I'm currently listening to...

[XTRProf]

Alternative to funk, jazz pop ............







In hirez ..................

But will go to funk next as you guys seem to like funk.

[gommer]

Kate Bush - Misty
from 50 Words For Snow

sorry, no linky, streaming on her website *right now* untill 21:00

It's lovely, intimate. Barely more than Kate + piano + drums. Sparse fillings on the background now and then.

[XTRProf]

Yeah, as promised funky time ...............





Remix

More extended ....

How long, is yours? Anyway, a cover of ACE.

Power, man!

Can you hold me down after this?



Shake your bumps, shake your dicks , bogey, man, the retro '80 style!

[gommer]

Hey Chong,

I think you're confusing Funk with Disco. Although from the same era, definitely not the same genre.

[XTRProf]

Nov 16, 2011 22:27:47 GMT gommer said:

Hey Chong,

I think you're confusing Funk with Disco. Although from the same era, definitely not the same genre. :'

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Oh, Funky Town and Designer Music are funk alright! Most of this type of groups are a cross between funk, disco and many types of genre. Much depended on how the song was constructed the stronger of what. Even Earth, Wind and Fire can be considered as Funk and I have heard many ............... Here:

The band's music contains elements of African, Latin American, FUNK, soul music, pop and rock music, jazz and other genres.

[XTRProf]

The definition of funk:

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music.

Derivative forms

Disco – Hip hop – Electro – Contemporary R&B – House music – New jack swing – Liquid Funk



Subgenres



Go-go – P-Funk – Deep funk – Nu-funk




Fusion genres



Afrobeat – Funk metal – Funk rock – Jazz funk – Acid jazz – G-funk – Go-go – Funky house – UK funky



Many of the most famous bands in the genre also played.


I didn't know James Brown was the father of funk until I read up now:

1960s: James Brown and the development of funk

James Brown, one of the founding fathers of funk
By the mid-1960s, James Brown had developed his signature groove that emphasized the downbeat – with heavy emphasis on the first beat of every measure to etch his distinctive sound, rather than the backbeat that typified African American music.[8] Brown often cued his band with the command "On the one!," changing the percussion emphasis/accent from the one-two-three-four backbeat of traditional soul music to the one-two-three-four downbeat – but with an even-note syncopated guitar rhythm (on quarter notes two and four) featuring a hard-driving, repetitive brassy swing. This one-three beat launched the shift in Brown's signature music style, starting with his 1964 hit single, "Out of Sight" and his 1965 hit, "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag".

Brown's innovations led to he and his band becoming the seminal funk act; they also pushed the funk music style further to the forefront with releases such as "Cold Sweat" (1967), "Mother Popcorn" (1969) and "Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine" (1970), discarding even the twelve-bar blues featured in his earlier music. Instead, Brown's music was overlaid with "catchy, anthemic vocals" based on "extensive vamps" in which he also used his voice as "a percussive instrument with frequent rhythmic grunts and with rhythm-section patterns ... [resembling] West African polyrhythms" – a tradition evident in African American work songs and chants.[9] Throughout his career, Brown's frenzied vocals, frequently punctuated with screams and grunts, channeled the "ecstatic ambiance of the black church" in a secular context.[9]

In a 1990 interview, Brown offered his reason for switching the rhythm of his music: "I changed from the upbeat to the downbeat.... Simple as that, really."[10] According to Maceo Parker, Brown's former saxophonist, playing on the downbeat was at first hard for him and took some getting used to. Reflecting back to his early days with Brown's band, Parker reported that he had difficulty playing "on the one" during solo performances, since he was used to hearing and playing with the accent on the second beat.[11]

and his recording is so far from what we believed to be funk. I will take one of the quoted example to show all here:





More like what we believed to be "disco", right? By right, more to R&B.


By right, thru what we had heard in our time, it should be more like this .............







with a funky bass line and drum putting the act togather.



Btw, Marc, I'm not personal attacking you as I just want to get this thing about funk straight as I know enough to contribute to the "music scene" here.

[gommer]

I'll be damned, i always thought Herbie hancock's Headhunters dated from before James Brown's Sex Machine. But it seems to pre-date it by 2 or 3 years.

I think those two were the beginning of real 'recent' funk.

[XTRProf]

Back on the funky road ........... Obviously, this must be in ...............








Wah, we are bogeying even before weekend!

[XTRProf]

Nov 17, 2011 8:18:32 GMT gommer said:

I'll be damned, i always thought Herbie hancock's Headhunters dated from before James Brown's Sex Machine. But it seems to pre-date it by 2 or 3 years.

I think those two were the beginning of real 'recent' funk.

Oh, Herbie Hancock is just a "son" to a "father" in this genre when we read thru history.

