For funk try Frankie Beverly and Maze. It comes highly recomended by my co-worker who always tells me "you listen to dat techno shit? No wunda you don't git none!"
try some Eddie Bo. He's the Godfather of funk breaks. Also check The Highlighters and Breakstra. The last 2 are modern bands that do oldschool funk sounding stuff.
they named themselves before Funk as a genre came about and the word simply meant "bad mood". the name is a pun on a railway line, the Great Trunk Railroad
Lee Perry is seen by many as the originator of reggae and dub. His influence is evident in many funk sounds. I did say he was something different.
I always thought a funk was a bad smell. Seems I was wrong.
FUNK Pronunciation: (fungk), [key] —n. 1. cowering fear; state of great fright or terror. 2. a dejected mood: He's been in a funk ever since she walked out on him.
—v.t. 1. to be afraid of. 2. to frighten. 3. to shrink from; try to shirk.
Bootsy Collins, Kool and the Gang, ZAP, Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone, George Clinton, Earth Wind & Fire, James Brown, War, Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield, The Isley Brothers.
From the Dahomey word funk-u usually meaning a powerful spiritual energy often associated with smell. Often elder hard working men would sit outside while the young men came to absorb their funk-u to become strong for their future as providers. George Clinton brought funk music to the masses in the '70's. (Yeah what he said over on the otherside.) But, Clinton also had actual spiritual concepts behind his cosmic funkiness
A kingdom in West Africa, founded in the early 1600s and reaching its height in the mid 1800s. It was defeated by the French in the 1890s and annexed. It became an independent republic in 1960, and the name was changed to Benin in 1975: see there for the modern country. There are several legends of foundation, one of which says that the royal compound was built over the grave of a King Dan (Dan-home 'on the belly of Dan'). Dahomey became a powerful state and expanded rapidly. The capital was Abomey. It conquered the port of Ouidah, (English Whydah) in 1727 and was thus enabled to engage in the slave trade. However, their depredations led to attack by the Yoruba state of Oyo, and they became a vassal of Oyo until 1818.
Under King Ghezo the kingdom of Dahomey reached its height. They took the port of Porto-Novo (the capital of modern Benin). A commercial treaty with France was concluded in 1851. But after Ghezo's death Porto-Novo became a French protectorate in 1863 and the largest town Cotonou was ceded in 1878. Efforts to recover them led to war with France in 1890-4, led by General Alfred Dodds, and King Behanzin was exiled to Martinique. In 1900 the protectorate kingdom was abolished and Dahomey was absorbed into French West Africa.
The fort of Ouidah (São João Baptista de Ajudá) had been a Portuguese possession since 1680, and remained so until 1961. The Viceroy helped to install King Ghezo, and the viceroyalty became hereditary, and director of customs and the slave trade. The first viceroy, Francisco da Souza, died in 1849; on his death, human sacrifices were offered for him.
Dahomey was famous for its elite corps of female warriors ("Amazons"). Nominally royal wives and originally palace bodyguards, they became a highly trained, regimented, and disciplined body, renowned for ferocity in battle, in which they used muskets and machetes, right up until the French conquest of 1892.
There was an annual festival called the Customs, at which the king dispensed justice, answered petitions, reviewed laws, and consulted vodun priests. In order to ascertain the opinion of dead kings and lawmakers, messengers were sent to the world of the dead: prisoners who had messages whispered in their ears before being executed. Vodun priests interpreted answers.
Britain began raids against the Slave Coast in 1840, and blockaded it in 1876, but slavery and human sacrifice continued within Dahomey.
The Kings of Dahomey were:
Gangnihessou c.1620 Dakodonu 1620-1645 Houegbadja 1645-1685, founder of Abomey Akaba 1685-1708, founder of the palace of 'Dahomey' Agadja 1708-1732, used Amazons to take Ouidah Tegbessou 1732-1774, issued his army with guns Kpengla 1774-1790 Agonglo 1790-1797 Adandozan 1797-1818, said to be so evil and so mad that his name is expunged from the list of "twelve kings" Ghezo 1818-1858, greatest and best-loved of all Glele 1858-1889 Behanzin 1889-1894 Agoli-Agbo 1894-1900
--- In more custo news colossus has been named the new admin of information--- all you non english speakers ( you can't read this) but all who just need help--hes the one.. need help with history... hes the one..
I think there should be a new category... simply named inforamtion
like anyone can whip that out off the top of his head, : ) well, maybe a prof. of west african history. someday you will drive your sony to the sony to pick up some more sony
