Tha Funk Mowbile

AEROjet

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The inspiration for this song came from my friend Rel's van nicknamed "the funk mobile". My original plan was to make her some driving music, but I got carried away with the chord changes and the song ended up writing itself. Please mind the cheese at the beginning, and listen for the EP solo in the middle. (I cheated and used a couple MIDI drum loops, but I changed some of the notes around so it's all good.)

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Song Stats

Hits: 3285
Comments: 49
Fans: 15
Plays: 667
Downloads: 210
Votes: 22
Uploaded: Jan 09, 2006 - 11:18:57 PM
Last Updated: Feb 23, 2006 - 01:03:59 PM Last Played: Oct 10, 2009 - 10:45:17 AM

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Keywords:

funk (231), fusion (121), Electric Piano (14), Herbie Hancock (5), electric (87), groove (86), 70s (5), cheese (26), cheesy (2), solo (84), rhodes (5), ()

Hardware:

M-Audio Keystation

Software:

Garageband 2

Comments

Tadashi Togawa	Tadashi Togawa said 1413 days ago (January 10th, 2006)
	Special funk Joel, Good. Good. The bass is good. An electric piano is good. The drums is also good. The composition is also good. Check out my latest song called Mexican taste

AEROjet	AEROjet said 1412 days ago (January 10th, 2006)
	Special funk I'm glad you liked it. I noticed that our musical interests/styles are similar. I hope to hear more of your compositions in the future. Check out my latest song called You Got Me (remix)

screamalexz	screamalexz said 1412 days ago (January 10th, 2006)
	catchy bass love that opening bass catches you. reminds me of closer by NIN. its pretty catchy. like the use of wah on this. this all goes together smoothly, and keeps you interested with nice little changes. nice piano break in the middle. this is great. Check out my latest song called Die (Album Version)

AEROjet	AEROjet said 1412 days ago (January 10th, 2006)
	catchy bass Oh you actually like the first bass? (I thought people's recations would be the opposite...) thanks for the comment. Check out my latest song called You Got Me (remix)

screamalexz	screamalexz said 1412 days ago (January 10th, 2006)
	catchy bass no man i love it. it's catchy lol --- Robert Smith lied, boys do cry Check out my latest song called Die (Album Version)

Leon	Leon said 1411 days ago (January 11th, 2006)
	Wow! I'm proud to be Minnesotan in this site. You and Rschletty are some guys to be proud of. Can't believe Garageband can produce such great sounding jazz music. Your funky style is certainly felt in your music. Amazing altogether. You've got that musical touch! 9-9-9-9 Check out my latest song called The Nightingale (music and lyrics by Oceans)

AEROjet	AEROjet said 1411 days ago (January 11th, 2006)
	Wow! well thanks man, I'd like to collaborate sometime Check out my latest song called You Got Me (remix)

LightTronics	LightTronics said 1061 days ago (December 27th, 2006)
	Me 2 B-Town (Bloomignton) all the way! Nice song btw! Check out my latest song called Electric Jelly

	said 1411 days ago (January 11th, 2006)
	Right good 4jet...this is get-down funkville. I'm liking it very much. This song would propelk me nicely down University Ave. in St. Paul (where I'm from). Way to go!

AEROjet	AEROjet said 1411 days ago (January 11th, 2006)
	Right good Much apreciated, GO TWINS! Check out my latest song called You Got Me (remix)

FEEL	FEEL said 1410 days ago (January 12th, 2006)
	cheating sounds good Nice job on the funk...a sound close to my heart. Very catchy tune. I do think that I could drive on this. The bass is outstanding. Every thing mends together well. Thanks for sharing. John Check out my latest song called Pigs Fly

K.I.S.KISMET	K.I.S.KISMET said 1410 days ago (January 12th, 2006)
	Funki-Jazz-O-liciOUS!!! Enjoyed your mellow tune. You're playing piano? Very cool! Feel like sticking a feather in my hat and having a glass of what ever the hell you have :) Just stick an olive in it! Check out my latest song called Your's

