Future Funk
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{{Infobox album
| name = Future Funk
| type = live
| artist = Experience Unlimited
| cover = FutureFunk album.png
| alt =
| released = 1982
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = {{hlist| Go-go | old-school hip hop }}
| length = {{Duration|m=35|s=13}}
| label = Galaxy Unlimited Records
| producer = Robert "Shine" Freeman(exec)
| prev_title = Just the Way You Like It
| prev_year = 1981
| next_title = 2 Places at the Same Time
| next_year = 1986
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
| rev1Score = {{rating|2.5|5}}{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=232}}
}}
Future Funk is a live album released in 1982 by the Washington, D.C.–based go-go band Experience Unlimited.{{cite book |last1=Lornell |first1=Kip |last2=Stephenson, Jr. |first2=Charles C. |date=2001 |title=The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop |publisher=Billboard Books |page=[https://archive.org/details/beatgogosfusion00lorn/page/252 252] |isbn=0-8230-7727-6 }}
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."{{cite journal |title=REVIEW: E.U. Is Breaking Into New Market |journal=The Washington Informer |date=Mar 23, 1983 |volume=19 |issue=22 |page=18}}
Track listing
;Side A
- "Wind It On Up" – 6:04
- "Future Funk" – 6:38
- "Tell Me Why" – 3:13
;Side B
- "Crankin' at the Go-Go" – 19:38
Personnel
- Gregory "Sugar Bear" Elliott – lead vocals, bass guitar
- Ivan Goff – keyboards
- Kent Wood – keyboards
- Ricky “Sugarfoot” Wellman – drums
- Genairo "Foxxy" Brown Foxx – congas, percussions
- Timothy "Short Tim" Glover – percussions
- Valentino "Tino" Jackson – electric guitar
- Darryel "Tidy Boy" Hayes – trumpet
- Michal "Go Go Mike" Taylor – trombone
References
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External links
- [https://www.discogs.com/EU-Future-Funk/release/1258104 Future Funk] at Discogs
{{Experience Unlimited}}