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What Is Funk?: A Music Listener’s Guide(With Recommendations)
What makes funk funky? What is the connection between funk and hip-hop? Where should you start if you want to get into this genre?
In this video, we explore what makes funk tick and what makes it so freakin’ groovy. Stay tuned until the end for my top 7 favorite funk albums.
Foundations of Funk Playlist:
open.spotify.com/playlist/11wMpJNbwMMT09TwYCS8MI?si=03a6bf16b2f9423a
Funk Continued Playlist:
open.spotify.com/playlist/6ApMwsAbv9sCEn6M9oiB6X?si=1019653d4b1e412e
Attribution
Images
Heinrich Klaffs, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Video
Jari M Behm Via TH-cam Creative Commons
slydogmania Via TH-cam Creative Commons
Super Soul Via TH-cam Creative Commons
Louis De Nennie Via TH-cam Creative Commons
Xylo Sesame Via TH-cam Creative Commons
Jari M Behm Via TH-cam Creative Commons
In this video, we explore what makes funk tick and what makes it so freakin’ groovy. Stay tuned until the end for my top 7 favorite funk albums.
Foundations of Funk Playlist:
open.spotify.com/playlist/11wMpJNbwMMT09TwYCS8MI?si=03a6bf16b2f9423a
Funk Continued Playlist:
open.spotify.com/playlist/6ApMwsAbv9sCEn6M9oiB6X?si=1019653d4b1e412e
Attribution
Images
Heinrich Klaffs, CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Video
Jari M Behm Via TH-cam Creative Commons
slydogmania Via TH-cam Creative Commons
Super Soul Via TH-cam Creative Commons
Louis De Nennie Via TH-cam Creative Commons
Xylo Sesame Via TH-cam Creative Commons
Jari M Behm Via TH-cam Creative Commons
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Why Some People Have a Basic “NPC” Taste in Music: A Friendly Chat About Preference and Personality
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What is a basic, or, for the terminally online, “NPC” taste in music? Is your annoying roommate who only listens to Ed Sheeran an uncurious bore? Are you a better person because you like jazz? Am I being sarcastic in this description? Find out with this quick chat on how personality can influence our level of musical adventurousness! My Intro to Jazz Video: th-cam.com/video/-to51s50r0g/w-d-xo.h...
Disco: A Murder Mystery
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Who killed disco? It’s a genuine musical mystery-and it doesn’t have an easy answer. Today, we look at a few popular narratives which track disco’s demise from Saturday Night Fever to Disco Demolition Night and beyond. Japanese City Pop video: th-cam.com/video/yBLNtVtajPw/w-d-xo.html Attributions Visuals by Llego Music via TH-cam Creative Commons Gay Rock & Roll Years, The ( 1993) via Internet ...
A Guide to Future Funk: Digital Escapism via Discoed-Out Bliss - With Recommendations!
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Future Funk Partying in yesterday’s tomorrow…today! City Pop Video th-cam.com/video/yBLNtVtajPw/w-d-xo.html Vaporwave Video th-cam.com/video/54GbaU4D7iA/w-d-xo.html Album Recommendations 1. Hit Vibes - Saint Pepsi (Now Skylar Spence) 2. BAE - YUNG BAE 3. Bright Moments - Flamingosis 4. A Million Miles Away - Macross 82-99 5. Rollergirl! - Rollergirl 6. Metro City - Vantage Attributions Video Vi...
Vaporwave: The Internet's Pain Made Manifest.
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How to Love the Music You Hate: A Step by Step Program for Expanding Your Musical Taste
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For many of us, there is a genre that we just don’t like very much, and sometimes, that feeling can be very intense. Learn how to confront your least favorite genre-and find great music you connect with. Join me as I try to overcome my strong aversion to everything country music and conquer your own hangups with genres like Jazz, Punk, Opera, late 90s disco revival…or whatever! Genre Intro Vide...
How to Like Jazz: A Guide for the Casual and Curious-With Listening Course
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How to Like Jazz: A Guide for the Casual and Curious - With Listening Course Love the idea of Jazz? Hate the sound of it? Like some but not others? Imagine yourself as a 30s gumshoe detective, but can’t get into the soundtrack? Let me help iron out your Jazz wrinkles and set you on the path to full-blown jazz headedness. No snobbiness, no gatekeeping, just good music. Image Credits Brianmcmille...
