Your help is needed - style of music?

[Funkatized]

Fellow Rhodes Lovers,

lately I had a little problems with other users of a german board regarding the style of music, in my case the music style of my band
Funkatized.
We our self carefully call it Funk/Acid-Jazz, but I´v been told it
was neither the one nor the other.

I was thinking that it should be up the street of Rhodes fans, so maybe you could help me and just post here what you think the style of this music should be called.

I really appreciate your help in this matter.

Many thanks from DeeGee!

Youll find audio samples here:
http://www.funkatized.com
or here
http://myspace.com/funkatized

[Funkatized]

Somehow my post was damaged, all the text is invisible - strange...
Here it is again:

Fellow Rhodes Lovers,

lately I had a little problems with other users of a german board regarding the style of music, in my case the music style of my band
Funkatized.
We our self carefully call it Funk/Acid-Jazz, but I´v been told it
was neither the one nor the other.

I was thinking that it should be up the street of Rhodes fans, so maybe you could help me and just post here what you think the style of this music should be called.

I really appreciate your help in this matter.

Many thanks from DeeGee!

You can listen to it here:
http://myspace.com/funkatized

[matt.musicman]

Well, I think the "definition" of acid jazz is a dance music incorporating  jazz, funk, soul and hip-hop...and that sounds exactly like what you guys are doing.

Funk/Acid-jazz sounds like a great fit to me.

[Spookyman]

nu jazz ?

[Funkatized]

Well, I think the "definition" of acid jazz is a dance music incorporating  jazz, funk, soul and hip-hop...and that sounds exactly like what you guys are doing.

Funk/Acid-jazz sounds like a great fit to me.

Well that´s exactly what I am telling people who ask me what kinda music we do.

Thanks (=

[Funkatized]

nu jazz ?

I'm not qute familiar with the definition of "NU Jazz", what's the definition saying about it?

Thx DeeGee

[Mark II]

Common, DG, sluggard. :wink:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu_Jazz

Mark II

[Funkatized]

LOL!

Well now that I've read it i'd say Nu-Jazz would fit too, hmm
diffycult to say what style would fit more....

:shock:

DeeGee  

[Funkatized]

As we were talking about it, Sir Dancelot from
Jazzandsoul.eu wrote a cd review about our debut album
in which he categorized us as:

Acid Jazz / Funk / Electro



You can read the review here:

http://www.jazzandsoul.eu/funkatizedreview.htm

Cheers,

DeeGee

[Funkatized]

Hi guys,

we wanted to tell you about a new Funkatized CD review.
Bill Buckley from http://www.soulandjazzandfunk.com
took a closer look at our debut and reviewed it.

You find the article here.
http://www.soulandjazzandfunk.com/reviews.asp?pNum=1&rID=187





DeeGee

[taco]

I hate the word "JAZZ"
Nowadays, for the majority "Jazz" is a description for a kind of music they don´t
like (or don´t understand ) Other, less gifted musicans uns the Jazz tag
to make their music appear less crappy.

My opinion:
FUNKATIZED = cool 80´s Funk  


Miles, Herbie, Bird, Porter is Jazz  :wink:

[Funkatized]

But then in your words guys like Jamiroquai, Incognito & the Brand New Heavies would do what kind of style?
In my oppinion Jamiroquai is Acid Jazz par excellance.
Not that I wouldn't  like cool 80's Funk as my label  :wink:

DeeGee

[taco]

Jamiroquai, Galliano and Incognito were the first groups I really liked. For me,
it was the hottest music and it seemed to be all new.  :roll:

Then I got (as part of a heritage) a huge LP Collection.
Everybody was there: James Brown, Kool & The Gang, Earth Wind & Fire
Stevie Wonder.... it was the same music and they called it Funk or Pop music.

But it is your stuff and I keep listening to it even if you
call it acid jazz (thats so 90´s) or nu jazz (whatsoever is new in  80s Funk?)

But please remember: The latest Christian Aquilera CDs was advertised
as jazz, too  :wink:

[Funkatized]

.

But it is your stuff and I keep listening to it even if you
call it acid jazz (thats so 90´s) or nu jazz (whatsoever is new in  80s Funk?)

But please remember: The latest Christian Aquilera CDs was advertised
as jazz, too  :wink:

Lol Taco.
If Mr.Aguilera is doing Jazz, I must be doing polka or rhumba?

:wink:

[andi85]

Call it Nu Polka.

[Funkatized]

either nu polka or vintage rhumba  

[andi85]

Or Nu Polka / Vintage Rhumba.
Sounds very good

[Funkatized]

[Funkatized]

Hi Guys,

we just wanted to let ya know that we will release our second album this summer.
It will be called "Illegal Copy"  

More news and a Album Cover preview can be found on our Facebook site - can't exist without it nowadays  :?

Would be very nice to see some of you over there !

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Funkatized/294273047642?v=wall&ref=ts

It's been good to see you guys !

DeeGee

[Funkatized]

Hi guys,

here's a little preview of our second album:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1470531003662


Cheers,

DeeGee  :wink:

[michaeltristan]

Without a doubt, this is 100% pure electro-dance-funk.  Capturing the nuances of afro-latin bass grooves, disco dance beats combined with rhodes, synth, and vocoder.... thats officially electro-dance-funk!

[Funkatized]

Wait until you hear our new album  :wink:

[modorange]

Without a doubt, this is 100% pure electro-dance-funk.  Capturing the nuances of afro-latin bass grooves, disco dance beats combined with rhodes, synth, and vocoder.... thats officially electro-dance-funk!

That's what I'm hearing too.

I like the fact you have Rhodes in there, basically as an underpinning of the music. I'm a bit more partial to acoustic drums but that's OK..