Artist: Various artists(I guess)
Album: The Free Pop Electronic Concept
Label: Vampi Soul
Year: 2008
Reviewed By: Woodstock Slim
What is the true name of Funk is this! I'll tell you what it is... it is Psych for black folks! None of the Pebbles beats here, no sir! This is Funk crazy up in here! If you don't buy this record you're dick will fall off! Go! Go now!
When Vampi Soul introduced me to Orlando Julius and Tony Allen I realised just how much I missed growing up and how narrow minded I was. Broadening my musical knowledge and otherwise unexperienced musical genres. If I never heard this album I would be walking around without vital organs, man, I tell you. Wow! There is not much on the internet to read up on Jess & James but inside the album sleeve is the complete history of this "Genre" and its growings and expanding and floppings and erections. Also lots of great black and white photo of Fernando and Toni busking and also with some of their bands and tours, etc. It also includes the vital discography so you can go and buy all their stuff!
First-time ever legit reissue of this lost gem from the late 60’s euro psychedelic underground. Belgium-based Portuguese soul brothers Tony & Waldo Lam (better know as Jess & James) join forces which American jazzman Scott Bradford and Belgian mad scientist & electronics grand daddy Arsene Souffriau for a crazy trip of groovy free-rock and soul into electronics in the best Pierre Henry’s "Jerks Electroniques Pour La Messe Du Temps Present", Cecil Leuter’s "Pop Electronique", JP Massiera’s "Maledictus Sound" tradition... for some it may even be close to the craziness of Jimmy Haskell's "Count Down" or The Love Machine's "Electronic Music To Blow Your Mind".
Heavy riffing, screaming fuzz, mind-frying chirping electronics, tribal drumming mayhem, crazy studio effects, groovy go-go keyboard action, stomping beats all over... insane stuff far ahead of its time.
A must-have for psych fiends, krautrock aficionados, beat diggers, library lunatics and all-around acid heads. A legendary record which is still riding high in many want lists... grab it now or cry for ages. Strictly limited to five-hundred (yep, that’s 500!!) copies.
