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Something Freaky – Basement Freaks

Label: Jalapeno Records

The well-carbonated spirit of acid-house, the slinky, well-oiled rubric of classic boogie-cop jazzsters like the James Taylor Quartet and the punchy brass lungs of disco – it’s all brewed up and served with the most vibrant of cocktail umbrellas by the funky George Fortadis as ‘Something Freaky’.  The titles themselves should give the game away: ‘Spot On Phunk’, ‘Disco Life’, ‘Get Down Boogie’ and ‘Makes Me Wanna Scream’. It’s no pastiche by any means, but record’s affection for the flair-flapping, collar-stretching 70s is worn on its sleeve like a great big heart-shaped wreath – as is the records’ tendency to trade on some fairly gruesome rave-culture clichés (‘pump up the volume? does anybody still say those kinds of things?). Genre-tourism aside, this is a frothy collection of tracks with an instinctive grasp of the bass, an elastic ability to bump and grind and flair-like ability to flap on demand.

Release: Basement Freaks - Something Freaky
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Released: 12 December 2010