DUSTY TONEZ: Get Down (2015)

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DUSTY TONEZ: Shake Your Booty (PHIBES remix) (2014) Free download

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DUSTY TONEZ: Shake Ya Booty (2014)

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DUSTY TONEZ: Life’s A Groove (2014)

I don’t know about you but my life’s a grind at the moment, things ain’t so for one of the Irish bass n breaks massive’s prime movers though. No – life’s a bloody groove for Dusty Tonez, it seems. Enter perhaps his most accomplished work to date – the Life’s A Groove EP, consisting of four pumping bass grooves in ghetto g-funk flavour (Fear – which airs a 2Pac and Outlawz ‘pella), ghetto reggae flavour…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DUSTY TONEZ: It’s Like That (2013)

The latest from Bulabeats’ Dusty Tonez provides a serviceable ghetto funk splicing of the Isley Brothers’ It’s Your Thing and Memphis Bleek’s Like That on this EP’s title track. Over on the digital flip (which is to say the other track) is a Dre and DMX-acapella toting slice of house-tinged ghetto-funky big beat that’ll make them ‘bounce like a …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DUSTY TONEZ: The Funky Monkey EP (2013)

“Brass monkey – that funky monkey” rapped the Beastie Boys two and a half decades ago – incidentally – talking of funky monkeys (like we weren’t), here’s Dusty Tonez with his latest 4 tracker the Funky Monkey EP aiming to start the party by ghetto funking up anything he can get his hands on from Buffalo Springfield to Snoop Dogg, Sly & The Family Stone to Yung Wun and Tom…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DUSTY TONEZ: Click Click Boo Ya EP (2013)

In the world of sample-based breaks some people will stop at nothing and some will stoop to anything. With a wry smile on his face (not to mention one hand on the Glock and the other clasping a glowstick), Dusty Tonez manages to have one foot in both camps on his Click Click Boo Yaa EP whereon he samples anything from Cypress Hill to Gabrielle with Nate Dogg, Basement Jaxx and White Town somewhere in between. It’s an approach that works rather well – particularly on …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DUSTY TONEZ: My Way Or The Highway EP (2013)

Two slabs of punchy synth-powered big beat style breaks for you here on Dusty Tonez‘ debut release on RamSkank‘s label RamSkank Records – plus a remix apiece from Rory Hoy and RamSkank himself. The title track will be of particular interest to those with a guilty secret love of Yank nu-metal adorned as it is with part of a well-known Red Hot Pipe And Slippers riff and the hook from woeful nu-metallers Limp Bizkit’s My Way – the latter of which, amazingly, does it little harm. Catch The …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DUSTY TONEZ: Feel Good Nation EP (2012) Free download

Bulabeats signing Dusty Tonez is feeling good. Fuck knows why. Lack of sunlight, freezing bloody temperatures, massive shop queues, Christmas pop tunes endlessly repeated, sexy women got up as skimpily-dressed elves…oh – wait – that last one’s ok. Oh right – that’s it – his seasonal cheer must stem from the fact that he is delivering a free EP of judder funk to the masses. Pounding breaks, hip-…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

VARIOUS: Bulabeats Four Zero (BB0040) (2012)

VARIOUS: Bulabeats Four Zero (BB0040) (2012)
For many, reaching forty means a flabby gut, spending money you don’t have on a leather jacket and sports car you don’t need and staring at life’s traffic lights wondering where and went it all went so wrong. Not Bulabeats though. Nope, they’re hitting the dancefloor with a ten-track blast of dirty-ass bass and breaks. But maybe that’s because this is a celebration of Bulabeats’ fortieth …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

JOHNNY PLUSE: The Market Street Cut Up (2011) Digital release/ remixes

JOHNNY PLUSE: The Market Street Cut Up (2011) Digital release/ remixes
Not quite the East End gang brawl it sounds like, Johnny Pluse nevertheless brings along enough remixers for this digital re-release of 2009’s The Market Street Cut Up to almost make it worth starting a ruck. There are eleven mixes available from…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DUSTY TONEZ: Ghetto Maestro (2011)

DUSTY TONEZ: Ghetto Maestro (2011)
New ghetto funk bump from Dusty Tonez - it's all about the wobble. And the ragga. And the electro. And the funk.…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

DUSTY TONEZ: Red Hot Chili Banger (2011) – Free download

DUSTY TONEZ: Red Hot Chili Banger (2011) – Free download
Dusty Tonez works his (blood, sugar, sex) magic and gets all freaky in a ghetto funk styley by staging a raid on the Red Hot Pipe And Slippers back catalogue. Fed into the juicer is the guitar from Can’t Stop, the acapella from Give It Away, some heavy breaks to supply a bit of hump de bump and bass wobbly enough to give you a…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DUSTY TONEZ: Beware Of The Breaks EP (2011)

DUSTY TONEZ: Beware Of The Breaks EP (2011) + 'Touch The Sky Butterfly' - Free download
I think this should probably have been called the ‘beware of the house music influences EP,’ for Mr Tonez is certainly flirting with the dark side here with all those synth swells on first track Donald Funk. Luckily he remembered to pack some breaks and a wobbly bassline to bring the twenty-first century to what sounded dangerously close to a breaks version of something by The Beloved. Elsewhere JB, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers get a proper…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DUSTY TONEZ: Steady As She Breaks – 2011

DUSTY TONEZ: Steady As She Breaks – 2011
Dusty Tonez keeps it minimal on Steady As She Breaks navigating this breakbeat banger through dirty guitar chops, a wobbly bassline and electro percussion. Boss of Irish label Bulabeats, JohnnyPluse, is first (remix) mate to Tonez’ commander of the beat and takes the helm with a light touch – if, indeed…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM