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
JOHNNYPLUSE: The Return Is Finished
If you were concerned because you hadn’t heard from Johnnypluse for a minute, you’ll be gratified to hear that the Irish producer is back with a new album shortly and, before that drops, new single The Return Is Finished. It’s a lo-fi breakbeat affair that pulls off the feat of being both midtempo and ambient in mood. The primary means by which the latter is achieved is a vocal from none other than
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JOHNNYPLUSE: 100% Dancefloor remixes + How To Be Sound (Youtube production tutorial series)
Lockdown #2 may have forced many into a semi-nocturnal existence of onesies, boxsets and closed curtains as the government blunders from one inevitable u-turn to the next, but not the indefatigable Johnnypluse. For not only has this man made fifteen of his breaks tunes free to download via Hypeddit; he’s also started a series of Youtube production tutorials on how to make
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JOHNNYPLUSE: The Ultimate Collection 2005 – 2020 (Album & Sample Pack)
Not content with releasing multiple hip-hop sample packs already this year, Johnnypluse makes like Santa and brings forth yet more surprises from his bulging sack with The Ultimate Collection – Album & Sample Pack. Surely this couldn’t be both an array of complete tracks he has produced between 2005 and 2020 along with the breaks, sounds and FX he used to make them?
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JOHNNYPLUSE: The Ultimate Breaks & Hiphop Toolkit
Back at the start of September, the monkey covered the fact that breakbeat producer Johnnypluse had released his Old School Hiphop Sample Packs – a kicks and percussion volume along with a breaks volume. Figuring that some folks might find two packs too fiddly, the ever-resourceful JP has now unleashed The Ultimate Breaks & Hiphop Toolkit. This monster includes more than 3Gb of breaks, synth, bass, cuts and
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JOHNNYPLUSE: The Old School Hiphop Sample Packs
A veteran with twenty odd years knob-twiddling under his belt, not to mention eight LPs and sixty EPs, Johnnypluse knows a thing or two about production – and one of those very things is that you can never possess enough sample packs. Enter said Mr Pluse stage right with his all-new The Old School Hiphop Sample Pack in two parts: Kicks & Percussion and Breaks. Why it’s just the
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JOHNNYPLUSE: The Break Out + Loud Places (Dub mix) free download
News of what’s next in the bomb-bay for Bulabeats comes mere weeks after the release of Zero The Desk’s The Secret Edits Vol. 1, as Johnnypluse announces forthcoming single The Break Out. While (on the one hand) this sees Mr Pluse return to his favoured sonic territory of bass-heavy breakbeat music, it also sees him escape from the pigeonhole by flavouring proceedings
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JOHNNYPLUSE: ‘Give Me A Break’ podcast
Wind the clock back nearly a year and Johnnypluse was on the cusp on unleashing his new video and homage to the funk drum breakdown – Give Me A Break. Somewhere between then and now though, the video was jettisoned and – perhaps appopriately, given it’s focus on the sound of funky drums – the project has now been released as a podcast. It’s still got interviews with Krafty Kuts
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JOHNNYPLUSE: ‘Listen’ video
Irish breakbeat force of nature Johnnypluse has got a new single and video, Listen, out soon and it’s described here as sounding like, “Oasis drinking with the Chemical Brothers in a 90s warehouse.” In case you thought that was former UK number one Setting Sun, please note that was Oasis collaborating with the Chemicals not Oasis
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JOHNNYPLUSE: ‘Give Me A Break’ movie short
Bulabeats head honcho and man with finger in multiple musical pies, Johnnypluse, settles into the director’s chair once more for new film short, Give Me A Break, the follow-up to 2016’s Breaking The Beat. While the latter was a retrospective – nay, a celebration – of ten years of the Bulabeats label, Give Me A Break provides a thirteen-minute homage to the concept of the funk drum
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