David Porter Into a Real Thing

While David Porter shared Isaac Hayes’s penchant for transforming potentially flaccid rock and pop standards into epic funk juggernauts, his ADD-addled arrangements, which vacillate between jaw-dropping brilliance and head-scratching weirdness, are universes away from Hayes’s monochord meditations. Here we cut through the innumerable preludes and bring you the oft-sampled climax of Porter’s “Hang on Sloopy.”