Crazy Cousinz - "Inflation". As many of you will know, they call this "funky". This is not an adjective; it is a noun. It is the name of the genre; the same way you might say "jungle", "kuduro" or "wonky". Wikipedia says, it mixes traditional UKG beats, bass loops and synths with latin percussion. But what I like best about funky, - what I like almost as much as I just simply like this song, "Inflation", with its open-mouth spectral ah!s and paradise xylophone, - is that funky is not funky. That is, it is not funk-like. It is not James Brown, the Meters, or even Red Hot Chili Peppers. Its basslines do not swing and flick in the same way.

And how can you name an un-funky genre funky?! It's like naming a tree a bird, like naming a cake a month, like naming a baby girl an unbleached flour. I love it, I love it. It's as arbitrary as language, as dance-steps, as the place the emphasis falls in a beat. Taking a thing and making it yours. [myspace]