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Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang


edit: okay we're on a new page for me to ruin with 5000000 youtube video embeds no one will watch. possible posts to come. weigh in or :justpost: your own

post 2000s blue eyed soul feature?

the french james brown?

the brazilian james brown?

jazz-funk that doesn't suck and sound like utter soul sucking garbage?

estonia special feature?

hysterical pimp worship music?

I dunno whatever, I got more. till next time cowards

Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Jan 30, 2022

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BigFactory
Sep 17, 2002

Deep Glove Bruno posted:


jazz-funk that doesn't suck and sound like utter soul sucking garbage?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq7wSIDjAes

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





Deep Glove Bruno posted:

jazz-funk that doesn't suck and sound like utter soul sucking garbage?

idk what you consider utter soul sucking garbage, but gently caress it, idc, I'm going to post some Sun Ra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5vRHbQoTlc

Xand_Man
Mar 2, 2004

If what you say is true
Wutang might be dangerous


Deep Glove Bruno posted:

Orchestre Poly Rythmo is like an unfathomable depth to me. I enjoy every time I listen to their stuff and then sit back and go "I can't possibly get my head around their oeuvre so I'll just wait till it pops up in my head again and find more random material of theirs."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzD8GSdzznQ

It's weird because I see them described as 'Voodoo Funk" and every time I read that phrase I have to remind myself that they have a very different set of associations with the word Voodoo than I do as an American

Xand_Man fucked around with this message at 13:31 on Jan 30, 2022

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang

Xand_Man posted:

It's weird because I see them described as 'Voodoo Funk" and every time I read that phrase I have to remind myself that they have a very different set of associations with the word Voodoo than I do as an American

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF5c1jrLIYU

voodoo funk was also the name of this guy's african reissue label:


a master digger

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang
I just got two new 45s in the mail. these are rough as guts and semi anonymous - I THINK it's Lucky Brown aka Joel Ricci but am not sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oyLsMK4tVI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SqkZc3-x3E

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang
I forgot the ultimate primer into deep funk, which is these two mixes, all made from 45s and full of early-2000s style turntablism - except scratching on 45s is ridiculously hard. They are super lightweight compared to 12 inches and the speed required is higher. It's the Guitar Hero speedrun of scratching, or something.

But the special thing is that their record selection was so ridiculous - remember that post I made about Salt - Hung Up, the one the german guy discovered 5 copies of and the rest of the unsold box got destroyed? They use an original copy of that in Brainfreeze, and toured their live shows cutting with it.

This is lesson 1 in deep funk and a heavily enjoyable mix. Throw it on when you're cooking some sausages or something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4-iYnZtJcI

Lesson 2 is the sequel Product Placement which took it to even higher levels:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSPFHT8Eo64

highme
May 25, 2001


I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!


Saw the first show of the Brainfreeze tour in Portland. Absolutely bonkers. Up there with Mr Bungle and The Roots for live performances.

This post reminded me of this set Cut Chemist did this year with a single turntable and a loop pedal.

https://youtu.be/xVAulCSj_Lw

BigFactory
Sep 17, 2002
Saturday night, gotta get things moving a little

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJKsp9_L24Q

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang
curtis deeper cuts have been on the menu for me recently. i will get to my list at the top of page 4, but here's two of the best songs ever first. I mean if you haven't heard move on up in a while do that too but yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCDAfa-NI-M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upCTRR1CI9w

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang

Deep Glove Bruno posted:


hysterical pimp worship music?


Since I just posted pusherman I'll do this one.

I have gone back and forth between these two rasputin's stash hysterical pimp worship tracks: Mr. Cool and Dookey Shoe. Everyone has an opinion. It is a real cause of mental anguish:

quote:

Coolest song ever!

quote:

This is that uncle no good music. Thats uncle no good you dont give him any money
Mr. Cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmpYEJnGKLQ

Dookey Shoe

quote:

This is by far the best funk song ever written!

quote:

For the longest time I thought Mr Cool was the better song (and rightfully so).
But drat.... That Dookey Shoe song might just be better...
I dunno. I got a lot invested in Mr Cool
me too, brother...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_IZXLPBvMY

ughhhh Don Julian Shorty the Pimp. the existence of this track is why there's a hysterical pimp worship music genre. the ur-example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIIQvs4qAKM

curtis superfly, of course. this and "pusherman" have old dudes in the comments blaming him for the crack epidemic by making such cool music about pimps and dealers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cmo6MRYf5g

honorable mention martha reeves 'willie d' but that's enough embeds in this post

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang

Deep Glove Bruno posted:

the french james brown?

