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Matasuna Records deliver once again for Latin soul fans as they re-release another classic on vinyl 7″. In this case, that’ll be the smouldering El Ratón from Panamanian outfit Los Invasores, first released in 1967. It’s one of many covers of the Joe Cuba Sextet classic and also one of the best. Also, as they often do, the
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LOS INVASORES: El Ratón (Vinyl 7″)
SVINKELS: Rapido (DJAR ONE remix)(Ltd. vinyl 7″)
The latest salvo from the Beats House Records camp is this – a vinyl 45 featuring Djar One’s remix of Île de France-based Svinkels’ 2021 cut Rapido. And with a name like that, UK residents of a certain vintage may be disappointed to hear that this isn’t a tribute to Antoine De Caunes and his ‘leetl’ Eenglish chumz.’ What they won’t be disappointed with however is Djar One’s execution
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SKINSHAPE: Sua Alma (Manny Talvez & Alae remix)(Vinyl 7″)
Tanto Tempo-era Bebel Gilberto vibes on this new remix of Skinshape’s D’Alma-featuring Umoja LP track Sua Alma by Manny Talvez & Alae as they lose the jangly guitar and complex percussion of the original and replace it with something rather more languorous. D’Alma’s voice now takes centre-stage over a dreamy organ wafting alongside a minimalist beat. And if that doesn’t
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OMEGAMAN: Rebel Rocker
Given the way Covid has negatively affected the music industry in the past year, you’d expect the system to have made rather more people into a ‘rebel rocker’ than just Ikenna and Omegaman. Or maybe it has and they’re just not singing about it yet. Whatever the truth of the matter, Oz-breaks-maker Omegaman is back with his fat new breakbeat reggae riddim, Rebel Rocker, atop
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THE TEMPTATIONS: Just My Imagination (RHYTHM SCHOLAR Daydream Mix) Free download
The ever-reliable Rhythm Scholar returns with his latest remix – in this instance of The Temptations’ 1971 cut Just My Imagination. The original is a rather wafty, full orchestral affair with drums you can hardly hear that harked back to the band’s smoochy 1960s material rather than the dirty funk of their late 60s/ early 70s psychedelic soul efforts. Mr Scholar knows what’s good though so he
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THE PENDLETONS feat. GIZELLE SMITH: Keep It Working (Jacques Renault remix)
On the one hand, news that the Jacques Renault remix of The Pendletons’ Keep It Working is rather old – it’s been out nearly a month after all. On the other hand, if the PR comes out on the same day as the release that does tend to eliminate any lead time. So it’s just possibly you aren’t aware that New York disco commando Jacques Renault has taken the disco/ soul-jazz crossover Keep It
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JURASSIC 5: What’s Golden (TOY BEATS remix) Free download
It’s been over a month since the last free download on MB but never fear for Toy Beats is here neither balling nor shot-calling but taking it back to What’s Golden. That’s right, we break this extended period of musical privation with TB’s rerub of the biggest track off the mighty Jurassic 5’s 2002 LP Power In Numbers. Now fifteen bpms faster than the original, the track finds Zaakir
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SNOOP DOGG: Drop It Like It’s Hot (RHYTHM SCHOLAR Pastel Pimp remix)
Pastel Pimp remix? I like the sound of that. And what more appropriate title could there be for a remix of Snoop’s planet-sized hit which replaces the original beat with a seventies-sampling frankenstein’s monster of a groove that nabs bits of soundtrack from The Mack, Carwash, Magnum Force and Rollerball? I like the sound of that too. Swirling wah-wah, rolling funk drums, piano
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SNOOP DOGG: Snoop’s Upside Ya Head (BRUNO BORLONE Remix)
Chilean producer Bruno Borlone’s been away for a while but as you’ll hear, he still seems to be doggystylin’ on Edit Row with shit locked down and sewed up on the first of two Snoop Dogg remixes today. This particular one finds one Calvin Broadus Jr. well and truly upside your head on Borlone’s version of – er – Snoop’s Upside Ya Head. Out goes the minimal G-funk fuzz of the original and in
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THE TEMPTATIONS: Ball Of Confusion (BASEMENT FREAKS remix) Free download
Anyone familiar with The Temptations’ funky psych-soul single Ball Of Confusion from 1970 will know two things about it. Firstly, that it provides a lyrical commentary on a society in turmoil and secondly, it is such an epic track it would take balls of steel to remix. What manner of remixer would dare? Well, it seems that someone who doesn’t baulk at such a challenge is a certain George
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