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| Thephoenix |
 If you have only a few bucks to add some delicious German funk to your collection and are tempted to shell out for the recent Funky Fräuleins on the strength of its amazing bodypaint cover, hold on there a sec. That’s not the one you want. Track down instead the less colorfully decorated but infinitely more satisfying D-Funk compilation from the good folks at Marina (responsible years ago for Peter Thomas’s Moonflowers and Miniskirts, which you also need).By now only a clueless shut-in would dare joke about the oxymoronic nature of “German funk.” Sure, we all know about the towering influence of Italo-kraut Giorgio Moroder and his Munich sound, and even Kanye lets it slip that he’s down with Can, but this CD goes way deeper. How deep? Try the cooking “Kirschblüte,” an instrumental B-side by the house band of East German pop diva Veronika Fischer. Or a Moroder side project where East LA is re-created in Bavaria with an Autobahn-cruising cover of “Low Rider.” Or Fehlfarben’s “14 Tage” reappropriating the Chic groove for some new-wave Deutsch-rap. Add a version of Ravel’s Boléro done as a jazz-disco joint and you have a wall-to-wall set of Teutonic grooves you’ll be playing in both car and bedroom....full text |
| Discomusic |
| STUDIO CREDITS: Producer: Various Compact disc compiled by Stefan Kassel TRACKLISTING: Stop Talking Bull 3:33 Discotizer & Supermax 2000 Dancing In The Streets 4:00 Boney M. 1978 Kirschbl�te 2:41 Veronika Fischer & Band 1975 Sweatmajor 6:03 Cheeseslider 1996 Jumping 3:55 Charly Antolini's Power Dozen 1972 14 Tage 6:26 Fehlfarben 1982 Dispo Funk 4:27 Zatopek 1983 Plus Plus 5:05 Poets Of Rhythm 2001 Future World 6:53 Ganymed 1979 Bolero '75 3:18 James Last 1975 Intercontinental Meetings 2:54 Andy Minkacz Orchestra 1977 Low Rider 3:07 Stolen Property 1975 Rampage 3:55 Whitefield Brothers 2002 Bring Deinen K�rper Auf Die Party 4:54 Family 5 1981 Chicken N Waffles 3:12 Lee Armstrong Express 2002 Die 24 Stunden Von Le Mans 3:23 Twen 1995 Magic Dance 4:20 Su Kramer 1978 War On the Bullshit 4:53 Montana Chromeboy 2000 NOTES: D-Funk - Funk, Disco & Boogie Grooves From Germany 1972-2002 presents eighteen block-rocking Funk, Disco and Boogie nuggets from Germany. Recorded from 1972 to 2002. Featuring sweaty JB-styled grooves, cooking fusion gems, uo-tight post-punk funk and slick Disco urban anthems. Includes a sixteen (16) page booklet with detailed track-by-track notes and all-original cover art. It's thirty years of Teutonic Funk Power. D-Funk was compiled by Stefan Kassel who also assembled Marina Record's acclaimed The In-Kraut and Disco Deutschland Disco compilations....full text |
| Emusic |
| Despite the undeniable influence of Kraftwerk on early hip-hop and electro, and the irresistible grooves Can could set up when they wanted to, most people wouldn't connect the words "funk" and "Germany" right away. This compilation attempts to change that perception with 76 minutes of dancefloor-filling tracks by artists familiar and forgotten. The most famous name here is Boney M., the Euro-disco phenomenon who achieved one-hit wonder status in the U.S.; other acts like Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers may be familiar to serious crate-diggers and hip-hop DJs. The Poets and the Brothers make gritty, organic funk instrumentals with a meticulously retro analog sound, including plenty of distortion designed to mimic West African grooves of the 1970s. The Whitefield Brothers' "Rampage" could have come off one of Soundway Records' Nigeria Special compilations, and that's the idea. Other tracks, like James Last's "Bolero '75," are pure '70s cheese with electric piano and hard-strummed guitar backed by ultra-lush strings 'n' horns and a quick gospel-disco beat. It sounds like the backing track to an Elvis Presley single from the last year of his life. There's also a surprisingly credible cover of War's "Low Rider" by the aptly named Stolen Property, and the popping bassline on Cheeseslider's Bootsy Collins-aping "Sweatmajor" deserves to be heard. Overall, this is neither a snickering collection of clumsy novelties nor an essential trove of hidden funk treasures. It's worth a funk fan's time, and will provide some surprises for a professional club DJ to throw at his or her audience, though....full text |
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