If you felt that the world hadn’t heard from Mr Bird for some time, you’d be right. But if you were to assume that he hadn’t been busy for the last twenty months or so since the pandemic first kicked off, you’d be wrong. For Bird has most definitely been busy – indeed – about ten EPs’ worth of instrumental material busy apparently, the first two of which, Bird Beats Vols. #1 and #2
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MR BIRD: Bird Beats Vols. #001 and #002
MR BIRD feat. BnC (The Disco Vampire): Hit The Top
Not content with remixing the likes of The Herbaliser, Mr Bird has his own hip-hop business out right now. Yep – he’s aiming high in the company of rapper Bruises N Cuts a.k.a BnC a.k.a. the Disco Vampire with new single Hit The Top. This’ll be the second release on the B.I.R.D. label which you’ll be totally unsurprised to hear is Bird’s own label. The track itself turns on a beat which
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MR BIRD feat. MELO-D-MELO: Mind, Body & Soul Remix EP (B.I.R.D. 001)
It’d been a while since the monkey’d heard a chirp out of the Mr Bird camp until his new drop – the Mind, Body & Soul Remix EP flew in the other day. But what has he hatched out for us this time? Well there’s the original version of Mind, Body & Soul for starters which provides ever so slightly afro-tinged funk vibes with Melo D Melo providing a
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SAVAGES Y SUEFO feat. ASHLEY SLATER: Revolution! (2016)
Savages Y Suefo and Ashley Slater pick up where Smoove & Turrell recently left-off tackling the greed of the one per cent with itchy, funky, uptempo heater Revolution. We’ve had enough of all that elite-‘bashing’ though haven’t we? Have we fuck. They don’t need less grief, they need more. Because they’re not getting better, they’re getting worse. Like that business harpy I caught on the
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MR BIRD & GREG BLACKMAN: Save Me (2015) + video
Mr Bird and Greg Blackman shouldn’t need any introduction and are in absolutely no need of a rescue here either as they release the gospel-tinged, soul-jazz highlight of their Lo-Fi Classics LP, Save Me. Bird provides an irresistibly shuffling beat and double bass-driven groove while Blackman employs his full and not inconsiderable
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MR BIRD & GREG BLACKMAN: Lo-Fi Classics (2014)
The imminent arrival of the Lo-Fi Classics album from UK ex-pat funky breaks producer Mr Bird and Greg Blackman (the blue-eyed soul voice of choice for the party breaks and ghetto funk massive!) continues the resurgence of quality British soul that has recently spawned recent LPs by Omar and Smoove & Turrell. While the sound of this drop is nominally closer to the latter of these
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MR BIRD: La Playa (Remixes) (2014)
Danny Massure’s Spring Strut Recordings takes it to the beach with this saucy remix package of La Playa from Lisbon’s funkiest UK ex-pat – Mr Bird. Naturally you get the sexy original of course which opens things up strutting around all oiled up and available. First to have a crack at a remix is Broso who tries it on with a moombah feel and then Stereo 77 has a go too, loosening things up
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MR BIRD: Soul Troopers (2013) Free download
No sooner was news of CocoA’s Get Down On It EP out on Fat Bird sounds the other day than Mr Bird was back in touch with this blaxploitation-tinged freebie Soul Troopers. One imagines that a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, Soul Troopers were the personal guard of a powerful black leader who was prone to forming said troopers into impromptu parallel lines of clapping
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COCOA: Get Down On It EP (2013)
Sticking with the boom bap theme, here’s the Get Down On It EP. Nothing to do with Kool & The Gang of course, this is strickly in the name of hip-hop – courtesy of French production team CocoA whose debut drop this is. Fat breaks, fat as fuck production, scratchy old samples, scratching with scratchy old samples, big old horn and flute loops – it’s all there. No rapping though. Oh wait –
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MR BIRD: Know Your Rodents (2013)
No smelling a rat here as one of the UK’s most proficient sampledelic producers, ex-pat Mr Bird, re-releases his second LP from 2006 Know Your Rodents which is sixteen tracks of the sort of thing that were Ninjatune’s bread and butter back in the day. Put another way, this collection provides the sort of sample-rich instrumental breakbeats that have been tarred with all genre brushes from ‘trip-hop’ to ‘cinematic’. Either way (or indeed, any which way
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