Wax Tailor’s got a new album out (Fishing For Accidents in case you missed the release) chock full of his trademark downtempo beats which are occasionally graced by rappers and/or singers and the new video is for LP track Craftsman which follows both Shaman In Your Arms from earlier in the month and November’s Freaky Circus featuring Mr Lif and Napoleon Da Legend. While
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Monthly Archives: February 2023
WAX TAILOR: Craftsman + Video
ANGELS OF LIBRA feat. NATHAN JOHNSTON: Revelations
Retro-futurism abounds on new single Revelations from Angels Of Libra, once again featuring Nathan Johnston on vocals. A psych-soul affair, it takes the lyrical form of an environmental message – the sort of thing that lends itself admirably to having a video made you might think. And you wouldn’t be wrong. The year, it seems, is 2056; the world is plagued by famine, wildfire
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DJ TZINAS: Old-Fashioned Way (Free download)
Once a regular on the pages of MB, Cretan producer DJ Tzinas has been absent for a while and the world had heard nothing of his reggae-inflected party breakbeats for, bless my soul, seven years! That was until this bad boy dropped into the monkey’s inbox the other day. That would be Old-Fashioned Way then, an upbeat reggae riddim underpinned by cavernous boom-bap
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KMD: BL_CK B_ST_RDS (Re-release)
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Before DOOM, before Viktor Vaughn and King Gheedorah, before the myriad collabs with the likes of Madlib and Dangermouse and Jneiro Jarel and Bishop Nehru (and the still unreleased one with Ghostface Killah), before there were DOOM impostors, before DOOM was still stylised ‘MF Doom,’ before even the mysterious performances in the Nuyorican Poets
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DREADSQUAD: Chase Or Not b/w TONY CICORIA: Chase The Porra (Vinyl 7″)
Now then, who doesn’t like a good reggae/ hip-hop mash-up? And here are two of the blighters at once on the same wax 45, courtesy of Holy Shit Records. On side A, Polish outfit Dreadsquad reliably deliver the goods with Chase Or Not ensuring that one of the world’s most instantly recognisable acapellas finds refuge on a suitably grooving slab of reggae goodness. Meanwhile on
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NIGHT OWLS: I Only Have Eyes For You (feat. CHRIS DOWD & TIPPA LEE) b/w Live And Let Live (feat. MILES TACKETT)(Vinyl 7″)
Rating: As the monkey pointed out when Night Owls released their first post Versions LP single, Cramp Your Style, the L.A. funky reggae supergroup certainly aren’t resting on their laurels after their first set of covers. And the second single finds them going deeper than ever, rebooting The Flamingos dreamy 1959 doo-wop cut I Only Have Eyes For You inna sweetly
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JUNGLE FIRE feat. JAMIE ALLENSWORTH: Together/ Movin On
In the first of two big F Spot Records 45 drops this week comes this scorcher from L.A. tropical funk commandos Jungle Fire featuring Together and Movin’ On. The former was originally just a digital single put out in support of the Black Lives Matter and provides a pretty faithful take on Ray Barretto’s 1973 original albeit with Jamie Allensworth giving the vocals an American soul
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THE ALLERGIES: Mash Up The Sound (Vinyl 7″)
Bristol’s mighty Allergies ride a 4/4 beat again (à la former single Hypnotise) with pumping new single Mash Up The Sound pairing Jamaican dancehall hollering with Latin-influenced new disco in what is clearly a recipe for peak-time dancefloor action. If you’re like the monkey though and your hips don’t move until things get a little more syncopated, you’ll probably prefer the more
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SVINKELS: Rapido (DJAR ONE remix)(Ltd. vinyl 7″)
The latest salvo from the Beats House Records camp is this – a vinyl 45 featuring Djar One’s remix of Île de France-based Svinkels’ 2021 cut Rapido. And with a name like that, UK residents of a certain vintage may be disappointed to hear that this isn’t a tribute to Antoine De Caunes and his ‘leetl’ Eenglish chumz.’ What they won’t be disappointed with however is Djar One’s execution
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EL MICHELS AFFAIR & BLACK THOUGHT: That Girl
El Michels Affair up the ante once again in a heavyweight team-up with The Roots’ Black Thought on single That Girl ahead of the forthcoming Glorious Game long player. While the intro vamp seems to promise lowrider soul, the rest of the track finds EMA playing the music to sound like a beat sampled from lowrider soul (unless Mr Michels is actually messing with us and
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