Well Hung :: ’60s Communist Hungarian Funk
When I’m asked “so, what are you listening to these days?” more often than not, the answer regularly involves some sort of compilation, sanctioned or otherwise, ranging from dancehall, dub, French pop, tropicalia, Ethiopian hybrid jazz/funk to ’60s garage-rock, freakbeat, obscure soul and weird psych comps from yesteryear. While I will always be an admirer of the album format, these collections, in terms of gathering up the one-offs and interesting curios, consistently deliver (see labels: Soul Jazz, Numero Group, LITA, Now-Again, and countless others.) Sure, the mass proliferation of the last decade of Internetz has made it much easier round up such nuggets on one’s own, but a thought out, expertly curated, compilation cannot be beat.
Which brings us to….Well Hung: 20 Funk Rock Eruptions from Beneath Communist Hungary, a compilation of 1960’s Hungarian funk. While I am sure there are experts out there who could write tomes on the minutiae of the genre/movement, it is collections such as these that round up both the heavy-hitters (Metro, Illes) with the more obscure. Dig.
Elsewhere: Visit You Ain’t No Picasso for an additional track off the comp….
Download:
MP3: Anna Adamis & Gabor Presser :: Ringsad El Magad No.2
MP3: Metro :: A Pénz
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Amazon: Well Hung: 20 Funk Rock Eruptions from Beneath Communist Hungary
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