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Trouble Funk - Again, do you know anything about them? With the positive results of my last question on Zapp, here I go again.
Here's what I found out about this band. They hail from D.C. and were part of the early rap scene but were overshadowed by other acts on their record label Sugar Hill. They had a come back in the late-eighties with help from Bootsy Collins and Curtis Blow but never really took off. They were classified as "go-go funk" which get's my curiousity. I've heard a couple of songs that are extremely funky but all of their stuff is out of print. Know anything about these cats? again, thanks in advance | |
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Actually Trouble funk was on a label called "JamTu" out of Dc for 2 years with tracks Like "E flat Boogie, Pump Me up," Trouble funk was sigined to Sugar Hill in Late 81 and recorded an album called "Drop the bomb" they had one ballad on there called "dont try to use me" and Pump me up was a total re recorded version from the original Jamtu version from 1980. | |
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On Ani DiFranco's "Hat Shaped Hat" from "Up Up Up Up Up Up," she chants either "Trouble Funk" or "Trouble Folk" during one extended funk jam. | |
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You'll find personnel, history and discography detail here:
http://www.warr.org/trouble.html The genre 'Go-Go' (or 'GoGo) music became commercially popular for a while in the mid-80s (1986 was probably its mainstream year of prominence) and was rooted in Washington DC. There is a Yahoo Group dedicated to Go Go Music, where you might find more information: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Go-Go/ Perhaps, the archetypal song from the era was Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers' 'Bustin' Loose'. Brown was admitted to the Washington Area Music Association Hall of Fame in 1991. Trouble Funk were admitted in 1998. http://www.wamadc.com/wam..._fame.html . [This message was edited Fri Jul 11 15:53:30 PDT 2003 by langebleu] ALT+PLS+RTN: Pure as a pane of ice. It's a gift. |
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langebleu said: You'll find personnel, history and discography detail here:
http://www.warr.org/trouble.html The genre 'Go-Go' (or 'GoGo) music became commercially popular for a while in the mid-80s (1986 was probably its mainstream year of prominence) and was rooted in Washington DC. There is a Yahoo Group dedicated to Go Go Music, where you might fond more information: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Go-Go/ Perhaps, the archetypal song from the era was Chuck Brown and the Sould Searchers' 'Bustin' Loose'. Brown was admitted to the Washington Area Music Association Hall of Fame in 1991. Trouble Funk were admitted in 1998. http://www.wamadc.com/wam..._fame.html . [This message was edited Fri Jul 11 10:33:24 PDT 2003 by langebleu] THANK YOU  langebleu | |
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Let me just add that the scene was well established well before the mid-80s peak. It was only at this time that the genre caught hold commercially - not only in its home town, but also reaching clubs in the UK ALT+PLS+RTN: Pure as a pane of ice. It's a gift. |
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