It’s nearly Christmas; it’s time to get seasonal on your ass! At least that’s what the Breakbeat Paradise crew have been thinking with the dropping of Christmas Bootleg Bells Vol. 3. Well kind of anyway since, unlike last year, they’re not celebrating Christmas with breakbeat booties of Christmas songs, just breakbeat booties of, well, non-Christmas songs. Actually, bar one – but
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BREAKBEAT PARADISE: Christmas Bootleg Bells Vol. 3
SUPER SATURATED: Sol Brazileiro EP
Cornish outfit Super Saturated drench the world in super disco breakin’ vibes on new EP Sol Brazileiro which certainly contains the sort of positivity you’d associate with Brazilian sun. The opening title track employs enough funky disco good time vibes to motivate dozing sunbathers on Rio’s Copacabana beach. This is followed by more of the same on Give You Up before the more muscular
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PECOE: Beat Treats EP
The monkey’s always got time for Oz-producer Pecoe who knows how to make modern-sounding funky breaks without slathering them in wobble bass. New four-track EP Beat Treats is a case in point opening with the uptempo Champion Sound on which our man applies a few vocal dancehall stylings over a chunky groove consisting of clean wah-wah guitar, a crunchy drum break and a farty bass line
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LROY vs SUCKASIDE: Toxic Funk Vol. 8 (Vinyl 7″)
Looks like it’s LROY and Suckaside who get to deliver the latest volume in BBP’s 45s series Toxic Funk, with Volume 8. This consists of Second Warning and Let The Music Play a.k.a. breakbeat edits of a pair of late sixties soul cuts a la, Paul Sitter’s Nothing But A Heartache from earlier in the year. Oohh you’d like to hear some of that wouldn’t you? Sadly, embeddable audio is signally
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BREAKBEAT PARADISE: Paradise Lounge
Ahhh the dog days of summer, lassitude, torpor – whatever you want to call it, there’s no way you’ve got the energy to get down! The temperature’s been off the chart for the last three months! What you need is to chill in the Paradise Lounge from Breakbeat Paradise. Admittedly, Boydex X Crash Party’s Rescue Me is perhaps a bit more energetic than you might’ve been expecting
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FREEDUST: My New Sunglasses (Remixes)
When the sun’s out there are few pleasures finer than stepping out while rocking a new pair of sunglasses, are there? Freedust know this of course, as MB readers will be aware from coverage of their New Sunglasses single from February last year when it was anything but sunny – in the northern hemisphere at least. Four others who also know this are Mako & Mr Bristow
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SUCKASIDE feat. KURNEL MC: Giving Up
Fresh from the success of their joint Beastie booty project with LROY, Suckaside return to hip-hop with new Kurnel MC-featuring single Giving Up. That’ll be a soul-drenched beat then featuring heavy strings-drenched boom-bap shot through with a vein of old soul gold while our Kurnel holds forth about, well, himself – it is a hip-hop track after all. Also on hand is Badboe’s
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MAKO & MR BRISTOW: Mojan Edits: Uptight Boss b/w Beg For A Dollar (Vinyl 7″)
Aaaand this is what happens when people mistake the ‘stank’ in Stank Soul Edits for ‘skank’. It sets Mako & Mr Bristow to thinking – ‘What would a ‘skank soul edit’ sound like’? Maybe a riddim from back when rocksteady was morphing into ‘boss reggae’ on a Toots/ Upsetters/ Trojan tip and maybe pair that with a classic American soul vocal? You know – like as if Berry Gordy had
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PECOE: For The Funk EP
Eight releases into his career as a BBP artist and Oz producer Pecoe is still giving it up For The Funk on his new EP. Things kick off with the title track, a synth-bass powered beast featuring a female shout-out motif, followed by Make A Miracle which cannibalises both The Jackson Sisters and MC Duke over a pounding breakbeat and Eye Of The Tiger-style guitar. Hand In The Air completes an
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SUCKASIDE: Toxic Funk Vol. 7 (Vinyl 7″)
You can’t beat good original music but sometimes, despite musical fashion sidelining a musical style or genre, there remains considerable appetite for what has been sidelined and certainly more than can be catered for by people still making original music in that style or genre. It’s one of the reasons why booties are so enduringly popular and 90s hip-hop is a case in point. Enter Suckaside with Vol. 7 of Breakbeat Paradise’s vinyl
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