AEROjet	AEROjet said 1410 days ago (January 12th, 2006)
	Funki-Jazz-O-liciOUS!!! Thanks KIS, beautiful comment by the way. Check out my latest song called You Got Me (remix)

pyrofly	pyrofly said 1410 days ago (January 12th, 2006)
	That funky bass line Stirs a dance in my ears..Groovey. I like this a lot. I think you did a great job on the drums.Welcome Home Macjammer..Great way to make your grand entry...bravo Check out my latest song called Kick it first

Einarus

Einarus said 1409 days ago (January 13th, 2006)

Road trip
Great groove. The bass in the beginning really grabbed me. I'm glad it did
or else I probably would've missed this funky/jazzy van ride.
Loved the Electric piano - especially the little wah-wah effect on it.
The drums sounded great, as well!
The whole piece flowed very well - very smooth, just like the overall
sound to it.

A very nice track.
A definate download!

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Macaudion

Macaudion said 1409 days ago (January 13th, 2006)

Nice ride...
Hah! I could see it slink'n up the road grooven and drive'n in a cool
way. Nice laid back feel. Hip. Very hip. Saweet! And it is get'n better as
we make it down this groovy path of goodness. Hey, check out the
drum and keyboard interplay (Herbie's in the house - Or is that
RamseyL) And whose that thump'n the phat strings... Very nice choice
for bass

Well done - Glad I took this trip - Cyd

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AEROjet	AEROjet said 1409 days ago (January 13th, 2006)
	Nice ride... Well thank you cyd, Herbie's one of my favs. Check out my latest song called You Got Me (remix)

eDrew	eDrew said 1409 days ago (January 13th, 2006)
	Oh Year! That's Herbie all the way. I enjoyed it. Oy yeah, how nostalgic. Check out my latest song called Corporate Presentation

jiguma	jiguma said 1409 days ago (January 14th, 2006)
	Very cool! Nice tune 4EROjet! Great bass lines, and very tasty piano sounds - liked the variation in the drums and the way you've left room between the action. Love the ending. Neil Check out my latest song called Lost In Translation (w Mike Watkins)

AEROjet	AEROjet said 1408 days ago (January 14th, 2006)
	Very cool! Thanks Neil, That means alot coming from an obvious professional such as yourself. Check out my latest song called You Got Me (remix)

Stun Nutz	Stun Nutz said 1408 days ago (January 15th, 2006)
	funky tune... ...a little lighter and less mysterious than Herbie's Headhunters, but funky and enjoyable nonetheless... the solo was cool, too Check out my latest song called Gossamer dissected

The Composer

The Composer said 1408 days ago (January 15th, 2006)

Quick comment
This is very cool and funky... the sounds and styles of playing you've
got going fit very well with the era you're hinting at here.

One comment to do with production though. Particulary in the
beginning of this song, you have the bass track (at least the wah-ed
track) panned to the right along with the EP. As a general rule of
thumb, unless you're specifically going for a Pre-1960-70 kind of
sound... keep the bass track panned in the center... because the mix
tends to sound off balance when its anywhere else. In this piece it was
eccentuated by having the EP on the right channel too with precious
little happening on the left channel for the majority of the song.

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AEROjet

AEROjet said 1407 days ago (January 15th, 2006)

Quick comment
you're right in the fact that that the song was weighted to the right, that was an
error. In in the beginning with the first 4 bars, the synth bass is slightly to the
right. After 4 more bars, the bass is doubled with a deep motown sound the
same distance from the center in the left ear to ballance the bass sound. But
you're right about the fusion era in the fact that the bass centers in the middle
especially when starting the song. My bad, minor error.

Check out my latest song called You Got Me (remix)

Drew Kopr	Drew Kopr said 1407 days ago (January 15th, 2006)
	Hell ya Herbie Hancock eat your f'in heart out! Great groove and that is not cheese at the beginning but some nice groove. You sure get great sounds to accompany some fantastic playing on this tune! Check out my latest song called WinterSong

AEROjet	AEROjet said 1407 days ago (January 15th, 2006)
	Hell ya Gracias Drew! (although Herbie Hancock still owns me any day of the week) Check out my latest song called You Got Me (remix)

Krimsunite	Krimsunite said 1406 days ago (January 16th, 2006)
	hey Nice, I remember listening to this at your house. I wish I could make somthing this good Check out my latest song called Untitled Song 2

alley-oop	alley-oop said 1406 days ago (January 16th, 2006)
	wow!!! I just bumped to this tune. This is excellent, tasty as hell. great keybaords, whos's doing the bass (midi?) great composition man, awesome Check out my latest song called anymore

AEROjet	AEROjet said 1406 days ago (January 16th, 2006)
	wow!!! yes sir MIDI bass! Check out my latest song called You Got Me (remix)

composerclark

composerclark said 1406 days ago (January 16th, 2006)

Beautiful
This is excellent. I've listened to it a few times, enjoying it more each
time. Beautiful feel; bass, druums, piano, they all fit together perfectly
like a jigsaw puzzle. I'm a fan. My favorite moment is the piano break in
the middle, and my favorite part of that break is the little scale run that
goes up about an octave then back down, but it's doubled by some weird
interval in the left hand, like ninths or something like that. Quite
unexpected, but perfect. Great job!

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AEROjet

AEROjet said 1406 days ago (January 16th, 2006)

Beautiful
Hail to the critic!

Thank you so much for bringing up my solo. This is also my favorite part in the
tune. The scale happens to be a diminished scale (halfstep wholestep
alternation) and the interval between the two starting notes is a b9. (flat nine,
not B9) I also like the run with the 4ths jumping every minor 3rd.

Right on theory dude!

Check out my latest song called You Got Me (remix)

composerclark

composerclark said 1406 days ago (January 16th, 2006)

Beautiful
Well, just because, I listened to it again, and I'm STILL diggin' it.

Theory dude, that's me. I've been teaching theory in universities for 20 years,
believe it or not. I brought my laptop over to my piano when I was listening
to your tune and played along a bit to try to figure some of the stuff out, but I
had to stop because it was disturbing my son, who was trying to focus on his
video game.

The diminished scale is a fine scale, lots and lots of possibilities. In the
classical music world it's called an octatonic scale (a word that seems
unnecessarily fancy; "diminished scale" explains what it is a lot better), and
it's also one of Messiaen's "modes of limited transposition" (because it can
only be transposed three times before you get pitch pattern duplication.

Did you spend hours practicing scales in minor ninths and other odd interval
doublings? I do that on the guitar, possibly a sign that I had head trauma as
a child that I've forgotten about. Anyway, thanks for the tune, and great job!

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dreadmon	dreadmon said 1406 days ago (January 16th, 2006)
	Yeah baby this is a nice groove. Kinda reminda me of something that WAR would do, like "Lo-Rider", but more progressive. Sweetness. I would love to hear this mix pumped up a bit, really pushing all these elements out there - they sound great! Check out my latest song called Dive!

AEROjet	AEROjet said 1406 days ago (January 16th, 2006)
	Yeah baby Dear Mr. Dreadmon I have very little knowledge/experience wof the art of mixing. If you would like to take a crack at it, by all means contact me and I will send you the raw version. Check out my latest song called You Got Me (remix)

perceptualvortex	perceptualvortex said 1403 days ago (January 19th, 2006)
	Oh yah I love that funky rhythm section. This is a killer jam, cheesy or not. It's got a monster groove and it's all a fun listen. Well done! Check out my latest song called Machine Man (w Beastie Boys)

Krimsunite	Krimsunite said 1401 days ago (January 21st, 2006)
	Joel 1) I NEED a copy of this song 2) My van needs a song, can you help me find ideas? 3) We gotta colaborate sometime Check out my latest song called Untitled Song 2

