Jimmy Plates & Endevers’ transatlantic hip-hop collaboration follows last single Vinyl Comeback with the next to be released from the forthcoming No Delay… LP – Tree Gods. Tree gods? Oh what – like the Green Man? Well, not exactly, though the PR has it that the London DJ/Producer and the Philly hip-hop collective have, “gone from smoking trees to saving them”. That said, it’s not
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Monthly Archives: September 2020
JIMMY PLATES & ENDEVERS: Tree Gods
BEAT BRONCO ORGAN TRIO: Missoula-Nairobi (Vinyl 7″)
New Beat Bronco Organ Trio 45 single, Missoula-Nairobi might not have appeared on the band’s recent LP Road Trip, but that doesn’t mean they can’t take you on a wild ride spanning two continents. And – as the title suggests, that is precisely what they are doing, musically at least, by creating a two part instrumental that unites the band’s love of afro-rhythms with the drummer’s hometown. Cue a drums-heavy slice of Afro-funk
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SMOOVE: Friday’s Funky 45 Vol. 9 (Vinyl 7″) + Wack Records 19-22
I don’t know, nothing for ages and then four come along at once – well five technically, though one is a re-release. I’m on about Smoove mash-ups of course – the very thing, in fact, that our Berry Geordie set Wack Records up for back in the day. And so it is that Wack Records 19-22 (a.k.a. Sunny Juice, It’s All Good, Skeelo Wonder and Hall & Soul) get a simultaneous release. Well – when you’ve made a special mix of tracks for BBC 6
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PECOE: Funk Anthems EP
If you’ve caught any of Pecoe’s previous material, the news that he’s got a new EP out on BBP called Funk Anthems will be cause for celebration. Possibly not coincidentally, the material on this one is reminiscent of circa 2009 LP Break The Funk by label owner Badboe himself – to wit, party breakbeat tunes comprised of funky grooves and a plethora of vocal samples with wobble-free
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SNOOCH DODD & THE PRO-TEENS: You Gotta Love This City
You Gotta Love This City is the next single from Snooch Dodd & The Pro-Teens and comes hard on the heels of the last one. As well it might since it channels that seventies library funk/ car-chase vibe – albeit with a little more boom-bap oomph. No need to worry about a whole band fitting into the sort of musical muscle car with only space for a Bullit-mode McQueen or Driver-mode Gosling though, for the ‘band’ is just ‘Dodd’. And indeed
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MEGA RAN X DEL THA FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN: Proto Culture 2.0
Gamers ahoy – time to geek out as nerd-rapper Mega Ran upgrades Del Tha Funky Homosapien’s twenty year old tribute to Capcom and Dreamcast, Proto Culture, into – wait for it – Proto Culture 2.0. Well – what else are you going to call a tribute to playing on consoles? But while Del was player one and Khaos Unique player two on the original, this time around it’s Mega Ran who’s player one. But wait – a player two has entered
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DANCED TIL MIDNIGHT feat. NOSAJ of NEW KINGDOM: Low Slung (Vinyl 7″)
Turns out it’s not just Kid Acne working with New Kingdom’s Nosaj this side of the pond these days as new 45 Low Slung from Essex-based producer Danced Til Midnight reveals. The track in question features a languidly sleazy mid-70s funk groove over which Nosaj half sings/ half raps in a manner once the province of Latyrx’s Lyrics Born. On the flip meanwhile, is instrumental Demerera Dash – a b-boy-friendly nugget which marries
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DJAR ONE: Tequila b/w I’m A Believer (Vinyl 7″)
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Coming at ya later this month at your favourite on- and offline vinyl emporia (and so hot that it’s already sold out on the Beats House Records Bandcamp page) is yet further proof that the party is continuous at Djar One’s house in Le Havre. The new 7″ serves up double peak-time party breaks bangers with exhibit A being – er – A-side Tequila – a super punchy edit
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JOHNNYPLUSE: The Old School Hiphop Sample Packs
A veteran with twenty odd years knob-twiddling under his belt, not to mention eight LPs and sixty EPs, Johnnypluse knows a thing or two about production – and one of those very things is that you can never possess enough sample packs. Enter said Mr Pluse stage right with his all-new The Old School Hiphop Sample Pack in two parts: Kicks & Percussion and Breaks. Why it’s just the
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ANDY COOPER: The Man (Vinyl 7″)
It’s time to welcome back Long Beach M.C. Andy Cooper with the first single off his forthcoming next solo LP L.I.S.T.E.N. entitled The Man. Clearly AC decided to err on the side of caution title-wise instead of running with the rather more exciting Zulu Space Anus (as previously promised on the ‘Gram) so that the monkey would find it harder to work into a sentence. A craven u-turn, I think
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