Jayl Funk and Tarzan Bros. channel late 70s Bronx vibes on their latest collaboration Funkin’ Your Soul. Out on Jayl Funk’s very own Honkey Phonk label, this drop is all about the super disco-breakin’ vibes, positively dripping with retro-synth bass and funky geetar while Tarzan Bros. grace the mic in a firmly Sugarhill stylee. Let’s put it this way – Sylvia Robinson would have released it. Can
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JAYL FUNK feat. TARZAN BROS: Funkin’ Your Soul (2017)
JAYL FUNK: Easy Summertime (Honkey Phonk 011)(2016)
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I’m always partial to a well turned-out soul edit and here’s Jayl Funk with – Easy Summertime – a respectful reboot of Billy Stewart’s ’66 cover of a certain Gershwin-penned number of which there are allegedly 25 000 versions out there. This does, of course, mean that everyone knows the first line and this, along with
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VARIOUS: Honkey Phonk 10 (2016)
Jayl Funk’s Honkey Phonk drops are now up to their tenth release and what better way to acknowledge number 10 than with a ten-tracker which finds Jayl Funk and cohorts Voodoocuts, Nic2Birilli and EuPe tear through seventies influences and samples like a band through groupies? Of the ten cuts no fewer than seven are by Jayl Funk – well – it is his label and two have
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JAYL FUNK: We Got The Funk (2015)
Who got the funk? We got the funk, it would seem – ‘we’ meaning Jayl Funk – though whether that’s the royal ‘we’ is a little ambiguous since cohorts CaZ are there with a remix too. JF goes large with what sounds (when the bass finally kicks in) a bit like the rhythm to Dee-Lite’s Groove Is In The Heart – done by afro-funkers plus a side helping of Stax horns. And some flute. And some squalling
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