Manifold Spaceport

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Band Bio

Manifold Spaceport is THE Sauce! Millennial neoFunk that is greazy and brassy and most certainly...certifiably dancable! This is the wild frontier of funk and Manifold Spaceport is leading the migration, yet still keeping themselves fully grounded in the sci-fi psychefunk phatness of the 70's P/Funk gristle and the synthy, tight scorchers of 80's era MPLS sound (ala the Time, Mazarati, and the Purple One).

Conceived as a side project and creative outlet for Zandergriff Miggs and Grover "Neckbone" Clifton. The two have a mutual love of classic funk jams and wanted to pay homage to some of the giants who came before, but also take the funk on an extended excursion to a new Millennial postFunk Future. To achieve this they enlisted some of the biggest and best names in the industry, reaching out to a varied mix of musicians from a wide range of genres. This obtuse mix of styles and personalities was put in the pot to simmer and after many hours on the fire...a delicious stew of neoFunk dripping in greazy goodness emerged.

+U.D.R. mgmt note- Bitch Mastiff was a tough sell and we could only get her to agree to contribute on one song, as even this underground group of subversives was too "mainstream" for her tastes.+

Manifold Spaceport current line-up (& band they are on loan from):
*Dr. Zanzibar-ivory tickling, sine wave tweaking & vox

*Neckbone-staccato 6string wah-ed out upstrums & shouts/hollers

*T'Cor(Parliament of Owls)-longwave omnidirectional rumblings & vox

*Alison Jones(bigPEBBLE)-vocal chord eruptions

*Ishmael Greene(Col. Abstract & the Dangers)-electronic wizardry

*K(Zeroth, Kaliclysm)-polyrhythmic membrane assaulting

*Bitch Mastiff(Morlacco)-gravelpit shredded glass shard voice attacks

*Fritz Vollenbach(Dementerhozen)-blister searing, past 11 sonic riffs

*Greta V.(Stalker Channing)-analog comping & crooniliscious harmony

*Otis S.S.(Parliament of Owls)-handslappin', shakin', rattlin' & boot stompin'

*djRX(AlphaHistamines)-wax spinning & diamond dropping

*all squeaks, squawks, chirps & toots - East Side Brass

This incarnation of Manifold Spaceport is at the gate, set to start some fires and set the music world on it's ear.
Listen up boys and girls!.......................................................and don't forget your wet-nap!

It's getting greazy up in this joint!

Band Gear

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Albums / EPs

Interstellar Love Triangle Date Released: 4/23/2011   Tracks: 5 Sales: 11   Listens: 17 Get out your wet-naps...the Spaceport are back with their millennial neo-funk greaziness. The A side cuts have been sitting in the can since the "3" sessions, and are finally seeing the light of day in this vinyl EP that also includes 2 covers on the flip side of classic early 80's funk jams by Duke & the Insurrection. Duke himself makes an appearance on guitar and voices. -songs by Miggs, Clifton, Lokdred -except * by D R Jenson -Greazy Minneapolitan Funk recorded by Frey

Double Jointed Date Released: 4/16/2010   Tracks: 11 Sales: 5   Listens: 4 Just in time for Record Store Days, the Spaceport's vinyl only new release "Double Jointed" is spongy & fat like a 7 layer funkcake! T'Cor channels Collins & Wooten, you'd swear Mr. Nelson was on guitar and Dr. Zanzibar lays the funky stabs across the top. Baby, you'll have to lick the sauce off your fingers yourself, cuz this funk is greazy! All new saucy funk, Minneapolis style, with a tripped out jamedelic extended cover of the Bar-Kays' "Let's Have Some Fun". UncleDuffRecords, TwentyTen

SupaPsycheFunky! Date Released: 9/21/2009   Tracks: 11 Sales: 10   Listens: 17 Warning! Manifold Spaceport is SupaPsycheFunky! This album marks the addition of a new member in to the "Fold", Dan from Phallic Acid joins the crew providing some crazyfunky 12 string greaze! The Spaceport plans a series of 1 night stands (finding holes in the members other tour schedules) and this session provides some hot, fresh neoFunk gristle to the set list. Yo! you spilled some sauce___________________lick it up!

3 Date Released: 8/21/2009   Tracks: 12 Sales: 24   Listens: 31 The Spaceport's 3rd album is as funky & greazy as you've come to expect. The sauce is bubbling over with the addition of a couple latin flavored jams, the requisite influential covers are there as always and the whole shebang closes with a 3 part maxi-suite of funkdamonious madness. The neoFunk laid down on these tracks is set to bring the music world's focus back to Minneapolis as a hub of Funkdom. turn it up! recorded & mixed by Frey. produced by Z. Miggs for UncleDuff Records, 2009.

xcapepod Date Released: 6/29/2009   Tracks: 11 Sales: 11   Listens: 14 Riding the momentum of their stellar after-party performance to close the Under the Big Top festival, Manifold Spaceport are laying the grooves with "xcapepod" a bass heavy, synth riffing, melodious conglomeration of jams that will get your rump to rattling! If Under the Big Top was a Carnaval of Musicophilia, then "xcapepod" is a full on 3 Ring Circus of Psychefunkadelaphication! -includes cover of Liquid Liquid's "Cavern" which provided the bass line on "White Lines" by GrandMaster Melle Mel

Funk U Very Much! Date Released: 5/29/2009   Tracks: 16 Sales: 9   Listens: 14 7 weeks & 13 hours of trials, tribulations, parties & jam sessions were spent in the crafting of this album. 11 neoFunk originals bubbling over with groovy sauce and 5 bonus covers of bands that were highly influential to the concept of this project. A very special thanks to all who joined for the party! (Alison{bigPEBBLE}, Ishmael{Col. Abstract & the Dangers}, K{Zeroth, Kaliclysm}, B. Mastiff{Morlacco}, Fritz{Dementerhozen} & the East Side Brass. *engineer-Frey Uncle Duff Records, 2009.