Chilean duo Bruno Borlone & Boogie Mike team up to venture where Nu-Mark & A Skillz went the other year – which is to say Silver Convention’s mid-seventies disco hit Fly Robin Fly. This was the first German song to place at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and something for which it garnered quite a lot of attention, though I imagine the racy cover helped a bit too. Well, it was
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Monthly Archives: February 2014
SILVER CONVENTION: Fly Robin Fly (Bruno Borlone & Boogie Mike remix) (2014) Free download
CAPITOL 1212 feat. M.A.D: Worldwide Echo (2014) + video
“Don’t hurt your head if you never get what you expect” urges superstylin’ former Groove Armada collaborator M.A.D. as the storm surge of 140 bpm breaks n bass that is Worldwide Echo, hits your ears. Then, during the occasional roots reggae breakdown, this very same M.A.D. encourages you to describe how the “big sound echo” makes you feel (like he doesn’t know) and slyly intones the
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SALVADOR G: Shook Monkeys (2014) Free download
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Salvador G of Automatic Reaction and Dead Pop Stars Society brings you a new freebie in the form of the rather lively Shook Monkeys. Essentially it’s a combination of the sixties stomp-n-clap of Smokey Robinson & The Miracles’ Mickey’s Monkey and the noughties rhyme-n-shout of Too Short’s Shake That Monkey. Which also happens to feature Lil Jon – I’m
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EVIL ED: Edstrumentals Vol. 3 (2014)
Since Swedish splatter-core flick Evil Ed came out in 1997 and this man had already been producing for some years by then, one might deduce quite reasonably that he didn’t name himself after that film’s protagonist. If the truth be known though, the hip-hop entity known as Evil Ed has been around almost as long as Mr Ed. Well not quite – but as a man who began djing in 1985, he certainly
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MARTA REN & THE GROOVELVETS: ‘Two Kinds Of Men’ video + ‘Summer’s Gone’ (acoustic version) free download (2014)
One of the biggest funk-soul singles to come out last year was Marta Ren & The Groovelvets Two Kinds Of Man/ Summer’s Gone 45 and there was talk of an album before the end of the year. Clearly there have been delays. Just in case you forgot how good this lot were though (unlikely, given Marta’s epic vocal turn on Two Kinds Of Man) here’s a video for Two Kinds Of Men shot in swinging London. I
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CHIMA ANYA: Guess I’ll Never (2014) video
Chima Anya‘s new video is a simple tale of a man misreading the messages from a woman. On the other hand it’s a simple tale of a woman misreading the messages from a man. Then again it’s a lesson to us all that sometimes a toy can be more fun than a real person. And when I say ‘toy’ I mean Nintendo 64 and when I say ‘person’ I mean rapping doctor Chima Anya. Or at least the hapless
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KYMBERLEY KENNEDY: That’s What He Said (Grinny Grandad remix)(2014) Free download
Kymberly Kennedy‘s original That’s What He Said was an 80 proof slab of uptempo big horns-drenched funky breaks featuring an Aguilera-esque turn on the mic from Kymberly herself. Here York big beaters Grinny Grandad re-imagine That’s What He Said as a ghetto funk anthem (featuring KK’s Aguilera-esque turn on the mic) not a million miles in style from her recent Dope Rider collab with B-
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JASON KING: Let The Meat Hit ‘Em (2014) Free download
Let The Meat Hit ‘Em. No, I can’t. Honestly – it would be like shooting fish in a barrel. Really? You like double entendres? Ok, then – but just remember it was your idea. Suffice it to say that the ‘king’ half of Bubaking, Jason King, returns to solo knob-twiddling and has just beat out this new ghetto funk mashup which thrusts a large bit of Main Source deeply into Lisa Lisa and wiggles it
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BASEMENT FREAKS: ‘Booty Shackin’ DJ Mix (2014) Free download
In internet time, posting about Basement Freaks‘ latest Dj mix two weeks after it dropped is akin to the media reporting Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination in Sarajevo like it’s breaking news. But then two weeks ago was also when Vol. 4 of the latest MB mixtape came out and shit was a little busy round here. Never mind – World War 1 is going to be a big topic this year, if not a new one
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TIMOTHY WISDOM: Dance With You (2014) Free download
He produces snarly ghetto funk anthems, he does a spot of emceeing and now it turns out he’s a bit of a crooner to boot on this funky-but-sweetly-gentle slice of electronic breaks? What can have come over Timothy Wisdom as he declares that all he wants to do is ‘Dance With You’ in a Prince-like falsetto. Especially when he does that over what he freely admits is more of a set-closer than a peak-
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