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Early 70s ensemble funk from Mugo – a DC group made up of students from McKinley Tech High School – combining tightly energetic, fairly sprawling instrumentation and soulful vocals – a number of unreleased tracks from the sessions that also produced their rare 70s single, newly mixed by Kenny Dope for the Kay Dee label! The school band vibe really kind of comes into play via the uncommon mix of instruments, and that works really, really well – B-3, Rhodes and Korg synthesizer provide for some spacier touches, while flute and piano also find room in the group's sound alongside the funky drums, guitar and bass – with feverish vocals and some killer instrumental passages. The performances are inventively strong, too – it doesn't sound like a bunch a kids, that's for sure! We we flipped over the single Kay Dee put out of the group, and we're all the more ecstatic over the great LP! Includes "Change", "Organized (Kenny Dope Edit)", "Space Traveler", "I Love Music", "How Time Fly's", "All About Love", "Love Has Gone", "Sing A Song" and "Water".

One of the best singles so far on Kenny Dope's funky Kay-Dee label – presented here in a great pic sleeve package! "Organize" is a righteous bit of ensemble funk – hard-hitting on the bottom, with a soaring lyric that has a bit of Earth Wind & Fire horns on the top – all edited here by Kenny with a groove that's probably even funkier than the original – even though we've never heard it! "Space Travel" is full-on and funky too – strutting along with guitar lines sewed up inside the horns – all at a quickly grooving pace that almost sounds like a precursor to early BT Express!