I was only thinking at the weekend that I hadn’t heard from Telephunken‘s Tremendo label and then this EP turned up. With a title like ‘Artist EP 01’ I’m sensing this one is the first in a new artist-focussed series. And I have to say, if it was my label and I was a producer, I reckon I’d be the first artist I’d feature. Apparently, Telephunken thinks the same way because guess who delivers 3 slices of
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TREMENDO BIG RECORDS presents: TELEPHUNKEN Artist EP 01 (2013)
TREMENDO: Dirty Funk Vol. 1 (2012)
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That the raison d’etre of Vol. 1 of this new series on Telephunken‘s Tremendo label seems to be to put the funk back into ghetto funk will come as no end of relief to those who were wondering if that ‘f’ word was (with honourable exceptions) becoming as redundant as the ‘funky’ in ‘funky’ house always has been. Dirty Funk opens with Trotter & Telephunken getting all stank with the
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TRU FUNK: Nu Party Breaks Vol. 4 (2012)
Ahhh the party breaks/ funky breaks/ ghetto funk compilation – you’re never quite sure what the content will include these days. Bit of glitch hop? Er – alright, yeah. Drum n bass? Not really my bag, man. Moombahton? No ta. Dubstep? Fuck off. Which is where Tru Funk come in. The missing ‘e’ indicates that we’re all modern ‘n shit but there is actually a clear link with the thang that James
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TREMENDO Vol. 3: Various (2012)
Er, yeah – so this should’ve been posted last week. If you didn’t know, the man behind the Tremendo label is Spanish ghetto funker Telephunken. That’s Señor Telephunken to you. Or Senor Tremendo. Sounds like a magician – which is apt since his first trick, I mean track, (well – it is his label) is to sample Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name – just in
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TREMENDO Vol. 2: Various (2012)
Telephunken’s Tremendo express rolls into the station for the second time in a manner much like its predecessor. A whopping eight party breaks? Check. One of his own plus some other established big hitters (Badboe, The Breakbeat Junkie and Rory Hoy) and a few young guns – Morlack, DJ Rudd, Bobby C Sound TV and Wood N Soo? Check. Cover the whole gamut of party breaks sub-genres? Check. Best cuts this time are
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TREMENDO Vol. 1: Various (2011)
Telephunken drops the first release on his own label Tremendo here and it’s eight floor fillers from across the ghetto funk/ funky breaks spectrum from the likes of his own bad self, Stickybuds, The Captain, Tom Drummond, Bobby C Sound TV, Bryx, The Breakbeat Junkie and Ursula 1000. Basically you’re supplied with ammunition for virtually every style of breaks dj occasion: you’ve got your
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TELEPHUNKEN: Latin Demon EP (2011)
Alright, so this has been out for a bit – I figured if I went on holiday for two weeks in the middle of August it’d be a slow news fortnight as far as music was concerned but I return to an inbox busier than Gaddafi’s ‘inner compound’. One assumes the phrase ‘Latin Demon’ was intended to convey an olive-skinned Mr Lover Lover type rather than some leathery-winged
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PULPFUSION: Sex, Drums, Funk & Roll EP (2011) + video,
Forget Swizz Beats – this is all about Swiss beats for it’s from the land of expensive watches and expansive bank accounts that PulpFusion hails. The Sex, Drums Funk & Roll EP finds Mr Terence Thony (there’s an umlaut on the ‘o’ but not on my keyboard) indulging his love of big ass drum breaks, funky samples and rock guitars in quite spectacular fashion. Oh yeah – and sex
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BIG M PRESENTS…Vol. 9 – Various Banging Artists No.3 – 2011
Big M goes bigger and harder than ever with this ‘Banging Artists’ drop. The release rightly leads with Funkanomics scarily heavy Cypress Hill rerub of Lick A Shot – the monstrous ghetto funked-up Licky Shot, then Chris Awesome cooks up a fat one – see what I did there? Have a listen you’ll work it out. Telephunken (clearly not contented with having his own four track EP out on Big M currently) has a bash at reworking Edwyn Starr’s heavy soul hitter 25 Miles
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BIG M PRESENTS…Vol. 10: TELEPHUNKEN – All The Mamis EP – 2011 + All The Mamis video
Spanish nu/ghettofunker funker Telephunken gets an EP all to himself on scene label Big M and dials in with four big slices of nu/ghettofunk kicking off with what certain people will insist on calling a ‘titty shaker.’ Mind you calling your track All The Mamis is pretty much asking for that to happen – plus he gets props for managing to shove in a tribute to Del The Funky Homosapien
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