Bit of a different take on a synth funk vibe,recorded in the moment ,.with som slight editing.. check this funky track! 🎧🎧🎧

De'Funktion

De'Funktion (Synthfunk 87)

The Jam - Precious [Double Trunk Instrumental Edit]

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Title - Sometimes

This is a song that JJ came up with on the electric piano and shared with the rest of us. He's done a significant portion of the songwriting for the Eclectic Collective, and always gives us quality songs, to which are easy to add our voices. When he sent it to us, he had a rough bass on there that sounded like Lust for Life. Ken came up with a killer and appropriate beat, which, if you can picture Lust For Life, included a lot of accentuated bass kicks. So, I took and went with that, and came up with a funky bass line. Ken and he kicked it back and forth a few times till they linked up. Then JJ added some funky ass organ and trippy retro synth to spice it up.
  Then it was time to send it to the guitarist. Tez laid down some smoking lead solos throughout, with his signature fiery guitar tone and amazing licks. Then Stephen funked it up even more with a fonky-ass wah guitar track.
  Ken produced and mixed this one for us, and what an excellent job he did, too. This was so much fun to create. We all hope you enjoy listening to our jam as much as we did playing it.

Tonkas and Matchbox Cars (Eclectic Collective)

Cast of Characters:
TexMex Shaman–@texmex-shaman –Stephen–guitar, mix, and production

J.J. Terrell–@j-j-terrell –electric piano, organ, and arrangement

K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums and percussion

Llanpsych–@llanpsych –Tez–guitar

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)–@josh-clary-1–four string fretless bass, guitar, arrangement

  This is a song that began as a drum track that Ken came up initially as a beat for The Gat(s), who respectfully declined it. Instead of letting a solid go to waste, Ken set it loose with JJ and Josh, who came up with an arrangement for the music over top of what they felt was a very killer beat. What was originally a jam, turned into a showcase of the entire Eclectic Collective. Josh also did some guitar work in this one, and with Stephen's brilliant harmony, came up with the opening theme that reoccurs about halfway through. His guitar can also be heard briefly right after the opening theme. Along with Stephen's other half of the theme, he is also responsible for the dynamic, climactic leads through most of it. Tez added his incendiary guitar to the final section, when all else was said and done, as a cherry on top. After all the tracks were in the digital can, we were lucky enough to have Stephen produce and mix it for us. 
  We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are looking forward to the winter holidays. We also hope you enjoy this ride as much as we enjoyed assembling the vehicle.

Helium Weights (Eclectic Collective)

Uh! Don’t ring me twice (uh-uh)
Swipe, swipe, lies on the line.
Static buzzin’ in my spine (whoo!)
Yeah, I feel it every time.

I’m not your plan, not your weekend game,
Middle-finger storm with a funky name.
Wanna message? Wanna drop that line?
Actin’ like I said “come spend my time.”

See-through, see-through (hah!)
Fake moves, fake groove (yeah!)

Who brings the snacks when the party drops? (uh!)
Who leaves the chat when the tension pops? (yeah!)
Who cleans the mess when the mood runs dry? (funk!)
Who hits the mute when the small talk dies? (woo!)

You beg like a script that you never learn,
“No big deal” but you crash and burn.
Every line you spin, every hint you send,
See-through, see-through—funk don’t pretend!

(One, two, three, four!)

Bought a mattress the week we matched (hah!)
Should’ve unmatched, should’ve ghosted fast.
I was bored, would’ve kissed the wall,
Now I’m layin’ flat in a stranger’s hall.

Ghost it quick! (Ghost it quick!)
Ghost it one, two (Ghost it one, two!)
I don’t play (I don’t play!)
I don’t call you! (Nah nah nah!)

Who brings the snacks when the party drops? (say what?)
Who leaves the chat when the tension pops? (uh!)
Who brings the snacks when the party drops? (ooh yeah)
Who leaves the chat when the tension pops? (uh-huh, uh-huh!)