AEROjet	AEROjet said 1401 days ago (January 21st, 2006)
	Joel Ellis 1) it's easy, click download on that blue box up at the top of this page. 2 & 3) lets collaborate on your van's song. Check out my latest song called You Got Me (remix)

datafunk

datafunk said 1400 days ago (January 23rd, 2006)

hey dude
I can't believe I missed this one when you posted it out!

reminds me of some library sessions such as tracks you'll find in "music for dancefloor : the cream of the bosworth library" (strut records) or old french jazz funk such as CORTEX and RYTHM MACHINE, so damn good.

this is jazz-funk at its best, so groovy baby. if you plan to press this track on vinyl, just let me know, It'd be a pleasure to buy few copies!

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iG.STUDiO	iG.STUDiO said 1398 days ago (January 24th, 2006)
	Beautiful Jam on. :{) Check out my latest song called Le Rêve De Solange

phineas	phineas said 1386 days ago (February 5th, 2006)
	Funk Mowbile Yas yas yas... this get me goin'... I enjoyed the structure, The quack sound quality was nice. several bridges or key changes make this tune stand out in a sea of one key eterna-jams. Tone and balance seem well thought out. Check out my latest song called Surf and Turf

phineas	phineas said 1386 days ago (February 5th, 2006)
	Funk Mowbile Yas yas yas... this get me goin'... I enjoyed the structure, The quack sound quality was nice. several bridges or key changes make this tune stand out in a sea of one key eterna-jams. Tone and balance seem well thought out. Check out my latest song called Surf and Turf

glennkav	glennkav said 1384 days ago (February 7th, 2006)
	Steely, is that you? I smell old Steely Dan in some of the piano riffs. I love old Steely Dan and I love this!! Good stuff and great piano leads! Check out my latest song called Anlagapalooza - Pedal to the Metal

aclarke	aclarke said 1362 days ago (March 1st, 2006)
	Seriously cool Sweet groove. Hope you don't mind I took a copy for myself. Check out my latest song called Ballad of The Little Tiki

James_ Medd	James_ Medd said 1343 days ago (March 20th, 2006)
	I can see it... The image of some kind of funk van immediately springs to mind when I hear it, really funky. Spotted the HH influence straight away and the EP is supreme. Awsome stuff man. Check out my latest song called Capas

AEROjet	AEROjet said 1343 days ago (March 20th, 2006)
	I can see it... Glad you dug, (we might consider collaborating some time) d('-'d) Check out my latest song called You Got Me (remix)

macfreddy	macfreddy said 1301 days ago (May 1st, 2006)
	Good - question Question.. how do you make such good drums without using standard loops... Am only good at the piano myself.. trying to learn this!! Excellent, well done by the way - love the song...:) Check out my latest song called Piano song - still under construction

AEROjet	AEROjet said 1301 days ago (May 1st, 2006)
	Good - question Mac fred There are many ways to bring beats/rythyms into your pieces. I will tell you them all, but only one at a time. So shoot me an email, I'll help you out. By the way, I love your picture. (reminds me of someone...) Check out my latest song called You Got Me (remix)

Bobbie G	Bobbie G said 1215 days ago (July 26th, 2006)
	Cool I'm glad I got currious with the title. I really enjoyed the keyboard sound. Keep up the grouve. Check out my latest song called Funk the Nascar

Schello	Schello said 1173 days ago (September 6th, 2006)
	Groove!!! com'on___Yeahhhh 2 Check out my latest song called Snozz'en (Cronik Mix)

heatherbrooks	heatherbrooks said 1133 days ago (October 16th, 2006)
	smoove funk equipped with obvious hours of listening to the masters, aerojet creates a subtle, sweet piece of his own musical history...whatever you're thinking, stay in 'til the end-there's tasty stops in the middle you don't wanna miss! great work and favorited. Check out my latest song called Run Aground

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