Artist: J&B Kings
Title: Let’s Go-Go
Label: 7 Arts
Genre: Funk / Go-Go
"5/5 Quality shines through , love it , straight into my show for tonight"
- Bill Griffin Soulpower Radio - London, UK
"Very hot groove. A big play"
- Rev Cool Carter - WYSO Public Radio 91.3 FM - Dayton, OH
"5/5 "Yes love it"
- Johnny Pulse Bulabeats Records - Ireland
"Boy this is Hot!"
- Joey Coyne BBC Radio Gloucestershire
"really nice... hope an album is in the works."
- Jason Villani WESU 88.1 FM - Middletown CT
"5/5 You had me at "DC." Totally here for that go-go swing! Dubmatix & Bill King are names to be trusted."
- T-Bird Something Else! Radio - Barcelona, Spain
"wow, that one is groovin' deep"
- DJ Jazzmadass Radio X 91.8 FM - Frankfurt
"5/5 Retro-funk Good stuff!"
- Steve Seville Forest FM 92.3 - Dorset, UK
"5/5 Brilliant!"
- Electric Brother Radio Guerrilla National Radio - Romania
"hot sound movin' and groovin' yesterday or today!"
- T-Bird WOMR 92.1 / 91.3FM - Cape Cod
Recently D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser declared, “When I say go-go you say … IS D.C. The crowd shouted, “D.C. is go-go. Go-go is D.C.”
Much like what New Orleans is to jazz and rhythm & blues, Nashville to country, D.C, is forever linked to the conga drums, rototoms, and hand-held cowbells and the swing rhythm of go-go – that tasty layer of ornamentation that hovers above a classic funk back-beat.
From the mid-60s to late 70s, The Godfather of Go-Go, Chuck Brown brewed an infectious concoction of funk, rhythm, and blues and soul music into a dominant dancehall style party music that to this day still has legions of followers and specialty bands who throw go-go parties.
Jesse “Dubmatix” King and Bill King – the J&B Kings, are at it again with a follow-up to their New Orleans flavoured “Louisiana Strut,” which borrows on the more traditional piano/organ influences of the gospel - mixed with the hip-hop architecture of Dubmatix, for their first release - now on over 200 international stations. “Let’s Go-Go” continues the duo’s experiments with “sound design” - using baked 2-inch tapes of Bill King’s from the 70s and 80s recordings – chopped, polished, and repurposed.
The King’s are heard Tuesday evenings 9-midnight at Jazz.Fm91 with Soul Nation Radio – a blend of funk, soul, hip-hop, neo-soul, soul-jazz – lots of Bootsy Collins and D.C. Chuck Brown.
“Let’s Go-Go” is their way of recognizing the giants who made the sound a source of great joy and robust nightlife – Rare Essence, Trouble Funk, Junk Yard Band, Northeast Groovers, Mambo Sauce and the man – Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers and mad passion for experimentation and invention.
Jesse “Dubmatix” King – sound design, bass, guitar, engineer, mixing, mastering.
Bill King – classic tracks, keyboards, mixing.
Photography: Bill King
Cover Design/graphics Jesse King
Title: Let’s Go-Go
Label: 7 Arts
Genre: Funk / Go-Go
"5/5 Quality shines through , love it , straight into my show for tonight"
- Bill Griffin Soulpower Radio - London, UK
"Very hot groove. A big play"
- Rev Cool Carter - WYSO Public Radio 91.3 FM - Dayton, OH
"5/5 "Yes love it"
- Johnny Pulse Bulabeats Records - Ireland
"Boy this is Hot!"
- Joey Coyne BBC Radio Gloucestershire
"really nice... hope an album is in the works."
- Jason Villani WESU 88.1 FM - Middletown CT
"5/5 You had me at "DC." Totally here for that go-go swing! Dubmatix & Bill King are names to be trusted."
- T-Bird Something Else! Radio - Barcelona, Spain
"wow, that one is groovin' deep"
- DJ Jazzmadass Radio X 91.8 FM - Frankfurt
"5/5 Retro-funk Good stuff!"
- Steve Seville Forest FM 92.3 - Dorset, UK
"5/5 Brilliant!"
- Electric Brother Radio Guerrilla National Radio - Romania
"hot sound movin' and groovin' yesterday or today!"
- T-Bird WOMR 92.1 / 91.3FM - Cape Cod
Recently D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser declared, “When I say go-go you say … IS D.C. The crowd shouted, “D.C. is go-go. Go-go is D.C.”
Much like what New Orleans is to jazz and rhythm & blues, Nashville to country, D.C, is forever linked to the conga drums, rototoms, and hand-held cowbells and the swing rhythm of go-go – that tasty layer of ornamentation that hovers above a classic funk back-beat.
From the mid-60s to late 70s, The Godfather of Go-Go, Chuck Brown brewed an infectious concoction of funk, rhythm, and blues and soul music into a dominant dancehall style party music that to this day still has legions of followers and specialty bands who throw go-go parties.
Jesse “Dubmatix” King and Bill King – the J&B Kings, are at it again with a follow-up to their New Orleans flavoured “Louisiana Strut,” which borrows on the more traditional piano/organ influences of the gospel - mixed with the hip-hop architecture of Dubmatix, for their first release - now on over 200 international stations. “Let’s Go-Go” continues the duo’s experiments with “sound design” - using baked 2-inch tapes of Bill King’s from the 70s and 80s recordings – chopped, polished, and repurposed.
The King’s are heard Tuesday evenings 9-midnight at Jazz.Fm91 with Soul Nation Radio – a blend of funk, soul, hip-hop, neo-soul, soul-jazz – lots of Bootsy Collins and D.C. Chuck Brown.
“Let’s Go-Go” is their way of recognizing the giants who made the sound a source of great joy and robust nightlife – Rare Essence, Trouble Funk, Junk Yard Band, Northeast Groovers, Mambo Sauce and the man – Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers and mad passion for experimentation and invention.
Jesse “Dubmatix” King – sound design, bass, guitar, engineer, mixing, mastering.
Bill King – classic tracks, keyboards, mixing.
Photography: Bill King
Cover Design/graphics Jesse King
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