beelden · Farwell Ceremony · Geck-o · The Funky Cat · Daytime · 9 maart 2019 · The Funky Cat

This was the Farewell Ceremony at our final edition at P60 Amstelveen. The cat is dead, long live the cat! See you in Utrecht for our next round of 9 lives:

The Funky Cat #10 - Geck-o all night long
10th May 2019, De Helling Utrecht
Info & tickets: https://thefunkycat.com/parties/

Video & audio edit: Geck-o
Video captured by: Tom de Jongh
Artwork: Mesloes

Tracklist:
01. Anna M. Bach - Minuet in G Major
02. Enrico Sangiuliano - Generative Model
03. Egschiglen - Haramgui
04. Geck-o - Gathering

Featuring the Farewell poem, written and read by Mesloes:

Once upon a time
A normal kitten wandered the streets
Bored out of its mind, until
It heard some funky beats.

People danced around him
Nudged him to the decks
This Qult needed a guru
To teach them audio sex.

The people called him funky
grown up he broke the norm
cloaked in the sounds of the sacred subground
a trickster guru was born.

As his Qult kept recruiting
Funky Cat started brooding.
The subground sound left the cat feeling bound
This rave needs a little rebooting.

But rebooting a cult ain’t no easy task
He’ll need a new life, a logo or a mask
A girl with a knife cut to the chase
drawing him a sharp, brand new face.

---

Emerging anew as a jack-in-the-box
Tripping like McKenna and rocking our socks
This is the key you see, let’s all unlock
our inner children playing freely, ad hoc.

Weird bass loud enough to reach outer space
Some aliens took over the system’s interface
The adventure got drawn like a sci-fi-flick
What is this magic, was it real or just a trick?

Time to party - Celebrate-ception getting real
the return of legends, and the birth of the new
Travelling to extremes, into Cute but Creepy shit
Tentacle-hentai toilets were a definite hit.

Purify your dirty mind, dirtify your pure soul
Dirty bass, clean beats, they made us feel whole
In P60’s soundbath massage & wellness resort
This dirty cleansing ritual did not fall short

As the Funky cat searched for a new jester’s hat
A psychedelic live band provided just that.
The explorative nature has definitely paid off
As long as it’s different, it’s tricksterly loved.

But now, it’s the end, for our feline funky friend
Time to say goodbye to his funky sounding blends
Nine funky lives he lived, truly, to the max
Let us listen to his last words whispered through the cracks:

The funky cat is dead. Long live the cat!
The funky cat is dead. Long live the cat!
The funky cat is dead. Long live the cat!
The funky cat is dead. Long live the cat!

As he ascends to the ethereal plains
We sacredly burn his funky remains
Death is our friend in this holy release
Declaring: may we all dance in peace.

---

But wait a minute, its soul raves on!
Goodbye P60, it's time to be reborn
A new city, a new venue, a new cycle of lives
This is how the Funky Cat revives.

---

Connect with The Funky Cat:
http://thefunkycat.com
http://www.facebook.com/thefunkycat
http://instagram.com/the_funky_cat
http://soundcloud.com/the-funky-cat
http://www.youtube.com/thefunkycat

Connect with Geck-o:
http://geck-o.nl
http://www.facebook.com/geckoNL
http://soundcloud.com/geckoNL
http://mixcloud.com/geckoNL
http://twitter.com/geckoNL
http://instagram.com/geckoNL
http://www.youtube.com/geckogecke