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I thought I might be listening to too much funk, so I tried to listen to other musical genres for a while, but I just can't stay away from the funk! I broke down and got the new album by nine-piece L.A. funk outfit Orgone, The Killion Floor, and what an album it is! It's packed from start to finish with heavy breaks, funk grooves, afrobeat, Meters funk, psychedelic soul, horns, rock guitar, organ and electric piano, and some cop show theme vibes here and there; all stuff I love! If it sounds like I'm describing Mandrill, the gold standard of vintage funk rock, that's because they're the closest thing to Mandrill going. Here's "A WOT":
Don't just take my word for the Mandrill connection--how about a Mandrill mini-set? Here are a few tunes I've scraped together with Seeqpod. The second entry is "Lord of the Golden Baboon"; but we start off with Mandrill's signature song, "Fencewalk," or as I like to call it, "What Chicago Should Have Sounded Like":