OK we're in the corny mid to late 60s so skip this post if you need to. Big band horn sections and stuff like that.

Nino Ferrer (if you are a weirdo who knows old French music you may know him from some soft baby poo like "Le Sud") had joints and a wine/cigarette roughened voice that actually fit the genre unlike most non-Americans attempting soul. Also clearly dealt with some real poo poo because he eventually shot himself in the chest (!!!!) in a field

Mao et Moa - a bunch of weird puns on Mao Tse-Tung and spoken word phonetic-chinese quotes from the little red book. heavy drum breaks on a french pop record, yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q3M6MGbcr0

Je Voudrais Être Noir - you know any high school French? this is exactly what you think it's about. "I wanna be black". The Beatles and Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin etc. WISH they had this kind of radical honesty
hey hey hey monsieur wilson pickett...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpazdFWjLUA

Le Roi d'Angleterre
Some weird poo poo about the king of England declared war on the king of Peru, madame Josephine poisoned two of her neighbours, war's awesome but he likes patchouli better? fuckin... I dunno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAMXFRi-Rio

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang

Deep Glove Bruno posted:

post 2000s blue eyed soul feature?

Here's some Little Barrie, some brits led by a guy Barrie who can play the hell out of a guitar. their early 2000s records had this drummer Wayne Fullwood who was so good at belting out backup vocals he kind of overshadowed Barrie. They ended up doing surf music and other stuff, but their early stuff is all nice bluesy soul.

In looking up their old songs I found out they did the Better Call Saul theme. Get that money I guess

And drat I can't find the first thing of theirs I heard, "Give Me A Microphone", which was so low-fi I thought it was a 1968 recording. It's on spotify though.
https://open.spotify.com/track/49R4JIAijWXSdqjdAcyyFd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES-2DhoabnM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYouQsZq_3U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKm-3SxBEZc

drummer getting his vocal shine on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_z-hmmDNnA

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang

Deep Glove Bruno posted:

the brazilian james brown?

anybody who knows much brazilian music knows exactly who i'm talking about here. toni tornado. gruff voiced dude who did some amazing melodic funk. brazil, with its samba and tropicalia roots, made some really uniquely melodic funk music I think due to the odd progressions of samba etc. leaking into their funk.
'me libertei'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ny8I_f2M5c
'i'm black'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN-NSLBOrvw
and here's the proof he's the brazilian james brown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzU5hFZNMBQ

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang
some brazilian bonus tracks i like that aren't by toni:

Tim Maia made a ton of great music in English and B-P, but not all of it is funk. Here's a mellow track of his
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwUGJXm02ZQ
and some swiss guys turning it to a real workout. this 45 is so great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HynyDjt0C0A

Di Melo has two amazing tracks on his one album. You can really hear the samba in the chord progressions and whatnot in this, but it's definitely still funk.
Pernalonga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECzlmXlM6jo
Kilario
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCZ_Uad8vVc

Xand_Man
Mar 2, 2004

If what you say is true
Wutang might be dangerous


https://i.imgur.com/unHV3NL.gifv

I've been driving a lot a recently and I have discovered funk is the perfect car music. A good funk groove keeps you alert, smooth and chill af. Here's some of what I've been listening to.

A couple of Meters classics from their first album
Cardova
My gold standard of driving funk. Everything else has to pass the test of "would I listen to this when I could be listening to Cardova?"
Live Wire

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio
Just discovered them and :swoon: . Seriously I haven't found a track I don't love
Aces
Close but No Cigar
Jimmy's Groove
That rock solid bassline lays a foundation for the organ to go bugfuck

The Olympians
Vets of other Daptone Record bands make a Greek God themed album that's soul and uh lounge funk?
Sirens of Jupiter
Mercury's Odyssey

Realizing that someone else had done the work of collating stuff for me, I raided the OST for Driver San Francisco as a jumping off point for my explorations.
If you can find a old copy of the game, it's worth a playthrough. It's a love letter to car movies and it understands that cruising down the coast with some good music can be just as enjoyable as a madcap car chase.

