Sydney Funk & Hip Hop collective RENEGADE FUNKTRAIN formed back in 1994 and made pretty dope music for the short time they were around infusing heavy live grooves with the full band & live scratching & MC’s like no not many others were doing at the time. We loved this band back in the high-school days, wish they put out a few more releases.
From memory only released one self-titled album in 1995 & a couple of singles, some of which we still play at our parties today.
This is a clip of them doing their it large with the full band live on Recovery on a Saturday morning back in 1996. You can see brother and sister Rosano & Tina Martinez up front on vocals, DJ ASK adding cuts and the band Dereck Antunes (on drums) alongside Juan Gonzalez (keyboard) and Adam Dehnem on Bass.
We found this & a stack of killer local Sydney music from the likes of King Farook, Good Buddha, SKUNKHOUR, DIG Directions In Groove, The Ray Mann Three, Dojo Cuts, Fonke Knomaads, DJ Soup, MC Kye / Budspells, Atone, Wicked Beat Sound System, Ali Omar & more.
We cant wait to put it in a podcast and share in the next few weeks.
We will be dropping something on our Soundcloud page soon HERE
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