A Guide to City Pop: Japan’s 80s Pop Music Renaissance - With Recommendations
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What is City Pop? Learn more about the golden age of Japanese Pop music that’s captivated the internet. Stay tuned until the end for some listening recommendations to get you started with the genre! Instagram: charcuteriesound My copyright-safe music channel: www.youtube.com/@breadandbutteraudio Image Credits madras91, CC BY 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia ...
Latin America’s Biggest Genre: Beyond Shakira
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Expand your musical palette and learn how to listen to Lat Am’s biggest genre-Cumbia. Stay tuned to the end for some great recommendations! Finding new music with the context required to enjoy it can be tough. We often just get tossed stuff by the algo-hopefully, this video can be that missing dose of context for Cumbia. The more you know about something, the more you can dig it. Instagram: ins...
How Bossa Nova lost its cool & why you should listen anyway
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Bossa Nova can improve your daily listening-if you know what you’re listening for. We’ve treated it badly, and it deserves a second chance. Learn more about this amazing genre and find out how to start listening to it today. Instagram: charcuteriesound My copyright-safe music channel: www.youtube.com/@breadandbutteraudio Image Credits "Brasilia, Cathedral of Brasilia" by Arian Zw...
How this channel has fewer than 500 subs is beyond me. Great content!
Thank you! Maybe because I live in Central America? Not sure... but appreciate the kind words!
Two big reasons: the musical skill of the musicians was top notch and also even if the lyrics are schmaltzy we wouldn't know.
Aha I've dug up a ton of translations, and the lyrics range from schmaltzy to profound!
3:21 Harry Hosono and Tatsuro Yamashita started to write their own songs and tend to more western style music after watching the famous Budokan concert in 1966. Thus the Happy End was born.
Hey I really like these videos and your channel. I was thinking recently about how I don't like live music and feeling a little excluded because all my friends who are into music always talk about how they're excited to go to shows. Perhaps it's a broader psychological thing and therefore not appropriate for the channel, but if there's a chance, I'd be interested to see a video on how to shake these feelings and be more comfortable liking the things you like and disliking the things you don't, even if it seems like everyone else enjoys it.
I have a video about learning to enjoy genres that you hate, which could be somewhat relevant-the video I'm working on currently is also related to expanding your musical palette. That being said, not liking something is perfectly valid. Preferences can be flexible and can change over time, but they're still there! The world would be pretty boring if everybody liked exactly the same things.
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Lydia pence and coldblood🥰
Kissing My Love by Cold Blood is a great funky tune! Love the clav thing going on.
great intro to the genre, I've heard maggot brain but never dug into any of the other albums so thanks for the recs!
No problem-hope you enjoy! Thanks for the watch!
Plastic love literally just popped into my feed one day. That was a great day.
Some people just don't have a deep connection with music. As a (unsuccessful) musician, I like finding new songs and artists, because you never know how many good songs are waiting for you to discover. Maybe even from small artists.
My journey with City Pop began with a Japanese artist who brought the genre sounds to Korean in recent years: YOKIKA. She's brilliant.
I do believe that "NPC Music" lacks the emotional depth and artistic integrity that I look for when listening to music. When I listen to music I want the artist to communicate a feeling to me or transport me to another world. When I hear music on the radio it just feels so bland and without any purpose but getting money. The music is often optimized to be as non-offensive and listenable as possible which just takes away the soul from it in my opninion.
Speaking of music my wife abhors, but I find delightful: I’d love to see your take on Eurobeat.
Eurobeat! I was so close to doing a segment on it in my disco video, but left it on the cutting room floor to focus on Italo Disco. I still have some writing and research, so I'll definitely circle back at some point. Don't worry, we'll get your wife onboard with Eurobeat.
I’ve been hooked on Miki Matsubara, Anri, Mariyah Takeuchi, and Tetsuro Yamashita songs the last few months. Thanks for this video.
I listen to a lot of experimental music, some free jazz as well as punk, post-punk, hardcore... etc. But when I was 11-13 I couldn't give a flying a f about music and only listened to top 40 radio, my favorite artists at the time were Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Chainsmokers... etc. I still find vapid 2010s pop music kind of endearing, so yeah I can see how people develop an "npc" taste in music, you just don't have to really care about music that much, it's only when I got into the Beatles and Pink Floyd that I started to really care about music and explore more, those bands were gateways to me to a bunch of other genres, but people might have other gateways. When I was a kid I just liked a song if it had a good catchy chorus that got stuck in my head, there was no point delving further, you were already satisfied with top 40 radio and have other things to do so why go find other music?
Fascinating video! I kind of am a musical NPC myself (calling people NPCs is gross, I agree with you there, but I don't mind doing it for myself in this case). The funny thing is I'm the opposite of that in all other media: Movies, video games, books, ect. I seek out strange and fringe elements, new experiences, experimental works. I also have a high "Openness to Experience" score every time I take a 5 factor personality test. But...I don't tend to seek out music. I love music. I find it very powerful. But I don't enjoy sampling new, random music to find things I like. I tend to hear something in a TV show or movie or something, and then I'll dive into it from there. I also don't really enjoy just sitting and listening to music. I listen to audiobooks most of the time. I had a period in middle school where my life was mostly about finding new music, but I moved past it and never went back (I'm 42 now, BTW). It's a little frustrating to me because I really am very, very moved by good music. I just can't engage with the process of finding it.
For me, finding new music is a habit. I lost it for a while-but like any good habit, the hardest part is starting(or starting again). I totally get it, though. I've felt that way about a bunch of stuff over the years. I haven't read fiction in years and felt like I could no longer find joy in it, but my sister recommended this great book and I forced myself to get a few sessions deep. All those old feelings are coming back, and it's magic again. Life is funny.
@@CharcuterieSoundI would watch the hell of a video on how to develop that habit
I'm currently working on this video. Would you mind if I gave your username a shout-out?
@@CharcuterieSound Oh! Yes, for sure, go ahead!
Thank you!
I got into jazz because my friends are amateur jazz musicians. Because of them, I went to some jazz clubs and jam sessions. At the beginning, I really disliked it because it sounded to messy. I thought it was only music for old rich men. As time went on, I started to appreciate it and found out some standards or sub genres I like. The people who are into jazz are just nerds and genuinely nice. I met some gatekeepers, but that’s more the exception than the rule.
Nice nerds and a few gatekeepers-very true. It's funny how it's seen as a rich guy's genre now as it started as working class music! Thanks for sharing your experience :)
I love Chat Baker sings, especially „there will never be another you“
Love the inclusion of Soft Machine in the video
The way I like to think of this is that I was exposed to more complex or “elite music” (Classical, Jazz, Classical and Jazz-inspired Rock, etc) at an earlier age and have been conditioned to enjoy it more, whereas others may have not had that experience so culture and upbringing definitely play a role Secondly, specifically with regards to Jazz, the musical form has certain musical characteristics which I have come to enjoy that pop music lacks (varied harmony, sound design / tone, groove, etc.) that I wish others could pick up on and enjoy but instead of expressing that I express disgust due to how simple pop is I think what makes “Kind of Blue” such an accessible record is that it has all the predictability of pop (as does most non-post-bop modal jazz) but all of the unpredictability of jazz in the form of improvisation over the top (Blue in Green repeats the same chords, Flamenco Sketches is a two chord vamp, So What is a a two note vamp, etc.)
I've always been a fan of melodic complexity over bread and butter chords, or crazy chords with a chicken soup melody. You even see this kind of stuff with bebop-I totally agree with you about Kind of Blue, the accessibility is baked into the handshake between structure and melody.
Pointless video tbh
My ex’s entire family only ever listened to stuff like Florida Georgia Line and Hozier. I tried showing them Nightmares on Wax and got laughed at for liking it. I’ve never understood why there are people out there who don’t branch out their music tastes
Hozier is genuinely amazing tho once you stop listening to the two songs that blew up on radio.