Selected tracks
Rock Steady - Aretha Franklin
Right On - Clarence Wheeler & The Enforcers
Beat Me Til I'm Blue - Alan Hawkshaw & The Mohawks
That prompted me to check out the rest of the Mohawks' (one) album The Champ and it's great. Seriously
Roving Reporter (Dr. Jekyll & Hyde Park)
If you don't start moving once the drum kicks in, check your pulse

Give me more driving music to keep my rush hours funky

Xand_Man fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Mar 5, 2022

Xand_Man
Mar 2, 2004

If what you say is true
Wutang might be dangerous


Also, it breaks Bruno's rule but I heard this and now you have to
Sorry but that'd be telling
Catchy track off of Machine Gun but gah I need to take a shower after that

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang

Xand_Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/unHV3NL.gifv

I've been driving a lot a recently and I have discovered funk is the perfect car music. A good funk groove keeps you alert, smooth and chill af. Here's some of what I've been listening to.

A couple of Meters classics from their first album
Cardova
My gold standard of driving funk. Everything else has to pass the test of "would I listen to this when I could be listening to Cardova?"
Live Wire

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio
Just discovered them and :swoon: . Seriously I haven't found a track I don't love
Aces
Close but No Cigar
Jimmy's Groove
That rock solid bassline lays a foundation for the organ to go bugfuck

The Olympians
Vets of other Daptone Record bands make a Greek God themed album that's soul and uh lounge funk?
Sirens of Jupiter
Mercury's Odyssey

Realizing that someone else had done the work of collating stuff for me, I raided the OST for Driver San Francisco as a jumping off point for my explorations.
If you can find a old copy of the game, it's worth a playthrough. It's a love letter to car movies and it understands that cruising down the coast with some good music can be just as enjoyable as a madcap car chase.

Selected tracks
Rock Steady - Aretha Franklin
Right On - Clarence Wheeler & The Enforcers
Beat Me Til I'm Blue - Alan Hawkshaw & The Mohawks
That prompted me to check out the rest of the Mohawks' (one) album The Champ and it's great. Seriously
Roving Reporter (Dr. Jekyll & Hyde Park)
If you don't start moving once the drum kicks in, check your pulse

Give me more driving music to keep my rush hours funky

I don't know why I didn't reply to this when I first saw it. What a pro-rear end post. A fine selection. drat.

Here's a youtube channel recommendation - not ideal for driving music unless you, like me, obsessively download lovely mp3s off youtube when you can't find the tracks anywhere else.

This is two multi-talented brothers who make some incredible instrumentals straight to analog tape (which we can get into a whole thing about that, almost a separate thread, although it's worth pointing out that funk gets sampled so much because by and large people don't have the guts or know-how to track some breakbeats for themselves by recording it onto TAPE so it sounds good. For nerd interest they have done professional-level covers of some of the best videogame soundtracks that fit their milieu (Shawn Lee's Bully/Canis Canem Edit soundtrack, The Getaway etc.) but lots of original stuff too. They are obvious Shawn Lee disciples, which is a good thing.

The Brothers Nylon. Check some of this poo poo out. https://youtube.com/channel/UC27vkjSASMk7uRhXh4ydPMg

gta iv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8lQQoA66hE

hard panned 70s italian horror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNZ4Ud0YsmY

oh look they got shawn lee on a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjlmS38aXzc

e: i forgot to say the name of the guys

Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Mar 16, 2022

Xand_Man
Mar 2, 2004

If what you say is true
Wutang might be dangerous


lol I had been wondering if I had killed the thread somehow

Thanks, gonna give the Brothers Nylon a listen once I get back to my car.

Bruno, any suggestions on where I could find other Alan Hawkshaw funk tracks or do I just need to suck it up and listen to lots of kpm?

