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 Yoshinori Sunahara The Pan Am sound of the 70s 1x CD, 1xLP Bungalow |
It was music masterbrain Martin the Martian who recommended me this
album in a discussion that these days, we were a little out of inpiration to find interesting music. Always trusting Martin for his
excellent taste for original and good music, I bought this album and for sure it was a good recommendation ! The Pan Am sound of the
'70s is actually very funny. I don't know really what Pan Am has to do with this, except for the first and last track that feature that
typical orchestrated music that is often played at shopping malls to stimulate housewifes into buying more food and goodies. Maybe the
first and last track have been used in the Pan Am airplanes to relax the customers ? Anyway, it's funny but the real interesting vibes
start with track 2. Don't be mistaken by the title, but this is '99 music !
"The new world break" is a superb funky track, with that
heavy beat and these typical eighties funk synth effects. With the
"Clipper's discotheque break", Yoshinori Sunahara explores further
into phat bass pure funk. It's the kind of music you'll shake your head to and say, "yeah, this is phat, deep and supa" when played
on a decent soundsystem. Sorry for the cheap metallic japo walkman people, but they'll not even get half of the effect here.
It's a bit relaxing with "Sun song '70", bringing soft female vocals
on moody trippy grooves. "Love beat" and "Rhodes funky
dub" offer more slow paced funk grooves with wicked keys, heavy beat and weird
synths in a slick and clean package. One of the better tracks, "747
dub" is his royal chilling dope stuff. Ultradeep, slow, phat and deep and rolling nicely with vocoder voices. And before you know,
this funky adventure is over and you're back in the Pan Am lounge, with some easy shopping tune, back into reality, saying to yourself,
well, nice funky trip this was. ez/mar 2000 |