MONKEYBOXING'S Top Ten Tracks - 2007

Here’s what you should have bought!
(This chart includes re-releases but NOT unreleased tracks)
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1. SANDY GAYE – Watch The Dog (Sister Funk 2 LP)(Jazzman)
Best sister soul cut ever? Giant funk b-line and rawest vocals. Chek.
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2. THE SNUGS – Strugglin’ – Single (Freestyle)
Wicked 60s-style funky soul filtered through super heavy 90s hip hop production.
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3. MONSTER MAKER (SHARKEY & C-RAYZ WALZ) – Pain To The Picture - (Monster Maker LP)(Babygrande)
Production genius Sharkey blows up big time on this future-school cut with C-Rayz on vocal duties.
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4. CAMP LO – 82 Afros – (Black Hollywood LP)(Good Hands)
Retro ghetto slang rhymes? Super pimped guitar loop? Yo! Camp Lo’s back!
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5. THE BAMBOOS feat. – I’ve Got The Feeling – (Rawville LP)(Tru Thoughts)
The kind of dancefloor banger missing from the latest Sharon Jones LP, albeit with male vocals.
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6. BOMBS – Gang Of James – (A Fifth Of Cool J EP)(Bombs)
The mash-up kings ram-raid hip hop, funk and rock for this massive bootyshaker.
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7. PHAROAHE MONCH – Welcome To The Terrordome (Desire LP)(Island)
The Pharoahe re-imagines Public Enemy post 9-11 (kind of) with soul horns, scratches and furious rhymes.
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8. THE WHITE STRIPES – You Don’t Know What Love Is (Icky Thump LP)(XL)
You must have heard this…heavy electric blues stomp of the first order.
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9. THE NEXTMEN feat. Dynamite MC – Blood And Fire – (This Was Supposed To Be The Future LP)(Antidote)
Wha’s gwarnin now? This infectious dancehall banger fool! Yeah alright this was released as a single in '05 but the LP only came out this year, so I'm including it. Smartass.
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10. COMMON feat. Lily Allen – Drivin Me Wild (Finding Forever LP)(Geffen)
There was one gem amid the dodgy loverman rhymes on Finding Forever...this.
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