You guys are going to have to decide on this one for me. I bought this record a few years ago wen someone dug up a dozen or more sealed old-stock copies. It cost me six bucks. Now it’s like a $30-$50 album depending on condition. But I just can’t get into it. Everyone keeps telling me I’m missing out by selling it. It’s supposed to be really, really good. I think the title inherently creates a feeling of excitement that the music cannot replicate.
Soul Strut says: “I originally saw a picture of the cover of this LP on a Japanese site and stored it away in the memory banks. A trip to the local store months later turned up my very own copy. Biggs got his start playing keyboards for Isaac Hayes in the 70s. Most of Solar Funk is late 70s dance music with plenty of synthesizer. The track Tibetan Serenity, comped on the Dusty Fingers series, is the standout with a pseudo-Asian groove to it provided by some strings. It really is a catchy number.”
Vinylly Found says, “As I’m sitting here listening to this album as it records I kind of regret choosing it at times BUT I must admit that it is especially samplable! I have definitely used some samples off it before. It has awsomely amusing sounds. Also, staring at the album art makes up for everything. It sounds like exactly what comes to mind for me when I think “Solar Funk”. Sounds like disco sometimes and other times I feel like I’m playing sonic the hedgehog on my old sega genesis. It is consistently funky. There are very limited vocals other than some “Doos and Whoos” sprinkled here and there which I can appreciate. Also what sounds like some sort of another language in some tracks. Note that its also from the same year as my previous post on the San Fran Blues Festival. I feel this was prior day Dub step to that times Rock??? Assuming this is what they used to do ecstasy to…Check the guy out!”
Travis Biggs
Solar Funk
(Source, 1979)
MediaFire DL Link
01. Autumn Jewel
02. After The Storm
03. Tibetian Serenity
04. Ven A Bailar Conmigo
05. Nashville Express
06. Solar Funk
07. It’s Live
