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Maybe the line that seperates the more sophisticated funk sound from the... errr... more hardcore grits and gravy style is in time. Who made hardcore funk after Parliament (arguably) lost their shit? Bootsy? After 79 or 80 so many bands either went stripped down and electronic (like Cameo) or...

Are the Doobies yacht disco, or would they be more yacht funk? Where is the line between sweet sounding funk and boogie and this hypothetical genre? Am I talking to myself here?

I'm not sure if this'll advance conversation much, but its such an awesome track its worth posting for whatever reason. This is Giorgio Farina working with Goblin of Italian horror soundtrack fame. http://www.mediafire.com/?mzjfgy3mmzc Its 17 minutes long, and perfectly exemplifies the long...

Yeah, I do enjoy some of Bodzin's stuff, like the way he layers analog synths using digital software (at least thats what I think he does). But I tend to try to mix them with something a little more poly-rhythmic, sometimes his beats are a little stiff. I really really liked a few of the...

I've been listening to E2-E4 a lot lately. Much has been made of its influence on techno, but between this and his work as Ash Ra Tempel, essentially inventing New Age music with New Age of Earth. Manuel Gottsching might be the godfather of psy-trance, some 20 odd years before it was a style...

Just so it doesn't sound as if I'm talking crap when I compare space disco and psy-trance I thought I'd do a little compare and contrast. This is Hans Peter Lindstrom's I Feel Space, very big tune in 2005, heavily influential on a lot of newer disco producers. To me it sounds like mid 90s...

I used to really like Juno Reactor, their Bible of Dreams album definitely had its moments. And early on they were releasing records on Novamute right along the likes of Plastikman and others. Maybe I'm being unneccessarily harsh. Here's some of their new stuff on Last FM...

Oh yeah, Juno Reactor now make shitty dubstep. Says a lot.

So obviously there is some trance that had some interesting qualities. But how about psy-trance? The early stuff, hippies partying in Goa and all that, really seemed to have a lot of similarities to the parts of Balearic that are no longer cool. Their music had more in common with Enigma...

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http://www.divshare.com/download/4390521-fbe I offer this up as evidence that Stock Aitken and Waterman weren't completely horrible. Its a remix that Clivilles and Cole (C+C Music Factory) did of Donna Summer's Love's About To Change My Heart. Its house, from the late 80s, and well worth a...

Slave are another one of those groups that I have a hard time getting my head around. Early stuff from their first two albums kind of splits the difference between influencing G-Funk and Detroit Techno. Which is to say it is fucking sweet. But their later stuff fits more on this thread.

A little meaningless trivia, Precious Wilson who sings backup on When The Going Gets Tough, was also in a group called Eruption. One of my favorite one hit wonders of the disco era.

This'll give Buick the horror then.

This might be relevant. Mr Billy Ocean brings the yachtness.

A Mountain of One and Studio were two of the artists I meant when I mentioned modern Balearic. They do seem to sit in a weird space between more electronic sounding stuff and a sort of rhythmic jam band sensibility. I'm just waiting for people to start editing Little Feat or Shakedown Street...

Yeah, maybe. You could say they were doing their level best to imitate Philly Soul, but it kind of came out sounding relatively whitebread. Not knocking the Bee Gees or Abba, its just something I'd play at a wedding, not a nightclub. Good call on the George Benson, need to give the records...

After doing some research I think you're talking about the longer "La Version Française" cut of Josephine. Which you're right, is exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for. Too bad he never got popular over here (in the US) I'd love to have that on vinyl.

Some favorites of mine loosely within this genre. Fleetwood Mac's Brown Eyes sung by Christine McVie. Seriously just one of the most soul wrenching and utterly eerie things ever recorded. She reminds me so much of Jarboe on that track. Lots of the aforementioned Emmylou Harris' stuff is...

Some of my individual favorite tracks are Time is Money (Bastard), Just Like A Drug, and their cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart (Jarboe Version). They went from extremely noisy quasi industrial, to spooky almost goth "death rock" with heavy religious symbolism to cosmic sounding stuff kind of...