FATHER FUNK: Party Time EP (2016)

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VARIOUS: Migrant Beat Foundation Vol. 1 (2016)

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FORT KNOX FIVE: Whatcha Gonna Do (2015)

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SCOUR RECORDS: Scoured Cream Vol. 5 (2015)

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BREAKBEAT PARADISE RECORDINGS: Bring Back The Funk EP Vol. 3 (2015)

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FATHER FUNK: Phenomenal Funk EP (2014)

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REGGIE WATTS: Fuck Shit Stack (FATHER FUNK remix)(2014) Video + free download

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SCOUR RECORDS: Freemixed Nuts Vol. 2 (2014)

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SCOUR RECORDS: Scoured Cream Vol. 4 (2014)

Consider the number four for a moment: the number of the great elements – earth, air, fire and water; the number of ‘noble truths’ in the Buddhist philosophy and the number of letters in the Tetragrammaton. Oh and now also the number of the forthcoming volume of Scour Records‘ Scoured Cream series. And its name shall be Scoured Cream Vol. 4 – and the number of tracks thereon shall be eight. Not two or five or seven, but …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

GHETTO FUNK presents: FATHER FUNK (GFP18) (2013)

News has reached the monkey that Father Funk is shortly to splatter the breaks community with the contents of his mighty sack ably assisted by the firm hands of the Ghetto Funk label. On this particular occasion you will find no fewer than four musical emissions. Take 2 comes out swinging and ends up grinding, Jump On It gooses Incredible Bongo Band’s Apache with a strapping great break…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

BOOTY FRUIT: Cherry Bombs Vol. 2 (2014)

It’s about time! The three-track Vol. 2 of Booty Fruit‘s new series, Cherry Bombs will be lobbed into the wild next week and both Roast Beatz and El Bomba are back for a second bite at the – er – cherry with Father Funk completing the trio. RB gets to pop this drop’s – ahem – cherry with the Ripple-ing bounce of Back 2 Funk and is followed by El Bomba who’s in and out and running about with…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SCOUR RECORDS: Freemixed Nuts (2013) Free download

If Fat Harry‘s PR blah is anything to go by, Scour Records and its associated acts and employees wallow permanently in a festering pit of pan-sexual deviance. By way of seasonal celebration they drag an unsuspecting (and for ‘unsuspecting’ read ‘completely unaware’) Leo Sayer, Stevie Wonder, Prince and Dame Shirley Bassey into their sweaty …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SCOUR RECORDS: Scoured Cream Vol. 3 (2013)

Third time’s the charm as Vol. 3 of Scoured Cream wobbles all the way to the bank not to mention, on past form, all the way to the top of Juno’s breakbeat chart, if that hasn’t happened already. It wouldn’t be a Scour release if it began without a glitch though and this one is no exception as J-Sound steps up with the swinging Glitch Up Funk Right which encapsulates the retro wobble flavour running through this release like words through a stick of Cornish rock. The Hong Kong Ping Pong…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

GHETTO FUNK presents: FATHER FUNK (GFPD13)(2013) Free download from 13.2.13

Father Funk‘s name always sounds to me like a slightly testy personification of the greatest musical genre known to man (“Do you think I’m made of funk?”, “Funk doesn’t grow on trees you know”, “I’m not sleeping, I’m just resting my funk” etc. etc.) which, is ironic because his music is the very thing to prompt just such a testy personification to tell the ghetto funk kids to, “Turn that bloody noise down!” And this four tracker is no exception – the …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

TREMENDO: Dirty Funk Vol. 1 (2012)

That the raison d’etre of Vol. 1 of this new series (i.e. Dirty Funk) on Telephunken‘s Tremendo label seems to be to put the funk back into ghetto funk will come as no end of relief to those who were wondering if that ‘f’ word was (with honourable exceptions) becoming as redundant as the ‘funky’ in ‘funky’ house always has been. It opens with Trotter & Telephunken getting all stank with the seventies – a theme continued to equal party effect by Jayl Funk while DJ Soo & Tim Livingstone (egg-)roll the years back to the sixties because they ain’t just checking any funk sources, they’re checking M&S Band funk sources. Next …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

TRU FUNK: Nu Party Breaks Vol. 4 (2012)

Ahhh the party breaks/ funky breaks/ ghetto funk compilation – you’re never quite sure what the content will include these days. Bit of glitch hop? Er – alright, yeah. Drum n bass? Not really my bag, man. Moombahton? No ta. Dubstep? Fuck off. Which is where Tru Funk come in. The missing ‘e’ indicates that we’re all modern ‘n shit but there is actually a clear link with the thang that James Brown instigated. Which might explain why with …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SCOUR RECORDS: Scoured Cream Vol. 1 (2012)

Spinforth‘s Soundcloud Scour is all grown up! Its now a record label as well as a means of saving thousands of lazy-bastard digital djs from mining soundcloud for the diamonds among the shite. This release is a bit like the free Scour really – only it’s not free. Well there’d be little point in starting a label if it was would there? You can expect the Scour traditions to be firmly upheld in terms of …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

TREMENDO Vol. 3: Various (2012)

Er, yeah – so this should’ve been posted last week. If you didn’t know, the man behind the Tremendo label is Spanish ghetto funker Telephunken. That’s Señor Telephunken to you. Or Senor Tremendo. Sounds like a magician – which is apt since his first trick, I mean track, (well – it is his label) is to sample Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name – just in time for its twentieth ...READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

BOOTY FRUIT presents: Homemade Bullets Volume 5
No misfires on this one as Booty Fruit end their Homemade Bullets series with four tracks aimed squarely at getting you shaking your moneymaker. Label heads El Bomba & Hidden Riddim get things rolling by disco trippin with Miss Disco Flex and later…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM