Word: funke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only god you worship is James Brown and you like to wear vinyl and velvet to your religious services, then groove your way to the Funk Appreciation Society...
...glittering alike frothed in the mouth to get in, and once inside, they foamed in the veins to get it on. Last March, Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe dropped unsigned out of the continental sky into the Winter Music Conference in Miami, tearing up the Cameo with their irrepressible funk-house meltdown and rode their fat beat steed straight into a hot and hungry bidding war over what know-it's everywhere are dubbing the hottest thing to happen to house music this decade. Their freshly released debut album Remedy--everybody's favorite new album--has been hailed...
They point toward two other reasons for the funk at 5 Western...
Another reason for the funk: police headquarters itself, the building that ought to be the crown jewel of a law enforcement agency, is a bad place to work...
Bassist, singer, sometime hip-hopper Me'Shell NdegeOcello created a wake-up call in her first album, Plantation Lullabies, brimming with funk and flavor and attitude. Her new CD, Bitter, is more of a good-night kiss, slow, atmospheric and a bit weepy. Bitter, which features narcoleptic production by Craig Street, has carefully structured songs and cautious vocals, but it lacks NdegeOcello's edginess and verve. The songs are about breakups and betrayal, but the emotion is buried. This album feels like that uncomfortable pause in an argument when there's nothing left to say or throw...