LEBROSK: 'I Know You Got Ooh Wee' – free download

LEBROSK: I Know You Got Ooh Wee – free download
London-based Lebrosk goes public with this mashup of his that he’s just refixed - for which read it’s got a new 2 bar intro to facilitate beat-matching. Absolutely no prizes for working out the constituent parts - if you don’t know you must have a soul deficit. Lebrosk has a monthly show on Ramp FM dropping funky breaks and bootlegs and put out his first official release in the form of the electro/ breaks- tinged The Doll That Made The Dice Behave last year in a collabo with Rory Hoy as Pale The Kid. Download I Know You Got Ooh Wee and check out his Pale The Kid track below:…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

FOUL MOUTH JERK: ‘The Oldest Trick In The Book’ LP + ‘Back Up On The Scene’ (feat Artifacts) free download + video

FOUL MOUTH JERK: ‘The Oldest Trick In The Book’ LP + ‘Back Up On The Scene’ (feat Artifacts) free download + video
What do you mean you ain’t heard of Foul Mouth Jerk? Never mind – the North Carolina rapper’s fifth (yeah he’s been around a while – “Straight crazy, born-loser like a AIDS baby…Spitting since the late 80s”) album dropped recently and the fact is – you should have been all over that shit already. Clearly a man who understands that hip-hop does not mean rapping over Euro-house beats, Jerk keeps his beats fat and his rhymes gully. Just check out the dirty funk-soul ruffness of cuts like Save Ya Breath.…DOWNLOAD/ LISTEN/ READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

SMOOVE & TURRELL: 'Electric Audio' LP due April 2011 + listen to album preview

SMOOVE & TURRELL: 'Electric Audio' LP due April 2011 + listen to album preview
Here we are then – it seems that Berry Geordie and Smokey Turrell will be back in April with a brand-new, full-length follow-up to last year’s superb effort Antique Soul. It’s business as usual in the sense that the pair running the gamut of all things (northern) soulful and funky – although it has to be said that production-wise things are sounding somewhat more – uh – smooth and ambience-wise a bit more ladies’ night than last time around. The sly dogs. Check out…LISTEN/ READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

JSTAR: (Still)Passin’ Me By – Free download + Citizen Sound Wa-Do-Dub remix news

JSTAR: (Still)Passin’ Me By – Free download + Citizen Sound Wa-Do-Dub remix news
Heads up DJs! Just in time for New Year’s Eve – reggae mash-up king JStar has put up his massive Pharcyde vs Marcia Aitken booty from 2005’s Most Wanted Vol. 1 as a full .aiff download and you can cop that hugeness below. Also, the big man has just done a rude rerub of Citizen Sound’s Wa Do Dub too…inna dnb stylee – clear evidence (if it were needed) of the deleterious effects of hanging around with junglists…DOWNLOAD/ READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

HERMA PUMA – Jollys (Ariya Afrobeat Arkestra remix)

HERMA PUMA – Jollys (Ariya Afrobeat Arkestra remix)
Christmas is the season that just keeps on giving isn’t it? And here we are again with the week’s third stocking filler free download. This time it’s an afrobeat interpretation of Herma Puma’s blissed out hip-hop instro from their dope debut album Synchromystic (recently featured in the…DOWNLOAD/ READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

DUSK ONE: The Brady Effect EP - 2010 – Free download

DUSK ONE: The Brady Effect EP - 2010 – Free download
Stocking filler number two this week as stateside rapper Dusk One and producer Fisch Loops drop this fresh little 3-tracker which comes on a bit like Foreign Legion’s first album. Very crisp old school beats and rhymes though (despite the fact that Dusk hails from Salt Lake City) no insights into the benefits of polygamy. Dusk bigs up…DOWNLOAD/ READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

FUNKANOMICS: Dirty Loud vs. Lord Tariq - Apes From Uptown (Funkanomics Blowup) free download + Lick A Shot remix

FUNKANOMICS: Dirty Loud vs. Lord Tariq - Apes From Uptown (Funkanomics Blowup) free download + Lick A Shot remix
Nu/ ghetto-funkers Funkanomics offer up a dirty breakbeat stocking filler for you in the shape of this Apes From Uptownrefix. They’ve been around for a few years now and responsible for some big old bombs out of the Manmade Recordings stable including their big Stevie Wonder-hijacking Superstation off the recent Gold Edition EP. You might also want to check out their synth-y/ wobble-fest remix of Cypress Hill’s Lick A Shot see below.
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KIND & KINKY ZOO: Party Chez Le Marquis/ Kind Regards – 2010