@rhithym I'm assuming Take Me To Church is one of the two songs you're referring to. If so I'd put it in the genuinely amazing category albeit overplayed when it came out but that happens when you place high on Billboard. Out of curiosity what other song has he had on the charts?
you're very animated, not a bad thing just funny
I don't think my musical taste is very adventurous... But maybe I have to face facts. Yesterday I went to a live concert yesterday that was full of middle aged Japanese women headbanging.
That sounds like a pretty great concert to me!
@@CharcuterieSound It was! I’ll go to another in Sept.
I can understand the concept for something like Jazz or whatever, but i just can't wrap my head around how SO MANY people can like music such as Niki Minaj. Even after 2 million years that type of music will never sound good to me.
There must be a factor which would be akin to principle. In order to like that music, you must first be willing to like it. For those of us who view it as superficial garbage, we would never enjoy it from exposure because we feel only disgust when exposed to it.
It's marketing. People like the music they hear around them. Placing that music around them costs marketing dollars. Sometimes, great music survives this process. Even in the most poppy pop, there's something to learn. Although I can't blame you if it doesn't end up in your daily listening!
It's engineered to sound good and be immediately appealing, if that's all you're looking for in music then of course you'll like it and have no reason to go looking farther.
this is a really well-paced video, but i'm not too convinced i possess the familiarity principle: no matter how many times the radio at work plays noah kahan i still can't stand him 😭😭
Ah well it does have it's caveats-after listen 1468 I'm still going to avoid babyshark 🫠
Honestly, the “deeper” into music I’ve gotten and the more open I’ve been to new genres, the more I appreciate mainstream artists. The least musically curious and open people I know personally aren’t the ones who love Taylor Swift, they’re the people who dismiss the Taylor Swifts of the world and refuse to experience popular artists on any level deeper than radio hits.
Whoa this is so true… I often find that the early records of popular artists are cool to listen to because its when you hear them before the fame “mainstreams” their sound A good example would be Elton John, whose earlier records are amazing but whose records after 76 (to me at least) sound like bland pop Or J Cole, who I think was amazing on his first 2 records but then all of his stuff after sounded like “mainstream rap”
I disagree with that second part, at least when we're talking people who *exclusively* listen to top 40 pop. Anybody musically curious is at least going to seek out other channels for new music besides what's already charting, and my experience with a lot of people like that has been pretty dismissive
@@awol.oper8rI guess I should clarify-Taylor Swift is a good example because she’s so centered in music right now. But I’ve seen countless discussions where someone will say “she makes music for NPCs” or something similar. When a fan tries to explain the tracks they enjoy with deeper themes than her top 40 singles, it’s usually dismissed. It’s not just Taylor Swift, it’s any popular musician. I’m constantly baffled at people who seem to think that singles produced specifically for radio play are representative of an artist’s entire body of work and prefer to maintain their musical elitism than give credence to the idea that a mainstream popular artist can write worthwhile music.
you gotta listen to melonade :)
I'll check it out-thanks!
I find the jazz standard endlessly fascinating. Find one, do a search, and then compare all the different ways the same song can be performed across time and space. Take "Body and Soul". It's been performed by vocalists, pianists, saxophonists, you name it, from the moment it was composed in 1930 up to now. Every era of jazz, chances are high some major artist recorded "Body and Soul."
I think the hardest step for me personally is context. When I listen to music, I guess I'm not really considering the context, or perhaps it's so obvious to me in the things I enjoy that I don't have to think about it, or maybe context is so broad that there are things I don't realise are "context". But often my experience with context is some friend rambling to me about a bunch of history about the artist or the production or purpose of the music, that I instinctively ignore in favour of "does it sound good?". Are the books/films still worth exploring? I'm not much of a reader. Is there anything else that might help with context?
Sometimes, a full appreciation can be difficult to just explain away either in a book or a rambling youtube video. I only really started to "get" salsa music after living in Central America. In the end, it's all just a bunch of stuff to help shift the needle with your subjective experience.
Was looking forward to hearing what you say eagerly until you mentioned it's not a crime to like npc music... I'm kidding 😆 Lovely video. I am musician myself. Music at the end of the day what you enjoy listening to.
Speaking of Radiohead, the thing I love about them is that their discography is so diverse that it covers both pop/accessible tracks as well as esoteric and plenty of overlap. A gateway band, if you will. Come for the Creep, stay for the OK Computer, Kid A, In Rainbows…
Leave at In Rainbows as it's crap
One man's crap is another man's In Rainbows, Keith! The subjectivity of the experience of music and all that-except for Babyshark and Mmmbop by Hanson, which, as we know, were designed by scientists to test the physical limits of the human ear.
@@CharcuterieSound mmmbop is a great pop song but I'm guessing you're a music snob
Nah, just a failed attempt at humor. Honestly, you're right, it is a perfect pop song.
I really appreciate this approach on why many pop listeners, well, listen only to pop. glad to have found your channel!
Thank you!
i always think some people are just more casual music listeners! others enjoy diving deeper or have specific tastes. It’s fun to tap into all these during your life!
I disagree with everything you said. Being a Weezer fan, an Ed Sheeran fan, a Taylor Swift fan, a Death Grips fan are all the same thing.
Some people delete comments like this, and I've never understood why-one of the benefits of releasing something in a public forum is that you get to interact with people who disagree with you. Thanks for the watch and for sharing your perspective. For the record, I don't think there's a hierarchy of fanship or anything like that-so I think we might actually agree on that point.
L take
Death grips is maybe overrated and not the most remarkable music ever made, but it’s definitely good music and not basic by any means
Thank you for this! I know nothing about Future Funk (haven't even heard of it before this video) but I'm definitely gonna listen to this while studying so I can stay extra motivated. Also, you get a subscribe from me because I first discovered you through your NPC music video and I could say that I'm def an NPC wanting to expound my mustic tastes. Great job man, keep it coming <3
That's fantastic! I hope you find a bunch of great stuff that you'll love. Also, good luck with your studying-let the funk propel you to academic greatness!
great video, held my attention all the way through, perfect length. keep it up man
Appreciate that, thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Colombian here, I really enjoyed the video :)
Woot! Thanks!
great video! I find that learning more about a band, following them on social media or listening to interviews helps me appreciate songs so much more, even if it's not something I would usually listen to.
Interesting little video! I often find it really hard to go out of my way to find new music, I am the type of person who to puts a single song on repeat and listens to it for a few hours/days/weeks until I am sick of it. I find looking for new music a tough exercise. At the same time I am really into metal and folk (especially folky and metal stuff mixed with other genres, I also love different international stuff, movie scores) and most TikTok/pop songs that are currently popular annoy me - most people hate when I am responsible for the party tunes, so I wouldn’t call my tastes very NPC. I also know a few people who are into quite generic pop but they try to find new songs to listen to and/or like listening to random shuffled pop playlists - very generic NPC tastes but quite adventurous in finding new stuff. What I am saying is surely there is more to the NPC tastes than just familiarity. I would definitely tune in for your next video if you find something 😊
Oh for sure! Culture, upbringing, and how you're introduced to certain music, I'm sure all matter immensely. I think I was too hard on pop as well. I like a ton of different pop styles, and there are certainly pop heads out there that can collect and dissect with the best of 'em. Down the road, I'll likely do a longer, more fleshed-out video on musical preferences and what the lit says about how and why they form. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I enjoyed listening to your thoughts! Subscribed!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Oh wow, I just listened to Snarky Puppy's first track and had this wave of frisson. Great stuff, on my to listen list! I didn't recognize Slide Five until I heard KC Doppler (Thievery Corporation remix) which was very popular during my "Buddha Bar" years of the late 90s - could you do a review of trip-hop / downtempo / electronic lounge? My jazz contribution would be Tenorio Jnr "Embalo" album - music.th-cam.com/video/wvYwz4R-tl4/w-d-xo.html. I came across this after watching your Bossa Nova video, and stumbled onto this as Tenorio's life was turned into a animated documentary (They Shot the Piano Player). Thanks again!
There's just so much great electronic music from that era. Trip-hop is on my to-do list already! I appreciate the reco-I'll check it out!
Great vid! I'd love to see a deep dive on something rap related as I enjoyed checking out the country genre through your past vid
Thank you, goosebumps! I've been looking for a way to approach the beginnings of hip hop.
