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I need tips on some "obscure" funk recrds, anyone got a clue? |
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what sort of funk? something recent or something older? |
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Doesn't really matter, although I might be leaning on the older side. |
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you might try to tune in to bbc 6 music (a british digital radio station) and listen to craig charles (the bloke from red dwarf believe or not). he plays a whole range on funk etc on fridays from about 8 GMT cant name you any specific records or artists, which is more what you are after? |
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oh man--my knowledge of old funk stops with funkedelics and prince :D but there's this awesome album titled 'caliente' from last year by ark (guillaume berroyer). there are some songs with vocals as well, one of them by jamie lidell. it's incredibly funky! |
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any names |
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thanks! and while i'm at it with requests, what about power electronics? |
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Talking Heads? |
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hardly obscure? |
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Allen Toussaint's ''Life, Love and Faith'', ''Southern Nights'' and ''From a Whisper to a Scream'' is just about my favorite funk/soul stuff from the 70s, packs great tunage into funky/groovy tracks. He produced a ton of funk and soul so I dunno if he's all that obscure, but he'd definitely underappreciated. |
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They're the closest thing to funk I know. Sorry. |
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Check the funk releases on Juno, i can also advise you James Brown and Curtis Mayfield but i'm far from being a specialist ! |
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not the most obscure, but the Pulp Fusion series has some rather funky gems here and there |
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i've just tuned in, that's great ! |
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Jamaaladeen Tacuma Derek Bailey, Jamaaladeen Tacuma & Calvin Weston - Mirakle Check out Steve Coleman, his website has albums of mp3's you can download for free, it's amazing music too: |
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ooh, great tips! thanks! |
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its a good music station, mornings are good also, but in the afternoons its a lot of rock/indie stuff you know.. Trojan soundsystem are on at the moment, got that recording to minidisc |
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Not too obsure but zapp is pretty awesome. How about voyage? Its obscure, but its more disco/world music. |
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zapp? |
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Look for the wildstyle instrumental soundtrack, ju par universal orchestra, and any of the dusty fingers compolations for some good funk that isn't well known. |
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Yeah. Or 'zapp and roger' |
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Now what kind of funk are you looking for. Party funk or soul-funk? |
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Bill laswell put out an axiom funk album, but axiom records always end up sounding like axiom records other stuff. Contribed and meaningless. |
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Both |
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Yeah. Look for the dusty fingers series. Its a compilation series for hiphop producers that has some of the "classic" sould and funk songs that aren't very well known, but are being sampled by everybody. They are pretty much good listens straight through. |
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Oh yeah, there are about 15 different dusty fingers comps out last I counted. |
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Look for me on soulseek. I know of a bunch of good funk stuff. My name is Bloody Taxidermist |
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