Coincidence! That Larry Ellis has been in my life a lot the past few months.
I've been working on editing a short film, set in the 1870s or 1880s kinda range, and in the absence of composed music when I started, I was in need of some clean organ stab sound effects (a kid messes with a church organ at the beginning) and a danceable beat (said kid gets in a jig-battle with her sunday school teacher, as a last ditch attempt to prove she's possessed by the devil and should be sent home). I didn't want to download some awful pipe organ samples or traditional folkdancing music as placeholders so I imported Funky Thing and used it as a beat for the dance and clean organ chords at the beginning. Just so that there was something to work with for the time being.
When the director wanted to see what I'd gotten done so far I just kinda left it in and went "OK I know this is an insane music choice, so just disregard that, I just did it for tempo". She loved it, haha. Her composer is cooking up something, possibly along the same lines (!!), but till that's recorded I've been listening to Black Hammer repeatedly as I tweak the dance scene.
Also, around the same time all this is going on, I read some of Frank's memoir/blog which mentioned playing the intro to this track in total blackout till the beat drops. I wonder if I'll hear it in an ad next, just to make me think the universe is conspiring with me. I am fortunate that this is the conspiracy the universe settled on cause it's such an incredible track. That fuckin bassline!