( Context: Alan Hawkshaw was a commercial artist; he made tracks for music libraries that would later be licensed for TV, movies, ads, etc. So he has dozen of music library "albums", and an amazing funk track can bookended by a sensual piano track on one side and a flute piece that borders on painful on the other)

For actual content:
https://youtu.be/vCByeJsq65M
Lyn Collins - Think (About It)
See if you can guess the moment I yelled at my speakers

Xand_Man fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Mar 17, 2022

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang

Xand_Man posted:

Thanks, gonna give the Nylon Brothers a listen once I get back to my car.

Bruno, any suggestions on where I could find other Alan Hawkshaw funk tracks or do I just need to suck it up and listen to lots of kpm?

( Context: Alan Hawkshaw was a commercial artist; he made tracks for music libraries that would later be licensed for TV, movies, ads, etc. So he has dozen of music library "albums", and an amazing funk track can bookended by a sensual piano track on one side and a flute piece that borders on painful on the other)

He recorded on Themes International, De Wolfe and (in the 80s) Bruton too, but the KPM stuff is the classic.

Look to some of the early 2000s CD comps where people were selecting the good stuff to reissue and not the corny big band cheese. This article mentions several of the better comps in its intro: https://pitchfork.com/features/starter/9410-library-music/

Obviously that's more than just the Hawkman. But there's loads of funk experimentation across the world of library music worth checking out. Not just KPM and Chappell either; French and Italian labels, even Selected Sound out of Germany, too.

I obsessed over the KPM green labels and all this stuff for like 10 years and then by coincidence ended up in a film/tv career where I regularly am given access to full libraries including KPM, and now take it for granted. But some library sites give streaming access to anyone, no login needed (or no pro credentials needed to make a login) - and from there you can bootleg medium quality mp3s off youtube. It's really surprising how much has been uploaded on youtube.

I take it you know the albums that are the most sought after? Big Beat 1 and 2, Soul Organ Showcase, Afro Rock, his collabs with Brian Bennett, etc.

Also check out Nasser Bouzida's music as he is basically a Hawkshaw superfan who plays organ and bongos extremely well. Big Boss Man is the band and Bongolian is the solo project. Maybe I'll put up my favorites of his in another post, he rules.

I can write more on library if you're interested in more specifics about the funky stuff in the wider production music world, but Hawkshaw's best stuff was on KPM and the Mohawks album, to the best of my knowledge, so you're on the right track. And anyway, part of the library music experience is coming across KPM 1125 Voices In Harmony and going "Keith Mansfield has some bangers... you never know..." and holding your nose through the corn spray.

I should do a proper library spectrum post when I've got time.

Xand_Man
Mar 2, 2004

If what you say is true
Wutang might be dangerous


I swear to god I don't have a compulsive need to have the last post in this thread (just ADD), but you mentioned Curtis Mayfield and the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio whips rear end so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkUVKuqFOik

Xand_Man fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Mar 16, 2022

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang
Hell yeah they're great. I'm pretty sure that KEXP session got pressed up like two years after they did it because it did so well on youtube. I don't know much about their old or new drummer, but Jimmy James is a sick guitarist and both Delvon and him play with Joel Ricci aka Lucky Brown on a load of great stuff.

Lucky Brown does a lot of 90s/2000s style semi anonymous "new band name each release" 45s, played with the Breakestra, etc and is just cool. Goes by FUNKWAYS too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojhG2l0Yp-k

pretty sure this is jimmy james on "chicken rock"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6XmvOM2inY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlZxjbSoHBY

Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Mar 16, 2022

Xand_Man
Mar 2, 2004

If what you say is true
Wutang might be dangerous


lol thread just me and Bruno at this point

Lots of great stuff, my current Music To-Do list is more Tim Maia, more Brothers Nylon, whatever Nasser Bouzida I can find. Those Di Melo tracks slap but it looks like he didn't make any more in that style?
---
I've been enjoying digging through library collections, there's a fun kinda gacha element since the musical styles can vary so wildly. Afro Rock kicked rear end but a lot of the stand-out tracks aren't really funk. Which brings me to the question, are you aware of any Black library musicians?

It's not really Hawkshaw, Mansfield, Bennett, etc. fault. They are paid to be musical chameleons; in that context it's a little weird to consider it appropriative. Their literal job is to make music that sounds similar to other music. And in a weird way it came full circle as they got mined for breakbeats.

