We really don’t know how the good folks at Cheyenne, Wyoming’s World Psychedelic Funk Classics have the time to dig up so many incredible global-psych-funk joints and compile them… maybe the lack of decent local records to rediscover (the Soul Reflections’ “Grooving in the Basement” notwithstanding) has something to do with it. Anyway – their latest, an investigation into the “Aesthetic Expressions Of Psychedelic Funk Music In India,” is due out later this year. We just got a sneak peak at the cover and it looks miiiiighty promising.

We think it’s a first for us here at Now-Again; it’s certainly a first for our cousins at World Psychedelic Funk Classics Records. A full page, glowing review of the Psych Funk 101 Comp in The Wire Magazine by Peter Shapiro.

An excerpt:

“I have said it many times before, but I will say it again: there is no more exciting sound in music than the sound of a guitarist barely familiar with electric amplification – or, as evidenced on this fabulous compilation of syncretic out-there funk, a saz player trying to come to terms with a fuzzbox.”

Check a pdf of the article here and go out and support The Wire, one of the last great music magazines left.

Egon helped out his buddies over at World Psychedelic Funk Classics Records with their debut disc – a “global compendium” of psychedelic funk music. Psych-Funk 101… Like a college course, get it? Grab it here in either CD or LP form and check out a free track and interview from French psych lunatics Eskaton while you’re at it.