ARTIST PROFILE
ARTIST • PRODUCER • DJ • SONGWRITER • SONIC CREATOR
“FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS, I'VE BEEN SCULPTING A SOUND THAT HAS FINALLY FOUND ITS CALLING: KANGAFUNK.”
KANGAFUNK™ is the Australian-born sonic creation of Jackson “Wilde” Lawson - an explosive collision of future funk, electronic grooves, tribal bass, reggae, soul, hip-hop, psychedelia, freestyle and global rhythm. The performance is not a conventional DJ set. It is a SOUND SOUL XPERIENCE™.
THE KANGAFUNK STORY
FROM THE STREETS OF AUSTRALIA TO THE GLOBAL DANCEFLOOR
CHAPTER 01 - THE BEGINNING
FOLLOWING ENERGY, NOT GENRE
For more than 30 years, Jackson “Wilde” Lawson has been experimenting with one question: what happens when you stop worrying about genre and start following energy? The answer arrived through visual arts, music production, live bands, DJ culture and experimental art - a life spent chasing rhythm rather than trends.
CHAPTER 02 - THE INGREDIENTS
FUNK. REGGAE. SOUL. HIP-HOP. PSYCHEDELIA. BASS.
Spoken word and raw rhythm sit alongside deep bass and psychedelic electronica. Nothing is filtered for a format - every element earns its place by what it does to a room.
CHAPTER 03 - ST KILDA
THREE YEARS OF FUNK-DRIVEN DIDGERIDOO
On the streets of St Kilda, Lawson spent three years performing funk-driven didgeridoo alongside African percussion - playing to real crowds, in real time, learning exactly how energy moves through human bodies.
NO ALGORITHMS.
NO PLAYLISTS.
NO INDUSTRY GATEKEEPERS.
JUST RHYTHM AND HUMAN BEINGS.
MUSIC IS ENERGY - YOU EITHER MOVE PEOPLE OR YOU DON'T.
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