LACK OF AFRO feat. KENNZO: Bad Ass Self

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KIND & KINKY ZOO: Wonder Zebra (2016)

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LACK OF AFRO: I Got The Rhythm feat. ELLIOTT COLE/ All My Love feat. JULIET ASHBY (2016)

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LACK OF AFRO feat. JACK TYSON-CHARLES: Freedom (2014)

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ALEXIA COLEY: Drive Me Wild (2014)

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LACK OF AFRO: Music For Adverts (2014)

Adam Gibbons, a.k.a. Lack Of Afro is back, lean and mean for ’14 with a fourth studio LP. And while his DNA may have cruelly denied him the chance to ever sport a halo of kinked black hair, the twelve track Music For Adverts nevertheless reveals again that here is a man who possesses a sizeable amount of funk and soul. Not to mention a little disco, some hip-hop, a touch of sixties rnb and a dash of lounge. So what’s new? More vocal tracks than ever before, that’s what – including no fewer than five tracks featuring Jack Tyson-Charles. Interestingly, not …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

LACK OF AFRO (feat. JACK TYSON-CHARLES): Recipe For Love (2013)

Functioning as an outrider for the next Lack Of Afro studio LP Music For Adverts due early-March is this easy-on-the-ear single. The jangly, northern soul-inflected Recipe For Love also comes complete with a winningly catchy vocal and lyrics from one Jack Tyson-Charles, son of one Craig Charles, host of the world’s biggest funk and soul radio show on BBC Radio 6. If only, between them, LOA, JTC and Freestyle Records can just think of some way …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

LACK OF AFRO feat. WAX & HERBAL T: P.A.R.T.Y. (2013) + video

If your record is a slam dunk of an uptempo, b-boy breakin’ banger on which former Def Jam rapper Wax and his twin brother Herbal T bring their game and it’s going to get an ad synch with any company – it might as well be Adidas. Either that or Puma anyway. Here it’s the former, as slab of funk-based insanity PARTY (the hip-hop highlight of Lack Of Afro‘s 2011 LP This Time) is…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

VARIOUS ARTISTS: The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club 2 (2013) Album release

Has it been a year already since Freestyle Records dropped the first Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club comp? Actually, it’s been slightly more than a year though the arrival of number 2 suggests a CC’s Funk & Soul Club release is all set to become an annual recorded music event as well as a good night out for all the family. Did I say all the family? I just meant those who dig the funk, are over eighteen and not likely ask, “Daddy why is the Coronation Street taxi driver man lighting up a really fat cigarette on stage?” In any …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

MR CONFUSE: Do You Realize: The remixes (2013)

This should be relatively simple to understand – Mr Confuse has had his recent Do You Realize LP remixed and he’s just released the results as Do You Realize: The remixes. In order to bring this about he’s assembled an impressive line up of production warriors which include a strong UK contingent (Smoove, Lack Of Afro, Daytoner, Dr Rubberfunk and Tom Eno) plus Hungarians (Uptown Felaz), Poles (Przasnik), and Germans …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

MONKEYBOXING.COM – Top 10 Tracks 2012

1. Hidden Jazz Quartet feat. Omar – High Heels (Lack Of Afro remix) Massive sixties soul-tinged floor-filling remix that never fails…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

CHART – June 2012

(1) 1. Hidden Jazz Quartet feat. Omar – High Heels (Lack Of Afro remix)

Still here. LOA produces dancefloor gold through remix alchemy…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

CHART - May 2012

Lack Of Afro produces dancefloor gold through remix alchemy…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

HIDDEN JAZZ QUARTET feat. OMAR: High Heels (+ Lack Of Afro remix) (2012)

HIDDEN JAZZ QUARTET feat. OMAR: High Heels(2012) This one’s called High Heels by Hidden Jazz Quartet and features Omar – (here sounding a little bit like Alison Moyet) fretting about where his chick is at 3 in the morning. But enough about that – let’s talk about the important bit which is the B-side rerub where Lack Of Afro produces dancefloor gold through remix alchemy – check it below. …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

LACK OF AFRO: Remixes & Rarities (2012)

LACK OF AFRO: Remixes & Rarities (2012)
It was the sampler last month, this time round it’s the full twenty-seven track odyssey that is Lack Of Afro’s Remixes & Rarities LP. What is there that can possibly be said that hasn’t been said already? Well…quite a lot really since there’s another twenty-two tracks on here that weren’t on the sampler. As with its harbinger, anyone into funk-related beats should be kept happy whether it’s jazz-funk, latin-funk, hip-hop, breakbeat instros, disco (or all of the above) that rub your rhubarb. Also, it bears repeating that,…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

LACK OF AFRO: ‘One Way – Remixes & Rarities’ sampler (2012)

LACK OF AFRO: ‘One Way – Remixes & Rarities’ sampler (2012)
One way – Remixes & Rarities – Sampler is the five track taster for the full One way – Remixes & Rarities LP out at the end of next month. With it Lack Of Afro flies in the face of music tradition whereby instead of releasing the shitsack of filler which constitutes most artists’ idea of ‘remixes and rarities’ as they ‘fulfil contractural obligations’, he drops some of the best stuff I’ve ever heard off him. Rapper Herbal T (twin bro to Def Jam signing Wax) is back on On My Way for…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

LACK OF AFRO: Holding my Breath (2011)

LACK OF AFRO: Holding my Breath (2011) Holding my Breath is the second single from Lack Of Afro’s latest LP This Time. Like its predecessor, it rocks the kind of smooth soul vibe to be found all over Smoove & Turrell’s second LP so if you’re down with that, you’ll be down with this as singer Jake Morley gets his mood on over clattery floor friendly percussion. LOA homies Unity Sextet rework this on the flip, uncomplicating the break and have fun with various bits and bobs out of their little bag of jazz. …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

FROOTFUL feat. Angeline Morrison: Slowtime (2011)

FROOTFUL feat. Angeline Morrison: Slowtime (2011)
Ever wondered what Bebel Gilberto would sound like if she sang in English? Now’s your chance to found out as Nick Radford, a.k.a. Frootful, hooks up with Ambassadors Of Sorrow vocalist Angeline Morrison for a latin makeover of Colours album track Slowtime. …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

FREESTYLE RECORDS launch new website with Lack Of Afro ‘A Time For’ free download (2011)

FREESTYLE RECORDS launch new website with Lack Of Afro ‘A Time For’ free download (2011)
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LACK OF AFRO: This Time (2011) + 'A Time For' video

LACK OF AFRO: This Time (2011) + A Time For video
t seems Lack Of Afro’s recent single was a spot-on indicator of what to expect from Adam Gibbons on his new full length effort LP which supplies things catering for all needs broadly soul/ funky from the coffee-table to the dancefloor – or from the atmospheric to the banging if you’re sensitive to the term ‘coffee table’ – some people are you know – it’s all the espresso – makes them uptight. Anyway – let’s see how he did on his ‘difficult third’ album.…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM