Producer BarBeat gives the Beatnik City label a serious dose of boogaloo flu on the new Beatnik City presents… outing and one that’ll likely spread to you too. The condition is acquired when the listener encounters old school Nu-Yorican vibes which have come into close proximity with heavy breakbeats and can be further intensified by the presence of rapapellas by emcees of note. So
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REE KEEN: Makeeni (2017)
Fresh from some recent electro-swinging with the likes of Groovy Joy & Sebastian Roser, the Beatnik City label gets straight back to what it does best – dope sixties-themed party breakbeat numbers. And it does so with the aid of a man who never needs any encouragement – Ree Keen. Well – it’s in his name isn’t it? Talking of names, this release goes by Makeeni – no – not the
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GROOVY JOY & SEBASTIAN ROSER: Mola Gramola (2017)
The Beatnik City label dips its toe into electro-swing waters with Groovy Joy & Sebastian Roser and finds itself decadently yanked into a pool along with Lavern Baker and Billie Holliday. These two ladies who provide the source material from the fifties and thirties respectively for the two booties, Fe Fo Fu and Meeny Mo contained on Mola Gramola find themselves, like us, lured into an
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BEATNIK CITY: Northern Beats Vol. 2 (2016)
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Things are looking musically bright already before we’ve even got to 2017 – at least on the booty edits front. Why? Because Beatnik City have lined up another scorching outing of sixties and seventies soul-inspired booty beats. One track deeper than Volume 1, Northern Beats Vol. 2 effortlessly maintains the high standards of its as predecessor as a go-to source of dancefloor
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BEATNIK CITY: Northern Beats Vol. 1 (2016)
Rating: Forget mods vs. rockers. If diehard northern soulies get wind of how fast and loose the very concepts of Motown and northern soul have been played with for Beatnik City’s latest booty-breaks outing, it’ll be bowling bags at dawn, Bruce Lee kicks and ninja-style clouds of talc thrown in the eyes. Just as well those involved are all on their game for Northern Beats Vol. 1
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KUHJO: Habanera Swing (2015)
Rating: Here’s a well-deserved and long overdue digital release for Kuhjo‘s 2011 seven inch latin hip-hop booty drop Habanera Swing. Anyone who caught it on wax will know that this application of Afro Rican vox to a latin beat is hotter than snorting ground Scotch Bonnet peppers off the breasts of a Cuban lap dancer during a climate-change induced heatwave in
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REE KEEN: EP1 (2015)
Fab Samperi’s Beatnik City label have had people falling over themselves to get in on the retro party breaks action but apparently there’re none so keen as Keen. Ree Keen to be precise, a man so busting to get stuff out there he’s got a four track EP all to himself. Calypso breaks? Check. Beatles big beat? Check. What about mod-jazz-breaks Pharrell and Gwen Stefani – can I have it like that?
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BEATNIK CITY: The Latin Leaks Vol. 1 (2015)
Latin breaks haven’t exactly been flooding the market this year so here’s another welcome summer release as 60s-obsessed booty edit label Beatnik City drops the album-length, twelve-track Latin Leaks Vol. 1 featuring cuts from the usual party breaks suspects as The Captain, Ursula 1000, Dedy Dred & DJ Rebel, Andy Taylor, Clairvo, Ree Keen, Waggles, The Fritz, Daytoner, Stabfinger
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DR K: Swing Samba Lounge (2015)
Rating: Now here’s a drop that’s long overdue some monkey love and would have got some on time if everyone hadn’t decided to release everything in then last month. Christ – it’s not like people don’t have any festivals to go to is it? Anyway – we digress. What we have here is the latest drop from a label which has set the bar high with all it’s releases in the last twelve months
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BEATNIK CITY: The Beat Kicks Vol. 2 (2015)
Rating: I thought it was high time for more big beat licks from The Beat Kicks booty series on Beatnik City – and here it is – with all the swagger of its predecessor. Vol. 2 weighs in at one track deeper but the game is the same – namely pedal-to-the-metal, big beat versions of sixties classics. Some uptempo library music with little added DWYCK sir? Try Fab Samperi and Skeewiff. Re-
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