FUNKOSOL: Fresh Beats Vol. 3 (2014)

The Funkosol label continues to join the unlikely dots between funky breakbeats and eighties synth-pop (yes, I’m talking about you, Junskee, with your penchant for a bit of Carol Williams) not to mention what sounds like the co-opting of house-y nineties soul (that’ll be you, Max Revolt) with the third volume of Fresh Beats Vol. 3. Funk Efemzdemov is also on hand with a brace of good-…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

FUNK EFEMDZEMOV: I Got My Mojo Working (2013)

Is it me or has there been one of those periodic dearths of much that is actually funky in the world of funky breaks and ghetto funk recently? No such worries with Balkan badboy Funk Efemdzemov though. That’ll be because he’s got his mojo working. You can tell this by the way he’s called his new EP on Chudy’s Funkosol label I Got My Mojo …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

CHUDY: Let’s Groove On (2013)

Tutti frutti oh Chudy – it’s long past time for the monkey to get a groove on with Let’s Get A Groove On but unfortunately Chudy’s debut LP arrived in the inbox just as the annual MB summer surf trip to France was getting underway. Which is was sheer bad luck as this is a highly serviceable sixteen tracker (sixteen!) of funky breaks with primetime dancefloor material written all over it. The Polish producer has made something of a name …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

FUNKOSOL: Fresh Beats Vol. 2 (2013)

It’s whole lotta bumps time from Chudy‘s Funkosol label already as Fresh Beats Vol. 2 delivers a slew of ghetto funky edits and mash-ups from one of the scene’s newest labels. The Man From DelMonty says ‘yes’ to a Ghetto Funk Icons-style edit of The Spin Doctors’ Two Princes, Robinson Grooves moves your feet with the sort of bass-heavy rework of early nineties style house-y soul that has been a feature of 2013 and Azzar‘s Discogirls is hammering disco boogie camper than a …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

FUNKOSOL: Combination Of Styles EP (2013)

Fresh Beats Vol. 1 has only been out of the bag less than a month and Chudy‘s new label Funkosol is already dropping the Combination Of Styles EP. And if you think that’s a high turnaround, it features Morlack who’s back like that with his third release this month! He’s accompanied by Jayl Funk, Warson and Azzar and, while that might be a combination of artists, the style here is resolutely heavy party breaks with an eighties/ nineties-sampling vibe – a scene niche that Chudy seems to be fast claiming as his (and Funkosol’s) signature. It is true that Ghostface and Ne-Yo’s…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

FUNKOSOL: Fresh Beats Vol. 1 (2013)

The funky-breaks/ ghetto funky axis continues to grow and grow as Tru:Funk regular Chudy launches his own label Funkosol. Funkosol? Sounds a bit like ‘aerosol’! Appropriately enough, this debut release is called Fresh Beats Vol. 1 – and those two things together, my friends, are more than enough for me to imagine Chudy racing around clubs in his producer-apron with a breakbeat duster, spraying a can of ‘Funkosol’ TM into those tired musical corners. The ingredients on …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM