There's nu-disco and boogie funk, nodding back to disco bands with soaring vocals and dance floor-designed instrumentation. Today, funk lives in many places, with its heavy bass and syncopated grooves finding way into many nooks and crannies of music. The sound influenced contemporaneous hip-hop, funk and electronica, along with acts around the globe, while current acts like Chromeo, DJ Stingray, and even Egyptian Lover himself keep electro-funk alive and well. A key distinguishing factor of electro-funk is a de-emphasis on vocals, with more phrases than choruses and verses. In the 1980s, electro-funk was born when artists like Afrika Bambaataa, Man Parrish, and Egyptian Lover began making futuristic beats with the Roland TR-808 drum machine - often with robotic vocals distorted through a talk box. Both Collins and Clinton remain active and funkin', and have offered their timeless grooves to collabs with younger artists, including Kali Uchis, Silk Sonic, and Omar Apollo and Kendrick Lamar, Flying Lotus, and Thundercat, respectively. Legendary funk bassist Bootsy Collins learned the power of the one from playing in Brown's band, and brought it to George Clinton, who created P-funk, an expansive, Afrofuturistic, psychedelic exploration of funk with his various bands and projects, including Parliament-Funkadelic. Of course, many other funk acts followed in the '60s, and the genre thrived in the '70s and '80s as the disco craze came and went, and the originators of hip-hop and house music created new music from funk and disco's strong, flexible bones built for dancing. As David Cheal eloquently explains, playing on the one "left space for phrases and riffs, often syncopated around the beat, creating an intricate, interlocking grid which could go on and on." You know a funky bassline when you hear it its fat chords beg your body to get up and groove.īrown's 1965 classic, "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag," became one of the first funk hits, and has been endlessly sampled and covered over the years, along with his other groovy tracks. The Godfather of Soul coined the phrase and style of playing known as "on the one," where the first downbeat is emphasized, instead of the typical second and fourth beats in pop, soul and other styles. It's rare that a genre can be traced back to a single artist or group, but for funk, that was James Brown. Co-produced by Angell and Martin and mixed by Seattle veteran Jack Endino (Nirvana, Soundgarden), Walking Papers features 11 tracks spanning punk, blues, rock, and ambient music, including the hard-rocking single " The Whole World's Watching." Walking Papers are currently scheduled to perform on the Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival tour with Alice In Chains beginning Aug. Angell and Martin subsequently began recording together and later recruited McKagan and Anderson to form Walking Papers. Walking Papers was initially conceived in 2012 after Angell and Martin shared a bill at a local Seattle venue while performing with the Missionary Position and the Barrett Martin Group, respectively. And I haven't done the van thing since the punk rock days."
Cool enough, in fact, for me to sit in a van and go.
"And after recording and hearing the final mixes, I knew this was something really special and cool.
"I remember sending me the MP3 for a song called 'Your Secret's Safe with Me' and thinking it was just majestic," said McKagan. Ahead of the album's release, has your exclusive first listen to eerie rock track "Your Secret's Safe With Me." Walking Papers, a Seattle super group featuring keyboardist Ben Anderson and vocalist/guitarist Jeff Angell (the Missionary Position), drummer Barrett Martin (Mad Season, Screaming Trees), and bassist Duff McKagan (Guns N' Roses, Loaded, Velvet Revolver), are set to release their debut self-titled album on Aug.
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