Check out Blackalicious, Jurassic 5, Talib Kweli and De La Soul. They might interest you.
thanks for the suggestions jason. i surfed the net a bit and listened to some samples of these bands. still not really my cup of tea. i’m a real geek for that classic james brown style funk such as “sex machine” and “cold sweat”. this stuff still had a cold over produced sound to me and alot of it had those r&b overtones. modern day r&b is probably at the top of my “music-i-would-probably-shoot-myself-if-i-was-forced-to- listen-to-it-for-any-lengthy-period-of-time” list. it’s a surprisingly big list.
i think that for me there’s no artistic niche that hip hop could fill for me that is not currently being satisfied by funky jazz bands such as galactic and robert walter’s 20th congress.
lopez
Apr 30 2005
09:32 pm
thanks for the suggestions jason. i surfed the net a bit and listened to some samples of these bands. still not really my cup of tea. i’m a real geek for that classic james brown style funk such as “sex machine” and “cold sweat”. this stuff still had a cold over produced sound to me and alot of it had those r&b overtones. modern day r&b is probably at the top of my “music-i-would-probably-shoot-myself-if-i-was-forced-to- listen-to-it-for-any-lengthy-period-of-time” list. it’s a surprisingly big list.
i think that for me there’s no artistic niche that hip hop could fill for me that is not currently being satisfied by funky jazz bands such as galactic and robert walter’s 20th congress.