Anyone here like funk music?

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Anyone here like the funk and soul music. THat is New Birth, The Isley Brothers, Parliament/Funkadelic, Curtis Mayfield, Ohio Players, Sly and the Family Stone, Isaac Hayes, Jimmy Castor Bunch, Keziah Jones, Jamiroquai, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Fishbone, and a whole lot more. Anyone here like those drums, those horns, the syncopation, the rhythmic guitars. What I like about this genre is that it's still evident today within hiphop samples. If you listen to hiphop songs, and follow their samples, you'll see alot of it is from the 70s. Everyone knows and I know, but that surprises me. For a while I've been listening to hiphop thinking that the producer did everything. Now I realize, that they copy and paste, and mix it up.

I like electrofunk and a little of the original funk. *shrug*

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Yes, I need the funk! :skull::thumleft: All those elements of it that you mentioned.

Parliament/Funkadelic, Curtis Mayfield, Ohio Players, Sly and the Family Stone, Isley Bros, Issac Hayes, and James Brown. I like Fishbone, when it's funk they're intending to play (I'm not really a ska fan). I dig some of the New Orleans funk (The Meters) too.

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oh yeah. I'm funky for some funk, especially G-funk... I sure do miss the time it was popular.

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I listen to funk music, but lately my favorite kinda music like that is actually jazz fusion. I especially like Japanese jazz fusion artist Toshiki Kadomatsu. Jazz fusion is excellent if you want just pure funk. One thing with me, my American funk is sorta limited to just random songs by random people, so I'll listen to one, let's say, Earth Wind and Fire song here, a few Zapp and Roger songs there, like that. I've not gotten any albums of any older funk or R&B artist. Really, for me, I find stuff like, from the 80s, the R&B right before New Jack Swing to be the best "funk" music for me. You know, stuff like The System, Al B Sure, etc, basically the 80s music made after the 70s "funk." Basically, Chaka Khan - I Feel For You, like a perfect song of that era for me.

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pretty pure funk there, not quite as jazzy.

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Slightly more jazzy, but still very funky.

Japan was really brilliant at making funk music, and the sort of derivative, jazz fusion is still reasonably popular there. My favorite jazz fusion artist, Toshiki Kadomatsu, has been consistently coming out with albums every couple years or less. Also, outside of Japan, I like Shakatak a good deal. Shakatak is significantly jazzier than Toshiki, though, Toshiki's stuff, especially his earlier stuff, is very very funky, and average people would be hard pressed to say it's jazz.

WEeeeee want the funk!

Gotta have that funk!

Check out Wax Poetics - their magazine has great articles about old school funk and the website has free downloads.

http://www.waxpoetics.com/

yeah! I like James Brown, Parliament/Funkadelic, Sly & The Family Stone, Marvin Gaye, Isaac Hayes, The Winstons, Stevie Wonder, Stax & Motown.

I got into funk & soul because I like hip-hop and dance music, the Funky Drummer & the Amen Break are probably the most widely used samples of all time.