Think about this; saxophones, a heavy bass groove and the name Color Climax.
Plain and simple porn used to be the only answer, but it now labels the latest band attempting to conquer the genre of hip-hop funk.
The instant combination of a funky jazz-laden progressive beat with the unfortunate moniker that hits back to the seventies pornography heyday of the Color Climax Corporation, this album can do nothing but make you laugh.
Not to be cruel, but the overly retro stylings add so much to it, that you could easily be sitting back watching some intense erotica involving the infamous John Holmes and some hard-hitting mullets (and that’s just on the women).
It makes the listener wonder, as the sounds drop in notes and octaves, if this is just a samples heavy studio mix or whether the same effect can be provided live. Be glad that this isn’t just a plug and play type of outfit as all the live performances involve a four-piece band to get the party started with the random addition of some sampled elements.
Climax are one of the first acts to have an album released off the ‘Breakinbread’ record label whose main claim to fame is that they are responsible for most of the newest hip hop funk in central London.
The band themselves, based in Coventry, have been signed to the label since 2000, and are aspiring to become one of the country’s most creative and upbeat Latin funk bands. Not difficult considering their origins, as any band willing to play an amalgamation of Latin jazz, funk and out of ordinary samples already are a step above and beyond most of the ska-based bands that have surfaced from the town.
The idea of the music is to provide a mixture of live and sampled sounds, usually playing live as a four-piece but sometimes adding sampled elements.
