EPISODE · Jun 2, 2026 · 18 MIN
A Brief History of FUNK
from Love Music More (with Scoobert Doobert) · host Scoobert Doobert
Rhythm takes the spot light. James Brown HITS the ONE and music history is altered. The butterfly effect in full swing, birthing hip-hop decades later.In this pod and this Wednesday's companion Substack post, we trace funk's lineage through the drum breaks that built breakdance, to the samples that got paid once and borrowed forever, and the artists still keeping it funky!For 30% off your first year with DistroKid to share your music with the world click DistroKid.com/vip/lovemusicmore 🌎Watch guest episodes on YouTube 📺Want to hear my music? For all things links visit ScoobertDoobert.pizza 🍕Subscribe to this pod's blog on Substack to receive deeper dives on the regular 🏊♂️Pick up my new LP "I" on vinyl in its full spinning colorfulness while they last 🎨Score pod merch 🥥A word salad poem cut from episode excerpts by the podcast producer 🫛The wordplay. All these things are gradients. A syncopation. The movement. The call and response. What music can even be, what it can do to you. To go even deeper. The rhythm of the beats. It was the time. Upbeats, offbeats. The place that the groove repeats. Incredible mixture of culture, of instrumentation, of regions. Certain components. Quintessential. Get a rise. How cool it that. Funk lives on. Undeniable. Rhythm and groove. An astronaut. Goofy. Note it. An interesting thing.Very satisfying. A countercultural movement. Doing a funky job of it. Big records. The conversation between the analog and the digital. Nowadays. A much bigger scale. A cultural movement. A moment that the groove fully drops in. Hear all of these rhythms. So cool. An important fork. What a beautiful thing. Anchor in. ⚓Podcast Produced by Beformer
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Rhythm takes the spot light. James Brown HITS the ONE and music history is altered. The butterfly effect in full swing, birthing hip-hop decades later.In this pod and this Wednesday's companion Substack post, we trace funk's lineage through the drum breaks that built breakdance, to the samples that got paid once and borrowed forever, and the artists still keeping it funky!For 30% off your first year with DistroKid to share your music with the world click DistroKid.com/vip/lovemusicmore 🌎Watch guest episodes on YouTube 📺Want to hear my music? For all things links visit ScoobertDoobert.pizza 🍕Subscribe to this pod's blog on Substack to receive deeper dives on the regular 🏊♂️Pick up my new LP "I" on vinyl in its full spinning colorfulness while they last 🎨Score pod merch 🥥A word salad poem cut from episode excerpts by the podcast producer 🫛The wordplay. All these things are gradients. A syncopation. The movement. The call and response. What music can even be, what it can do to you. To go even deeper. The rhythm of the beats. It was the time. Upbeats, offbeats. The place that the groove repeats. Incredible mixture of culture, of instrumentation, of regions. Certain components. Quintessential. Get a rise. How cool it that. Funk lives on. Undeniable. Rhythm and groove. An astronaut. Goofy. Note it. An interesting thing.Very satisfying. A countercultural movement. Doing a funky job of it. Big records. The conversation between the analog and the digital. Nowadays. A much bigger scale. A cultural movement. A moment that the groove fully drops in. Hear all of these rhythms. So cool. An important fork. What a beautiful thing. Anchor in. ⚓Podcast Produced by Beformer
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