DJs put your booties on, it’s dope out there! Yes – a year after its now sold-out vinyl drop, Mako & The Hawk‘s mighty Party Goin On EP is coming at ya in digital formats in time once again for the summer party season. The action kicks off with the title track – an epic Wiseguys-ish b-boy breaks
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MAKO & THE HAWK: ‘Party Goin’ On EP’ DIGITAL release (2014)
GHETTO FUNK: HYPE VOCALS sample pack feat. DIZZY DUSTIN & SAVANT a.k.a. Stanstro + scratches by JFB (2014)
Tired of all that trawling through old hip-hop cuts to find just the right hook or shout-out? Not to mention all that farting around chopping, filtering, tweaking the tempo till it’s just right so you lose track of time and then…oh for fuck’s sake your battery runs out before you saved it! What an arse ache! We’ve all been there – but hey – here’s the Ghetto Funk crew to make your life easy with the
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MORLACK: Loose Booty (2014)
Jesus – Morlack must eat, sleep and shit breakbeat music. By my reckoning he has a release out on average once a month and that’s not even taking into account the odd freebie he puts out as well or remix packages like next month’s massive Morlack Refunkafized offering from BBP. And we’re not talking about singles either – it’s usually a multi-track EP if it’s not
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CHIMA ANYA & CLEM BEAT’Z: After All This Time EP (2014)
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Never one to let himself be pigeonholed, rapping doctor Chima Anya goes through a kaleidoscope of emotion on After All This Time over a kaleidoscope of beats from Frenchman and Evidence-lookalike Clem Beat’z. It’s like a hip-hop episode of Jeremy Kyle, only without the offensive right wing Christian morality, the baying audience mob and the hapless fuckwits
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DILATED PEOPLES feat. ALOE BLACC: Show Me The Way (prod. JAKE ONE)(2014)
Hot on the heels of previous single (the Premier-produce Good As Gone) comes…why – another single! This time around West Coast underground legends Dilated Peoples do the do atop the Jake One-produced Show Me The Way featuring a hook sung by one Aloe Blacc – presumably in need of a dollar or if not – at least aiming to help Rakaa, Evidence and Babu get hold of a few. This time
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FRESH FROM THE SEWER PRESENTS..: Captain Flatcap July 25 (2014)
Kane FM’s Fresh From The Sewer crew step out from behind the radio mic to put on a night (Fresh From The Sewer Presents…Captain Flatcap) at McCluskey’s in Kingston on 25 July. One trusts that it’s just a coincidence that the venue is called McCluskey’s because if the one in Kingston is anything like the one in Bristol all those blotchy-legged muffin-topped women and ‘roid-ripped
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THE CAPTAIN: Run (Moby vs. Wu-Tang Clan) (2014) Free download
Despite the embarrassing publicity of the Costa Concordia incident, there are still Italian captains more than capable of piloting a reliable course. Once such is – er – The Captain who, here, hits upon the conceit of making a match between the one of hip-hop’s greatest storytellers, Ghostface Killah, with one of electronica’s baldes- I mean blues-iest, producers – Moby. With Run he safely
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DJ SHEPDOG: Greatest Licks Vol. 1 (2014) Free download
Rating: Back in the day (well, up until about four years ago anyway) the reggae-hip-hop mash-up scene was pretty much sewn up by three men: DJs Shepdog, JStar and Mr Benn of the Nice Up! crew. Indeed, Shepdog and JStar released two epic sets of such bootlegs (Cut Ups, Bruck Ups & Muck Ups Vols. 1 and 2) before pretty much bowing out of making anything else along these
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THE FUNK HUNTERS & CMC & SILENTA (feat. SEE-I): Shock Rollin’ (2014)
Canada, Germany and the United States all pulling together to bring good vibes to the masses – now that’s what I call international co-operation! Don’t worry it’s not a sudden attack of philanthropic intercontinental governmental co-operation but The Funk Hunters, CMC & Silenta and See-I hooking up for Shock Rollin‘ a bass-heavy ghetto glitch effort vocal effort. Nasty bass and synths vie
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EPHEMERALS: Easy Ain’t Nothin’ (2014)
Ephemerals first appeared a year or so ago as retro-soul songwriting powerhouse Nic Mondegreen rose from the ashes of Hannah Williams & The Tastemakers. Not only had he put together a completely new band fronted by the convincingly raw-voiced Wolf but they put out a whole new LP (Nothin’ Is Easy) to rival the quality of the work of Lee Fields and Charles Bradley. For
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SPARK ARRESTER: Windy City Soul (2014) Free download
If you weren’t aware, a spark arrestor is any device which prevents the emission of flammable debris from combustion sources. Which means producer Spark Arrester is guilty of dereliction of duty since Windy City Soul is a smouldering glitchy, ghetto funk slow burner containing elements of Chicago track 25 Or 6 To 4 and Back To Life by Soul II Soul, the fretwork of Basement Freak
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