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Aren’t bands supposed to take a mid-career hiatus or something – go off and do vanity solo projects, realise they were greater than the sum of their parts and return to deliver a mediocre pastiche of earlier work or an embarrassing pastiche of whatever the kids are doing? With the release of Tear The Place up the Allergies are now into a career six albums deep (if
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THE ALLERGIES: Tear The Place Up
SKEEWIFF: Spanish Flea (Vinyl 7″)
What are the chances of Skeewiff returning to the label on which they were one of the original artists with a fresh example of a dance music genre that they were one of the original artists to establish? Pretty strong the monkey would say. The label is Jalapeno, the genre is party breakbeats (especially if featuring sixties samples) and the track is their reboot of Herb Alpert & His Tijuana
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THE ALLERGIES: Never Gonna Let Go
Another Allergies single so soon after their Stanky Funk featuring The Pharcyde’s Bootie Brown? Well, not exactly. Never Gonna Let Go is actually the B-side to Stanky Funk even though that release was actually available, oohh, some time ago. And like Stanky Funk, it’s another return to another one of the Allergies’ core sounds – in this case to uptempo, bouncy soul-filled party
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THE ALLERGIES feat. BOOTIE BROWN: Stanky Funk (Vinyl 7″)
Rating: They’ve been messing around with disco-reggae and electro-blues of late but this is The Allergies and one of the things they do best is keep that old-school party hip-hop sound – er – partying. And what better way to do that than with a big ol’ bottle of Stanky Funk served up by none other than Bootie Brown? Yep, this one’s throwback rap credentials are impeccable – phat
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THE ALLERGIES: Reconcile EP
Bristol’s The Allergies see in the new year with their Reconcile EP which finds them getting two recent tracks, one brand new track and one oldie in the same room to celebrate the links between them. And what mainly links them is the influence of black music. There’s the two recent singles for example – Treat You Right which overtly pairs blues and breaks, the single prior to that
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VARIOUS: Jalapeno Funk Vol. 13
The start of January isn’t traditionally a fertile period in the annual record company release schedule so perhaps starting a new year by covering one record company’s retrospective look at its output for the previous year isn’t a bad way to go. That record company, is Jalapeno Records of course, while the retrospective in question is Jalapeno Funk Vol. 13. It’s a compilation that
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THE ALLERGIES: Treat You Right
Well, I woke up this morning/ Na nana na na/ To an Allergies’ blues song/ Na nana na na/ I couldn’t believe it/ Na nana na na/ But it don’t sound wrong/ Na nana na na/ If you was to hear it/ Na nana na na/ Maybe you’d think it too/ Na nana na na/ But thooooose Allergies boys…done…got…the blues! That’ll be new Allergies bump, Treat You Right then – a blues-influenced affair which finds
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THE ALLERGIES: Sometimes I Wonder
Bristol’s The Allergies have of late been experimenting with their sonic palette in the lead up to their next LP. We’ve had the Latin breakbeat-powered Vamonos featuring Andy C and Marietta Smith back in the summer, house-afrobeat crossover Hypnotise and now latest effort, Sometimes I Wonder. You sometimes wonder too don’t you? You wonder where those
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SAM REDMORE: Universal Vibrations LP
You’ve been reading about the singles here on MB since last September (five of them no less!) covering a range of genres and sub-genres but this month it’s Sam Redmore’s debut long player, Universal Vibrations which has finally dropped. It’s an eleven-track set with a name that implicitly makes the bold claim of being able to rock the
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FLEVANS: It Takes The Whole Day / In Shadows
Here’s the new single from Flevans then, It Takes The Whole Day. Wait, what!? It’s a twenty-four hour long track?! He’s not messing around is he? No, stupid, that’s the title – It Takes The Whole Day. Wait, what!? The title takes the whole day? etc. etc. Hours of fun. Though actually, the new Flevans single actually only provides three minutes, four seconds of orchestra-drenched pop-
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