Word: funked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...intense, sprinkled with sophisticated, layered beats and with almost no lyrics. But electro impresario Luke Slater, who has never been one to abide by mainstream conventions, has something more in mind with his latest album, Alright on Top. Encouraged by the successes of 1997’s Freek Funk and 1999’s Wireless, Slater holed up in the studio for a year. In addition to the typical array of beat machines and computers, Slater made use of vocalist Ricky Barrow, whose moaning voice turns all but two of these dance tracks into electro-pop love ballads. The combination...
Music blared over speakers, from Britney Spears to ’80s hits, and sounds of the marathon could be heard even outside the QRAC. Live bands performed, among them Fink Fank Funk, which includes several Harvard undergraduates. They took the stage at 11:30 p.m., around the time when visitors were allowed to look in on the dance floor...
Harvard, though, is most concerned about this weekend and what it can do to escape the demons of its post-exam funk. Despite its poor finish, the Crimson finished third in the ECAC, earning Harvard home ice in the first round. It will also be playing without sophomore forward Dennis Packard, who’s been sidelined with a bout of pneumonia...
This is symptomatic of the crew’s ultimate failure to achieve a consummate synthesis of experimental scratch music and more mainstream funk. But given turntablism’s radical, fragmentary nature—weaving pieces out of pieces of other pieces—this is a pointless goal anyway. Built From Scratch’s many high points ensure that it’s banging, if not revolutionary...
...Harvard men’s hockey team certainly hopes so, as it hosts RPI tonight and Union tomorrow night at Bright Hockey Center. It may be the Crimson’s last chance to break out of its post-exam funk and still earn a high seed in the ECAC playoffs...