Electro music

With Electro Funk ( eFunk ) is a native of the U.S. synthesizer -heavy variant of the radio called, which has developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s from the P-Funk (sometimes it is also considered part of the genre ) and the main characteristic of the consistent use of electronic musical instruments, especially so-called " synth bass " and alienated from vocoders " vocals " is.

Origins and Development

The Electro Funk took over among other techniques at that time disco music and the radio. A great influence exercised Electro Funk from the early development of hip-hop culture of the 80s, this especially in the western U.S., whose music often served the same techniques. Rape occurred in Electrofunk especially in electronically, using " voice coders " (Vocoder ), modulated frame on and oppose the gemeinläufigen opinion by no means represents a rarity

Electro Funk is not to be confused with Electro, a through and through electronic style of electronic dance music which, although related to electric spark, but mainly in the rhythm differs significantly from this. Electro is usually much faster than electro funk and is based on a broken "beat", while Electro Funk is kept in a constant 4-4 clock and its " funkiness " refers primarily out of the bass lines.

Offshoot of the ( Hip- Hop ) Electrofunk can find primarily in the style Miami bass, as well as in the so-called freestyle.

Presence & Renaissance in German-speaking

That the eFunk even today represents a firm, repressed though sometimes in an obscure shadowy part of hip-hop, is, amongst others in its popularity in so-called " breakdancing " or "B - Boying " competitions [See Battle of the Year ] mooring, in which, inter alia, in traditional " West Coast " style to TR -808 generated rhythms in the style of " Popping - Locking" or " Robot" dance.

Since the early 1990s are in German-speaking scattered, intended as a sort of tribute to the "movement", "traditional" to be found eFunk inspired songs on albums hip-hop artists, such as in Too Strong ( Greatest Hits, Intercity Funk, the Three vonne radio station et al. ), D - Flame ( Daniel X), anarchist Academy ( Anarchophobia ) or MainConcept ( Cool shit ) and the Soulfulbrothers.

As primarily devoted to traditional ( Hip- Hop ) eFunk performer here, especially the artists Scrooge, Prime Dominance and Sbassship from Dessau and MC T- skirt and Knightz of Bass from Mannheim plus Funkmaster Ozone from Cologne are mentioned.

Example Title

Previously, non- hip-hop eFunk

  • George Clinton - Atomic Dog
  • Funkadelic - Electro - Cuties
  • Laid Back - White Horse
  • Zapp - More Bounce To The Ounce
  • Vaughan Mason and Crew - Bounce, rock, skate, roll Pt.1 & 2

Avant-garde hip-hop eFunk (East & West Coast) of the early 1980s

  • Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock
  • Afrika Bambaataa - Renegades of Funk
  • Captain Rapp - Bad Times (I Can not Stand It )
  • Chris "The Glove" Taylor, Dave Storrs & Ice T - Reckless / Tibetan Jam
  • Dynamic Breakers - Dynamic ( Total Control )
  • Egyptian Lover - Egypt, Egypt
  • Future, The - Nuclear Holocaust
  • G.L.O.B.E. & Pow Wow - Celebrate
  • G.L.O.B.E. & Whiz Kid - Play that Beat Mr DJ
  • Hashim - Al Naafiysh ( The Soul )
  • Herbie Hancock - Rockit
  • Kid Frost - Terminator
  • MC Fosty & Lovin ' C - Radio Activity Rapp
  • Man Parrish - Hip Hop Be Bop ( Do not Stop )
  • Mantronix - Bassline
  • Newcleus - Jam On It
  • Spyder -D - Dance Smerphies
  • Twilight 22 - Siberian Nights
  • Unknown DJ - 808 Beats
  • Whodini - Escape

Contemporary eFunk

  • Dagobert - Bass Invasion
  • Dagobert - Ready To Rock
  • Knightz of Bass - Dark M- Pire
  • Knightz of Bass - All Freaks Freak Out
  • Prime Dominance - Pathfinder Beats
  • Prime Dominance - Theme of Swift Rock
  • MC T- Rock - Introducing
  • Mandroid - Future Funk EP
  • Computor Rockers - Tech -No- skirt
  • Dynamik Bass System - Express To Jupiter
  • Imatran Voima - Commando
  • Senator radio - Funk Out
  • Funkmaster Ozone - West Coast Pioneers
  • Elias Damian - The vocoder Pop EP
  • MC T- Rock - Introducing Electric Funk 2007
  • Funkmaster Ozone - Released and unreleased Vol.1
  • Flash Master Ray - The Boss on bass
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