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For Joseph “Amp” Fiddler, it’s been a lifelong journey of musical discoveries. After starting out in the group Enchantment, he became spellbound in the early ’80s by the sounds of Parliament and Funkadelic – and through hard work and determination, it only took two years before George Clinton hired him as a keyboard player. Under Clinton’s glittering wings, from the mid-‘80s to the mid-’90s, Amp Fiddler surveyed the tones and textures of dance music’s relationship with funk, soul and R&B, and brought his knowledge into the studio, working with house and techno producers like Moodymann, Carl Craig and Theo Parrish, and pop and soul masters like Maxwell, Prince, and Sly & Robbie. As well as becoming a seasoned collaborator over the years Amp Fiddler has released dozens of singles and EPs and five solo albums, the most recent being 2016’s *Motor City Booty*, a riotous adventure through electronic funk. Oh – and legend has it, he introduced J Dilla and Q-Tip to the Akai MPC.
