Sound Experience brought their uptempo funk grooves to Boogie Nights and deserve to be more widely known than they were, even in their 1970s heyday.

Still feeling the funk – here’s Sound Experience, a band I never knew about ’til their instrumental J.P. Walk featured in the film Boogie Nights (and on the soundtrack album).

They were an eight-piece group who got together at college in Baltimore in 1970 and moved to Philadelphia, recording several singles and a solitary album for Stan Watson’s Philly Groove label (also home to yesterday’s featured band, The Delfonics).

This tune, a bonus track added later to that 1974 album, Don’t Fight The Feeling, features all the elements of their signature sound – a driving uptempo funk groove, electric piano, bursts of brass, squiggly synth and squealy electric guitar.

Plus a joke intro with a radio station playing some old-time country music before the fat bass bursts in.