Spaced Invaders

Keeping in line with the last Funk Friday post. I decided to drop some more Electro Funk for ya. This time showcasing one of my favorite all time late 70’s, early 80’s funk groups, Midnight Star. Midnight Star was one of those groups that were a little ahead of their time, but not too far where no one could get on their level. If you take a listen to them, nearly all tracks from them contained the vocoded, auto-tuned voice, that well T-Pain is wrongfully credited for starting. Anyway, here’s Midnight Star’s - Operator. It’s an awesome track plain and simple. Great vocal melodies, and of course vocoded voices.

Just a short, sweet soul track with a haunting refrain. Everyone knows this song and it’s just something good to mellow out to on the start of your Sunday.

In the same light as Cybotron, Twilight 22, and Hashim, I bring you this bangin electro hot sauce funk track from Tyron Brunson called The Smurf. I’ve been rocking this pretty heavily lately. The intro kind of cleans the palate in the middle of a set. You might recognize it because X Clan sampled the hell out of it in Heed the Words Of The Brother. Enjoy!

I’m doing my normal daily routine of digging through videos and music and I come across this while creating a video routine with Take 6’s - Spread Love and Ike & Tina Turners - Cussin’, Cryin, And Carryin’ On. (The heads will know why I’m doing this.) And while watching Spread Love I peeped this at the 2:45 second mark. Yep, that’s good ol Mel “Jumpin off rooftops with suicidal folks” Gibson. You gotta look real quick. I had to rewind it a few times to catch it.

That was fireworks in the title if you couldn’t tell. Don’t blow your fingers off or anything this year!