Essential Funk To Handle Market Funk: Orgone, The Killion Floor

With the market getting continually more challenging this year, there’s one reason our spirit will never break … a funk album that came out last October and it just keeps giving the unrelenting good vibe no matter how many times you listen to it. The album is a debut from an LA funk troupe called Orgone (the 2nd O is hard), a word which describes an omnipresent force in nature that accounts for pleasure.

The album is The Killion Floor [iTunes|Amazon MP3], which was named after the apartment-turned-studio where most of the album was recorded. It’s essential funk that will keep you cool as long as the market funk lasts. The eminently credible Dusty Groove America described the album best:

A monstrous debut from one of the heaviest acts we’ve heard in years – LA’s Orgone, easily one of the most up-and-coming funky combos around. Although Orgone share a bit with some of the leaner deep funk groups who’ve cropped up in the past decade or so, they’ve also got a sound that’s a bit more advanced. They’ve got a sound that’s still as sharp-edged as any smaller group but with a lineup that’s quite large, they’re able to encompass a very wide range of soulful styles — gritty 45 riffing, slinky Chicano-styled grooves, Afro Funk, tighter soul tracks, and lots lots more — all carried off with perfection throughout. The album feels like some lost masterpiece on Fantasy, or possibly some overlooked early 70s major label funk set on WEA or United Artists.

Below is a track sampler from Amazon (click the album title to buy whole album), the best $9.99 you’ll ever spend. Or same price at iTunes. Also below are other reviews of the album. They’re all true.

“As befits the band’s name, Orgone’s sound is quite organic, rooted in soul, funk, boogaloo, and jazz, with a classic appeal that’s nevertheless contemporary…the entire album is one non-stop groove. If smooth, soulful funk with jazzy arrangements makes you sweat, you just found your new favorite band.”
– XLR8R

“By the time the listener gets to the nasty, distorted, finger-popping, ass waggling “Crabby Ali” — where the deep brewed, second-line New Orleans old-school funk goes head to head with the gloss of L.A.’s Tower of Power styled horn charts — it feels like the party’s just getting started.”
– All Music

“It’s easy to imagine The Killion Floor both igniting mass partying and stoking libidos for more intimate gatherings.”
– OC Weekly