Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Disco Frankenstein [Strut]

From the crypts of Parisian funk darkness emerges Halloween’s lost holy grail: Disco Frankenstein, by Ice, a.k.a. Lafayette Afro Rock Band. A provocative album of horror-disco rarities, originally released as a compilation—a misnomer shrouded in mystery—as the tracks come from the group's most playful experiments in the mid-to-late 1970s.

This album unearths a twisted treasure trove of beats, originally scattered among little-known international editions and side projects, now revived by Strut on blood-soaked vinyl, exclusively for Halloween 2025.

Originally released in 1976 as a Japan-only compilation that featured the Lafayette Afro Rock Band under a multitude of pseudonyms—Sweet Exorcist, Captain Dax, Hot Blood, Krispie and Co., among others—the project was devised by producer Pierre Jaubert and spearheaded by Frank Abel, alongside the group’s funk virtuosity, the same minds behind the much-sampled Soul Makossa and Malik albums.

Disco Frankenstein shows the group at their most creative: combining wah-wah guitars, thunderous Afrobeat rhythms, and haunting synthesizers into a funky brew of horror-disco gold. Tracks like Dr. Beezar (Soul Frankenstein), Disco Vampire, Zeke the Zombie, and Igor’s Reggae blur the line between Halloween novelty and incendiary dancefloor, invoked with full seriousness by studio sorcerers who knew how to resurrect funk.

Resurrected by Strut Records and remastered by The Carvery, this compilation finally gets the deluxe treatment it deserves: pressed on limited "blood-splattered" vinyl, just in time for Halloween 2025.