The Future.....NOW!

Paging Nathan Phillips......Paging Nathan Phillips.... We have 4 more people in the emergency room because you funked them up again.... gawwwDAMN this cut is funky. Slap my bace right off my man. Pleasure is one of the few jazz funk bands who actually seemed to get better and better the more they recorded! Unlike some of their contemporaries, who kind of lost their edge when the production got slicker, Pleasure actually picked up more of a beat, and tightened up their act in a way that made for some of the funkiest and most soulful moments of their career. I encourage all bass players to snag diz monsta.. so they can treat themselves to a 400-level university course in bass playing.

Check out "Glide (Radio Cut)" for some warm vibes in the wintertime babbbbbbBbbYyyY!

http://rapidshare.com/files/181742084/Glide-_Pleasure.mp3

Comments are appreciated

-Humph

SLAP BASS!!!!

That is all.  I love this song.

~Scott

Mr. Jamaica Funk

Here's a (Q)-Tip .... Listen to more of Queens own Tom Browne baby!







Now I know a lot of record labels are gonna come atcha with the fiery funk but a couple notes from a jew himself (me) - Rosen and Grusin now how to spin a dreidle, and spin a funky pie on their GRP label which Browne dominated on his 1979 release, "Browne Sugar." MmmMmM and how sweet that sugary pie is with horn stabs being held up under an army of slaps! Listen to that pre-chorus key change and how the slap bass smacks you right back onto the dance floor just when you think you're about to climax. Alright enough talking more listening.... link it baby!

http://rapidshare.com/files/180798941/01_Throw_Down.mp3



-Humph

HAPPY NEW YEAR

MmmHmm. Time to say goodbye to good old 2008. I don't know about you but I had a pretty kick ass year. Time for another one. Holler! My new years resolution is to listen to more slap bass.... and I think you should too! Check in often this year, we're looking forward to lots of solid fuckin funky posts chock FULL of sweet slinky bass guitar.

Happy 09,

S.S.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

It's that time of year ladies and germs. I hope all of your holiday dreams come true. We'll be celebrating over here in bass land. Got some nice new sweaters, a killer new video camera, and some P. Diddy style vodka... and of COURSE some funky ass bass guitar!!! Gonna go enjoy breakfast and my Hall & Oates Christmas CD. Fuck yeah...

~Scotty

ALSO,

HAPPY (C)HANUKAH

word nah mean. I'm just saying man latkes in my tummy and big rumbling strings in my ears and cruisin to some stanley clarke live can't be any better. Go take some of grandma's bills you got in the card and buy yourself a nice fat stack of used, dusty, bassy, recordings and have a safe and happy hanukah my friends. We will be posting a bunch in the coming year so stay up.

-Humph daddy Ice

I'd Rather Be With You!

Ahhhh, it's Bootsy baby!!!!  The one and only William "Bootsy" Collins of James Brown and P-Funk fame.  This track is off of his debut solo album titled "Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band" which was released April 1976. This song, "I'd Rather Be With You" is dumb dangerous!! It's mad THICK!!  Gotta check it out...  Bootsy really smacks that bass up.  He's very well known for his bass technique.  As is audible in this track, the bass is really up front in the mix and drives the song.  Also that juicy sound is produced by using envelope filters, which works like a wah-wah effect without using your foot to rock a pedal.  And most importantly, Bootsy is well known for his very strong SLAP technique.  If you dig this check out anything by Parliament, Funkadelic, George Clinton etc. etc. etc.

Download link in comments

~Scotty

Have you been to wonderland??

Ok, here it is. FIRST POST!!!!!

Obviously, we gotta start out things right... or should I say Wright!?!?!?!?!

Thats right people, Bernard Wright!

There's some really nice slappy funky bass all over his album, Nard.

Released in 1981 on GRP Records 'Nard features the glorious hit, "Haboglabotribin'"

5 seconds into the song there is the fattest, healthiest dose of slap EVER!!

It's a great POP! with a dramatic bend in it to bring in the whole band. Then, throughout the verse, there are perfect little accents added of fantastic bop's and gap's and funky funkiness.

And who could forget the funky slap figure to bring in the bridge!! Right at 1:41, my life changed forEVER...

~Scotty

Ayo new friends and foes - just want to add that bassist Marcus Miller went to Queens college and met Sir Nard in the Q-tip which is where they get those city funk lines from - listening to the subway yall!

Have fun with this one!

-Humphrey!

Check out this track!!! Download link in comments!!!

PRE-PUNCH

Welcome world to the chunky funkiness of slap bass. BAP.....POW.....GAPGAP....

We're gonna present fresh, crazy fresh, crazy silly fresh mixes n maps n music n laughs 

haHahaHAA

Slap Bass Ya'll let me kick it to mah man Scotty

-Humph

It's gonna be a celebration everytime you log on to check the SLAP!

nah mean son? its gon be off the chain funky and all types ah crazy shit... word

Aight, first post comin' realll soon.  stay tuned.

-S.S.