Spanish nu/ghettofunker funker Telephunken gets an EP all to himself on scene label Big M and dials in with four big slices of nu/ghettofunk kicking off with what certain people will insist on calling a ‘titty shaker.’ Mind you calling your track All The Mamis is pretty much asking for that to happen – plus he gets props for managing to shove in a tribute to Del The Funky Homosapien
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Monthly Archives: February 2011
BIG M PRESENTS…Vol. 10: TELEPHUNKEN – All The Mamis EP – 2011 + All The Mamis video
FAB SAMPERI: Listen Up – 2011
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Did you know that ‘Fab Samperi’ is actually Italian for ‘dope groove’? It doesn’t really matter too much as you would have instinctively grasped this fact upon hearing the title track on this release. More or less a cover of Marvin Gaye’s Can I Get A Witness it operates via a funky breakbeat so fast it breaches the drum n bass barrier and yet retains a huge retro vibe courtesy of sixties keyboard sounds, horns and the classic soul vocals from Jonnathan Molina.
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FROOTFUL: Colours – 2011
Frootful is guitarist Nick Radford and (although his name sounds a bit like a new fruity blend energy drink – the Frootful name not the Nick Radford one) his sounds sound like a fruity blend of sixties-cool rnb, soul, jazz and funk influences. Now, I know I just put jazz and funk in the same sentence but that’s ok because actually not all jazz-funk is bad – take Grant Green for example – the man’s a legend.
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SHAOLIN AFRONAUTS: Journey Through Time – 2011
Is it Afrobeat season or something? First Tramp Records recent Contemporary Afrobeat, now this and there’s also new drops from Mo’ Horizons and Los Chicarrons about which more to be posted later – if I haven’t suffered afrobeat overload. Which is quite likely. Oz-crew the Shaolin Afronauts have certainly cornered the market for coolest afrobeat outfit name but then regular readers will know the monkey’s a sucker for kung-fu references.
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DIRTY DUBSTERS feat. Bass Nacho: Mr Brown – 2011
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The Dirty Swingers EP might have been the ‘Dubsters first release since the mighty Big Tings but this huge Marley-fied, ragga-hop booty is its spiritual successor. It’s such an obviously gargantuan club hit that its dancefloor pull must rival the gravitational effect of a medium-sized planet. Drop this in a club and even the wallflowers will be helplessly sucked into a heaving morass of sweaty, grinding bodies
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UGLY DUCKLING: New LP title ‘Moving At Breakneck Speed’ announced – 2011
Long Beach crew Ugly Duckling will be back in 2011 with a new LP entitled Moving At Breakneck Speed. The release date has not yet been decided but rapper Andy Cooper was kind enough to let Monkeyboxing.com preview three tracks off the new album this week. The monkey is under strict instructions to keep the tracks themselves on the downlow but we can tell you that they are called, Keep Movin’, Elevation and Sprint.
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