If you didn’t already know, Johnnypluse recently announced his retirement from the music scene and thus the end of Bulabeats Records – which is going to leave a great big hedonistic hole in the breakbeat music scene. Johnny and the label do have one last hurrah though in the form of final drop Dead Dead Dead at the end of the month. A twelve-strong set, it is a ‘best of’ compilation
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BULABEATS RECORDS: Dead Dead Dead
BULABEATS: The Amazing Sounds Of Bulabeats Records (2016)
Good lord has the Bulabeats label really been around eleven years!? It’s certainly been around long enough to amass more than enough party breaks action to fill – say – a double vinyl LP. A double vinyl LP!? Yes – not some piddling little 45 but a proper man’s format. Twelve inches times two. Super stable on the decks. Not so prone to warping and cupping. A scratch artist’s dream. And
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JOHNNYPLUSE: This Will Twist Your Head (2011) Free download
‘Tis the season of giving and here’s JohnnyPluse, boss of Irish label Bulabeats, coming over all Santa-fied with free fourteen-track LP. If you’re the sort of person who doesn’t have enough breakbeat remixes in your life this’ll twist your head and probably your melons too. JP’s basically remixed his way through the punk and post-punk seventies (Blondie, The Clash and The Jam), the overblown and self-indulgent eighties
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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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LOVE MUSIC, HATE RACISM & CULT MUSIC present: Funk Against Fascism (2011)
There are many reasons to reject fascism in its many forms – the one-dimensional, ‘might is right’ attitude, the staggering lack of logic in its ideological arguments and crucially – the shit music. Wagner and Skrewdriver? Christ! Enter breakbeat deejay Totalcult who (in collaboration with Love Music, Hate Racism has been marshalling the rebel forces
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JOHNNYPLUSE: Load Up On Guns (2011) – Free download
Never a man to let an opportunity pass him by, Bulabeats label boss Johnnypluse cashes in on the cashing-in of the twentieth anniversary of the release of Nirvana’s Nevermind album by putting out a cheeky retro breaks number that makes shameless use of ‘that’ guitar riff from Teen Spirit. Well, I say ‘cashes in’ – this one’s actually a free download
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THE APPLES: Killing (Johnnypluse remix) (2011) – free download
In which Irish breaks bandit and Bulabeats label boss Johnnypluse gives The Apples’ jazz-funk version of Rage Against The Machine’s fire-starting anthem a touch of the breaks. Done, one suspects, without the knowledge of either band or their record labels and released for free – now that really is raging against the machine. How do you like them apples?
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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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JOHNNYPLUSE: Laser, Lasers, We Need More Lasers – 2011 + ‘It’s Some Craic’ free download
Here he is then, back once again like a renegade master – yes – it’s Irish beat assassin JohnnyPluse with new album Lasers, Lasers, We Need More Lasers – or (as it’s almost certainly destined to be known) Lasers. For those who aren’t in the know, JP is a man afflicted by ‘breaks’-ADHD – a little known disorder that I’ve just invented but which perfectly describes his clear conviction that there can never be enough breaks.
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JOHNNYPLUSE: Skanky Bitch – 2011
Don’t worry, Irish breaks merchant and Bulabeats label boss Johnnypluse isn’t venting about some chick. The title of this, the second single from his forthcoming How Much For The Monkey LP is more a literal description of the track itself, ‘skanky’ in the sense of skankin’; ‘bitch’ conveying the monstrous rhythm section as in, ‘Damn! That bass is nasty!”
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