TRU FUNK: Tasty Beats Vol. 5 (2014)

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DJ KID STRETCH: Get It On The Floor (2014)

Get It On The Floor? Whatever could DJ Kid Stretch be referring to on his new EP? Drugs? Sex? The experience of having your fresh fat laces trodden on by some blundering elephant with two left feet? Then again, perhaps it’s not the answer to a question. Maybe ‘it’ is your ass and he’s issuing a firm command. Cheeky. One thing is certain, either the disco breaks original or one of the disco breaks remixes (courtesy of Badboe, Robinson Grooves and Jimi Needles) on this will prompt the ladies to …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

TRU FUNK: Party Breaks: Essential Selection (2013)

In today’s internet-era, the public’s appetite for interesting ‘stuff’ is voracious and their memory of said ‘stuff’ so short that they’ve practically forgotten whatever it was they gawping/ listening/ mooing at in the second it took them to ‘swim’ from one side of the digital fishbowl to the other. Plus the amount of ‘stuff’ out there keeps increasing exponentially. In this environment, any record company that fails to market effectively is a soon-to-be-defunct record company and marketing in today’s – er – market effectively means putting …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

CHUDY: See You On The Floor (2013)

The latest from the Tru:Funk label is this drop See You On The Floor . from Tru:Funk crew member Chudy. On it he neatly sidesteps the breaks/ ghetto funk cheese trap which is no mean feat given that he delivers four super disco breakin numbers with an eighties and even nineties (Keep The Beat for example) flavour at times. His four tracks come in the company of five remixes from…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

WACK RECORDS 11: Smov/ DJ Kid Stretch/ Prosper/ The Breakbeat Junkie/ DJP(2011)

WACK RECORDS 11: Smov/ DJ Kid Stretch/ Prosper/ The Breakbeat Junkie/ DJP(2011)
Four new disco biscuits from Smoove and friends...…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

MANMADE Feature Funk Vol. 5

MANMADE Feature Funk Vol. 5
Fifth volume from the Manmade Recordings crew and once again it’s label bosses CMC & Silenta who produce the best cut with the pneumatic genre-splicing monster Rock Da Riddim. Thankful as I am that the 90s big beat stylings of Vol. 4 have been left behind I’m not convinced that DJ Kid Stretch’s speedy breaks-plus-Moose-T loop is the way forward. Neither am I sure about Funkanomics’ On The Floor which, despite containing a sample of Tina Turner’s Funkier Than A Mosquito’s Tweeter comes on like a disco-Tyrannosaurus or Mr Fudge’s Damian Marley-fied Boot All Night - though my baby daughter had a bit of a boogie to that one so it can’t be all bad.…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM