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Boom! Dee & Kamy‘s 80s Lifestyle EP is the mainest dancefloor bomb. Monkeyboxing repping the third thing in a row with five stars? Damn straight! Not only is this November the most ridiculous month for quality funky ass music all year this year, but for many a long year. And (despite being on the BigM label, known for it’s nufunk/ ghetto funk/ funky breaks output) this is
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Monthly Archives: November 2011
DEE & KAMY: 80s Lifestyle EP (2011)
TRAMP RECORDS: Santa’s Funk & Soul Christmas Party (2011)
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Christmas songs really are the nadir of music aren’t they? Slade, Wizzard, Jonah Louie, Boney M, Wham, Bing Crosby, The Beach Boys, Shakin Stevens, Pariah Carey, Cliff fucking Richard…I don’t what’s worse – the same twelve songs played from at least December 1st every year, in every overheated, queue-ridden shop you go in or retail managers’ insulting notion that you’re such a dull
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T BIRD & THE BREAKS: Everything Unto Me (2011) + video
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Still criminally unsigned, prolific Texan funk outfit T Bird & The Breaks deliver Everything Unto Me – their first single since the release of second LP Never Get Out Of This Funk Alive and it’s new material that wasn’t even on the album. Everything Unto Me is a heavy, heavy downtempo jam that updates the traditional funk/ soul blueprint via a dash of hip-hop production
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PULPFUSION: Street Art EP (2011)
The Street Art EP is a quality six-tracker from Pulpfusion (the man who bought you Sex, Drums, Funk And Roll and ‘that’ video from earlier in the year) which the PR would have you believe that is a collection of “downtempo breaks.” Listening to the Poison-era, Prodigy-style sound-graffiti of the title-track original and remixes by Frenic and Ewan Hoozami (and especially this
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SASKWATCH: Don’t Wanna Try/ Pushin Me Away (2011)
Just to clear up any confusion, Sasquatch is the hairy-assed missing link between man and ape that might live in the temperate rain forests of North America whereas Saskwatch (with a ‘kw’) is the latest in a long line of funky acts out of Melbourne. Their second seven inch release features A-side Don’t Wanna Try – a sweet soul cut in the Bamboos vein and over on the flip Pushin Me Away is a harder hitting funky nugget
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DJTZINAS feat. The Kidd & BNC: Get Up ( (2011)
It’s ‘vintage sound of the west coast underground’ time at the Cast-A-Blast label as DJTzinas and emcee mates The Kidd and BNC get all year two thousand on your ass with rather solid hip-hop cut Get Up. They want you to get up of course (how else are you going to get down?) and do so with a booming piano-led beat, understated soul samples, scratching and the rhyme skills of the aforementioned emcees. As if that’s not enough
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LACK OF AFRO: Holding my Breath (2011)
Holding my Breath is the second single from Lack Of Afro’s latest LP This Time. Like its predecessor, it rocks the kind of smooth soul vibe to be found all over Smoove & Turrell’s second LP so if you’re down with that, you’ll be down with this as singer Jake Morley gets his mood on over clattery floor friendly percussion. LOA homies Unity Sextet rework this on the flip, uncomplicating the break and have fun with various bits and bobs out of their little bag of jazz
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J-ROC: Ghetto Funk presents J-Roc EP (2011)
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Canadian J-Roc (of Sould Out DJs fame) is the latest producer to get the spotlight in the Ghetto Funk label’s highly consistent Ghetto Funk presents string of vinyl only releases and unbelievably, he’s from Edmonton. I say unbelievably because the last time I was out there I was naive enough to play a funky bit of Deadly Avenger big beat at a party on a mixtape I’d made and got told to ‘turn that Michael Jackson shit off.’
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ASPECTS: BeaTTape (2011) – Free download
Hello…Bristol-based hip-hop crew Aspects are back with a free download produced by their old buddy DJ Format. Cue a fat and funky neck-snap bassline and a crashing hi-hat-saturated break. Lest you should doubt that the boys’ English is still correct, leading the vocal charge is El Eye himself – Ian ‘Dirty’ Merchant (“I’ll eat your features like a Jeeper Creepers creature/ And then delete you quicker than a friend request from Mika”)
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CMC & SILENTA: Roca Records presents Feature Breaks Vol. 2 (2011)
Second release in CMC & Silenta’s Feature Breaks series on their Roca imprint and they’ve opened up their back catalogue for remixing. It has to be said that this could be tantamount to handing a nutter some garden shears and getting your wedding tackle out, depending on who you’ve got on remix duties. Never fear though, half the ghetto funk universe were already queueing
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