The 'funkpunk '79-'02' mixtape, what should be on it?

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Disposible Heroes of Hip Hopcrasy - "California Uber Alles"

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 7 October 2002 22:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Rolling Stones, "Shattered"!

M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 7 October 2002 23:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Here's the track listing for the post-punk dance CD-R I made a month or two ago, "Born In Flames":

1 Girls At Our Best!: Getting Nowhere Fast
2 Gang of 4: At Home He’s a Tourist (Peel session)
3 Public Image Ltd.: Death Disco
4 ESG: Moody (original version)
5 The Homosexuals: Soft South Africans
6 Joy Division: Transmission
7 The Red Crayola: Born In Flames
8 Pylon: Cool
9 Contortions: Dish It Out
10 Delta 5: Mind Your Own Business
11 A Certain Ratio: Shack Up
12 The Slits: I Heard It Through The Grapevine
13 Malcolm McLaren: Buffalo Gals
14 New Order: Temptation (original 12”)
15 Bush Tetras: You Taste Like the Tropics
16 Brian Eno & David Byrne: Regiment
17 Wire: Our Swimmer
18 Pigbag: Papa’s Got a Brand New Pigbag
19 This Heat: Health & Efficiency
20 LiLiPUT: Split

Douglas, Tuesday, 8 October 2002 03:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

all great choices. to add some things i haven't seen yet. and to try to stay away from things that are ending up on other recent compilations ('in the beginning', 'disco not disco', etc)

ian dury. - something off "New Boots and Panties"
red krayola "micro chips and fish". 12" on rough trade. way better than the funky but smooth "Black Snakes" album. super rhythmic and discordant
don cherry - his crossover album "Home Boy" has some funky stuff
pere ubu "dub housing"
Bohannon "insides out" super wonderful stripped down disco, sounds like talking heads
Tuxedomoon - anything off "half-mute" or "desire"
Jah Wobble "betrayal" - the album he got fired from pil for 'borrowing' basslines from second edition
Hoger Czukay's "on the way to the peak of normal" has some
great dubbed out soundtrack-y stuff
and the first B52's album kicks ass
the Clash has some winners on 'sandinista'
birthday party
some of the On-U Sound label veers more in the post-punk spectrum. Especially bands like Playgroup
and last but definitely not least
Palais Shaumburg. Amazing German proto-electronic funky post punk

JasonD, Tuesday, 8 October 2002 04:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

"were you at THAT Au Pairs gig at RUSU in 1981, Stewart? Best gig ever!"

Ummm.... I certainly remember seeing them play there around that time, but I don't remember anything outstandingly memorable about it.... am I forgetting something Dr. C?

Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 07:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bauhaus - Kick In The Eye
Birthday Party - Release The Bats
Magazine - Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Again)
Red Beat - Mystery Beat / Survival

Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 07:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

sorry, but this is a right vanity thread... Numbers 'I'm Shy' Ha! how many of you EXACTLY have heard of this group huh? Red Monkey '50 hour week' Ha! i have this on troubleman utd 7" nah nah! fucking acesome.

sf, Tuesday, 8 October 2002 09:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

would early chrome qualify? esp off that "subterranean modern" comp

bob zemko (bob), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 12:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

i know the bush tetras are good cos their name is the bestest. but someone describe their sound for me please.

reasons why i love QPR #4: pigbag is the club song!

bob zemko (bob), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 12:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

All these titles and bands and no mention of the Big Boys? Great googa-mooga.

Lee G (Lee G), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 14:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

or devo's 'workin in the coal mine"!

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 14:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

GOD IS MY CO-PILOT - anything -maybe "handsome molly" or "sound of wings" or "seven little ghosts"
BADGEWEARER - anything apart from the first single
big black - bad penny
ornette coleman - dancing in your head
ruins - something or other
MINUTEMEN - something w/ joe baiza screwing up on guitar in the background. or "what you makin, man?"
firehose - under the influence of the meat puppets
NOMEANSNO - "obsessed" or "big dick" or "every day i start to ooze"
d.bailey / jamaaladeen tacuma / calvin weston - some kinda excerpt offa the "mirakle" album

bob snoom, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 09:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

i really like to see devo and the b-52's mentioned in this thread. actually, i reckon that THEY are the ones who can be included and made it popular (definitely not RHCP or jane's addiction, even though i love them).
about 23 skidoo, which are the best albums? i've got "urban gamelan" and it was a bit of a letdown, though i enjoy bits of it.

joan vich (joan vich), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 10:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

joan - "seven songs" is the LP you need
also the "coup" and "language" 12inch singles (from the 'urban gamelan' period, but much more satisfying records)

Jeff W, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 15:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

daft punk - "around the world"

Brock K. (Brock K.), Thursday, 10 October 2002 04:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

what is the point of 'funkpunk'

s trife (simon_tr), Thursday, 10 October 2002 09:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

What's the point of Hip Hop?

