SOME DJ & MR CHOMBEE: It’s Summertime (2011)

SOME DJ & MR CHOMBEE: It's Summertime (2011)
It’s summer time? Not round here it bloody isn’t. This notwithstanding, Some DJ and trusty sidekick Mr Chombee dig out and dust off Mungo Jerry’s notorious drink drive anthem and create the perfect weapon for the ghetto funk DJ who’s got stitched up by the promoter with the wedding disco crowd by mistake. …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

THE APPLES: Killing (Johnnypluse remix) (2011) – free download

THE APPLES: Killing (Johnnypluse remix) (2011) – free download
In which Irish breaks bandit Johnnypluse gives Israeli scratch-funk outfit The Apples’ jazz-funk version of Rage Against The Machine’s fire-starting anthem a touch of the breaks. Done, one suspects, without the knowledge of either band or their record labels and released for free for your delectation - that really is raging against the machine. How do you like them apples? …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

FAKTS ONE: The Chop Shop (2011) – free download

FAKTS ONE: The Chop Shop (2011) – free download
“Where the bloody hell have you been?!” For those not in the know, DJ/ producer Fakts One used to be one third of the Perceptionists – the other two members being Mr Lif and Akrobatik. They made a really good LP called Black Dialogue six years ago shortly after which Fakts One pulled a spectacular disappearing act for reasons much-speculated about. Three years ago, his delayed debut LP Long Range got a well-received released but Fakts remained m.i.a. Until now.…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

KATALYST feat. Kween G: Ready To Drop (2011) + video

KATALYST feat. Kween G: Ready To Drop (2011) + video
Oz-producer Katalyst follows up his sweet downtempo reggae Stephanie McKay-collabo Day Into Night with party-starting, breakbeat-fuelled, Kween G vehicle Ready To Drop. Channelling an old school NY hip-hop vibe without sounding overtly retro and adding a dash of the sort of territory explored recently by the Beastie Boys/ Santigold hook-up Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win, it also samples the Beasties’…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

TOTALCULT: Bomber Inna Dance (2011) + ‘Kwali Tea’ free download

TOTALCULT: Bomber Inna Dance (2011) + ‘Kwali Tea’ free download
Totalcult unloads the goods in time for this weekend’s Notting Hill Carnival in the shape of this three tracker, the contents of which suggest he’s been hanging with types who like the kush and I don’t mean an ancient nation in north-east Africa. This might explain the leisurely minute and a half intro to Handsworth Evolution – watch out once it gets going though, it’s a heavy slice of midtempo breakbeat reggae…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

BLAKTRIX: Some People Never Go Crazy (2011)

BLAKTRIX: Some People Never Go Crazy (2011)
An album with six tracks and an intro? I’ve known longer EPs! Mind you some people are never happy are they? After all, here is one of the UK’s finer rhymers and UK hip-hop’s next-man, Blaktrix with his latest drop Some People Never Go Crazy. Of the best cuts, former single No Drama is the first and it’s here that we find Blaktrix and buddy Ralph Ripshit delivering mellow stoner advice about not getting too hot under the collar about – oohh – anything – pass the rizla there’s a love. …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

BADBOE: One Of Those Days EP (2011)

BADBOE: One Of Those Days EP (2011)
RATING: 5/5
Not one to rest on his laurels while habitual crony Prosper is off doing the big beat/ nufunk thing, original nufunker Badboe only decides he’s going to share a massive skankin hip-hop banger with us all in the shape of One Of Those Days – the lead single of his forthcoming second album. Cheers guv – don’t mind if I do.…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

PROSPER & RORY HOY: Get Dat Boogie Chase EP (2011)

PROSPER & RORY HOY: Get Dat Boogie Chase EP (2011)
I think this might just be my favourite Big M release since Vol 8 of Big M Productions (the one with Breakbeat Junkie & DJPs massive Drop Down on it) came out. In a large part, it has to be said, this is because of the cumbia stylings of Todo Es Nuevo for, as any MB regulars will know, the monkey’s all over a big latin breaks effort. …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

LACK OF AFRO: This Time (2011) + 'A Time For' video

LACK OF AFRO: This Time (2011) + A Time For video
t seems Lack Of Afro’s recent single was a spot-on indicator of what to expect from Adam Gibbons on his new full length effort LP which supplies things catering for all needs broadly soul/ funky from the coffee-table to the dancefloor – or from the atmospheric to the banging if you’re sensitive to the term ‘coffee table’ – some people are you know – it’s all the espresso – makes them uptight. Anyway – let’s see how he did on his ‘difficult third’ album.…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

JINX IN DUB: Bass Bunker Dubz EP (2011)

JINX IN DUB: Bass Bunker Dubz EP (2011)
Dublin’s Dirty Dubsters recently signed Jinx In Dub to their label and it’s not hard to see why with this four track EP which (bass) drops four cuts in various dub styles. Warrior Charged rocks it traditional dub reggae style, Shoot 2 Kill opts for a more stuttery beat and Havoc gets it’s twenty first century on by lathering on the bass wobble. It’s opener Traffic Jammin that’s likely to cause the most damage on dancefloors though with a heavy dancehall skank…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

EVIDENCE: Cats & Dogs (2011) LP details + preview mix free download + ‘Same Folks’ feat. Fashawn video

