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60s and 70s Retro Funk Music
Royalty-free funk music on Audiosocket, 60s and 70s style, is a funk and soul set where swagger dominates and sound references lean on Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross and Anita Ward. Electric guitars, percussion and keyboards lead nearly every track with horn sections on most, and The Diplomats Of Solid Sound anchor the set with No Man (Instrumental), Lights Out! and Pistol Alien. Four in ten tracks are instrumental, suiting retro brands and comedy edits.
30 tracks1 hr 52 minUpdated Oct 8, 2026
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About 38 percent of the tracks are instrumental, so the collection leans vocal in the way classic soul and funk records do. The instrumental cuts include No Man (Instrumental) and Pistol Alien by The Diplomats Of Solid Sound, Super Badd by Kenneth Ward Lovell Jr., 128 by Steve Noakes and Funky Avocados by Danny Massure, which are the picks for a voiceover or a comedy bit. Sock It To Ya! by All Good Funk Alliance and Pay It Off by The Kingmakers are among the sung tracks.
Both are in here, and the sub-genre split shows it: funk and soul dominate, but nu-funk accounts for a meaningful slice, along with jam band and jazz funk cuts. Horn sections of winds and brass, electric guitars and keyboards lead the arrangements across the collection, and the editorial sound references are Aretha Franklin, Anita Ward, Diana Ross and David Holmes, so the vocal tracks skew classic soul while the nu-funk instrumentals bring a cleaner, sample-era production feel.
Tracks average about three minutes forty seconds, which is a full jam rather than a sting, so for background use under cooking or lifestyle content you can let a track run through a whole segment. Swagger is the mood on the great majority of tracks with exciting second, so it never drops to wallpaper; for a quieter bed pick the chill-tagged cuts, and for a comedy beat the quirky and silly tags point to the right tracks.
This collection is vocal-leaning soul and funk with about six in ten tracks sung, built on horn sections and classic soul references, whereas the Jazz Fusion collection is over 90 percent instrumental, splits evenly between jazz and funk, and references Bob James, Fourplay and Lee Ritenour. Choose this one when you want a retro party feel or a sung hook, and the fusion collection when you want an upscale instrumental groove for a podcast or brand video.