Style is the ninth album by the funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

/R&B band Cameo

Cameo (band)

Cameo is an American soul-influenced funk group that formed in the early 1970s. Cameo was initially a 13-member group known as the New York City Players; this name was later changed to Cameo to avoid a lawsuit from Ohio Players, another group from that era. Since then, Cameo has recorded several...

, released in 1983. It was their first album to introduce their "Atlanta Artists

Atlanta Artists

Atlanta Artists was a sub-label of Polygram Records founded by Larry Blackmon of the group Cameo.-Origins:After Cameo's 7th album, Knights of the Sound Table , Blackmon reduced the group from 10 members to a 5-member unit....

" label, with which they maintained their distribution through Polygram Records. Aside from the new label, Cameo was definitely going through quite a transition, having gone from 5 members (Alligator Woman

Alligator Woman

Alligator Woman is the eighth album by the funk/R&B band Cameo, released in 1982. It contains the funk classic, "Flirt".The cover artwork model is the Prince protege Denise Matthews, aka Vanity.-Track listing:...

, 1982) to 4, and an extreme makeover in their sound. Their former big funk band sound was now being replaced by all the elements of the electronic age (i.e., keyboards, synthesizers, and Simmons drums

Simmons (electronic drum company)

Simmons was a pioneering British manufacturer of electronic drums that supplied electronic kits from 1980 to 1994. The drums' distinctive, electronic sound can be found on countless albums from the 1980s....

). Their music was self-proclaimed "21st Century Bebop" and the band prided themselves for the use of non-conventional drums.

Track listing

1. "Aphrodisiac" – 5:00 c. L. Blackmon, C.Singleton, N.Leftenant & T.Jenkins
2. "This Life Is Not for Me" - 3:30 c. L. Blackmon, C.Singleton, N.Leftenant & T.Jenkins
3. "You're a Winner" - 3:30 c. L. Blackmon, C.Singleton, N.Leftenant & T.Jenkins
4. "Can't Help Falling in Love" - 3:50 c. L.Creatore, H.Peretti & G.D.Weiss
5. "Serenity (interlude)" - 1:30 c. C.Singleton
6. "Style" - 5:12 c. L. Blackmon, C.Singleton, N.Leftenant & T.Jenkins
7. "Cameo's Dance" - 3:23 c. L. Blackmon, C.Singleton, N.Leftenant & T.Jenkins
8. "Let's Not Talk Slot" - 3:31 c. L. Blackmon, C.Singleton, N.Leftenant & T.Jenkins
9. "Slow Moving" - 3:24 c. L. Blackmon, C.Singleton, N.Leftenant & T.Jenkins
10. "Heaven Only knows" - 3:37 c. L. Blackmon, C.Singleton, N.Leftenant & T.Jenkins

Personnel

• Larry Blackmon
  Larry Blackmon
  Larry Ernest Blackmon is the lead singer and frontman for the funk and R&B band, Cameo. He came to Cameo from the band, Black Ivory....
  
   - Vocals, drums, percussion, and bass guitar
• Tomi Jenkins - Lead & backing vocals
• Charlie Singleton - Vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards & synthesizers
• Nathan Leftenant - Backing vocals
• Kevin Kendrick - Prophet, Jupiter 8, Fender Rhodes, Grand Piano, Mini Moog, & Yamaha Grand