Bootsy's Rubber Band - Party on Plastic (Creative Nuisance Remix) INCorporated Band Thang - Still Tight (Remix) Funkadelic - Too Tight for Light I hope you caught the first post I did on a discrete musical genre I dub "Rare P-Funk Boogie Funk". Here's the long explanation of the genre - please read it, and you'll get the idea - basically boogie funk, made by members of P-Funk, from about [...]
Man, another reminder folks here. Just for a minute, walk out of that studio, stop crate digging, sampling, and all that and go connect with a legend today. There are plenty of them still out there, and you can go get them on your session. Get those last vapors, because I feel many funk fumes are up and just being let out into the atmosphere right now without us acting on them. So what's this rant all about?? .... RIP to funkmeister, vocalist and keyboard tickler Eddie Bo. The ever funkin on funkologist Oliver Wang, did [...]
The Nomads: Take This Day Away and Got To Be Free From: The Nomads [Village, 1973] It's been a while since I shared the rare with you but today I have a record so rare that, wait for it, it's almost ungoogleable. In this day and age I'm actually genuinely shocked when I can't find out all the information I want by typing in the name, year and label of a record. The world of google and wiki has made it so that I expect someone [...]
Slim Smith : This Feeling and Stand Up and Fight From: Keep That Lovelight Shining [Sanctuary/Trojan, 2004] Slim Smith is one of the greatest vocalists I've ever heard. It's all in the emotion that sounds as though it's gonna rip apart the song. This feeling doesn't sound like a song. To me I can evision his entire life ripping apart. Not a 3 minute video, but each and every misstep steadily edging toward the decline [...]
A Tribe Called Quest- Bonita Applebaum From: People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm [Jive, 1990] R.A.M.P.- Daylight From: Come Into My Knowledge [Blue Thumb, 1977] The Cannonball Adderly Quintet- Soul Virgo From: The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free [...]
Buddy Miles - Working Harder Everyday Buddy Miles - Colossus Overview I am deep in the mode of digging through Buddy Miles catalog, going through some of my favorites from the mid to late 70's - because I have favorites to share with you all - ones I've been jamming on for a few years. And I'm talking to real funk heads who worked with Buddy Miles to get more info - maybe some interviews will come [...]
Hey Earfuzz peoples, fONk here. Felt like I let Earfuzz boss man Junior down this week. I've been working on a post on the later funk years of Buddy Miles , but I'm talking to a few heads who know more about his Columbia / Epic / Casablanca albums, because I know little about them right now. Sure are some funky jams so there you go, I got to do more research to represent Buddy's deep funk! Anyways, since I'm still working on that, here's a quickie, not crate digging here, just getting to the new ish [...]
OTW - "He Dance Funny" (featuring Garry Shider and Tracey Trey-Lewd Lewis) Otis Day & The Knights - "I Knock the Bottom Out of Mine" Overview I certainly hear the term "boogie funk" thrown around a bit these days. I'm going to amend to the term with a sub-genre, "P-Funk Boogie Funk", and the two songs at the top here are some examples. More on the songs posted here follows. Keep checking back at [...]
Keelay and Zaire : The Times feat. Blu, Fortilive & Nino Moschella From: Ridin' High [March 10th] Keelay & Zaire have an album coming up next week (the name of which is derived from the Fazo-O classic that has seen some love on the Fuzz) with a guest-list that's pretty insane (Phonte, Saafir, Darrien Brockington, Blu, Nino Moschella etc.). The production duo pretty much eat sleep and breathe music, so we thought we'd have them list some of the records nearest and dearest to their hearts, as well as (of course) the [...]
Hidden Strength: All We Need Is Time and I Wanna Be Your Main Man From: Hidden Strength [United Artists, 1975] No not the launch of Ear Fuzz's ten step self help program though I am available for bookings should you require some spiritual guidance (be warned this would probably mainly insist of me barking at you in a politely English version of the boot camp from Full Metal Jacket). Instead what we have here today is the funk my friends. The boogie, [...]
