Boogie (genre)
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Boogie is a rhythm and blues genre of electronic dance music with close ties to the post-disco style, that first emerged in the United States during the late 1970s to mid-1980s. The sound of boogie is
Patrice Rushen 2010
The Roland TR-808 drum machine was often used in Electro music.
Funk
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Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that wer
Boogie (genre)
…promotional aspects of new wave music and having been fairly exposed to its subgenre synthpop, boogie is, however, R&B-rooted and predominantly draws from funk music. Other influences from a completely different music landscape include jazz. Typical boogie tracks can be characterized by mid-tempo rhythm…
James Brown, a pioneer of funk, in 1973; one of his many nicknames was the "Minister of New Super Heavy Funk"
The rhythm section of a funk band—the electric bass, drums, electric guitar and keyboards—is the heartbeat of the funk sound. Pictured here are the Meters.
Bootsy Collins performing in 1996 with a star-shaped bass
The drum groove from "Cissy Strut"