High Park Funk’s new “Permeate Tape" on Blaq Numbers is the third instalment of tape-based funk from the Scottish funkster known locally as Tesko.

This one has some heavy features. Two of Scotland’s jazz cats, Matt Carmichael on tenor saxophone and Ewan Hastie on slap bass. Modern Funkateers Brett Eclectic and Duktus both on some silky remixes and a vocal feature from Bay Area rhymer Nico Fasho.

The tape welcomes us in and sends us off with one with a voice note from one of the UK’s longest serving members of the Poppin community, WMP. With a positive message of rising up and keeping that funk alive. The tape itself has a concept of letting funk permeate your being. With the idea spanning from the great George Clinton and the P-Funk family, where funk is more than a genre of a music, it’s an entire philosophy.

For Tesko, the funk is about being rooted and grounded. It’s an antithesis to the uptight, stiff upper lip society a lot of us navigate through within many cities across the UK and the wider western world. It’s a reminder that letting loose and letting the funk not only ‘move’ but ‘re-move’, can liberate and recalibrate us right down to a molecular level - bringing right back down to that ancestral level where we all came from. That ‘One Nation Under Groove’ type deal.

Expect vintage drum machines, synths bass lines, hard slaps, talk boxing and saxophone melodies throughout. Tesko has pushed the envelope on his musicianship on this one and is certainly not faking the funk here. "Permeate" is a testament to the artistry, resilience, and passion that High Park Funk brings to the global modern funk scene.