In this instance Falcon Punch is neither a fruity alcoholic drink with a dead bird of prey in it, nor a brutal pugilistic technique. Instead it is a darkly fruity slice of funky breaks from rising Bristol producer Ewan Hoozami with an Alice Russell/ Bamboos sample in it, featuring a fairly brutal beat not unlike something the Prodigy might have done around 1997 . Now in full audio-visual effect (courtesy of Lumen), you can cop the vid below and will shortly be able to pick up the digital sound file off the soon-to-be-released Booty Pirates: Volume 3. Press guff below vid and links.
Ewan Hoozami – Myspace
ewanhoozami.com
Falcon Punch by Ewan Hoozami from Lumen on Vimeo.
(PRESS RELEASE) UP AND COMING PRODUCER ‘EWAN HOOZAMI’ HAS TEAMED UP WITH A/V WHIZZ-KID ‘LUMEN’ TO CREATE AN INCREDIBLE MUSIC VIDEO!
One of the hardest-working musicians in Bristol, Ewan has teamed up with
Audio-Visual whizzkid Lumen (of Drawn Recordings) to create an incredible
music video! Lumen has inflected Ewan Hoozami’s heavy, aggressive funk
track ‘Falcon Punch’ (already receiving rave reviews in Bristol’s music scene) with style, humour and power.
DJ/Producer extraordinaire Ewan Hoozami (pronounced “you ‘n’ whose army”) of the South-West of England’s premier funk DJ crew – Funk From The Trunk – is fast gaining an international following since releasing some acclaimed mixtapes, several bootlegs and remixes and a sumptuous trip-hop EP on Dusted Wax.
Easy now! It’s the return of the boom-bap. KRS-ONE a.k.a. the Teacha a.k.a. the lyrical legend responsible for Sound Of Da Police, South Bronx and MCs Act Like They Don’t Know (among others), has spat fire since his days with BDP and is playing these shores in the autumn:
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It’s not all vice, corruption and extreme violence in Florida but if, like me, you’ve never been there and your conception of the place is formulated by Miami Vice, Tim Dorsey, and – er – the news…it mostly is. Contrary to the claims of Newport, Wales’ Goldie Lookin Chain, it’s not so much guns or rappers who kill people as the ‘gunshine state’ itself. Ripped and buffed emcees Protoman and Bleubird are the latest enemies of the Florida tourist board and here they casually satirise pretty much every aspect of life in that neck of the woods with this drums-heavy boom-bap Dantanna beat. Coming on not unlike an east coast version of early Foreign Legion, I can’t think of a single reason why you wouldn’t want to avail yourself of this right now since it’s both very free and very fresh:
Whether you’ve got a head for beats or like beats for the head it’s fairly safe to say this gig will rub your rhubarb the right way. As luck would have it monkeyboxing.com can ensure that such an experience comes to you and a companion entirely free. All you have to do is answer the question below by 14 July and mail in your answer – first two correct answers get themselves plus one on the guestlist. Get ya skates on innit! COMPETITION CLOSED – congrats to the winners!
Heads up – it’s free dusty breaks time again. Clearly a man who knows his Memorex C90 from his Sony C120, Shade Cobain hails from Pittsburgh and lists Kurt Cobain (which might explain that tag) among influences which also (more typically) include Thelonious Monk, Pete Rock and The Funk Brothers. Rich on analog hiss, Shade’s cassette-obsessed beats project harks back to mid-nineties sampling of seventies sounds. All the best bits about the cassette era then, without all the irritating bits like: 1. having to use a biro to unspool your favourite cassette because your car stereo has wound it too tight to play in your walkman, 2. the warped sound of a stretched cassette playing once you’ve done this and 3. the lettuce-like crackle of tape salad when you remove the fucker from your walkman in which the batteries have just run out.
Foreign Legion’s Night Moves LP (cover art below links) has been coming out and then failed to more times than an indecisive closet gay man. The evidence on the band’s own Hungerstrike Records website, would suggest that the latest due date for Prozack Turner and Marc Stretch’s much-delayed album is 17th August this year. The underrated Bay Area hip-hop duo’s long-awaited third LP is preceded by the seemingly troublesome digital release of promo single Travel Lite. And when I say troublesome, it looks like it’s been kicking around the web for a few weeks now even though publicity for it has been practically zero, the release date varies according from site to site, the artwork has changed (see below LP cover), the video has been pulled from YouTube (at the time of writing) and (depending on the site you visit) it sometimes comes with another track, Ultimate, as well as instrumentals of both. What is going on in the FL camp? Enquiring Minds want to know! Nevertheless – the understated Travel Lite rocks an ATCQ style beat courtesy of Intro Beats (i.e. the man behind the FL’s Secret Knock EP banger, Piano Banger) and lyrically explores the joys of the tour while the altogether trippier Ultimate offers woozy summer horns, Asheru & Blue Black style – 
‘Don’t be afraid of your free download!’ George Fotiadis a.k.a. Basement Freaks celebrates the rise and rise of his label Bombastic Jam with a typically – er – bombastic refix of the early nineties indie/ baggy cover of the Rolling Stones track by The Soup Dragons. You can cop it 
It looks like Brother Ali is having a bummer in the summer. The Minneapolis rapper has had to fly back home to the states due to a family tragedy and as a consequence his scheduled UK summer has had to be cancelled with no news of a re-schedule as yet, if at all. Spare a thought for the big man next time somebody moans about how their summer’s been ‘ruined’ by England’s poor performance in the World Cup.
