(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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CHART – May 2013
HANNAH WILLIAMS & THE TASTEMAKERS: Tell Me Something (Liberties) (2013)
The latest from Hannah Williams & The Tastemakers is smouldering torch song Tell Me Something (Liberties), whereon our Hannah bemoans the insensitive male who takes her for granted. “You continue/ taking liberties” she sings with soulful ire, I do most everything, every day, every night…In the hopes that one day you’re gonna/ Do me right/ But you do absolutely nothing/ In retur…” – sorry love can you keep it down a
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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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CHIMA ANYA: Let It Hang (prod. JEEDO 47)(2013) Free download
It’s been a while since that ‘other’ doctor of hip-hop, Chima Anya, has been featured round these parts but it would be a bum rap if Let It Hang didn’t get a look-in. Essentially, the doctor-rhymer goes in over Jeedo 47‘s ghettotech instro beat Let It All Hang Out, which itself cannibalises Queen’s Fat Bottomed Girls, in praise of one of hip-hop’s perennial favourite topics – the female rear
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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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T BIRD & THE BREAKS: I Gets My Boogie On (Mako & The Hawk remix) (2013)
(PRESS RELEASE) Ladies and gentleman, fetch your dancing shoes – it’s the brand-new, debut official remix from dj/ production duo Mako & The Hawk who rework I Gets My Boogie On by Texan funk crew T Bird & The Breaks on a grand scale. Evoking shades of Coldcut’s version of Eric B & Rakim’s Paid In Full and Primal Scream’s Loaded, the reflective gospel-tinged soul of the original
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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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TOO MANY Ts: ’1992′ video + remix competition (2013)
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Strutting round lighting cigars off wads of bank notes, and bragging about how great they are? Contrary to expectations, not a bunch of braying investment bankers from the city but rather a pair who are inevitably going to end up being called the UK Beastie Boys. I say ‘end up’ – they already have been – though not by the monkey. It’s Too Many Ts of course – never strangers to straight-up party
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MR CONFUSE: Do You Realize: The remixes (2013)
This should be relatively simple to understand – Mr Confuse has had his recent Do You Realize LP remixed and he’s just released the results as Do You Realize: The remixes. In order to bring this about he’s assembled an impressive line up of production warriors which include a strong UK contingent (Smoove, Lack Of Afro, Daytoner, Dr Rubberfunk and Tom Eno) plus Hungarians
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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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