Talk:Funky house

Latest comment: 8 months ago by 67.68.60.124 in topic What is this even saying?

Huh? edit

I'm sure this scene exists and everything, but if you pick up a CD of "funky house" in HMV it's not this stuff at all. The accepted usage is overwhelmingly for the commercial house sound based on disco, funk and 80s pop loops, that completely dominated commercial dance music about 4 years ago. EG, [1] [2]. Commander deathguts (talk) 09:58, 9 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

Yeah, and also, many of Om Records' releases could easily be labeled as funky house, but we should create articles for the different scenes because I know the funky house scene exists in London. It's similar to the difference between liquid funk and Jazz n' Bass. DubCrazy (talk) 04:41, 19 August 2008 (UTC)DubCrazyReply


Funky house is not garage..it never has been and never will be!! on visit to ibiza and global gathering the biggest dance and house scenes in the world i can tell you one thing for sure...i may have been drunk most the time but there was no garage OF ANY KIND in sight or sound!!Garage is garage..in a small shed where it should be kept..lets not get it confused with house yeah?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Funkyhouseisnotgarage (talkcontribs) 23:27, 22 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

It depends on who you're talking to. I agree that US "Funky house" has no relation to UK Garage. But since UK Garage producers started the genre and have considerable influences on it (see this youtube video), I would say that UK funky house is indeed a subgenre of Garage. DubCrazy (talk) 19:20, 28 August 2008 (UTC)DubCrazyReply
UK Garage originated from UK dj's playing sped up US Garage instrumentals. US Garage is the more soulful vocal house, very similar to the funky house which was huge in the late 90s, and which should get more than a passing mention on this page.
The modern funky house scene is in fact the second time funky house has been used to describe a genre, the original funky house developed in the US in 1997, i have changed the article to reflect this".
I'm inclined to agree, I've always followed house music and if you asked me to define funky house I'd describe the fairly disco influenced vocal, commercial sounding house, rather than the more modern variant which has emerged from the grime scene. If there's going to be a page on Funky Hosue it needs to reflect that - unfortunately that's about as far as my knowledge on funky house goes!!


--Have rewritten the page in line with the points raised on this talk page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.142.53.108 (talk) 04:59, 30 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Stop adding unverifiable POV content please edit

Pretty much that. If someone wants to create a new article "Funky" on the offshoot of UKG they should go for it. But please don't replaced encyclopaedic content with a POV rant. JV-CDX (talk) 14:41, 30 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

External Links edit

'analog instrumentation" edit

'[...]makes heavy use of synthesizers, samples and soulful vocals, although unlike in more electronically bent Chicago and deep house, presence of analog instrumentation is much more common.'

What??? I'd say the complete opposite was true, especially as analog synths were more easily available the digital when Chicago house sprang up. This, and the fact that the statement is centred around a non-sequitur, makes me think the author means acoustic instrumentation. Melaena (talk) 19:29, 26 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

Funk? edit

Is Funky house a genre of funk? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:C7:C201:C640:85BE:D213:D771:BE33 (talk) 19:28, 14 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

No, the beat just reminds of a funky bassline. But it lacks most of characteristics \ instrumentation of funk. Solidest (talk) 22:36, 14 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

Joke of a section edit

What is this "funk-house" bit doing in this article when the text is saying that it is not related (at all) to funky house? 178.121.15.39 (talk) 23:55, 24 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

What is this even saying? edit

"but song's structure and characteristics are remains to be from the plain house."

This is gibberish. Could someone who knows what it's saying edit it for clarity? 67.68.60.124 (talk) 17:47, 18 August 2023 (UTC)Reply