from Dusty Groove America:
Weird work from Wicked Witch -- tunes that are half funky, half punky -- with a mysterious sound that's all their own! At some level, Wicked Witch might be an offshoot of the P-Funk empire -- a lost mission to a dark planet way out in the galaxy -- trapped out there on their own, and slowly losing touch with the original groove of the Mothership as they mess around with heavy basslines, spacey keyboards, and some very stark rhythms -- sometimes played live, sometimes from a drum machine. There's a bit of vocals in the mix, but they're usually second-tier next to the rhythms -- which themselves take plenty of weird twists and turns. Billed as "evil psycho machine funk" -- which is a pretty accurate description! Titles include "Fancy Dancer", "Erratic Behaviour", "X Rated", "Vera's Back", and "Electric War (inst)". CD features bonus tracks "Fancy Dancer (previously unreleased rmx)", and "Electric War (voc)".
1 comment:
Wow, this is what I love about blogs like yours, discovering amazing music from the seventies and eighties that completely by-passed my (and others) radar at the time, only to be discovered three decades down the line..I especially love finding music that sounds like it could have been released next Thursday..there is so much music that did not fit the sonic lexicon at the time and this is why it still sounds "fresh" today!
Thanks again, a great blog!
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