Unbuckle
your seatbelt. Keep the tray-table down. Dance in the aisle. It’s time to
Pressurize The Cabin with Fort Knox Five, but there’s no way you’re sitting
still. To create their latest album, Fort Knox Five—based in Washington, DC—has
flown all over the globe, from the Shambhala Music Festival in British Columbia
to the Volt Festival in Hungary to the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado.
Across 5 continents and 30 countries, they’ve formed deep musical relationships
with some of their favorite vocalists and musicians, some of whom are featured
on Pressurize the Cabin.
San
Diego’s Vokab Kompany is featured on the title track, which captures the
upbeat, all-night-party vibe of the album. Legendary British trombonist and
soul crooner Ashley Slater takes it back with a retro electro-swing groove,
Fire In My Belly. The nonstop party continues with Ready Go, featuring Raashan
Ahmad from Oakland’s Crown City Rockers, delivering a fresh true-school hip-hop
sound. Sleepy Wonder from Thievery Corporation delivers his signature
rapid-fire dancehall ska on 24 Hours To Set It Off.
Mustafa
Akbar, a longtime friend of Fort Knox Five, is featured on two electro-funk
tracks that will be lighting up dance floors worldwide, Whatcha Gonna Do and
Keep it Poppin. Another DC favorite, Flex Mathews, is also featured on two
tracks; his party-rocking lyrics are a perfect fit with the Fort Knox Five
funk. Frankie Rosado and Felix Perez of the Empresarios can be heard on the
anthemic Latin funk track Cinco To The Brinco. Rounding out the album is
Mission to the Sitars, an instrumental track featuring Fort Knox Five’s own Rob
‘RPM3’ Myers — his sitar and guitar work have also been highlighted by Thievery
Corporation and See-I.
Pressurize
the Cabin is a true follow-up to 2008’s Radio Free DC. The earlier album
focused on some of DC’s amazing vocalists and musicians, while Pressurize the
Cabin has a global scope. Funk is the common denominator, tying it all
together, but the grooves on this exciting new artist album range from Hip-Hop to
Disco to Electro to Latin. So get on board and prepare for takeoff!
Fort Knox Recordings is the renegade funk n’ soul label from
Washington DC. Established in 2003, our mission is to explore the funkier side
of global music. Fort Knox is set to ‘Tell It Like It Is’ by smashing the
artificial barriers established by the ‘System’ that keeps all ‘Good’ music
down. Forget about tempos and genres – we want to take you back to the roots
and reunite all music from our funk, dub and soul brothers – you dig? So stop
being so serious, this is music, it’s supposed to be fun.
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