What's The Difference Between Disco and Funk?

boo boo · 05-20-2009, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Disco is about synths and samples? That's news to me. What Disco songs are you talking about?

Well there's a lot of orchestration, horns, strings and stuff. I thought those were samples and synthesizers for the most part but I guess I was wrong about that.

They certainly sound very sterilized to me.

SATCHMO · 05-20-2009, 08:55 PM

Disco had a lot of synths. It was one of the major elements that differentiated disco from funk. Almost all of the lofty cheesy string arrangements that characterised a lot of disco songs were synthetic. Samples not so much.

**Janszoon** · 05-20-2009, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by boo boo

Well there's a lot of orchestration, horn, strings and stuff. I thought those were samples and synthesizers but I guess I was wrong about that.

They certainly sound very "sterile" to me.

Definitely a lot of orchestration. In fact I read before that all the orchestration wound up playing a big role in Disco's downfall because it made the songs so expensive to produce. But yeah Disco was before sampling came into vogue so I think you'd be hard pressed to find much in the way of samples in Disco songs. And as far as synths go, there were some but they weren't the backbone of the music or anything, they were just another instrument in the mix.

I agree that Disco at it's worst can sound kind of sterile but there are also quite a few high-energy, sweaty, non-sterile Disco songs out there too.

barbarella · 05-26-2009, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by boo boo

It's foolish to say they're the same but Funk and Disco artists have had a tendency to crossover to one another. Chic are an example of a band that usually falls into both catagories.

Disco was a black thing before it was hijacked by whitey, it got it's start in black gay nightclubs, and eventually crossed over to latino and white gay nightclubs before going mainstream.

Both focus on a R&B flavored, dancable beats and emphasize rhythm over lead instruments.

The main diffefence is that Funk leans more towards jazz and soul while Disco has more pop to it. Funk tends to have more bass while Disco is more about synths and samples. There's more of a tendency for Disco to rely on samples while Funk employs real instruments. And Funk is a lot more aggressive and raw.

Disco artists had a greater focus on producing music specifically to be played in nightclubs, rather than promoting it through touring. And so tourists gained more from Disco than the artists involved.

I certainly wouldn't call P-Funk Disco in any sense of the word.

Post of the week.

P-Funk!! - Post Of The Week?

I would just like to bring this into the discussion! It was SO huge as a Disco Club Classic!! For me, Chic have always been Disco. Their music is class, but not heavy enough to be Funk.

anticipation · 05-26-2009, 02:25 PM

what's the difference between despair and joy?

mickymusic69 · 05-31-2009, 04:47 PM

Anticipating !!! what's the difference then between despair and joy is U.S so called allies killing so many of our soldiers in so called friendly fire, time and time again and it seems that there is a lot of joy by all involved, they must be heavily on what is on Anticipations picture E's drugged up to there eyeballs and high as kites, the same can be said for Anticipations so called knowledge of music, Fxxk All if the truth be known, it seems he also gets a buzz off of slagging off female members of MB, you're a retard and I know this means a lot in the states a Son of a Bitch, You know about as about Disco,Funk & Soul as what the Americans know about shooting straight or is it done on purpose.............ByeBye Antisiconstipation !!!!!!!!!!

Urban Hat€monger ? · 05-31-2009, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by mickymusic69

anticipating !!! What's the difference then between despair and joy is u.s so called allies killing so many of our soldiers in so called friendly fire, time and time again and it seems that there is a lot of joy by all involved, they must be heavily on what is on anticipations picture e's drugged up to there eyeballs and high as kites, the same can be said for anticipations so called knowledge of music, fxxk all if the truth be known, it seems he also gets a buzz off of slagging off female members of mb, you're a retard and i know this means a lot in the states a son of a bitch, you know about as about disco,funk & soul as what the americans know about shooting straight or is it done on purpose.............byebye antisiconstipation !!!!!!!!!!

wtf?

Scots_ML · 05-31-2009, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

wtf?

Believe it or not that was written by someone whose first language is English.

~~someonecompletelyrandom~~ · 06-01-2009, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by mickymusic69

Anticipating !!! what's the difference then between despair and joy is U.S so called allies killing so many of our soldiers in so called friendly fire, time and time again and it seems that there is a lot of joy by all involved, they must be heavily on what is on Anticipations picture E's drugged up to there eyeballs and high as kites, the same can be said for Anticipations so called knowledge of music, Fxxk All if the truth be known, it seems he also gets a buzz off of slagging off female members of MB, you're a retard and I know this means a lot in the states a Son of a Bitch, You know about as about Disco,Funk & Soul as what the Americans know about shooting straight or is it done on purpose.............ByeBye Antisiconstipation !!!!!!!!!!

Well it looks like somebody has been experimenting with substances...

~~TumorAttitude~~ · 06-01-2009, 05:35 PM

Disco is basically all candy no substance. Its music written with little or no emotion, with the intention to be a hit. Funk is much more pungent.

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mickymusic69 Groupie Join Date: May 2009 Location: London Posts: 4	Anticipating !!! what's the difference then between despair and joy is U.S so called allies killing so many of our soldiers in so called friendly fire, time and time again and it seems that there is a lot of joy by all involved, they must be heavily on what is on Anticipations picture E's drugged up to there eyeballs and high as kites, the same can be said for Anticipations so called knowledge of music, Fxxk All if the truth be known, it seems he also gets a buzz off of slagging off female members of MB, you're a retard and I know this means a lot in the states a Son of a Bitch, You know about as about Disco,Funk & Soul as what the Americans know about shooting straight or is it done on purpose.............ByeBye Antisiconstipation !!!!!!!!!!

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~~TumorAttitude~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Purgatory Posts: 749	Disco is basically all candy no substance. Its music written with little or no emotion, with the intention to be a hit. Funk is much more pungent.