Funk without the American passport. British bassplayers who learned from Bootsy and took it somewhere else, a Guyanese collective that became hip-hop's most sampled secret, a French-disco singer who taught Luther Vandross how to phrase. The one doesn't belong to any country. The pocket is the only citizenship that matters here.
funk · 10 tracks
funk · 10 tracks
Foreign Phunk
Funk without the American passport. British bassplayers who learned from Bootsy and took it somewhere else, a Guyanese collective that became hip-hop's most sampled secret, a French-disco singer who taught Luther Vandross how to phrase. The one doesn't belong to any country. The pocket is the only citizenship that matters here.
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Jamiroquai (1999)
The Napoleon Dynamite anthem. British disco-funk at maximum bounce.
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Heatwave (1976)
Rod Temperton's pre-Michael Jackson warm-up. Funk-disco that built the Thriller sound.
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Cymande (1972)
The most sampled funk band you never heard. London-Guyanese breaks that built hip-hop.
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Brand New Heavies (1990)
London's horn section answers Oakland's. Acid jazz funk with N'Dea's voice on top.
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Incognito (1991)
British acid jazz at its peak. Jocelyn Brown's voice on top of Jean-Paul Maunick's groove.
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Loose Ends (1985)
London boogie that crossed the Atlantic. So clean it could cut glass.
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Labi Siffre (1975)
The funk break that launched Eminem. Labi was British, gay, and funky as hell.
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Soul II Soul (1989)
A London sound system goes global. The reggae-funk bassline carried it everywhere.
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Mica Paris (1988)
A teenager from South London with a voice that sounds like a century of soul. And a funky rhythm section.
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The New Mastersounds (2018)
Four Brits who play funk like they were born on the bayou. No vocals, all pocket.
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Funk without the American passport. British bassplayers who learned from Bootsy and took it somewhere else, a Guyanese collective that became hip-hop's most sampled secret, a French-disco singer who taught Luther Vandross how to phrase. The one doesn't belong to any country. The pocket is the only citizenship that matters here.
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1,414 artist portraits across 5 genres (Rock, Jazz, Soul, Blues, Folk).
1,363 sourced from Wikipedia (Creative Commons / Public Domain), 50 from
Deezer (promotional artwork).