1998 Jamiroquai: Deeper Underground

A uniquely British phenomenon, acid jazz was a fusion of funk and hip hop that updated sixties freakbeat for a nineties audience. A key figure of the movement, Jamiroquai cracked it's commercial appeal in a series of singles and albums that wore a mid seventies Stevie Wonder influence like a full body suit (which in turn managed to get up no small number of noses). Taken from the soundtrack of that year's big money revival of 'Godzilla', 'Deeper Underground' stands as a typical example of both Jamiroquai and the genre they were working in. To an extent anyway - the organ runs and bass loops of acid jazz were played to the feet, but 'Deeper Underground's two fist bash of a riff only invites a treacle walk shuffle that wouldn't have stretched the oversized lizard himself. Which may have suited as a film tie-in, but in its rampant desire to get in your face, it (ironically) takes acid jazz as overground as it ever got and made for a clunky stand alone single that's too weighted down with it's own self imposed limitations to groove along with the best the genre had to offer.