Militant said:

p.s. That is great!!! It reminds me of a Soulwax mash-up from nearly a decade ago, which mixed 'Party People' by Alex Gopher with Prince's 'I Wanna Be Your Lover'.

Not so new - it's from 1996 - but it's better than anything Prince was churning-out that year.

It's the 'Don't Ever Wonder' version of Maxwell's 'Ascension'...



I know the beats are a complete steal - but who cares? Wish he made a full album like this.

KoolEaze said:

I was going to make a new thread on Snoop's Bootiez Automatic which has many refrences to Prince and sounds like an old school track. Nothing like what is on his current album Malice In Wonderland. However the song is not posted up on youtube so I can't embed it. It's an Itunes bonus track off the album that is definitley worth hearing. He is definitley one to watch out for and he really should just go on ahead and make a real old school funk - rap album because it fits his style from:
Signs
Doggy Dog World
Tear The Roof Off
Whats My Name
Let's Get Blown
Cool
Bootiez Automatic

GirlBrother said:

Thanks!

Glad you dig it.

Thanks, I will.

GirlBrother said:

I think the fact that the beats are completely and unabashedly stolen are what makes this gem of a remix so charming. I went and bought the maxi-CD back then and it was nice to see that he acknowledges the SOS Band as the "mighty mighty SOS Band" instead of just putting them in some brackets as original writers of the song.I also have the original, I love the SOS Band...obe of my favorite Flyte Time projects. Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis created a lot of timeless magic with them.By the way, they were also the producers of the very first Ice-T record ( The Coldest Rap 12").


Great thread, by the way.

pzlyprk said:

It's almost like Prince peed on them! Very purple - maybe to the point of pastiche, but it's great!

GirlBrother said:

SI've always found European bands to be faithful students of that era,,,,they seem to have such an affinity with music circa 83-84 and the thing that I love about them is they even feature some boogie legends such as Toney Lee D-Train to sing in their music

I wish Shango was here, he would post a handful of stuff that would've filled a 3rd page of this thread.

Harlepolis said:

We need to have a sticky for a resource of where to find new 80's tunes and new Minneapolis Funk grooves.

GirlBrother said:

Love this song by Private, but for some reason it reminds me of this old tune that LA & Babyface wrote/produced for the last lineup of Shalamar. It even has a little cameo by Bernadette Cooper from Klymaxx.

This has a very "old Prince" sound, to me. Love it!

This isn't even out until March.

I know this borrows from Joe Jackson's 'Stepping Out', but once the rawk guitar starts in the chorus, it sounds a bit like 'Ooh, She, She, Wa Wa' from the Apollonia 6 album!



Compare and contrast, here: http://www.youtube.com/wa...Fc3GPxuxIU

I dig the cut by Private but the rest meh.

In the 1990s, I would have given a rapper a pass if the music behind their rapping sounded good but not anymore. These days, I don't even tolerate full fledged musicians and singers having shit hop attitude or slang on their songs. I want a complete style change in the mainstream so it gets on my nerves when I see artists mixing either shit hop sounds, attitude, or even slang to their song because it just helps to keep the genre dominating the mainstream and does nothing towards changing things altogether.

In the 1990s, I could tolerate it because I kept thinking a complete style change would occur once the 1990s were over (like every other previous decade had a style change). But when the 2000s came and styles didn't change at all, I really developed a hatred for shit hop because I see it's always going to dominate with no hope for change in the future And now that the 2010s are here and it still dominates, I don't even want to hear the slang even if the music was good. As for shit hop attitude though, I despised it from day one.
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phunkdaddy said:

Do you know of any more similar songs you could post?

vainandy said:

It's a good job that I didn't post Outkast's 'Prototype' then.

this thread is a major dissapointment.




like phunkdaddy said, i like the private song but the rest isnt very minneapolis sound. and aside from that one song there arent any other grooves on the private album

btw that felix da housecat track is a joke.

WE WANT PRINCE.

minneapolisFunq said:

I'm hoping others will post recommendations - that's the point.

I dont think there is enough new "minneapolis funk" around to post.

when i see videos of Maxwell in a thread like this its nearly comical to me.

minneapolisFunq said:

Why? It sounds like classic Jam & Lewis.

it lacks a certain edge.

where are the synth stabs?



to be honest i dont care for jam and lewis very much. they commercialized and toned down the raw feeling of the minneapolis sound. i would prefer something like cherelle's " i didnt mean to turn you on" or alexander o'neal's fake etc.

GirlBrother said:

I'm surprised that the Fatback Band haven't sued them.

paisleypark4 said:

Do It...Timbaland ripping off the little people again. What a shameful cunt he is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...ontroversy

minneapolisFunq said:

Let me not 4get this gem

aint's nobody gotsta say nothin about the funk eye just posted's?

Nelly, Mariah Carey, and Missy Elliot are NOT minneapolis funk

or funk period.

minneapolisFunq said:

Hell Nelly isn't even a good rapper.
How in the hell can he be mentioned in the same
sentence with funk.

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I forgot all about this tune. It's funny as hell.
Didn't the ex football player Sidney Justin sing lead
on this one?

Hell, she's playing around but she needs to put some bass on top of that and some vocals and release it because it sounds wonderful.