LATEST MONKEYBOXING.COM articles...week commencing 13 Oct 2008

LATEST MONKEYBOXING.COM articles...week commencing 13 Oct 2008
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PRESS RELEASE: PARKER - To Eternity LP - Released 18 August 2008

PRESS RELEASE: PARKER - To Eternity LP - Released 18 August 2008

READ MONKEYBOXING LP REVIEW OF PARKER - TO ETERNITY

Bristolian deep beats producer raises the bar for sample-based soul with his debut on Rocstar Recordings.
Parker’s eagerly anticipated debut album To Eternity is almost upon us, and it makes it crystal clear why he’s become the name to watch in 2008. Driven by a killer mix of fiercely funky instrumentals and vocal tracks it gently curves from hip hop to jazz, fiery soul, and straight up dance floor bangers with ease. Tempos rise and fall as genres are seamlessly unified by this DJ turned producer’s love of mercilessly chopped and edited drum programming, lush orchestration, breathless samples, and blinding vocals. Its mix of vintage sounds, nu-school production, guest vocalists and driving grooves has marked the Bristol native out as a rising star in the UK beats scene.

TRACKLIST & CREDITS:
1. You Will Return
2. Old Time Sermon
3. Calling You
4. Nothing But The Truth (feat. Sarah Scott)
5. Western Soul (feat. Rasco)
6. Dig 'n' Swing (feat. Laura Collins)
7. Lost
8. Against The Grain
9. Sugar Coated (feat. Sarah Scott)
10. Penny Dreadful
11. Back Again (feat. Sarah Scot)
12. Say Goodnight (feat. Conrad Watts)
13. Unhooked (feat. Aisling Kelly)
14. To Eternity
15. It's Time

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Parker - Myspace
Rocstar Recordings - Myspace
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PARKER feat. RASCO – Western Soul – 2008 – Single review

PARKER feat. RASCO – Western Soul – 2008 – Single review
RATING: 4/5
DJ Parker proves once again that Bristol hip-hop is a force to be reckoned as he drops an ode to that very sound with the help of another kind of West-dwelling resident (and I don’t mean Knowle West) in the form of rapper Rasco from San Francisco’s Cali Agents. An acoustic guitar loop unfurls itself from a warm bass groove as Rasco and the horns battle it out all the way to the end of this mid-tempo banger. Will make you think of the sun even if you ain’t gonna see it for the next two months.
Out now on Leisure Recordings.
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