They turn up pulsing electronic funk music, order pizza and begin furiously hacking into computer networks.

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Noble hypothesizes that hip-hop might be behind the resurgence, because the genre has sampled soul and funk music since its emergence.

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But and I do write this objectively it is one of the finest exhumations of funk music yet, despite the fact that it centers on two states best known for bluegrass.

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The group is the combined result of an urban tradition in American music that stretches back to historical precedents in jazz, rhythm and blues, funk and popular music since the 1970s.

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Now 65, Parker says he still feels drawn to funk and soul music.

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When heard in a Las Vegas airport, the music of spaz-funk marching band Battles can sound disorienting, even maddening.

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Mr. CHANG: You know, he brings into it, you know, the idea of rapping over the music, and he brings that to funk.

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Background is brought to foreground in a wealth of reminiscences, interviews with surviving members, film clips from the distant past and superb concert footage from the recent past, when the reunited Funk Brothers played at Detroit's Royal Oak Music Theater behind such singers as Joan Osborne, Ben Harper, Bootsy Collins, Chaka Khan and Meshell Ndegeocello.

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Its music scene has diversified, encompassing punk, grunge and funk.

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Hancock says he found great inspiration and freedom in the music of James Brown and Sly Stone, and sought to incorporate some of funk's distinct sounds and rhythms into his group.

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