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Beat Funktion

The all-Swedish funk sextet Beat Funktion pays homage to instrumental early 70s funk, groove, soul, disco and afro-beat jazz by playing fresh yet retro-style original compositions. They add a unique flavour to their pulsating 70s vintage sound with first-rate jazz soloists, relentless bass grooves and elaborate arrangements. Beat Funktion started out in Uppsala 2007 as a temporary five-piece setup for a number of spontaneous club gigs where music was needed for a young dancing audience. To shape the band's repertoire, pianist Daniel Lantz and tenor sax player Olle Thunström took inspiration from musicians and bands within groove-related genres in the 70s and late 60s like James Brown, Bob James, Eumir Deodato, Roy Ayers, Fela Kuti, Curtis Mayfield, Lonnie Liston Smith, Stevie Wonder, Average White Band, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Donny Hathaway, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley and others, not to mention film music by composers like Lalo Schifrin and Bill Conti

Green Man

By Beat Funktion

Label: Do Music Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: 1. Steampunch; 2. Tomorrow (feat. Viktoria Tolstoy & AFRO); 3. In Love In Vain (feat. Alicia Olatuja); 4. Jack The Ripper; 5. Paper Girl (feat. Adée); 6. Rewind (feat. Claes Janson); 7. Over The Ocean (feat. Damon Elliott & Jasmine Kara); 8. Lorelei 9. We Are Young (feat. Matilda Gratte); 10. Green Man (feat. Deodato Siquir & AFRO).

Beat Funktion: Green Man

by Jim Olin
October 6, 2017

Swedish group Beat Funktion could be described as a band, but they strike me as something even deeper than that: a musical collective with an extremely broad approach and a really keen ear for making complex arrangements sound accessible and catchy. The songs on Green Man blur the lines between funk, blues, jazz, and fusion, going ...

Mandy's Secret

By Beat Funktion

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015
Track listing: I Am The Summer; Port Arthur; Snap To It; Budo, Are We Done?; On The Tiles; Thunderlips; Mandy’s Secret; Kandahari Airport; Rundfunk.

Olympus

By Beat Funktion

Label: Do Music Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Prologue; Game Of The Gods; King Minos; Chimera; It’s About Time; Waters Of Thessaly; Viper Lady; Don’t Look Back; 9. The Hydra; Fallen Hero; Where’s The Sunshine?; Siren Song; Swords And Sandals; Epilogue; Mount Olympus.

Beat Funktion: Olympus

by Geannine Reid
November 30, 2015

The seventies brought many things: bell-bottoms, Lee Majors, Farrah Fawcett, Disco, Nixon and Carter, The Godfather, the Ramones; Billie Jean King and Phyllis Schlafly to NOW and the ERA; from the Energy Crisis to Roe v. Wade. The Seventies is an incisively provocative and commonly misunderstood era. Is it an eminently forgettable period in our American ...

Beat Funktion: Mandy's Secret

by Geannine Reid
March 30, 2015

Beat Funktion; what is its funktion? Daniel Lantz is the man behind Beat Funktion's unique sound that blends '70s funk, groove, soul, disco and afro-beat with the language and sensibilities of jazz. Beat Funktion pays close attention to getting across the more danceable and familiar binary rhythm, that is felt as the “groove." That is what ...

Moon Town

By Beat Funktion

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Track listing: Kareem; Women in Neon; 125th Street and 7th Avenue; City Lights; Mastermind; The Great Escape; Moon Town; Impressions; Driver’s Seat.

Beat Funktion: Moon Town

by C. Michael Bailey
June 6, 2013

"Swedish Vintage Jazz-Funk-Disco Band." That is the auspicious description of Beat Funktion, an inventive band of Scandinavians intent on teasing the worthwhile parts of disco away from the not-so-worthwhile parts. But disco is but a small part of the alchemy arranged on Moon Town. This is more funk-jazz updated to the contemporary. Heavily back-beat laden, driven ...