the fact that the syth bass line is accented with the drum beat ...they kind of blend together where they make the bass and drum one in the same... That sound along with how they hit in the urban areas ... See now that is where I would say that More Bounce was a game changer for Funk in a sense.... not just the fact that the synth bass was in it...but how it was used in a percussive since to blend with the drums....

that led right into the so called Electro-funk ....which led into hip hop......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuDvx-j8-5Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6zkbjOvXWo

we talked previously about the new jack swing...and hip hop soul.... a lot of that came out of the the electro-funk movement....which again was birthed out of the synth based funk of a Zapp...One way and the like...