The minneaplolis sound (midwest electro-funk-rock in the 80s): s/d

make this thread longer

been playing mazarati 100mph a lot recently

found this thread through an ohio players thread...

where were you when my thread went down in flames?

The minneaplolis sound (midwest electro-funk-rock in the 80s): s/d

― team jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 6 March 2006 18:04 (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i guess i'm 5 yrs too late to get anyone on ILM to talk?

― team jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 6 March 2006 18:05 (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
bro you're five years ahead of your time

when I started a Jam/Lewis thread it stiffed too :(

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 6 March 2006 18:23 (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Nice coincidence. I was going to ask about this yesterday - did this movement actually exist, or was it just a myth to big up Prince's ego? I've never heard any other examples of the sound.

(didn't think to search for 'minneaplolis' I must confess)

Reading this thread I suddenly remembered this track. Dave Pearce played it heavily on his Radio London show in 1987 and I had quite a soft spot for it.

LIPPS Inc. and Information Society might be part of this or related to this.

i wouldn't be mad if someone sent me some Madhouse and The Family records.

Ready For The World may have been from Michigan rather than Minnesota, but they surely sounded very much like the same thing.

Should have posted this here:

So which Andre Cymone, E.T. (= Eddie Townes) and Dazz Band LPs are worth paying $1 for, if one happens to stumble across them? (I know probably only one, and at most two, of those artists comes from Minnesota, but this seemed liked the most obvious thread to post on.)

Fwiw: Jesse Johnson's Shockadelica, which I did pay $1 for, turned out not to be worth that much. So I'm probably kind of picky. General Kane's Wide Open, from 1987, only barely makes the cut.

Survivin' in the 80's is great. title track and M.O.T.F. are great

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3247/3120430137_68ebb6a42e.jpg?v=0

i haven't heard shockidelica, but Jesse Johnson's Review is pretty great. sounds just like a time album

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41DYVM4N6JL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

also a dollar record.

I went back and picked up Survivin In The '80s for $1 today! (Along with ET's Best Friends from 1986.) Haven't played them yet, though. (And I'm skeptical about Jesse Johnson now. Though maybe that one you posted is better than the one I bought...)

Been on an R.J.'s Latest Arrival kick lately. Pretty sure "Shackles" is one of my favorite songs ever. And it has such a world-historical concept, too. Maybe Greil Marcus will write a book about it someday.

Just posted this about Sly Fox's 1985 Let's Go All The Way LP:

QUICK! What's on the turntable RIGHT NOW? (2010 Edition)

Also, fwiw, that Andre Cymone album wound up being really really great, and the ET one definitely worth a $1. Also really liked Timex Social Club's '86 Vicious Rumors album, another recent $1 purchase. (Some day maybe I'll go into more detail about some of these here.)

(Timex Social Club are Berkely, California, actually; R.J.'s Latest Arrival I think Detroit; E.T. I dunno. But there is no general non-Minnesota '80s electro-funk thread available, so I'm using this one.)

Sly Fox not Minnesota either, obviously, though I'm not sure where they were from. Wiki: "Sly Fox was a short-lived 1980s pop duo consisting of Gary 'Mudbone' Cooper, an African American funk session musician and former vocalist with Parliament-Funkadelic, and Michael Camacho, a Puerto Rican-accented vocalist."

not the "minneapolis" sound...but great feature this week in the City Pages on Haze, a lost pre-Prince era funk band from Minneapolis (a very heartwarming story for record collectors)

http://www.citypages.com/2010-01-27/news/haze-reunites-over-funky-mystery-record/

i have (had?) one RJ's Latest Arrival, but wasn't really feeling it. this one (song he posted is not terrible, but not amazing i guess)
http://funkclassicmaster.blogspot.com/2009/01/rjs-latest-arrival-stay-with-me-1982.html

i've been listening to this song heavily lately (produced by Roger Troutman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW9zpGi9dt4

and another Roger production
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv_qN-Vm68c