Mishaps Happening

The second solo artist album from Quantic incorporates retro funk and the many different rhythmic strands he pulls together in his work, including instrumental hip hop, chill-out/downtempo, jazz, Afrobeat, Latin and more. Includes straight-up contemporary funk classic Don’t Joke With A Hungry Man featuring soul vocalist Spanky Wilson whose career began in 1969, and Wilson serves up an equally raw and gritty performance on the perky funker When You’re Through. However, this isn’t just a nostalgia-funk album; the title track is a floating Afro-flavoured jazz-dance jam, So Long, the one appearance from chanteuse Alice Russell is a skanking dub-soul hybrid, and the whole album is an experimentation in hybridity, an album that feels like it draws on several rhythmic traditions, continually crossbreeding and reworking various musical elements and influences, all inevitably driven by Quantic’s DJ’s digging instinct. Marvelously varied, brilliantly cohesive, decidedly Quantic.