BREAKBEAT PARADISE RECORDINGS: Bring Back The Funk EP Vol. 2 (2014)

And so it is that Badboe’s label Breakbeat Paradise Recordings brings back the funk (of the nu- and ghetto- varieties) for Vol. 2. By way of showing that this is a drop that means business we open with the return of Funktomas who provides a master-class in how to make ghetto funk with this pumping and downright nasty wobble edit of DJ Kool’s Let Me Clear My Throat. J-Sound continues the wobble with a little ghetto-disco De La Soul before we enter the house of beat-…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

CONTE CRUX: Freak Money EP (2014)

Conte Crux might sound like he’s the maker of bespoke kitchens but he’s actually the maker of bespoke hard n crunchy, uptempo (since there’s nothing on the Freak Money EP under 125 bpm) breaks with a funky twist. Such is the latest sonic location for a man whose musical journey has taken him through the badlands of hard trance from an original old skool jungle embarkation point. The crux of the matter here though (thank you I’m …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

BREAKBEAT PARADISE RECORDINGS: Bring Back The Funk EP (2013)

Bring back the funk EP? Oh what – chicken-scratch guitar and fatback drums? Gospel vox and butter slick basslines? Well – not exactly. Let’s just say this is a party breaks release that leaves the glitch and the grind and the wobble at home and settles for good old-fashioned big-ass party breaks. Well, I say ‘settles for’…that kind of makes it sound like some sort of timid acceptance whereas the four tracks on here firmly grasp the beat by the horns. New boy Conte Crux brings back Public Enemy disco style, Morlack brings back Mobb Deep in what sounds a bit like a Max Sedgley style and Pulpfusion Brings Back The Funk with – my word – is that a bit of Bobby Franklin’s…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM