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It might seem weird at first glance to throw in a group of Italian crime-film soundtrack aficionados into the same funk-revival movement that gave us the likes of the Dap-Kings and Antibalas. But make no mistake: nobody stays in the pocket while funking up poliziotteschi scores like this Milanese band does. Morricone at his meanest gets the vertigo-melody kick-drum-of-death treatment on “Milano Odia: La Polizia Non Può Sparare,” while their take on Riz Ortolani’s “Il Consigliori” sets to slinking somewhere between Budos Band skulk and Pink Floyd in Barbet Schroeder soundtrack-gig mode. And the originals rip, too: check for their signature-tune candidate “Eurocrime!”, a fuzzed-out, brass-blasting pedal-down beast of a chase theme that whips around its rhythmic hairpins like a rally-tuned Alfa Romeo.