Banana Mama: Funk Sessions

Matt Abstrax has been a major player in the Australian house, techhouse & techno scene for many years with his party rocking DJ sets and, and as the creator of party brand TechPhonics. He has brought to Adelaide and played alongside a massive array of acts over the past 8 years, including Derrick May, Robert Hood, Octave One, Luke Slater, Ben Klock, James Zabiela, Hybrid, Jay Lumen, Funkagenda, Ian Pooley, Patrick Topping, Oliver $, Audiojack, Nick Curly, Pleasurekraft, & many more. Matt has played major Australian music festivals including Stereosonic, Summadayze, Future Music Festival, Play Festival, Re:connect and Winter Solstice, sharing stages with Disclosure, Gorgon City, Sven Vath, Jeff Mills, Laurent Garnier, Maya Jane Coles and more. Matt hosted a weekly 2 hr online mix show for 5 years on web-station Soundpond.net. After travelling through Asia he is now based in Ho Chi Minh City and plays regularly across Vietnam and Cambodia.

Funk & Soul are often misunderstood as one or two distinct genres of music. They are in fact elements which have a certain nature. Soul is smooth and beautiful, Funk is strong, powerful and driven. If you mix these elements in the right way, what you get is beautiful driven and powerful music. Unrestrained by the boundaries of genre, if its Funky it needs to be presented for the listening pleasure of others, whenever and wherever possible. Yushka aims to get the balance just right between these components, bringing you smooth flavours both old & new, along with jumpy happy party vibes. Watch this space for more content. From Chilled beats, funk and soul, all forms of house, to heavy techno and D&B.