Melbourne four-piece Karate Boogaloo wrote “Booger’s Bounce of Joy” for a dance they kept seeing at their gigs. There are no steps to it: you move every limb however you want. Callum Riley‘s organ runs the track with a growling tone, and underneath, Henry Jenkins‘s bass keeps a loose, summery groove for dancing. They recorded it live to tape with no overdubs, all four playing at once, keeping the focus entirely on a clear, hummable hook.

Alongside Jenkins and Riley, percussionist and drummer Hudson Whitlock and guitarist Darvid Thor complete the quartet, the same four who play the rhythm section in Melbourne soul band The Cactus Channel. Under their own name they play instrumental funk on drums, guitar, bass and organ, a small-combo sound they take from The Meters and Booker T. & The MG’s. The four have worked Melbourne’s instrumental soul scene for over a decade: the KB’s Mixtape series came first, funk reworkings of hip-hop samples that sold out local record shops on word of mouth, and 2024’s Hold Your Horses gave them a second album of originals.

They cut “Booger’s Bounce of Joy” with engineer Alex Bennett at Sound Recordings, running it through their Ampex 440 tape machine. The single comes ahead of Access All Areas, their new album for Colemine Records and College of Knowledge Records.

Stream “Booger’s Bounce of Joy” HERE and pre-order Access All Areas via THIS LINK.