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KEB DARGE PRESENTS FUNK FOR THE 21st century

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Deeply digging UK DJ Keb Darge — the exalted grand poobah of the funk revival — departs from his typical singles comp formula of gathering wildly obscure vintage 7-inch treasures and instead offers a sampling of the new joints being created by contemporary retro-funk combos like London’s New Mastersounds and New York’s Sugarman 3. Apart from the previously unreleased Speedometer vocal take on Wait Up and Connie Price’s The Badger, most funk-natics will have the vinyl versions of most of these tunes. This CD-only set is really aimed at the non-collector crowd, and Funk For The 21st Century offers an excellent survey of the funk that’s been going on since James Brown last fired the JBs.

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