In 1998, Ultrafunk was chosen as the new name for the group, coinciding with the first release of the Sonitus:fx audio plug-in suite. The plug-in suite lived on for 5 years, during which we released three generations (R1, R2 and R3), before it was sold to Cakewalk as the result of very tragic circumstances.

In the same period, Ultrafunk also developed the lightweight Popcorn e-mail client, and we created a number of other things besides Sonitus and Popcorn, most of which has since been lost or abandoned because of personal reasons.

After 16 years, Ultrafunk as a group was disbanded in 2004. After several years in limbo, one of the founding members decided to dedicate it to writing about music (a driving force behind all our past endeavours), and hopefully over time, it will again become a group of creative individuals.

Ultrafunk is the title of a song by supersexy Venezuelan funksters Los Amigos Invisibles, this is where we originally nicked our name (thanks!). Ultrafunk is also the name of a disco-funk band that released a few records in the early 70′s.

Welcome to Ultrafunk, a site dedicated to bringing you quality soul, hip-hop, jazz and funk news, reviews, features and releases.

It is meant to be a resource for all people interested in the above mentioned musical genres and others closely related to them, written and maintained by people with a passionate interest in music.

The main motivation for starting this site was not to compete with the many other excellent but often limited special interest sites dedicated to any of the genres, but to complement them by tying the music together across genre boundaries.

Content will be focused on the following:

News: Short and concise updates on what is happening like new artists, projects in progress, collaborations and tours etc.

Reviews: Only releases and events of high quality will be reviewed (hence no ratings), because we want to make it easy to find great music in the form of albums, books, concerts, film/video and more.

Releases: Recommended music and music-related content both old and new in any format like mixes and podcasts, records we love but don’t have time to review, single tracks, videos etc.

Features: In-depth articles like interviews, artist bios, essays and more.

If you would like to contribute material, please feel free to contact us. If you want to give us feedback or other suggestions, please leave a comment where relevant or contact us directly.

Peace,

The Ultrafunk crew