Exuma: Hayride and You Can't Always Get What You Want From: Hayride [Kama Sutra, 1973] There's a compilation of Sam Cooke that came out. It's a great compilation for the Cooke enthusiast boasting close to 30 songs and a couple real short studio quotes and takes. One of my favorite things on the album is a short 30 second clip where the producer asks Sam if he can sing a few bars of what soul sounds like. It is pure greatness, pure [...]
Wayne Wade: Run Come Rally and Man Of The Living From: Black Is Our Colour [Prophet, 1976] Some deep and soulful reggae in the house today with Wayne Wade's debut release Black Is Our Colour. Produced by Yabby You, an artist who was also in the early stages of making a name for himself, the album showcased not only Wayne's great vocals but also an impressively complex list of subject matters for a sixteen year old artist, rightly turning the Jamaican teenager into a [...]
Ahmad, Ras Kass, Saafir: Come Widdit The Pharcyde: Pandemonium The B.U.M.S.: It's A Street Fight From: Street Fighter (The Movie) [Priority, 1994] Apart from a general laziness that I hold close and dear to my heart, I haven't been posting so much over the last week due to the arrival of Street Fighter IV in my life. Having not played a Street Fighter game since Turbo and Super on the [...]
Byard Lancaster - Just Test (stream) fONKSQUISh featuring Byard Lancaster - It's Okay to Love (Germantown Dub) (free download) Introducing Byard Lancaster Byard Lancaster (good bio link) is one of the hardest working men in show business, he's still going strong, popping up in Paris , San Diego , or on the streets of [...]
Or maybe you did hear it. It's called 'See Me, Repeat Me', and it's got the core line up of Duran Duran going here just fine, but instead of Simon LeBon, you have a guy named Andy Wickett singing. He's got these pre Simon LeBon Duran Duran demos up for sale at his web site . Wickett also tells the whole story of how he wrote an early version of 'Girls on Film'. But that's not the point - who sang what, who wrote what. This is pure unadulterated Duran Duran as a musical [...]
Brothers Unlimited: Who's For The Young and Life, Dreams, Death From: Who's for the Young [capitol, 1970] Fuzz Funk Soul Afro Stax. That's the google keywords and RSS feed sorted. For those who want to stick around, here's some more in-depth stuff about the men who came together to produce this one great album before moving off again on their own paths through life. Formed from a 14 strong band of musicians from the Memphis area, Brothers Unlimited included the [...]
Booyakahahka! - 49:54 I don't exactly how or when this happened, but lately all I listen to is breakbeat, jungle, and drum & bass. A month ago I knew nothing about this music, now, it's an obsession. What happened to me? What's happening to me? I feel like a steady diet of this stuff changes your metabolism. I guess it all started about a month or so ago when I came across this slice of ridiculousness. Aside from making me laugh, the video also made me want to get [...]
P-Money: Wonder Boy and Don't Talk Rough (feat Blacks) From: P-Money Is Power [Uptown, 2008] Back with the heavy heavy sounds from Ol' Blighty today in the form of some love it or hate it Grime. It seems to be one of those truths that, with the exception of one or two artists, a Grime MC's underground work is always more exciting and interesting that any subsequent major label albums they put out. Maybe this is due to the urgency and home [...]
Mulatu Astatke: Netsanet From: Ethiopiques Vol. 4 (Buda, 1998) Could I be more geeked about this? Unlikely. Mulatu Astatke's music is something that scratches a unique itch in a wide variety of people. I got put up on it by East Coast hip-hop DJs (Rob Swift's Soulful Fruit tape to be specific) who used it as sample and mixtape fodder. Unlike many rare slabs resurrected by the dusty fingered ilk though, Astatke's music has taken root in the minds of music fans of all [...]
John Gary Williams: How Could I Let You Get Away and Open Your Heart (And Let Love Come In) From: The Whole Damn World Is Going Crazy [Truth/Stax, 1973 ] I was going to do an in depth analysis of John Gary Williams and the Mad Lads to go alongside these couple of tracks from his one and only solo release but to be honest I ain't feeling too hot today and I also found out that Dark End Of The Street did [...]
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