What does it mean to be timeless in age of shallow immediacy? In a world where instant virality is hailed as the supreme goal, the most radical act of subversion might be creating something built to bang in a soundsystem eternity. The latest from Sweatson Klank (FKA Take) achieves that rare posterity, inviting an all-night party of boogie funk, ‘80s modern soul, Japanese city pop, Balearic disco, AOR, and 90's house.

Don’t mistake this for derivative mash-up or second-rate synthesis. Released on Friends of Friends, A Free Mind is a masterpiece from by a producer and multi-instrumentalist (keys, drum machine, live bass, guitar, percussion) who discovered a secret chamber where digital funk, contemporary soul, the Belleville Three and Mr. Fingers can all convene on the dancefloor. The L.A. linchpin has alchemized original grooves made to hear on loop at an elegant Tokyo vinyl den, booming from your car speakers on a moon-lit freeway run, or at a bacchanalian house party. It works as both pure aesthetics and function–all gorgeous chord progressions and graceful locomotion – yet it’s sophisticated and complex, informed by the history of the last four decades of music. This is a work aimed at discerning listeners alienated by the fast food music culture and empty hype that has become endemic.

Perhaps this should come as no surprise from the producer born Tom Wilson. The co-founder of the legendary L.A. proto-Beat Scene party, Sketchbook, first built his reputation as one of the most vaunted names to emerge from that hemisphere of 808s and bone-splintering bass. His songs have been featured in major sync placements in all mediums and regularly rinsed by the world’s best DJs from Mary Anne Hobbs to Tom Ravenscroft to Novena Carmel of KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic.” But in recent years, he's elevated his style and expanded his palette, creating everything from ambient to new age to house and disco.