Imperial Breed are a mystery funk band from Hamburg, Germany. The group has been put together by DJ/producer Falk "Hawkeye" Schacht and drummer Roberto Kien in an attempt to follow the seminal how-to-record-a-funk-band manual by Gabe Roth (Daptone) and Philip Lehmann (Soul Fire) as published in "Big Daddy" magazine step by step. This includes the use of karaoke mics, old school tape recorders and IKEA tambourines. The various musicians who made up the ever-changing Imperial Breed workshop are all well-known players from likeminded bands and projects but remain anonymus.

Imperial Breed do not only use the cheapest and most outdated equipment, They also put the emphasis on instruments that were rarely used by old school funk bands. Instead of chicken scratch guitars or hammond organs, the sound of Imperial Breed is lead by ancient arp and moog synthesizers.

Imperial Breed are taking the new funk sound to a different level by making vintage synths the lead instruments. Think Manzel meet the Poets of Rhythm recorded through karaoke mics.

Producer Hawkeye, a well-known hip-hop media assassin, TV host and DJ from Germany is looking for the perfectly imperfect beat and he has gone pretty far with the first single by Imperial Breed. The sound is real bad (as in bad sounding good) and it can only get worse.

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