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If ‘the devil makes work for idle hands’ then the pandemic has been nothing less than a veritable ‘devil’s workshop’ – so be glad at least two of the hands in question belonged to DJ Format who has summoned forth a suitably prodigious creative opus in the form of his new album entitled, naturally, Devil’s Workshop. Which
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DJ FORMAT: Devil’s Workshop
DJ FORMAT & DJAR ONE feat. TOPAZE CHANTILLY: Blue Topaze b/w Ballade Sybarite
DJ Format and Djar One producing either side of une disque vinyl 45 featuring Topaze Chantilly? Fabergé! If your knowledge of French emceeing extends no further than MC Solaar or peut-être NTM, it’s l’heure to se lever. Format supplies grands boom-bap beats comme d’habitude while Topaz occupé the mic – I’m guessing it’s a brag rap but your Français needs to be better than the
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DJ FORMAT: The Meeting Pt. 1 & He’s Back (The Meeting Pt. 2)(Vinyl 7″)
Look out, he’s back – DJ Format that is – with two blistering Meters-based cut-n-paste jobs on either side of one glorious 45. That’ll be The Meeting Pt 1 and – er – He’s Back (The Meeting Pt. 2) then. Why – it’s a funky miracle! Marvel as our man (Zony)-mashes together umpteen tracks by the funkiest and most famous (not to mention most-sampled) of New Orleans’ many funky sons and
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ANDY COOPER & DJ FORMAT: Get On That (Re-layered) Vinyl 7″ + ‘Do The Andy Puppet’ video
Hello, what’s this? Why – it’s a new 7″ single collab., Get On That (Re-Layered) from Andy Cooper & DJ Format (!) and the latest video from Andy for track Do The Andy Puppet. Both tracks are lifted from our man’s recent sterling long-play effort The Layered Effect, though the ‘re-layered’ Format version of Get On That is a completely new
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DJ FORMAT & ABDOMINAL: We’re Back/ Diamond Hammer 7″ (2017)
“We’re Here! We’re back!” Who’s back? Who else? Abdominal and Format! And with seven splendid inches of wax to boot. Phew! And you thought the slew of releases around their Still Hungry album wasn’t going to yield any 45 action at all. Nevertheless, here they are with the turbocharged double-header that is the thundering organic bass-led We’re Back 7″ and the equally energetic
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DJ FORMAT & ABDOMINAL: Still Hungry LP (2017)
Rating: You have to wonder if it ever occurred to DJ Format and MC Abdominal when their first collaboration, Ill Culinary Behaviour, dropped in 2001, that they’d still have an appetite for making quality boom-bap nearly two decades later. Back then the underground hip-hop scene was in rude health (like those who made the music) but over the intervening years, times have
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DJ FORMAT & ABDOMINAL: Dirt (2017) + video
Today is Friday and it’s good. Not in a religious sense you understand but because DJ Format and Abdominal have just dropped another new single off forthcoming LP Still Hungry entitled Dirt. Life is too sanitised these days you see – or as Abs has it, “so fuck a bar of soap man I wanna feel the earth/ between my toes like nature intended/ because things are too clean and impeccably
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DJ FORMAT & ABDOMINAL: Diamond Hammer (2017) Video
Rating: Now no longer just a special item in a massive online roleplaying game (sorry Warcraft geeks!), Diamond Hammer is the new single from DJ Format & Abdominal and doesn’t it just hit like one? More heavy psych samples, a bludgeoning 130 bpm beat which puts the pair in Fabreeze Brothers territory and Abdominal giving the mic a good clobbering. The track follows
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DJ FORMAT & ABDOMINAL: ‘Behind The Scenes’ video (2017)
Rating: Poor old Abdominal – trying to make a living out of being a full-time emcee. How quaint. Still, it does provide ample material for a wry look at how that actually works in 2017 on new Abs and Format cut Behind The Scenes. And how it works is that crate-digger and veteran creator of phat shit, DJ Format, puts together a
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VARIOUS: DJ FORMAT’s Psych Out (2016)
Rating: Like guitar fuzz? Like heavy breaks and bass? Yeah? You must like the same kind of ’60s and early 70s psych rock fuzz as DJ Format – you know – the sort of thing that yields samples like the dope one he used on the Angry Birds track he did with Phill Most Chill the other year. The only problem is he can’t get away with playing it out that often apparently. No? Sad Face! Why not?
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