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...reason is that unlike the milquetoast trash being turned out by British trendies, electronic funk is intensive, even more so than its less sophisticated predecessors. That's because rappers have used synthesized instruments to augment and vary the beat, rather than circumvent...
Local hip-hoppers the Jonzun Crew follow Bambaataa's lead with the first album put out by the independent company Tommy Boy, which has fostered electro-funk in Bambaataa and reggae-influenced Pressure Drop ("Rock the House") and Latin Special Request ("Salsa Smurph" believe...
...Space" is a veritable orgy of chants, raps, layered electronic drum rhythms and bass lines, and the now cliche but totally appropriate get-down-get-funky mentality. Buy this disk for the mindblowing radio single "Space Cowboy" and keep repeating it for a surprisingly consistent album of electro-funk workouts...
...Pack Jam" remix lifts a synth riff from who knows where, and backs it with electronically altered vocals and a variety of funk sounds, which recall everything from Caribbean metal drums to a fart. Spaceman Jonzun, himself, is credited with the following: lead vocals, computer programming, electro drums, space bass, space-vocals, sound effects, synthesized keyboards, background vocals, string and brass synthesizers. And the three other band members do stuff as well...
Whether "space" rock is just a one-album joke or a pathbreaking funk mutant will have to await the future actions of Afrika Bambaataa, Spaceman Jonzun, and their cohorts. But regardless, the Jonzuns have a good thing going, good enough to fill a first album with exciting and completely electronic music...