Madder than a saran wrap skullcap, a mousetrap mishap or even a relief map hubcap, it’s Captain Flatcap – twenty-first century breaks’ answer to Spike Milligan and Yello getting together to make some tunes in a nitrous oxide factory. The trio have finally released the long-awaited Captain Flatcap LP and this is the nearly as long-awaited MB post about same which is well overdue some attention
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Monthly Archives: December 2016
CAPTAIN FLATCAP: Captain Flatcap LP (2016)
FORT KNOX FIVE: Whatcha Gonna Funk Uptown (2016) Free download
Whatcha gonna do if you’ve got a track called Whatcha Gonna Do and you’ve worked out that Bruno Mars’ Uptown Funk acapella sits perfectly atop it? That’s right you’ve worked it out haven’t you? So they did. Then they played it out. A lot. And now Fort Knox Five have decided to release it into the wild so you can too. Whatcha Gonna
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EKLIPS: #B4Lips (2016) Free download
French human beatboxer Eklips aims to put all rivals in the shade with his forthcoming LP Lips. Before that though – here’s a three-track taster indicating precisely what the man is capable of. Entitled, sensibly enough, B4Lips, inspiration comes from Michael Jackson’s Thriller on opener Move Your Lips, Stanley Clarke’s Black On Black Crime from the Boyz N The Hood soundtrack and
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THE ALLERGIES: ‘Since You’ve Been Gone’ audio premiere (2016) + Jalapeno Funk Vol. 8 The Allergies DJ Mix
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The moveable feast (previous volumes have surfaced variously anywhere between December and May) that is Jalapeno Records’ Jalapeno Funk Vol. 8 is out today and who better to produce a 55-minute mix of the bombs thereon than The Allergies? Exactly – no-one. The Allergies it is then. Do they appear on it? I should coco! Their massive Since You’ve Been
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DEM JUJU POETS: Voodoo Jazz/ Watusi Fever (2016)
Not just the second Dem Juju Poets release this year but the second Dem Juju Poets release this month (and on two different labels, no less), this Voodoo Jazz/ Watusi Fever limited 45 finds Renegades Of Jazz’s David Hanke operating under his new moniker again with two energetic slices of hypnotic, jazzy afro-beat. Voodoo Jazz charts a course through uptempo percussion, antsy guitar
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NICE UP!: 12 Dubs Of Xmas (2016) Free download
“On the fou-rthh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me…” – wait – no – that’s not how it goes! Let me see now…ah yes – “On the fourth dub of Xmas, Nice Up! continued to release for me the next one in this year’s seasonal set of Xmas riddims!” Hmm – well – maybe it doesn’t scan so well – but who cares about that when the bass is this rude! And so it is that today’s triplet of
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EARTHA KITT: Santa Baby (MANOSJMT) (2016) Free download
I’m not sure precisely who has been the most regular supplier of freebies to MB readers this year – but surely one of the front runners must be Greece’s Manosjmt. In case you thought he was going to let the Yuletide silly season pass unmolested – think again for here he is with a beat rerub of Eartha Kitt’s suggestive ’53 classic Santa Baby on which she breathily encourages
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MR BRISTOW: Merry Mix Up (2016) Free download
There’s a tendency these days to regard anyone who doesn’t start celebrating Christmas from 31 August as some sort of party-pooping killjoy. At Monkeyboxing Towers however, the custom is to wait until – say – Christmas is actually within spitting distance before getting all festive. Now that we’re a mere ten days away however, what better time to unleash Mr Bristow‘s Merry Mix-Up
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VUKAN GYORGY: Linda (DJ CLAIRVO remix) (2016)
It’s hard to beat old-school cop shows as a rich musical seam to mine for beatmaking and what holds true Stateside and in the UK apparently also holds true in Hungary – at least in the case of Vukan Gyorgy’s theme to 80s series Linda. Said musical work has been the subject of no fewer than two volumes of remixes and this dubby bit of atmospheric, instrumental hip-hop is DJ Clairvo‘s
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BLACK MASALA: I Love You Madly Remixed Vol. 1 (2016)
Forget the tikka and garam and get your ears round a tasty bit of Black Masala – remixed no less – as the DC outfit’s brand of Balkan brass gets a vigorous bit of polishing from the likes of Lazarus Sound System, DJ Inko, Los Chicos Altos and Omegaman. Mix my metaphors? Don’t mind if I do! And that’s not all that’s mixed for the release is curiously listed as ‘funky/ club house’ on
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