Dancefloor Outlaws a.k.a DJ/producers Will ‘Streetwise’ and Robin Parris pull down the brims of their stetsons and pull up bandanas to cover their faces for the Delusions EP – the taster for forthcoming album Delusions Of Grandeur. I wore a pink Stetson when djing once. Not by choice of course – some drunk bird put it on my head while I was on the cut. I told her I drew the line at kinky
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Tag Archives: nufunk
DANCEFLOOR OUTLAWS: Delusions EP (2013)
BASEMENT FREAKS: Funk From The Trunk (2013) + Booty Shackin’ Free download
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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Various: BBP Remixed (2013)
Apparently May is international ghetto funk/ nufunk/ breaks remix month for here is Badboe‘s heavyweight scene label Breakbeat Paradise with twelve of the best from the BBP library getting a rework. Perhaps unsurprisingly, among those being remixed are some of the remixers. That’ll be Tom Drummond, Jayl Funk and Badboe himself – of course – after all, what kind of man throws a party
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JOHNNYPLUSE: The Book Of Lies Remixed (2013) + The Prowler (Django party mix) Free download
If you’re a producer, it has become somewhat de rigeur of late, to follow the release of ‘the’ album (i.e. yours) with ‘the remix album’ – i.e. by ‘them’. You know, a crew of usually like-minded individuals who, the minute they get their grubby mitts on those stems, throw the owner a sly grin as if to say, ‘this shit is mine now and I’m going to go to town on it’ and then go to town on it. A bit like
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FORT KNOX FIVE: 10 Years Of Fort Knox Five (2013)
Has it really been ten years of Fort Knox Five? I had to dig out my 12″ of Radio Free DC (which features on this) to see how old it was and even that’s eight years old. So, yes a decade since the spy funk breaks of The Big Score. If another record company had signed the four of them (yes, I know) back in 2003 you can imagine they might have been posed the question “So – where do you see
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CHART – May 2013
(NEW)1. T Bird & The Breaks – I Gets My Boogie On (Mako & The Hawk remix)
Shades of Coldcut’s remix of ‘Paid In Full’ and Loaded-era Primal Scream anyone?
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THE O’JAYS: For The Love Of Money (Shaka remix) Free download (2013) + video
Some people (board sports types and VW camper drivers mainly) like to throw out a shaka. But what does a shaka throw out. Well, if it’s Glaswegian crew Shaka, the answer’s a ghetto-funk remix of much-sampled O’Jays classic For The Love Of Money. O’Jays singer Eddie Levert has previously complained at the way the original anti-capitalist message of the song and its title (taken from
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GHETTO FUNK presents: B-SIDE (GFP14)(2013)
The second of two exercises in breaks n bass wobble from the Ghetto Funk stable this month and this one’s from B-Side mixing and matching his classic hip-hop and funk samples over warping bottom end noise. It’s packed to the gills with hammering synth bass and a surfeit of moments for the kids to grab mates excitedly and go, ‘wait for it – here’s the drop!’ (or indeed float one of those
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C2C: Happy (Jimi Needles Blowup mix) (2013) + video
Here we find noted scratch dj and producer Jimi Needles administering a healthy dose of remix to recent single Happy by noted French scratch dj outfit and producers C2C. The Blowup mix finds our man engaged in a digital ‘laying on of hands’ to the happy-clapping electronic soul of the original and, without putting too fine a point on it, injecting a stadium-sized amount of wobbly bass. Most people
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WARSON & CHUDY: Funky Boar Strikes Again (2013)
Not had enough refried funk yet eh? You’ll be wanting to check out the two distinct flavours you get on Funky Boar Strikes Again then, courtesy of the latest wing of the Polish funk/ breaks mafia a.k.a. Funkosol Records‘ Warson and Chudy. First up is Warson who reboots Israeli 70s throwbacks Funk N Stein and their Ohio Players style number That’s Love for the nufunk/ ghetto
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