Stampede

This is the first album from Will ‘Quantic’ Holland’s JB’s style funk/soul band The Quantic Soul Orchestra, a live project first formed in 2001 that released a handful of retro R’n’B/funk singles in the early 2000s. From high-paced 70s cop chase themes like the frantic title track to the pure-70s-funk flute/breakbeat/JBs horns combo of South Coastin’ or the New Orleans via East Sussex brass ensemble jam Raw Ingredients, Stampede provides several different styles and variations of late 60s and early 70s-style funk and soul, with an emphasis on authenticity. So the production is raw and live sounding — but inevitably with more crispness to the drums and more depth to the low end than the decades-old records they’re pastiching — which essentially means it sounds superb.