Any funk music fans in here?

dtdg · Post by **dtdg** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 7:41 am

If you are... Could you recommend any good funk music to listen to?
I think Funk needs to make a comeback of some sorts. You know just to balance out (read: Knock out) all those whiny pretentious emo music that always being played. There's just something I dig about funk music.

scrilla4rella · Post by **scrilla4rella** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 8:23 am

hells yes!! Here what I've been checking out lately, many of which i'm sure you will be familiar with: The JBs (pre-1976, pre-disco stuff), Curtis Mayfield (seriously, check out the Curtis, Roots, and Superfly albums. So much soul it's ridiculous.), Sly and the Family Stone (y'all knew this already!), War.

If your looking for some sic-ass, supper rare tracks I would suggest copping the Brainfreeze Breaks album, compiled by DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist. These guys are seriously Funk scholars and this is a collection of original cuts of really rare 45s. If you like DJ stuff with mixing and scratching check out the original Brain Freeze mix album and just about any mix tape or "12 by Cut Chemist. Really the only way to hear many of these rare funk tracks.

Breakestra, is a contemporary Funk group that just released a new album. They are amazing live and have an awsome cover album named The Live Mix Tape #2 or something like that. i would also recomend many of the reprints on Stones Throw record label and its sister label Now-Again Records. Both release other rare and unreleased Funk tracks. Hope you got a record player...

EDIT: Oh, I agree with you, dtdg, about Emo music and most of the contemporary indie-rock around lately. I'll take good old-school country music over that whinny crap anyday.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 10:25 am

Erm, does anyone know Brazilian Funk? (More exactly, Rio de Janeiro Funk?"

You guys should hear that, just out of curiosity (And if possible, try to find out the translation of the lyrics)

I don't know how you could find the songs, but I think if you look for "Furacäo 2000" or "Proibidäo" , there's a big chance you may find some stuff...

It's some of the biggest shit music has ever produced in history.

Arcatech · Post by **Arcatech** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 11:38 am

Dtdg, you are the man for making this topic.

I've been listening to The meters first album (self titled). But really the funk genre is so vast that it's easy to get lost in it.

Also, I've been digging some Bob James lately. Check out the track titled Farandole. Really good over the top stuff.

I was also tipped off to the funky stuff by Dj Shadow. The sequel to Brainfreeze is called Product Placement and it is also really well done.

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 2:23 pm

I'm not really into music, but isn't funk the kind of music that is played by Bounce FM in San Andreas? That is my favorite radio station by far!!

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 2:35 pm

Of course, James Brown and Parliament are hard to beat. Probably the best straight up funk album I've ever bought was Bootsy Collins' best of, though nothing tops Prince's Black Album imo (not pure funk, though). That's remained a favorite of mine for 17 years or so.

scrilla4rella · Post by **scrilla4rella** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 3:52 pm

Rick James Bitch!!

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 4:25 pm

scrilla4rella wrote:Rick James Bitch!!

No doubt. Though I have yet to get an album. Which is best?

MOSQUITO FIGHTER · Post by **MOSQUITO FIGHTER** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 4:29 pm

Galactic - Vintage Reserve

You have been funkified. Beam me up to the mothership.

scrilla4rella · Post by **scrilla4rella** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 6:37 pm

Yeah, great topic.

No doubt. Though I have yet to get an album. Which is best?[/quote]

Well Street Songs is probably he's best known and by many considered the best. It's got "Give it to me baby" and "Superfreak" etc. Come Get It is a geat album and one of the first recorded as Rick James. The secound one Bustn' Out of L Seven is great as well.

IMO I would copp the Come Get It album first and then check out the more coked up and pissed off James that is Street Songs. Gotta see the evolution

Thanks for reading my opinions

Thats Galactic stuff sounds good, currently grabbing some tracks off the internet.

scrilla4rella · Post by **scrilla4rella** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 6:52 pm

ooh, ooh one more:

you guys gotta check out Zapp. Electro-Funk at it's finest. The first group that I kow of to use a Vocorder (manipulates vocals, Stephen Hawking sort of thing). Sampled extensivly by golden era hip-hop. Most notably by EPMD and Coldcut

Davey · Post by **Davey** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:26 am

I got into Fishbone from being into ska. But they don't play too much straight-up funk, usually it's mixed with ska or rock or whatever else they feel like playing. Fun stuff, though.

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 1:51 am

One band all of you gentlemen need to check out:

The Daktaris

They're a heavy, heavy funk band from Nigeria, and the album Soul Explosion is a must have for funk fans, in my ever humble opinion. Their version of "Give it up, Turn it Loose" gives the original JB version a run or its' money in terms of sheer funkiness. Highly recommended. Also, check out other releases on the Desco label, like Lee Fields or Mike Jackson and the Soul Providers.

Oh, and check out the excellent Mickey and the Soul Generation. They're from my hometown, Satan-tonio, and their complete works are available on a two-CD set put out on the Quannum label. Great stuff.

Arcatech · Post by **Arcatech** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 2:24 am

It seems you've been had. Read this link about Daktaris:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... 44mtv3z~T1

MOSQUITO FIGHTER · Post by **MOSQUITO FIGHTER** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:15 am

Had to add this one.

The Poets Of Rhythm - Discern/Define

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 5:26 am

AFXisatwin wrote:It seems you've been had. Read this link about Daktaris:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... 44mtv3z~T1

Huh. I thought the Daktaris record sounded an awful lot like the Soul Providers' "Mr. Mopoji soundtrack". Ah, well. Regardless of where they're from, the record still kicks ass.

You've gotta admit, good marketing.

Their cover of "Musicawa Silt pt 1 & 2" rules, even better than the one on Antibalas' first record.

dtdg · Post by **dtdg** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 6:51 am

To MadSteelDarkness:

About Daktaris: Much Funk to be had. Downloaded both "Musicawa Slit" part 1 and 2. Much funk.

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 10:56 am

Bernie Worrell, Prince and George Clinton is all I need.

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 5:40 pm

dtdg wrote:To MadSteelDarkness:

About Daktaris: Much Funk to be had. Downloaded both "Musicawa Slit" part 1 and 2. Much funk.

Sweet.

I think the whole Soul Explosion album will be right up your alley.

This reminds me: I do need to pick up the latest Antibalas album. I heard a track off of it (can't remember the name), and it was pretty good. Very Fela.

And that reminds me: I don't think anyone's mentioned Fela Kuti yet. The vast majority of his stuff is fantastic.

Soulo · Post by **Soulo** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:39 pm

Some funk albums I think are really great:

Black Heat - Declassified Groove
Skull Snaps - Skull Snaps
Black Nasty - Talking To The People
Mandrill - Fencewalk: The Anthology
The Meters - Rejuvenation
Ripple - I Don't Know What It Is But It Sure Is Funky
James Brown - Make It Funky - The Big Payback: 1971-1975
James Brown's Original Funky Divas
Africafunk: The Original Sound of 1970's Funky Africa
Africafunk: Return To The Original Sound Of 1970s Funky Africa
Pass the Peas: The Best of the J.B.'s