Live for the Funk

Important music from from the last few hundred years  www.facebook.com/live4thefunk 

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Karen Carpenter, Drum Solo, Soul Train

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Chaka Khan, 1976

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Stanley Jordan, Eleanor Rigby

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Club Abstractionz, a playlist by Lou Kessler on Spotify

A playlist featuring Lil’ Crack, Mamboussa, Lloyd SB, and others

Fresh experimental club music playlist: UK Bass, Batida, Gqom, Grime, Trance, Reggaeton, Hard Drum, Gabber, UK Funky, Dancehall, Jungle, Techno, Ambient, Dubstep, and more.

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Roy Ayers (1940-2025)

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Image: Roy Ayers during a taping of the TV show 'The Midnight Special', Burbank, CA, 1977 [Photo: © Jeffrey Henson Scales/HSP Archive]

Jazzmatazz (Volume 1): Take A Look (At Yourself), Guru (producer, studio personnel, mixer, composer lyricist), feat. Roy Ayers (associated performer, vibraphone, producer), Chrysalis Records, 1993

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Bootsy Collins, The JB’s.

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Lou Kessler - Death by a Thousand Cuts (I Got 5 On It Remix)

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1959 was the year that saw the release of Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz to Come, Miles Davis’ ‘Kind of Blue’, Charles Mingus’ ‘Mingus Ah Um’, and John Coltrane’s ‘Giant Steps’. One of most important times in jazz history. 

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Alien Covanant Trailer #2 - Jed Kurzel Trash Tool Edit - Alex Compton & Mortem HD Perros Salvajes - Daddy Yankee (Lou Kessler Hardstyle Edit) Demon Dance - Julian Winding - (The Neon Demon OST) Gucci Bag (Zora Jones Edit) - Thast Where's My Mans Dem at? - Burgaboy Feat. Donaeo Dread Risk - Yally Tactical Espionage w Gundam (Rinse Rip)- Jook W Gundam Bio Schematics - Gundam x Daffy It's Okay - The Game Miss Fatty - Million Stylez Fever - Vybz Cartel Spice (feat. Palmistry) (Remix)- Ravyn Lenae Bella y Sensual - Romeo Santos, Daddy Yankee & Nicky Jam Song of the Wind - Santana

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(star) Ecstasy, a playlist by Lou Kessler on Spotify

A playlist featuring Boredoms, The Disco Biscuits, The Prodigy, and others

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Sound system Culture: The Beginnings of DJ and Hip-Hop Culture

In the context of Jamaican popular culture, a sound system is a group of disc jockeys, engineers and MCs playingska, rocksteady or reggae music. The sound system is an important part of Jamaican culture and history.

The sound system concept first became popular in the 1950s, in the ghettos of Kingston. DJs would load up a truck with a generator, turntables, and huge speakers and set up street parties. In the beginning, the DJs played Americanrhythm and blues music, but as time progressed and more local music was created, the sound migrated to a local flavor.[1] The sound systems were big business, and represented one of the few sure ways to make money in the unstable economy of the area. The promoter or DJ made his profit by charging admission and selling food and alcohol; often thousands of people were in attendance. By the mid 1950s, sound systems were more popular at parties than live musicians, and by the second half of the decade, custom-built systems began to appear from the workshops of specialists such as Hedley Jones, who constructed wardrobe-sized speaker cabinets known as “House[s] of Joy”. It was also around this time that Jamaica’s first superstar DJ and MC, Count Machuki, rose to prominence. As time progressed, sound systems became louder—capable of playing bass frequencies at 30,000 watts or more, with similar wattage attainable at the mid-range and high frequencies—and far more complex than their predecessors.[2] Competition between these sound systems was fierce, and eventually two DJs emerged as the stars of the scene: Clement ‘Coxsone’ Dodd, and Duke Reid. Besides the DJ, who rapped over the music, there was also a selector, who selected the music/rhythm tracks.

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“Layla” is a song written by Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon, originally released by their blues rock band Derek and the Dominos, as the thirteenth track from their album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (November 1970). Its famously contrasting movements were composed separately by Clapton and Gordon. 

The song was inspired by the classical poet of Persian literature, Nizami Ganjavi’s The Story of Layla and Majnun, a copy of which Ian Dallas had given to Clapton. The book moved Clapton profoundly, as it was the tale of a young man who fell hopelessly in love with a beautiful, unavailable woman and who went crazy because he could not marry her.

Pattie Boyd: Inspiration for the song 

In 1966 George Harrison married Pattie Boyd, a model he met during the filming of A Hard Day’s Night. During the late 1960s, Clapton and Harrison became close friends. Clapton contributed uncredited guitar work on Harrison’s song “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” on The Beatles’ White Album, and Harrison co-wrote and played guitar pseudonymously (as L'Angelo Misterioso) on Cream’s “Badge” from Goodbye. However, between his tenures in Cream and Blind Faith, Clapton fell in love with Boyd.

The title, “Layla”, was inspired by the story of Layla and Majnun, by the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi. When he wrote “Layla”, Clapton had been told the story by his friend Ian Dallas, who was in the process of converting to Islam. Nizami’s tale, about a moon princess who was married off by her father to a man she didn’t love, resulting in Majnun’s madness, struck a deep chord with Clapton.

Boyd divorced Harrison in 1977 and married Clapton in 1979 during a concert stop in Tucson, Arizona. Harrison was not bitter about the divorce and attended Clapton’s wedding party with Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney. During their relationship, Clapton wrote another love ballad for Pattie called “Wonderful Tonight” (1977). Clapton and Boyd divorced in 1988 after several years of separation.