AUTHENTIC BRITFUNK
THE 1970’s/1980’s U.K SOUL BANDS THAT ACID JAZZ RECORDS ARE TRYING TO WIPE FROM HISTORY AND REPLACE WITH THEIR 1990’s SIGNINGS JAMIROQUAI.
THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS….
FIFTY YEARS OF BLACK BRITISH SOUL BEING WIPED FROM THE INTERNET BY EDDIE PILLARS INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL THEFT CABAL.
If Eddie Pillar, Gilles Peterson, Jamiroquai and the synagogue of Satan get their way the achievements of these Bands will be written out of History and replaced by 1990’s criminals and total plagiarist like Jamiroquai, whom their controlled media are pushing forward as some sort of representatives of British SOUL. They are not. These are the people who made British SOUL famous in the 1970’s and the 1980’s. Many of them were known on both sides of the Atlantic, some topped the U.S Soul charts and appeared on US Soultrain. So if you’re a Music Journalist and you want to know about REAL Brit Funk of the 70’s/80’s and not the plagiarized /stolen Funk retreads of the 1990’s they claim as Gilles Peterson’s Imaginary acid jazz genre, then read on. I will introduce you to some of our heroes of yesteryear and most of them are still around.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE 1980’s BRITISH SOUL INVASION OF AMERICA?
When I started to create this blog I could find little or no information about these gods of our era. I ran a search for Brit Funk and all I saw was Level 42, Spandau Ballet and Jamiroquai. I nearly burst into tears and I mean that literally. Where were the giants of British Soul? It was as if the 1970’s and the 1980’s never happened. What happened to the British Soul Invasion of the States I shouted at the P.C. There was NO MENTION of it. And what the hell were Jamiroquai being mentioned as some sort of representation of Black Music here in London in England when all they are is a 1990’s FUNK tribute band who’s discography is plagiarised mostly from Black American Soul. How were they Brit Funk?
What about the bands who actually created the Black British sound in the 1970’s and 1980’s I asked. Sure you could find their songs on Video and music sharing sites if you knew who they all were but there was little or no Information about these bands. What about the multitude of Jazz Funk bands in London underground Soul scene of the Disco and Post Disco era?What about the fantastic super talented acts like Loose Ends, Soul to Soul and Five Star. Giants of FUNK who topped the American charts alongside others like SADE and old school Funkster Billy Ocean? It was as if the 1980’s Never happened.
All I could see were clueless so called music writers pontificating about Jay Kay as if he were some sort of British musical genius and not the crook that all authentic Funksters and indeed many mainstream music writers know him to be. Jamiroquai are NOT an authentic Brit Funk band. They are an English band playing Rare Groove (Retro 1970’s Funk) retreads. Lauded over only by those who know nothing about the original bands that they robbed or failed to give credit to. They were put together for a specific purpose just like their colleagues in Daft Punk.
SO BLACK AMERICAN AND BRITSH SOUL IS ALL DOWN TO GILLES PETERSON IS IT?
Below The Acid Jazz Wikipedia page clonned all over the Internet aon every music site they can find The page of disinformation which wipes Black British Soul from the History books. And CVredits satanic criminal Gilles Peterson with inventing a non existent genre.
There is NO -SUCH-THING as a Black Music genre called Acid Jazz.
According to Wikipedia Soul music in Black London never existed until the Synagogue of Satan’s “godfather of Soul” Gilles Peterson “invented” British Soul and Black American Rare Groove….I’m sorry I mean Acid Jazz. Then exported his creation to America then all over the Planet thanks to plagiarists Jamiroquai, Rare Groove/Brit Funk band The Brand New Heavies and the remnants of Post Disco era band Incognito.
I mentioned above that it was as if the 1980’s never happened and that my friends is what Gilles Peterson, Eddie Pillar and their global cabal want to world to think. That is why they have wiped all these bands out of history on their fraudulent Wikipedia page debunked on this site. They would have been very happy to see the state of play on the Internet when I looked for Brit Funk and found Jamiroquai an practically no one else. As you can see on their Fake New Wikipedia page, they want history to think that nothing happened here in London in terms of FUNK until they “Invented”Soul music in 1987 and the 1990’s where they claim Gilles Petersons Imaginary acid Jazz genre “spread to America” thanks to Jamiroquai and The brand new heavies! When “the godfather of Soul” introduced Black America to Roy Ayers, Earth Wind and Fire and Stevie Wonder….In the 1990’s! Haha! Their Satanic illusion falls apart when Original AUTHENTIC bands who created our sound like Delegation, Hi Tension, Junior Giscombe, Cental Line Imagination and the rest are well know to Funksters interested in FUNK and British Soul on the Internet.
