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The second of two jointly-released singles announcing Volume 3 of the all-original contemporary funk LP series The Originals by German label Golden Rules is Fleet Streak by Australian funk outfit Kerbside Collection. And it’s a beast. You have to wonder if the label pitted the Oz crew against Great Revivers when acquiring these tracks. Did they ring Great Revivers up and
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Monthly Archives: April 2023
KERBSIDE COLLECTION: Fleet Streak
GREAT REVIVERS: Seek & Destroy
Buoyed by the success of volumes 1 and 2 it seems that German label Golden Rules has no intention of halting its funk showcase series The Originals any time soon for here is the first of two opening salvos from the label for Vol. 3 – Seek & Destroy by Great Revivers. One hesitates to use a semantic field of war in relation to a Russian band given current international affairs but a) they’ve
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KRASH SLAUGHTA: Diggin’ Deeper LP
Rating: You know Krash Slaughta right? The man behind the recent wildly successful DOOM/Sugacubes mash-up LP Sugar-Coated DOOM, not to mention his unofficial remixes of the Wu’s K.R.E.A.M. and P.L.O. Style and collab. 45 with Phill Most Chill, Rebel Base? ‘Is he at it again?’ the monkey hears you ask. Yes, he is at it again, though the closest of the the three
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KOOL KEITH: Black Elvis 2 (Intro) Free download
And it’s another welcome back to Kool Keith, whose Black Elvis 2 is in the offing. That would be the sequel to 1999’s Black Elvis album then in which Keith meditated variously on – well – being a black Elvis, the vagaries of space travel and being lost in space. Can we expect sci-fi pop cultural references and mention of women’s ‘panties’? Let’s just have
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BLEND MISHKIN & PANOS DIMITRAKOPOULOS: The Hidden Agent
If you liked Egyptian Love, the stand out single from last year’s Unity Of Opposites album from Blend Mishkin & Roots Evolution, you’ll definitely be feeling Hidden Agent. And the reason for that is that once again, Mishkin combines Jamaican rhythms with Near and Middle Eastern sounds – the kanun for example, played on this by virtuoso Panos Dimitrakopoulos. And, once again
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THE ALLERGIES: Never Gonna Let Go
Another Allergies single so soon after their Stanky Funk featuring The Pharcyde’s Bootie Brown? Well, not exactly. Never Gonna Let Go is actually the B-side to Stanky Funk even though that release was actually available, oohh, some time ago. And like Stanky Funk, it’s another return to another one of the Allergies’ core sounds – in this case to uptempo, bouncy soul-filled party
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BEAT BRONCO ORGAN TRIO: Another Shape Of Essential Sounds
As augured by excellent single Dr Kiffi last month, here is the second long player from Beat Bronco Organ Trio (or just Beat Bronco as they seem to be styling themselves lately) – Another Shape Of Essential Sounds. And yes it does fulfil the promise of that single. Not for the them the ‘first album part 2′ sound of some bands’ sophomore affairs this one finds much of the material on it
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ARTIS BORIS: Easy Living EP
Ever a hallmark of quality, Funk Embassy Records – home of Estonian live funk legends Lexsoul Dancemachine – have a new signing and that new signing is Latvian producer Artis Boris. Turns out our man is a jazz pianist who also likes his beats and his five-track debut EP, Easy Living, puts his interests and skills to excellent use displaying material that puts him in the same ballpark as
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OS ZABELÊS: If You Don’t Like the Effects, Don’t Produce the Cause / Back In Our Minds (Vinyl 7″)
The second of two 45s to launch F-Spot Records’ psych-world-folk subsidiary label Pangea International Recording Co. is this one from Os Zabelês. Cover tracks? Yup – this time of two Funkadelic numbers – A-side If You Don’t Like the Effects, Don’t Produce the Cause from America Eats Its Young and B-side Back In Our Minds from Maggot Brain both done in a funky samba stylee
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THE SAND DOLLARS: Waterloo Bossa/ Get Thy Bearings (Vinyl 7″)
Rating: Turns out F-Spot Records (home of funky reggae covers super-group Night Owls) has a new subsidiary label – Pangea International Recording Co. – and not one but two new forthcoming 45s on said subsidiary! The first of those is by The Sand Dollars and once again we’re in super-group covers territory with two psychedelic sixties classics re-imagined in a
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