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Cockney Nutjob‘s back with his best drop yet – massive hybrid hip-hop/ ghetto funk booty Liar. Biggie, Busta, Mack, Rampage, Skull Snaps’ It’s A New Day break, an epic organ loop, stabs of warping b-line – and a psychedelic bridge…should put some flava in ya ear. What’s more, it should turn the party out good and proper
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Monthly Archives: August 2013
COCKNEY NUTJOB: Liar (2013) video
TOM SHOWTIME: ‘Brotherhood Of The Beats’ Episode 2 mixtape (2013) Free download
Looks like it’s not just Roast Beatz on a mixtape frenzy this fortnight. Here’s Oz bod prod. Tom Showtime with his Brotherhood Of The Beats Episode 2 mixtape. Like RB’s this one’s chocked with hip-hop, dancehall, glitch and ghettofunk, but manages to find room for downtempo, electronica, and funk. But then it is over twice the length. Not that size is everything of course although, as Tom
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PHOENIX CITY ALLSTARS feat. FREDDIE NOTES: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (2013)
Rating: It’s been a while since I was so excited when I heard a track that a little bit of wee came out but who cares about a few drips when something’s this good? A brand-spanking-new, dancefloor-gold ska version of (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction featuring legendary Trojan Records vocalist Freddie Notes and backed by the Phoenix City Allstars who feature members of Pama Intl
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DJ ROAST BEATZ: Summer 2013 ‘Meat Sorbet’ Mix (2013) Free download
Fear not if you haven’t been getting your just desserts musically this summer – DJ Roast Beatz has rustled up a big one. A dessert that is. A veritable ‘meat sorbet’ you might say. Well, he has anyway. Our man’s Summer Mix 2013 is a smorgasbord of hip-hop, glitch-hop, ghetto funk and reggae: Biz Markie, DJ Maars & Tom Showtime, KRS-1, Macklemore, A Skillz and Nu-Mark, plus a
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SMOOVE: I Go Wild (2013) Free download
From Gordy to Geordie! Berry Gordy released the Steppin’ Out LP by disco queens Hi Inergy in 1978 on his Gordy imprint which also featured the Stevie Wonder-penned Every Time I See You I Go Wild. In the same year, Detroit disco-funkers Brainstorm released their own version of the track. Thirty-five years later, disco digger Smoove, a.k.a. Berry Geordie, dons his edit cap, tweaks the beat on the latter for the new millenium and renames it I Go Wild – which
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CAPITOL 1212 feat. SEROCEE: Makin Disturbances (2013) + video
Rating: I can’t imagine Serocee needed much persuasion to get on the mic for this massive skanking hip-hop beat from Capitol 1212. Makin Disturbances‘ early September release date doesn’t quite open it up to the public in time for the UK’s second greatest carnival this weekend but rest assured you’re likely to hear it anyway since the promos have gone out. I say ‘hear it’ – feel it is
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COCOA: Get Down On It EP (2013)
Sticking with the boom bap theme, here’s the Get Down On It EP. Nothing to do with Kool & The Gang of course, this is strickly in the name of hip-hop – courtesy of French production team CocoA whose debut drop this is. Fat breaks, fat as fuck production, scratchy old samples, scratching with scratchy old samples, big old horn and flute loops – it’s all there. No rapping though. Oh wait –
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THE DOPPELGANGAZ: ‘On The Rag’ video (2013)
How about some crunchy underground NY boom-bap? Yeah? Meet The Doppelgangaz who are shortly to drop third studio LP Hark off which this is the first single. According to rappers EP and Matter Ov Fact, the title On The Rag refers, in audio engineering terms, to, “pushing the levels into the red…It also symbolizes going all out in whatever you do in life. Often times people will tell you there
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TOO MANY T’s: The T.P. Remixed (2013)
No wait! Stop – what are you doing! It’s good new party hip-hop – does it really need a ghetto-funk remi-…oh. Too late. In truth, there was never any chance of Too Many Ts not getting remixed by the Ghetto Funk crew – in this case WBBL, D:End, Lewd Behaviour, Tonic, BSide. And it’s every bit the grinding, snarling collection of hammer synths and crashing breaks you might expect. And then some
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CHUDY: Let’s Groove On (2013)
Tutti frutti oh Chudy – it’s long past time for the monkey to get a groove on with Let’s Get A Groove On but unfortunately Chudy’s debut LP arrived in the inbox just as the annual MB summer surf trip to France was getting underway. Which is was sheer bad luck as this is a highly serviceable sixteen tracker (sixteen!) of funky breaks with primetime dancefloor material written all over it
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