But an album called Afro Rock written by two white guys from Derbyshire and Essex is gonna leave a bad taste in my mouth no matter what
---

Anyway I was on the fence about whether they would qualify for this thread but The Budos Band is quite good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ap83432vWw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO8CAjZYAY4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL3uvbCq0rw
Their later albums get more sludgy/doom metal while still keeping that funk/afro beat feeling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-dj8fSr5-c

It's a pretty unique sound.
My new favorite thing is the metaphors reviewers use to describe them: "if Quentin Tarantino was the music supervisor for a Bond film" "the soundtrack to a bad drug trip in the desert in a blaxploitation flick"

---
Not even remotely metal palate cleansers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ckIovZRwk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4JWkW0oROg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2sQ5AReoVg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLQNz594SBo
This is only about half of Raisins by Ryo Kawasaki. I really like the synth guitar effect, but the actual full track starts to sound a synth demo reel and overstays its welcome.

Which reminds me, what's the Estonian special feature? Ryo Kawasaki ended up in Estonia in his later years

Xand_Man fucked around with this message at 08:33 on Mar 29, 2022

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang

Xand_Man posted:

lol thread just me and Bruno at this point

Lots of great stuff, my current Music To-Do list is more Tim Maia, more Brothers Nylon, whatever Nasser Bouzida I can find. Those Di Melo tracks slap but it looks like he didn't make any more in that style?
Yeah he had just the one album back then and just recently did a comeback album, but whatever i heard of his new one didn't stick with me. I can do a post on more brazilian funk stuff if you are interested, but on the other hand you could just listen to some DJ Nuts mixes on youtube or wherever for a primer and a good time. Though he's kind of a brazilian version of a "rare groove" DJ, like he prob won't be playing Tim Maia.

quote:

I've been enjoying digging through library collections, there's a fun kinda gacha element since the musical styles can vary so wildly. Afro Rock kicked rear end but a lot of the stand-out tracks aren't really funk. Which brings me to the question, are you aware of any Black library musicians?

It's not really Hawkshaw, Mansfield, Bennett, etc. fault. They are paid to be musical chameleons; in that context it's a little weird to consider it appropriative. Their literal job is to make music that sounds similar to other music. And in a weird way it came full circle as they got mined for breakbeats.

But an album called Afro Rock written by two white guys from Derbyshire and Essex is gonna leave a bad taste in my mouth no matter what
---
Yes, I'm with you on all this. It seems to me that the industry has hugely diversified since the 60s when guys like Hawkshaw would just get asked to make like a reggae record because they were already on contract and could do serviceable soul music, and in the bosses' mind all black music went in the same section (or separate record store entirely for that matter).

Now even actual performing musicians will do library work for a more consistent check. Andy Cooper from Ugly Duckling, while not black, is a good example; he does tracks for Audio Network, and I believe the New Mastersounds did some moonlighting as a library funk band - again, honkies, but I'm in the UK at the moment so using UK/euro companies most. I bet many of the grime producers doing production music are not white, for example, though.

The thing is, the modern scene has so many composers, outside of like... well, I can only name one off the dome... insanely successful modern library composer (Terry Devine-King), it's gone back to being a pretty anonymous profession. So there surely are black composers doing good library music but I don't know who they are! And given library's weird relationship to the public, maybe that's how it should be?

Actually I have a vague memory of coming across Finlay Quaye on some production label doing reggae so there you go, that's one. Remember him? "Sunday Shining", 90s one hit wonder?


quote:

Anyway I was on the fence about whether they would qualify for this thread but The Budos Band is quite good
hell yeah they do. their earlier stuff more so i guess but they keep groove at the forefront always so i guess funk-sludge was a feasible sub genre in the end.

quote:

Which reminds me, what's the Estonian special feature? Ryo Kawasaki ended up in Estonia in his later years
Well my knowledge of funky music in Estonia is limited but the nexus around which all the projects orbit is so prodigiously productive it feels like a whole scene.

