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Looks like it’s time for another themed EP from Breakbeat Paradise and no prizes for guessing that a release entitled Breakin’ The Riddim with cover art featuring a dreadlocked breakdancer entails a marriage of breakbeat and various reggae-related styles. No prizes either for guessing that it’s richer in bangers than a Walls sausage factory. Fredy High for example, heavies
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Tag Archives: Leygo
BREAKBEAT PARADISE: Breakin’ The Riddim (2017)
AIR: Moon Safari Remixed (2017)
One suspects French mellowtronica duo Air are are possibly not aware of the existence of the Moon Safari Remixed EP, a cheeky project which finds some of the usual Relative Dimensions label suspects make remarkably free with material off Air’s 90s debut LP. JPrime creates a new dawn for Ce Matin La for example by introducing it to Public Enemy’s He Got Game and a healthy dose of
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BEATNIK CITY: Northern Beats Vol. 2 (2016)
Rating: Things are looking musically bright already before we’ve even got to 2017 – at least on the booty edits front. Why? Because Beatnik City have lined up another scorching outing of sixties and seventies soul-inspired booty beats. One track deeper than Volume 1, Northern Beats Vol. 2 effortlessly maintains the high standards of its as predecessor as a go-to source of dancefloor
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LEYGO: Wake N Bake (2016)
Wake N Bake? This’ll certainly wake you up, it’ll more or less bake your mind too. Fresh from Leygo-land are three peak-time slabs of dancehall wobble. The first of these re-positions the Sleng Teng riddim in the midst of grinding ghetto funk while Heading High takes Mr Vegas’ 90s hit Heads High, applies digi drums and ventures towards junglist speeds – albeit with a drum pattern that’s
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THE KURNEL MC: The Wanderer (2016)
They call him the wanderer, they call him the wanderer, he likes to roam around, around, around. He certainly does since the UK is pretty much as far from Aotearoa as a body can get. Who am I talking about? The Kurnel MC of course, though surely the central issue is – does the Kiwi emcee rhyme like a nut? All the signs (not to mention sounds) are good on The Wanderer EP
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BUSTA RHYMES: Get Down (LEYGO remix)(2016) Free download
Rating: Every now and then I like to check in at Leygo-land – or at least at Dave ‘Leygo‘ Tyers’ Soundcloud page – for the superior entertainment on offer. This is a case in point – a massive remix of Busta Rhymes’ decidedly minimal Get Down – the original of which was barely more than a tom-tom drum beat and the sounds of swamp fauna – albeit (presumably) expensively
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JOHNNYPLUSE & THE STORMTROOPERS OF LOVE: Blast And Bounce (2015)
Johnnypluse & The Stormtroopers Of Love will be invading speakers at a cantina near you soon with the next single off their forthcoming LP Ape Panic. No doubt intended as the musical equivalent of a short bout of drunken laser fire before a roll in Jabba’s palace with a scantily clad slave girl, the dubby lo-fi but uptempo skank of Blast & Bounce also gets made over into a 150 bpm pod-race
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BEATNIK CITY: The Beat Kicks Vol. 1 (2015)
Rating: Can the beat kick? The answer, judging by the contents of the Beatnik City label’s latest – The Beat Kicks Vol. 1, would seem to be an emphatic, ‘yes it can!’ This follow-up to The Rio District Vol. 1 switches the focus from party breaks edits of sixties Brazilian grooves to party breaks edits of any 50s or 60s gear that hasn’t been nailed firmly down. Expect to hear Jacques
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LEYGO: Three FREE At 3000 (2014) Free download
Leygo‘s hit 3000 followers on Soundcloud and to celebrate this feat, he’s released a triple pack of tracks. First to cascade forth from his pool of talent is a subtle remix of Stone Roses Waterfall. Don’t worry though – he’s not stealing what he could never own – all these tracks are free! Next up is a little-bit beefed up, little bit faster remix of Beck’s classic slacker-hop tune Loser that has
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CRASHGROOVE: Rotten Dancer (2014)
Lead with the shoulders not the hips? Two left feet? Terminal rhythm dodger? You know who you are and it’s time to celebrate since Crashgroove‘s just created your glitchy skankin anthem! It’s called Rotten Dancer and with a name like that and snatches of old movie dialogue samples like, “I – er – told you I was a rotten dancer” – why it’s
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