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Defunkt: Trax, New York

Roy Trakin, Melody Maker, 9 February 1980

EVEN THE decidedly old-wave, uptown industry water-hole Trax has caught the Funk Flu that's hit this borough like an epidemic. People are dancing to progressive, even avant-garde jazz riffs, thanks to some primal funk underpinnings fuelled by an infectious, exhilarating enthusiasm.

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