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The Hot Grits
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Out of 22 votes - Similar Artists: Fela Kuti, James Brown, The Meters
Out of 22 votes
- Location: Auckland, New Zealand
- Genre: R&B/Soul » Funk
Editor's review
Call it pre-funk. With their complex, deeply soulful bass lines, punchy horns, and elemental percussion, New Zealand Afrobeat troupe the Hot Grits sound more like ancestors of Curtis Mayfield and the Meters than descendants. This could have been the soundtrack for '70s soul's inaugural ball.
Biography
The Championship sounds of The Hot Grits Style: 'deep' funk, and Afrobeat The Hot Grits cover the stylistic ground between deep funk, soul and afrobeat, from Meters -style Struts to superfast deep funk assaults to churning afrobeat soul. The overall Hot Grits sound is funky and sweet, but always energetic and never too smooth. The aim is to get people moving, and The Hot Grits definitely succeed at that... THG kicked off in May of 2002 as a one-off gig for a party at the infamous Kings of ParnHell Mansion. The product of three rehearsals, good old enthusiasm and no small amount of alcohol, THG's first gig was a massive success. The response of the packed room that night was such that any notions of THG being a once-only proposition were quickly banished. In the year since that first gig, The Hot Grits have grown into a powerhouse funk and afrobeat outfit, capable of creating havoc on any dancefloor. When THG hit their stride, no-one in the room is immune from the power and sheer soulful funkiness