EVIDENCE: Cats & Dogs (2011) LP details + preview mix free download + ‘Same Folks’ feat. Fashawn video
Once upon a time in hip-hop a group called Dilated Peoples worked the angles to popular underground acclaim. This would be back when record shops were so thick with manboys wearing empty Eastpak rucksacks that it almost made you want to stop buying vinyl and go home and illegally download mp3s. By the time Eastpak rucksack sales had past their peak, Dilated’s star had begun to wane and I had trouble finding a record shop …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

MASH & MUNKEE: Superbad 7″ (2011)

MASH & MUNKEE: Superbad (2011)
With a name like that it was never going to be acoustic folk was it? Mind you with a name like that they’d better have captured the spirit of James Brown lest they forever be regarded as supershit. Fear not then, for German b-boy breaks merchants Mash & Munkee continue to ensure that nothing but quality leaves the funk factory as A-side Superbad bursts out of the speakers in time-honoured-chase-theme-horns-and-wah-wah fashion and proceeds to leave a trail of sparks through the city streets of San Francisco circa 1972…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

TELEPHUNKEN: Latin Demon EP (2011)

TELEPHUNKEN: Latin Demon EP (2011)
Alright, so this has been out for a bit – I figured if I went on holiday for two weeks in the middle of August it’d be a slow news fortnight as far as music was concerned but I return to an inbox busier than Gaddafi’s ‘inner compound’. One assumes the phrase ‘Latin Demon’ was intended to convey an olive-skinned Mr Lover Lover type rather than some leathery-winged denizen of hell obsessed with the difference between the dative and the locative in a dead language (“What's this, then? "Romanes eunt domus"?”)…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Hip To The Jive (2011)

RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Hip To The Jive (2011)
Here he is look – the only man to have done anything original (and good) with jazz and breakbeats since A Tribe Called Quest pretty much. That’ll be Renegades Of Jazz then – a.k.a. David Hanke – a jazz renegade if ever there was one. Put aside your notions of shitty old acid jazz and pretentious chin-stroky tossers – this isn’t anything like that kind of pretentious noodle wank …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

PULPFUSION: Sex, Drums, Funk & Roll EP (2011) + video

PULPFUSION: Sex, Drums, Funk & Roll EP (2011) + video
orget Swizz Beats – this is all about Swiss beats for it’s from the land of expensive watches and expansive bank accounts that PulpFusion hails. The Sex, Drums Funk & Roll EP finds Mr Terence Thony (there’s an umlaut on the ‘o’ but not on my keyboard) indulging his love of big ass drum breaks, funky samples and rock guitars in quite spectacular fashion. Oh yeah – and sex. This is in the original video though. Essentially a riff on the sexy-aerobics-work-out pioneered by…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

PROTOMAN: Gucci Gucci (Hipsters remix) (2011) – free download + video

PROTOMAN: Gucci Gucci (Hipsters remix) (2011) – free download + video
Only the other day I was wondering what had happened to ‘Gunshine State’ rapper (and former Rawkus signee) Protoman when onto my virtual doormat drops this remix of him jumping on Kreayshawn’s Gucci Gucci beat. However, where Kreayshawn had a crack at ‘basic bitches’, Protoman gives a lyrical shoeing to hipsters and their penchant for irony. Serve them right too with their skinny jeans, stupid wispy moustaches and ‘art fag’ hair.…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

JOHNNYPLUSE feat. Youth Mass: Drinkin In The Sun (2011) + video

JOHNNYPLUSE feat. Youth Mass: Drinkin In The Sun (2011) + video
Drinking in the sun! It always seems like such a good idea doesn’t it? There you are with your workmates by a river or something, supping a cold pint, full of bonhomie…and then it all goes blurry. You ‘come to’ sunfried, dehydrated, slumped on cardboard boxes in a piss-stinking shop doorway with a half a kebab down your front wondering when it got dark and where everyone is. Johnnypluse seems to have captured…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

ROGER MOLLS: ‘The Listener’ video + ‘The Man With Dusty Fingers’ mixtape – Free download(2011)

ROGER MOLLS: ‘The Listener’ video + ‘The Man With Dusty Fingers’ mixtape – Free download(2011)
Footage of a vaguely Amelie-ish chick wandering through a night-time cityscape, eyes closed, headphones on, intercut with a shadowy baseball-hatted figure hitting the keys and grooving to his own sound? And well he might since this must be the vid (see below) for French beatsmith Roger Molls instrumental The Listener from last year’s superb Rewind LP …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

TOM CARUANA presents: ‘Black Gold’ Wu-Tang vs. Jimi Hendrix – Free download album (2011)

TOM CARUANA presents: ‘Black Gold’ Wu-Tang vs. Jimi Hendrix – Free download album (2011) + instrumentals
Bloody hell! Get your skates on it’s a legal minefield out there on this one as Tom Caruana continues his mash-up series with a Jimi/ Wu soundclash. According to TC, “it features 2 exclusive tracks from Wu Tang affiliates Gab Gotcha & Young Dirty Bastard (ODBs son)…has taken around 6 months to create and features much more original material than the Beatles album (there are only 2 samples from cover versions).” He continues…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

Chart - August 2011

Chart - August 2011
(NEW) 1. Totalcult – Cyan Rock Steady

Massive hip-hop skank and MB’s favourite Totalcult track to date…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM