Frankie Knuckles Street Art Tribute | Chicago
SOUL OF SYDNEY: Present an afternoon tribute to FRANKIE KNUCKLES (2018)
Sunday February 4 2018 | 2:00 pm – Late
An Afternoon Feel-Good Funk, Soul, Disco, Garage & Beyond.
TICKETS – HERE | FACEBOOK EVENT & INFO – HERE
We are proud to be able to pay homage to the life and legacy of the much-loved godfather of house, FRANKIE KNUCKLES this February.
FRANKIE KNUCKLES is one of our biggest musical influences & one of the pioneering DJ’s & PRODUCERS who shaped the way we listen to, the way we party & the way we enjoy music. We will celebrate this summer in the way we know best with an afternoon DANCE RITUAL in memory of his musical legacy.
Join us from 2pm on February 4, for an afternoon of DISCO, FUNK, GARAGE, GOSPEL & EARLY HOUSE vibes that shaped house music from the Frankie Knuckles era.
★ Music by
- SOUL OF SYDNEY DJ’s & friends
- MIKE DOTCH
- KRISTEL MORIN
- GIAN ARPINO
- MICHAEL ZAC
- PHIL TOKE
★ Tix
starting from $10+bf (on sale now)
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/soul-of-sydney-an-afternoon-tribute-to-frankie-knuckles-sunday-feb-4-tickets-39823423933
★Location –
at Secret Disco Dancefloor (released to ticket holders via email)
★ Facebook Event
http://www.facebook.com/events/312130159298146
18 + Event | Limited Capacity Party Space | Fully Licensed | Strictly for the Love
LISTEN | SOUL OF SYDNEY TRIBUTE TO FRANKIE KNUCKLES PODCAST (2014)
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SYDNEY’S FRIENDLIEST DANCE-FLOOR!
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ABOUT SOUL OF SYDNEY COLLECTIVE & MUSIC EVENTS
SOUL OF SYDNEY: are a grassroots collective who are bonded by a love of ‘FUNK’ & ‘SOUL’ based music in all it’s forms. A creative family of DJ’s, Dancers & Artists working to promote and support the music they love as well as the street culture (Breaking, DJing, Street art) around it.
From humble begins in 2009 originally launching as a blog a, it was not long before the collective took a chance on a sunny Sunday afternoon to throw a one off secret Sunday afternoon picnic over 6 years ago. Setting up turntables and a renegade sound-system in a park in the inner west Sydney with a simple idea to bring FEEL-GOOD FUNK & SOUL music in an atmosphere where people had the freedom express themselves, where dancers connected with DJ’s and DJ’s had the liberty to play anything they were feeling.
Taking musical inspiration from across Hip Hop, Disco & House scenes as well as seminal DJ’s & parties & clubs from 70’s, 80’s such as; David Mancuso’s The Loft (NYC), Larry Levan’s and Paradise Garage, Kool Herc’s Block Parties, Ron Hardy, Grandmaster Flash and Frankie Knuckles. As well as encouragement from current esteemed music events such as New York’s ‘Body and Soul’, LA’s ‘The Do Over’ and UK’s Southport Weekender, the Soul of Sydney family knew there was a need to take things back to the roots of those musical scenes as a cooperative and with anything they put their name to.
6 years on, the Soul of Sydney’s distinctive focal characteristics of dance-floor expression, crowd participation and an inclusive party environment has seen the events really take on their own feel over the last 5 years.
A delicate approach to getting down where DJ’s, Record Collectors, B-boys & B-Girls, and Musicians from difference culture, age brackets and social scenes can meet away from the usual late night bar and club situation. They meet on a dance floor to connect through music on a dance floor to celebrate music’s uniting power. With positive party vibes encouraged, you can anticipate all kinds of dance floor fun including crowds that get down with classic Soul Train lines, Boys, Breakers, Poppers and Lockers getting down, Roller Boogie Flash Mob dancers and even the odd limbo lines or group jump rope on the floor.
(Check out some of the videos below for an idea of how they get down HERE)
Always keeping it fresh with a secret locations (released only to ticket holders via email or SMS), they have thrown parties in all kinds of interesting party spaces including; public parks, laneways, car parks, beaches, skate parks, art galleries, rooftops, warehouses, courtyards, restaurant spaces, backyards & fresh venues spaces around town.
Six years on their open musical ideals have not changed, focused highlighting ‘feel-good’ funk vibes in all their splendor, you can expect DJ’s to dig deep in their crates and pull out all kinds of gems from Afro-Beat, Latin-Funk, New York Disco, Roller Boogie, to early Chicago House, classic 90’s Hip Hop joints & beyond at the jams.
Drawing on their musical ROOTS and INSPIRATIONS, you will typically hear the sounds of James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Bob Marley, De La Soul, J Dilla, Stevie Wonder, Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash, Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles blaring through the speakers, along with a heavy dose of rare hidden gems intertwined for good measure too.
Always moving forward with a smile the last few years have defiantly been a blessed for Soul of Sydney since that first picnic back in 2011. They have been asked to bring their own unique brand of Funk party as part of a host of some of the largest well-established festivals in Sydney, including Sydney Festival (2015, 2016,17), Sydney Fringe Festival, Vivid (2015,2016.2017), Soulfest, The African Film Festival, just to name a few.
Check out mixes, videos and party videos and more at
SOUL OF SYDNEY: Doing it strictly for the LOVE | Dancing in the KEY OF LIFE | Feel-Good Funk & Old School Party Jams | Sydney’s Friendliest Dance-floor
LINKS //
- www.soulofsydney.org/blockparty
- www.facebook.com/soulofsydneyblockparty
- www.insatgram.com/soulofsydney
- www.soundcloud.com/soulofsydney
- www.instagram.com/soulofsydney
- Official hashtag | #SoulofSydney
PREVIOUS PARTIES VIDEOS MIXTAPES & more
As a warm up for the Spirit of House warehouse party happening this weekend, here is an absolute HOUSE MUSIC lesson put on by Frankie Knuckles recorded in a Leeds Warehouse. An absolute gem of a mix feature a stack of seminal funk, disco & early house cuts from one of the men who shapes that House sound.
SPIRIT OF HOUSE WAREHOUSE PARTY – SUNDAY AFTERNOON WAREHOUSE PARTY
We will be updating everyone via SMS as soon as we know how it looks for Sunday, so look out for updates early Sunday morning by around 10 or 11pm.
SOUL OF SYDNEY: Feel-Good FUNK SOUL DISCO & beyond. 
