#electrofunk

[metalhealth-willdriveyoumad]

Hottest Drummer Tournament Round 1

Frank Ferrer

Band(s): Guns N’ Roses // The Psychedelic Furs // Love Spit Love // The Dead Daisies // The Beautiful // The Compulsions // Pssr // Beatrazr // Gordon Gano & The Ryans 

Albums/EPs as drummer:

Appetite For Democracy 3D (Guns N’ Roses)

Love Spit Love (Love Spit Love) Trysome Eatone (Love Spit Love)

Face I Love (The Dead Daisies)

The Beautiful (The Beautiful) Highway (The Beautiful)

21 Powers Street (The Compulsions) Laughter From Below (The Compulsions) Ferocious (The Compulsions) Beat The Devil (The Compulsions) Dirty Fun (The Compulsions & Rob Carlyle) Demon Love / The Cocaine EP (The Compulsions) Been through Hell (The Compulsions)

Hitting The Ground (Gordon Gano) Under The Sun (Gordon Gano & The Ryans)

Havve Hogan

Band(s): TWRP

Albums/EPs as drummer:

Sex Is a Machine That Likes to Dance (TWRP) Poised to Dominate (TWRP) The Device (TWRP) 2nite (TWRP) Believe in Your Dreams (TWRP) Guardians of the Zone (TWRP) Ladyworld (TWRP) Together Through Time (TWRP) Return to Wherever (TWRP) Over the Top (TWRP) New & Improved (TWRP) Friends of the Blues (TWRP) Digital Nightmare (TWRP)

Under the Covers (Ninja Sex Party) Under the Covers, Vol. II (Ninja Sex Party) Cool Patrol (Ninja Sex Party) Under the Covers, Vol. III (Ninja Sex Party) The Prophecy (Ninja Sex Party) Level Up (Ninja Sex Party) These Nuts (Ninja Sex Party)

The TryForce (Starbomb)

Propaganda:

Best and hottest drumming robot this side of the solar system.

[kdjonesmtb]

Creme Buckwheat CAKES

A breakfast

That rises 2 the level for Sunday

Great with some maple syrup

Canadian bacon

Scrambled eggs

Oh my there’s nothing that lacks

Let that butter drip

On that stack

Oh my

Those delicious

Buckwheat crème cakes

Dive in

My babe

Those delicious

Buckwheat crème cakes

[c-40]

A-T-4 027 Chaka Khan - I Feel For You

Following on from yesterday the best example I can think of of African-American recording artists going all in on the electrofunk/hip hop sound in 1984 is Chaka Khan's hit I Feel For You. The track features a rap from Melle Mel, it's considered the first rap/soul crossover a alliance that would become a hit making formula from the late 1980s until today. The harmonica parts on the track are performed by the one and only Stevie Wonder, also the vocal samples 'Say Yeah' and 'Just A One More Time' are from Little Stevie's hit record Fingertips. I Feel For You is written by Prince and had already been recorded by The Pointer Sisters in 1982 and by Prince himself for his eponymous second album

Now the names you might not know, the arrangement is credited to Arif Mardin and Reggie Griffin. Arif Mardin had produced all Chaka Khan's solo records, he's a legend, in the early 1970s he'd been co-producing Aretha Franklin and Donny Hathaway, throughout the 1970s he produced major artists like the Bee Gees, Average White Band, and Carly Simon. Reggie Griffin on the other hand was a new jack. I can see him getting the gig because he'd produced West Street Mob's Breakdance Electric Boogie for Sugar Hill and would be producing Grandmaster Melle Mel's solo single Jesse. Multi-instrumentalist Reggie Griffin formed the group Manchild with Anthony "A.J." Johnson in the mid 1970s then produced a few electrofunk/hip hop records with George Kerr (including Thug Rock and Mirda Rock) before working with Sugar Hill. Another name worth mentioning is David Frank of The System who did most the synth bass with Reggie Griffin playing the live bass fills. We think armies of people are involved in making a hit record today, it's not new

I Feel For You goes to number 1 on the UKs singles chart. The video for I Feel For You would have been on Top Of The Pops. The set for the video is an imaginary basket ball court or some other outside fenced space like in West Side Story, a DJ is stood behind two turntables (but there are no speakers), there's graffiti (which looks hung like art in a gallery) some dancers are locking - two of the dancers are Shabba Doo and Boogaloo Shrimp from the films Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. Shabba Doo was a member of Toni Basil's The Lockers dance troupe. Toni Basil left in the mid 1970s but co-founder Don "Campbellock" Campbell was still at the helm, I wonder if the other dancers were from the same troupe? The female dancers are dressed in high fashion and as I said the graf in the space looks hung like art in a gallery or museum, at the time the NY art world was embracing graffiti and DJs and Bboys would perform at exhibition openings

