And so it's great that these West Coast legends like Snoop, DJ Battlecat and Kurupt pay homage to Roger's genius and creative abilities on this new record."Ġ6. "He loved jazz, he loved instrumental music, but he was also a great producer-arranger in the studio and he developed something that was going to catch the people. The group’s music has been sampled on dozens of hit rap singles. The band was probably best known for its use of the vocoder or talkbox, a device that makes vocals sound robotic. Zapp (also known as the Zapp Band or Zapp & Roger) is an American funk band that emerged from Dayton, Ohio, in 1977. "Roger's real instrument was guitar," explains Larry Troutman Jr. He was a renowned funk-music innovator who recorded with his brothers in the band Zapp in the early 80s. 'Zapp VII: Roger & Friend's also includes posthumous performances by Roger himself on 'Red & Dollars' and the beautiful ballad 'Angel', which was pieced together from an early demo tape he made. Talkbox), "Shy" (with Tuxedo), "Make It Funky" (with Bootsy Collins), "Red & Dollars" (with Snoop Dogg) and "After Party" (with Kurupt). Zapp reformed briefly in 2003 with the remaining brothers of the Troutman family to produce the album Zapp VI: Back By Popular Demand.
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With Roger's signature talk box and synth bass lines in full effect on tunes like "Rock Ya Body" (featuring Mr. The band disbanded in 1999 after the deaths of Roger and Larry Troutman in a murder-suicide apparently carried out by Larry.
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Now the funkateers are back with 'Zapp VII: Roger & Friends', which celebrates the 40-year legacy of the band while paying homage to the creative genius of Roger Troutman. Complete song listing of Zapp & Roger on. Their 1980 self-titled debut, produced by Bootsy Collins and with input from P-Funk founder George Clinton, went gold and their influential hit single, "More Bounce to the Ounce", would later be sampled by the next generation of rappers and hip-hop stars, including EPMD, The Notorious B.I.G., Public Enemy, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, and Snoop Dogg, among many others. The album album continues the band's 40-year legacy of funk with special guest appearances by Bootsy Collins, Frankie J., Tuxedo, Kurupt and Snoop Dogg.īack in 1978, four brothers out of Dayton, Ohio - Roger, Larry, Lester and Terry Troutman - formed the electro-funk band Zapp with the single-minded purpose of getting people out on the dance floor. Zapp salutes the late Roger Troutman on 'Zapp VII: Roger & Friends'.