See this:

In the 1970s, jazz music drew upon funk to create a new subgenre of jazz-funk, which can be heard in recordings by Miles Davis (Live-Evil) and Herbie Hancock (Head Hunters).

Even Miles Davis, who himself was a "giant" already, was a "son" to "father funk". Heh, heh, heh ............

[XTRProf]

Funking all the way into TGIF jazz funk style!

[Crispy]

Funking all the way into TGIF jazz funk style!

Stanley Clarke is a fantastic bass player - I only have one of his CDs "Find Out" but it gets played quite a lot.

Taking it quiet at the moment with Versaemerge & Paramore.

Watched Versaemerge Live at Nottingham Rock City earlier this year, they were really good.
Saw Paramore live at Manchester MEN arena back end of last year, just before they split up - Fantastic night.

Versaemerge ET cover (Sings it better than Katy Perry imo)

Versaemerge Toxic cover

Paramore Misguided Ghosts

Paramore Use somebody - Kings of Leon Cover

[XTRProf]

Nov 18, 2011 11:37:42 GMT Crispy said:

Stanley Clarke is a fantastic bass player - I only have one of his CDs "Find Out" but it gets played quite a lot.

Heh, heh, wait for more this Saturday. Boss overseas and so goodbye to me. TGIF again ............ Yippee.

Nov 18, 2011 11:37:42 GMT Crispy said:

Paramore.

Ah, yes, Paramore. Good rock stuff from them. They were in Singapore I think about 2 years ago.

Bye, bye, need to go until I get home.

[XTRProf]

Nov 18, 2011 11:37:42 GMT Crispy said:

Versaemerge ET cover (Sings it better than Katy Perry imo)

Versaemerge Toxic cover

Sorry for the abrupt signing off TGIF as I need to go home. Yup, you are right. She does sing very well and better than Katty Perry. They reminded me of them here:



when they started up.

Nov 18, 2011 11:37:42 GMT Crispy said:

Paramore Misguided Ghosts

Paramore Use somebody - Kings of Leon Cover

Yup, it's confirmed they were here in Singapore about 2 years ago. They came back this year 2011 too to dig gold as the reception I'm very sure was overwhelming from the local rockers.

Here:

[XTRProf]

As promised Sat funk style from another great jazz bassist ...............






Sorry for the poor AV ............

Ah, better A ............... Please not what you think again.

[XTRProf]

Ha, ha, fooled ur! No music but going to hear movie. Green Hornet ............

Ok, ok, you can hear this while I watch. Be nice big boys for Sunday.

Ciao!

[funk1969]

Lately life did not make sense, everything went too fast and all I could do was to move along and to adapt. Right now I am having slight pause...

Beastie Boys' album "Hello Nasty", the first three tracks: "Super Disco Breakin'; The Move; Remote Control". I still dig it...

[XTRProf]

Oh yeah, funk no enough! Well, the grand finale before moving on to others ............


Many don't know but this group has part funk in them as well ............. Let the funk flow ..............








That's all folks.

Bow and kiss throws and waving .............. Exit ........

Encore, encore! Nope, no encore. Bye-bye. I love ur!

[Crispy]

Many don't know but this group has part funk in them as well

Fantastic band Level 42 - and another great Bass player "Mark King"


Physical presence
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpt_7zvzdZQ&feature=related
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A Floating Life

Sleepwalkers

[XTRProf]

What to play? Bring in the new or old. Let me think as still have time before going home.

[XTRProf]

Got it! Now classical no enough as going to reduce speed towards the weekend. So here:







Yup, in hirezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ...............

Sorry, no samples uploaded at Youtube.

[funk1969]

10 CC's "Sheet Music"

Before The XX...

[Crispy]

Just listened on You Tube to Andy Unwin a local lad who I am teaching to drive at the moment.

He is the manager of the Portland hotel in Hull.

The videos were recorded by one of the customers in the bar after work in the small hours of the morning.

It is the customers guitar and he has not sung for 2 years.

He is singing Paul Weller (his hero).
Sound and picture quality not too good.

[XTRProf]

Well, Natospec has made me play this!







Arrghhh, I just have to play the whole album. Too good to let go as this is also one of PF's fineness moments.

Well, karaoke along, as today is nice and easy Sunday too, as I have specially find one with lyrics for you to be a momentary Pink Floyd. Don't you want to have a shot to be a Susan Boyle cash rich all the way to the bank. But just only sing and don't smoke as smoking is bad for your health.






Of course, in hirezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......................


This will also make Pinkie happy too .................

[funk1969]

The Editors' album "The Back Room" through the K400. The music just sounds right, nothing more and nothing less...

[funk1969]

B.B.E.'s album "Games", eclectic Trance from 1998...