I'm talking about Misha Panfilov, aka Hanz Mambo, Penza Penza, Misha Panfilov Sound Combo, Estrada Orchestra, Centre Electronique Muusa, Weizenberg Group... and so on. As far as I can tell all those projects are either him or him as the driving force. He runs the gamut from total musique concrete (his latest LP "Repetitive Music") to experimental jazz funk, to like... 60s groove with moog and wordless vocals, to movie soundtracks... he took Gloria Ann Taylor's last demo vocals before her untimely death and composed and produced their instrumental backings, and he's even worked with his British equivalent, another extremely prodigious guy-in-a-shed Shawn Lee who you should DEFINITELY get familiar with if I haven't already posted about him ("Bully" soundtrack, ape breaks, ping pong orchestra, young gun silver fox).

To give you an idea of this guy's output I believe he released five LPs and five 7-inches in 2021 alone? I think? At a time when major label reissues and Adele supermarket vinyl basically monopolized record pressing plants and made indie artists wait months to get through the production pipeline. Nuts.

Here's an amazing long wurlitzer jam, Estrada Orchestra, jazz funk type

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb89f857L98
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwPjrRPxUsg

here's some of his 45s as MP Sound Combo I like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fwhBY16x60
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9TYAe3IgqQ

And his very tasteful instrumentation of some demos Gloria Ann Taylor recorded vocals for in 2016 before she died.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM48bqea-C0

OH poo poo i forgot to mention one of my favorites of his projects, Penza Penza. sort of zambian rock influenced? grimy stuff. i really like this album (I bought it, and I normally only buy 45s).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9vpeGd5eQk


Anyway that's the end of my page 4 menu but all this Misha Panfilov reminds me. He could be considered a sort of left field parallel to a whole load of eastern europe funk cargo cult bands that despite being Russian, Belorussian, Ukrainian etc. do seem to have a bit of a scene, which, pasty white cargo cult or not, I can respect.

I can get into a post about the Russian cargo cult funkists at some point. Two of the Soul Surfers (the first band I heard of from this scene) just announced a really cool sounding album "Igor and Romeo's Sound Excitement", but the only samples I found are on fatbeats.com (yes it still exists!).

I can also do my favorite Bouzida tracks. I wrote this whole post on a phone while food poisoning kept me immobilized horizontal in bed. I'll try to do those posts before the next time I'm incapacitated.

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang

Xand_Man posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLQNz594SBo
This is only about half of Raisins by Ryo Kawasaki. I really like the synth guitar effect, but the actual full track starts to sound a synth demo reel and overstays its welcome.

Forgot to say, excellent links all round, I hadn't checked out Budos in years, and the palate cleansers are all good driving music as you say. The Kawasaki, I can get with the beginning - slap bass is hit and miss for me but this was nice - but yeah I'm with you on the synth noodling in the full track. It's like how I love the bassline and twitchy drum simplicity in Chameleon but when Herbie starts getting crazy on the moog (or ARP?) in the back half with the big jazz chords and all, I can't hang. The first 8 minutes are solid for me, totally classic.

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang
Funk/soul thread small update:

I bought five 45s today, and I'm still waiting for another one I ordered a while back. Oh and an LP on preorder.
1 from wildcards/funk night detroit
1 from penza penza in estonia. also got his LP with shawn lee on preorder
1 from bacao rhythm and steel band (munich) big crown records NYC
3 from lugnut brand records in california - he reduced his back catalog to 3 bucks each, this is for new physical vinyl records, 3 bucks. bandcamp friday deal I guess. I feel like it's 2000 all over again

Just a reminder to buy some records cowards. be a fuckin dinosaur. leave a pile of beautifully curated poo poo in your house after your death for unknowing relatives to unload to a scumbag dealer for pennies on the dollar.

