Artists
Altz
Altz was born and brought up in Osaka, Japan. This powerhouse of DJ, production and remixes is a truly gifted individual as his productions show. Altz plays guitars, basses, keyboards, mandolins but most of all loves his faithful old Mac.
Arturo Capone
Arturo Capone is an italian producer, working in many fields including art direction, remixing and production. His career began in the early 90's when he stepped up to the turntables and never looked back. As DJ he is complete and truly inspired by his legends (Larry Levan, Idjut Boys, Dj Harvey) as well as U.S. garage, mutant disco, deep house, detroit, and funk. Since the end of the 90's, he has been totally absorbed into music production, the result being his debut Album Miocuore.
Bottin
The Venetian Gugliemo Bottin is a producer, DJ and sound designer with a rich tapestry of experience in a wide range of sound-related areas. Not only is he involved with making awesome nu-disco originals and remixes (as we are well aware), he's been involved with numerous art installations and cultural institutions, acting as curator for the Color Music series at Sonar festival in Barcelona, as a sound artist for the Fabrica "creative research centre" and getting his work featured at the Cannes Film Festival, for example. His DJ sets are an unpredictable journey into space disco, italo raritiesa and deep funk. It's a reckless blend of retro-futuristic sounds and contemporary electronica that always sets the dancefloor on fire.
Chicken Lips
Chicken Lips comprises of Andy Meecham and Dean Meredith with our own Steve Kotey entering into the frey for more recent projects. Chicken Lips have been producing some inspired New York Disco fuelled electro house for the last five years and they are equally well known for their remixes and edits for the likes of Josh Wink, Underworld, Playgroup, Stereo MC's, Tiga and Utah Saints to name a few. Dean Also records on Bearfunk as Goat Dance.
Appearances: BFK022
The Diaphanoids
Hello Earthlings. From the netherland of the kosmos, here come The Diaphanoids. With a bizarre and mind-boggling musical background (junk rock, alternative library music for TV, songwriting for Luciano Pavarotti (yes, him!), Blackbox and many techno-house releases during the nineties, orchestral composers, arrangers, producers), these psychonauts will deliver their own unique blend of lunar funkadelia + spaced-out disco+ astro rock+ galactic soul + confuzed boogie + congotronics + krautgrooves + seventies soundtracks, with titles like excerpts from psy/sci-fi B-movies.
Fabrizio Mammarella
Fabrizio was born in 1982 in Italy and has always had a love and passion for music.
Growing up he was exposed to many different musical genres and got involved in record collecting at a very early age.
Foolish and Sly
Sly's previous: …did his first vocal session aged 9, wrote + recorded his first song aged 12, son of George Chandler, member of 70’s UK funk/disco outfits Gonzales + Olympic Runners, Kyle was surrounded by music from birth. Thru his teenage years he taught himself to play drums, bass, guitar and the rudiments of studiocraft.
Releases: BFK001
Hans-Peter Lindstrom
Lindstrom is the moniker of Hans-Peter Lindstrom. Born and raised on country & western in the west coast of Norway, he now resides in Oslo making electronic music with a nerve. Hans-Peter is a multi instrumentalist, playing both drums, guitar, bass and keyboards.
Idjut Boys
The Idjut Boys aka Dan Tyler & Conrad McConnell hooked up in the late eighties through a shared love of the disco not disco of Harvey and Francois K. Best described as eclectic (or, to the uninitiated, eccentric) their DJ sets are typified by an anything goes attitude. Disco, electro, r&b, soul, house, techno, hip hop, pop & rock. Anything works if it fits in the mix.
DJ Kent
DJ Kent, one of the former member of Force of Nature, a remarkable DJ/producer, has been seeking for quality dance music beyond House, Disco, Dub, New Wave Disco Dub, Techno, Electro, Break Beats and Hip Hop.
Max Essa
During the mid to late 90's Max notched up a string of releases with friend, Tim White, recording under the name Essa. Play-listed by a wide variety of D.J's from Bob Jones and Ashley Beedle to Radio 1's Annie Nightingale and Mary-Ann Hobbs, Essa followed an impressive catalogue of 12's and E.P's with their 'Detritus Excitus' L.P on Paperecordings in 2001.
Roberto Auser
Roberto Auser is a dutch artist, designer, DJ and talented producer known for his 70's inspired synthesizer music. His music is best described as an adventurous combination of Disco, sweaty House, garage Techno, delicate Soundtracks, Ambient and lots of exotic sounds. Also known for his music played on Intergalacticfm.com radio regularly.
Stevie Kotey
Stevie got his first taste for music at 16 working for Audio One studios in Soho London, a promotion from tea boy to tape operator gave him a chance to sit in on various pop productions and also confirmed his urge to get into the music biz. After years of top productions and remixes Stevie launched Bearfunk in 2002. Bear Entertainment is now one of the world's most talked about independent disco distribution companies. With a catalogue of music that ranges from Disco to Balearic and from Funk to Acid house The Bear is known for its love of weird music and stupid humour. Bears' A&R repertoire reads like the who's who of wonky disco but that's not all. In 2002 Stevie joined forces with his Stafford amigos Chicken Lips for both DJ, live and studio duties.
Releases: BE007 | BFK007 | BFK008 | BFK003 | BE001 | ECON003 | BFK014 | BFK021 | BE010 | BFK044| BFKCD008
Todd Terje
Terje hails from Mjøndalen.. but as Terje remarks "there is nothing clubby about that place". Studying astro physics and being a DJ was only ever going to end in one way: Space disco: Bearfunk07 was Terje's first release, (although it was remixed by Prins Thomas). It rocked DJs worldwide with its infectious bassline and Prins disco drums, but Terje has many tricks up his own sleeve with a string of quality mixes and globetrotting DJ sets.
Releases: BFK007
Visti & Meyland
In 2003, Visti & Meyland teamed up through friends, and immediately found out that they shared a mutual passion for creating music. Their love of music has spawned several 12" on labels such as Warner, Music for Dreams and Eskimo. Apart from this, their tracks have also appearad on several compilations like Hotel Costes and sync'ed up for Movie and Tv such as CSI. Both being Geminies, the vibe in the studio can become fairly tense, and sometimes result in hour-long discussions on music, music history, musical taste and life in general. This however, is also the essense of their partnership. A musical marriage. A no-compromise approach to loving and creating music. Their selftitled debut album, now signed on Bearfunk, is a result of their 7-year journey together.
