News of Pulpfusion’s Wrong World Remixed Vol 2 arrived at just the wrong time two weeks ago dropping on to monkey’s virtual doormat hours before the annual monkey summer holiday. Still, to redress matters here we are now in a brief examination of what happened when the Swiss beat assassin bravely handed over the keys of his Wrong World LP for the second time this year to a
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Monthly Archives: August 2012
PULPFUSION: Wrong World Remixed Vol. 2 (2012)
FEATURECAST featuring FARINA MISS: Ego Tripping + Public Enemy ‘Harder Than You Think’ free download (2012)
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The latest from one of ghetto funk’s greatest, Featurecast (in the run-up to the drop of his forthcoming LP Run For Cover) is the sultry Ego Tripping featuring Farina Miss. Apparently, Mr Cast doesn’t just do club bangers but is somewhat more than a fair hand at producing fuck-music too – who knew? If it’s club bangers you want though you’ll
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MASTA ACE: Win signed copy of ‘MA-DOOM: Son Of Yvonne’ album (2012)
Golden era legend and former Juice Crew emcee Masta Ace is still kickin it like that with his latest project. Despite sounding like some sort of crazy Eastenders-matriarch/ supervillain hybrid MA-DOOM is actually Masta Ace’s recent project using the Special Herbs instrumentals of DOOM (the artist formerly known as MF DOOM) which forms the musical basis for his lyrical tribute to his late mother – Yvonne. In order to big up the
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DOOM & MADLIB: 12 October HMV Forum, London (2012)
Who is that masked man? It’s DOOM you prick, everyone knows that…DOOM (I’m not shouting, he likes it all caps apparently)…you know – the artist formerly known as MF Doom a.k.a. Zev Love X, King Geedorah, Viktor Vaughn (among various nom-de-plumes) or Daniel Dumile to his mum. Anyway the former KMD rapper, sometime collaborator with Madlib and Dangermouse and
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ROY PORTER SOUND MACHINE: The Story Of Roy Porter Sound Machine (2012)
The Story Of Roy Porter Sound Machine is the latest in Tramp Records’ The Story Of… series and follows on from its superb predecessors featuring slept-on funky-soul man Vernon Garret and the unbelievably slept-on super-heavyweight Texas funk crew Soul Bros. Inc. While there’s been a funk-soul link between the previous two efforts, Roy Porter is a slightly different kettle of fish. He’s
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MENAHAN STREET BAND: The Crossing (2012) free download
Billed in the PR as “music to an unreleased Sergio Leone western starring the Wu Tang set in 1992”, The Crossing is the new one from Daptone Records’ mighty soul instrumentalists Menahan Street Band. Pedants might point out that Leone actually died in 1989 three years before the Wu-Tang’s first release to which the correct response is, “What? Are you some kind of cunt?” Anyway
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JON KENNEDY FEDERATION: Label launch (2012) + KRS Jon ‘3rd Stone From The Sun’ free download
Very much a live Kennedy, dj/ producer Jon Kennedy has just set up a record label with initials not dissimilar to those of his dead president namesake – thus it is that JKF is the Jon Kennedy Federation. Although the former Grand Central and Tru Thoughts artist is behind the project, distribution will be handled by the mighty megacorp Sony. There’s no conspiracy
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LAURA VANE & THE VIPERTONES: I Can’t Move No Mountains/ 110 Per Cent (Draikolk Remix) (2012)
Dutch/ English outfit Laura Vane & The Vipertones drop a disco-touched jazz-funk cover of seventies number I Can’t Move No Mountains for the new millennium. Originally performed by R&B/ big-band/psychedelia fusioneers Blood, Sweat & Tears and covered many times, you’d have to move a mountain to improve on Margie Joseph’s soul-disco version and even if Vane and co don’t manage
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DJ FORMAT feat. THE GOOD PEOPLE: Marisco (2012)
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This year’s U.S. emcee go-tos for the discerning UK beatmaker – The Good People (a.k.a. Emskee and Saint) – make another appearance on arguably the beefiest UK boom-bap beat this year in a tribute to what is apparently the UK’s longest-running club – Woolacombe’s Marisco. That’ll be the second big-up this summer for the vast urban sprawl of Woolacombe involving The Good People
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CHART – August 2012
(NEW) 1. Monetrik – Barbeque
Wicked Wendy Rene Stax cut re-versioned
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