(See Monkeyboxing.com – Top 10 Tracks – 2012 HERE)
What can I say? 2013 was big for boom-bap hip-hop and retro funk and soul.
N.B. This chart is created from from a highly complex algorithm derived from how often shit gets played on the MB sound system.
1. Deltron 3030 – Deltron Event 2
Despite the odd dodgy skit, the second coming of Deltron 3030 was still epic…MORE
2. Soul Jazz Records presents: New Orleans Funk Vol. 3
The Soul Jazz label continued to unearth swamp funk classics…MORE
3. Aceyalone – Leanin’ On Slick
Acey and producer Bionik provided the funky hip-hop sound of the summer…MORE
4. Lone Ninja – Trapdoors & Secret Passageways
Mysterious underground Brooklyn rapper Lone Ninja made a late bid for LP of the year with beats, martial arts samples and inscrutable rhyming…MORE
5. Don Cavalli – Temperamental
The funky bluesman returned like a lighter, groovier Black Keys…MORE
6. DJ Format & Phill Most Chill – The Foremost
Format & PMC dropped the year’s biggest fast rap attack…MORE
7. Professor Earl Lett – The Story Of Professor Earl Lett
Tramp Records profiled the unsung and very funky Professor…MORE
8. Tramp Records presents: Feeling Nice Vol. 2
Tramp also dug, deeper, harder and rarer than anyone else, period…MORE
9. Rise (prod. Bankrupt Europeans) – The Cornerstone
Bankrupt Euros and Rise dropped another boom-bap slammer…MORE
10. The Excitements – Sometimes Too Much Ain’t Enough
The retro-soul/rnb crew walked it like they talk it with a very convincing second LP…MORE