Electrofunk... this is the word! And Arthur Baker have a great part in the making of this music genre...
Planet Rock, Confusion, Play At Your Own Risk, Looking For The Perfet Beats, Renegades of Funk, Frantic Situation, I.O.U., Breakers Revenge, Who You Stealin From..... Put Your Nike Air Force on... Pump Up The Volume on your Boom Box.... and Breakdown!!!
Alan Hawkshaw is a British Composer and performer from Leeds. He is an Organ and Piano Player... He worked with David Bowie, Olivia Newton John, Cliff Richard, Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg. Alan Composed a lot of Tv Themes and Soundtracks. He was Member of lot of Bands.... Emile Ford and The Checkmates. Rumplestiltskin, The Shadows and........ THE MOHAWKS...
Mohawks was a band formed by Alan and Session Musicians... The most famous song from the Mohawks is legendary for all Beatmakers....
This is not a Break.. this Blog is about Beat Travelling... and this is one of my favourite electrofunk Hit from the 80's... The Beatmakers of the 80's was on Drum Machines and Synths.. and the Beatmaking was all on programming sounds and machines... Shannon is an American singer, and the song "Let the music Play" redefined the electro sound created by Arthur Baker, John Rocca, Thomas Dolby into an innovative mix of High Nrg & Electro that was called Electrofunk, and now is called Freestyle Music...
"Let The Music Play" was produced by Mark Ligget and Chris Barbosa in 1983 and was #1on the US Dance Charts In November 1983...
Yessssss!!! The Man who composed "Pop Corn"... And nobody used a Moog like him... my personal opinion... The track "Hey Hey" come from the album "Music To Moog By" (1969)... and was sampled many times but for most of the time was obscure to the audience...
Here it is the Bio of Gershon Kingsley that was also part of the duo Perrey & Kingsley..... : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gershon_Kingsley
The Moog Main Line of this Track was interpoled by Genesis in "Firth Of Fifth" (1973)... Listen at 03:41.......
.... And was entirely Sampled By RJD2... "The Horror"......