bassbeyondreason
Chtonic Fatigue Syndrome
I'll still gladly play stuff like this out:
Funk is Cancelled.
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bassbeyondreason
Chtonic Fatigue Syndrome
Some of the "funky-edged soul" stuff that was big on the Northern scene a few years ago is awesome too:
genuine q. what is your 70s listening comprised of if there's no funk or reggae or Miles?
mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
Sing it back gets a pass cos it's Roisin. Roisin gets a pass. Just full stop. She's fabulous. If you don't like Roisin, you don't like Electribe 101. If you don't like Electribe 101, you're dead to music, as in, music looks upon you and paints a red cross on your door. Roisin gets a pass.
I love the P-funk axis, Sly and Parliament and Funkadelic, so if you're gonna talk about cancelling them, then keep wankin in your sox.
I love the P-funk axis, Sly and Parliament and Funkadelic, so if you're gonna talk about cancelling them, then keep wankin in your sox.
blissblogger
Well-known member
Funk used to be all I wanted in music, everything I thought music should be.
I even thought about learning to play the bass, so I could do slap-bass. (This is a few years in the early Eighties).
Then it stopped being all I wanted - or even anything I wanted, for quite a long period. All the Brass Construction 12 inches and Steve Arrington LPs mouldered in a box.
(I'm not sure jungle is funky exactly - it uses elements of funk (like it uses all kinds of things) but takes them somewhere different. Hyperfunk, meta-funk, infra-funk).
(The feel of "Amen" is not sexy or groovy exactly, the junglists picked up on that different potential in it and took it somewhere else.)
But what prompted the announcement of cancellation? I hadn't noticed a suffocating omnipresence of funkiness in the pop culture . But perhaps things are different in London?
I even thought about learning to play the bass, so I could do slap-bass. (This is a few years in the early Eighties).
Then it stopped being all I wanted - or even anything I wanted, for quite a long period. All the Brass Construction 12 inches and Steve Arrington LPs mouldered in a box.
(I'm not sure jungle is funky exactly - it uses elements of funk (like it uses all kinds of things) but takes them somewhere different. Hyperfunk, meta-funk, infra-funk).
(The feel of "Amen" is not sexy or groovy exactly, the junglists picked up on that different potential in it and took it somewhere else.)
But what prompted the announcement of cancellation? I hadn't noticed a suffocating omnipresence of funkiness in the pop culture . But perhaps things are different in London?
bassbeyondreason
Chtonic Fatigue Syndrome
I personally concieve a continuum between "groove funk" and "spasm funk", the intensification of groove funk leads to disco/house/hip hop, the intensification of spasm leads to jungle.
bassbeyondreason
Chtonic Fatigue Syndrome
The perfect balance between the two is where the West London lot percieve the sweet spot to be, but it's actually at the breaking point of tenson between them.
yeh, which is why jungle has more in common with techno than a lot of people like to admit =- it's also why woebot's point from a few years ago was worth taking seriously.
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
surely this debate was already had in the 80s
Level 42 and all that type of post jazz-funk fallout
cmon Luke I know it's a tough road but if we give up we let the Ronsons and Norman Cooks of the world win
Level 42 and all that type of post jazz-funk fallout
cmon Luke I know it's a tough road but if we give up we let the Ronsons and Norman Cooks of the world win
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
inevitably the signifiers and sonic components of anything good will be used in something bad, bland, boring
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
we don't cancel jungle because of coffee-table book easy listening D+B, do we
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
no but this forum is turning into the oldskool nerd section of dnb arena 2009, living off the same 30 jungle classics, if there is even a point anymore, corpsey was saying the other month there are 30 good garage songs and it's this greatest hits attitude which means in the UK no music can have any longevity.