Herman Kelly & Life were a short-lived 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...

 musical group who released records on the Miami, Florida based T.K. Disco, Alston, and Electric Cat labels in the late 1970s. Their 1978 song "Dance to the Drummer's Beat" later appeared on the breakbeat

Breakbeat

In 1992, a new style called "jungalistic hardcore" emerged, and for many ravers it was too funky to dance to. Josh Lawford of Ravescene prophesied that the breakbeat was "the death-knell of rave" because the ever changing drumbeat patterns of breakbeat music didn't allow for the same zoned out,...

 compilation "Ultimate Breaks and Beats

Ultimate Breaks and Beats

Ultimate Breaks and Beats was a series of 25 compilation albums released from 1986 to 1991 by Street Beat Records...

", and has been sampled numerous times, mainly by hip hop artists. Due to a typographical error, the title of the song appeared as "Dance to the Drummer Beat" on the original release.

Discography

Albums

• Percussion Explosion!
  Percussion Explosion!
  Percussion Explosion is the debut and only studio album by short lived Miami, Florida group Herman Kelly & Life.-Track listing:#Dance To The Drummer's Beat 5:09 #Time After Time 4:38 #A Refreshing Love 6:40 #Who's The Funky D.J. ? 8:34...
  
  Electric Cat (1978)
• Percussion Explosion! Alston Records (1978)

Singles

• "Dance To The Drummer Beat/Easy Going (Noches Eternas)" (12") Electric Cat (1978)
• "Dance To The Drummer Beat" (12") T.K. Disco (1978)
• "Dance To The Drummer Beat/Easy Going" (7") Alston Records (1978)