It’s Tru Funk Nu Party Breaks time again people – and here’s Vol. 6 already. Prepare yourself for re-funked breakbeat exploitation of The Supremes, DMX, Quad City DJs and David Bowie from Cez 14 & Dastardly Kuts, Dick Diamond, DJ Czech and Essex Groove respectively plus a synth-led slab of refried eighties funk featuring god only knows what vocals culled from Morlack‘s warehouse-sized
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Monthly Archives: April 2013
TRU FUNK: Nu Party Breaks Vol. 6 (2013)
RIDDIM FRUIT: Bristol Fashion EP (2013)
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As the Riddim Fruit label are well aware, Bristol has a reputation of being something of a world centre of bass music. The Wild Bunch, Massive Attack, Smith & Mighty, Portishead, Roni Size and Full Cycle, a constant Jamaican dancehall presence since the sixties – indeed you might imagine that life in the monkey’s hometown permanently chugs along to a seismic rumble. That’s all bollocks of course, I definitely remember a
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GHETTO FUNK presents: BASEMENT FREAKS (GFPD)(2013) Free download
Six million ways to roll and here’s two of them for free download as the mighty Basement Freaks turns up on the mighty Ghetto Funk label. There’s lots of California love here as he appropriates a veritable smorgasbord of West Coast samples including, er, Tupac’s California Love itself on Clap Ya Hands. Oh and he forcibly unites both coasts by including the decidedly ‘New York’ Busta Rhymes on
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SKEEWIFF: Skeewiff vs. Amphonic (2013)
“Us? Let loose in the Amphonic vaults? With our reputation?…” Giving Skeewiff the keys to the vaults of Syd Dale’s Amphonic library music label was always going to be bit like a music production equivalent of parachuting Russell Brand into a lingerie party at the Playboy Mansion. Skeewiff have made a more than decade-long career out of sampling decades old library music while Amphonic
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ACEYALONE: Leanin’ On Slick (2013)
Rating: Sniffing at the heels of the recently unveiled title track comes Aceyalone‘s latest full-length project Leanin’ On Slick. It finds the Freestyle Fellowship rapper continuing to reinvent retro-hop with the assistance (once more) of producer Bionik. Where the former album favoured Motown and doo-wop flavours however, this sees Acey return to the fine tradition of funky/ soulful
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MY THERAPIST: Drag On (2013) Free download (exclusive)
Rating: Got beat issues? Meet My Therapist. No not my therapist. My Therapist. He’ll sort you right out – in this case with an intensive course of mash-up treatment – exclusive to monkeyboxing. The treatment takes the form of a single download entitled Drag On. Look on it as a combined approach that takes Jungle Brothers wisdom (without Rae & Christian trappings) and
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BEARDYMAN: ‘Beardytron 5000 Mk II’ tour (2013)
Beardyman has risen to fame via his ridiculous facility with a vocal skill ostensibly associated with hip-hop – beatboxing – though frankly, at the stage he’s at, it’s less Planet Rock, than interplanetary travel. Winning the UK Beatbox Championships (twice) firmly cemented his reputation and his various videos on Youtube (the now legendary Kitchen Diaries for example) with viewing figures in
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JOHNNYPLUSE feat. MC COPPA: Get Old One Day (2013) Free download
Bulabeats big cheese JohnnyPluse drops the remix album of his Book Of Lies long player from earlier this year next month. By way of promotion, he’s put out a free download of the MC Coppa-featuring Get Old One Day which lyrically amounts to pretty much a list of stuff to do before you get old. Swim with dolphins in Tahiti? Surf psychedelic barrels at dawn in Bali? Have group sex with a
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MICHAEL DEVELLIS: Over Under EP (2013)
“People, people, we got to get over/ Before we go under” sang the late, great JB, and if Michael Devellis’ Over Under EP isn’t quite, perhaps, what the godfather of soul had in mind when he invented funk, at least it can lay more claim to being funky than some breakbeat shenanigans these days. As it happens, James Brown features on final track Turtle Love which also includes
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TRAMP RECORDS: Movements 5 (2013)
Rating: …And it’s another effortless five star compilation from Tramp Records – the label that’s spent ten years keeping the funk flame of the sixties and seventies burning. In fact, not just ‘keeping burning’ but also lighting new ones – and I’m not talking here about contemporary funk, I’m talking about rarely seen and little heard of privately pressed funk-soul cuts of yore – some of
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