Music pieces by The Cruising duo are not that easy to identify, both style- and time-wise. Funky vibes of the 1970s and 1980s are generously mixed with techno sound and peppered with unconventional live instruments, vocals, and flirting with rock. Throw in ambitions of new genre creators, and you get a fantastic creature, a techno-funky-rock Unicorn.
Turn Day On, The Cruising first vinyl released by Krasawa Records, is just like this. It is a rhythmical, laconic, a bit languid techno-like Tinker Tailor rhyme with careless funky runs. Off-the-wall vocal by Yula Vovk, a member of the duo, is topped by Roland Alpha Juno-1, a legendary keyboard whose voice is oh so 1980s.
Widely known Kyodai AKA Wagon Cookin' have produced two remixes of Turn Day On, one of them dark disco and the other one dub. It is ever more interesting to hear quite a serious techno funky track turning first into a dark-disco opera and then into even a gloomier but classy dance dub.
Yet another surprising feature of this release is that the authors of this original genuinely vintage sound are young Russians who were most likely born later than funk itself.
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