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| Artist______________ The Du-Rites |
| Title_______________ A Funky Bad Time |
| Label_______________ Old Maid Entertainment / Ilegalia Records |
| Genre_______________ Funk |
| Year________________ 2020 |
| Release Date________ 2020-11-16 |
| Street Date_________ 2020-11-13 |
| Source______________ WEB |
| Encoder_____________ MP3 / LAME |
| Quality_____________ CBR 320kbps 44.1kHz |
| Size________________ 79.3MiB |
| Playtime____________ 0:34:22 |
| URL_________________ https://amazon.com/dp/B08N1KBZ5D/ |
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| 01. Uptown 03:07 |
| 02. Can't Buy Groove 02:55 |
| 03. Arnold 02:36 |
| 04. Hot N' Psycho 03:45 |
| 05. Done N' Dusted 01:35 |
| 06. Jungle 03:18 |
| 07. The San Remo Affair 03:02 |
| 08. A Funky Badd Time (With A Double D) 01:56 |
| 09. Pigeon Spikes 02:39 |
| 10. Mad Dog 03:34 |
| 11. Alfred's Nightmare 02:40 |
| 12. Jamaica 03:16 |
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| When life is good, it's good. When life is bad, it's bad. But when it |
| gets so bad you get the blues, life gets funky. And by the looks of |
| 2020, The Du-Rites have no choice but to be funkier than ever before |
| on A Funky Bad Time, the NYC duo's fifth album in five years. |
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| Multi-instrumentalists Jay "J-Zone" Mumford (drums, keyboards, |
| percussion, occasional vocals) and Pablo Martin (guitar, bass, |
| keyboards) were in the midst of transitioning their studio chemistry |
| into a live act. Their previous album, 2019's Soundcheck at 6, was |
| recorded live, and a January 2020 gig opening for The Skatalites at |
| Brooklyn Bowl set things down the right path. Then the world was |
| swept by a pandemic, canceling all plans. But with much worse ahead, |
| a derailment of plans seemed minor in comparison. |
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| As the domino effect of turmoil continued into the spring, Jay and |
| Pablo retreated to their home studios and put together a relentlessly |
| funky, dark and nasty album, channeling the sting of a world in chaos |
| and maintaining their own sanity through its creation. In a perfect |
| example of "when times are bad, you must be badder," the duo utilizes |
| the chaos as fuel to be emotionally funkier than ever before. A Funky |
| Bad Time by default becomes the most unique and focused release in |
| the band's catalog; a product of unprecedented times, set to an |
| otherworldly backdrop their four prior releases just didn't have. |
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| "Uptown" and "Jamaica" are not only Pablo and Jay's NYC |
| neighborhoods, respectively - they're the cinematic, moody bookends |
| to an album full of pandemic-fueled funk that goes from bedlam |
| ("Jungle"); to apocalypse ("The San Remo Affair"); to funky blues ("A |
| Funky Bad Time (With Double D's)". But things never go so dark that |
| The Du-Rites lose their tongue-in-cheek humor, which is the Tylenol |
| for tough times. "Can't Buy Groove" is a grease-covered funk nugget |
| poking fun at amateur musicians buying expensive gear. The playful |
| "Hot N' Psycho" humorously sees an old man with a Cadillac attempt to |
| flirt in the face of cancel culture and "Done N' Dusted" is a peek |
| into what rehearsals actually sounded like pre-social distancing, |
| when Jay and Pablo could only play one instrument at a time without |
| the aid of multi-tracking. |
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| With on-record credits playing behind artists as wide-ranging as |
| Eddie Palmieri, Ghostface Killah and Robert Glasper (as The Du-Rites) |
| and Tom Tom Club, Broken Bells, Danger Mouse & Karen O, Michael |
| Kiwanuka and Lord Finesse (individually), Jay and Pablo's playing and |
| composing chops cut through the limitations and darkness of our |
| current world for the funkiest 35 minutes of 2020. |
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| Personnel: |
| Jay Mumford (J-Zone) - drums, AceTone organ, percussion, vocals, |
| hammond organ, clavinet, elec. piano |
| Pablo Martin - bass, guitar, synthesizers (Moog Taurus, wah organ) |
| Horn Diapersen - bass on "Arnold" and "Alfred's Nightmare" |
| Bruce Martin - percussion on "Uptown" and "Can't Buy Groove" |
| Broughamin' Fred - vocals on "Hot N' Psycho" |
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| YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS SHIT IF YOU LIKE IT RIGHT?! |
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