Adolescent Funk

Dâm-Funk (that's pronounced "Dame") is in the early '80s electro revival business, and business is good. His keyboard heavy, soft-focus instrumental beats evoke long, white low-riders, swaying palm trees, sticky weed — all the heavy-lidded languor of The Good Life, California-style. The keyboard squelches and deliberately boxy drum programming hark back to the soupy transitional stages between disco, funk, and hip-hop, but his sly sense of space and dynamics keep the music from entering the Pop Culture Museum halls. This is G-funk as motorik, gliding machines of forward motion that hum so quietly it feels like you're not moving at all. Let his retro-futuristic funk blow your hair back.