New Wave Funk…
If you dig in to Princes ol’record crates im sure you will be able to find all of the tracks below, they all come from a time when dance music didn’t have to be 4/4 128bmp pumping neon monsters, they come from a time when party was a bout seeing new things and experimenting. For the last 6 months these three tracks have been in my playlists, whether i have gone traveling, done a mixtape or DJed. They are great, they bring together everything that dance music needs.
And im dying to go to the first New Wave Funk club of my life… so some one please hook us up here in Europe!
So, here you go, some classics! First out we have:
Zapp & Roger – Heartbreaker p I & II
The Westcoast hiphop and g-funk predecessors… Heartbreak is just a brilliant track that shows the band’s full potential, handclaps and talkbox, that whats up … Signed back in 1979 by our very favourite, George Clinton.
Put together by Prince himself, hailing out of Minneapolis and possibly the funkiest thing that ever came from Minneapolis, please prove me wrong tho… If you payed attention you would have heard it at this years Oscars. Just a classic
This is the newest track(86) out of all of them, but by the oldest band, formed back in 1976. Midas touch might be one of the reasons Americans in general seem to think that the Midas Touch is a good thing to possess. Think what you want about that, ill tell you one thing tho, this track is a good thing to posses.
sweet
man you should check out ‘Ain’t it black’ if ever your in London.
you’d love it.
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