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As heralded by the arrival of single Bounty Hunter On The Rise featuring Kosyne last week, Tom Caruana’s new album, Strange Planet is imminent. Long famed for epic mashup LPs such as his Wu-/Beatles Magical Mystery Chambers and Wu-/Hendrix Black Gold, Caruana is also the brains behind sterling all-original hip-hop releases such as 2017’s equally epic Son Of
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TOM CARUANA: Strange Planet
TOM CARUANA feat. KOSYNE: Bounty Hunter On The Rise
A Tom Caruana release is always a bit special round these parts so I’m sure you’ll be as pleased as the monkey to hear that the man behind mash-up albums like 2011’s epic Wu/ Hendrix Black Gold LP and original dope like 2017’s Son Of Sam Cinder Hill LP has new material in the offing. Enter forthcoming album, Strange Planet, which promises to be a total retro-sci-fi, boom-bap trip if
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TOM CARUANA: Adaptatrap
Recently released, Adaptatrap is the new instrumental album from producer Tom Caruana. MB readers will know Caruana as the man behind such mash-up LP colossi as Black Gold and An Adventure To Pepperland Through Rhyme & Space as well as for various Professor Elemental releases and his live hip-hop project Son Of Sam. Clearly a man who has a
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BOOG BROWN: Boog Brown
While producer Tom Caruana is well-known to MB readers for a string of epic mash-up albums and his live hip-hop band, Son Of Sam, the name of rapper Boog Brown is not one that has previously graced the virtual pages of monkeyboxing. Nevertheless, the Queens-based (by way of Detroit and Atlanta) emcee has an impressive CV including previous work with Apollo Brown and
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PROFESSOR ELEMENTAL: School Of Whimsy + ‘Good Morning’ video
Last time the monkey hopped onto the Professor Elemental omnibus it was for his excellent Apequest album – a glorious steampunk-chap-hop-time-travel-concept adventure as the Prof. desperately tried to find beloved simian butler Geoffrey whilst battling his great-great-great-great-great-great grandson, Gideon. But how do you follow that? One can only imagine Elemental
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SON OF SAM feat. LIFFORD & BLAISE B: Fighting Talk EP + video
Rating: Last year’s debut album from Son Of Sam, Cinder Hill, ended up being MB’s album of the year and deservedly so pairing, as it did, dope all-original (and mostly live-played) beats with an array of legendary emcees. One of the absolute highlights of this LP of highlights though was self-affirmation anthem, Fighting Talk, featuring bars from Blaise B and underpinned by a dubby-
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SON OF SAM feat DENMARK VESSEY: System Animal (2017)
Son Of Sam continue their unchallenged position as purveyors of the dopest hip-hop released this year with yet another single off recent debut long player, Cinder Hill. This time around it’s the single release treatment for the psychedelic jazz-flavoured broken beats of System Animal. This features Denmark Vessey’s antsy delivery of rhymes which are clearly the product of industrial
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SON OF SAM: Come A Long Way (EXTRA P remix)(2017)
As if getting Large Professor on a track as well as Masta Ace wasn’t enough of a score for Son Of Sam on their recent classic Cinder Hill album, they’ve now managed to get one of hip-hop’s most legendary emcee-producers to remix the track he appears on as well. And so it is that we get the Come A Long Way Extra P remix. This replaces the original’s end-of-the-pier Wurlitzer-based beat
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SON OF SAM: Cinder Hill (2017)
Rating: If you’ve been paying attention over the last month and a half you might have noticed how the dog days of August and the start of September turned into an Indian ‘summer of Sam’ with the staggered release of no fewer than three singles in advance of the mighty Cinder Hill – the full-length debut of Son Of Sam. The band,
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PROFESSOR ELEMENTAL: Apequest (2015)
Rating: That most British master of ceremonies is back. I refer of course not to Mr B the so-called ‘gentleman rhymer’ (a mere charlatan, despite his many enthusiastic confederates) but to a true eccentric genius from the days of empire – Professor Elemental. Regular followers of the Professor may recall that our man was careless enough to mislay his friend
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