I'll disagree with Mike Brown -- but just a little. There are some techno records that are supremely funky, but just a few.
That amazing UR remix of Expo 2000 is one great example. A lot of Octave One certainly is, especially from their two magnificent double-packs, "Images from Above" and "Living Key." Various releases by Jeff Mills (there, i said it), John Tejada, Gary Martin, AO, Steve Stoll, occasionally Ian Pooley, and quite a bit of the Black Nation releases certainly qualify. I am old-fashioned and gravitate in this direction and snarf up whatever sounds good in this regard because I grew up on a steady and preferred diet of James Brown, Stax, the Meters and the other great pioneers of funk. And being from DC, of course, a city that was always "on the one", we had go go, which is finally getting some recognition as Chuck Brown turns into our leading senior citizen of funk. I live in Portland, which is not really a very funky place. And San Francisco, where I hang out a lot, had the funk for a brief period in 1992-94 before it drifted away. When it's out there, you go for it. The fact that there is still a pretty strong leaning toward funk in Detroit techno and house is one of the things that has kept me a close follower all these years. But I will admit, having looked through a *lot* of record bins in my time, as you all have, that it's pretty thin picking in the techno section overall. So like I said, --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
