Luka Prinčič recently also known as Prince Lucija (Crucial Pink, ex-Nova deViator and Deviant Funk) created a pile of music for a certain genre-transgressive stage show. On these originals and reworks of various degrees Prinčič is joined by bouquet of members from the collective The Feminalz. The shuffling team of collaborators presents itself in the usually peculiar and ambivalent light on the new productions, stealing melodic and textual images in a mix of instrumental club tracks and lyrically generous songs that function both as performative moments and repeatable musical hooks.
DRAGX̶FUNK is a transgenre mutation, a fluid entity, jagged pop, electro-funk, techno-cabaret, a schlager, and soft alternative, queer to the core, satire and tragedy, sharp and fun indulgence for the dance of bodies and brains, activism and hedonism, which would all like to steal your attention.
DRAGX̶FUNK is pronounced /dɹæɡɑːfʌŋk/
Luka Prinčič
Prince Lucija (aka Luka Prinčič, any pronoun) is a genderqueer artist with a nearly 30-year history of electronic and computer music production, live performances, DJ sets, club nights, new media art, workshops, performance art, techno-social research, activism, and advocacy within various autonomous-tech groups. On their music releases and in live performances alike they unapologetically move from noise, industrial, and abstract sound, sound art, dark ambient and collage, to electro-funk, and other bassy offshoots of syncopated post-electro. They work at Emanat in Ljubljana, run boutique cc netlabel Kamizdat, and fediverse community Sonomu.Club.
Bandcamp
Credits
Luka Prinčič · music, production, arrangment, recording, mix
Maja Delak · vocals and lyrics on Stoj Đoni, Hočem več, and Tossing Lawrence
Nataša Živković · vocals and lyrics adaptation on Lubricate Me and Ljubo
Veronika Valdés · vocals on Handy One
Daniel Petković · vocals and lyrics on Jst ga res ljubim
Leon Marič · vocals and lyrics on Aplauso
Jan Rozman · vocals and lyrics on Minica
Loup Abramovici · vocals on Heaven
The Feminalz · back vocals and co-writing
Josipa Tadić · graphic design
Maruša Hren · printing & usb booklet
Luka T. Zagoričnik, Luka Prinčič · executive production, promotion
Just Start The Funk contains percussion samples and music parts from Michael Jackson’s Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough.
Handy One is based on “Why Don’t You Do It Right” composed by Kansas Joe McCoy, lyrics adapted by Bela Pikalo from “My Handy Man” by Andy Razaf and first recorded by Ethel Waters.
Lubricate Me lyrics adapted by Nataša Živković from “Shave ‘Em Dry” by Ma Rainey.
Echoes is based on Olof Dreijer – ‘Echoes From Mamori’.
Aplauso composed by José Antonio Farias Mackey as “Esmeralda” originally performed by Javier Rodriguez.
Heaven written and composed by David Byrne and Jerry Harrison.
Music initially written for the stage show “Image Snatchers present: Mad Jakale in a Film We Haven’t Seen” by Maja Delak premiered on 9 December 2023 and produced by Emanat.
Support
Financially supported by City of Ljubljana
Availability
Limited edition USB Booklets and digital album (with “Name Your Price”) are available from 2 November 2023 through our Bandcamp shop at https://kamizdat.bandcamp.com.
Some rights reserved under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) licence www.creativecommons.com/licence.
production: Emanat
cat.no.: KAM073
