Now if the cover art was anything to go by, DJ Pnutz’ new album Semi-Live Entertainment would feature great sweeps of Jan Hammer-esque synth scores powered by simple drum patterns drenched in gated reverb for breakneck car chases along the neon-lit mean streets of 80s Miami. And while it is true that the seventeen cuts on this are programmed all-original, sample-free, midi-based
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DJ PNUTZ: Semi-Live Entertainment
ROUGHNECK JIHAD & DJ PNUTZ: General Jihad and Prime Minister Pnutz
Here’s a collaboration to conjure with as veteran emcee General Jihad forges a musical alliance with dj/producer DJ Pnutz for new LP General Jihad and Prime Minister Pnutz. Jihad has been active since the late 80s but is best known for his role as one third of Bay Area underground hip-hop outfit Third Sight. DJ Pnutz on the other hand will be more familiar to MB readers as the woman behind LPs
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DJ PNUTZ: The Breakmaker
Are you sitting comfortably b-boys and girls? Don’t worry, you won’t be sitting at all once The Breakmaker begins for it is the latest musical feast for the feet and ears from DJ Pnutz. A new one already? It seems like less than half a year since our Californian heroine last hit us with breaks – but then perhaps that’s because it was less than half a year ago that our Californian heroine hit us
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DJ PNUTZ: Work Flow
Two time San Diego Music Award nominee DJ Pnutz is back with new LP Work Flow, the first of two planned album releases this year. MB readers will be more familiar with Pnutz from her atmospheric, vocal sample-laden b-boy breaks material from such LPs as Play That Beat Mrs DJ or 16 Psyche whereas the idea on this one was to drop straight neck-snapping hip-hop beats. And
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DJ PNUTZ: Play That Beat Mrs DJ
Never let it be said the girls can’t match the beat-making output of the boys as DJ Pnutz drops her third full-length album, Play That Beat Mrs DJ, in two years. And once again the San Diego-based dj/producer weighs in with a substantial opus – this one tipping the scales at fifteen tracks. Like its predecessors, The Good Wife’s Guide To
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DJ PNUTZ: Pretty Good For A Girl/ Play That Beat Mrs DJ (Vinyl 7″)
Next up from DJ Pnutz is this nifty little vinyl 7″ which features the lead cut off last year’s rather splendid 16 Psyche LP – Pretty Good For A Girl – and provides an object lesson in how what to do with funky drum breaks, horn stabs and slow-burning organ chords. While clocking in at a nippy nearly 120 bpm on the bpm-ometer, it’s mood is arguably better suited to the soundtrack than b-
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DJ PNUTZ: Bee-Sides (2017)
Fresh – in both the primary and hip-hop senses of the word – from her recent 16 Psyche album, DJ Pnutz drops a brace of recording session extras that didn’t make the final cut in the shape of this Bee-Sides single. And about this, it would be remiss of the monkey not to create some buzz (thank you, I’m here all week) since the track Bee-Side is an efficient slice of heavy Hammond-tinged
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DJ PNUTZ: 16 Psyche (2017) + video
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It’s widely known that if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. What’s less well-known however is that if you pay Pnutz, you get beats and plenty of them – although, frankly, DJ Pnutz is such a beat junky she’d be making them anyway, money or no. And how do we know this? We know this because barely a year after releasing the nineteen track Good Wife’s Guide To Beatmaking
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DJ PNUTZ: The Good Wife’s Guide To Beatmaking (2016)
It’s been a minute since the B-Girl Breaks EP on Danny Massure’s Spring Strut label (well over a year, in fact) but here’s DJ Pnutz with her third full-length LP – The Good Wife’s Guide To Beatmaking. Yes, you heard that right – ‘her.’ DJ Pnutz is a woman, not a complimentary snack you sometimes get on your rider and she makes beats that sound – well – very much like those made by
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DJ PNUTZ: B-Girl Breaks (2015)
Let’s face it, the b-boy breaks and boom-bap hip-hop scene can be a bit blokey can’t it? The production equivalent of fart gags, belching and – well…farts. What is needed occasionally is the fragrant presence of female input – though sadly, that’s a far too infrequent occurrence. Happily though, here’s DJ Pnutz, Danny Massure’s new signing on Spring Strut with three slabs of quality
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