JAYL FUNK feat. TARZAN BROS: Funkin’ Your Soul (2017)

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STEPPIN’ TONES: Lean With An Uppercut (2017)

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JACK & JOINTZ: Beaming Jointly With Delight (Remixes)(2017)

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KOJAKE: Elefunk (2016)

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JAYL FUNK: Easy Summertime (Honkey Phonk 011)(2016)

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VARIOUS: Honkey Phonk 10 (2016)

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JAYL FUNK feat. TARZAN BROS: Shake It (2015)

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GOOD GROOVE presents: JAYL FUNK (GGD14)(2015)

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JAYL FUNK: We Got The Funk (2015)

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TRU FUNK: Tasty Beats Vol. 5 (2014)

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TRU FUNK: Tasty Beats Vol. 1 (2014)

As promised at the end of last year, the Polish funky breaks mafia (a.k.a. the Tru Funk label) return for 2014 with a brand new series – Tasty Beats Vol. 1 – and a truly international smorgasbord of dancefloor snacks. Bosnia’s Funk Efemdzemov provides a refried soul starter, Germany’s Jayl Funk keeps it hot with a bass-poppin’ main, Phunk Sinatra supplies a Greek beat dessert, the UK’s X-Ray Ted arrives with the …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

TRU FUNK: Party Breaks: Essential Selection (2013)

In today’s internet-era, the public’s appetite for interesting ‘stuff’ is voracious and their memory of said ‘stuff’ so short that they’ve practically forgotten whatever it was they gawping/ listening/ mooing at in the second it took them to ‘swim’ from one side of the digital fishbowl to the other. Plus the amount of ‘stuff’ out there keeps increasing exponentially. In this environment, any record company that fails to market effectively is a soon-to-be-defunct record company and marketing in today’s – er – market effectively means putting …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

Various: BBP Remixed (2013)

Apparently May is international ghetto funk/ nufunk/ breaks remix month for here is Badboe‘s heavyweight scene label Breakbeat Paradise with twelve of the best from the BBP library getting a rework. Perhaps unsurprisingly, among those being remixed are some of the remixers. That’ll be Tom Drummond, Jayl Funk and Badboe himself – of course – after all, what kind of man throws a party and then doesn’t turn up to his own event? However not even Boe gets the pleasure of …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

JOHNNYPLUSE: The Book Of Lies Remixed (2013) + The Prowler (Django party mix) Free download

If you’re a producer, it has become somewhat de rigeur of late, to follow the release of ‘the’ album (i.e. yours) with ‘the remix album’ – i.e. by ‘them’. You know, a crew of usually like-minded individuals who, the minute they get their grubby mitts on those stems, throw the owner a sly grin as if to say, ‘this shit is mine now and I’m going to go to town on it’ and then go to town on it. A bit like when that dodgy mechanic, takes your car keys and slams the door extra hard before wheel-spinning your automotive pride and joy onto the …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

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

BASEMENT FREAKS & TIMOTHY WISDOM: Loopback Brother (2012) + ‘Golden Rock’ free download

Loopback Brother finds Basement Freaks and Timothy Wisdom take a brotherly approach to music creation by pooling resources – including TW on the mic. Which presumably makes them ‘loopback brothers’ or something. Anyway, this semblance of sibling seemliness spawns a squelchy, hip-hop-influenced (and hip-hop speed, at 101 bpm) ghetto funker which our men toss out into the ghetto funk fraternity for Aussie Slynk to …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

MR BIRD: Champignon Sound (2012)

The world of breakbeat seems to be awash with downtempo stuff this autumn and here’s some more in the shape of Mr Bird‘s Champignon Sound. Funk and hip-hop aficionados may well recognise the cowbell-toting break on which this rests, although as far as I’m aware it hasn’t previously been combined with minimal synth melancholia and wobbly bass. Ghetto downbeat anyone? On remix duties are Jayl Funk who takes funky liberties with some slap bass, a bit of cocktail sax and some nineties-sounding female vox samples ...READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

JAYL FUNK: Get Down On The Floor (2011)

JAYL FUNK: Get Down On The Floor (2011)
Jayl Funk’s latest, Get Down On The Floor, is a new original funky breaks number that should keep him out of the slammer for the foreseeable future. During it JF aims to get the listener ‘down on the floor’ by making quite free with what sounds like Vernon Burch’s Get Up (all late seventies slap bass and a Cameo-style break) and adding in a bit of contemporary female vocals and some distorted guitar. That ought to work.…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

GRAND SLAM: Lifetimers For The Funk – 2011

GRAND SLAM: Lifetimers For The Funk – 2011
I’ll be the first to admit that if someone told me they’d heard a new single from a German band who’d been around since 1985, I’d be a bit worried. It’s not an issue of nationality, or even longevity, you understand – more the fear that a German band formed in the middle of the devil’s decade sounding like The Scorpions or worse, Munchener Freiheit. Not to worry though, Grand Slam play funk. Also, while they might have formed in ’85, round their way it’s always 1975.…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM