The Spirit of Fela Kuti

 

Category: Funkiest Funk
Song Title: Si, Se Puede
Artist: Antibalas
Year: 2000
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plh_ixwAIxQ

 

 

 

 

 

Category: Fusion Funk
Song Title: Afrofunk Revolution
Artist: I.F.Á. Afrobeat
Year: 2016
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jim1d8kuRhI

Category: Funk Femininity
Song Title: Afro Woman
Artist: I.F.Á. Afrobeat
Year: 2016
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRlHH259UrU

Category: Feral Funk
Song Title: Black Man’s Cry
Artist: Fela Ransome Kuti
Year: 1971
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1YYsRg1f_Y

Category: Fluid Funk
Song Title: Water No Get Enemy
Artist: Fela Ransome Kuti
Year: 1975
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQBC5URoF0s

 

About the playlister:

Fred Roberts is a native of Cincinnati living in Germany since 1987 who enjoys subverting the arbitrary commercial process in which great works often go unrecognized. He has a dual B.S. in Computer Science and Psychology from Northern Kentucky University (1984) and a Masters in Psychology from Bielefeld Universität (1999). He contributed short stories to the early ezine “D A D A RIVISTA CULTURALE E/O TELEMATICA” (1995/96), and later to the short-lived Greenbeard Magazine, in 1997 receiving a Google Blog of Note citation for his Weblog indeterminacy.blogspot.com where he wrote 428 “one-minute short stories” inspired by found photos. Fred is also creator and designer of Elbot.com, an award-winning AI system. His interests include literature, film, photography and discovering all the well-kept sounds Europe has to offer.