As a ten-year-old I loved this record. That week when Top Of The Pops is on I'm stretched out across the carpet head lifted by my hands and my nose almost touching the television as usual, Chaka Khan's I Feel For You is number 1 and my ears are wide open and eyes are fully dilated watching the video. Behind me on the sofa my dad begins muttering This isn't Music, or This isn't Proper Music, or This isn't Real Music, this prompted the first argument about music I had with my dad. My dad likes The Stylistics, the Four Tops and Trojan Tighten Up and Club Reggae comps. I was only 10-years-old and my dad has all the sensitivity of a Brummie screwdriver but what I now know he was trying to say was he finds the synths and over the top studio production a little soulless when compared to the productions of Thom Bell from just before and around the time I was born 10-years earlier

I didn't care it might not have sounded like Proper Music to my dad but I loved it so from that point electrofunk/hip hop became my music not my parents music

The video version

The remixed version it's a masterclass in editing

[nightbynightfly]

An Album a Day 2024: Day 33

Feb. 2, 2024

Herbie Hancock - Future Shock (1983)

Electronic, Funk, Hip hop, Jazz

[opusscience]

Here's another "Albums that made me" article. This one's actually more of a EP, but whatever...

[burlveneer-music]

Sparkle Division - Foxy - smoky saxophone electro-funk from tape-decay maestro William Basinski (!) and producer Preston Wendel 

Featuring William Basinski, Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand Director: William Basinski Editor: Gary Thomas Wright Videography: Courtesy electropark.it . Filmed at Electropark festival 2019

[yurko-yk]

When the beat drops, and you’re the happiest pup in the café 🕺🐶✨ This puppy’s got moves! 💃🐾 Dancing like nobody’s watching — pure joy, pure vibe. Tag a friend who needs these vibes today! 💛🎶

[hoardsome]

acid, breakbeat, detroit, early hip hop, electro funk, ghettotech, miami bass, techno

[mde-creative-video]

(via https://youtube.com/watch?v=IXsKY9bx8eY&si=Zmlps8jY2VODqwby)

[omanxl1]

The Egyptian Lover - Yes, Yes, Yes

Digital Crate Digging Continues per this Terrible / Terrific Tuesday, so called because things can go either way… The saga / struggle continues, O-Dog Day Partying in the midst of the madness? for a brotha that’s the mission / that’s how the work will be as we let the music play!  The saga / struggle continues, beats will bump and understand a brotha as I tell you this good word will be…

[dumbfunshit]

[technekratos]

Around The World Push It Click It Vote Better Harder Faster Stronger Ever After Vote Is Over Our Work Is Never Over One More Time We Gotta Celebrate Oh Yeah Alright

[kdjonesmtb]

The Shine of the Decadent AI Fade

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A-T-3 214 Nona Hendryx 

Sean Combs sampled Transformation by LaBelle member (and their main songwriter) Nona Hendryx a few times - see yesterday's post for more about about tracks sampled by Puff

LaBelle split up in 1976 and Nona Hendryx embarks on a solo career but she's also writing and contributing backing vocals. Hendryx sings on Talking Heads' 1980 album Remain In The Light and 1983's Speaking In Tougues as well as touring with the band (recorded for the live album The Name Of The Band Is Talking Heads). This led to the 1981 single Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart, a cover of the The Supremes original, produced by Talking Heads' Jerry Harrison and TH's session musician Busta Jones. Then there is Material, Hendryx's performs lead vocal on the 1981 singles Bustin' Out (written with Hendryx) and It's A Holiday, in 1982 she appears on Material's sophomore album One Down. And also in 1982 Hendryx features as guest lead vocalist on the Rusty Egan, Pete Barnacle (Visage), and his brother Steve Barnacle (Night Moves) project The Cage and their cover of the T-Connection classic Do What You Wanna Do

When it came to Hendryx's second album Nona it was Material who she chose to make it with, it was a great choice and of course Bill Laswell/Material had recently made that series of hip-hop/electro 12s for Celluloid. Nona Hendryx carries on working with Bill Laswell after the Nona album

Lets start with the biggy Nona Hendryx - Transformation the queer classic that she still performs live

Nona Hendryx - Design For Living features an amazing array of women: Laurie Anderson, Tina Weymouth, Patti LaBelle, Valerie Simpson, Nancy Wilson (of Heart), and Gina Shock (of the Go-Gos)

Nona Hendryx - Steady Action there's some incredible players on this album

Nona Hendryx - B-Boys Hendryx' nod to burgeoning bboy culture, there's an instrumental on the b-side it's not really a bboy track though which I've always thought was a shame

Nona Hendryx - Keep It Confidential was also a club hit, remixed by Nick Martinelli & David Todd

Nona Hendryx - Run For Cover

[anikilive]

[opusscience]

Sunrise Express is out now, available to stream in all the usual places, such as Spotify, download from BandCamp, and for a limited time, it's also available on Vinyl and Cassette, courtesy of my friends of My Pet Flamingo.