See-through, fake groove,
See-through, fake groove…
Ghost it quick, ghost it quick, ghost it one, two…

The Snacks (Funk Boogie reload)

Super funky jam track // backing track in F# (think Prince, James Brown, The Meters and Michael Jackson/David Williams!)

https://youtu.be/bKfzXi0i1A8

F# Funk (Make Me Feel)

Earth Buddy

ROB: We were seeking creative license to go insane I guess, and I feel it is safe to say the resulting track “Space Gun” on our "Stone Fly" album is one of our most adventurous sonic assaults to date. For the best listening experience I would recommend that Space Gun be listened to cranked up as loud as possible (preferably with a sub kicking) – “so yo’ feets can move and yo’ heads can groove.” ( “Rob’ism”)   

CLAY: We originally intended “Space Gun” to end the “Stone Fly” album, but ultimately we overruled ourselves after completing “World Upside Down,” which technically ends the CD.  But as a form of compromise and so we could sort of have it both ways (and with the idea of hopefully surprising a few listeners) we separated the two songs by a long period of silence and an ambient track titled “Bugs and Bongos” (“Bugs and Bongos has an interesting story of how it came into existence - but we will leave that story for another day). “Space Gun” serves as the official end of the album and “World Upside Down” is a special, hidden, bonus track ending the disc.   

CLAY: On our first album “Beggars & Thieves” we had two instrumentals: “As a Matter of Funk” and “Wash Out.”  “As a Matter of Funk” is a short, hit and run style funk jam with clean guitars and “Wash Out,” which begins the album, is a three and a half minute, heavy hitting barn burner with distorted guitars. For our next full length album ("Stone Fly") we also wanted a couple of instrumentals, and by the time we got to “Space Gun” we already had the short funk jam with clean guitars, “Earth Buddy,”  in the can.  To distinguish one from the other, for “Earth Buddy” we took the concept of “As a Matter of Funk” and ramped it up quite considerably by putting a totally ridiculous, over the top spin on it.  So for the follow up to “Wash Out.” we wanted to do the same and write an over the top, epic, gonzo monster of an instrumental jam.  But this time we wanted to end the album with it. 

CLAY: The first things to do were double the size and then stretch it out to nearly seven minutes (at the end of the track you can hear Rob laughingly say “that was about a long fucking song” after nailing his final take). The final drum take (as with all of Rob’s drum takes) was done in a single take from start to finish (no punch-ins and no pro-tools drum comp’ing was done). Instead, we did it old school style, we just played and recorded a BUNCH of drum takes to get that “one take” of Rob’s best drum performance from start to finish. 

CLAY: I had the basic framework of distorted guitar riffs and also some funky, clean riffs for a middle solo section.  Rob and I worked it out, rehearsed it, and then laid down the drums. While Rob was recording I was also recording the basic guitar track running the Digitech processor direct to the mixing console.  During pre-production on the drums, Rob found and used a percussion sample called “space gun” that had a wicked, sci-fi laser gun sound (think storm trooper laser rifle), and so we had our title.  The “space gun” was triggered “live” (not overdubbed) while Rob was tracking the drum takes. We might have just intended on using that as a temporary title at first, but the name felt appropriate and stuck.  I had been playing around with the main, distorted riff and thought it sounded like Godzilla on a rampage through Tokyo.  But with the inclusion of the “space gun” triggered drum sample and the sci-fi title we began to envision it more like the soundtrack to an interplanetary dogfight.

ROB: The “space gun laser shot” sound was recorded as part of the original drum take by taping a drum trigger to a practice pad (which itself creates no real noise when you hit it) so I could use the practice pad as if it were another drum to get the triggered laser gun sounds. Thus, I was able to play the “space gun” sounds as if they were part of his drum kit. You can hear the interplay between the space gun shots, high-hat, cowbell, and ride-cymbal throughout the track.  

CLAY: Once the basic “foundation” tracks of drums and guitars were recorded, I spent a long time “filling in” the rest with a ridiculous amount of layers, overdubs and ear candy.  Most of it is guitars, but there’s also some keyboards routed through the Digitech guitar processor, specifically at 5:10 with the “red alert” keys and another moog synthesizer through a wah pedal. There’s also a regular piano at a 1:54, but I think even that was run through the processor to give it more of a futuristic flavor.  The main guitar riff has the phase shifter all over it, as was the custom on the “Stone Fly” album, but on “Space Gun” it’s supposed to invoke the sensation of spacecraft pitching, diving and accelerating during the battle.  I was also really into Tom Morello from “Rage Against The Machine” at the time, so I used a lot of staccato hammering on the fret board to great effect as it adds quite well to the chaos. I had first started using that technique on a track called “How Does It Make You Feel” from the EP of the same name (between “Beggars” and “Stone Fly”), but on the EP track I was using my fingers to hammer out the chords and on “Space Gun” I was using my pick, which gave it a much more brittle, metallic sound.  But actually, at some moments, I’m trying to channel Randy Rhoads and the way he used to get a similar effect by toggling the pickup switch in rapid fire succession.

