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It's quite easy. If you know what you're doing.

listened to the Mandrill this morning. Pretty good, altho I can't say anything leapt out at me (well, apart from the nuttiness of Universal Rhythms). The songs are almost proggy in terms of how restless the arrangements are - they rarely settle into a groove for long, and they eagerly hop around from fuzz-rock to latin percussion breakdown to horn-centered jazz riffing to slippery soul. Even so, the playing is pretty insane, especially the bass and gutiar work, and you can hear them getting fairly loose here and there which is nice.

but I dunno, hooks are not their strong suit. or something.

you cant say that about Ape Is High

I hope the mandrill youtubes didn't scare some dude off

"Golden Baboon" of the Mandrill album sounds like theme music to a Kung-Fu actioner.

Found the Mandrill to be Wuite jazz-fusion in places, and a couple tracks heavy with rock/psych-rock guitar, and in between some spirituality vibes and flutes ish.

'salrigt but def glad to have come across The Ohio Players.

Gonna listen to Funkadelic again tomorrow.

By "wuite" I mean "quite"

(Honkey on the Baboon) Tannenbaum Schmidt | 00:36 23 April 2010

Ape is High is probably the best track on there (no wonder they lead off with it), just saying that catchiness/hooks was not what this band was about.

The Funkadelic album flies all over the shop, it's awesome! More varied than the other Funkadelic albums I've heard "Jimmy's..." sounds exactly like Zappa, "Sexy Ways" is somewhere between Stax and Al Green on lots of acid, Alice in my Fantasies is all garage punk funk. Only a couple of tracks have the typical "like early RHCP, but funky and good" sound I associate with Funkadelic - "Standing...", "Red Hot Momma"...

It confirms this feeling I've had for a while that Funkadelic was more *interesting* than Parliament, which is not entirely the same thing as "better".

I wouldn't mind participating - hopefully I can think of something halfway interesting to say. Listening to Mandrill right now (and watching hockey with the sound off)...

in short - "Red Hot Momma" intro is about humanity being the greedy, egotistical, ungrateful spawn of mother nature

Weird thing: that spoken bit was also used in "America Eats Its Young" 2 years earlier, slowed wa-a-a-y down

remember that red hot mama is an old Parliament song from the Osmium days before Clinton lost the rights to the name Parliament so had to form Funkadelic. Clinton re-used old tracks many times for Funkadelic & Parliament.

the parliament version is much rawer

Indeed. Actually I think Parliament may have recorded two versions themselves - one version with a noisy feedback intro, the other without.

There's probably other versions somewhere in the vaults.

I think many of you might be interested in Sam's Hi dere welcome to Planet Rock, this is the real hip-hop (listening club.)

28/4 - Shakey Mo
5/5 - Tuomas

Anyone else want to book a week? Otherwise Its back to myself and shakey.

Any kind of funk is ok. That includes the borderline jazz-funk/black acid rock,funk-disco etc. If its funky its in!

You can put me on the list

i'll do a week, altough my funk choices would be mainly 80's electro-slap-bass stuff

I'll take a week.

raises hand

28/4 - Shakey Mo
5/5 - Tuomas
12/5 - a hoy hoy
19/5 - Tannenbaum Schmidt
26/5 - Ismael Klata
2/6 - forksclovetu
9/6 - pfunkboy

it's in my google calendar

The Mandrills youtubes were pretty much the most perfect way I could have spent the past hour. I heartily recommend. (Alex Song.)

You could have heard it via the cough

or ILX0RS - FREE YOUR MIND AND YOUR ASS WILL FOLLOW.... TO THE ILM FUNK LISTENING CLUB! (This Weeks Albums are Funkadelic , Ohio Players and Mandrill.)

did you have any fave tracks on it sam?

i dunno, i wasn't really paying attention to individual tracks. will def. listen again later in the week and report back but for now i just want a pre-work nap. :D

you working the streets again?

I want in too! Can I can I?

yup

28/4 - Shakey Mo
5/5 - Tuomas
12/5 - a hoy hoy
19/5 - Tannenbaum Schmidt
26/5 - Ismael Klata
2/6 - forksclovetu
9/6 - pfunkboy
16/6 - moka

I don't like to listen to stuff via Yotube, but I finally managed to find a 320kb version of the Mandrill album, will report back once I've listened to it.

lol, sometimes ppl dont notice things under their nose

the *cough* led me to things that had file extensions that I don't have time to figure out what to do with (.bad, .flp). I need some good old-fashioned mp3s.

FAQ
Q: What is a BAD file?

A: I rename my files to BAD. Change the extension from .bad to .rar.

Q: How do I change the file extension?

A: Go to Tools, then Folder Options, then click the View tab, and lastly uncheck the "hide all file extensions" box.

Okay, I've listened to the Ohio Players maybe six times and Mandrill not quite once - initial impression is that these guys cover a hell of a lot of bases! The veering between genres takes a bit of getting used to - there's rock, funk, jazz, Crosby Stills & Nash or Chicago-style harmonies, even some straight G-Funk, in very short order. It's a bit like listening to a compilation.

They're both really good though. I like the straighter song structures best, probably just because that makes them more memorable to me, whereas the others seem to spiral off a bit too easily, maybe because they lacked the hooks to start with. All of Mandrill has been like that so far, except that it just hangs together a bit better somehow - it's really lovely.

The individual tracks haven't really jumped out at me either, except the closer on Pleasure, which is one of the most gorgeous things I've ever heard.

the 9 track album closer? or the spotigy 16 track closer?

btw the 1st mandrill album is more experimental and, dare i even say it, prog funk, than is they did get more poppier as they went on, always a very underrated band though. getting a bunch of their albums from FOPP in about 1996/1997 is one of the best things i ever did. FOPP used to get licenses to reissue vinyl so brand new pressings of funk albums were really easy to find in Glasgow. Dont think they do it now sadly.

speaking of first albums, i still need a copy of observations in time, the first ohio players album. don't really want to pay ebay prices though.

though i haven't looked on ebay in a long time. maybe the prices aren't that bad.

Mandrill is my favorite of these three first albums. Love the latin vibe on some songs. Kind of cheesy... something I could imagine playing in some sort of tiki lounge... not necessarily a bad kind of cheesy.

The nine-track closer xp, the slow one with the long horn phrase - beautiful. That's another thing, the arrangements are all over the place - other than the horns, which are fairly constant, it could quite easily be nine different bands.

I just love how so many of the funk bands that were more than accomplished at doing other styles within the same albums. Going from jazz to heavy acid rock to soulful to dance-y all within a few songs. Mandrill is what Santana should have sounded like.

santana sounded fine!

i only care for his 1st 2 albums myself

if you don't think that santana could get crazy then you don't own enough santana albums. one thing santana didn't really have were good songwriters.

the 70's is where santana goes nuts!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/SantanaLotusAlbum.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Borboletta.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/MoonflowerAlbum.jpg

all worth hearing. (along with other albums, but i ain't got all day.)

one thing santana didn't really have were good songwriters.

^^^yeah this was the real problem.

could say the same about Mandrill haw