries behind electronic-funk powerhouse The Floozies. Certified heavyweights in the world of jam and future-groove, the Kansas City-based tandem champion authentic funk in the digital age.
 
Familiar with sold-out shows across the country including their annual hometown Funk Street festival, prominent festival appearances at Bonnaroo, Electric Forest, High Sierra, Summercamp, Wakarusa, Camp Bisco, Summerset, Bumbershoot, and headlining Red Rocks shows, their formidable sound is continuously celebrated from coast to coast.

Dirtwire stands poised between ancient Mother Earth and modern technology, a blend of ethnomusicology and the psychedelic trance state, gut-bucket delta blues and what the band variously dubs “back-porch space cowboy blues, swamptronica, and electro-twang.” It’s a sound informed by Dirtwire’s travels and performances around the globe, where East meets West and North joins South. From the favelas in Brazil, Femi Kuti’s Shrine in Lagos, Tokyo’s bluegrass clubs, Ayahuasca ceremonies in Central America, Gamelan performances in Bali, desert festivals in the Australian Outback, and the 20th anniversary of Kazakhstan’s modernized new capital Astana, the band spreads its message by building bridges across musical cultures in their own unique way.

Dirtwire plays an array of instruments both ancient and modern, including West African kamale ngonis, jaw harps, space fiddles, whamola basses, Rickenbacher electric 12 string guitars, bowed Banjos and mouth harps from around the globe, all interwoven into modern laptop beat creation. Hailing from the underground west coast electronic bass music scene Dirtwire finds itself at the forefront of experimental electronic music production mixing in their wide array of world instruments with sampled beats and 808’s. Dirtwire’s live shows are a communal psychedelic journey, ranging from down home boot stomping get downs, to bass and blues electronic mashups, to ethereal cinematic beat driven soundscapes. Woven into each is the exploration of where live instruments meet computer production, and where tradition meets experimentation.

Currently based out of Massachusetts, the vocal cord conductor known as Honeycomb has quickly risen to the top of the food chain of northeast beatboxers, placing 13th in the 2015 American Beatbox Championships. With a unique approach as an equally versed music producer, and a frequent collaborator in both the live and studio settings, Honeycomb has built a sound fan base for himself through original productions and ear popping performances.
In the studio, Honeycomb has collaborated with Liquid Stranger, Moon Hooch and Space Jesus; as well as frequent partner in crime, Tonio Sagan. Aside from swaying audiences with his own material, Honeycomb has further embedded himself in the rapidly growing festival cuture by joining a diverse array of artists, from bass DJs, to funk and jam bands, to rappers-on stage, bringing their sets to new heights

He also has a love for film and photography, in which he created his brain-child Cluster Concepts. Cluster Concepts is a creative collaborative media group with a cluster of artists of numerous talents and services to cover the areas of film, photography, music, and entertainment. One of the major events was the first ever beatbox battle in collaboration with Beatbox Television at Youtube Studios entiled the "Battle of the 5th Element" the videos may be viewed HERE. Also he is responsible for filming and editing the videos for New England Beatbox YouTube channel. New England Beatbox is dedicated to providing high-quality beatboxing videos from fellow New Englanders as well as all over the world!


BANDS I'VE SHARED THE STAGE WITH:

Tipper, RUN DMT, Twiddle, Papadosio, Squnto, Brightside, The Fungineers, AFK, SPL, Political Animals, Break Science , Afroman, Outerstylie, Rhythm Inc, Wobblesauce, Dub Fx, ill-ēsha, Branx, EXMAG, Block McCloud, DJ LOXY, Steve Porter, Subset, Getter, Dali, Consider the Source, Elephant Wrecking Ball, Big chocolate, Rekoil, DANK, The Hornitz, The Floozies, Cherub, DJ CRAZE, Robotic Pirate Monkey, Moon Hooch, Cheatcode, The Problemaddicts, Orchard Lounge, BARE, Clozee, DJ CRAZE, Robotic Pirate Monkey, Brillz, Space Jesus, SADHU, Liquid Stranger, Archnemesis, Datsik, Manic Focus, Emancipator, Kicks n Licks, GZA, Kennedy Jones, Butch Clancy, Eliot Lipp, AK1200, Danny the Wildchild, Redshift, Spiritual Rez, The Alchemystics, Soulslinger, DJ DARA, J. Rabbit, Dodge n Fuski, Minnesota, Digital $torm, Danny Pease and the Regulators, Shantyman and the Speakeasies, Alpha Data, The Professors, NOSTALGIA, Fat Bradley, After Funk, Lucid, Lespecial, Schlang, Supersillyus, Esseks, Technicolor Lenses, Sophistafunk, Steve Porter and MORE!