For the second time in a fortnight the world has lost a great singer and for the second time in a fortnight Manosjmt commemorates those we have lost with an edit. This time he salutes latter-day soul queen Sharon Jones with a subtle beat re-tweak of the lickin stick groove of early work Pick It Up, Lay It In The Cut which appeared on Jones debut LP – Dap Dippin With The Dap
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Monthly Archives: November 2016
SHARON JONES: Pick It Up Lay It In The Cut (MANOSJMT RIP Edit) Free download
R.I.P Sharon Jones, singer with Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings and undisputed queen of retro soul. Official Daptone announcement JPRIME: Ill-Fixed EP (2016)
The Relative Dimensions label follow their recent release of Hipsta’s excellent Re-Hop EP with another quality drop in the form of JPrime‘s Ill-Fixed EP which sees them rival Bomb Strikes in terms of who’s had the best ghetto funk cuts out this year. The five-tracker starts on an itchy, glitchy tip with almost-title track Illfix, switches to the electro-tinged Put Ya Hands Up and Funkfried
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EMPRESARIOS: The Vibes Remixed LP (2016)
Washington DC dj/ production collective Empresarios round off their The Vibes LP-related release schedule with The Vibes Remixed LP (taking in )- not to be confused with The Vibes Remixed EP which came out in the summer though it does contain the four remixes of track The Vibes which that featured. Also included are two remixes of Morena, two of Salsoul, three of No Vamos A
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MR BRISTOW: City Love EP (2016)
No roll in the hay for Mr Bristow then – since, as the title of his new EP announces, he’s clearly all about the City Love. And doesn’t he just cavort around in the sounds of the megalopolitan sprawl like a some sort of priapic production pimp! He hustles Jermaine Dupri into a clinch with upbeat 70s pop hooks on the loose caboose of the title cut, gets Kool G Rap to do the damn thing with
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LEONARD COHEN: Different Sides (MANOSJMT RIP Edit)(2016) Free download
What with all the despair last week that a man named after a guff has become US president elect, it may have slipped under people’s radar that the person arguably most suited to giving voice to said despair has sadly passed away. No doubt in utter disgust. And who can blame him? I refer of course to none other than the ‘prophet of despair’ himself – a.k.a. ‘laughing’ Leonard Cohen. Happily
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BAHAMA SOUL CLUB: Havana ’58 (2016)
No prizes for guessing the vibe on Bahama Soul Club‘s new album Havana ’58. That’s right, they’re channelling the spirit of pre-Castro times when corruption was rife and Cuba was a Caribbean playboys’ playground. Of course, this was also a golden era for music in the ‘Pearl of the Antilles’ – the irony being that casting out the capitalist pigs meant losing the grooves too. One consequence of
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C.J. PLUS & I-ONE: Altair (2016)
More quality emerges from abstract hip-hop’s Odessa files as Ukrainian producer C.J.Plus and keyboardist I-One employ vintage Soviet-era synthesizers like the Opus, Estradin-230 and Electronica EM25 along with Japanese Yamaha and Roland grooveboxes and also samples digitized from Soviet vinyl records to create nine-tracker Altair. Naturally naming your release after one of
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OLD FLAME feat. RORY HOY: So Daft (2016)
Heavyweight big beat breaks in 2016? So daft – kind of like an old flame trying it on again. Actually, that can be quite a lot of fun can’t it? A bit like Old Flame‘s new musical adventure So Daft on which he’s brought a mate who also has a penchant for big beat – Rory Hoy. Blimey, it’ll be an aural threesome – you, Old Flame and Rory Hoy! Talkin’ of bringing up the past, the loop on
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CALIBRO 35: Live From SPACE (2016)
Long overdue some love from the monkey is this live album from Italian outfit Calibro 35, Live From Space. Which is pretty much what the band sound like in the studio these days having ditched their former stock-in-trade Euro car-chase funk for cosmic funk wigouts from the dark side of the sun on most recent album SPACE. Of course any band who plays live, will want to mix up the best of the
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