THE WORD IS GETTING OUT
Fast forward over now half a decade later and thankfully I can see whole load of Information out there so the message got out to London Soulheads and some of the bands who have been unaware of what Gilles Peterson , Eddie Pillar and the Synagogue of Satan have been trying to do in terms of wiping Black British Soul and it’s achievements out of History. Delete or ignore as much as they can so that Acid Jazz signings Jamiroquai and the Brand New Heavies can they can take credit for the legacy of the Black British Soul movement they infiltrated. I had intended to spend a lot of time on this part of the sits as I was not about to sit by and let this Infiltrator mob wipe out the bands of my youth as if they never existed. However as I say now many bands have become aware of Peterson and Pillars goal and are flooding the net with Information about our bands So I won’t go into too much detail here except to show you who some of our bands were. These are the original. AUTHENTIC BRIT FUNK BANDS who created their own sounds. 1990’s plagiarists Jamiroquai are not to be considered a Brit FUNK band because they are not. These are…
THEY DON’T EVEN UNDERSTAND THE FUNK!
It’s become apparent over the past decade or so I have been fighting these satanic cultural thieves is that the people tasked with robbing the African Americans of their sound know very little about the groove. And they know even less about Black Britain. I know for a fact that some of their trolling gang had never even heard of the Brit Funk invasion and didn’t know who SOUL to SOUL were! These people think they can fool us on our own sound! Think they can fool us on 1970’s Jazz Funk when they are some of them were not even old enough to remember the 1980’s and know jack s**t about The Groove. But yet these same anonymous Americans, Swedes, Germans, Eastern Europeans re-writing the history of Black Music in London and Black music in general on Wikipedia. Californian Michael Bink Knowles being a case in Point. The American guarding the fraudulent version of Black British History
On their fake news Wikipedia page the acid jazz cabal write out of history all these bands. They claim that the retro 1970’s Jazz Funk sound is a music genre invented by their record company front man Giles Peterson, then as I have said claim this “acid jazz” genre reaches America in the early 1990’s. That is a total and complete load of tosh. Here’s what really happened in 1980’s London. You can take it from me, the British Funk bands mentioned above, The London Soulheads mentioned above, The African Americans, Blues and Soul magazine and all the Black music publications of the 1980’s or you can take it from the International cabal of Jamiroquai/Daft Punk and acid jazz records.
They are using France to culturally appropriate The 1980’s Electrophonic Phunk sound using Daft Punk who are part of this same crowd and it looks like they thought they could use England to steal Jazz, Funk and Soul. They clearly probably thought if they based the lie in the UK there would be nobody there to speak out against it. That’s unfortunate for them because if they were around in the 70’s and 80’s then they would remember these bands. And trust me on this one, nobody but nobody over here is going to credit acid jazz records with the invention of ANY musical genre. And on the topic of Daft Punk there is nothing new unique or origional on any Daft Punk Track . They are ripping off Mandre from who they stole the crash Helmet Idea, Clinton and Parliament , Roger and Zapp, Jozun Crew and many more. Infact they are worse than Jamiroquai when it comes to robbing people.
The original British Funksters are still about. You can ask these and the others I mention in this blog if Giles Peterson invented their sound. If Giles Peterson had anything to do with the invention of the British Jazz Funk sound. When a similar comment to this was posted on Jamirotalk. the jamiroquai/acid jazz cabal were so terrified of people/ journalists/ London Funksters finding out about this scam, that they deleted the entire website and changed the URL as you can see elswhere on this site.
HI/TENSION
Hi- Tension probably kick-started what we call the later Brit Funk era. Obviously people refer to any band from England playing FUNK as BritFunk but what we authentic London Soulheads called BRIT FUNK was the Disco era and the post Disco era sound. so we’re going from say1974/75 up to about 1982/83 when the ElectroFunk takes over the Groove. After that then our sound became more Americanised. Though Level 42 and Shakatak kept the old Britfunk sound going through most of the 1980’s. Real Brit Funk to us is our era however we didn’t start anything and always bow to those who came before. Like the Chants who later became the Real Thing, Pan African (World sound) bands like Osibisa and Cymande, who jammed with Parliament Funkadelic and Mandrill their American equivalents, The Average White Band, Hot Chocolate, Komoko and others. Though Hot Chocolate were more Pop/Rock and Funk
HI Tension were around in the early 70’s and their tracks like the British Hustle and Happy are world famous FUNK classics. These are some of Godfathers of British Soul. Ask them if acid jazz records or a Dj who they probably have never heard of called Giles Peterson has anything to do with any Black British Sound of the 1980’s.
