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Where is funk listened to nowadays? Where can you still here people listening to funk? Not just traditional funk. I'm talking any kind of funk/funky music. James Brown, P-Funk, Cameo, Zapp, Slapbak, and the funky hip hop. I imagine in California you still hear it, perphaps places like Dayton.... Who are the people that listen?
For instance, I hear many mexicans and black people in California still bang the funk In UK, nobody seems to know it. MAYBE a few people 40+ years of age | |
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Inside the homes of the cool people with good taste. As for publicly though....nowhere. The general public has lost it's taste and rhythm. Andy is a four letter word. | |
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That´s what I wanted to post. "When Michael Jackson is just singing and dancing, you just think this is an astonishing talent. And he has had this astounding talent all his life, but we want him to be floored as well. We really don´t like the idea that he could have it all." | |
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Online Funk Radio Station...from Tokyo
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All the time in my house, so thanks vainandy! Just like the white winged dove... |
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I was gonna say, "Wherever me and my iPod happen to be!" But what VainAndy said works just as well. I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart. | |
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The general public might've lost interest, but there are internet-radiostreams which specialize in funk, and there's interest due to a reissue-market of classic funk. That it's publicly nowhere to be found is simply not true, like the examples in my previous post. | |
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Also collectors share much rare funk on internet-blogs. There has been a steady market on eBay where rare funk has been sold for about a good decade now, or even a few years more, and a number of those funk-purchases but also classic funk tracks are reviewed online, such as those blogs. LA Dj Dam-Funk has spinnin' on a lot of club-nights or public parties in the LA-scene and elsewhere, and his shifts are mainly 80's funk and boogie. Those parties are visited by a variety of people from which some are introduced to those classic tracks, so in a way this could lead to interest of people who are new to classic funk because it has been played lesser on commercial radio in the past decades. Therefor it's great that internet radio is here today because it has broadened the offer of more music genres/styles (including funk) which in some cases are less available on the commercial radio-cables. | |
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Endangered Genres: -Rock & Roll -Blues -Hard Rock -Classic Metal -Funk -Traditional Country
Extinct Genres -Disco -Swing -Traditional Folk
Still Successful or New Genres: -Hip/Hop - Rap -Electronic Music -Country Pop -Modern Metal -Alternative Rock  | |
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Zapp has performed not so long ago at the Camden Jazz Cafe in London and more funk-related artists have performed there. A few months ago there was a classic night at the indigO2 with artists such as Don Blackman and Leroy Hutson. The UK always had a scene who's interested in rare funk grooves. In the 70's and 80's there have performed many US funk acts in the UK, and sometimes exclusively in the UK such as Slave who did 2 tours just there. Mtume also only performed in the UK. Kleeer might've done a few dates in Germany, but the UK was their main goal for shows. Read the liner-notes of Kleeer's Greatest Hits-cd on Rhino. They were welcomed like lost sons. A current UK internet station such as www.solarradio.com does focus on released soul of today, but they have some dj's who air classic boogie and funk. Specialized radio stations of soul and funk music have always been active in the UK.
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Disco has evolved in the updated version "Dance/House". Many classic disco-samples can also still be heard in this newer genre. The House-scene has always embraced Disco. A House-Dj/remixer such as Frankie Knuckles has his roots in the Disco-scene. | |
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well, that's true, but I meant traditional disco; nowadays, disco can only be found in a couple of rare bands, like Maroon 5, or in electronic samples... | |
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ah, okay | |
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Yeah,disco never really died.It's now referred to as "dance music". | |
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Whaaaaaaaaaat!?
Nevair!!!!! At my house...all the "endangered/extinct" stuff gets played all the time! Screw the modern times....
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...ditto  | |
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I think there are many people out there that probably don't realize that. Disco never went away, and in my opinion... it never SUCKED, lol.
I agree | |
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You bugging. They'll never be endangered/extinct to me. [Edited 12/21/10 7:34am] | |
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Disco is indeed STILL ALIVE! | |
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If Disco is alive, then dinosaurs are still alive LOL : dinosaurs still "live" in movies, BBC stuff, museums, illustrated books, etc. but THE ORIGINAL thing is dead, just like 70s disco...
a bunch of electronic samples are not enough to resurrect a genre that, for all intents and purposes, died in the early-80s... or evolved into something that cannot be called disco anymore...
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- Rock & Roll bands are nowhere to be found -Classic Metal bands are nowhere to be found (only extreme & modern metal rules these days, sadly) -Hard-Rock bands are not big-sellers anymore... - Blues? ouch... underground, at best... - Traditional Country has been overshadowed by the crappy Country Pop of Ashlee and other bimbos... -Funk? it stopped being successful in the early-80s...
sad but true | |
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I got some pretty good stuff coming through my headphones right now...
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Blame the stupid money mongrels in the "industry". | |
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Not true..
I got to Elixer on Fridays and listen to slammin down funk by a Dj here in Minneapolis from 5 - 10pm
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Everywhere! Funk has a worldwide audience today. Every mid-size to big city in the U.S., Europe, Japan or Australia has a monthly Funk party or a club. Many Funk legends are on the road again or are recording and releasing new material. The Funk DJ scene spans all over the world, and almost every bigger city has at least one new Funk band, performing authentic Funk music.
Funk is very much alive today, probably more than ever, because now it has gone worldwide. | |
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You couldn't be more wrong. You just have to look for it. | |
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Word!
In a humble act of self-promotion, allow me to add my own weekly radio show, which can be downloaded here: http://midnightsoulstice.podbean.com/ | |
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HIS type of funk? I think not. [Edited 12/21/10 10:28am] | |
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You just moved up a notch in my book. | |
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