Efficient Processes for Synthetic Funk

EPfSF research paper.

The Strategic Tape Reserve guardedly presents the recordings from our recreation of the Efficient Processes for Synthetic Funk clinical trials. EPfSF was an Cold War-era research project which attempted to standardize low-input production methods for generating asymmetrical rhythms with military applications.

Shaq Fu: Da Return: Da Return reviewed on A Closer Listen

"Everything you hear was already here, but VLK has resurrected the music in what is an impressive reconstruction. The beats have that 90’s chunky feel, like powerful Tetris blocks falling over and over again. The vocals remain muddied while the squeezed synths dart around, lasers of light that shoot out of a strange, secret nightclub somewhere in San Antonio, Ibiza. Shaq Fu has morphed into an interdimensional being capable of transcending the decades and the borders of music itself."

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