Ok_Ma

Bio:

Ok_Ma are Younglee and Jake Sax both self confessed musical beat junkies for life. The Ok_Ma ethos is captured in their DJ / Sax sets (Weekly Saturday night residence 'BROKEN SOULS' at the Bedroom Bar, Shoreditch, London.) where you can here everything from classic funk to booty broken beats on dubplate, dancefloor jazz to tougher electronic latin vibes and everything in between, They've played alongside many heavy hitters such as Norman Jay, Gilles Peterson, Quantic, Coldcut, Herbaliser, DJ Vadim, The Scratch Perverts, Mixmaster Morris, DMX Crew etc etc Ok_Ma have rocked gigs in Italy, New York, Beruit, Lativa Switzerland, Miami, Greece, Croatia, Ireland, Sweden and Spain..... there musical collection enables them to be able to drop uptempo beats to a packed dancefloor or more chilled vibes in intimate settings. Younglee plays regular European gigs for Google and has performed at many high profile European events for them including fours years in a row at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, playing alongside Norman Jay, Jazzanova, Clara Hill and Paul Randolph to an audience that included Bono, the Queen of Jordan and many of the worlds elite! Featuring various vocalists, this project is a a fusion of funk, soul, RnB and Afro / Funk rubs, global influence with a UK sound. With releases on London's R2 records, Liverpool's Sick Trumpet, Universal Vibes and Chicago's Still music and remixes for Arch_Type, Patchworks, Yellowtail, Jonny Miller, Choi, Tim Scott, Fred Wesley, Bernard Wright and featured on compilations from Philly, South Africa, Australia and Germany. They have had support from heavy hitters such as Rainer Truby (Compost) Justin Unabomber / Elektrons, Blackbeard, Kev Beadle (Solar Radio), Alex Attias, Harris (RAW FUSION), Diesler (Tru Thoughts), J-Walk, Dom Servini (Wah Wah), Simbad (Raw Fusion), Kraak+Smaak (Jalpeno records), Andrew Ubiquity 2009 has started with a bang with a sell out gig at Cargo in Shoreditch / London for the infamous Wah Wah record label...... They rocked it out with a full 9 piece band. The boys play and have played at most of London best venues such as 333, Turnmills, Fabric, Ministry of Sound, The Cross, Canvas, Chinawhites, Cafe de Paris, Cargo, Herbal and the like. Their Saturday night residence 'Broken Souls' at the Bedroom Bar, Rivington St, Shoreditch, London packs in a full house of over 200 people each week and has done for the last 7 years...... surely one of London's longest weekly residencies. VIDEOS @ http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=jakeOkMa ..
Go to ImageShack.. to Create your own Slideshow I wont be putting up any more gig info on this myspace page as they seem to have changed it, for more gig / booking info contact Ok_Ma1@yahoo.com

Member Since:

December 13, 2005

Members:

Younglee and Jake Sax are Ok_Ma. They produce and perform together Artists who have remixed our music Spiritual South Crazy P Conrad Lanu+ Bennson (Bamboos / Tru Thoughts / Melbourne) Opolopo (Sweden) Bandmasters Flight (Latvia) J-Star (London) Tim Scott (Liverpool) D'Nell (London)

Influences:

YOUNGLEE - Electro street sounds 6 (My first ever album) Good proper hip hop, early drum and bass, detroit techno, House (many spectrums of) broken beats, / Nu Jazz, Funk, soul, disco, boogie, Shiny pop, country rock and crack jazz. Pink Floyd, Jam, Frank Zappa, Paul Weller, Beatles, The Who, The Clash, Ramones etc I love music for ever and a day Books/Poetry. English Comedy, Korean/Jap Cineama, Good food Fine wine, Scuzzy Cider, Blow, London, Barcelona, Mozambique, Italy, Chicago, Long train journeys, Birds of Prey, Devon’s Beaches and Countryside................................................................................................ JAKE - Great funk and jazz 1972 is the year! Ecm, latin soul jazz reggae dancehall deep eclectic free psychadelic melancholy!! Music is life, life is music. My saxes Yanagisawa Bronze/Silver Alto, HANSON Baritone Heath?(www.saxophonesdirect.com), Cubase on a pc! Good musicians, art, food beauty!

Sounds Like:

G FUNK ROLLERS with HEAVY DRUMS, SEEDY LONDON/UK NOISE and LADY BASS. FUTURE BOOGLE / ILLICT BOOGIE

Record Label:

R2 / SICK TRUMPET / STILL MUSIC (CHICAGO)