JUNIOR GISCOMBE
We grew up watching James Brown, MOTOWN and Black America as children in the 60’s. Many of our bands were known in the states during the 1970’s but getting to number one in America? No chance we weren’t that good…..Then some super talented young kid from South London Junior proved otherwise going straight to the top oif the U.S Charts. And how dare the likes of Eddie Pillar and Gilles Peterson try to wipe people like him and all the other 80’s Brit Funk stars who followed later on during the decade from history. He forms part of the British collective spoken about earlier so you know where to find him. Ask him what acid jazz records and a DJ caLled Gilles Peterson have to do with his talent.
https://www.juniorgiscombe.co.uk/gallery.php
DAVID JOSEPH
David Joseph formerly of Hi Tension went on to have solo hits with (You can’t hide your Love) and a remake of Lonnie Liston Smiths Expansions. One of the many 70’s Jazz-Funk grooves Jamiroquai claim credit for. You can hear aspects of that track on Stillness in time alongside Stevie Wonder of course (Another Star). See the SOULHEAD TALES
LIGHT OF THE WORLD
Light of the World were/are one of the most talented collection of Soulheads we ever had. It’s a travesty that they like many of our BRIT-FUNK bands got little or no airplay on mainstream Radio. You only have to listen to a stunning Jazz funk track like SOHO! to hear what talent these guys had back then. Tell me that horn section isn’t right up there with Confunk-shun, That Bass slap up there with Pleasure, that voice right up there with JT Taylor. Sadly we lost Bassist Tubbsy but the boys are still around and still gigging. So if you bump inito one of them. Well you know exactly what to ask them!
They are Legends of the Brit FUNK movement.
Other off shoots included I Level and of Course Incognito. A Disco era Brit-funk band whom Eddie Pillar acid jazz records and the synagogue of Satan claim is playing a music genre invented by them in 1988. I have often seen Incognito described as an Acid Jazz band. Incognito were already giant’s of FUNK way back in 1981. Neither Eddie Pillar, Gilles Peterson or Acid jazz records formed in 1988 have anything to do with their sound. As you can see the boys are still around. Ask them what acid jazz records created in 1988 has to do with British Soul or which particular aspect of their sound or that of anyone else was invented by a pirate radio DJ.
LIES ON WIKIPEDIA-
According to the Synagogue of Satan’s global disinformation media campaign Gilles Peterson is apparently responsible for the sound of Light of the World/Incognito. See below on their Fake News Wikipedia page they claim that Incognito are apparently playing a so called Jewish music genre Invented by Gilles Peterson in 1988. yeah.
Also notice how they wipe from history the DoobayTwins and the Black founder members of the band from history.
Beggar and Co
Beggar and co came out of Light of the World and had several hit’s. Somebody help me out was one of their most famous tracks but they had some pretty good grooves on their albums. These Boys know a bit about Brit Funk because they helped create it. Gilles Peterson was an unkown DJ on pirate radio when these guys were Famous and playing on Top of The Pops. You had to sell a whole load of vinyl to be in with a chance of making it onto that show. Ask them what contribution Gilles Peterson
I LEVEL
I LEVEL from Light of the World bringing that traditional Brit Funk Bass slap.
BRIT-FUNK SUPERGROUP -BEGGAR & CO, HI-TENSION, CENTRAL LINE
The AUTHENTIC Brit Funk Bands of the post Disco era are still around and often do gigs together. See if they think Eddie Pillar and Acid jazz records created anything here in 1980’s London or at any time except jump on the British SOUL bandwagon to make money and parasite the sound.
SECOND IMAGE
Second Image were one of my favourite British bands of the era. Unfortunately they didn’t get the exposure and the airplay that others did. They should have been as famous as Imagination, Linx, Loose Ends and the rest. I have no idea why they were not. Sadly that was the case with many of our underground Funk bands. Georgie B is still doing gigs and the boys are still around.
Second Image
IMAGINATION
Acid jazz is just an illusion, Imagination are not. Internationally famous 80’s UK SOUL band of our day IMAGINATION. Tracks like Just an illusion, flashback or music and lights are all time FUNK classics. Not just here but globally. Their slow grooves were the stuff of London house parties back in the day and their sound also crossed the Atlantic long before the halcian days of the mid to late 1980’s.
Their flamboyant concerts were amazing, its easy to forget just how big they were back in the 80’s. And the famous UK “two step” doesn’t start in the mid to late 80’s during the Brit Funk invasion. It started with these guys back in the post disco era. The late 80’s Brit bands would all have been influenced by IMAGINATION so they played a major part in creating the Brit Funk groove that acid jazz records are claiming ownership of.
