Calling your EP For Funk’s Sake? You’d have to be a total cult to do something like that. And damn if that isn’t exactly what’s happened – for here is Totalcult with his new EP For Funk’s Sake and isn’t it well-named? Nu funk and bass-poppin’ disco influences hop into bed on Funk Is Free and hip-hop and disco get at it on Ain’t We Funkin Now. Things get a bit more clavinet-y, p-funk
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Monthly Archives: July 2011
TOTALCULT: For Funk’s Sake EP (2011) + Cyaan Rock Steady – free download
SOULBROTHA: The Connexion EP (2011)
Everyone knows if you want something done efficiently you get the Germans involved, so if it’s nineties boom-bap you want – who you gonna call? Cue producer tag team of B-Base and 12Fingerdan a.k.a Soulbrotha since a) it’s always nineteen-ninety-three round their place and b) they live in Hamburg. It also helps that they’re shit-hot producers and have access to some quality
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TIM MCVICAR: For The Money (2011)
Smoove & Turrell’s live band bassist, Tim McVicar, steps out from the shadows cast by neo-northern soul’s unlikeliest but most deserving stars with his first breaks tune. Despite this release’s title, one can only assume he does this less for the money in these days of free downloads, illegal downloads and tinny, piss-weak ‘I converted it from a Youtube video’ mp3s, than for the show
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STEREO BEATZ: Get Funky EP (2011)
Big M new boy Stereo Beatz makes his presence felt with this three track EP that covers – er – three bases in the nu/ghetto funk arena – the disco mashup one, the wobbly bass one and the remix one. First up is We Need Some Funky Horns which grafts a bit of twenty-first century bottom end on the ass of an old KC & The Sunshine Band number. The other two tracks are a brace of remixes
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UGLY DUCKLING: ‘Moving At Breakneck Speed’ album release details, artwork and tracklist announced (2011)
As previously announced on MB back in February, Long Beach old-school hip-hop crew, Ugly Duckling, have been in the process of working on their fifth studio album, Moving At Breakneck Speed. According to their brand new website www.uglyduckling.us, it will be released in October this year. The record is a 14 track concept album described by UD as
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THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS: Can You Get It (2011) – Free download + ‘Breaks From The Border’ ‘making of’ video
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News just in from MB’s Dutch connect (and one half of The Shakedown DJs, Zephirnl) that UK funk legends The New Mastersounds are back with a new album Breaks From The Border on 9 August this year. Not only that but you can cop a FREE DOWNLOAD of bumpin’ NEW TRACK Can You Get It in advance of that via US radio station XPN. Not for the first time, the band invoke the Meters
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T BIRD & THE BREAKS: Never Get Out Of This Funk Alive (2011) – Album review
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Proper funk – where you been you hussy? Mainly hiding out round at T Bird’s place seems to be the answer on the strength of Never Get Out Of This Funk Alive. This is the second full length album from Texan heavy funk and soul outfit T Bird & The Breaks and giant middle finger to all that jazzy noodling that’s been coming out of the contemporary funk scene
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K DELIGHT: Fresh For 86 mixtape (2011) – Free download
K-Delight goes super old-school for the imminent UK Fresh 86 reunion at the London Scala on 16 July and gets his analogue on for a new mixtape. That’s right, he recorded the whole thing on multi-track tape using some fat original electro vinyl. Naturally he is aware that it is 2011 so the whole thing is available for your aural delectation below via the soundcloud player.
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SAVANT feat. Janien Hammonds & Makeda: Skin (prod. Satchill Head) (2011) – Free download
Emcee Savant’s latest pursues sultrier avenues than recent ‘jawns’ (he will insist on calling them that, he’s American you know) and he’s such a lady magnet he gets not one but two on his record – spoken word artist Janien Hammonds and singer Makeda a.k.a. TheeRedFox. Then he goes and gets producer Satchill Head to put together a beat which samples classic eighties soul legend Sade. The smooth operator
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EWAN HOOZAMI: Cutty Limb (2011) – Free download
Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down. You will though, if you hear this latest remix by Bristol beats merchant Ewan Hoozami through the bass bins on a proper sound system. Alright, so this wouldn’t be the first time Cutty Ranks’ Limb By Limb acapella has made the rounds but anyone who knows anything about music knows that a classic vocal excuseth not a shitty beat. Luckily, Hoozami knows a thing or too about beatsmithery and he forged a beast here in plenty of time for
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