Erik Rico slides back onto Cosmocities with a new EP that doesn’t just nod to the funk underground—it grips it, rewires it, and lets it loose on a floor drenched in sun and sweat. Dipping into Matt Soulie’s private vinyl sanctum, Rico breathes new life into forgotten groovers: Star Lighters’ “Disco Funk” throbs with a new urgency, Franklyn’s “Future Love” gets retooled into an electric fever dream, and P.J. City’s “Straight Forward” finds its swagger in horns and heat.
Franklyn’s 1987 rare cut “Future Love” gets hurled through a psychedelic meat grinder. Rico retools the soft-soul croon into a feral burst of FX-soaked boogie chaos: synths snapping like power lines in the rain, basslines sweating out sex and ozone. It’s P-funk on poppers — romantic, deranged, and gloriously unhinged.
But this record doesn’t stop at reverence. It reinvents. Aroop Roy repositions “Disco Funk” in deep house terrain, where nostalgia and propulsion meet. DJ Nature laces “Future Love” with dusk-lit synths and low-end hypnosis, a soundtrack for the comedown after the glow. And Gerd? He rockets the whole affair into hi-NRG orbit—two remixes brimming with Chicago grit, disco shimmer, and floor-filling euphoria.
A love letter to groove—past, present, and possible.
Links:
https://cosmocitiesrecords.bandcamp.com/music
Original tracks:
https://www.discogs.com/release/2293379-PJ-City-Straight-Forward-Non-Stop-Look-Around
https://www.discogs.com/release/1561373-Franklyn-Future-Love
