Pioneer, Keb Darge has been around the northern soul & funk scene since the start and is possibly the best-known and most highly regarded DJ of such genres.
He is also directly involved in the development of what he termed "deep funk"
Slow Loris are an instrumental rock band from Toronto, consisting of Daryl Smith (guitar, engineering), Dave Walsh (bass), and three members of guh: Jason Clarke (guitar), Brian Cram (trumpet and keyboards) and Blake Howard (drums). Because of lounge elements in their music, and their use of trumpet, they are most usually compared to Tortoise, though Slow Loris music has a grittier edge and is more improvisational in character, resembling on occasion the extra-terrestrial timbres of Pram, or the wheezing melodies of Home.
Han Bennink (born April 17, 1942) is a Dutch jazz drummer, percussionist and multi-instrumentalist. Bennink was born in Zaandam, the son of a classical percussionist. He played the drums and the clarinet during his teens. Through the 1960s he drummed with a number of American musicians visiting the Netherlands, including Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins and Eric Dolphy (he can be heard on Dolphy's final studio recording, Last Date (1964)).