The original release of saxophonist Joe Farrell’s funky jazz-rock epic Upon This Rock from 1974 is around twelve minutes long and takes a good three and a half minutes of ‘fusion’-style farting about before it even gets funky – though when it does get funky, it gets very funky indeed. So much so in fact that Artifacts, Method Man, Common, Redman and Kanye West have all plundered the track for their own beats at
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JOE FARRELL/ ARTIFACTS: Upon This Rock (MR FANTASTIC edit)/ Whassup Now Muthafucka(Vinyl 7″)
BABE RUTH/ ORGANIZED KONFUSION: The Mexican (MR FANTASTIC EDIT)/ Prisoners Of War (2017)
The Originals label continue their essential mission to re-release classic sampled tracks and the tracks that sampled them, one on either side of a classic seven inch vinyl platter. In this case, an extra breaks edit of Babe Ruth’s The Mexican (a mainstay of Kool Herc’s sets at block parties back in the day) – by Mr Fantastic and a Babe Ruth-sampling Prisoners Of War by Organized Konfusion
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PHILL MOST CHILL & MR FANTASTIC: Superfunk Inc./ The Most Fantastic (2013)
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Holy US emcee/ UK producer team-up! It’s dynamic duo Phill Most Chill and Mr Fantastic with more fast rap. Well on one side at least. Side? Yep. Vinyl. Black and the full twelve inches. Sounds rude. A bit like Phill and Fanta’s 120 bpm adventure into b-boy-friendly, blaxploitation car-chase sampling, hip-hop – and it’s the second bit of PMC action already
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TRUCK: Able To Stable/ How That Sound? (2012)
How about some UK boom-bap then? This release finds Truck deliver his lyrical freight over two beats with more crunch than an eighteen-wheeler reversing over your shins. Former Numskullz rapper Rola supplies the first beat for Able To Stable going large on the digi horns as Truck bigs up the pair’s ability to deliver beat and rhyme stability. The second beat for How That Sound? comes courtesy of Mr Fantastic (who also
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MR FANTASTIC feat. RETNA: What U Rhymin’ 4? (2012)
Bristol producer Mr Fantastic’s got a new beat – is there any chance his homie Retna would be available to rhyme on it? You’d have thought so with a jump-up b-boy break and understated wah-wah chops like this but Retna’s more full of excuses than a lazy teenager – he’s turned a bit cynical, started listening to tech-house and minimal and, quite frankly, he ‘don’t wanna do this
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MONKEYBOXING.COM presents: Filthy Rhythm, Dirty Soul Vol. 2 (2012) Free download
The mighty sequel to last year’s wildly successful free monkeyboxing LP finally arrives: the even filthier and even dirtier Filthy Rhythm, Dirty Soul: Vol. 2 which once more features a selection of the biggest FUNK, SOUL, HIP-HOP, PARTY BREAKS, and REGGAE bangers from 2011 plus a number of unbelievably hot exclusives and rarities from the likes of BADBOE & PROSPER, THE FUNK LEAGUE feat. DIAMOND D & SADAT X, KRASH SLAUGHTA
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MR FANTASTIC: Harvey’s Bristol Cream – Album (2011)
Ahhh Bristol! Famous for riots, slavery and talking like a pirate. Not to mention scrumpy, the mere vapour of which can remove paint and for sherry that according to local legend tastes smoother than the local milk – hence the name ‘cream.’ Oh yeah, and quite well known for beats too, usually heard emanating from clouds of herbal smoke. Enter Bristol-based producer Mr Fantastic, a.k.a Justin Harvey
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MR FANTASTIC feat. J Todd of Def Harmonic: All The Critics – 2011
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“All the critics love me ok, all the critics love me, all the critics love me ok…in the United Kingdom,” – runs J Todd’s cheeky/ ironic chorus on All The Critics on Mr Fantastic‘s debut wax release. If cheeky, that’s technically the sort of arrogance that wants taking down a peg or two isn’t it? The thing is…Fantastic’s beat is laid over a classic Meters sample, he’s roped in a quality Yank MC on the mic, and the bass is massive
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