Last month Los Angeles' silky funk outfit SA-RA Creative Partners assembled their funky troops for a performance at Santa Monica's groovy outpost Zanzibar. For those who missed it, dry those eyes — footage from their May 30th performance has showed up on SRCP's Youtube page.

Watch as visionary producer Shafiq Husayn helms the group and the airy rhythms get the dancefloor churning and, most likely, grinding. Of course the music is smooth and soulful, but the real question that this video raises is: Who's that funky dude in the chief's head dress? Well, that's none other than Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner, the bass virtuoso who once played with Suicidal Tendencies, and most recently added some low end theories to Flying Lotus' album Cosmogramma.

Watch the footage from their Zanzibar performance, a few interviews with Thundercat, and Shafiq Husayn's video for the phenomenal song “U.N.”:

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