Home is great. We can all put our feet on the furniture, fart with abandon whenever we damn well please and every Thursday is ‘nude day’. But hang on – Home Sweet Home isn’t a straightforward paean to home living. No. Because Chill Bump rapper Miscellaneous narrates from the point of view of a vinyl record. What?! Unexpected item in bagging area! Yep, he’s an album
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Monthly Archives: February 2013
CHILL BUMP: ‘Home Sweet Home’ video (2013)
DOUBLE YELLOW: If Only (The Allergies remix) (2013) + ‘If Only’ promo dj mix
Hmm – the whimsical sound of Double Yellow. If only someone could give it a gritty breakbeat kick up the arse. Enter The Allergies (not literally of course – that would be obscene) a.k.a. dj/production duo Moneyshot and Rackabeat. There’s been a whole rash of material coming out from the pair recently and this time they’re getting all musically inflammatory with Double Yellow’s If
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THE GAFF: Let’s Rock (2013) Free download
The Gaff‘s Let’s Rock is possibly not what Jimmy, Robert and Jon had in mind when they wrote Black Dog but after the whole groupie/ red snapper incident who are we to predict with any certainty what went through the minds of Led Zeppelin back in the day. Perhaps when they were all really baked the notion of a mutant Frankenstein’s monster of bass and breaks with added Black Sabbath licks like
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JIMI NEEDLES: Check Out My Style (2013) Free download
It’s that man Jimi Needles again and he’s kindly offering his latest big-ass party mash in the form of Check Out My Style absolutely gratis. On it you’ll appreciate his subtle blending of the Dust Brothers beat for the Beastie’s Shake Your Rump with chops of vocals from Biggie’s Hypnotize and a dollop of Fatman Scoop for extra jollies on top along with a Sugarhill style hook which appeared on My Secret
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SONIC BOOM SIX: Keep On Believing (Capitol 1212 mix) (2013)
Edinburgh-based production outfit Capitol 1212 take on the Bosstones-style ska-rock noise of Mancunian crew Sonic Boom Six and pull off the tricky feat of transforming Keep On Believing into something that might actually get people dancing (i.e. a breakbeat/ ska hybrid ) as opposed to sweatily pogoing. Interestingly, trivia hunters, the video to the original features SB6 in a pub bumping
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JOHNNYPLUSE: The Book Of Lies (2013) + ‘Episode’ video
The Book Of Lies eh? Some new government manifesto perhaps? The end of year accounts from corporation tax dodgers (and Tory donors) Lycamobile? RBS’s report to shareholders about its role in the Libor scandal? How about the new album from lynchpin of the sound of the Irish breakbeat underground a.k.a. Bulabeats label boss
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INSPECTAH DECK, 7L & ESOTERIC: Czarface (2013)
It’s the return of comic-book/ gangster film-inspired backpack rap everybody! Thrill to the boom, gasp at the bap as swathes of fanboys come out of retirement and shake the moths from their Carhartts and Eastpaks. Czarface finds core Wu-Tang member Inspectah Deck team up with a pair of the Boston underground’s finest – 7L & Esoteric – for a fourteen track album-length
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LAKESHORE DRIVE: Disco Strut (The remixes) (2013)
Ooohhh! Time for a makeover! In this case for Disco Strut, the ‘other’ original track, from Lakeshore Drive‘s summer 2012 drop Living The Funk EP – and it seems Gok Wan didn’t get the call. Perhaps because Disco Strut isn’t at all the camp wiggle-along that its name implies – indeed the original was rather more of a JB’s-influenced
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BOOTY FRUIT: Best In Season EP (2013)
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Quality is never out of season at Booty Fruit‘s beat market and lest ye forget they prove it by assembling the best of the best of many previous season’s releases, waxed, polished and gleaming on the green matting. By some strange vagary of interwebular traffic the monkey never got the chance to comment on some of these the first time
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MUSTBEAT CREW: Boogie Woogie (2013) Free download
Hungarian outfit the Mustbeat Crew have knocked out a top slice of Electro swing/ Balkan breaks in the shape of Boogie Woogie. Don’t worry, it doesn’t involve Jools Holland and technically, Hungary isn’t in the Balkans. But somehow ‘breaks influenced by Magyar culture and other non-specific Eastern European influences’ doesn’t trip off the tongue (or
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