Light of Worlds was by far Kool & the Gang’s most spiritual and sophisticated work, produced in the wake of the success of their previous album, Wild and Peaceful. It was a landmark in the funk/jazz fusion genre of the 1970s. Song SUMMER MADNESS was released on their fifth album – LIGHT OF THE WORLDS in 1974. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Summertime. What is the exact Synth here in the Video It looks like an Arp, but it doesn't look like the 2600 everyone says is played on the track.Thanks. They have sold over 70 million albums worldwide. Fisierul audio Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness de la VIBEChannel se poate descarca gratuit in format mp3. What is this synth - Kool the Gang Summer Madness. They went through several musical phases during the course of their recording career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, then becoming practitioners of funk and R&B, progressing to a smooth pop-funk ensemble, and in the post-millennium creating music with a modern, electro-pop sound. And there are no other words for that synth work, culminating in its insane, over-extended, glaring high note it’s fiery, debilitating, trip-inducing, summer madness.Kool & The Gang are an American jazz, R&B, soul, funk and disco group, originally formed in 1964 as the Jazziacs based in Jersey City, New Jersey.
The bass seems heavy, claustrophobic and thick, a lazy rhythm guitar brings a mellow breeze. The quiver in the organ’s first chords alone conjure images of rippling heat refraction over sticky tarmac. He always was sharper than he looked – Charlie’s Angels had to see something behind that hirsute veneer. You could play it to Captain Caveman and he’d know what it was about. In the end it’s just pop music blunt and abridged. The Fresh Prince’s talk of cars and girls over Jazzy Jeff’s beats do little injustice to the 70s original (but obviously owes it a great debt). I was in secondary school at the time of its release and inevitably know every word. She may well have been underwhelmed by the original – it’s hard to compete with the chart hits of our formative years – but for me, The Gang do far more to capture the essence of a blistering summers day in instrumental than Will Smith achieves in three verses and chorus.ĭon’t get me wrong, I’m no ‘Summertime’ denier. After a week that saw Google celebrate Robert Moog’s birthday (with another typically time-wasting exercise) and Blighty come together as one to drink and pink under the unyielding furnace of a heatwave, I found myself trying to persuade my girlfriend of the merits of Kool & the Gang’s ‘Summer Madness’ over Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince’s ‘Summertime’.