Various, Tom Tom Club, Randy Muller, Quincy Jones, Ray Parker Jr., Stevie Wonder, Larry Dodson, Dazz Band, Maurice White, Stevie Wonder, Paul Jabara, Diana Ross

D.C. Go-Go

Percussion that never stops: congas, cowbell and crowd chants holding one groove across a whole night.

Minneapolis Sound

Linn drums, Oberheim stabs, no horn section: funk rebuilt by one city's worth of overlapping bands.