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Ian Carr's Nucleus - Roots. Bang 'Em Hard (Inside Seka) Zbigniew Gorny - Crushed Ice. William Onyeabor - Body and Soul (Official)

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Bobby Byrd - I Know you got Soul. Black Sugar - Funky Man. Fatback Band. BLACK MERDA ~ A Great band of Psych Funk Soul Rock. Black Sugar - Pussycat AFRO/JAZZ FUSION1970. Black Merda - Long Burn the Fire. Gnarls Barkley. Sly And The Family Stone. George Clinton. Fred Wesley. Tower of Power - What is Hip (Album Version) The Honey Drippers - Impeach The President. Sir Joe Quarterman- (I Got) So Much Trouble In My Mind(1973)

The Apples - Chemical Sniffer. Jungle Fever - The Chakachas (1972) Kool & The Gang. You Sexy Thing (I Believe in Miracles) by Hot Chocolate. Ronnie Hudson & The Street People - West Coast Poplock. Rick James - Ghetto Life. RicK James - Cold Blooded. Lakeside - Fantastic Voyage Official Video. Ohio Players - Skin Tight. Ohio Players - Funky Worm. Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster. Dazz Band - Let It Whip. Rocket Juice & The Moon - Poison. Zapp - Doo Wa Ditty (Blow That Thing) (Slayd5000) Zapp - I Can Make You Dance (Long Version) (Slayd5000) Cameo - Candy. MasterSounds-Maceo $ The Macks-Cross The Tracks.

Maze-Twilight. War - Low Rider (HQ Audio) Melvin Bliss - Synthetic Substitution. Charles Bradley - Victim Of Love (Full Album)(2013) Breakestra - Recognize. Breakestra Got let me know. Breakestra - Joyful Noise.

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Orgone - Cali Fever (2010) The Gap Band - You Dropped A Bomb On Me. Johnny Harris - Footprints On The Moon. Chic - Everybody Dance. Funk. Etymology[edit] The word funk as applied in the music world initially referred to a strong odor. The anthropologist/art historian Robert Farris Thompson, in his work Flash Of The Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy, postulates that funky has its semantic roots in the Kikongo word "lu-fuki", which means "bad body odor".

He says: "Both jazzmen and Bakongo use funky and lu-fuki to praise persons for the integrity of their art, for having 'worked out' to achieve their aims" supposedly meant to signify "the irradiation of positive energy of a person. Hence 'funk' in American jazz parlance can mean earthiness, a return to fundamentals".[3] African-American jazz musicians originally applied the term to music with a slow, mellow groove. Then it evolved to a rather hard-driving, insistent rhythm, implying a more carnal quality.

This early form of the music set the pattern for later musicians.[4] The music was identified as slow, "sexy", loose, riff-oriented and danceable. Bell pattern. Ghanaian iron gankoqui bells. A bell pattern is a rhythmic pattern, often a key pattern[1][2] (also known as a guide pattern,[3] phrasing referent,[4] timeline,[5] or asymmetrical timeline[6]), struck on an Idiophone, in most cases, a metal bell, such as an agogô, gankoqui, or cowbell, or a hollowed piece of wood, or wooden claves. In contemporary music, bell patterns are also played on the metal shell of the timbales, and drum kit cymbals. Sub-Saharan African music[edit] Bantu migrations: 1 = 2000–1500 BC origin; 2 = ca.1500 BC first migrations; 2.a = Eastern Bantu; 2.b = Western Bantu; 3 = 1000–500 BC Urewe nucleus of Eastern Bantu; 4–7 = southward advance; 9 = 500 BC–0 Congo nucleus; 10 = 0–1000 AD last phase Use of African bell patterns is found primarily within the Niger–Congo language family (yellow and yellow-green).

Throughout Africa, wherever these gongs have occurred they have been manufactured by the same process of welding the two halves together along a wide flange. Axatse Play.