Unlike many of our Brit Funk bands Imagination were Household names in the 1980’s. They were on top of the pops all the time. Evewryone knew who they were and they are still about. Their signature Keyboard riff was plagiarised by Jamiroquai on canned heat as you will see from my review of Synkronised on the SOULHEAD TALES.
JUST AN ILLUSION AND FLASHBACK
LINX
Linx. Another Internationally famous Disco era Brit Funk band who’s sound crossed the Atlantic. The thundering bass slaps of sketch alongside singer David grant, who went onto have a successful solo career in the Synth Funk era were well known to both Funksters and the Pop World. Grant later recorded memorable duets with Birmingham’s finest Jackie Graham. Jackie was already a super successful singer in her own right. They were both part of the 1980’s British Soul Invasion that the jamiroquai acid jazz lie machine are trying to wipe from history all across the internet.
David Grant is known to youngsters these days as a telvision star and a voice coach.
JAKI GRAHAM
Being Londoners of course we always go on about 1970’s/1980’s London bands but of course there were plenty of FUNK bands, acts and singers all over the U.K. And all major towns/cities like Manchester, Liverpool, Nottingham and Birmingham. Speaking of which Jaki was a massive star in the 1980’s hailing from Brummie land, She of the sweet soulful voice, another British Funkster who’s songs crossed the Atlantic during the British Soul invasion being written out of history on Wikipedia by Gilles Peterson and his mob. Birmingham was the second City of the FUNK back in the day. They had a Massive SOUL Underground as well. So if you’re a Brummy your elders will tell you all about Jaki She’s still going strong and performing.
America had Witney, We had Jackie.
Jaki is still around I haven’t forgotten her, her fans haven’t forgotten her and neither should you. Let no one write her out of History.
DELEGATION
“The British” DELEGATION-GIANTS OF THE DISCO ERA.
“The British” DELEGATION-GIANTS OF THE DISCO ERA.
If you wish to understand the quality of our groove in the Disco era then take a listen to the strings and the FUNK of Delegation. Darling (I think about you) is one of the greatest tracks ever to come out of the U.K In the Disco era. In the late 1970’s at a time when the CHIC! Sound reigned supreme, when I want your love and Good times were being played endlessly in the night clubs the orchestral sound of “THE” British Delegation were right there. Unbelievably many people in England think that Delegation were American! Their sound and their song writing skills were that good. You will not find more lush strings in British FUNK than Delegation. At last the U.K had an answer to the Maestro Barry White! Tracks like Darling and You and I matched the sweetness of CHIC and were massive club hits globally. But they weren’t just about the violins. Their grooves were fantastic and they were a match for anyone around at the height of the Disco era. The Americans knew Delegation though they probably didn’t know they were British. Ultimately Barry White is the major architect of the Disco Violins. We had been listening to Barrys’ orchestra since we were kids in the very early 1970’s. In the late 1970’s Disco era CHIC polished the sound in their own unique way and the Funk sounded better than it had ever been. Many tried to match the sweetness of Nile and Bernard and failed. Delegation didn’t,
Delegation also known in the States and worldwide were and still are giants of Funk. We are now being told by Eddie Pillar and his global mob of liars on Wikipedia that Jamiroquai tracks like Emergency on Planet Earth or Canned Heat are not Disco /Post Disco era tracks but infact a Black music genre invented nearly a decade later by Invicta FM’s Gilles Peterson! Yeah? So take a listen to a Disco era Delegation tracks like Heartache number nine and then tell me that we didn’t have that sound here in England until it was “invented” in 1988. These guys are still around. Ask them… if the disco violins of Barry White, and the Salsoul Orchestra were invented in 1988 by the co-founder of that Satanic record label acid jazz records just because they say so on Wikipedia
OSIBISA & CYMANDE
Our 1970’s Equivalent to Mandrill & Funkadelic
WAY BACK WHEN……BRIT FUNK GODS. Well known to American Funksters and to music lovers all around the World. These guys were around in the late 1960’s and are some of the Pioneers of the World sound of the era. Another one of the grooves acid jazz records claim ownership of even though they were making music 20 years before anyone had even heard of acid jazz records.They were known to ALL Funksters in the 70’s worldwide and are they Jammed together with the likes of Mandrill and Parliament back in the day. That’s how highly they were regarded by Funksters in the States. The boys are still around. Since many of these so-called 1990’s acid jazz sounds were created by them they would be great people to ask if they have ever heard of this imaginary so called acid jazz genre invented by Invicta FM’s Gilles Peterson.
Apparently “this is Acid Jazz”as well according to the fraudulent marketing of Black Music by cultural thief Eddie Pillar. As this sound also appears on many so called “Acid jazz” compilations.
CYMANDE British Renegades of FUNK!
