"When our forefathers and foremothers were behind closed doors, love was being made to the EFUNK. A circumcised man gains powers of our universe, shaping him into a being of interplanetary dopiness…"
The Boston duo Soul Clap has brought the funky deep-house summer-jam goodness into a full length album entitled EFUNK (Everybody's Freaky Under Nature's Kingdom). This debut album from the hip-hop inspired house dj/producers was itself inspired from a mixtape they released in 2010, easily one of my favorite mixtapes. It features artists like Dam Funk and Snoop Dogg, and has close to 40 tracks of head bobbin' funkiness.
EFUNK is going to be released April 20th on Wolf + Lamb records. It starts off with an intro that I can only imagine they made in a time machine that went back to their childhood and then forward to capture the future of sounds to come. Spaced-out trippy vocals, not to mention a jazzy horn that makes me think of the cantina scene from Star Wars, give you an introduction to the futuristic soundscape of the album . EFUNK features some of Soul Clap's close friends such as Baby Prince, AKA Gadi Mizrahi of Wolf + Lamb, and Greg Paulus from No Regular Play. Unlike other previous Soul Clap releases, this thirteen track album was not created so much for DJ's or dance floors. It doesn't incorporate intro/outros and isn't constructed with typical consistent phrasing. Rather, it is borders on being conceptual.
Recorded in their Miami studio, EFUNK will contain their first original tracks in nearly two years! Worth the wait? Most def! This is the kinda album you put on when you’re having that deck party filled with day drinking and Kings. It will take you back to all the fun bass driven tracks you listened to in your 90's childhood. Still don't get it? This is how Eli Goldstein AKA Elyte and Charles Levine AKA Cnyce describe the EFUNK album:
"Before today there was yesterday and after tomorrow is the future, but what happened in-between? The dark age of lost-cool, a time of dimensional imbalance when music was devoured by a black-hole of wackness. Now, marked by a solar-flare in the funky constellations, Soul Clap delivers a galactic renaissance to fill our ears with interplanetary consciousness and emancipate our booties from the androids of dancefloor repetition. The days of EFUNK are upon us, restoring dopeness in the universe, as we groove on and move on together in intergalactic harmony!"- Wolf +Lamb Records
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