Morlack‘s named his new EP Skunky Bank. Criticism of neoliberal financial practice or just a bit of rhyming slang? Hard to tell. Let’s have a look at what he’s knocked out instead. First up is Strictly Roots – a heavy A Skillz-style bashment re-rub of Althea & Donna’s Uptown Top Rankin’ (notice I said ‘Rankin’) and then he shuffles out a murky bit of swing breaks psychedelia which employs a filtered
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MORLACK: Skunky Bank EP (2013)
WBBL: ‘Got That Feeling’ Cosby Show video (dir. DJ TANNER) (2013) + free download
Have you got that feeling? I’ve got that feeling. James Brown had that feeling too. In fact, he based his career on it. And then loads of people sampled him and based their own careers on it. If you thought the kids had had enough of JB though, think again, as the massive popularity of the ghetto funk edit of Got That Feeling by that ghetto funk weeble – (his beats WBBL but they never fall down
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CROSBY feat. DAVE LE FUNK & TURNTILL: The Chosen Few (2013)
The Chosen Few is the product of a collaboration between Capetown reggae toaster Crosby Bolani, and Swiss-based producers Dave Le Funk and Turntill – a trio that it amuses me to think of as Crosby, Till and Funk. Just thought I’d share that, for what it’s worth…badum tish! The track is a mellow tribute to hip-hop culture although clearly one which acknowledges the Jamaican roots of hip
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SKEEWIFF: Greatest Wiffs (2013)
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I have to admit that I was slightly disappointed when I found out that Skeewiff‘s Greatest Wiffs wasn’t actually documenting one and a half decades of flatulence at Skee Mansions. It was a disappointment rapidly mitigated however by the discovery that what Greatest Wiffs was actually documenting was one and a half decades of their best party breaks remixes and covers. And
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SHAOLIN TEMPLE DEFENDERS: Keep This Funk On A Roll/ Taxman (2013)
Shaolin Temple Defenders – ‘the band with the best name in contemporary funk’ ™ are back with two hard-hitting uptempo funk cuts. The first of these is the guitar-pickin’/ hammond-tickling Keep This Funk On A Roll which, despite its title, appears not to be about the difficulties of using the world’s greatest musical genre as a sandwich filling. Also available is the band’s sweet little cover of The
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SHAKA LOVES YOU: Automatic (2013) Free download
For reasons best known to themselves, so many people in 1983 bought The Pointer Sisters’ track Automatic that the only thing that kept such an over-produced piece of drum machine-powered new wave pop from the UK number one spot was an over-produced piece of drum-machine-powered new wave pop called Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Oooh – shoulder pads at dawn! Now
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LONE NINJA (prod. Lord Beatjitzu): Trapdoors & Secret Passageways (2013)
Rating: Hankering after lo-fi martial-arts-referencing beats and deceptively simple lyrics that whisper through your defences like a shadow warrior’s blade? Look no further because Lone Ninja is back with new LP Trapdoors & Secret Passageways. Lone who? Indeed. The Brooklyn-based rapper is so underground he probably doesn’t know his own true identity. Now
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CHART – DECEMBER (2013)
(NEW) 1. Eldridge Holmes – If I Was A Carpenter
Superb cut off Soul Jazz’s dope New Orleans Funk Vol. 3
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HEYMOONSHAKER: UK Tour + ‘Colly Drop’ video (2013)
Something a little bit different here – MB readers may remember news of Heymoonshaker‘s Shakerism EP back in the spring accompanied by a quite staggering video of the boys – in particular beatboxer Dave Crowe grandstanding (as well he might) – live in public on Brick Lane. Anyway, there’s another video out for the closing track on the EP – Colly Drop. Now, if you’re a blues guitarist
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TIMEWARP MUSIC: Free Downloads (2013)
The Greeks! Like the Romans or something? Bit before? Bit further east? But what have they ever given us? Well apart from democracy, Pythagoras and freedom from a million-strong Persian army commanded by a colossal pervert there’s this lot of free downloads from Athens-based nu-funky breaks label Timewarp Music – home to Timewarp Inc., AfroQBen, Funky Destination, Auditors Domination, Mr Gagun and Sr De Funk, among others. All the
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