CYMANDE WERE MASSIVE IN THE UNITED STATES BACK IN THE 1970’s
Mates and contemporaries of Osibisa, Cymande were absolute legends over in America. You’re beginning to realise just how much talent came out of this Country in the 70’s and 80’s aren’t you. And your also beginning to realise exactly what a disgusting crime these Infiltrators of Black Music Acid Jazz records are committing by trying to wipe these gods of Black British Soul from History on Wikipedia.
THE REAL THING (formerly called The Chants)
Sticking with the “big boys” like Osibisa and Cymande who were superstars when us disco era kids were still at school we come to the Chants. They were contemporaries of the Beatles back in the 60’s and kept the name of Liverpool in the charts all through the 70’s and most of the 80’s. Below top left you can see them pictured with the King of Rock and Roll Little Richard.
Come the 1970’s and the Disco era when we were old enough to go night clubbing we knew them as The Real thing. You to me are everything was a massive hit as was can you feel the force. One of the most famous Electro-Funk tracks of the Disco era.
. Sadly we lost one band member but the other boys are still around. Bands like the Real thing, Delegation, Cymande, Hot Chocolate and co are the bedrock of British SOUL
They were there in the R&B days of the 1960’s and when the FUNK began to Electrify in the late 1970’s they were right there banging out hit after hit. Changing with the times. The Real thing were and are THE REAL THING. So Never let infiltrators and outsiders like Acid Jazz records write them out of history and replace them with the like of Jamiroquai.
CENTRAL LINE
Central Line, London’s equivalent of the D-Train! The Central Line were well known in the States thanks to their massive hit Sunshine. Sadly they didn’t get much airplay either on mainstream radio so aren’t that well known to the masses here in the U.K. Though they did make it onto top of the pops. You can be sure however that all 1980’s Funksters know Central Line. They were an important member of the Brit Funk crowd and the remaining members are still held in high regard among UK Funksters of the era. Many Americans thought sunshine was by The Brothers Johnson. Praise indeed. None of the remaining Central line members will acknowledge any “music genre” invented in this City by Gilles Peterson or acid jazz records. Find out for yourselves.
52nd Street
Another one of our bands who were known in the U.S, ignored by the British mainstream media but famous to all Funksters on both sides of the Atlantic. They came out of Manchester. (Tell me how it feels) was a massive track Here and in America. However it is not the sound of Nick Martinelli as people who were not there have claimed . It is the sound created by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis who were dominating the charts with the S.O.S Band and Change at the time.
LOOSE ENDS
One of the most famous of them all. Another sound infiltrators acid jazz records formed in 1988 credit themselves with. These heroes of British SOUL need no introduction. Their new Brit Funk sound of the mid 1980’s pushed the UK SOUL Invasion into overdrive. If anyone can claim to have kicks started the sound of late 1980’s Britain (84 onward) then it’s them. They finished off being one of the biggest bands in FUNK GLOBALLY by the end of the decade and into the early 1990’s. Loose Ends are the equals of just about any famous funk band, and Black America still loves them. So Ask them if acid jazz record label have anything to do with their sound or any style of Black music here in 1980’s London.
Did you know that a DJ invented your sound according to Americans on Wikipedia?
Hanging on a string was a massive track at the time that Wikipedia claims this fake music genre was invented by Gilles Peterson. You will read all about the impact that Loose Ends had in America in 1980’s music publications. You will hear nothing about this fake music genre called acid Jazz. Guaranteed.Loose Ends appeared on U.S Soultrain and were interviews by Don Cornelius however Viacom CBS decided to remove the video someone uploaded from youtube on copyright grounds but it will be out there somewhere.
FIVE STAR
America had the Jackson Five, The Sylvers , The Laws family and more in the 1970’s. We had the Pearsons aka Five Star. Another famous British band of the 1980’s SOUL invasion being wiped from history by the Eddie Pillar lie machine. The Sylvers were a famous family in the 1970’s and Leon became a famous producer in the 80’s. This is the Americanized sound of British Soul in the mid to late 1980’s. The old post disco Brit funk bass slap is mostly gone by now. The Synth has taken over. I think Leon Sylvers produced this
Five star were massive in the United States They are still about, see what they have to say. See if they remember this mysterious music genre acid jazz records claim was invented during the mid 1980’s by Gilles Peterson.
FIVE STAR, WHO NO LONGER EXIST ACCORDING TO EDDIE PILLAR’S MATES ON WIKIPEDIA, EVERIPEDIA AND ALL OVER THE INTERNET.
