ORIGINAL GRAVITY RECORDS: Reggae Dynamite Vol. 1 EP (Vinyl 7″)

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MUSTAFA AKBAR: Attracted EP

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DJ ROAST BEATZ: 5 Week Mash-up EP + ‘Let It Go’ feat. MYS DIGGI & ELLA MAE SUAREF

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SECOND HAND AUDIO: Yes, We’re Open EP

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FREAKPOWER: United State EP

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BEAT LE JUICE: So Much Style

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FOLD: Written in The Sky EP (2017)

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LACK JEMMON: Lack Jemmon EP (2017)

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THE FUNK FURY: Like (2016)

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MORLACK: Touched It EP (2016)

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WEECHAZE: Born In Rio EP (2016) Free download

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FUNKY MAMA: Funky Mama EP (2013)

I was briefly called out of the MB office the other day to give advice to a commission about tackling global funk crime and when I came back MB taxi driver ‘Jazzy’ Dave was cowering before the afro’d whirlwind of fury that is MB tea lady Loretta May Drew when she’s got a cob on. Dave apparently had been caught playing Funky Mama‘s new self-titled debut EP. Funky Mama is the sort of noodling sax-driven jazzy funk that gives Dave (a man for whom the 90s acid jazz era is a golden age) a reason for living. Loretta May Drew on the other hand is a …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

TOO MANY T’s: The T.P. EP (2013)

Let’s face it, too much UK hip-hop is all dour posturing and album covers on which grown men pull the facial expressions of a fifteen year old who’s just been bollocked for having his phone out in class. Time to welcome Too Many Ts‘ official studio debut release The TP then, as they firmly plant the flag of old school party hip-hop somewhere at the crossover between Aspects, the crafted foolery of the Beastie Boys and the cartoon rap of Ugly Duckling. The TP is a four-track stack of boom-bap that takes it all back to moving the …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

MORLACK: Boogaloo EP (2012)

“Richie, would you do me a favor and eat my pussy for me, please?” Yeah. That got your attention didn’t it? It’s a sample that certainly got mine when I was listening to the title track at the start of Morlack’s new Boogaloo EP. Boogaloo? Oh what – like the funky mambo/ soul hybrid? Um – no – not exactly. Oh…well perhaps something to do with Electric Boogaloo by Ollie & Jerry then…? Er – no not that either. Oh. Actually Boogaloo is basically (and ironically) a highly P-funky slice of party breaks …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

PULPFUSION: Sex, Drums, Funk & Roll EP (2011) + video

PULPFUSION: Sex, Drums, Funk & Roll EP (2011) + video
orget Swizz Beats – this is all about Swiss beats for it’s from the land of expensive watches and expansive bank accounts that PulpFusion hails. The Sex, Drums Funk & Roll EP finds Mr Terence Thony (there’s an umlaut on the ‘o’ but not on my keyboard) indulging his love of big ass drum breaks, funky samples and rock guitars in quite spectacular fashion. Oh yeah – and sex. This is in the original video though. Essentially a riff on the sexy-aerobics-work-out pioneered by…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

FEATURECAST: Ghetto Funk presents Featurecast EP (2011)

FEATURECAST: Ghetto Funk presents Featurecast EP (2011)
RATING: 5/5
Nowadays I normally wouldn’t bother bigging up a Ghetto Funk label release as it’s difficult to blow your trumpet louder than they blow their own. For starters, there’s the whole name thing. ‘Ghetto funk’ was their idea and it wasn’t the first applied to the artists working in the genre but now it’s the most widely used. Then there’s the fact that in the space of a year, they’ve acquired most of the major players in the genre as part of their ‘crew.’ There’s also the fact that
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