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Ive been listening to alot of jamiroquai lately and love playing alot of their tunes, but i want ot find more bands with that bass groove, sort of funky aswell.

Im not looking for actual funk bands like funkadelic or TOP or Earth wind and fire.

I was also reading the Neo soul thread and really liked the youtube links posted by bubinga5. Erykah Badu i think her name was.

Any recommendations.

Thanks
Sam H

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Hi Sam,

My immediate reaction was to recommend pre-disco Kool & the Gang or Fatback Band, but they might be too much like full on jazzy funk.
Maybe Gil Scott Heron
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b2F-XX0Ol0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b2F-XX0Ol0[/url]

or Labie Siffre
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DByyEuYEvc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DByyEuYEvc[/url]

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Hi Sam, and welcome,

A few suggestions from me:
Brand New Heavies
Incognito
Freak Power
Ivan Neville & Dumpstaphunk
Raw Stylus
and my band, Harambé, is also heavily influenced by Jamiroquai, and has a new EP out right now: [url="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/reboot-ep/id408587800"]Harambe, Reboot, on iTunes[/url]

You could also try working the other direction: have a listen to Stevie Wonder's 70s albums (Innervisions, Talking Book, Songs In The Key Of Life, Fulfillingness' First Finale) and see where Jay Kay got a large amount of his inspiration from ...

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You've really opened a big fat can of worms..Bubinga..ATTACK!! :) :)

Some of the stuff I love listening to::

Groove Armada
Plan B
Drizabone
(the late) Teena Marie ("I need your lovin", "Behind the groove"..)
GQ
Light of the World (recently reformed I believe)
Edwin Starr (25 Miles/War/etc)
Donna Summer
Areetha Franklin
Stephanie Mills...

see what you've gone and done... :lol:

If you shop in Tesco they have an album "The Ultimate Funk Party" for about a fiver - some classic 80s funk on there..

now wait for the floodgates to open and...

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[quote name='fatgoogle' post='1080151' date='Jan 6 2011, 05:25 PM']Ive been listening to alot of jamiroquai lately and love playing alot of their tunes, but i want ot find more bands with that bass groove, sort of funky aswell.[/quote]


Some of "The Crusaders" and "Roy Ayres" tracks have bass like what you asked for, to my ears at least

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[quote name='molan' post='1080175' date='Jan 6 2011, 05:41 PM']Ask BB5 to screen dump the list of albums on his Ipod - that should give you a good idea of what to look out for :)[/quote]

"You've really opened a big fat can of worms..Bubinga..ATTACK!! laugh.gif laugh.gif"


Where is he??

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Pretty much what has been said above, some great suggestions there..... i could add Incognito, Jeff Lorber..Ive been getting into Eumer Diadato lately, hes wicked.. Norman Brown..

My particular favorite is Maze...just back to back greatness!...Or some of the later Bobby Womack is great..

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This is very much in the vein of that Erykah tune... Possible the funkiest intro to an album ever.. Live and original version..

you gotta wait for 4.00 till it gets juicy.... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJbNJJNDdUU&feature=fvst"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJbNJJNDdUU&feature=fvst[/url]

The original. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMzkMhWJ3_g"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMzkMhWJ3_g[/url]

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[quote name='Roland Rock' post='1080164' date='Jan 6 2011, 05:33 PM']Hi Sam,

My immediate reaction was to recommend pre-disco Kool & the Gang or Fatback Band, but they might be too much like full on jazzy funk.
Maybe Gil Scott Heron
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b2F-XX0Ol0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b2F-XX0Ol0[/url]

or Labie Siffre
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DByyEuYEvc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DByyEuYEvc[/url][/quote]Roland i love Labie Siffre's album Remember my Song..... that tune is smokin!!!

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Just to correct Bub's spelling (Eumir Deodato), could also try T-Connection, The Sound Stylistics, Nils Langren, Pleasure and JD73 as a few more ideas.

[quote name='bubinga5' post='1080593' date='Jan 6 2011, 11:37 PM']Pretty much what has been said above, some great suggestions there..... i could add Incognito, Jeff Lorber..Ive been getting into Eumer Diadato lately, hes wicked.. Norman Brown..

My particular favorite is Maze...just back to back greatness!...Or some of the later Bobby Womack is great..[/quote]

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If it's Jamiroquai that has started you on this discovery then you might want to check out one of the 'Late Night Tales / Another Late Night' series of albums with JK choosing some of the songs that have influenced him. You'll find a few mentioned here plus people such as Dexter Wansel, Kleer and a few others.

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[quote name='fatgoogle' post='1081191' date='Jan 7 2011, 03:25 PM']I go to school i come home and get nearly 30 suggestions ive got a lot a listening to do. .

Really liking brand new heavies, maze and kool &the gand so far. Very good.

Thanks everyone. Keep em coming.[/quote]
HA! thems the worms..

Check these out [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDbRKB7oLEQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDbRKB7oLEQ[/url]

Mezzoforte... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywI0QrcVeZo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywI0QrcVeZo[/url]

The drummer plays bass with his drum sticks..Johann is the man though... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc4oPqmCbFA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc4oPqmCbFA[/url]

im now wormless..

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