ROB: There’s a short but cool little drum interlude section around 4:40 that has a definite Latin feel. I think I played every drum I had during that section (save my Congos, but they might even be in the mix somewhere). The Latin drum interlude was overdubbed after the main drum take was down. The Latin flavor actually works pretty well and it is sort of cool to hear those flams and triplets over the straight driving beat, that always creates a unique feel for the drums.   

ROB: We have always enjoyed trying to push the envelope of rock music by combining or blending styles, sounds, or genres that are not necessarily supposed to fit together (like storm trooper laser rifles and hard driving guitars). With Space Gun we feel like this may be an instance where perhaps we actually pulled it off and created a musical work that is honestly unique, something that people will find interesting and really enjoy listening to, and that will stand on its own merits as a Foothill Tribe original work. That’s our goal and while we don’t always reach it, we keep trying and keep pushing the creative envelope. 

ROB: In the end, we were proud of how “Space Gun” turned out and we hope listeners will enjoy rocking the track with us. Thanks for listening and for any feedback.      

 
 


Space Gun

Larry Graham is one of the founders of FUNK.... make no mistake about that !!

This is a live jam with Graham Central Station, recorded in 1 take at Dj Giel's early morning
popular radioshow in the Netherlands.

Man.... this band is on fire at 7.30 in the morning !!! The Godfather of Funk !

Larry Graham - The Jam Live ( Funk Jam Graham Central Station in 2011 @giel3fm )

"Magic is what we do. Music is how we do it." -- Jerry Garcia

Welcome to my page, my peers, associates, friends, and musical family. I'm a lifelong, multi-instrumentalist musician who records prolifically and joyfully. You'll hear me play guitar, bass (regular four string, and four and five string fretless), mandolin, banjo, keys (piano, organ, synth), lap slide, sitar, and sing on my recordings here. I've been in a few dozen bands in my life, playing everything from bluegrass, jazz, rock, jam band, reggae, funk, afrobeat, Middle Eastern, traditional Irish, singer/songwriter, pop/covers, to experimental/avant garde. 
  Since I found SoundCloud a couple years ago, I've found many talented, creative people with whom to create music. However, in the summer of '23 I formed a band called The Eclectic Collective with some of my favorite musicians I've met through here. It started as a loose collective of musicians and coalesced into a core group of musicians who find other musicians with whom we'd like to make music, then run their songs through our process, and in effect add a full band. That core of The Eclectic Collective includes Tez (Llanpsych), J.J. Terrel, Ken (K2 and the Three), Stephen (Texmex Shaman), Chris (cgmaness), and Mark (mistermark). A couple of other musicians are frequent collaborators, as well, including Artur of Surfers Like Us, and Steve Vervaet of Steve's World. More recently, we've been joined by Carl of The Beautiful Dark fame. 
  The magic of music is amplified exponentially by each person adding to it. So, we really try to add our sorcery all kinds of music from all kinds of artists. Sometimes, we keep it within the group, but a lot of what we do is collaboration with other artists. Therefore these days, 100% of what I do is collaboration, within the group or with other artists on the side.
  I, and we, are also available for hire if you have a song or lyrics and you really want to add bigger instrumentation or a band and good production to it. 
  A small sampling of the artists whom I consider primary influences, and whom you will hear coming through my fingers include Phish, The Flaming Lips, The Grateful Dead, Radiohead, Rye Cooder, Steve Earle, Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, Arcade Fire, Mikey Dread, Yellowman, Purpleman, The Meditations, Michigan and Smiley, Lee Perry, Dillinger, Django Reinhardt, Impossible Recording Machine, The Allman Bros Band, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Bela Fleck, Les Claypool, Sam Bush, David Grissman, John Prine, Talking Heads, Beastie Boys, MMW, Moe., Morphine, Ween, Steve Lukather, Michael McDonald, John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Victor Wooten,  Cannonball Adderly, Thelonious Monk, Flea, Parliament Funkadelic,  Frank Zappa, Prince Paul, Pete Rock, Thievery Corporation, Amon Tobin, Chet Baker, Joao Gilberto, Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, Carol Kaye, Tame Impala, Mumford and Sons, Japanese Breakfast, LCD Soundsystem, Beach House, Sean Lennon, and Billy Strings, but of course there are many more. I also really like and am influenced by traditional Iranian, Palestinian, Indian, Sri Lankan, Sudanese, Mauritian, Somalian, Egyptian, West African, and Syrian music. I welcome anyone who plays non-western music to contact me for a collaboration, too.
 I'm overjoyed to have found my community on SoundCloud. This is a truly unique forum where everyone is sincerely trying to build each other up. The profoundly supportive and positive SoundCloud community has really opened up an exciting new world of collaboration for me. That is the main reason I'm in the Cloud, actually, to connect with other musicians and make music that I enjoy listening to, and hopefully others do, as well. I am ALWAYS looking to collaborate with interesting musicians, mostly though BandLab, which is where I record almost exclusively. It's a solid, free digital audio workstation hub where you can share recording projects, even if it's not where you make your recordings.
  Everything I do is live instrumental, not programmed, and using no computer beyond my phone. That's not to say that I would be opposed to using that kind of tool, it's just not my preferred medium with which to paint. If you like my music, please share it. If you want to collaborate, my BandLab handle is @bingo_pajama. Feel free to contact me at cornbreadband@hotmail.com, as well, even if you aren't on BandLab.
  If your music is primarily AI, please don't come around my page, as I'm not at all interested in complimenting a machine.
  Here's a link to music I've recorded live with a group of musicians here in Pittsburgh called The Northumberland Street Ramblers.
Check out The Northumberland Street Ramblers on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/fU4Me

