For many, reaching forty means a flabby gut, spending money you don’t have on a leather jacket and sports car you don’t need and staring at life’s traffic lights wondering where and when it all went so wrong. Not Bulabeats though. Nope, they’re hitting the dancefloor with a ten-track blast of dirty-ass bass and breaks. But maybe that’s because this is a celebration of Bulabeats’ fortieth release rather than their fortieth
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JOHNNY PLUSE: The Market Street Cut Up (2011) Digital release/ remixes
Not quite the East End gang brawl it sounds like, Johnny Pluse nevertheless brings along enough remixers for this digital re-release of 2009’s The Market Street Cut Up to almost make it worth starting a ruck. There are eleven mixes available from the likes of (deep breath) Ewan Hoozami, Quincy Jointz, Hong Kong Ping Pong, Totalcult, Mustbeat Crew, Rory Hoy, Dusty Tonez and Funkanomics. Gang leader Pluse’s skankin’ 2011
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DUSTY TONEZ: Ghetto Maestro (2011)
Ghetto Maestro is the forthcoming release from Dusty Tonez and as more cultured readers will know, ‘maestro’ is Italian for ‘master.’ What is less well-known is that the same word appears in Irish Gaelic and, although there’s no direct translation, it approximates to ‘rather large and funky slice of wobbly bass.’ As you might expect therefore, the original mix here draws from funk, ragga and dubstep influences
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JOHNNYPLUSE feat. Youth Mass: Drinkin In The Sun (2011) + video
Drinking in the sun! It always seems like such a good idea doesn’t it? There you are with your workmates by a river or something, supping a cold pint, full of bonhomie…and then it all goes blurry. You ‘come to’ sunfried, dehydrated, slumped on cardboard boxes in a piss-stinking shop doorway with a half a kebab down your front wondering when it got dark and where everyone is. Johnnypluse seems to have captured the euphoric
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DUSTY TONEZ: Red Hot Chili Banger (2011) – Free download
Dusty Tonez works his (blood, sugar, sex) magic by staging a raid on the Red Hot Pipe And Slippers back catalogue and getting all freaky in a ghetto funk styley. Fed into the juicer is the guitar from Can’t Stop, the acapella from Give It Away, some heavy breaks to supply a bit of hump de bump and bass wobbly enough to give you a nosebleed. The upshot is Red Hot Chili Banger which transforms the Californian foursome into the complete opposite of an organic anti-beatbox band
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DUSTY TONEZ: Beware Of The Breaks EP (2011) + ‘Touch The Sky Butterfly’ free download
I think this should probably have been called the ‘beware of the house music influences EP,’ for Mr Tonez is certainly flirting with the dark side here with all those synth swells on first track Donald Funk. Luckily he remembered to pack some breaks and a wobbly bassline to bring the twenty-first century to what sounded dangerously close to a breaks version of something by The Beloved. Elsewhere JB, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers get a
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DUSTY TONEZ: Steady As She Breaks – 2011
Dusty Tonez keeps it minimal on Steady As She Breaks navigating this breakbeat banger through dirty guitar chops, a wobbly bassline and electro percussion. Captain of Irish label Bulabeats, JohnnyPluse, is first (remix) mate to Tonez’ commander of the beat and takes the helm with a light touch – if, indeed, dirtying the rhythm section still further can be considered a light touch.
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