(See Monkeyboxing.com – Top 10 Albums – 2012 HERE)
There was no way it was ever going to be a mere top ‘ten’ this year as it’s been a bumper year for bangers – so here’s fifteen. As always, choices were made using a highly complex selection-algorithm based on how often shit got played on the MB sound system.
1. Hidden Jazz Quartet feat. Omar – High Heels (Lack Of Afro remix)
Massive sixties soul-tinged floor-filling remix that never fails
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Bulabeats signing Dusty Tonez is feeling good. Fuck knows why. Lack of sunlight, freezing bloody temperatures, massive shop queues, Christmas pop tunes endlessly repeated, sexy women got up as skimpily-dressed elves…oh – wait – that last one’s ok. Oh right – that’s it – his seasonal cheer must stem from the fact that he is delivering a free EP of judder funk to the masses. Pounding breaks
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It’s rich pickings among the breaks section of the bass music market this December and Booty Fruit’s stall is no exception. Volume 5 of their Proper Produce series offers quality fare that steers clear of wobble ‘funk’ and vends hip-hop, funk and reggae influenced numbers instead. Mr Fresh, for example, is true to his name keeping things all hip-hop and mo’ fruity. Then there’s Lone Drum’s Minnie which
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Spinforth‘s Soundcloud Scour is all grown up! Its now a record label as well as a means of saving thousands of lazy-bastard digital djs from mining soundcloud for the diamonds among the shite. This release is a bit like the free Scour really – only it’s not free. Well there’d be little point in starting a label if it was would there? You can expect the Scour traditions to be firmly upheld in
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MB’s Parisian homies parisdjs.com are forging ahead with transforming into a record company and finally lay to rest their long-running series of podcast/freely downloadable mixes in an epic finale. That’ll be an eleven-part (near) simultaneous release of mixes then – one hosted by parisdjs and the others hosted by ten other blogs. I say ‘near’ simultaneous because, of course, getting a group of
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It’s the Ghetto Funk label’s third annual Icons outing here with The Icons: Vol. 3 as they let a platoon of producers loose on several decades of musical heritage each to rework the – er – work of a musical icon in their own inimitable ghetto funk style. Well, I say ‘ghetto funk’ style – the more nebulous ‘bass music’ moniker would be nearer the mark – but more about that in a sec. Perhaps the most
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It’s been a month since Danny Spice dropped his wax collabo The King Amongst Thieves and he’s putting out a fifteen minute dj mix featuring his sample sources on the EP as a thank you for all the love that’s been shown. The A Journey Through Breaks Mix embarks from the port of jazz fusion, detours briefly towards a suspiciously Santana-esque bit of guitar near the start and heads from
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Jesus I hate December in the UK – waking in the dark, shivering in the shower, chipping ice off the windscreen, shivering like a bastard all day and coming home in the dark. But (people protest) it’s Christmas! Fuck Christmas! I want tropical heat and to be able to lounge around in boardies while sexy mamis mix cocktails. A man can dream. Actually, if he puts on Loopez‘s ‘Free Remixed’ LP
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If we really must have a Christmas rap record then it could be a lot worse than one based on a beat created from a loop of Reuben Bell’s classic funk bump Super Jock. Which is what Too Many T’s have done with Tweet That Shit. And then made a video. The best bits? Santa and his ho, ho, ho’s (bit young for me but fair play) or Ugly Duckling’s blink
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