BULABEATS: The Amazing Sounds Of Bulabeats Records (2016)

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COURTNEY JOHN: Strangers (2016)

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JOHNNYPLUSE: This Will Twist Your Head (2011) Free download

JOHNNYPLUSE: This Will Twist Your Head (2011) Free download
‘Tis the season of giving and here’s JohnnyPluse, boss of Irish label Bulabeats, coming over all Santa-fied here with free fourteen-track LP. If you’re the sort of person who doesn’t have enough breakbeat remixes in your life this’ll twist your head and probably your melons too. JP’s basically remixed his way through the punk and post-punk seventies (Blondie, The Clash and The Jam), the overblown and self-indulgent eighties…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

JOHNNY PLUSE: The Market Street Cut Up (2011) Digital release/ remixes

JOHNNY PLUSE: The Market Street Cut Up (2011) Digital release/ remixes
Not quite the East End gang brawl it sounds like, Johnny Pluse nevertheless brings along enough remixers for this digital re-release of 2009’s The Market Street Cut Up to almost make it worth starting a ruck. There are eleven mixes available from…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

LOVE MUSIC: HATE RACISM/ CULT MUSIC present: Funk Against Fascism (2011)

LOVE MUSIC: HATE RACISM/ CULT MUSIC present: Funk Against Fascism (2011)
There are many reasons to reject fascism in its many forms – the one-dimensional, ‘might is right’ attitude, the staggering lack of logic in its ideological arguments and crucially – the shit music. Wagner and Skrewdriver? Christ! Enter breakbeat deejay Totalcult who (in collaboration with Love Music, Hate Racism has been marshalling the rebel forces
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JOHNNYPLUSE: Load Up On Guns (2011) – Free download

JOHNNYPLUSE: Load Up On Guns (2011) – Free download
JohnnyPluse loads up on Nirvana samples for this cheeky breaks number...
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THE APPLES: Killing (Johnnypluse remix) (2011) – free download

THE APPLES: Killing (Johnnypluse remix) (2011) – free download
In which Irish breaks bandit Johnnypluse gives Israeli scratch-funk outfit The Apples’ jazz-funk version of Rage Against The Machine’s fire-starting anthem a touch of the breaks. Done, one suspects, without the knowledge of either band or their record labels and released for free for your delectation - that really is raging against the machine. How do you like them apples? …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

JOHNNYPLUSE feat. Youth Mass: Drinkin In The Sun (2011) + video

JOHNNYPLUSE feat. Youth Mass: Drinkin In The Sun (2011) + video
Drinking in the sun! It always seems like such a good idea doesn’t it? There you are with your workmates by a river or something, supping a cold pint, full of bonhomie…and then it all goes blurry. You ‘come to’ sunfried, dehydrated, slumped on cardboard boxes in a piss-stinking shop doorway with a half a kebab down your front wondering when it got dark and where everyone is. Johnnypluse seems to have captured…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

JOHNNYPLUSE: Laser, Lasers, We Need More Lasers – 2011 + ‘It’s Some Craic’ free download

JOHNNYPLUSE: Laser, Lasers, We Need More Lasers – 2011 + ‘It’s Some Craic’ free download
Here he is then, back once again like a renegade master – yes – it’s Irish beat assassin JohnnyPluse with new album Lasers, Lasers, We Need More Lasers - or (as it’s almost certainly destined to be known) Lasers. For those who aren’t in the know, JP is a man afflicted by ‘breaks’-ADHD – a little known disorder that I’ve just invented but which perfectly describes his clear conviction that there can never be enough breaks. So much is this the case in fact, that he can frequently be found dropping as many corkers as he convincingly squeeze into single track. Nor is he one to worry overly about (sub(genre) skipping even within a track, the only requirement, it seems, is…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

JOHNNYPLUSE: Skanky Bitch – 2011

JOHNNYPLUSE: Skanky Bitch – 2011
Don’t worry, Irish breaks merchant and Bulabeats label boss Johnnypluse isn't venting about some chick. The title of this, the second single from his forthcoming How Much For The Monkey LP is more a literal description of the track itself, ‘skanky’ in the sense of skankin’; ‘bitch’ conveying the monstrous rhythm section as in, ‘Damn! That bass is nasty!”

JOHNNYPLUSE: Dole Dance – 2011

JOHNNYPLUSE: Dole Dance – 2011
Here’s a track guaranteed to be played at the beggarman’s disco as Irish funky breaks merchant Johnnypluse brings the Dole Dance. JP’s original goes for a nice organic, old school, breakbeat instrumental sound with a big snare that wouldn’t have sounded out of place in an early Coldcut set while remixes come courtesy of Hayz and Bside. Hayz gets his squelchy electro on for those who laugh in the face of anything that even faintly resembles an organic sound while Bside does what I’d have done, liberating the piano-based middle eight to become the basis of the track (rather than it’s interlude) and wobbling up the b-line – hey - it’s…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM