I’m always looking for new tunes (often times funky ones) so I thought it would be cool to make a thread where we share some of our favorite non-P bands that Funkateers would probably like. Specifically stuff you wouldn’t find on these sites:
These are all great resources btw. And don’t be afraid to list big-name bands (I’ve listed a few below) because there’s always a chance that someone (including me) hasn’t heard of 'em. Anyways here are some bands I digg (be it funk or G-funk). Also I put album names in quotes for more obscure stuff that might be harder to find.
Funk:
Aleon Craft
Big Sam’s Funky Nation
Chad Smith’s Bombastic Meat Bats
Chops ‘N’ Soul - “Gimme The Grease EP”
Commodores
Enema Squad - “Intergalaxative” & “Nothing 4 Free” single
Five Alarm Funk
Herbie Hancock
Marva Whitney
Meters
Ohio Players
Psychefunkapus
Que & Malaika - “HipRocSoul”
Red Hot Chili Peppers
SHAG - “SHAG Live!” & “Silver City”
Sly & the Family Stone
Sophistafunk
T.M. Stevens
TobyMac
G-funk:
A Tribe Called Quest
C-Funk
De La Soul
Digital Underground
Dr Dre
Flying Lotus
Ground Zero - “Future of the Funk EP”
N.A.S.A. - “Spirit Of Apollo”
Notorious BIG
Too $hort
Oh wow! You mentioned singles by “Enema Squad” and it made me go research what the heck you were referring to, and in doing so, I noticed that Enemy Squad released three very interesting looking vinyl singles during the 90s.
Yeah, from what I understand they rebranded to Enemy Squad when they released Intergalaxative in 2013 and I think they are working on a new album, as they released the single Nothing 4 Free in 2017 which I really like, I hope they do end up releasing another album
I found this CD on Amazon, by the way. It did not exist on discogs so I made an entry.
I’ve heard of these “Manufactured on Demand” pieces of crap before, but have never actually been the victim of one. If there’s a more official version of this, like one actually produced by Anti-Authority Records, then I feel kinda cheated, but if this is the only way to own a physical version of the album, I guess I can accept it. It wasn’t that expensive after all.
Anyone thinking of ordering - I’m not saying not to, just check out the pictures and see what level of quality you’re getting so you’re more informed than I was (I’d have still purchased, ultimately).
Yeah that’s the one I got. If I remember correctly the Froggadelic cd I got was one of those as well. I don’t think there was any other way that I saw to get it. The Frogg one is pretty decent. The Intergalaxative is mixed pretty harshly. I’ve yet to give it a proper listen, as I probably should, but yeah. I don’t know that the mixing really had anything to do with the on-demand though. I’d recommend the Frogg one though. There are some really solid tracks on there
I’d obviously never choose an on-demand copy over a real one, but if that’s the only way to get it then I’m probably gonna grab it.
yeah. would 100% recommend Gimme The Grease EP. listened to that to the point of exhaustion when I first found that. had to dial it back a little bit haha
Have you listened to the instrumental version with all the dubs. Oddly I heard that first. I saw the album cover and it looked a bit Masters at Work style. So I listened. Only after a second listen did I look for other stuff and realised that wasn’t the original.
Hey Funky People! Are you aware that in France we also enjoy Funk ?
Here are a couple examples of what the Malka Family, a band that took many inspiration from P-Funk, can do:
I have never been a fan of FFF because they were sounding for me more Rock than Funk.
Actually the French artist I used to enjoy a lot in the early 90s was Juan Rozoff:
He was very much influenced by Prince and I love the Kid of Minneapolis.
