Latest in a run of freebie EPs from the mighty Ghetto Funk machine is this four-tracker from Some DJ. It would have gone up a lot earlier but for my personal battle with the mighty Apple Macintosh machine. All I can say is there’s a letter heading to California you smug-faced, air-conditioned wankers – I know where you fucking live. More difficult to track down might be Some DJ
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Monthly Archives: April 2012
SOME DJ: Ghetto Funk Presents (GFPD08) (2012) – Free download
PULPFUSION: Wrong World (2012)
It’s Pulpfusion everybody and he’s just released his third full-length LP Wrong World. Wrong world? It certainly feels like it at the minute – as the government comes up with ingenious recession-busting initiatives like reducing tax for the rich, increasing tax for pensioners and, my personal money-saving favourite – regional pay for civil servants – oh – unless you’re the MP type of civil
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LACK OF AFRO: Remixes & Rarities (2012)
It was the sampler last month, this time round it’s the full twenty-seven track odyssey that is Lack Of Afro’s Remixes & Rarities LP. What is there that can possibly be said that hasn’t been said already? Well…quite a lot really since there’s another twenty-two tracks on here that weren’t on the sampler. As with its harbinger, anyone into funk-related beats should be kept happy whether it’s
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KAZAHAYA: Bon Voyage (feat. Camp Lo)/ Remember Hip-hop 2012 (feat. D-Stroy, Wax, Herbal T & Braille)(2012)
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For last year’s Soul Is Yours LP, Kazahaya reprised his epic hip-hop dancefloor mash-up Remember Hip-Hop with live rappers as opposed to samples and now here it is on this sexy little seven inch from Breakin Bread who released the original (which is still in the box) three years ago. New lyrical fire is supplied courtesy of Wax and twin bro
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MICROPHONE MISFITZ: Escape From Babylon (2012)
Short of funky boom-bap lately? Actually, you’re probably not this year since it’s been a bit of a vintage one for the genre so far but have some of Microphone Misfitz anyway – since this crew come on a bit like a Chicago Jurassic 5 if the cuts they sent the monkey are indicative of the content of their new LP Escape From Babylon. Coincidentally six in number (like J5) D-Nick, Mel L, Ray of Light, DJ
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THE BAKER BROTHERS: Snap Back Loopmasters EP (2012)
The Snap Back Loopmasters EP presents the top results from the Record Kicks label’s recent competition to remix single Snap Back by funky jazzbos The Baker Brothers. Winning entries come from Funky Bijou, Maleka and Tomasz Betka but the stand out has to be German ghetto funkers CMC & Silenta with their chunky re-visit. It all starts out innocently enough
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Bram Van Splunteren presents: ‘BIG FUN IN THE BIG TOWN’ DVD (Previously unreleased 1986 hip-hop documentary) (2012)
With a name like his you’d surely have an epic career in the porn industry mapped out from birth and yet despite this (and the name of this particular film notwithstanding) Dutch director Bram Van Splunteren happily sidestepped destiny to make a film about the burgeoning NY hip-hop scene more than a quarter of a century ago. Amazingly, Big Fun In The Big Town has
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MO-MATIC presents: B-Boy Bass EP (2012)
Fuzzbox Inc’s Mo-Matic flies solo here with his B-Boy Bass EP and it has to be said, the emphasis is more on the bass than the b-boy. Frankly, the bottom end on this would have the Rock Steady Crew checking out their buildings insurance were it heard in the Bronx back in the day. It speeds up, it slows down, and it’s got enough sirens and keyboards to have Kurtis Mantronix ask what that
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COCKNEY NUTJOB: Luda Kool (2012) Free download
DJ/Producer, Brap FM host and Mighty Boosh watcher Cockney Nutjob’s latest mashes up Ludacris’s Get Back with Kool & The Gang’s Celebration adding ear-threatening breaks and wobbly bass to give both tracks the ghetto-funking they’d always wanted but never realised. Problem with that? All complaints to
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EUROCINEMA: ‘Der Alte’ theme (2012)
More Eurocinema action soon – no, not that kind – not that kind either. I’m talking about Eurocinema the band who have got retro Blue Note style jazz funk down to a ‘t’ as they revealed on sterling debut LP Ten-4 last year. On this follow-up single they cover the theme to Kraut cop show Der Alte a.k.a ‘The Old Fox’ which has been running so long (since ’77 apparently)
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