A Certain Ratio should be played in coffeeshops.

nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 10 October 2002 09:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Brick Lane Coffee House plays ACR sometimes. Worth going to before Starbucks buys them out and it's back to Norah Nickel Shakiraback.

Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 10 October 2002 10:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

As far as the early stuff goes, here's my try: Ornette "Theme From A Symphony"; ACR "Flight"; Cristina "Is That All There Is"; J Chance "Don't Stop 'Till..."; James "Blood" Ulmer "Are You Glad To Be In America"; Was (Not Was) "Wheel Me Out"; J Walter Negro & the Loose Jointz "Shoot The Pump"; Vivien Goldman "Launderette"; Slits "Earthbeat"; PiL "Memories"; Rammellzee vs K-Rob "Beat Bop"; 23 Skidoo "Last Words"; Dinosaur L "Go Bang"; Associates "Kitchen Person"; Gang of Four "Capital Has Failed Us"; Fire Engines "Meat Whiplash"; Josef K "Sorry For Laughing"; Holger Czukay "Cool In The Pool"; Cab Volt "Voice Of America/Damage Is Done"; Throbbing Gristle "Discipline (Berlin Mix)"; Heaven 17 "Penthouse & Pavement"; Rip Rig & Panic "Bob Hope Takes Risks"; McLaren/World's Famous "D'Ya Like Scratchin' (Red River Gals)."

Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 10 October 2002 10:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh and "Taboos" by The Passage.

Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 10 October 2002 10:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

eleven years pass...

Played this tiny bit of Disco punk-funk yesterday at a set. I think they fit in this thread for the most part.

Maximum Joy - Silent Street / Silent Dub
ESG - Moody (Spaced Out)
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Fire
Grandmaster Flash - White Lines
Stone Roses - Fool's Gold
Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love / You Sexy Thing
Blurt - The Fish Needs a Bike
The Glove - Like an Animal
David Bowie - Sound and Vision
Gang of Four - Natural's Not In It
The Honeymoon Killers - Wait and See

Moka, Saturday, 16 August 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link

.. did that work? Anyway, Glaxo Babies not mentioned so far.

FYI Macedonia (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 August 2014 12:12 (nine years ago) link

I'd figure these tunes would fit in.

Rapeman- Just Got Paid
The Big Boys- Baby Let's Play God
The Effigies- Security
Butthole Surfers- Who Was In My Room Last Night?

I'd figure you could mix something from in Ministry/Rev Co/Waxtrax also into such a playlist too.

earlnash, Sunday, 17 August 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link

pigbag, not pigfuck !

massaman gai, Sunday, 17 August 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link

material -upriver,
ronald shannon jackson - spanking,
jamaaladeen tacuma - sunk in the funk,
jackdaw with crowbar - amerillo,
davy dmx - one for the treble,
dawson - booger hall,
herbie hancock - metal beat,
james blood ulmer - rush hour,
orchestre super jheeves des paillottes - ye nan lon an,
cabaret voltaire - breathe deep,
arto lindsay & the ambitious lovers - locus coruleus,
bola johnson & his easy life top beats - ezuku bozu,
magma - maaht,
the shrubs - dead teachers,
stump - tupperware stripper,
trouble funk - pump me up,
word of mouth feat dj cheese - king tut,
moebius / plank / neumeier - pitch control,
zvuki mu - the source of infection,
grauzone - eisbaer,
les rita mitsouko - andy (jesse james 12" remix)

massaman gai, Sunday, 17 August 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link

jesse johnson ffs!
gotta get henry threadgill's "try some ammonia" in there as well.

massaman gai, Sunday, 17 August 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link

Wow at that list. I approve. Can I add Farrago by the Noseflutes?

everything, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 05:57 (nine years ago) link

love the noseflutes!
gotta choose a bIG fLAME song.
i'm going with "sink".
need to go through my a.witness & pick something too.

massaman gai, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 06:18 (nine years ago) link

oh no changing my mind:
bIG fLAME: New Way (Quick Wash and Brush Up With Liberation Theology)
also,
dawson - biceps,
god is my co-pilot - best friends

massaman gai, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 06:25 (nine years ago) link

Also The Fall. Totally Wired / Hit the North fit this sound.

