To old for an advent calendar this year? Why not let Basement Freaks be your supplier of daily seasonal treats? Every 24 hrs from now until the end of the year it’s going to be like ‘night of the funky bassheads’ as George Fotiadis releases another free download of his sadly defunct Bombastic Jam label and adds it to his Bombastic Jam set on Soundcloud. To get you started there
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Tag Archives: Bombastic Jam
BASEMENT FREAKS: Bombastic Jam (2014) Free download
SMOKEY BANDITS: Rehab (2014)
Are you in the mood for midtempo flamenco-fied breaks with splashes of fiery Andalusian trumpets? Are you also in the mood for grandiose dub with equally fiery Andalusian trumpets and steppin’ hammond? You are? Man, you’re so in luck! That’s precisely what those Smokey Bandits Giorgios Fotiadis (Basement Freaks) and his buddy Dmitris Nassos (Quasamodo) have in store for you in the
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BOMBASTIC JAM: Mundial Beats (2014)
No doubt the first of many musical attempts to get into the spirit of 2014 Brazil World Cup fever, the Bombastic Jam label’s Mundial Beats compilation album puts in a highly respectable qualifying performance. The release consists of originals, remixes and exclusives as well as fielding a team of players who include the likes of new signing Icient Warrior and a number of big names on transfer
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BASEMENT FREAKS STUDIO SESSIONS VIDEO: Neon Steve (2014)
Clearly running the Bombastic Jam breaks label, producing his own stuff as Basement Freaks and one half of Smokey Bandits, gigging internationally and remixing all and sundry isn’t enough for a man like George Fotiadis so he’s started this. And ‘this’ is his new series of behind-the-scenes interviews with bass music scenesters that he’s calling the Basement Freaks Studio
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CICO: Blind Justice EP (2014)
The latest official drop on Bombastic Jam is this downtempo four tracker – the Blind Justice EP – from the man who shares a studio with label owner and Basement Freaks main man George Fotiadis. I had a google for Cico (for so he is named) and can see that his other interests seem to be chimney linings and “beautifully illustrated mind, body and spirit books” so it’s just as well that he likes his
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SMOKEY BANDITS: The Rooster (2013) + Holidays In The Sun (Bobby C Sound TV remix) free download
Not little, not red but a rooster nonetheless – The Rooster is the current single from Basement Freaks‘ George Fotiadis with his Balkan/ Mex-American side project Smokey Bandits. It comes in four different types of ‘plumage’ – original, samba, Savages Y Suefo and AfroQBen and there’s also get a free Bobby C remix of Smokey Bandits’ Holidays In The Sun thrown in too. Quality
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SMOKEY BANDITS: Debut (2013) + ‘Cape Juby’ free download
Smokey Bandits debut – er – Debut was big in Greece when it first came out. And yet this thirteen-track collection of original instrumentals created by Basement Freaks‘ George Fotiadis, his homie Quasamodo and ragtag band of rebel musicians (no doubt unshaven types, with a glint in their eyes and bandoliers criss-crossing their chests) slipped under the radar elsewhere
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FUNK MOGULS: Roc Blockin EP (2012)
Once upon a time there was cock rockin’, then the Chemical Brothers were block rockin’ and now Funk Moguls are roc blockin’. No doubt at some point in the future we can expect cock-blockin’ beats too. To the best of my knowledge there hasn’t been any feminist ghetto-funk interpretation of the works of Motley Crue and Poison yet but give it time. Meanwhile the
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BASEMENT FREAKS: Mission Jazz (2011)
Liking a challenge, Basement Freaks here takes on Misson Jazz which I view as being like mission impossible but even harder. Basically the idea is to do something jazzy that anyone might actually want to listen to and even (less likely) actually want to dance too. Man, that is hard! Those who succeed are few and far between so what better to do than rope in a man who makes it all look easy
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TIM MCVICAR: For The Money (2011)
Smoove & Turrell’s live band bassist, Tim McVicar, steps out from the shadows cast by neo-northern soul’s unlikeliest but most deserving stars with his first breaks tune. Despite this release’s title, one can only assume he does this less for the money in these days of free downloads, illegal downloads and tinny, piss-weak ‘I converted it from a Youtube video’ mp3s, than for the show
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