A percussion and drums dominated funk sound with jam character, added with James Brown style horns, spare keyboard parts, call-and-response vocals and rap. Mainly emerged as a live event. Go-Go came up in Washington D.C. and was represented almost exclusively by artists from Washington. Chuck Brown, who invented that sound with his band Soul Searchers, described it as a combination of Latin Beats, African Call and Chant and American Jazz.

Distinctive sub-style of Funk music, invented by George Clinton and his fellow musicians of Parliament and Funkadelic fame, among others. Characteristics are "fat" and monotonic drum sound, spaced out synthesizers, thumping bass lines, tight and syncopated horn sections, sometimes heavy guitars. This sound has been brought by former Clinton collaborators to many spin off bands, Jerome Brailey's Mutiny being one example.
It has been sampled heavily by many hip hop acts.