Cleopatra's Bath Milk

by Fonke Knomaads

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The long awaited full length debut album release from Australia's original hip hop jazz/funk crew the FONKE KNOMAADS has slammed onto the world stage.

Upon release it was named Triple J's Hip Hop Show Album of the Week. Cleopatra's Bath Milk has received positive reviews from the print and digital media around the country.

With 15 tracks of heavy funk laden hip-hop the left field crew from Australia's east coast has met expectations delivering a creamy mix of tunes in the vain of hip-hops golden years with a sound that has been compared to classics such as KMD, Native Tongues, Bizmarkie and the Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique.

Cleopatra's Bath Milk was launched on the Creative Vibes label in collaboration with SoulJourner Records, we are now pleased to present the album to you as a high quality digital download.

While browsing the Knomaads Catalogue you might drop by and visit www.fatherof.bandcamp.com for TeOp's solo catalogue and www.myspace.com/djsoupster for a taste of DJ Soups solo work.

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released 08 August 2008
John Blake, John Riley and a cast of thousands

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tags: funk hip hop Australia

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"I really love your style & your songs!" SPEECH, Arrested Development.

The Fonke ... more Knomaads formed in the late 80's released in the early 90's & have been providing raw hip hop funk ever since.

Being Influenced by Gang Starr, Native Tongues, Madlib, AD, Funk Inc, The Meters, Prince Paul, to name a few the DJ Soup & TeOp have crafted product style to create their own unique blend.

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Track Name: We Took A Trip
ere, come ere sit down
thats it over here next to the fire
i wanna tell ya- long long time
before you was... even thought about
there's a legend in these parts
that 2 came, outta the desert, ridin on camels
and they came tellin stories bout living hills that were alive
and then all of a sudden, they were gone
they came out of obscurity and back into obscurity,
just like that
they're kinda like knomaads i suppose

oooh yeah oo-oo-oo
mmmmmm- listen x 2

we took a trip, it was much too long
we took a trip, but we all held on x 2

oooh yeah oo-oo-oo
mmmmmm- listen
Track Name: Chicken And Watermelon
Chicken and Watermelon x 2
Makin Fonke music is a must

We took a trip and it was much too long,
I found soup on a roll, with chicken and watermelon
I seen the people yellin What happened to the
Fonk - it went for a walk and returned home
I feel the beat, to my dome
My lady... she thinks me crazy
I like to eat the styles from the buckwile
Keith and the earlybirds, the A-K-A
My momma likes the fonk-stikools
Soup eats beats, Kaboobis on steroids
Stereo feral, kick it on lo-fi
Bulgin with hormones Huh Kinda fly
Like the eagle - Blaze lit the fire
Aspiring fatness, we rolled with poets
The flava was voodoo they hung in the loungeroom
Boomstix arose Ransom was paid
There wasn't too much cash to be made
That was the time of the high top fades
We dropped - with - the cast, the fingers were lickin
I ate the pork soup chewed the chicken
juice was flowin, the days were strange
The meta was basic equipment was foramative
All the hedz were seeking for 16 bit -
who could afford it Time for a record deal
All the knew how to mix was dance
hip hop was rizin soon it would overtake
it became clear whose real and whose fake
fatty's were dropping over the funk we're making
heads began noddin seven flavours the shakedown

makin fonke music
makin fonke music
makin fonke music
makin fonke music is a must X2

Boomers were standard the 15 inches
We got the brown vinyl and we bounced it
Poms were playin us
J's were playin us
Chrissy she played that
ID's were necessary
No-one was doing that in any other genre
Now its standard fakers was on
Word was born
In terra australis I shout to the crews who paved
The cats who didn't sell out to raves
We was just hungry for a thumper and a crowd o jumpers
Soup knows that. Kaboob knows that
My Brethren know that And that’s a fact
Crews who rocked a fake accent were thrown back
It was a curse to be wack
But it was cool cos MC's formed a new skool
They wanna take it and tweak
Bringing the food for the beat freaks

ch

Soup - Cuttin solo
Track Name: Lift Your Lid
Won't You Lift your Lid? Get Up, Get Uppa x 2

Yeah lift up the lid, go'on take a good look
yeah the beats are laid and the funk is played
man the cuts are crazy go grab the hook
if ya feelin for a lift come 'n feel it
see the sun is hot see the people swayin'
as the crow flies so the Soup is layin'
get Soup get warmed re-awaken
yeah lift up the lid for the days breakin'
we got a soul-soup designed to quench up
the hunger, the gap to bring down the fence and the walls
let the de-vision be a re-vision embark a new misison
come catch a new vision
some say kitsch but I says break
some say stitch but we makes a remake
if ya down with the Knomaad program
I feel led o say, lift up the LID

Ch.
Won't You Lift your Lid? Get Up, Get Uppa x 2
Won't You Lift your Lid? Get Up, Get Uppa x 2

Catch a vision for the fonk
catch a vision for the jazz
catch a vision for your soul
chase the blues with the lid up, get up stand up
be up free up the heavyweight
gravitate the Spirit, put 'ol yesterday away
hey the past is past and the future's bfore me
the pearls comeforth from the life that paid the price
payment is made, check the balance sheet
coe and invade, the purpose the reason
the gift is given
the love is livin
my Spirit is willin'
my lid is lifted
we are the gifted, we are the legacy
he way s shifted from the self to the servin' see
we got the chance to expand possibilities
make shure to dance with the lid up get up GO

Go go go ahead go go go ahead

Ch.
Won't You Lift your Lid? Get Up, Get Uppa x 2
Won't You Lift your Lid? Get Up, Get Uppa x 2

Bridge.
Lift up the lid go on re-awaken
Lift up the lid go on re-awaken
Lift up the lid go on re-awaken
Lift up the lid for, for the break x 2
Track Name: It Seems to Me
It seems like the more you have
the more you have to have
to take care of the things you have

huh - I can feel a song coming on...
Track Name: Souperhuman
That's what I'm tryin' to tell you baby
flush that reckid i'm a flip out a hit
Track Name: Style Is Worthwhile
No I can't deal nor can't feel real if I been
payin out on crews whose been sorta like
lackin skills or MC thrills comparing to me,
so what do I care if brther Twist packs a lisp?
Track Name: How Did We Get Here? (feat. The Posse)
I was an egg in the tum of my Mum
sucked my thumb it was yum
when I got out stopped cos it was dumb.
Track Name: Bonus Track: Brainfood (Beatroot Mix)
Let me plant a Seed brother as a duty servant...