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What better time for nineties groovers Freakpower to return with the United State EP, their first drop in twenty years or so? Trump is in the Whitehouse advocating guns for teachers and a nuclear spanky botty for Kim Jong-Un, the UK is on course for self-inflicted economic disaster, and Putin is going to be ‘voted’ Russian president again next month. Who wouldn’t fly their
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Tag Archives: Ashley Slater
FREAKPOWER: United State EP + ‘Soul Clap’ video
RORY HOY feat ASHLEY SLATER: Gettin’ Home (2017)
On their latest collab, Rory Hoy and Ashley Slater tackle the issue of Gettin’ Home from ‘the party’. We’ve all been there – a night’s carousing followed by the sudden realisation that you need your distant bed. In the absence of a beer-scooter (i.e. you’re conscious enough to remember the epic night-hike you’re about to undertake), what you need is a jaunty anthem to belt out while
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VARIOUS: Lime Sorbet VI (Selected by QUINCY JOINTZ)(2017)
Has it really been two years since the last Lime Sorbet? So it would seem, for it was indeed 2015 when volume V came out. Still, that means compiler Quincy Jointz has had plenty of time to scour the breakosphere for the fourteen zesty cuts featured on this volume. As previously, our man takes an all-encompassing approach to the concept of the breakbeat compilation from the
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SAVAGES Y SUEFO feat. ASHLEY SLATER: Revolution! (2016)
Savages Y Suefo and Ashley Slater pick up where Smoove & Turrell recently left-off tackling the greed of the one per cent with itchy, funky, uptempo heater Revolution. We’ve had enough of all that elite-‘bashing’ though haven’t we? Have we fuck. They don’t need less grief, they need more. Because they’re not getting better, they’re getting worse. Like that business harpy I caught on the
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FORT KNOX FIVE feat. ASHLEY SLATER: Fire In My Belly (2016)
The latest single off Fort Knox Five‘s Pressurize The Cabin LP is Fire In My Belly on which Ashley Slater assists them on a pleasing journey that musically terminates somewhere between Ohio Player’s Love Rollercoaster and a full mothership connection. Remixers All Good Funk Alliance take over the journey at this point and bypass the mothership entirely to dock at disco spacehub
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KITTEN & THE HIP: Groove Is In The Heart (2016) Exclusive free download!
Rating: Sometimes originals can be bettered. Sometimes they can’t. But of those that can’t, sometimes they can be equalled. Especially if the cover is so gloriously lunatic it provides a singular aural experience. Step forward Kitten & The Hip, utterly unfazed by taking on not just one of the biggest chart hits of the nineties but a timeless dancefloor classic. Initially a strikingly
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KITTEN & THE HIP: Ain’t No Other Man (2016) Free download
Ain’t no other band could stand up next to Christina and Premier surely? Ain’t no other band it’s true – well until Kitten & The Hip a.k.a Ashley Slater and the missus, Kitten Quinn, sauntered along that is. Slowing down the bpms to an altogether more rakish tempo, the pair create an altogether more funky, low-riding version of Aguilera’s The Moon People-sampling Ain’t No
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MONKEYBOXING.COM presents: Filthy Rhythm, Dirty Soul Vol. 6 (2016) Free download
Good lord! Has it really been ten years of monkeyboxing?
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RORY HOY feat. ASHLEY SLATER: Hey Everybody! (2015)
Hey Everybody! Not just the title of the new disco biscuit from Rory Hoy featuring Ashley Slater (as they of them team-up to make it funky from Knaresborough to Brighton) but an exhortation to report to the dancefloor as the pair show Pharrell and Daft Punk it’s not just Smoove & Turrell that have them in their sights. “Hey Everybody/ You ain’t never goin’ to get a lady with that loser vibe
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ASHLEY SLATER: Bone Idol Vol. 1 (2015)
Rating: Ashley Slater, sometime frontman of Norman Cook’s pre-Fatboy acid jazz funkers Freak Power, ex-member of Loose Tubes, Microgroove and BigLounge and (despite the X-Factor’s best efforts) currently one half of Kitten & The Hip is, lest we forget (or unless you didn’t know in the first place) an accomplished trombonist. Look – there’s one right there in that
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