Underground disco

[YouMa]

I recently have got my hands on a ton of really rare 70s jazz/funk. I was picking through and found this album by a band called aquarian dream.The bass playing on it is fantastic,i listened to some more and realised there were probably a lot of equally as good players as bernard edwards in the 70s who never got recognised,the standard of bass playing back then was just incredible. Some of the licks on the stuff produced by the mizell brothers are awesome. So now i am back into disco.

Edited February 8, 2009 by YouMa

[Kiwi]

Good on ya, it might be a bit of that stuff is collectable. People like DJ Joey Negro and DJ Dimitri have spent years listening through old 70's disco records looking for overlooked grooves and they've paid small fortunes for the rare stuff.

[YouMa]

There is this really cool french band in there called cortex,i now know where daft punk and air nicked all there stuff from.

[Stingray5]

The man behind Aquarian Dream was soul/funk/jazz man Norman Connors.
Check out his version of Steely Dan's 'Black Cow'
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs1bP_wrQgA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs1bP_wrQgA[/url]

[YouMa]

The mizell brothers production is well good,the sound is so clean.Just listening to the night creatures "thats the night" funkiest thing i have heard for ages.

Edited February 8, 2009 by YouMa

[KennysFord]

Check out David Bendeth's "Feel the Real" for an awesome Disco/jazz funk bassline.Tis a cracker.
this is the proppa version
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Rb8IdwkoE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Rb8IdwkoE[/url]

Edited February 8, 2009 by kennyrodg

[YouMa]

Were most 70s jazzfunk players using jazz bass or precision?

[Stingray5]

[quote name='kennyrodg' post='403929' date='Feb 8 2009, 11:42 PM']Check out David Bendeth's "Feel the Real" for an awesome Disco/jazz funk bassline.Tis a cracker.[/quote]
Damn, this thread has started me on a nostalgia trip through my vinyl collection and I still have the David Bendeth album with the full length version of 'Feel The Real'. Excellent stuff. Also his track 'Adrenalin', from the same album.

[risingson]

I love that stuff, and I'm a massive French house fan. Just finished a transcription of a Chaka Khan tune called 'Fate', with Anthony Jackson on bass duties. Thomas Bangalter from Daft Punk sampled Hiram Bullock's guitar part from the tune and dropped it in his tune 'The Music Sounds Better With You' under the guise of 'Stardust'. If I can figure out how I'll post the transcription of the bassline, but here's the original song anyway!

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

[KennysFord]

Simple,effective and funky as f---
I think it might even be James junior on bass,he did work on one her albums IIRC
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYrqLgOHcUU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYrqLgOHcUU[/url]

[YouMa]

France has always had a serious funk side,does anyone know who played bass on Cortex,s stuff,its up there with Jaco some of it sounds like a funkier return to forever.And +10 for bangalter,wish daft punk would get some more stuff out.

[bass_in_ya_face]

[quote name='kennyrodg' post='403929' date='Feb 8 2009, 11:42 PM']Check out David Bendeth's "Feel the Real" for an awesome Disco/jazz funk bassline.Tis a cracker.
this is the proppa version
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Rb8IdwkoE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Rb8IdwkoE[/url][/quote]

ooh that's rather good