New York City singer, songwriter, dancer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, Temu Bacot appears on the multi-platinum hit “We’ll Always Love Big Poppa”, Gramatik’s “Talkbox Intended”, and on recordings with the cream Denmark’s musical talents. He also has a string of important production credits to his name. Recently Temu released his EP ‘Rise of the Necrodancer’.
The fact is plain and simple: Temu Bacot can jam. That much is clear from the very first track on the EP – Who Funkin’? And in that same vein, this is not your typical funk record. There are moments when Temu supplies a stream of smooth grooves, like the opening track, and then there are moments for out and out party starters like Jooze! (Pt. 1). In between there are solid doses of nitty gritty Funk numbers such as Take The Funk From Me [Colonel Abrams FUNKAFIED] and Funkadophilus! & The Brass Operator (Or An Ode To Bootsy) as well as incendiary rock-influenced tunes like Magic & Sorcery.
Incredible, soulful music layered with musical ideas on a crisp funk pallet might describe one tune. Slick production matched with fiery vocals and mystery beats may describe another. All-round the EP is totally infectious. The ‘Rise of the Necrodancer’ is the kind of acid scorched jam-platter that can keep your soul grooving from track one to the end. On the vocal tracks Temu Bacot hurls interplanetary melodies and star bursting voices around rhythm-driven hypnotic grooves where the bass lines are darker and deeper than the ocean’s abyss and the choruses are huge.
The music, the lyrics everything about this EP rocks, once you get over the eclectic and spastic synth-bass rhythms of Boogaloo Blues, which is put slap-bang in the middle of the EP to break any hypnotic spell you may have fallen into by then! The ‘Rise of the Necrodancer’ reaches its glorious climax on Funkadophilus! & The Brass Operator (Or An Ode To Bootsy), when all you need to do, is turn up the volume and get the party started. This is one blazing jam, horns and all!
If you’re a talkbox fan then the closing track, Temu’s Talkbox Groove will completely your satisfy needs. The EP is banging from start to finish with a retro/futuristic concept that ties all the songs together. They hardly make funky music like this anymore. I encourage all funk music fans to grab this release, so when you’re tired of listening to all of the generic crap on the radio you can listen to something new that hasn’t lost its intrinsic classic qualities!
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