Interesting, thanks for the recommendation. Would you consider Night Tempo also as Future Funk. Love his album Ladies in the city.
Yeah, for sure! Good pick!
You have a highly "watchable" face.... :) This is not mean to undermine the excellent research that had gone into the video amounting to outstanding content and pointed conclusions, but rather to highlight that, in addition to it all, your presentation is quite engaging indeed.
Thank you, that's very kind! Motivates me to keep going ✊️
@@CharcuterieSound As I had hoped it would.....😁
You nailed it right on the head about the dreaded Steve Dahl. Dahl was not only an anti-disco and pro rockist advocate, he was also an allegedly notorious homophobe and possible racist who knew all along that disco attracted Gays, Blacks, and Latinos. His anti-disco movement was pure overkill. It should be known that the then-forming Punk Rock movement that emerged around 1976 also disdained disco and mainstream 70's pop-rock as well.
In my research, I couldn't find any direct evidence that Dahl himself was homophobic-although I did see a few thinly veiled comments about flamboyant dress. He, to this day, passionately denies his motivations as being hateful. I'd love to have something more concrete, so if you know something, please share! His character is very controversial. There are reports of him specifically ripping on "Black music" at events, though, which if true, is obviously not cool.... As a side note, I love 70's rock, disco, and punk music-all good stuff! (Not including Disco Duck, that's just terrible)
@@CharcuterieSound Keep in mind that Rick Dees was a DJ and standup comedian from Memphis rather than a professional singer when he did "Disco Duck", so the whole song was to be taken as a big joke, particularly since Rick's inspiration was Jackie Lee's 1965 dance hit "The Duck", which was a more superior record. I can see Dahl hating on "Disco Duck", he really hated disco music. As for his "homophobic" behavior, it's just a rumor. The fact that he made fans bring Black funk & soul records to the disco demolition was very uncool indeed. Groups like Parliament and The Isley Brothers (with the song "Fight The Power") were trying to demonstrate that funk was an occasional political statement, not a joke or a gimmick to be mocked at. Many white people did dig funk and many didn't. I was from a Pontiac, Michigan school, so I heard a lot of Black soul and funk as a kid, though I am a half Irish/half Polish white man.
That's fair, I am always a bit rough on Disco Duck, given it's meant to be a silly novelty! As for funk, I totally agree-I'm also currently putting together notes for a video on Funk and its origins. Thanks for commenting and sharing your perspective!
Disco committed suicide. It sucked so hard it sucked itself into total annihilation.
Yeah, the twirling was a bit much. I do remember that event where R and R decided to make a stand. I liked the disco music, but I wasn't ready for the more feminine look (and behavior) that was transforming men.
No one killed Disco, it just ran out of gas and became irrelevant. (Sadly, Disco killed or co-opted 70s funk.) Most (straight) teens and 20-somethings totally despised Disco from the start ("Disco Sucks" T-shirts became popular). It was club music for unhip 30-somethings who thought looking like a douche in a polyester leisure suit was somehow cool. After 5 or 6 years this shallow, repetitive, unimaginative trend petered out and collapsed in on itself as punk/new wave and metal bands moved in and dominated music. In the 80s, the basic disco beat, with added electronic sound effects, became instrumental "house music" for dance clubs (mainly patronized by women and gays). This gradually evolved and mutated into present-day EDM. Musical trends are supposed to run their course in 5 years or so. Fresh ideas run out and people become bored and look for something new. The fact that rap/hip-hop has been recycling the same tired old sounds for the past 45 years is just plain sad and makes one almost nostalgic for Disco which was at least dumb fun while it lasted.
Disco never went away. It just evolved into something else. It turned into 80s freestyle music. Donna Summer was the one who started that ball rolling with I Feel Love. That song basically predicted the future. There are also certain records that have that transitional sound between disco and freestyle (which later evolved into technopop). "Its Raining Men" is the best example I know of. It's disco-ish but it has those basslines and synth lines that became a staple throughout the 80s. Disco just evolved away from its roots and became something else as fads changed. Its still here and it always will be.