Stay Healthy / Empowered, Bye The Sadness

by Karate Boogaloo

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Crispy, loud 45 housed in hand-stamped College Of Knowledge company sleeve. Doubles a must for the break heads.

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In 2016, the members of Karate Boogaloo lived together in a West Brunswick sharehouse dubbed ‘Wyall Style’, which housed their DIY analogue studio. By the time the house tragically succumbed to a mould infestation, Karate Boogaloo had produced a plethora of recordings in the studio, including an album called Stay Healthy that never saw the light of day.

From these sessions, two deep cinematic minor-key funk tracks were released on a 45 in 2017. To release this 45, Karate Boogaloo concocted the short-lived, self-run record label ‘Frollen Records’.

The 7” record was pressed as a limited 300-copy run, and given only to one local Melbourne record store to sell. The record was given no formal release process - therefore, as intended, the record went well under the radar of all except Melbourne’s keenest record diggers.

Since acquiring promo copies of the 7” from the band in 2018, College Of Knowledge label heads Jethro Curtin and Lachlan Stuckey championed the record in DJ sets around Melbourne.

Now, this under-the-radar, on-point DIY funk 45 joins the catalogue of independent Melbourne soul label College Of Knowledge Records, finding a new home in a hand-stamped COK company sleeve.

On July 3rd, Bandcamp’s no revenue share day, all sales of physical and digital of this release will be donated in their entirety to Bridging The Gap Foundation for Indigenous Health and Education.

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released March 7, 2020

Written and performed by H. Jenkins, C. Riley, D. Thor, H. Whitlock
Recorded at Wyall Style
Mixed by Henry Jenkins
Mastered Mikey Young

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Karate Boogaloo Melbourne, Australia

Sitting at the heart of Melbourne’s burgeoning instrumental soul movement, Karate Boogaloo (Henry Jenkins, Hudson Whitlock, Callum Riley, and Darvid Thor) have been playing music together since their playground days. Meeting as high school preteens, these four friends explored the teachings of the great small combo instrumental bands à la Booker T & The MG’s and The Meters. ... more

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