from the 12” single, Red Greg Records, 1976Coming on like a Quaalude that’s been chased with some clean base, the Universal Robot Band woozily redefined many heads’ conception of dance music, utilizing whatever they wished from both the disco and funk camps, and in the same way that “deep house” has sought to intensify and expand beneath the basic foundation of house music, these cats dug into the subterranean depths to find their grooves. One of the earliest official collaborations between legendary producers Patrick Adams & Greg Carmichael, this effort catapulted the duo from stoned basement freaks to bona fide underground champions, divulging a new blueprint for android based interplanetary funkmanship, set apart from P-Funk’s vision in its minimal yet sultry disco charm, replete with goosebump inducing synthlines and synthscapes, an omnipresent appeal to, “…dance, and shake your tambourine, your funky tambourine, tambourine, tambourine…” Mad extra points for the whistles, you know that this recording session was a good time had by all!
