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Oh No? ‘Oh yes’ more like! This has been threatening to drop since back in the summer and I for one am grateful the wait is over. Essentially Dublin’s bass-iest, Dirty Dubsters (along with sometime collaborators – old school NY toaster Screechy Dan and dancehall chanteuse Whandah The Dainty Queen), rework elements of a rather well-known reggae classic
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Monthly Archives: January 2012
DIRTY DUBSTERS feat. SCREECHY DAN & WHANDAH THE DAINTY QUEEN: Oh No EP (2012) + video
DJ FORMAT: New LP ‘Statement Of Intent’ due February (2012) + promo video/audio and tracklist
DJ Format’s back hurrah! Well, soon, anyway – and it doesn’t look like he’s going to be taking any prisoners with his first full length LP since 2005’s If You Can’t Join ‘Em…Beat ‘Em. How long!? Yeah, I know – tell me about it. The fifteen track Statement Of Intent (full tracklist below) is due for a 27 February release on digital, cd and DOUBLE VINYL and looks all set to feature the usual fat-funky boom-bap business
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STEELY CHAN: Mos World (2012) – Free download
The crazy prolific Steely Chan’s hip-hop/ funk blender gets into full-length action here positioning yet another legendary MC from back in the day atop fat funky beats – in this case Mos Def over music culled from latterday soul king Lee Fields in the form of Mos World which you can cop below. You can blame Dangermouse for kicking this kind of practice off all those years ago with the Grey Album
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JOHN ALLISON: Good So Bad (2012)
Anyone who caught Texan funkers’ T Bird & The Breaks storming second LP Never Get Out Of This Funk Alive will know it isn’t just gravel-vocalled T Bird who sings in the band. Aside from a roster of backing singers that includes soul queen in waiting Sasha Ortiz, guitarist Johnny ‘Too Bad’ Allison also stepped up to the mic for album track Paranoia For Ya and rocked a Rare Earth/ James Gang style vocal. That’s a mega-lengthy preamble
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GHETTO FUNK presents ALLSTAR 45s: Funk Ferret, Goodgroove & DJ Soo (2012)
It’s fragile, it’s technologically anachronistic and you don’t want to be leaving it in the sun…but you can’t beat the sound. Vinyl’s the shit isn’t it? So here’s to Ghetto Funk– a label which pioneers the bleeding edge of the funk continuum but hasn’t forgotten the feel and sound of wax. This is the second in their Allstar 45s series and sees two of hip hop’s earliest classics get a thorough ghetto funk
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MORLACK – Try It Again (2012) Free download
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Good God almighty – his album Where Do You Get Your Funk From was only out two weeks ago and here’s Morlack again already with a superbly chunky booty version of Bobby Byrd’s funk nugget Try It Again. Slightly faster and a bit heavier than the original, it’s got ‘floor filler’ written all over it and only goes to prove once more that old adage – the simpler it is the better it is. If only it was out on wax
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CONFIGA feat. JOHN GRAHAM: ‘Back 2 Basics’ (2012)
This week’s ‘most like BDP hip-hop throwback single’ slot is filled by a video for the John Graham-featuring Back 2 Basics off Configa’s Calm Before The Storm mixtape. So anyone who’s into the “90s Euro-house-plus-shit rapper or faded old has-been emcee” that passes for mainstream hip-hop these days should pass right along. On the other hand, anyone who wants crisp, minimal, boom-bap dope, will need to go and collect a change of trousers
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HARDLY SUBTLE: Hardly Subtle EP 2 (2012) + ‘Chase & Skank’ free download
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The New Year’s mere days old and those cheeky West Country bad boyz Hardly Subtle (a.k.a. Aldo Vanucci and Dave Remix) are already getting their Joe Cockers out for Pharoahe Monch on this, exposing their Family Stones to LL Cool J and doing things to Etta James that she never dreamed of when she released Something’s Got A Hold On Me in 1962. Mash-up city! It’s hardly subtle is it? Fuck subtle! Let’s rock the dancefloor and here are four
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BROTHER ALI: Writer’s Block (prod. Jake One) (2012) video + free download
We’ve all been there – no matter how hard you strain, nothing comes out. Yep – writer’s block is a bastard. Thankfully, the jewel in the Rhymesayers label’s crown, Brother Ali managed to gain relief by the ingenious means of writing about the fact that he couldn’t think of anything to write about. And it wouldn’t be the first time in hip-hop that this solution to lyrical constipation has
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FLATLINE feat. WERD2JAH: Slow Down (2012)
Flatline are another signing to Dirty Dubsters’ Irish Moss label, and on Slow Down they deliver a future dub bassline with enough clout to terminate the beating hearts in any ribcages not protected by a safety cushion of low-frequency-resistant, spongy, tarry lungs cultivated through years of ganja abuse. Not to be outdone a host of remixers (the Dubsters among them) compete to up the tempo and dark the whole thing up in a crazy genre
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