Returning after a four-year sojourn, Utah Saints have lost none of their punk-funk meets acid sensibilities.
Funky Music screams their re-emergence from the rooftops. "Edwin Star sang Funky Music originally in 1973," explains Tim Garbutt, one half of Utah Saints. "We had it on a greatest hits record and thought it could be cool. So we did a rough backing track and got him into a studio. He did it in 40 minutes. We wanted to use him because he's got one of the loudest fucking voices in history."
The original version is a full-on rock fuelled, power house of a tune. Driven by Starr's hard edged soul vocals, it marries the early rock-funk of Parliament/ Funkadelic with big beat and acidic bleeps. The Red Rad Rag mix adds old school funky sax breaks. Levant's Funk-O-Rama mix takes the track into filtered four-four territory, while keeping enough of the groove for a wig out session.
The stand-out re-mix comes courtesy of the Dope Smugglaz, who strip it back to a clean drum break and then have some fun farting around with Starr's vocal track – the obvious choice of approach. As Garbutt says; "every time Edwin opens his mouth the funk comes out".
