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Compiled For TheFunkStore.com..By:Tylard Tatt II
DIRTY WALT & THE COLUMBUS SANITATION
STILL SMOKIN' VOLUME 1
TFS/TCC Release Date:08/24/2009
LABEL: The IBCT, LLC
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:USA
DISC : 1
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE:2009
CONDITION:NEW
STOCK STATUS:INSTOCK
Now the IBCT (check it, International Brotherhood of Consequential Truth) is wot time it is and it hit’s hard as hell with a stankifried double-barreled assault on the senses. 2 completely differently styled Afro Punk masterpieces: Columbus Sanitation’s Still Smokin’ & the gritty post-apocalyptic urban sounds cape of supergroup Year of the Dragon, Blunt Force Karma.
A taste from the lead-off single “Jailbreak“ says it all, “All my life I been in chains/violent thoughts are all that fill my brain/overmedication can’t stop the pain” over crunched-out industrial rock guitars,get the picture? At the midst of these two independent entities of funk is Dirty Walt , the “The OG Nigga King of the Freaks” unifying force unleashed upon the masses once more.
In fact “Dirty Makes it Funky”, Sanitation’s got that funk, the pounding backing vocals chant over one of the record’s 10 thick chunks of industrial garbage truck strength street groove. No surprise here though, Walter Kibby II been making thangs real funky since 1979 , when he and a merry gang of likewise warped minds got together on the “Westside” and formed the legendary proto-seminal high concept skafunkrock unit Fishbone.
The band had enormous influence, affecting everyone from Red Hot Chili Peppers thru P-Funk with its raucous blend of punk and funk elements.
Whereas Sanitation is bent towards laying down heavy fonk with rock intonations (check the nasty weaving guitar solos throughout many of the album’s boiling grooves ), Year of the Dragon lets it all blow on shredded slices of Fishbone-inspired rock with deep swampy funk overtones. The spiritual significance of both projects cannot be easily understated.
The year 2012 not only represents the end of the Mayan calendar and according to many a rhodes prophet the end of the world as we know it, but also is the “Year of the Dragon” in the Chinese Zodiac. Dirty Walt stands along side guitarists Rodcore, JMR, Spacey T,Mytch Metalz, D-Style and funk-fortified rhythm section Kerim Imes & Elliot Lawrence to construct this vision of impending doom and ask the immortal question, “Who Will Save You Now Muthafucka?”
The inevitable darkest hour is now upon mankind and its high time to “Destroy Your Fear” and revolt against alien menace. Are you scared for what lurks for your punk ass in the dark alleyways?
Not only does Year of the Dragon call the chyt for what it is the solution is at hand, fight! I will be free.
Tonight is the night we get loose so fill up your cup with orange juice and Grey Goose cause it ain’t no tomorrow, it ain’t nothin’ but a party but know what the party is all about, getting to the heart of what is truth.
Blunt Force Karma continues the ‘Bone aesthetic of combining some of the most weed-drenched intelligent lyrical content in rock over damn steel-fortified grooves It more than cooks. It forces me to look into the mirror and probe deep within’ myself and realize it’s time to be
“Walking Tall”.
Noted Cincinnati-OH Funk Journalist~"Bustin'"Bob Mitchell
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TRACK LISTING CD
1.Dat Funky Funk 4:22~Listen
2.Swammy Funk 4:26~Listen
3.Sanatation 4:20~Listen
4.Boogie Down 4:42~Listen
5.Scandaless 5:03~Listen
6.Strange Reality 4:36~Listen
7.Dirty Makes It Funky 4:31~Listen
8.I Pledge to the Funk 4:24~Listen
9.High On the Westside 4:43~Listen
10.Westside~Listen
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