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unusual facts about synth-funk



Bantam Rooster

Bantam Rooster disbanded in 2003 as Potter formed the funk rock band Detroit City Council.

Bell 103 modem

The American synth-pop band Information Society featured a track entitled "300bps N, 8, 1 (Terminal Mode or Ascii Download)" on their album Peace and Love, Inc. that could be decoded to a text message by holding a phone handset connected to a Bell 103 modem up to the speaker playing the track.

Breakestra

The style in which the breakestra plays in the live setting & on record is much influenced by late 60s and early 70s funk & soul-jazz music and the respective samples that were used in late 80s/early 90s hip hop as The Live Mix, Part 1 and The Live Mix, Part 2 show.

Chico Science

Influenced by such musicians as James Brown, Grandmaster Flash and Kurtis Blow, their music cleverly fused rock, funk, and hip hop with maracatu and other traditional rhythms of Brazil's Northeast.

Count Your Curses

The project started as a long-distance collaboration between vocalist Chad Ackerman (As I Lay Dying, Austrian Death Machine, Destroy the Runner, and Chapter 14), Kevin Kelsey (Programming, Synth, and Keyboards) and Sean Sallings (Guitars, Bass, & Percussion).

Destination Sun

Destination: Sun is the fourth album by Dayton, Ohio funk band Sun

Dimitri from Paris

His musical influences are rooted in 1970s funk and disco sounds that spawned contemporary house music, as well as original soundtracks from 1950s and 1960s cult movies such as Breakfast at Tiffany's, La Dolce Vita and The Party, which were sampled in his album Sacrebleu.

Doc Sarpolis

Throughout the 1960s, Sarpolis and Funk, Sr. had working agreements with Sam Muchnick, Verne Gagne, Bob Geigel and Jim Barnett.

Dragon Ball Z 3 Original Soundtrack

American credits include Steve Lukather guitarist of the 80's rock band Toto and 70's R&B Soul Funk band Tower of Power, but despite these credits the album remains a Japanese exclusive.

Emma Bull

She sang in the rock-funk band Cats Laughing, and both sang and played guitar in the folk duo The Flash Girls while living in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Fog City Records

Founded in 1996 by producer/engineer Dan Prothero, the label's first release was the highly successful "Coolin' Off" which launched the career of New Orleans based funk band Galactic.

French house

Due to originating from the same foreign market, P-Funk was played alongside disco in many French discothèques, especially after the Disco Demolition Night took place in the United States.

Funk Brothers Seed Co. v. Kalo Inoculant Co.

Thus, the court held that according to Funk the manner of implementation of a natural principle must itself be patentable, as Flook subsequently held.

Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome

Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome is a funk album by Parliament, released in 1977 (see 1977 in music).

Garry Shider

He was a prominent contributor to albums by both Parliament and Funkadelic until the dissolution of those two bands in the early 1980s, after which he continued to work regularly with Clinton's P-Funk All-Stars.

Henry Stone

TK Records ceased operating by 1981, and Stone went into partnership with Morris Levy of Roulette Records to form the Sunnyview label, issuing records by funk and rap artists such as Newcleus.

Hey, Man, Smell My Finger

The album features an array of musical guests including Prince, Dallas Austin, Humpty Hump from Digital Underground, Ice Cube, N'Dea Davenport, Dr. Dre, and Herbie Hancock, as well P-Funk alumni including Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Maceo Parker, and Fred Wesley.

Hisakatsu Oya

In September 1996, Lethal Weapon disbanded and Oya joined Funk Masters of Wrestling, where he formed a trio with The Headhunters and won the FMW World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship.

I Could Fall in Love with You

Our albums seem to have got slower and slower, so I started searching for classic funk or disco bass lines, put some ideas together with chord changes and bass lines underneath, and emailed them to Andy for him to sing over the top.

Interstate '82

The vehicle models have been updated to reflect the change in era, and overall, the game has a New Wave feel, with several hitherto-unreleased Devo songs being on the soundtrack, as opposed to the first game's funk-inspired style.

Irving Klaw Trio

The band, named after Irving Klaw, was started when founding members Jeff Fuccillo, Jason Funk and Andrew Price met at the Evergreen State College.

Jesse B. Aikin

After the influential Ruebush & Kieffer Publishing Company began using his notehead shapes around 1876 (previously they used Funk's shapes), the Aikin shapes eventually became the prevailing standard in shape note and gospel music publication, although few other compilers adopted his other innovations.

Johan Reinholdz

Anton - The Happy Prankster EP (2000, Mjäll/Slask Independent Media ) - synth on "Junkland"

Life Won't Wait

The album branches out from Rancid's punk and ska roots to explore roots reggae and rockabilly, and dabbles in elements of dub, hip-hop, funk and other forms of music as The Clash did with Sandinista!.

No One Can Do It Better

Most of the songs were influenced and sampled from funk artists such as Marvin Gaye, Parliament, and Funkadelic, but one track in particular was influenced by other genres, "Beautiful But Deadly", a rock-hip hop track, influenced by Run-D.M.C. with a heavy guitar riff throughout the song (it borrows from Funkadelic's Cosmic Slop).

