Talk:Funky house

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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)DubCrazy[reply]

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 (talk • contribs) 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)DubCrazy[reply]

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]

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]

• UKFunkyHouse.com - Your essential guide to Funky House Music. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.253.18.57 (talk) 13:37, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

'[...]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]

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]

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]

"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]

Short and concise, "funky house was popular in the 2000s", instructions clear, 100% understood. 178.121.3.9 (talk) 12:05, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

To be serious, this genre is a mammoth in the room everyone seems to not care about. While French touch and electro house are universally praised both on their respective pages and outside Wikipedia, and disco house gets its due recognition via (albeit weak) 2020s revival, funky house seems like an odd cousin no one wants to talk about, despite the fact it was a major subgenre of house in the 2000s, and you could clearly hear its influence on early electro house, but looking at Wikipedia everyone seems to be busy discussing late 2000s mainline EDM electro house wave, probably because it's got exposure in the USA, while the whole decade of the house and its subgenres in the 2000s gets reduced to "yeah, it existed, here is your two examples of the sound, should be enough for you". Maybe that's because those Europeans (and probably Americans) who were making funky house throughout the 2000s, were busy pumping vinyl records instead of hiring press PR or organizing huge open air festivals, so not many sources remained. 178.121.3.9 (talk) 12:13, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 25 September 2024 and 6 December 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Olivechine (article contribs). Peer reviewers: MGR444, Sozzystar.

— Assignment last updated by Sozzystar (talk) 19:19, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Estiedemann: This looks like a good article choice for the class. Lots of room to grow. —mako๛ 23:48, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]