SHAKATAK
Another underground Brit Funk Band who became global superstars in the 1980’s
Slick, suave and sophisticated they played in the American Jazz Funk groove we associated with Patrice Rushen 70’s albums, Captain Sky and others. A sound we adopted as our own. They were also once an unknown Brit Funk band and part of the Underground Soul movement. . Jamiroquai ripped off their sound on MR Moon. Like many of our bands they got to work with American superstars who were impressed with the FUNK coming from the other side of the pond Day by Day with Al Jarreau was a big FUNK and mainstream hit of the 1980’s.
Their sound was so sophisticated and I loved the girl’s voices. They produced some of the finest Funk to come out of this country. They had that dark romantic sound down to a tee.
Of course they claim this is acid jazz as well invented years later by Gilles Peterson. Yes Jamiroquai’s plagiarised album the Return of the space cowboy was classified as acid jazz by Eddie Pillar. Shakatak. Dark is the Night, with the dark moody sound that was the signature groove of post Disco era U.K Funk bands. See recommendations for MR Moon in the SOULHEAD TALES for more. And never let any outsider tell you this groove is “Acid Jazz”.
Now let’s come to the late 1980’s London Brit Funk /Rare Groove sound. The principle sound that Acid Jazz records claim on Wikipedia was invented by Gilles Peterson. Well I say that but of course every style of 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s Black American and British Soul/R&B is being claimed as so called acid jazz by Eddie Pillar.Who do you think is responsible for the Black British sound of the late 1980’s?The Passadenas, Jazzie B Soul to Soul and the like…or Eddie Pillar and Gilles Peterson as they claim on Wikipedia, Everipedia and all over the Internet. Lets take a look..
SOUL TO SOUL and The PASADENAS
VRS
Eddie Pillar and Giles Peterson
JAZZIE B. THE GODFATHER OF LATE 1980’s BRITSH SOUL BEING WRITTEN OUT OF HISTORY BY EDDIE PILLAR, GILLES PETERSON AND THE SYNAGOUGE OF SATAN.
TRIBUTE by the PASADENAS WAS JUST THAT. A TRIBUTE TO THE BLACK AMERICAN SOUND WE GREW UP WITH IN THE 1960’s and the 1970’s.
Now Eddie Pillar Gilles Peterson and the Synagogue of Satan claim this sound is called Acid Jazz. It is NOT. These boys made the “old fashioned£ sound of the late 60’s/early 70’s Popular again in the mid 1980’s. Infiltrators acid jazz records had NOTHING to do with this sound or any other Black sound. On Wikipedia they claim that this style of Rare Groove later copied by Jamiroquai is actually a genre invented by Gilles Peterson in the mid 1980’s called acid jazz which is strange. The Pasadenas called this song TRIBUTE. So I assume in former Invicta FM pirate DJ Gilles Peterson’s gigantic head, they were playing tribute to him.
Return of the Mizell Brothers sound UK style.
This groove goes back to peace of Mind by The Rance Allen Group 1977. Go take alisten to that track and compare it to thisone 10 years later. That is what we mean by Retro 1970’s FUNK. Bands from the U.K in the 1980’s playing tribute to the Black Anmerican sound of our youth. This sound is not called acid jazz just because a DJ called Gilles Peterson has decided that he is going to call it that.
Whats even more strange as you will see in Ten Easy Ways To Debunk The Acid Jazz Lie is that The Pasadenas were in the Charts at the same time Acid Jazz records were created. That’s the first time you will see any mention of the words Acid Jazz in any issue of Blues and Soul. Now Acid House was a groove. but there was no such thing as Acid Jazz. They are just trying to rebrand Rare Groove as a new genre created by Gilles Peterson. Because as I keep saying they think they can fool people on FUNK.
See above-Issue 511 Blue and Soul -The creation of Acid Jazz records is announced in a tiny column here in 1988. WHEN THE PASADENAS ARE ON THE FRONT COVER!I
THOUGHT YOU CLAIMED ON WIKIPEDIA THAT YOU WERE FAMOUS IN THE MID 1980’s FOR THE INVENTION A NEW MUSIC GENRE CALLED ACID JAZZ GILLES PETERSON.
Strange Blues and Soul doesn’t remember this. And neither does anyone else. Your internet cultural appropriation myth is falling apart isn’t it. Gilles Peterson.
NOW HERE ARE THE REAL CREATORS OF THE LATE 1980’s LATES 1980’s FUNK
BACK TO LIFE WAS MASSIVE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC
Probably the most famous SOUL band we produced in the 1980’s. If the likes of Junior, Loose Ends, 5 star and co made our sound famous in the U.S, Then Jazzie B sealed the deal. You won’t find a single Funkster in America or anywhere else on the planet who doesn’t know SOUL to SOUL. Jazzie B is very important, not just because of his musical talent, and the fantastic array of talented singers and musicians he worked with, but the template he set by using the old Cymande Drumbeat from Brothers on the side, later adopted by Donald Byrd on Dominoes back in the 70’s. That drum beat became as popular as the Jam and Lewis Drum pattern you hear on No one’s gonna love you by the S.O.S Band. Lot’s of people used the S.O.S/CHANGE groove in the 1980’s including Loose Ends and 52nd Street. Though I have to say that Don’t stop the Music by Yarbrough and Peoples came first in terms of that synth sound.
