FAB SAMPERI: Moonshine Crossroads

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BEATNIK CITY: The Beat Kicks Vol. 2 (2015)

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BEATNIK CITY: The Beat Kicks Vol. 1 (2015)

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BEATNIK CITY PRESENTS: The Rio District Vol. 1 (Power bossa, Samba & Brazil) (2014)

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FAB SAMPERI: Power Bossa Remixed (2014)

The way it normally goes when an artist’s LP is remixed is that first the artist’s actual LP comes out and then at some point after a respectable time period has elapsed (but typically within a year and usually during the relatively fallow winter period) the remix LP comes out. And typically the remix LP is not quite as good as the original LP. Clearly not one to be encumbered by tradition, Fab Samperi (or perhaps more accurately the Agogo label) put …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

FAB SAMPERI: The Remixes (2013)

There is a lot of good music coming out at the moment – a veritable torrent of it in fact, the likes of which hasn’t been seen since March. Here’s some more – and this time it’s that captain Fab Samperi standing proud in his remix tugboat and effortlessly guiding both Smoove & Turrell and The Soul Session into new waters. S&T’s original is the most high profile of the two and…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

PEDIGREE CUTS: Pedigree Cuts Remixed! (2013)

It’s that Pedigree Cuts lot again. No not the dog grooming service from County Durham – they’re hardly likely to put out a twenty-two strong remix compilation are they? I’m referring to Skeewiff‘s label of course. Twenty-two remixes? Have they got that many? Man, you don’t know the half of it – this is just the best of the recent ones. In fact this …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

THE CAPTAIN presents: PHONOMATT & TOMMYBOY (2013)

This latest release from Breakbeat Paradise finds Italian duo Phonomatt & Tommyboy at the helm under the guidance of The Captain a.k.a. Fab Samperi. It also demonstrates one of the label’s strengths i.e. it’s broad approach to breakbeat music, here manifested in a five stage voyage that, broadly speaking, sails through the brisker end of bass. 5 O’ Clock is a liquid dnb-ish EZ Rollers-esque affair for example, that the The Captain remixes into a more jump-up Aphrodite number and…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SKEEWIFF: Man Turns Animal Remixed (2013)

I was contacted the other day by a concerned member of the public about the lack of Skeewiff coverage on MB and, as any good Roman Emperor knows, it’s best to give the public what they want. Since the monkey is now on the Skeewiff mailing list you’ll no doubt be hearing a lot more about them henceforth – starting with this album remix EP, Man Turns Animal! Remixed. And really, howcould you not be feeling a release that sports more or less the same retro-erotica cover as the LP …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

GHETTO FUNK presents: THE CAPTAIN (GFP013)(2013)

The Captain a.k.a. Italian breaks producer Fab Samperi, is a man known for his wide-ranging voyages across the seas of breakbeat-related music. He seems of late to have been cruising mostly in ghetto funky waters though. Aptly enough, really, since here he is with a party ship of an EP on the Ghetto Funk label. It’s all very modern with wobbly bass and those drop thingies and suchlike and the he’s kept it euphorically hands-in-the-air by sampling Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

NICK PRIDE & THE PIMPTONES: Remixed Feast Of Jazz (2012)

NICK PRIDE & THE PIMPTONES: Remixed Feast Of Jazz (2012)
Jazz-funky outfit Nick Pride & The Pimptones get a largely jazz-breaks makeover of their latest LP Midnight Feast Of Jazz from the likes of Fab Samperi, Diesler, Danny Massure and so on and so forth. Best cuts come in the form of Smoove (of Smoove & Turrell fame) and his drums of death re-version of Waitin So Long, Nick Pride and co themselves with their jazz-chunky Pimptroduction and Renegades Of Jazz’s Midnight Feast Of Jazz rerub which sounds like…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

FAB SAMPERI: Power Bossa - 2011

FAB SAMPERI: Power Bossa - 2011
Fab Samperi a.k.a. The Captain (or ‘Commander Of The Beat’ as he’s known around these parts) follows up flagship single Listen Up with the rest of his fleet of new tunes in the shape of album Power Bossa. ‘Power Bossa’? Well – as the ‘bossa’ bit implies, continuity throughout this LP comes from being rooted in the rhythms of Brazil but as the ‘power’ bit would suggest – percussion is generally rather more substantial than a little latin-jazzy cocktail shimmy and draws on both hip-hop and drum and bass for that extra kick. Talking of hip-hop…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

BASEMENT FREAKS: Get Down Boogie - 2011

BASEMENT FREAKS: Get Down Boogie - 2011
RATING: 5/5
A highlight from Basement Freaks’ recent Something Freaky LP and obvious choice of single, Get Down Boogie is dancefloor gold. Featuring a an infectious organ riff/ bassline double act, a Groove Is In The Heart style break (and tempo), plus (funnily enough) a big female vocal hook exhorting one to ‘Get down to the boogie,’ and referring ad infinitum to, ‘funky grooves,’ it’s a proper hands in the air number. It’s also one of an increasing number of tracks I am mentally filing in the ‘You know you’re going to have to get Serato at some point,’ section of my brain
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CHART – MAR. 2011

CHART – MAR. 2011

=1. (NEW) Dirty Dubsters (feat. Bass Nacho) – Mr Brown
Massive Marley-fied breaks booty.

=1. (NEW) Fab Samperi (feat. Jonnathan Molina) – Listen Up
Massive soul n bass cover of Gaye’s ‘Can I Get A Witness'…MORE
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FAB SAMPERI: Listen Up – 2011

FAB SAMPERI: Listen Up – 2011
RATING: 5/5
Did you know that ‘Fab Samperi’ is actually Italian for ‘dope groove’? It doesn’t really matter too much as you would have instinctively grasped this fact upon hearing the title track on this release. More or less a cover of Marvin Gaye’s Can I Get A Witness it operates via a
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