Freaky Chakra

An excellent addition to the West Coast's psychedelic groove movement alongside Tranquility Bass, Single Cell Orchestra and Spacetime Continuum, Daum Bentley's Freaky Chakra project combined funk, earthy techno and elements of classic industrial music for his debut LP, 1995's Lowdown Motivator. A fan of hip-hop and industrial until the nascent rave scene hit San Francisco in the late '80s, Bentley began recording in the early '90s and appeared live in early incarnations of Miguel Fierro's Single Cell Orchestra. Introduced to Tranquility Bass' Mike Kandel through Fierro, Bentle...