Funk is a delicious spaced-out high – the kind you get after you’ve just kissed your baby. It’s a low down earthy vibe that pops up when a groovin’ jam gets heated and you get off your ass and jam! Funkiness is uninhibited soulful behaviour rooted in instinct, a joy of self, a joy of life. Funk is communication with the Cosmos. George „Dr. Funkenstein” Clinton prefers to boil it down to: „Funk is whatever it needs to be, at the time that it is.”
The Cosmic Hustlers are a deliciously soulful funk band, built around Australian funk guitarist Peter Leroy Panayi and European bass-ace Herfried Knapp. They throw down an enthralling groove and will mesmerize your booty in a funk rapture. This hard-groovin’ funk dynamo is a chunk of intergalactic bliss – check them out and save your soul, Hallelujah! (Yianni Shepherd, Sydney funk-zine 2008)