The actual solo debut for
Ashley Beedle is a fusion of Afrocentric jazz textures and tribal-disco rhythms with science-fiction mythology gained from equal parts
Sun Ra and
Juan Atkins. It's perhaps the least danceable album his name has been attached to, though much like the contemporary work of
Kirk Degiorgio's As One (the vastly similar Planetary Folklore had been released two months earlier),
Future Ju-Ju sees
Beedle expanding his stylistic reference points so as to encompass the dancefloor, not leave it behind. ~ John Bush