"I was feeling really good," Funk said, "prior to my knee flaring up on me".
Each year, I run into friends I haven't seen in years, many don't live in New York, but have come to bathe themselves in it: the glow, the color, the good funk of miles and miles of shiny happy black people.
Throwing poses such as scary bears and harlequins, he comes on like a commedia dell'arte performer trying to ruin a perfectly good funk-pop band.
There's something distinctly neo-soul about his vocals, but there are traces of feel-good funk and manic ODB enthusiasm, too.
Their intention to create "something fresh, unique and soulful" was a success: the resulting track Distance is feel-good funk for the summer, and its first airing went down well at their recent gig at The Vaults in Waterloo.
It is a protracted, feel-good funk jam with melodies reminiscent of classic Stevie Wonder -- only the preponderance of warped-tape effects remind you that this recording was made in the year 2000.
The tape (they were almost always cassette tapes then) brought you back to Earth with the ambisexual feel-good funk of "John, I'm Only Dancing," and then became ponderous, and then singsong, with "Changes"; it shifted your perspective again and again with "Fame" and "Golden Years" and, on top of everything else, the driving, thrilling, dirty "Suffragette City".
Hans.' own music moves between two extremes, from the downbeat lo-fi sound of 'Froyo' to the feel-good funk of songs like 'Go', from his just-released Lagoon EP with Auckland producer swrly.
Mr. Montbleau, 34, is a typical journeyman musician, leading his group, the Ryan Montbleau Band, in feel-good retro funk for about 200 club dates a year.
Before you take your disco nap and prepare to get your brain wires rearranged at the rave tonight, let's take a moment to enjoy some feel-good electro funk jams.
What's the one you play over and over... Standout by most plays alone is the Hatchback (Mother Chimney) mix "Going' Upcountry" which got a ton of plays likely for lack of any good Country-Funk mixes on SoundCloud.
