Nice little two track release on Mustbeat here as J-Sound feels the funk on his first drop for the Hungarian label. First up is Super Nature whereon the Cardiff-based producer righteously plunders a couple of verse lyrics from the Beasties Triple Trouble to formulate a hook for a nu-ghetto-breaks bleepfest. Then he jumps on the mic himself to deliver a falsetto vocal turn for Fully Funked where
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Monthly Archives: July 2013
J-SOUND: Super Nature/ Fully Funked (2013)
DJ MOAR feat SARSHA SIMONE: Save Me Your Love (2013) Free download
I think it’s hot enough and late enough in the day for this free slice of what could only be referred to as ‘fuck-music’ from DJ Moar – a man perhaps better known for his disco-breakin adventures than soundtracking bedroom antics. Nevertheless there we are. Save Me Your Love features Sydney-based chanteuse Sarsha Simone who is the only guest on Moar’s five-track October release – if I’ve read his
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ALL GOOD FUNK ALLIANCE: Pop It (AGFA vs. JM Jackmaster) (2013) Free download
“If disco makes you move, this should make you groove” claims an early lyric in this All Good Funk Alliance re-edit of JM Jackmaster‘s Pop It (with some justification, it has to be said) as the stateside production team work their magic on the Dutchman’s number. Squelching synths, fuzzy funk guitars and a bedrock of solid neo-disco percussion all vye with lyrics urging one to, “Pop whatcha got,”
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ALAN EVANS TRIO: Merkaba (2013)
If the Alan Evans Trio‘s Drop Hop album was pitched somewhere between The Meters and Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express, Merkaba is pitched instead somewhere between Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express and the Undisputed Truth. Yep – the Soulive drummer’s ‘other’ gang are taking you on a space-funk trip – as if the cover hadn’t already given that away. Gone are the stripped-back breaks of the first
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BLEND MISHKIN feat. PEPPERY: Foundation Style (2013)
It’s solid summer skankin time on Foundation Style as Athenian producer Blend Mishkin strips it back to some serious bass, drums and keys groundwork and employs vocalist Peppery (a.k.a. Bongo Chilli) to spice up the riddim in order to nice up the dance – literally, in fact, since the release drops on the Nice Up! label. It’s out on seven inch at the end of the month and gets versioned instrumentally on the
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FAB SAMPERI: The Remixes (2013)
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There is a lot of good music coming out at the moment – a veritable torrent of it in fact, the likes of which hasn’t been seen since March. Here’s some more – and this time it’s that captain Fab Samperi standing proud in his remix tugboat and effortlessly guiding both Smoove & Turrell and The Soul Session into new waters. S&T’s original is the most high profile of the two and
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REX REY: Play That Shit (2013)
Rating: Heads up – new dope from California king, Rex Rey in the shape of 8 track hip-hop instro EP Play That Shit. Expect sample-infused boom-bap – though you should know that Rex Rey‘s own keys, bass and guitar form a significant part of what’s on offer. Cinematic? Chilled? Blunted? He’d be the first man to admit that the core of past instrumental compilations could be
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PINCHERS: Bandelero (EMPRESARIOS Dubplate Especial remix) (2013) Free download
Tropical bass? Go on then – it’s bloody hot enough – I’m sat here in just my Kool Keith paisley y-fronts and it’s pouring off me. Step forward Fort Knox Recordings‘ Empresarios to give Pinchers’ 1990 latin-themed reggae number the tropicaliente bass treatment. Fans of Pincher’s original will still find that, “dem lyrics a chop like the sword of Zorro-oh” – but now mandem also work ‘im drum and ‘im
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MR BENN: Shake A Leg (2013)
Rating: Big up the Bristol Massive! Mr Benn finally comes through with Shake A Leg – an album that’s been ‘soon come’ for so long that it was starting to make even the most generous concept of ‘island time’ look like a mockery. Our man doesn’t disappoint though delivering a scorching eleven track set of varying bashment flavour – damn near any one of which could be a
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PEDIGREE CUTS: Pedigree Cuts Remixed! (2013)
It’s that Pedigree Cuts lot again. No not the dog grooming service from County Durham – they’re hardly likely to put out a twenty-two strong remix compilation are they? I’m referring to Skeewiff‘s label of course. Twenty-two remixes? Have they got that many? Man, you don’t know the half of it – this is just the best of the recent ones. In fact this mainly consists of much of Skeewiff’s recent Man
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