A new debut album that has recently hit the streets is Funkatized by German groovemasters Deegee and En Bee. Main characteristic features on this CD are 'good groove', catchy riffs and a minimum of repetitive vocals and choruses. Most of the tracks easily catch you in a smooth swinging mood with Atomic Peas, Funkatized and Get the Funk as earcatchers. Our Berlin friends clearly learned their lessons from acid jazz music and surely have been influenced by bands such as The Brand New Heavies and Jamiroquai (which make quite some cool references, not?). The music itself is heavily dominated by the smooth, greasy sound of the Fender Rhodes and as mentioned before, draws you to the dancefloor with ease. My favourite track on this joint definitely is Let me Know, and as the total package certainly is a very nice debut indeed, sometimes some more vox in the tracks would lift them to a higher level. Mostly categorized as R&B and soul, we would like to place it as acid jazz, funk and electro. Nice little extra, if you buy the album, you're entitled to download an extra bonus track through the Funkatized website. Certainly worth a listen.

A Sir Dancelot review

Funkatized Linxxx

> Funkatized Official Website
> Funkatized on Myspace