Funky UK boom-bap in the area! It’s Take It Back, the new Haggis Horns 45 on which the seven-piece have got the groove locked in the pocket while emcee Doc Brown takes to the mic. Can he get a soul clap? Yes! Does he care if this sort of bump is old hat? Hell no – because this is the ‘Horns take on a party-oriented summer single and the first taster of what is to come in the form of their
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Monthly Archives: May 2017
THE HAGGIS HORNS feat. DOC BROWN: Take It Back (2017)
THE GOOD PEOPLE: Down Here/ Game In The Step 7″ (2017)
It’s the return of Saint and Greavsie – oops my bad – Saint and Emskee, a.k.a. The Good People, with a new wax nugget. On Down Here, Saint concocts a hefty funk-sampling beat so that Emskee can hold the floor on the topic of keeping it real way down ‘here’ in the hip-hop underground while Game In The Step is an altogether jazzier affair inna Tribe Called Quest stylee. Naturally
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TRILION feat. MISS RED & GENERAL G: Stop Igle (2017)
Feel the dancehall vibrations on Stop Igle as General G and the helium-voiced Miss Red bat the lyrical ball back and forth over a seismic skank courtesy of Trilion on the uplifting lead single off forthcoming Trilion LP Ain’t No Future With No Past. All personnel concerned hail from Haifa in Israel although, so pronounced is the lilting patois of the vocalists, you’d be forgiven for thinking they
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QDUP feat. JEROME JOYCE: Get Up (2017)
Qdup and Jerome Joyce ensure that everyone gets up for the get down with Get Up – Fort Knox Recordings’ second big nod to DC go-go in a month after FK5’s very own Give It A Minute featuring BCap. Here the sound of the Washington dance underground is even stronger with Qdup refracting the trademark staccato drums, roto-toms and pitch-bending synth chords through a
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JSTAR: Message Whip (2017) Free download
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We’ve all become used to the gold that frequently materialises when an old reggae beat is recycled with a newer hip-hop ‘pella over the top and one man who knows a thing or two about that is JStar. With Message Whip he reveals there’s life in the old reggae-hip-hop don yet with an inspired bank holiday mash-up of Derek Harriot’s ’83 reggae boogie nugget Whip It
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BREAKBEAT PARADISE: Disco Paradise (2017)
Disco Paradise sees Breakbeat Paradise continuing a series of generically-themed outings that have previously taken in 70s funk and dancehall reggae and which, this time, finds the label turning its breakbeat sights on the glittery world of disco. But where on earth might label boss Badboe find a team morally depraved enough to embrace the nefarious influences of the mirrorball lifestyle
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BIG VILLAGE LITTLE CITY: Original Melody (2017)
Promising sounds come rolling out of Brooklyn with the arrival of new single Original Melody by live funk/ hip-hop outfit Big Village Little City. Expect heavyweight funky drum crunch, big NOLA-style brass action and the yin of female soul vocals as well as the yang of a male emcee from the eight-piece outfit. The band’s compass is firmly pointing to party central and like the hook goes
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LEE FIELDS: Make The World Better (2017) Video
If there were ever a day to post the new video by legendary soul survivor Lee Fields’ for Special Night LP cut Make The World Better (filmed at the President’s Day protest in NYC earlier this year) it’s today. Those who’ve heard the album or caught the track when it was released as a single back in the autumn will know that Fields belts out a message of positivity over storming martial
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ROCKNROLLA SOUNDSYSTEM: Going Back To Cali/ Jolene How You Want It (2017)
Rating: Edit kings Rocknrolla Soundsystem trump all previous efforts with this massive double-A side featuring two mutant mashups. On the one hand you’ve got Jolene How You Want It which splices 2Pac, Dolly Parton and a certain famous Jackson (no, really) for thumping nu-disco boogie-hop action and then, just when thought you knew where things were at, they flip the script
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HYPE MACHINE: Support Hype Machine crowd funder (2017)
Giant music blog aggregator Hype Machine a.k.a. hypem.com has been going (and growing) since 2005 tracking a select range of music blogs across the globe (including monkeyboxing), profiled by CNN, Wired and the Guardian and described variously as, “the best thing to happen to music since the Rolling Stones,” “Technorati for music,” and, “the future of all media.” This last comment is
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