TIPPA IRIE & BLEND MISHKIN: Active

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BLEND MISHKIN feat. AFRICAN SIMBA: Love Cup (2016)

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PROMISES NO PROMISES meets BLEND MISHKIN & ROOTS EVOLUTION: No Skylarking (2016) + ‘Original’ video

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BLEND MISHKIN & ROOTS EVOLUTION feat. SKARRA MUCCI & MANDINKA WARRIOR: Original (2016)

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BLEND MISHKIN & ROOTS EVOLUTION: Survival Of The Fittest (2015)

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BLEND MISHKIN: Red Eye Riddim (2014)

What do you know? There’s a bit more sunshine around and here’s a bit more reggae in the shape of Blend Mishkin and his forthcoming Red Eye Riddim pack. That’ll be one resoundingly uplifting riddim then and no fewer than six versions from: Gappy Ranks, Lady Ann, Dark Angel, Clinton Sly, Mandinka Warrior and Redwan. With titles like Good Sensi, Boom Draw, Sensi and Herbsman…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DJ SHEPDOG: Dub Factor (We Are Roots) (2013) Free download

Never far away when fellow Nice Up! don JStar is busy with booty, here’s the man Shepdog with his Dub Factor (We Are Roots) mashup. The instro is from Blend Mishkin‘s We Are Roots collab with MC Jamalski from back in May while rapper Mad Skillz’ unwittingly (one assumes) provides the rhymes. Ironic really since it’s usually the public who are unwitting that ghostwriter Skillz has provided…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SMOKEY BANDITS: Debut Remixed Vol. 1 (2013)

George Fotiadis and Quasamodo enlist the aid of a wild bunch of remix bandoleros on what the ‘Vol. 1′ tag would indicate is only the first in a collection of remixes of Smokey Bandits‘ debut LP Debut. Buffalo soldier Blend Mishkin dubs up the riddim on dusty reggae cut Smoke From The Attic, Washington bandidos Empresarios increase the beat on A Son’s Lament, and remix rustler…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

BLEND MISHKIN feat. PEPPERY: Foundation Style (2013)

It’s solid summer skankin time on Foundation Style as Athenian producer Blend Mishkin strips it back to some serious bass, drums and keys groundwork and employs vocalist Peppery (a.k.a. Chilli Bongo) to spice up the riddim in order to nice up the dance – literally, in fact, since the release drops on the Nice Up! label. It’s out on seven inch at the end of the month and gets versioned instrumentally on the…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

BLEND MISHKIN feat. MC JAMALSKI: We Are Roots (Remixes) (2013)

Clearly a case of ‘Oh shit – that was good enough to make a bit of money with – what were we thinking with the free download?’ Blend Mishkin‘s hip-hop riddim-powered reggae number featuring MC Jamalski, We Are Roots, now gets the full four-track remix treatment package. And guess what? It’s not just the original that was good enough to make a bit of money with. The ‘exclusive…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

BLEND MISHKIN feat. MC JAMALSKI: We Are Roots (2013) Free download

We Are Roots claims MC Jamalski of himself and producer Blend Mishkin on this latest beat from Mishkin. Tempting as it is to imagine the pair of them as soil covered tubers, Jamalski is, of course, on about their reggae credentials. Which are rather impeccable as this skanking roots-hop package reveals. In fact the only thing that prevented this …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DIRTY DUBSTERS / BLEND MISHKIN: Screechy Dan EP (2011)

DIRTY DUBSTERS / BLEND MISHKIN: Screechy Dan EP (2011)
For their third release Irish Moss bring us the Screechy Dan EP featuring veteran NY toaster Screechy Dan of Kenny Dope-produced Boomin’ In Ya Jeep fame. It’s a six tracker which is a lot of screeching, I think you’ll agree – but is our man Dan up to it? Does a bear shit on the Pope? Of course he is! Actually, in reality it’s two tracks with a brace of remixes apiece. Dirty Dubsters provide ridiculously heavy dub weaponry on Gift Of Dub is a super heavy slice of dub reggae with punishing snares and a tempo switch about halfway through which gets a dnb rerub from Run Tingz Cru and a breaks makeover from DJ Wood. If possible, Athenian dub maestro Blend Mishkin then ups the ante with…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

BASEMENT FREAKS: Makes Me Wanna Scream (2011)

BASEMENT FREAKS: Makes Me Wanna Scream (2011)
What could make Basement Freaks a.k.a. George Fotiadis want to scream? The parlous state of the Greek economy? Possibly – but the cause is more likely to be delight as he is swarmed, Lynx-advert style, by semi-clad females in response to the Prince/ P-funk/ ghetto funk combo vibe of Makes Me Wanna Scream…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DIRTY DUBSTERS: Queens Of Reggae EP – 2011

DIRTY DUBSTERS: Queens Of Reggae EP – 2011
Dirty Dubsters present us with a brace of reggae queens and I don’t mean in the flamboyant-dress-broad-shoulders-adam’s-apple-covers-of-Bob-Marley sense. Nope, more in the none mo’ dutty dancehall ruling, all-woman pairing of Whandah The Dainty Queen and Chantelle Ernandez. Don’t mess! Two royal slices of reggae heat then – first up the hip-hop skank of Need To Leave You where Whandah basically tells her presumptious bloke to ‘step’ and secondly the more soulful/ rnb ting that is One Day. Blend Mishkin goes…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

BLEND MISHKIN: Lyrical Jam – 2011

BLEND MISHKIN: Lyrical Jam – 2011
Blend Mishkin gets to be the debut artist released on the Dirty Dubster’s new label project Irish Moss Records with Lyrical Jam and comes through with some straight-up dub reggae. He brings along Brother Culture on board to deliver the some righteous vocal vibes and damn me if he doesn’t get both Lion Dub and the Dubsters themselves in on remix duties. Liondub runs with the future-dub, space minimalist vote while the Dubsters conform to type in every way and filth up the rhythm with some earthquake-wobbling bass of the variety that…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DIRTY DUBSTERS feat. Bass Nacho: Mr Brown – 2011

DIRTY DUBSTERS feat. Bass Nacho: Mr Brown – 2011
Rating 5/5
The Dirty Swingers EP might have been the ‘Dubsters first release since the mighty Big Tings but this huge Marley-fied booty is its spiritual successor. It’s such an obviously gargantuan club hit and call to the dancefloor that its pull must rival the gravitational effect of a medium-sized planet. Drop this in a club and even the wallflowers will be helplessly…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM