Funk

• JOE DIBRUTTO – Presa diretta

  No comments yetPosted in Disco, Easy Listening, Funk, News, Pop, ReggaeJul 11, 2012

  

  “Presa Diretta” is a live no tricks, no cheats: it’s the live recording from the mixer that people have listen and danced in our concert in Gatteo (August 7, 2011). Our priceless sound engineer, Alexander Fontanini, has captured without us knowing and then mastered it… and now here it is! “Vai tra la mia gente”,

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• LOW FIDELITY JET SET ORCHESTRA – Touring the digital zoo

  No comments yetPosted in Acid Jazz, Breakbeat, Cinematic, Cocktail Lounge, DJ Tools, Downtempo, Easy Listening, Electronica, Funk, Jazz, Lounge, News, Nu JazzApr 30, 2012

  

  only a few of the instruments used, exception made for the computer on which we recorded and a few drum machines, are actually digital

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• HAMMOND EXPRESS – Another Steppin’ Soul

  No comments yetPosted in Acid Jazz, Funk, SoulMar 13, 2012

  

  Welcome again to the groovy railway of soul: Hammond Express. A few years away since their debut album “Rendez-Vous” (Scenario Music), the italian organ funk combo is back with “Another Steppin’ Soul” (IRMA La Douce), a convoy full of hammond dirty jazz, soundtrack vintage themes and a strong mod attitude. Originally a trio led by

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• IVANA PARNASSO – Spirograph

  No comments yetPosted in Acid Jazz, Electronica, Funk, Jazz, Jazz Funk, Lounge, Nu JazzJan 31, 2012

  

  Ivana Parnasso is a young artist born in Marsala (Sicily-Italy), devoted to art sculptor and painter grew up in a family where there is much of music and art, in his childhood thanks to the father (drummer) grows in a world of notes and harmonies, sounds that will influence in his artistic career. Percussionist and

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• JOE DIBRUTTO – Maccaroni soul

  No comments yetPosted in Disco, Funk, Pop, SoulJun 29, 2010

  

  The new album from Joe Di Brutto, one of the most active bands on the live front in Italy, with over 100 gigs every year, with its ironic title ‘Maccaroni Soul’, introduces its musical theme. That is the remake with a Soul arrangement of some of the most famous Italian pop songs. Together since 1992,

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• HONEYMUNCH – New destination

  No comments yetPosted in Electro, Funk, Nu JazzMay 19, 2010

  

  The Duesseldorf based quintett is known for its unique mix of funk and jazz with an electronic flavour. 

Their first album “Solon” was released on the Italian Label Irma Records and one of the tracks made it to the TV-series “Sex and the City”. The second album “Bunch” was released on the German Label Infracom

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• BLACK & BROWN – We Gotta Party (Live @ Blue Inn Cafe’)

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  Legendary IRMA act Black & Brown, headed by Picchio Bagnoli and Andrea Raffini (bass and guitar of the band, but also authors of all their original compositions) have been around for nearly 20 years and are known as the most prestigious Funk band in Italy. They have two studio albums in the IRMA catalogue and

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• RIOVOLT – Sambarama

  No comments yetPosted in Drum'n'bass, Funk, Jazz, SambaOct 21, 2005

  

  Riovolt is a mix of brazilian sounds like samba, forro and bossa nova with electronica, drum’n’bass, breakbeat, funk and jazz. Their music is perfectly suitable for dancing, lounging, clubbing or just sitting on your sofa spacing away. Riovolt live is an unforgettable experience: a well balanced mixture of electronics and ‘hand made music’, excellent musicians

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• RIOVOLT – Digital audio bossa

  No comments yetPosted in Bossa Nova, Downtempo, Funk, Jazz, SambaApr 13, 2003

  

  Riovolt is the electro-brazilian project of the German composer, producer and drummer Norbert Küpper aka Nobit. Is a mix of Brazilian sounds and flavours, like samba, forrò and bossa nova, with electronica, drum’n’bass, break beats and nu jazz. Perfectly suitable for dancing, lounging, clubbing or just sitting on your sofa spacing away. In 1999 Nobit

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• JESTOFUNK – Love in a gold dimension

  No comments yetPosted in Breakbeat, Electronica, Funk, House, Nu JazzJan 2, 1996

  

  Jestofunk were born in1990 after the meeting of three Italian DJ’s: Claudio’Moz-Art’ Rispoli, Francesco Farias and Blade. Together they produced I’m Gonna Love You’, which at the time was a sort of revolution in Dance music: for the first time Funk was incorporated with House in a perfect fusion. The first single was then followed

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• BLACK & BROWN – File Under Funk

  No comments yetPosted in Acid Jazz, Funk, Jazz FunkJan 20, 1995

  

  ‘File Under Funk’, Black & Brown’s debut, is a very captivating album, almost completely instrumental, with two vocal cuts. All tracks are originals except for James Brown’s ‘Too Funky in Here’, arranged in a trip hop vein. link to

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