Brooklyn has been the place to be for quite some time now, and there's no arguing about that. It is therefore in a state of hard-to-contain enthusiasm that one welcomes this joint venture between Bastard Jazz Recordings and BrooklynRadio.net. Curated by label founder DJ DRM, and DJ Soulstatic, founder and program director at the aforementioned station, "BKLYN: Heavy Sounds From the County of Kings" is a pretty diverse account of what's hot around the borough's frenetic music scenes.
The first cut, "Make the Road by Walking" by Menahan Street Band, starts this thing off with a nice spin combination of retro and futuristic funk. It is nevertheless the name of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings that instantly pops up when browsing the track list. The revivalist soul ensemble sees the funked-out "How Long Do I Have to Wait for You?" remixed by Ticklah in an ultra-dubbed fashion.
The number is then followed by the Arab-infused, inebriant sonic tapestry of the Subatomic Sound System doing "Our Father, Our King". But there's also some Latin soul for you to delve into: the Brazilian group União Black returns from the mid-70s to drop the slow-moving "Yeah Yeah Yeah", and The Pimps of Joytime bridge the geographical gap between New Orleans and Brooklyn with the exuberance of "Bonita". And, of course, Captain Planet's "Speakin' Nuyorican" is a track not to be skipped in any rerun of this great set of songs.
The Latin jazzy soul of the upper cuts gives way to more afrobeat-oriented breaks like The Midnight Lab Band's "Run Riot", and the 13-minute journey to Nigeria via Bklyn that is "Jeje l'Aiye" by the Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble. This track in particular, placed at the very core of the album, has some great sax parts done by Cedric "IM" Brooks that should not be missed by anyone.
Chico Mann's remixing work of DJ DRM's "Vidambana" inaugurates the dancefloor-worthy section of the record, a great opening that the Chimp Beams fully honor with the dub electronics of "Lovely Chimps". Clocking in at 65 minutes, the whole record is a passionately-taken sonic Polaroid of Brooklyn – and the remaining tracks are no lesser cuts and have a lot of replay value as well, even if they're not mentioned in this review.
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