Monophonics - In Your Brain
(CD/2xLP/Digital) Ubiquity Records UR299, 2012-05-15
Monophonics are a San Francisco soul/funk band we've been following quite some time. We played their afrofunk track
Ageless feat. Karl Denson from their 2010 album
Into The Infrasounds (check
here), we've selected for the upcoming third volume of the series their epic afro/funk/jam thing
Baobab Tree from their 2007 album
Playin & Simple, and since we received this fan-tas-tic third album to be released on
Ubiquity Records mid-may, we've also played their soul burner
There's A Riot Going On in last month's
Bag of Goodies selection and kept a few other marvels on the side for some upcoming selections… Their cover of
Bang Bang will surely fit a
Molesting Laura mix soon, for example… The
Monophonics sound is deeply rooted in 70s Funk & Soul, but with a lot of fuzzy psychedelics and bits of 60s garage rock, nods to afrofunk and blaxploitation, rather close to the best productions from
Orgone or
Daptone's studios, and it's quite understandable that the band left their self-releasing politics to join a worldwide label such as
Ubiquity! This one won't leave the
Paris DJs stereo for weeks… and vinyl is recommended, as always.
