You can count on one hand the number of key players in the forging of the ghetto funk scene who actually had an album of anything out prior to that scene’s creation. But George Fotiadis a.k.a Basement Freaks was one of them. Even so, the funky, latin, afro, nujazz, chilled breaks of his debut Urban Jungle were a far cry from the warping synth-bass line/ breakbeat monsters (of which BF
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BASEMENT FREAKS: Funk From The Trunk (2013) + Booty Shackin’ Free download
SMOKEY BANDITS: Debut (2013) + ‘Cape Juby’ free download
Smokey Bandits debut – er – Debut was big in Greece when it first came out. And yet this thirteen-track collection of original instrumentals created by Basement Freaks‘ George Fotiadis, his homie Quasamodo and ragtag band of rebel musicians (no doubt unshaven types, with a glint in their eyes and bandoliers criss-crossing their chests) slipped under the radar elsewhere
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GHETTO FUNK presents: BASEMENT FREAKS (GFPD)(2013) Free download
Six million ways to roll and here’s two of them for free download as the mighty Basement Freaks turns up on the mighty Ghetto Funk label. There’s lots of California love here as he appropriates a veritable smorgasbord of West Coast samples including, er, Tupac’s California Love itself on Clap Ya Hands. Oh and he forcibly unites both coasts by including the decidedly ‘New York’ Busta Rhymes on
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BASEMENT FREAKS: The Bass, The Fat & The Funky (Dj Mix) (2013) Free download + Spring tour dates
Must be the week for Ronseal names as Basement Freaks follows BMD’s Funky Beats & Re-Edits LP with this free download mix entitled The Bass, The Fat & The Funky. Or more strictly speaking, ghetto funky – though that doesn’t quite have the same ring. This grinding monster of a breaks mix revolves around a core of heavy ghetto funk whilst drawing in several different shades of breaks along with a bit
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BASEMENT FREAKS & TIMOTHY WISDOM: Loopback Brother (2012) + ‘Golden Rock’ free download
Loopback Brother finds Basement Freaks and Timothy Wisdom take a brotherly approach to music creation by pooling resources – including TW on the mic. Which presumably makes them ‘loopback brothers’ or something. Anyway, this semblance of sibling seemliness spawns a squelchy, hip-hop-influenced (and hip-hop speed, at 101 bpm) ghetto funker which our men toss out into
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BASEMENT FREAKS: Soul Digga EP (2012) + ‘Gold Digga’ free download
See, I said it would be all about the albums in the land of ghetto funk this year and here’s big player Basement Freaks gearing up for his. It’s like when Genghis Khan died and anyone with a claim to the throne raced back from rapine and pillaging in the far flung reaches of the empire of Mongolia to claim it. Except that Basement Freaks is racing back from djing and production in the far flung
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GHETTO FUNK presents ALLSTAR 45s: Dancefloor Outlaws ‘Meet Me On The Dancefloor’ & Basement Freaks ‘Mo Diggity’ (GFP010)(2012)
It’s the third Allstar 45 from the Ghetto Funk posse and they’ve roped in another two heavy hitting production crews. First up, Dancefloor Outlaws rock out with their cocks out on Meet Me On The Dancefloor – presumably one where waving glowsticks around isn’t frowned upon. This one’s all about mixing up a few Ludacris bars off Missy Elliott’s Gossip Folks with a giant singalong refrain
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VARIOUS: Jalapeno Funk Vol. 4 (2012) + DJ Moneyshot “Rob Resurrected’ free download
For Jalapeno Funk Vol. 4, UK label Jalapeno draw together the disparate elements of the funky end of the bass music scene by assembling a motley crew of eleven artists and getting them to contribute something modern and funk-related (both originals and remixes as well as previously released stuff and exclusives), for this fifteen tracker
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FUNK MOGULS: Roc Blockin EP (2012)
Once upon a time there was cock rockin’, then the Chemical Brothers were block rockin’ and now Funk Moguls are roc blockin’. No doubt at some point in the future we can expect cock-blockin’ beats too. To the best of my knowledge there hasn’t been any feminist ghetto-funk interpretation of the works of Motley Crue and Poison yet but give it time. Meanwhile the
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BADBOE & BASEMENT FREAKS: Bombastic Collabs Jam 01 (2012)
Two of the biggest and most influential names on the party breaks/ ghetto funk scene get together to kick off a new series of hook-ups on the Bombastic Jam label – Bombastic Collabs, as Badboe and Basement Freaks pull a couple of mid-tempo grooves out of their respective bags of beats. And groove really is the word (considering where the ghetto funk sound has been of late) for both tracks
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