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<\/a>The Funk Hunters have been working on new music, which they plan to release on an album that will probably be dropping in 2018. They have also remixed numerous songs for artists including Imagine Dragons, SkiiTour, and Delhi 2 Dublin; as well, the group released an album last year with Chali 2na, one of the founding members of Jurassic 5.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, it\u2019s about trying to find the soul in all music, regardless of what style or genre it is. Something that really speaks to you, has that feeling in it, that\u2019s the most important thing,\u201d says Smith. \u201cWe\u2019ve been working on a lot of music that fell kind of under the radar; we aren\u2019t releasing it at the moment because we\u2019re just putting it together for a bigger album that will probably be coming next year, filled with original music; it\u2019s a complete array of styles and genres.\u201d<\/p>\n
The duo has performed at festivals all over Canada, but Shambhala, which goes down annually near Nelson, is the music festival that has had the largest impact on the band. The two have been attending the festival since its early days.<\/p>\n
\u201cShambhala is always kind of home for us, but it\u2019s always a privilege to be able to perform at music festivals and to be able to see the different vibes that each of them have, whether you\u2019re in Europe or Australia or America or here in BC,\u201d says Smith. \u201cWe\u2019re pretty spoiled in Western Canada with the amount of music festivals that exist here. We\u2019re super stoked to be in Victoria for Canada Day. It\u2019s pretty cool to be part of the Canada 150 celebration and to throw down on Victoria\u2019s Parliament Hill, and then rock the aftershow at Sugar.\u201d<\/p>\n
Funk Hunters (at Spirit of 150)
\n7 pm, Saturday July 1
\nFree, Legislature lawn
\nspirit150victoria.ca<\/a><\/p>\n