Norman Jay

Jay describes himself as a primarily house music DJ, but the Good Times sound includes 1970s and 1980s funk, soul and jazz-funk, previous carnival tracks have typically included Estelle's 1980; and tracks featured in recent radio shows have included Billy Griffin's "Hold Me Tighter In The Rain" and more contemporary tracks in the form of Heavy's track "Wonderlove".

Our Label Records

For the first release funk legends The New Mastersounds from Leeds, England were approached and DJ Gu produced and co-wrote an A and B side called Give Me A Minute.

Paraf

The new musical orientation was presented to the wider audience on the second synth-laden studio album "Izleti" ("Excursions"), featuring songs "Pobuna bubuljica" ("Acne Uprising"), "Nestašni đački izleti" ("Naughty School Excursions"), "Javna kupatila" ("Public Bathrooms") and "Federico u bačvi" ("Federico in a Barrel"), the latter being inspired by the Federico Felini film Casanova.

Parker House and Theory

Recorded with 7x Grammy winner Thom Russo (Audioslave, System Of A Down, Juanes, Maná) “Automatic Stranger” delivers energetic rock, driving funk, infectious pop melodies, intimate moments and mature arrangements.

Petri Walli

Sometimes they had guest musicians performing on their albums and live shows, such as Sakari Kukko (saxophone) and Kimmo Kajasto (synth).

Pierluigi Giombini

It was Wendy Carlos' Switched-On Bach records that inspired him to study and create the synth sounds that he later used on his hit records in the 1980s.

Pure 107.8FM

Pure radio has mainstream programming during the day and community-focused shows in the evening cover topics such as sexuality, aging and health, as well as specialist music shows including classic 60s, indie, funk, punk, soul and blues.

Puroslam

Mimicking the opening rhythm of the Rose Royce song "Car Wash", the audience slowly starts to clap, in unison, gaining in volume until the funk rhythm overwhelms the funkless rhymes of the poet.

Raj Ramayya

He has featured as a guest singer/composer with artists ranging from Yoko Kanno (∀ Gundam, Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Rain) Tatsuya Oe (Captain Funk, Hotei) Chris Mosdell (Eric Clapton, YMO) and songwriter Ron Sexsmith.

Rest in P

The album features musical support from various members of the P-Funk stable.

Richard Burmer

After spending time in college studying music theory and composition, Richard moved to Los Angeles where he became a sound designer for E-mu Systems in Santa Cruz and engineer/synth programmer for EFX systems in Burbank.

Richard Mylan

He was also in the funk band, 'Puppy Phat', who played at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club and elsewhere.

Sam Clayton

Clayton was introduced to Little Feat, an eclectic band drenched in Southern rhythms, funk, and alternative rock, by his friend Kenny Gradney with whom he had played behind Delaney & Bonnie, and who was to replace original bassist Roy Estrada.

Scenic Routes

The album began as a one time recording effort from the frontmen of four creative rock bands; Gene Eugene, from the funk/rock band, Adam Again; Terry Scott Taylor, from the bands Daniel Amos and The Swirling Eddies; Mike Roe, from the rock band The 77s; and Derri Daugherty, from the atmospheric rock band The Choir.

Sun Park

Before her stint with Hi-5, she toured with the live act BPM - Beats Per Minute that fused funk, rock, jazz and hip hop music, and worked with the Australian band Rogue Traders, alongside the now very successful Natalie Bassingthwaighte.

Teenage Jesus

Album came about when The Emotron played with Chicago Synth-Pop Act The Mystechs, Singer/Label Owner Emil Hyde asked The Emotron if they would like to record and put out a DIY release on his label Death By Karaoke Records.

The Hidden Land

Victor Wooten - Fodera 4 string electric (tracks 1-5, 7, 8, 10, 13) and Compito fretless 5 string electric (tracks 6, 9, 11, 12) basses, synth pedal (tracks 4, 7)

The J-Tex Corporation

Their name was reference to the fact that its two prominent members, Muta and Funk, were from Japan and Texas, respectively.

Unicorn Kid

Unicorn Kid was the support act for synth-pop musician Owl City on his rescheduled UK and European tour in September/October 2011.

Vicio Latino

The chorus was sung in Spanish by female vocalists, while male vocals were sung in an invented language imitating English language phonetics of the US Funk singers (somewhat like the later hit Asereje by Las Ketchup, or previously Tom Tom Club's "Wordy Rappinghood").

What the....You Mean I Can't Sing?!

largely derives from funk and soul music, much as Van Peebles had featured on the soundtrack to his 1971 film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.

Willie Tee

The popularity of that recording, and the subsequent They Call Us Wild introduced the Mardi Gras Indians' street-beat funk to the world.

WRNB

The format is very similar to that of the defunct WEJM, playing Motown, Disco, funk, new jack swing, freestyle, and early hip hop from the 1960s-2000s.


see also

Captain Rapp

"Bad Times" lyrically touches sensitive topic, including unemployment, child sexual abuse, AIDS, Salvadoran Civil War and even nuclear war, in contrast to uptempo synth-funk melody and soulful vocals.