Moka, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 07:03 (nine years ago) link

In the modern vein the ones that I remember off the top of my head (and I'm sure ILM hates at least half of these):

Datarock - Fa Fa Fa
Le Tigre - Deceptacon (DFA rmx)
Peaches - Lovertits
CSS - Alala
Fujiya & Miyagi - Collarbone
The Gossip - Heavy Cross / Standing in the Way of Control
Delorean - As Time Breaks Off
Zongamin - Bongo Song

Moka, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 07:37 (nine years ago) link

Oh and Tom Vek's first album. ILM liked him no?

You Set the Fire, I ain't saying my goodbyes, nothing but green lights.

Moka, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 07:40 (nine years ago) link

i thought about the fall, but the only song i could think of which is "funky" enough to qualify is "everybody but myself", and that's probably too languid, despite the monster groove.
similarly a.witness on a revisit are largely way too "shambling" too qualify (scratchy glam skiffle stomp w/ bullish bottom end), however:
a.witness - razors lifestyle mix
joe morris - "well put"
b52's - d byrne mix of "cake" (the non byrne mix rocks harder, but this has more horns & byrne's shoehorned in chicken scratch guitar extemporisations)
neneh cherry - buffalo stance

massaman gai, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 07:53 (nine years ago) link

Not "Marquis cha-cha" ?

Mark G, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 07:55 (nine years ago) link

(it's a bit stop/starty though)

Mark G, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 07:55 (nine years ago) link

even "telephone thing" sounds more like the butthole surfers in blackpool, despite wahwah guitar and latin percussion

massaman gai, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 08:00 (nine years ago) link

I guess "No Bulbs" is too 'rock' to funk

Mark G, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 08:41 (nine years ago) link

the fall are pretty funkless, IMO, despite some sorta scratchy guitar / rhythmic crux overlap w/ a lot of this stuff.
as much as i want to shoehorn in a loada beefheart / swell maps cos of similar overlap - there's nowt that suits.
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moka - half your last suggestions are way past 2002.
~
does minutemen's "felt like a gringo" go without saying?

massaman gai, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 09:35 (nine years ago) link

"Fantastic Life" (b-side of "Lie Dream") is definitely an attempt at being funky by the Fall.

FYI Macedonia (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 09:59 (nine years ago) link

... and " Psykick Dancehall' has a sort of disco bassline.

FYI Macedonia (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 10:02 (nine years ago) link

oh maybe "prole art threat", come to think of it?

massaman gai, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 10:56 (nine years ago) link

oh sorry Moka ! - you did say those were "in the modern vein" - my mistake!
i guess tussle's "kling klang" (2005?) would also fit here, if we take a time machine approach - a better retro take on this stuff than most

massaman gai, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 13:00 (nine years ago) link

Yeah the thread says 2002 but it was created back then and I don't think it's worth it to create a new 1979-2014 thread. I guess if there's anything worthy in the 'genre' released after 2002 we can cheat right?

Moka, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link

The genre died somewhere around 2005 though so I don't think anyone's going to revive it anytime soon.

Moka, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link

nochmal zeitgenössische, a few tracks off the first few ahleuchatistas albums (particularly "what you will") would definitely make the grade, & we could take a couple of tracks off the blackhouse album for scrappy electro breakdance funtimes

massaman gai, Friday, 22 August 2014 12:46 (nine years ago) link

been boggling my mind thinking there was a bogshed tune ripe for this and this es war in meines Gehirrn gespunketh : "RAISE THE GIRL" gwaan there.
raise the girl to another world.
oh, BTW my suggested blackhouse hits were the georgia anne muldrow romeo jimenez blackhouse, not the mormon noise thing. check 'em out for planet rock / al naayfish goodness m'lady

massaman gai, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link

trouble funk - pump me up,

great song and loved at the time and later, but imho just straight-up go-go funk and not funk-punk (but loved by funk-punkers and Beastie Boys and others )

curmudgeon, Friday, 29 August 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link


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