When Jazzie B re- introduced that groove the whole planet of FUNK started to use it. An even more importantly for Music Historians this track is what really re-introduced the Violin back into FUNK. A sound we hadn’t really heard since 1981/82 in the last days of Disco era FUNK at the time of the Brothers Johnson’s Winners Album. (See my recommendations for Canned Heat on the Soulhead Tales) After Back to Life everybody started using that drumbeat and the violins. Like Lisa Stransfield and Bary Whites all around the World.
This track and many others is based on the template created by Jazzie B. The drumbeat and the violins in Back to life was the template for many hits in the late 1980’s on both side of the Atlantic. Don’t expect to see him get any credit for it though.
DISTANT ECHOES OF THE MIZZEL BROTHERS LIVE AGAIN
YOU’RE NOT GOING TO FOOL US ON ANY OF THESE SOUNDS EITHER EDDIE PILLAR
This is what I mean when I say we know who the Mizzel Brothers, Johnny Hammond, Donald Byrd and all the rest are in the U.K. None of us (Those who were actually there in the 70’s/80’s) think this sound is called “Acid Jazz”. No such genre exists. The only people who claim it does is Eddie Pillar, Gilles Peterson and their International cabal of cultural thieves/History revisionists. They do not speak for Black Britain.
The difference between Influences and plagiarism.
OMAR LYE FOOK (Soundmaker)
The Equal of Rod Temperton IMO
Yet his sound is being reclassified as acid Jazz like many of our late 1980’s and 1990’s Soul acts. As if Gilles Peterson had anything to do with the creation of his sound. See below.
Omar is the closest we ever got in the U.K to the one man band musical genius along the lines of Roy Ayers, George Duke, Herbie Hancock, Lonnie Liston Smith and such like.
WHY THE FUNK IS THE SOUND OF OMAR LYE FOOK BEING CLASSIFIED AS A NON EXISTENT BLACK MUSIC GENRE CALLED “ACID JAZZ” INVENTED BY GILLES PETERSON
Being a great songwriter and composer is one thing. Creating a SOUND is another. A sound is your own unique distinct groove. I know that of Roy Ayers I know that Of George Duke, Herbie and others. OMAR has his own signature. He is a sound maker. Yes I can hear the influences of the 70’s Jazz Funkateers but many of his Harmonies are layered in such a way that they constitute the genius of a soundmaker. That distinctive voice wrapped around those Psychedelic harmonies sets him apart form anything we heard in the U.K.
OMAR WITH LEON WARE AND STEVIE WONDER. NUFF SAID
Even now getting a call from Stevie Wonder is something that every Band and Singer would dream about. Here in the U.K Stevie choose OMAR. So I don’t really need to say much more then do I. Go and listen to this is not a love song and tell me it doesn’t do to you what Roy Ayers and the original Jazz Funkateers of the 70’s do to your spirit. You can go to my recommendations for Jamiroquai tracks Just Another story and for Butterfly in THE SOULHEAD TALES for more magical 1970’s psychedelic sounds.
BILLY OCEAN
British SOUL hero of the 70’s and 80’s conquered two generations in America. Another unsung hero of the UK groove being wiped from history by Eddie Pillar and the jamiroquai/acid jazz cabal on Wikipedia and being replaced by 1990’s acid jazz records signings like jamiroquai who they claim represent Britfunk.
Red Light Spells Danger –Billy Ocean was already famous Back in the 1970’s. And once again when we were old enough to go clubbing in the Disco era we were Jamming to his hits like stay the Night and Calypso Funkin.Then in the 1980’s he became one of the biggest Soul stars in the World. Billy Ocean over here and even in the U.S where he is still lauded is Funk Royalty.
In the 1980’s Billy Ocean became a massive Global star and a prominent Ambassador of AUTHENTIC BRITISH SOUL.
Never let the likes of infiltrators Acid jazz records created in 1988 tell you he never existed.
BILLY OCEAN
Never let the likes of infiltrators Acid jazz records created in 1988 tell you he never existed.
LEVEL 42
We often say the Brit Funk sound of old died out in the post Disco era but did it really.
