Is it possible to pack in some feeble EPMD-referencing wordplay whilst commenting on this rare rampage in the big smoke at London’s HMV Forum on 19 February next year? Actually, I might already have started. One suspects Errick and Parrish may not be making as many dollars as they’d currently like given that the last time they gigged in London was ten years ago. Not that I’m suggesting they’re gold diggers or anything – I would imagine things’ll be business as usual for the boys and that they’ll let the funk flow.
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Monthly Archives: December 2010
EPMD: UK show – February 2011 – London, HMV Forum
RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Get A Wiggle On – Release details
Renegades Of Jazz (a.k.a. breakbeat duo Mash & Munkee’s David Hanke) once again tempers his perverted love for jazz scat-singing with a connoisseur’s choice of breakbeat and uplifting b-line. So good are they in fact that, once again, I found myself overlooking what would otherwise be some frankly unforgivable ‘do-be-doing.’ Not that ‘do-be-doing’ is ever forgivable of course, but couple some crisp percussion, ‘Animal’-off-The Muppets-style drum fills with
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CAPITOL 1212: Good Feelin (feat. Mike G, MCM, Cadence, Dizzy Dustin & DJ Sheep)/ Fly Times (feat. Time Machine & Danny Diamond) + video
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Massive breaks, sweet funk loop and more quality Yank MCs than James Brown could shake his lickin’ stick at? Yes, Capitol 1212 join the few who stand firm on the battered island of true-school hip-hop against the tidal waves of crap that daily batter its shores. They follow up their hip-hop/ dancehall crossover Invade The Carnival with Good Feelin and continue a tradition of UK producers crafting classic beats for U.S. MCs which in recent years has yielded some of the best hip-hop around
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BLAKTRIX feat RALPH RIP SHIT: No Drama
Gotta represent for this cut featuring two of the monkey’s favourite UK rappers. No Drama (apparently) finds Blaktrix effortlessly extolling effortlessness in a way that suggests he might have just had a ‘special’ cigarette. It’s a notion not entirely dispelled by a chorus which runs thus: “Time to break out the papers, inhale the vapours…Time to grind up the trees and blaze a few acres.” And who should he invite to join him on this lazy, hazy journey up the river of meandering thought but
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THE DIPLOMATS OF SOLID SOUND/ RAY HARRIS & THE FUSION EXPERIENCE: Let It Snow/ Soulful Christmas
Ah yes – the season of Yule, a time for family arguments, Christmas Eve punch-ups outside your local (“Leave it Steve! ‘E’s not worth it!”) and increasingly desperate ways to get rid of all the leftover turkey. And, of course the dubious ‘pleasure’ of the festive single. Tired of Slade, Wham and that fucking song by Wizzard? Italian funk label Record Kicks might have the answer as they come over all St Nick style with their timely offering of this limited 45 featuring The Diplomats Of Solid Sound and Ray Harris.
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