If you’ve been paying attention to the releases coming out of the Melting Records stable in the last couple of years, one name that won’t have escaped your attention is that of Moderator whose 2019 The Mosaics LP pieced together quality instrumental hip-hop from a kaleidoscope of influences. While the label has taken a year’s Covid break, it’s clear that Moderator himself has
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MODERATOR: New album release date and previews
ACEYALONE: ‘Leanin On Slick’ single & album update (2013)
(Full album review HERE) Heads up, Aceyalone’s back next month in fine style with a thirteen track LP, Leanin On Slick which only features Cee-Lo Green, BIONIK and Daniel Merriweather! For those not up to speed with Acey, let’s put it like this: he used to rap in West Coast underground legends Freestyle Fellowship and dropped one of the best freestyle deliveries I ever saw, acapella, on Kevin Fitzgerald’s
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BEASTIE BOYS: Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 – Album release update + ‘Make Some Noise’ single snippet – 2011
Full Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 review and audio HERE.
I slept on this a bit just to make sure the ‘Rolling Stones’ of rap weren’t pulling another fast one on release dates and album names but it does seem fairly certain that the next proper Beastie Boys hip-hop album drops on 3 May this year – due in no small part to the recovery of MCA from throat cancer. Just to clarify, the album is entitled Hot Sauce Committee Part 2
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UGLY DUCKLING: The interview – 2010
U.D. DISCUSS THEIR FORTHCOMING NEW ALBUM, TOURING, DIZZY’S RECORD LABEL, ANDY C’S ENCOUNTER WITH THE HOUNDS OF HELL AND WHY EINSTEIN HAD TO BE CARRIED ONTO THE PLANE IN IRELAND!
Underground legends Ugly Duckling have been delivering consistently excellent, funky, sample-based hip-hop since the early nineties and have a discography totalling no fewer than four studio LPs.
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NEWS: UGLY DUCKLING announce new LP ‘Audacity’
READ Ugly Duckling – Audacity review @ monkeyboxing.com
Ugly Duckl?ing have announced that they are shortly to relea?se their? new album? ?Audacity.? This latest LP has been two years in the making and the band said yesterday in a myspace bulletin that they would soon be adding new album tracks to their myspace site’s music player and that the Won’t Let It Die video is imminent. They referred to themselves in the same bulletin as the “white?st/?nerdi?est/” and most ?old school? group? since? the Nativ?e Tongu?es era, humbly omitting to acknowledge their general dope-ness. Last time the Monkey spoke to DJ Einstein on the Bang For The Buck tour he mumbled something about, “We might do another one” when asked about future album plans. Fans will be relieved that there is no longer any question about this. Audacity will be Ugly Duckling’s fourth full length studio LP – unless you count their debut EP – which you might well – seeing as it had 8 tracks on it. Keep checking back with the monkeyboxing for more!
P.S. Don’t forget to check out Dizzy’s side project Blown Celeb.
P.P.S. Net rumours abound of a 25 November 2008 release date for the LP. Possibly only in Japan. Possibly not. Don’t hold your breath!
