Rare Groove Spectrum by Lance Ferguson - Freestyle Records [FSRCD125] FLAC download included with physical items

Rare Groove Spectrum

Lance Ferguson

A 12 track funk album (51m 30s) — released January 25th 2019 on Freestyle Records

#soul #funk

Also available on Vinyl

Lance Ferguson's Raregroove Spectrum is a collection of newly recorded versions of classic funk, soul, jazz and latin vinyl rarities, which features some of Melbourne's finest musicians across the album, including past and present members of The Bamboos, The Putbacks and Hiatus Kaiyote.

As the man at the helm of many musical projects over the years including Cookin' On 3 Burners, Menagerie & his solo project Lanu, Lance is no stranger to the art of imaginative musical re-interpretation, be the material soul, funk and jazz based or the works of James Blake, Roxy Music and Prefab Sprout.

For Raregroove Spectrum, Lance explains that much of the inspiration for the re-works comes from his experience as a DJ; "Some of these versions can almost be looked at as DJ re-edits, sometimes we're extending what may be a really short track into something longer, or teasing out the elements in a song that really make it work on a dance-floor. It's essentially what someone does with a club re-edit, except we went the extra step and re-recorded the whole thing with a live band".

In other cases, top-shelf classics have been re-imagined in different guises: James Mason's 'Sweet Power, Your Embrace' as a sun-drenched Samba, or Anderson Paak's sure shot tune 'Am I Wrong' given an 1980's style Boogie/Jazz Funk makeover. Stir into this musical gumbo stew the raw Deep Funk of 'Egg Roll', the swinging Mod R&B of Googie Rene's 'Smoky Joe's La La' to the epic, widescreen Jazz-Funk of Pleasure's 'Joyous' - Rare Groove Spectrum provides new perspectives on the obscure to the well-loved, from old-school to new sounds - this is rare grooves re-grooved... beautifully.

Greg Boraman

Freestyle Records

London 2018

Your life will be so much better with this album in it! - Craig Charles 6Music

A proper collection. Loving this. - Tony Minvielle Jazz FM / Foldedspace

Brazilian Rhyme rework is dope! loving the fresh touches on these classics - Marco Weibel Darker Than Wax / The Lot Radio

Nice stuff. Melbourne has reThunk the Funk - derekrath KPFK, KXLU (Los Angeles)

First big album of the year!! - Ilya Rasskazov Headz.FM/ Mixmag Russia

To finally have access to some of these gems that have been so badly sought after is a great thing to behold. ''Egg Roll'' being my favourite on the cut, it's true party funk ammo for the upbeat soul Disc Jockey! - Jimi Needles Fingerlickin' / Bombstrikes

Absolute quality from start to finish! - Flevans Jalapeño / Tru Thoughts / 1BTN.fm

This is a treasure chest of grooves! - DJ Snuff breakfastjam

Dope! Loving it! - Alex Attias Visions Recordings

A fantastic album, 10/10 for Lance Ferguson's Rare Groove Spectrum!! - Sven Thomschke Radio Z 95.8

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