Cosmic Funk Squad (Turnin' Yo' On) -Single
A special 2013-Single Mix of this track from the 1984/1985 Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra cassette-album, "THE ICE AGE".
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Story behind the song
"The Ice Age" sessions were recorded at the same time as "The Secrets Of The Cosmos" sessions. Not related in any way to that August 1984 Album-Cassette, "The Ice Age" was a story about our planet long after a global war sent it into a new ice age.
Mankind was divided into TWO Factions: Those who CAN AFFORD to leave left Earth behind and took up residence in a gargantuan floating space colony called "Starfire".
Those who COULDN'T AFFORD to escape survived by building their cities UNDERGROUND, with caves leading to the icy, snowy, glacial surface of the Earth.
Those living on "Starfire" assumed themselves to be "High-Class and Civilized'; they looked down on the "Under-Worlders" as "Uncivilized party animals". (kinda like the CLASSES today!)
Still, both factions keep in constant communication with one another (it IS the 'Human Race', after all!), and they both share the same technology---
even Highly Advanced Service Robots.....
who eventually 'wise up' and start a 'revolt', only to be reigned in once more before the unthinkable could happen (like, "Starfire" accidentally dropping back to Earth--can't have THAT, now can we?).
There are THREE main characters in the album, with only the character from "Starfire" being identified ("Jimmy Sharr", a college student). The other two characters inhabit the "Under-World": another student (introduced in the Album's SECOND TRACK, along with Jimmy Sharr--"Gives You What You Want, When You Want It"), and the character who's introduced in the Title Track single: The "Under-World's" wild-partying 'Governor'.
This track features "The Governor".
