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Cat: SJRLP 4497. Rel: 25 Nov 19
Funk/Rare Groove

Side 1 - Track 1. LEO - Fee Fi Fo Fum Side 1 - Track 2. The Sonarphonic - Super Breaker Side 1 - Track 3. Santiago - Bionic Funk Side 1 - Track 4. Frank Cornilius - Computer Games Side 2 - Track 1. JUJU & The Space Rangers - Plastic Side 2 - Track 2. Jamie Jupitor - Computer Power Side 2 - Track 3. Solaris - Space Invaders Side 2 - Track 4. Copperfield - Make It Good To Me Baby Side 3 - Track 1. Ernest Flippin II - Supersonic Space Lady Side 3 - Track 2. Funk Machine - Funk Machine Side 3 - Track 3. Ramsey 2C-3D - Fly Guy & The Unemployed Side 4 - Track 1. Ose - Computer Funk Side 4 - Track 2. Below Zero Band - Seven (We Are) Side 4 - Track 3. Rodney Stepp - Break-Out Side 5. Robotron 4 - Electro-? (part 1) Side 6. Robotron 4 - Electro-? (part 2)

While much turn-of-the-80s electro-funk was inherently futuristic in tone, the music gathered together on Soul Jazz's latest compilation, "Space Funk", is particularly intergalactic. The venerable London label has searched in particular for cuts from obscure independent labels that bear all the hallmarks of "Afro-futurism" - a musical and cultural movement that would later inspire the birth of techno in Detroit. The quality of the material remains dizzyingly high throughout, with our picks including the bleeping, slap-bass-propelled brilliance of Frank Cornilius' "Computer Games", Egyptian Lover/Jamie Jupitor's signature electro style on "Computer Power", the starry jazz-funk of Ernest Flippin II's "Supersonic Space Lady" and the guitar-laden P-funk strut of Below Zero Band's "Seven (We Are)".