Eddie Rockerz VibeZ

One hundred tracks with a single brief: funk, loud, no apologies. This is the deep end of the record collection. What funk actually is Funk is a rhythmic argument. It moved the emphasis in American popular music from the second and fourth beats to the first — the One, as James Brown insisted on calling it — and it made the bass and drums the lead instruments rather than the accompaniment. Everything else in the arrangement serves that. What a hundred-track set like this can do is show the idea developing: from Brown's 1970s band through Parliament-Funkadelic's cosmology, the boogie era's synth bass, Minneapolis, and into the modern revival. What to listen for James Brown's "The Payback" and "Get On The Good Foot" are the source. Everything else here is downstream, and "The Payback" in particular — nearly eight minutes built on a single vamp — is the whole philosophy in one record. George Clinton's "Atomic Dog...