Back in September 2007, Freestyle Records released Black Feeling, an album project brought to life by Australian musical supremo Lance Ferguson from The Bamboos, exploring a number of alter egos, such as Cookin´ On 3 Burners and Lanu. Each track was presented under a pseudonym to give the impression of an album you would find whilst digging in a Caribbean record shop or American thrift store. As a collection of reworked classics, the album set dance floors alight across the world, indeed the single Hippy Skippy Moon Strut by The Mighty Show-Stoppers became a huge selling 12", and also notched up well over 350,000 individual viewings on YouTube to date.
In 2011, Freestyle Records released a teaser 45 single that featured 2 cuts from the follow up album Black Feeling: Volume Two.
The A side is Lance & Co´s fantastic reworking of the anthemic Burning Spear under the moniker of The Poly-Tones, an intense and driving piece of soulful funk, and what could possibly equal that for the flip side? The Mighty Show-Stoppers giving Johnnie Pate´s blaxploitation soundtrack classic Shaft In Africa such a convincing and wonderful re-working, you will think you are back in time, on the film set whilst Richard Roundtree's John Shaft persona kicks some serious ass.
An awesome cover by Lance Ferguson from The Bamboos, exploring a number of alter egos; I've used this well produced and played 45 to kick my DJ sets off.
- FVS
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