Liftoff to Release "Sunday Morning Airplay" January 17 on Fort Knox Recordings

Fort Knox Recordings presents Sunday Morning Airplay the debut album from Liftoff. On this new record, Liftoff takes flight on a blissed-out journey drenched in acid-soaked melodies and 808 beats. Escape into the void and join them on their infinite quest for endless summers and higher states. Featuring 13 songs for the new flower power generation, Liftoff invites you to sing along to their psychedelic campfire songs amidst strawberry fields and marshmeadows.

Guitar/Singer/Songwriter Steven Albert (Fort Knox Five and Thunderball collaborator) leads the band with vocal pipes so tender and true they send one's astral projection straight to the year the music died. Coupled with the haunting harmonies of Johnna Raskin (aka Miss Johnna M of Thunderball and Speedy Consuela) you'd swear they were a brother/sister act, if not even Mamas and Papas! But that's just the icing. The cake is layer upon layer of textures, lo-fi samples, drum loops, acoustic instruments & sound effects, played, produced and mixed by the inimitable Steve Raskin (of Fort Knox Five and Thunderball) who for this album seems to have been working on a higher plane. Throw in Rob Myers (Fort Knox Five, Thievery Corporation, Thunderball, See-I and International Velvet) for a little mood filtering, string strumming and the obligatory Sitar riff and you have a recipe for one heady trip.

Interestingly, this is an album that almost never was! All of the tracks were started with such innocence, daring and musical curiosity that little attention was paid to data protection. Drives were lost, entire systems were wiped, in some cases nothing but a stereo mix remains of an entire recording session! The songs were built, dreamt and tracked in the dawn of the new millenium, and finally realized this year. The result is nothing less than Fort Knox Recordings' very own Smile.

So light up and tune in to Sunday Morning Airplay and lose yourself in the dreamy lo-fi glow of Liftoff.

About Fort Knox Recordings:
Fort Knox Recordings is the renegade funk n' soul label from Washington DC. Established in 2003, our mission is to explore the funkier side of global music. Fort Knox is set to 'Tell It Like It Is' by smashing the artificial barriers established by the 'System' that keeps all 'Good' music down. Forget about tempos and genres—we want to take you back to the roots and reunite all music from our funk, dub and soul brothers—you dig? So stop being so serious, this is music, it's supposed to be fun.