A young Dam-Funk, 14 tracks recorded on cassette, 1988-1992. Adolescent Funk sheds a bit of light on Dâm-Funk's underheard formative years, focusing on a series of demos and hometapes he made between 1988 and 1992. That period was a heady one for funk and R&B-- Michael Jackson and Prince running top-speed victory laps; Teddy Riley lighting new jack swing's fuse; g-funk reintroducing bounce to the airwaves-- and the songs on this comp reveal an enthusiastic kid with a Casio SK-1 trying to figure out what he could learn from it all. How you hear this music really depends on whether you like late-80s R&B enough to hear a promising amateur's take on it: "Sexy Lady", "Raindrops", and "Attitude" in particular have a certain Class of '89 vibe to them, though the best cut here, the hypnotic "When I'm With U I Think of Her", has all the qualities of a long-lost lo-fi house classic.

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Genre

Hip Hop

Format

LP · 1 disc

Release

26-10-2010

Label

Stones Throw

Item-nr

1083763

EAN

0659457223915

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Not in stock