New York's supergroup Underground System is unleashing its debut album, What Are You, and the first lead single entitled "Go," is a far-out funky electric beat that'll shock you right down to your dancing soul!
The collective group formed in 2010ish, and after eight years (yes 8 years) of experimenting and developing their sonics, the band is evidently highly influenced by Afrobeats and by the music of Fela Kuti, a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre (the group is even named after one of his songs).
"It wasn't until a few years ago we started to formulate what I feel was an original concept behind the group," said the big boss co-founder and mister finger licking guitarist Peter Matson. "This is the first time we're really making a statement, but it's developed from... a straight-ahead Afrobeat band to bringing in all these other influences we have. We grew up on a diet of rock music and jazz, pop music from around the world. It was a big challenge but I feel like we're just starting to get there with this sound we're developing."
Mister Matson specifics the sauciness of the bass-driven track "Go" to be indicative of Underground System's journey. "It's definitely one piece of the puzzle, which becomes pretty evident when you put together a few of the tracks. The song 'Go' is relatively straight-ahead in terms of an identifiable verse and chorus-type song structure. It's a very New York-centric kind of dance rock and post-punk. The lyrics stem from some dark personal experience, but it's a very energetic tune."
The bubble pop electric animated, one stop-action video, created by co-band member Alice Cohen. "It's a really cool process," Peter Matson spills. "She does (the animation) all by hand, cutting out of books and magazines and actually shooting frame by frame and piecing it all together slowly and then finally editing on the computer. That's what we appreciated the most, beyond the aesthetic, was the craftsmanship. That's the way we producer or music, too. It's all recorded audio, not dealing with samples, bringing in musicians we know and kind of structuring all these things from the ground up."
Get ready to shake a tailfeather and dip and do it to Underground System's marvelous dance groove "GO"!
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