The entire sound is in my hands. I write cyber poetry, produce, and compose every track ready for Immersive 3D. Every beat is crafted for spatial and next-gen headphones.
Intimate lyrics, total immersion, every track.

For 30 years I kept unfinished demos to myself, never letting them out. Now I finish what I start and release it the moment it’s alive.

I use every tool available, human or machine, as an instrument.
Technology doesn’t replace creativity. It expands it.

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The Foothill Tribe (f/k/a Steel Dog Cafe) is a three piece alternative-psychedelic-progressive rock band (and recording artist) from the tiny ocean-side town of Destin, Florida, USA. The Tribe is: Clay Urquhart (Guitars | Vocals); Rob Gilmore (Drums | Vocals); Daniel Bertram (Bass Guitar).  

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We really enjoy (and continue) trying  to push the creative envelope with our music, whether it be with our songs or instrumentals. We often incorporate different genres, styles, and sounds into our music. Our desire and goal is to create original music that is interesting, different, and uniquely recognizable as The Foothill Tribe's own sound. Thank for listening and we truly hope you enjoy our material.   

As a three piece power trio we have no separate front man. We tried out several "would-be" front men when we were first forming the band, but ultimately we were not satisfied with any of the proposed lead singers because they just did not fit with the band or our vision for the future. Out of necessity we made the decision to handle vocals ourselves in what would become a "twin lead-singer" approach with Clay (guitars) and Rob (drums) both handling lead vocals, and with Dan (bass guitar), Clay, and/or Rob handling back-up vocals depending on who was singing lead. This twin lead-vocal approach has developed over the years and forms a key ingredient (and some have gone as far as calling it a trademark) of the band's sound.   

Over the course of writing and recording our various Albums, EPs, and Single releases the band's sound has developed significantly. There are a handful of songs along our path that show the growth of our sound and are witness to a change in the band's direction creatively. We hope to have a chance to tell some of the stories about these key songs and what was going on at the time. We try to offer a bit of background on each song, and sometimes even the lyrics are posted, in the song description for anyone who might be interested in a bit more info about a song.  
 
Since joining Sound Cloud, we have made some awesome new friends and met some great bands and artists. We really appreciate all who listen to our music and who have elected to follow us. Our sincerest thanks! We look forward to continuing to share our music, to making more new friends, and to continuing to discover new and inspiring music/artists/bands as we all grow together. THANKS TO ALL for  sharing in our story and for allowing us to share in yours!  Thanks again for listening to The Tribe!

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