Ever get one of those four minute phone messages where someone has clearly accidentally dialled your number when their phone is in their pocket or handbag? Ever wondered what that would sound like set to a bass-heavy beat sprinkled with what are apparently samples of an active Geiger counter? Fear not – Jon Kennedy Federation signing, Benone, is here to quench your curiosity. It
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Monthly Archives: September 2014
BENONE feat. HASH ULTRA: Space O Matic (remix) (2014) Limited free download
SMITH & THE HONEY BADGERS: The Honey Badger Strut/ Let’s Pretend (2014)
The honey badger is the animal kingdom equivalent of a permanently angel-dusted Bruce Lee – it’s relatively small but you definitely wouldn’t mess with it. As it happens that’s not a bad description of Smith & The Honey Badgers and their new release either. Relative unknowns on the funk and soul scene, they’ve recently released an ass-kicking 45 featuring The Honey Badger
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GHETTO FUNK presents: HOWLA & WBBL (GFD13)(2014)
Having scored massively with drops from both Howla and WBBL, Ghetto Funk here team up and let loose the pair of them. First up is Crazy Pavers which starts off a bit electro swingy but then spends quite a bit of time sounding like a dead ringer for a ghetto funk edit of the Roobarb and Custard theme. Then Gunfunk comes along and employs a more obviously funky groove and a
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THE GRITS: Make A Sound (album) (2014)
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Brighton’s The Grits sally forth for the autumn with their second full-length effort and Make A Sound indeed, though there are significant developments in their – er – sound from the band’s self-titled debut. Vocalist Sophie Adler-McKean has joined the group for starters and appears on more than half the tracks but while she might exhort the listener to, “make a sound
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BUNNY GENERAL: Mek Them Rock (JSTAR remix) (2014)
Say ‘Bunny General’ to people of a certain age and they’ll think of a big scary rabbit who runs his warren like a gulag. Then of course there’s also reggae/ dancehall star Bunny General whose released more singles than hot dinners you’ve had. I’ll let you work out which one veteran reggae remixer JStar has worked his magic on, suffice it to say, Mek Them Rock gets the full digi-dancehall
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QDUP: Lone Star EP (2014)
Fort Knox Recordings’ QDup has cued up a load of p-funk beats for his Lone Star EP and what better to call the breaker-friendly opener than Mothership Calling? This comes with added rap vocals from Tee Double and Tigre Liu who no doubt appear out of dry ice clad in thigh length leather boots and bandoliers when doing this live. Second track Electro Funk Boogie does what it says on the tin
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LONE NINJA feat. JUNE MARX: Alpha Protocol (2014) + new album update
I’m always partial to a bit of Lone Ninja so it’s triple sakes (that’s rice wine to you) all round as the masked mic manipulator steps from the shadows again in the company of June Marx over a beat from JBL The Titan with a rhyme about…a video game? Well – the single is called Alpha Protocol. Never underestimate the power of allegory my friends or the ability of a culture’s
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EDO G feat. CHUCK D: Fight (2014)
Edo G (a.k.a Ed OG) has returned with a new album containing the track Fight – a never more pertinent (in these days of massive corporate and establishment corruption) reprise of the spirit of Public Enemy’s ’87 message of fury – Fight The Power. Who to get to join him on record though? Someone with a track record of sticking it to the man perhaps, someone who won’t take any shit –
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CAPITOL 1212 feat. TENOR FLY: Lif Up (2014)
Believe urbandictionary.com and ‘lif up’ is what you do with one of your legs and buttocks prior to breaking wind. Happily, Tenor Fly is merely requesting that his brothers and sisters ‘lif up’ their heads and stand proud and firm in the face of intolerance. Either that or his guffs come from really weird place. The original and RCola mixes
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