Attacca Pesante are the latest in the UK funky scene to make noise with their amazing new track Make It Funky, which features vocals from the one and only Shea Soul (who tore up the UK Funky Live concert earlier this month). SUPERSUPER caught up with the trio to talk, funky, funky and more funky...

Who?

Well it all started really in 2001 when we decided we wanted to produce and make music. A few years later, around 2004, we felt that we should take this whole music thing seriously, we needed a name and started looking in the dictionary and we found Attacca Pesante, which simply means ‘attack and go forth’ in Latin. We liked the meaning and thought it sounded cool and took it from there...

Inspirations?

Hans Zimmer, John Williams and the obvious one's Timberland and Pharrell. Dizzee Rascal inspires us as he’s still independent and hitting number ones with good music. We generally get inspired by good music which is everywhere, so we look at artists such as Kanye West's passion to make great music. That's a big inspiration!

Funky?

When we made Make It Funky For Me, we didn't go into the AP Nucleus (Studio), aiming to make a funky track, it only became a funky track once people started labelling the song that. Once we made it with Shea Soul (vocalist) a friend of ours sent the song to the lovely Lucy Ambache and she gave us a lot of love on Choice FM. From there, other radio stations wanted the song and the rest is, as they say history.

Notoriety?

The press could be better, funky hasn't received mainstream success as of yet. Also I don't think a lot of people take it seriously, which is disappointing because funky is feel good music that makes you want to shake a leg or two. There is also some good music in funky which I believe can cross over into the mainstream.

MCs & funky?

Some have created a grime feel to the scene, some have lowered the quality of music in the scene all together and some have made good songs such as Migraine Skank. Overall we think the majority of MCs should stay as hosts in the clubs, they’re good there, and we like them there. We truly believe if MCs didn't start jumping on the funky tracks, funky could go further.

She Soul?

Shea Soul is our close friend’s sister, our friend had the tune on her phone and when it rang Shea heard it and wanted to get involved. Shea came down to the AP Nucleus (studio) and we recorded it, the beat and chorus was sexy already, but Shea was the extra spicy sauce which made the jerk chicken amazing!

UK Funky Live concert?

Yeah it was good, interesting. The colourful Shea has an amazing soulful voice and performs well live. We play instruments so it’s a shame we couldn't be on stage playing with her...

Future projects?

Well  Make It Funky is coming out on the 12th Oct and we are currently creating our new single with Bluey Robinson (people check this guy out). Can't say much about that, but just watch out for it. We are also working on our album which will be out hopefully some time next year and have a few interesting remixes in the works, just expect good music from us. Keep it tropical!

www.myspace.com/attaccapesante

Make It Funky - out 12th October

Words by Joseph ‘JP’ Patterson – www.josephjppatterson.blogspot.com

Article by supersupertv