Here's the Bacao. I think I own every release of theirs except re-releases. They are so great and have few easy comparisons in funk or indeed in steel band music. There's one or two funky steel band records from back in the day but not much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSS0g31BVwM
the B-side is the Mtume track sampled for notorious BIG "juicy"

Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Apr 2, 2022

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang

Deep Glove Bruno posted:

I'm talking about Misha Panfilov, aka Hanz Mambo, Penza Penza, Misha Panfilov Sound Combo, Estrada Orchestra, Centre Electronique Muusa, Weizenberg Group... and so on. As far as I can tell all those projects are either him or him as the driving force. He runs the gamut from total musique concrete (his latest LP "Repetitive Music") to experimental jazz funk, to like... 60s groove with moog and wordless vocals, to movie soundtracks... he took Gloria Ann Taylor's last demo vocals before her untimely death and composed and produced their instrumental backings, and he's even worked with his British equivalent, another extremely prodigious guy-in-a-shed Shawn Lee who you should DEFINITELY get familiar with if I haven't already posted about him ("Bully" soundtrack, ape breaks, ping pong orchestra, young gun silver fox).

To give you an idea of this guy's output I believe he released five LPs and five 7-inches in 2021 alone? I think? At a time when major label reissues and Adele supermarket vinyl basically monopolized record pressing plants and made indie artists wait months to get through the production pipeline. Nuts.

Here's an update on this insanely prolific dude:
He does a one-hour preview mix on estonian radio with tracks off all his forthcoming 2022 LPs here:
https://r2.err.ee/1608536290/eesti-pops-misha-panfilovi-mix

quote:

One-hour teaser! Listen to my yesterday's mix for Eesti Pops @raadio2
It includes several songs from each album that will be released in 2022. Very excited to share this one!

Tracklist:
01 Penza Penza - Merman ("Neanderthal Rock" LP, Funk Night Records)
02 Penza Penza - Lorissa ("Neanderthal Rock" LP, Funk Night Records)
03 Misha Panfilov - Sierra IV ("Sierra OST" LP, Funk Night Records)
04 Misha Panfilov - Ticking Clock I ("Sierra OST" LP, Funk Night Records)
05 Misha Panfilov - Before the Race II ("Sierra OST" LP, Funk Night Records)
06 Shawn Lee & Misha Panfilov - Wet Streets ("Space & Tempo" LP, Funk Night Records)
07 Shawn Lee & Misha Panfilov - Rope Tornado ("Space & Tempo" LP, Funk Night Records)
08 Misha Panfilov - Storm ("The Sea Will Outlive Us All" LP, Miraaž Records)
09 Misha Panfilov - Baltica Calls Me ("The Sea Will Outlive Us All" LP, Miraaž Records)
10 Misha Panfilov - Seekers ("Plan X OST" LP, Funk Night Records)
11 Centre El Muusa - Pony Road ("Purple Stones" LP, Sulatron Records)
12 Centre El Muusa - Pilot On Board ("Purple Stones" LP, Sulatron Records)
13 Misha Panfilov - Coral Song ("Momentum" LP, 2 Headed Deer Records)
14 Misha Panfilov - Pauluna ("Repetitive Music Vol 1" LP, Kunst Ja Rütm Private Press)

By my count that's ...eight LPs just this year?! See what I mean by writing my 'estonian funk' post all about one guy. He's a one man scene.

Xand_Man
Mar 2, 2004

If what you say is true
Wutang might be dangerous


I've been sick recently; main two times I listen to funk are commuting and exercising and I haven't been doing a lot of either. So here's some stuff I've been enjoying

Groove Me by King Floyd
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=MaZdJDC1Zys
Honestly I almost hesitate to call this a funk song since since it's hella R&B but it's definitely got some butt and it's from the right time

Two from Afro Lafayette Rock Band
Oglenon
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxyy06hIJFM
I'm not a drum person but 8m of going HAM like that seems like a feat of endurance

Voodounon
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=giks5kYSQv8
The synth? on this gets a bit annoying but goddamn that groove is so loving good it never fails to put a smile on my face

Xand_Man fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Apr 10, 2022

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Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang

Xand_Man posted:

I've been sick recently; main two times I listen to funk are commuting and exercising and I haven't been doing a lot of either. So here's some stuff I've been enjoying

Groove Me by King Floyd

Two from Afro Lafayette Rock Band


Ashamed to admit that I have only ever listened to Hihache and Soul Makossa from LARB before and these two tracks rule. Thanks. (and fyi it's just a wurlitzer 200 run through a wah-wah pedal, not a synth per se)

I'd put Groove Me in the funk box for sure. It's early soul funk but it's funk.

Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Apr 10, 2022

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