The single contains two extracts entitled as parts 1 & 2 taken from a full length version of the recording that is 9 minutes 13 seconds long. The song Funky drummer was recorded in 1969 and released in March 1970 on King Records as a double sided 7″ vinyl Single.

Now you are familiar with the Funky drummer break beat we are going to look at the influence it has had on modern music. James Brown “Funky drummer bonus beat reprise” From classic Hip Hop artists like Public Enemy, Ultamagnetic MCs, and N.W.A, to pop artists like George Michael, Kylie Minogue and in recent times Emili Sande, the familiar sound of the Funky drummer can be heard throughout the musical spectrum.īelow is an insert of the Funky drummer bonus beat reprise in case you are not familiar with this particular break beat: The drum break has been sampled, chopped up and incorporate in to musical creations across genres now for generations. **You can read more about the Funky Drummer’s lineage and history via its wiki article.Like the Amen drum break documented in the first of the Classic Break Beats series the “ Funky drummer” by James Brown has also had a huge imprint on popular music. favorite going on fifteen years now, and probably deserves a post of its own. The Sinead track off her breakout LP, I Do Not Want What I Havn’t Got, has been an A.D. Get down to these JB originals, and then check out a couple of mainstream examples of the purloined “Funky Drummer” drum break sampled in, decidedly, non hip-hop tracks. In my world, this is what we call “required listening”. Most famous for housing the track “Funky Drummer,” which in turn houses arguably one of the most sampled drum breaks of the past twenty years, In The Jungle Groove(now remastered) is a raw collection of essential JB nuggets that no soul, funk, or r&b fan should be without. The word ‘funky’ only begins to describe it. I own a lot of James Brown, but hands down In the Jungle Groove is the LP I grab the most, right now, when I need a JB soul joint.

Don’t turn it loose, because “it’s a mother.” – James Brown (Funky Drummer) You don’t have to do no soloing, brother, just keep what you got. “Fellas, one more time I wanna give the drummer some of this funky soul we got here.

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