KIND & KINKY ZOO: Party Chez Le Marquis/ Kind Regards – 2010
Weird name; straight up funk attack. Mocambo signings Kind & Kinky Zoo set out to prove it’s not just quality chocolate, pricey watches and massive anonymous bank accounts that you get in Switzerland. The A-side is all about the party and (obviously – because this is Switzerland) it’s not just any old party. No! It’s a party round the Marquis’s of course and what a funky old bastard he is.
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MONKEYBOXING.COM top ten tracks 2010

MONKEYBOXING.COM top ten tracks 2010
A huge hip-hop tune from Aldo Vanucci, Featurecast and Tha ‘Liks, some big funk bangers from the likes of Funkshone and the Bamboos but it’s definitely been a reggae kind of year. Here’s some you should have got your hands on in 2010……READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

EPMD: UK show – February 2011 – London, HMV Forum

EPMD: UK show – February 2011 – London, HMV Forum
Is it possible to pack in some feeble EPMD-referencing wordplay whilst commenting on this rare rampage in the big smoke at London’s HMV Forum on 19 February next year? Actually, I might already have started. One suspects Errick and Parrish may not be making as many dollars as they’d currently like given that the last time they gigged in London was ten years ago. Not that I’m suggesting they’re gold diggers or anything – I would imagine things’ll be business as usual for the boys and that they’ll let the funk flow. Man – it’s like…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Get A Wiggle On – Release details

RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Get A Wiggle On – Release details
Renegades Of Jazz (a.k.a. breakbeat duo Mash & Munkee’s David Hanke) once again tempers his perverted love for jazz scat-singing with a connoisseur’s choice of breakbeat and uplifting b-line. So good are they in fact that, once again, I found myself overlooking what would otherwise be some frankly unforgivable ‘do-be-doing.’ Not that ‘do-be-doing’ is ever forgivable of course, but couple some crisp percussion, ‘Animal’-off-The Muppets-style drum fills with an eminently hummable bass groove and you might even find yourself going over to the dark side. And when I say ‘dark side,’ …LISTEN/ READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

CAPITOL 1212: Good Feelin (feat. Mike G, MCM, Cadence, Dizzy Dustin & DJ Sheep)/ Fly Times (feat. Time Machine & Danny Diamond)

: CAPITOL 1212: Good Feelin (feat. Mike G, MCM, Cadence, Dizzy Dustin & DJ Sheep)/ Fly Times (feat. Time Machine & Danny Diamond) – 2010
RATING: 5/5
Massive breaks, sweet funk loop and more quality Yank MCs than James Brown could shake his lickin’ stick at? Yes, Capitol 1212 join the few who stand firm on the battered island of true-school hip-hop against the tidal waves of crap that daily batter its shores. They follow up their hip-hop/ dancehall crossover Invade The Carnival with Good Feelin and continue a tradition of UK producers crafting classic beats for U.S. MCs which in recent years has yielded some of the best hip-hop around
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BLAKTRIX feat RALPH RIPSHIT: No Drama

BLAKTRIX feat RALPH RIPSHIT: No Drama
Gotta represent for this cut featuring two of the monkey’s favourite UK rappers. No Drama (apparently) finds Blaktrix effortlessly extolling effortlessness in a way that suggests he might have just had a ‘special’ cigarette. It’s a notion not entirely dispelled by a chorus which runs thus: “Time to break out the papers, inhale the vapours…Time to grind up the trees and blaze a few acres.” And who should he invite to join him on this lazy, hazy journey up the river of meandering thought but the man with the best name in UK hip-hop, Ralph Ripsh!t – who…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

THE DIPLOMATS OF SOLID SOUND/ RAY HARRIS & THE FUSION EXPERIENCE: Let It Snow/ Soulful Christmas

THE DIPLOMATS OF SOLID SOUND/ RAY HARRIS & THE FUSION EXPERIENCE: Let It Snow/ Soulful Christmas
Ah yes – the season of Yule, a time for family arguments, Christmas Eve punch-ups outside your local (“Leave it Steve, ‘E’s not worth it!”) and increasingly desperate ways to get rid of all the leftover turkey. And, of course the dubious ‘pleasure’ of the festive single. Tired of Slade, Wham and that fucking song by Wizzard? Italian funk label Record Kicks might have the answer as…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM