Free Yourself (LP)
Experience Unlimited
One of the great forgotten sounds of mid-70s funk was the Washington D.C.-based
ensemble Experience Unlimited. (Later shortened to EU.) Though best later known as pioneers of the "go-go" subgenre of dance/funk, and for their Billboard-charting hit "Da Butt" in the late-80s, the group was a potent collective of jazz-funk musicians, in the vein of innovators like War, Earth, Wind, & Fire, and similarly overlooked DC contemporaries Oneness of Juju. Experience Unlimited were renowned for their ostentatious instrumentals, winding and precise rhythms and grooves, and party-ready jams, all of which are on full display on their debut record Free Yourself, which came more than a decade before their greatest commercial success, but is no less heavy on the classic deep funk sounds.
ensemble Experience Unlimited. (Later shortened to EU.) Though best later known as pioneers of the "go-go" subgenre of dance/funk, and for their Billboard-charting hit "Da Butt" in the late-80s, the group was a potent collective of jazz-funk musicians, in the vein of innovators like War, Earth, Wind, & Fire, and similarly overlooked DC contemporaries Oneness of Juju. Experience Unlimited were renowned for their ostentatious instrumentals, winding and precise rhythms and grooves, and party-ready jams, all of which are on full display on their debut record Free Yourself, which came more than a decade before their greatest commercial success, but is no less heavy on the classic deep funk sounds.
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