NRJ Funky

Funk is easy to get wrong. Too many stations treat it like a wedding-party novelty, all horn-section gusto and no grit. NRJ Funky goes deeper. The spine of the playlist is the James Brown lineage: JB's own sides, then the bands he spawned, from Parliament-Funkadelic's cosmic sprawl to the tighter synth bounce of Zapp and Cameo. Modern cuts show up too, the Dâm-Funk and Vulfpeck end of things, plus French funk that rarely gets airtime outside the country. Expect long vamps, slap bass, and horn stabs that land exactly when they should. The stream runs at 128kbps. Pacing is the real strength here…