(See Monkeyboxing.com – Top 10 Albums – 2012 HERE)
As with last year, the idea of selecting merely a top ten tracks of the year was laughable. Here are the twenty biggest – selected (as is traditional) by a complex algorithm based on frequency of play on the MB boombox
1. Phoenix City Allstars feat. Freddie Notes – Satisfaction
You think you’ve seen a dancefloor go off and then you drop this…MORE
2. Deltron 3030 – Pay The Price
Way to stick it to the man. Disguise it as science fiction…MORE
3. The Bas Lexter Ensample – Kilburn Soulshaker
“She’s leakin’, she’s soakin’ wet.” Amazingly, women love to dance to this reggae Ying Yang Twins rerub…MORE
4. Smoove & Suonho – A Little Soul
A little soul, a bit of breaks and a whole lot of Aretha. Smoove and Suonho kill it…MORE
5. Mako & The Hawk – Party Goin’ On
Bristol’s laziest pull off a Wiseguys-style Paul Revere & The Raiders booty…MORE
6. Jimmy Preacher Ellis – Puttin It On Your Mind
Tramp Records dig up the dirty blues-funk…MORE
7. Professor Earl Lett – Green Power (LP version)
Tramp Records dig up the dirty wah-wah funk…MORE
8. Pete Rock & CL Smooth – Ghettos Of The Mind (Freqnik & WDRE remix)
Massive rerub: Pete Rock & CL Smooth over a soul-funk beat…MORE
9. Tosses & Varvez feat. Rayna – Function
The nastiest ghetto funk banger all year…MORE
10. Mr Bird – Cenora Com Noz
Big reggae/ breaks instro cut from Bird…MORE
11. The Worldstylers – Gimme One More (sixth snippet on player)
Big hammond breaks instro cut from Worldstylers…MORE
12. Chrispop – Midnite Hour
Superb reggae/hip-hop booty action from Chrispop
13. Soul Session – My Soul Desire (Fab Samperi remix)
Fab Samperi does the swing breaks business…MORE
14. The Crabs Corporation feat. Jennie Matthias – Hush It
Another huge retro ska cut…MORE
15. Sammy Senior feat. Rayna – Don’t Touch My Heart
Rayna’s second appearance on Sammy Senior’s huge swing breaks beat…MORE
16. Lack Of Afro feat. Wax & Herbal T – P.A.R.T.Y.
LOA, Wax and Herbal T party like it’s 1989…MORE
17. Lebrosk – Bringing The Boom Back
Lebrosk brings the boom back with P.U.T.S. and more horns than a hundred head of cattle…MORE
18. Flying Fish – Oh My Dayz
Flying Fish delivers one of the year’s biggest boom-bap soul cuts…MORE
19. B-Side feat. Kymberley Kennedy – Dope Rider (Second Hand Audio remix)
Second Hand Audio deliver the other…MORE
20. Monetrik – El Carino
The year’s biggest latin cut from well-known latin lover Monetrik…MORE