Future Funk

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Future Funk
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Live album by
Released1982
Genre
Length35:13
Label Galaxy Unlimited Records [1]
Producer Robert "Shine" Freeman (exec)
Experience Unlimited chronology
Just the Way You Like It
(1981)
Future Funk
(1982)
2 Places at the Same Time
(1986)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]

Future Funk is a live album released in 1982 by the Washington, D.C.–based go-go band Experience Unlimited. [3]

Contents

Critical reception

The Washington Informer wrote: "Side Two is given over to 'Crankin' At The Go Go'. This is the E.U. groove—nineteen minutes and eighteen seconds of it. Long form, tongue-in-cheek, big fun funk, its raison d'etre is that 'everybody got to do the do.' You know ... the 'do' ... the 'freaky deak' ... Anyway 'Crankin ...' is definitely for pumping up the dance floor." [1]

Track listing

Side A
  1. "Wind It On Up" – 6:04
  2. "Future Funk" – 6:38
  3. "Tell Me Why" – 3:13
Side B
  1. "Crankin' at the Go-Go" – 19:38

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 "REVIEW: E.U. Is Breaking Into New Market". The Washington Informer. 19 (22): 18. Mar 23, 1983.
  2. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 232.
  3. Lornell, Kip; Stephenson, Jr., Charles C. (2001). The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop . Billboard Books. p.  252. ISBN   0-8230-7727-6.