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Gareth Sager of The Pop Group and Viv Albertine of The Slits. Sounds Magazine, 1980

#the pop group #viv albertine #the slits #funk punk #gareth sager #pop group #post punk #rip rig and panic

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#jagatara #funk punk #japan

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Carte De Sejour - Sounefir - live @Theatre de 8e, 1984

i ripped this off youtube and divided the tracks and most importantly actually identified the songs which is pretty amazing for somebody whose ears aren't really trained in much Arabic singing or Algerian musics, ngl kinda proud of myself. hope someone enjoys it.

#carte de sejour #rhorhomanie #halouf nar #rai #algerian #france #lyon #the clash #punk rock #rachid taha

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Not really “funk punk” but they’ve got more than a few songs that are funky (and heavy and gnarly at the same time).

Cop Shoot Cop during the recording of their debut album, Consumer Revolt, 1989. Taken from Cop Shoot Cop's Facebook page.

#cop shoot cop #90s #noise rock #funk punk #NYC scuzz wave

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The greatest combination of funk and ska and metal and punk in the history of!

Fishbone • The Reality Of My Surroundings

#music #fishbone #the reality of my surroundings #funk punk #funk rock #funk metal #ska punk #black rock #los angeles

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#the mallwalkers #mallwalkers #funk punk

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New York Pig Funkers - second demo (1985)

Discogs sez that Marian Coutts (Dog Faced Hermans) was in this band at some point. That would be cool.

#funk punk #funkpunkandpunkfunk #youtube #New York pig funkers #Marian coutts #dog faced hermans #volunteer slavery

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HBD! Tina!

#tina weymouth #talking heads #tom tom club

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Bootsy Collins by Ed Caraeff - 1977.

#bootsy collins #p funk #punk funk #glowing

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Tina Weymouth and Grandmaster Flash, NYC, Photo by Laura Levine, 1981

#tina weymouth #grandmaster flash #new york city #talking heads #furious five

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mssv — Human Reaction (Big EGO)

Human Reaction by mssv

“Pity Parody” jitters and stings. It runs like a freight train on buzzing bass. The guitar skitters antically in a trebly range, while the drums clatter in the most precise and disciplined form of chaos. The song touches punk, funk, noise and jazz without fully aligning with any of them. Hardly anything ever sounds like the Minutemen, not really, but this one comes pretty close to the frenzied complications of “Viet Nam,” the funk-stuttered aggression of “Maybe Partying Will Help.”

The Minutemen reference is, perhaps, obligatory, since Mike Watt is involved. This relatively new band, dating from about 2019 and with two full lengths and a slew of EPs and singles, matches him with Tom Waits’ drummer Stephen Hodges and avant gard guitarist Mike Baggetta.

mssv stands for Main Steam Stop Valve, a critical piece of a boiler’s mechanics. The valve regulates the flow of steam from its source to wherever it is needed; it’s a key safety device in a volatile contraption. Mike Watt, who plays bass in this three-piece post-punk outfit, has long been fascinated by boilers. He wrote a punk opera called Contemplating the Engine Room in 1997, which imagined his best-known band, the Minutemen, as the crew of a large naval vessel. Stephen Hodges, Tom Waits’ drummer of choice, played on that album; he takes up the sticks again with mssv, along with Watt and the avant-garde guitarist Mike Baggetta.

This second album is concise but varied, the agitated post-hardcore tangle of “Say What You Gotta Say” giving way to the dream-like desert mirage of “French Road Drifters,” with its military snare cadence and lyrical guitars. “Human Reaction” sprays shards of glittering glass-sharp guitar riffs in all the angular directions, just leaving space for Baggetta’s poetry slam, then “Junk Haiku” slips into narcotic late-jazz minimalism, a fever vision anchored by bobbing bass. The final cut, “In This Moment,” is serene and lovely, with burbling synths and long hanging e-bow tones, a stormy undertow of drumming building underneath.

It’s natural to want to compare Watt’s new band to his previous ones, but that might not capture everything you’ll near in Human Reaction. I’m getting hints of Sonic Youth and Thurston Moore solo, of Thalia Zedek’s band E, of the Dirty Three and of Bill Frisell’s freest explorations. There’s a lot to unpack in these 35 minutes, not all of it what you expect.

Jennifer Kelly

#mssv #mike watt #stephen hodges #mike baggetta #minutemen #funk punk #jazz punk

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Gang Of Four - To Hell With Poverty (1981)

#gang of four #go4 #funk punk

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Sarasvati - Co-O-Ni (festive version I)

wanted to post the festive version III but the file was too big, sorry tumblr

#sarasvati #japanese punk #post punk #funk punk #funky punk #funkpunkandpunkfunk #slits #raincoats

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Hysteria S.A.D. - Fem Envy

#hysteria s.a.d. #hysteria SAD #japanese punk #post punk #funk punk #slits #raincoats #funkpunkandpunkfunk

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“Erase You”  by ESG /////

I have so much god damn respect for ESG. They influenced artists across genre after genre– disco, funk, hip-hop, punk. 

Throughout the ‘90s, hip-hop producers sampled the shit out of their incomparable brand of mutant South Bronx funk– and thanked them with “album credits.” Everyone wanted a piece of their work, from Wu-Tang, Kool Moe Dee, Big Daddy Kane, Gang Starr, TLC, and more.  In 1992, ESG commented on this, releasing an EP called Sample Credits Don’t Pay Our Bills. 

Of course everyone sampled these ladies (who were originally a group of 4 sisters), ripped them off, wanted to be them (like, Everyday Street Gangsta / Everyday Serving God couldn’t switch up his stage name acronym?). Their entire catalog is mind-blowing. People call it funk and hip-hop but it is also punk as fuck. This song, along with may others, including “Watching” (best video link I can find) from What More Can You Take? (listen to the whole thing), highlights one of the clearest and most frustrating aspects of the music industry, a microcosm of the world we live in: men’s annoying egos. 

Frankly, I’m shocked when people don’t realize this: One of the direct goals of the patriarchy is to devalue women. Men want women around to take their ideas and claim them as their own. (Notice how women who get pushed to the front tend to have to be “given” the opportunity by men?) They want women to ogle them for reinventing their own creations. To top it off, they only wanna lift women up as long as they can possess them (fuck them, claim them, make money on them), and then just throw them away when they aren’t getting enough attention. 

ESG addresses this in with a big “fuck you” in a handful of their lyrics. I think this song is one of the most powerful. 

“ERASE YOU. FLUSH YOU LIKE MY TOILET.“ YAS. 

As far as I understand, this recording is from a 1991 release. I’ve been making a point to focus on punk from the ‘70s & ‘80s— but the band started playing in the late ‘70s and I read somewhere, though I’m not sure if it’s true, that they played this song back then. 

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“Mind Your Own Business” by Delta 5 \\\

So you really dig Gang of Four? Wire? Pigface?

You must be reeallllly cool. No, really. But are you down with Delta 5? The English post-punk group who played between 1979-1981 and had some really, really great jams, including this song. One of my faves. 

“You,” “Anticipation” and “Try” are some other killer tracks from the group. 

Just listen to them, you can’t really deny it: They influenced a ton of shit you like, which you’ve been walking around claiming influenced a bunch of other shit everyone else likes.

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Chico Science & Nação Zumbi [feat. Gilberto Gil] Central park SummerStage - NY (1995)

Dooooooooooooooooope!!!!!!

#chico science #chico science e nacao zumbi #nacao zumbi #samba punk #funkpunkandpunkfunk #brasil #gilberto gil #central park #youtube #Youtube