FUNKY CHICKEN PT. 1 by V/A
Tracks
- Chakachas - Stories
- Mad Unity - Funky Tramway
- Rene Costy - Ostinato Bass
- Alex Scorier - Topless
- Open Sky Unit - Sunshine Star
- Plus - Gimme Some More Of That
- Andre Brasseur - Funky
- Chicken Curry & His Pop Percussion Orchestra - Librium
- Placebo - Balek
- Les Helions - Music & Co
- Black Blood - Avenue Louise
- SSO - Tonight's The Night (feat Douglas Lucas & The Sugar Sisters)
- Nico Gomez & His Afro Percussion Inc - Ritual
- Andre Brasseur - Saturnus
- Chocolat's - El Caravanero
Description
Funky Chicken brings together some of the best Belgian dance tracks from the early seventies !Emerged in a country where virtually every musical wave passes through, most of these tunes were created and recorded by hired guns, in this case a few clusters of gifted session musicians and composers. The music on Funky Chicken is their take on (afro-)funk, soul and Latin. Some of their releases were hit parade cannon fodder, but occasionaly, some spare studio time or the urgent need for a B-side allowed for memorable musical experiments.
Funky Chicken is a post-fact documentation, the result of a quest into a period on which information is few and far between. The barren wasteland between the variety orchestras of the sixties and the electronic revolution of the late seventies and early eighties. This series explores the ground the dance pioneers built upon.