WOKE = FlyLo x Thundercat x Shabazz Palaces (+ George Clinton) | Prog-Soul Supergroup | The Fader
"Lavishments" comes together around a deep bass groove and a staggered hand-clap
via The Fader: http://www.thefader.com/2015/09/28/flying-lotus-shabazz-palaces-thundercat[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/224031255" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /]
To call the coming together of this lot a "Supergroup" is something of a misnomer, as it's hardly the first time they've worked together, but then again perhaps it is an accurate description of the level of potential energy on offer. In the official coming together of Flying Lotus, Thundercat and Shabazz Palaces as WOKE, the gang could be seen with reference to featured regular Grand Old Man George Clinton as a future-Funkadelic in terms of the accumulating of musicians, experimentation and the openness to cross-contamination on each other's output.
This single is 17 of 19 singles from Adult Swim, which helped break FlyLo using his instrumentals for their ad break seagues. Check out their other annual singles collections all the way back to 2010, which contain some equally tasty breaks and moods to sit inside.
I think it's great to have such interesting cats around these days - playing such progressive music but also paying homage to the progenitors and the roots of Soul Music (as an umbrella). Plus they're crazy, on-the-level people to boot. Also - I have no idea why Adult Swim has such a big involvement in pushing stuff like this but I'm not complaining - the programming block is how I discovered both FlyLo and Trigun. Which shouldn't make sense, but has happened.