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It’s the dream team! DJ Format and Abdominal reprise their winning formula thirteen years after it all began with Ill Culinary Behaviour now posing as the grumpy old men of underground boom-bap. Abdominal is Walter Matthau to Format’s Jack Lemmon as the pair of them simultaneously defend age as something that bestows experience and increased skill whilst
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Tag Archives: DJ Format
DJ FORMAT & ABDOMINAL: We Say/ Reflective Meditation Rhymes (2015) Free download
DJ FORMAT: Kool & The Gangstarr Generation
In between dropping quality hip-hop hook-ups with underground emcees of lyrical integrity and note, DJ Format occasionally likes to knock together funky instrumentals and off-the-chain sample-splicing one-offs – like when he remixed Mr Jason’s 26 emcee posse cut Mr Jason’s Got A Posse (on which the first letter of each emcee name corresponded to a different letter of the
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DJ FORMAT & PHILL MOST CHILL: Angry Birds remix/ The Shape Of Things To Come remix (2015)
“Angry Birds! What y’all mad about?” Possibly the fact that two cuts (including Angry Birds) off last year’s super fresh DJ Format/ Phill Most Chill Foremost LP get the remix treatment for a wax appearance but it’s only on hipster-friendly seven inch rather than the OG twelve. Still let that not detract from a respectable rerub of the aforementioned cut (which nevertheless
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MR JASON: Mr Jason Has A Posse (DJ FORMAT remix) 7 inch (2015)
Mr Jason’s Mr Jason Has A Posse originally featured on his 2011 Frankensteez LP and then in remix format (courtesy of – er – DJ Format) on 2012’s Son Of Frankensteez EP. By definition, a ‘posse cut’ is four or more rappers on a ‘joint’ although clearly for Mr Jason any track with a mere four rappers is some sort of ‘pussy’ cut. Why? Because the Porn Theater Ushers dj/
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MONKEYBOXING.COM – Top 10 Albums 2013
(See Monkeyboxing.com – Top 10 Tracks – 2012 HERE)
What can I say? 2013 was big for boom-bap hip-hop and retro funk and soul.
N.B. This chart is created from from a highly complex algorithm derived from how often shit gets played on the MB sound system.
1. Deltron 3030 – Deltron Event 2
Despite the odd dodgy skit, the second coming of Deltron 3030 was still epic
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DJ FORMAT & PHILL MOST CHILL: The Foremost (2013)
Rating: No time for messing about – the new DJ Format & Phill Most Chill LP The Foremost is even more nearly upon us than it was last time MB reported that the new DJ Format & Phill Most Chill LP The Foremost was nearly upon us. And that time was just over a week ago when the only audio available was an album sampler video plus the humble Juno player. No worries though since a
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DJ FORMAT & PHILL MOST CHILL: ‘The Foremost’ album sampler video (2013)
It seems like little more than a year since the last DJ Format LP. But then maybe that’s because it is only little more than a year since the last DJ Format LP – 2012’s Statement Of Intent. Not that The Foremost is just a DJ Format LP you understand, for our man brings this one to you in the company of 80s old school original NYC emcee Phill Most Chill. Hence the title ‘Foremost.’ PMC
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MR JASON: Mr Jason Has A Posse (2012) video + DJ Format remix + Son Of Frankensteez EP
Mr Jason’s Mr Jason Has A Posse featured on his Frankensteez LP from last year and features in remix format (courtesy of – er – DJ Format) on the Son Of Frankensteez EP, due any day. By definition, a ‘posse cut’ is four or more rappers on a ‘joint’ although clearly for Mr Jason any track with a mere four rappers is some sort of ‘pussy’ cut. Why? Because the Porn Theater Ushers
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DJ FORMAT & THE SIMONSOUND: ‘Statement Of Intent’ tour video (2012)
It seems Ugly Duckling weren’t the only ones packing a video camera on their last tour since here’s DJ Format and his homie The Simonsound with their Statement Of Intent tour video. Apparently the Format camp had access to superior battery life though since while UD were only able to muster enough footage to last the length of a single teensy song, this weighs in at a hip-hop-umentous one
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DJ FORMAT feat. THE GOOD PEOPLE: Marisco (2012)
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This year’s U.S. emcee go-tos for the discerning UK beatmaker – The Good People (a.k.a. Emskee and Saint) – make another appearance on arguably the beefiest UK boom-bap beat this year in a tribute to what is apparently the UK’s longest-running club – Woolacombe’s Marisco. That’ll be the second big-up this summer for the vast urban sprawl of Woolacombe involving The Good People
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