(See Monkeyboxing.com – Top 10 Albums – 2012 HERE)
There was no way it was ever going to be a mere top ‘ten’ this year as it’s been a bumper year for bangers – so here’s fifteen. As always, choices were made using a highly complex selection-algorithm based on how often shit got played on the MB sound system.
1. Hidden Jazz Quartet feat. Omar – High Heels (Lack Of Afro remix)
Massive sixties soul-tinged floor-filling remix that never fails…MORE
2. Bo Saris – She’s On Fire (Original mix)
Sweet Marvin-style soul burner that well deserves it’s scheduled re-release next year…MORE
3. Featurecast feat. Pugs Atomz – Oh La Ha
Fuck wack rappers on Euro-house beats. This is how modern hip-hop should sound…MORE
4. DJ Format feat. The Good People – Marisco
Vintage funky Format cut. Get yo’ ass down the Marisco disco!…MORE
5. Tom Drummond – Rock The Rhythm
Best ‘ghetto funk’ bump all year…MORE
6. Monetrik – Barbecue
I smell something in the air…and it’s Wendy Rene’s hot early Stax tune remixed…MORE
7. Sono Rhizmo – Do Your Stuff
More funky remix action – this time it’s Miami funk king Perk Badger. Yes that really was his name…MORE
8. Bobby Byrd – Try It Again (Morlack remix)
Even more funky remix action…MORE
9. The Grits – I’d Walk A Funky Mile
I’d walk a funky mile too if I could hear this at the end of it. Dirty mod-funk modern classic…MORE
10. Deep Street Soul feat. – This Love Ain’t Big Enough (For The Two Of Us)
DSS rinse Charles Bradley’s funky soul cut with the aid of Shirley Davis…MORE
11. Roger Molls – What’s Your Place
Another flames team-up between France’s hip-hop production nextman Molls and stateside rapper Ptates…MORE
12. T Bird & The Breaks – Somebody Had A Drinking Problem Last Night
Somebody had a drinking problem but they didn’t have a titty-shaking soul problem – as evinced by this…MORE
13. Mr T-Bone – Hard Day’s Night
Dope ska version of the early Beatles classic.
14. Harvey Ktel – Hotstylin
‘Ere come the hot mash-up…MORE
15. Abtomic – Oriza
Soul-soothing latin rerub from Athens’ breakbeat production nextman…MORE