Color Climax are one of finest musical forces to come out of Coventry since 2-Tone ruled in the early 80's. They have been consistently putting out music and gigging to become one of the UK's top funk/disco/latin bands. They first emerged on Breakin Bread Records in 2000 and they have released four 7 45rpm singles to critical acclaim.Their sound is a mixture of live and digitally produced music. They play live as a 4 piece and sometimes they add sampled elements. 

Plug It In shows all the influences of the band. Paul T, the producer behind the band first emerged making beats for Unanimous Decision, an influential UK hip hop collective from the early 90's. Paul went on to be a prolific DJ playing anything that related to hip hop from the last 40 years and he became a resident DJ at the legendary Breakin Bread club. When Breakin Bread started putting out records in the late 90's Paul had hooked up with Steve Ashby, a keyboard player who shared Paul's love of library and soundtrack music. Whereas Paul had sought out this music for the breaks and beats it supplied to hip hop, Steve had come from the opposite direction as a dedicated keyboard player with a love for the Hammond Organ. What resulted was a marriage made in heaven, suddenly Breakin Bread could put out original funk records with Paul on the beats and Steve on the Hammond. 

Plug It In and Jellyfish Popcorn both have driving beats and basslines with some classic Hammond workouts typical of Color Climax's early output. Paul and Steve then started expanding their horizons working with local musicians and trying to break out of the beats plus music formula. On She Took My Love they brought in vocalist Gabe to add some top notch, heartfelt vocals to the melting pot. We are now in the early 00's and Color Climax had started playing live as a 4 piece around Coventry and various Breakin Bread events. Their live mix of classic standards and original music always got the crowd going and Paul was encouraged to break out of the soul/funk mould they had been put into by releasing Batidas Latinas. This track gives a nod to the Latin tracks in Paul's record collection with the neck snapping drum breaks now being accompanied by a soaring female vocal and a bassline aimed at summer dancefloors everywhere. The b-side to this 7, Crabwalk was an afterthought that really got the band respect from the Wax Poetics/Grand Slam musical community. The tracks repeated drum breaks and sparse instrumentation got it attention from break diggers worldwide. 

The album also contains disco monster Disque O Heights and another latin track Pa Coco Solo. These 2 tracks stunned their follower with their musicality, fullness and depth and both tracks have been extensively road tested by Breakin Bread's DJ's and have proved to be surefire dancefloor fillers.

This is certainly not your standard James Brown/Meters style funk album. Quality, soulful, organic music from the Midlands! Spread the word

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