When the old Britfunk sound died and electro began to take over around 82/83 many bands on both sides of the Atlantic switched their groove. Thankfully for me at least Level 42 kept faith in the FUNK and carried on in the London Bass slap tradition. Something that should be considered a brave move but Level 42 kept going strong all through the 80’s and achieved their justly deserved world fame. Certainly there were still many bass slap bands in the states all through the 80’s like Slave and Aurra, T. connection and so on. Sadly over here were never again to hear the viscous bass slaps of bands like Freeze, Light of the world, Direct drive and others as electro ruined the party Jazz Funk party. You can hear some examples of the Britfunk bass slap in my recommendations below on the SOULHEAD TALES. No one in acid jazz record is responsible for their sound either.
At the start of this page I said when I ran a search for Brit Funk, Level 42 and Jamiroquai came up. Level 42 are a 100% AUTHENTIC Brit Funk Band. Part of the London underground Soulhead Tribe of the post Disco era alongside the likes of Imagination, HI Tension, LInx, Light of the World, Junior and so on. They were part of our crowd and are legitimate. A 1990’s Funk tribute band playing other peoples rehashes like Jamiroquai is not to be considered the same as Level 42 or any Authentic Brit Funk band. And no authentic 1970’s/1980’s Soulhead will tell you ant different. It’s the 1990’s/2000’s crowd in the media who know nothing about Jazz, Funk and Soul that see Jamiroquai as legitimate.
THIS is what we called BRIT FUNK. No messing evil thundering nasty bass . This is AUTHENTIC BRIT-FUNK,
Phil Fearon and Galaxy
Phil Fearon is another famous SOULHEAD of the London Funk underground who became known in the Disco era with Brit Funk band Kandidate. Phil and Galaxy girls were well known to both the Funk underground and the mainstream as they appeared on Top of the Pops quites a few times. Some of his sound appears on Cosmic Girl over a decade later in the 1990’s. Ask him if his distinctive early 80’s Britfunk sound is called acid jazz and was invented by Jamiroquai and acid jazz records in the 1990’s. Jamiroquai rip off the female vocals on Head over Heels in Cosmic Girl.
PHIL FEARON Back in the Day with Kandidate
THE COOL NOTES
The Cool Note were right there in the British Funk invasion of the 1980’s alongside Soul to Soul, Five Star, Loose Ends, Sahara, 52nd street and the rest. They gave the Mary Jane Girls of Rick James a run for their money. Back in the day they were a Reggae band but made the successful switch to FUNK and played their part in the heady days of our youth. These Funksters are also responsible fro the late 80’s British Groove. Ask them what acid jazz records had to do with crafting their sound, and ask them if they have ever heard of these “bands defined as acid jazz” a music so called music genre invented by Gilles Peterson,
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BRITISH JAZZ
British Jazz goes back to the 1950’s. Places like Ronnie Scotts where all the American jazz greats played are Internationally famous. When Jazz Funk died at the start of the 80’s, jazz went back underground in London but we still had plenty of jazz proper. Herbie, Roy Ayres, Liston Smith and all the greats were in London regularly during the 80’s. They still fly in to jam in the U.K Here are a couple of our Jazz singers and players who were well known during the 80’s.
COURTNEY PINE.
The internationally famous saxophonist and founder of the Jazz warriors. Ask him if a DJ called Giles Peterson is responsible for the underground British Jazz movement of the 1980’s. And ask the Jazz warriors too. They are still around. He was there when hip hop started and I would say he knows just a wee bit about Jazz wouldn’t you? See if he knows what acid jazz is. The mysterious Black music genre spoken about on Wikipedia.
Anyone in the audience ever heard of a London genre invented by Gilles Peterson?
SADE
SADE was another one of our Girls who’s special brand of Jazz Soul melted hearts on both sides of the Atlantic. She also formed part of the British SOUL invasion of the 1980’s, that 1990’s infiltrators from Jamiroquai and acid jazz records are trying to wipe from history.
SADE also topped the British and American Soul charts back in the 1980’s
Ask her if acid jazz records and Giles Peterson invented British Jazz.
There are of course many many other BRIT-FUNK band of our era out there still going strong. You will see many of them in my recommendations on the Jamiroquai plagiarism list below. Princess, Second image, Direct Drive, 52nd Street. Total Contrast The Antilles, Dante who worked with jellybean. The list goes on. Black Britain and people playing what they now call MOBO (music of Black origin) during the 1980’s were many and these are just a few. The British Soul invasion of the 1980’s was a fact. A verifiable fact. Giles Peterson inventing a music genre called acid jazz, and Jamirqoquai playing this so-called acid jazz genre in the 1990’s is a total LIE. A verifiable LIE.
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ACID JAZZ RECORDS CLAIM THAT INCOGNITO PLAY ACID JAZZ!?
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