Funk Elements

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 20, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Empire Musicwerks
• ASIN: B000AOF9OS
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,632 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good, September 6, 2010

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Funk Elements (Audio CD)

This is one weird compilation.

Funk elements starts out with funk: "Quit Jivin'," by Pearly Queen. Just as you start settling into your platforms, the jam car starts swerving all over the place. There is Latin Jazz "Latino Loco" by Nelson Petion, Jimmy Smiths "Tea For Two Mambo,:" some Western Swing, some dancehall.

You could plausibly argue all these form branches on the funk tree. Listening to this reminded me more of hearing a really good free form radio show than hearing an album: there are loose connections but not a solid sound that binds everything together. If you have this on while doing something else you stop to recall if you changed the CD and forgot.

I like it, but if your looking for solid 1970s stomp, this is not the album to get.

By the way, if you think you vaguely recall "Quit Jivn'" you probably are right. DJ Shadow sampled the horn break on "Number Song," on Endtroducing.....