KC and the Sunshine Band's disco music is so minimal that the simplest element, such as the addition of a guitar part, can make the difference between excitement and monotony. At its best, as in the Number One single "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty," it is excellent car radio music as well as dance fare. Like all the band's albums, Part 3 is comprised entirely of disco music propelled by the band's slippery Caribbean junkanoo rhythm and accentuated by simple, infectious horn parts. More than any other top level commercial dance band, KC and the Sunshine Band substitute chant for melody. Though this chant is not much fun to listen to, it is very appealing body music whose repetitiveness and blue sky optimism ultimately suggest that an indigenous Floridian trance music has been born. (RS 228)

STEPHEN HOLDEN