Nu-Funk, Funky Breaks - Differences?
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 11:10 pm
So I saw the 4chan's Essential Albums for Nu Skool Funky Breaks which appears to be a lot of different Breaks scenes wrapped into one chart. From what I've been reading about the last 2 decades is there's actually:
Nu Skool Breaks
Funky Breaks
Nu-Funk
Ghetto Breaks
Tech-Funk
I was pretty familiar Nu Skool Breaks back in the 00's and I've understood that Ghetto Breaks is the wobbly midtempo from its own label. Tech-Funk is the Elite Force, Meat Katie, Lee Coombs Let 49 stuff that mixes Techno and Funky Breaks......
But what I'm having trouble with is what is Funky Breaks and what is Nu-Funk??
I've been told: "Goodgroove is early ghetto funk / nufunk jalapeno is basically funk / funky breaks and finger lickin is uptempo nuskool breaks ... it can get confusing at times. Funky breaks is the adjective form, there will always be funky breaks. Nufunk refers to funky breaks before will and slim created the ghetto funk genre. Ghetto funk is basically funky breaks with wobbly bass lines.
The last sentence makes sense to me but the rest I'm still not getting the rest. Is Nu-Funk the more organic side of breaks, like Fort Knox Five and All Good Funk Alliance? Is it more midtempo but without the wobbles and electronics? Is Finger Lickin really not Nu-Funk or Funky Breaks at all?
Any help is appreciated as I want to make sense of some of the divisions.
Nu Skool Breaks
Funky Breaks
Nu-Funk
Ghetto Breaks
Tech-Funk
I was pretty familiar Nu Skool Breaks back in the 00's and I've understood that Ghetto Breaks is the wobbly midtempo from its own label. Tech-Funk is the Elite Force, Meat Katie, Lee Coombs Let 49 stuff that mixes Techno and Funky Breaks......
But what I'm having trouble with is what is Funky Breaks and what is Nu-Funk??
I've been told: "Goodgroove is early ghetto funk / nufunk jalapeno is basically funk / funky breaks and finger lickin is uptempo nuskool breaks ... it can get confusing at times. Funky breaks is the adjective form, there will always be funky breaks. Nufunk refers to funky breaks before will and slim created the ghetto funk genre. Ghetto funk is basically funky breaks with wobbly bass lines.
The last sentence makes sense to me but the rest I'm still not getting the rest. Is Nu-Funk the more organic side of breaks, like Fort Knox Five and All Good Funk Alliance? Is it more midtempo but without the wobbles and electronics? Is Finger Lickin really not Nu-Funk or Funky Breaks at all?
Any help is appreciated as I want to make sense of some of the divisions.
