Quote from bhose;59437
Cosmo D of Newcleus wrote on a similar thread here on EE some years back the same.. that back in the day he was simply making hip hop music as were all the other artists that we deem now to have been making 'electrofunk' out of New York, Cosmo had never heard of the term 'electrofunk' till the mid 90's...
If you listen to alot of the music from that era, it was the equipement being used, you had Italo disco, New Wave etc etc, all had a similarity, but we liked a certain strain of this synth music, that being Electro funk,
even listening to the early electro's(Street sounds), like Project Future - Ray-Gun-Omics, this wasn't a hip hop record really, and some of the early electro stuff, '2, 3, Break' etc was more hip hop than electro funk, it was packaged as a movement by Street Sounds, I don't think it was an Electro Movement(not in the beggining anyway), just the artists where using the same equipment, Roland 808, Linn Drum, Prophet 5, Pro Ones etc...
I think the early 80's UK Movement was more a hip hop thing, breakdancing, popping, dj, mc's, it was just back then our prefered beats where Electro Funk, Twilight 22, Arthur Baker, Newcleus, Captain Rock, Soul Sonic Force...These beats were great for Popping too...
for me Electro Funk had it's Real hayday 1982 - 1984, after that it got watered and watered down to non-existence, once digital synths and the M1 came along and analog wasn't cool, and the hip hop artist where using samplers instead to ripp tracks...
For me 1982,83,84 define Electro Funk...
Electro Rap/Hip Hop was dead at that point in time, guess it was the closest thing to it for me at the time...
