MR BIRD feat. BnC (The Disco Vampire): Hit The Top

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MR BIRD feat. MELO-D-MELO: Mind, Body & Soul Remix EP (B.I.R.D. 001)

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SAVAGES Y SUEFO feat. ASHLEY SLATER: Revolution! (2016)

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MR BIRD & GREG BLACKMAN: Save Me (2015)

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MR BIRD & GREG BLACKMAN: Lo-Fi Classics (2014)

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MR BIRD: La Playa (Remixes) (2014)

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MR BIRD: Soul Troopers (2013) Free download

No sooner was news of CocoA’s Get Down On It EP out on Fat Bird sounds the other day than Mr Bird was back in touch with this blaxploitation-tinged freebie Soul Troopers. One imagines that a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, Soul Troopers were the personal guard of a powerful black leader who was prone to forming said trooopers into impromptu parallel lines of clapping personal down between which ill-fated ‘rebel’ …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

COCOA: Get Down On It EP (2013)

Sticking with the boom bap theme, here’s the Get Down On It EP. Nothing to do with Kool & The Gang of course, this is strickly in the name of hip-hop – courtesy of French production team CocoA whose debut drop this is. Fat breaks, fat as fuck production, scratchy old samples, scratching with scratchy old samples, big old horn and flute loops – it’s all there. No rapping though. Oh wait – here’s Herma Puma with Gregg Green on a more…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

MR BIRD: Know Your Rodents (2013)

No smelling a rat here as one of the UK’s most proficient sampledelic producers, ex-pat Mr Bird, re-releases his second LP from 2006 Know Your Rodents which is sixteen tracks of the sort of thing that were Ninjatune’s bread and butter back in the day. Put another way, this collection provides the sort of sample-rich instrumental breakbeats that have been tarred with all genre brushes from ‘trip-hop’ to ‘cinematic’. Either way (or indeed, any which way) the gloom which sometimes pervades music …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

MR BIRD: Monkey Funk EP (2013)

Despite his Bird, Bird, Bird LP only recently taking flight, Lisbon-based lord of mellow party breaks, Mr Bird, glides back into the public’s hearing again with the mashed-up esoterica of his Monkey Funk EP. Expect two different flavours of latin love on the title track and Glad To Be Free plus some more reflective synth-based action on U.F.O. It’s really all…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

MR BIRD: Bird Bird Bird (2013)

A lot of musicians suffer for their art. In Mr Bird‘s case one can only sympathise at all the dreamy summer afternoons and chilled evenings at southern European bars he must have had to endure in order to produce Bird Bird Bird. Formerly a resident of the United Kingdom, Bird has latterly moved to Lisbon and the mind really does boggle at the kind of devotion to one’s craft necessary in order to forgo living with the bracing cold and comforting patter of near continual rain in favour of the climactic privation of Portugal. Nevertheless, this is precisely what has happened. Even a cursory preview of this album reveals how the sun and balmy nights have …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

DAYTONER: On my Own (2012)

UK producer Daytoner gets his first drop on Smoove’s ‘northern jazz’ breaks label and he’s on his own. He’s not really of course – that’s all bollocks. For a start classy little latin breaks number On My Own features the breathy vocals of Jane Kennaway and secondly he’s got three remixers for company. And we’re not talking just any old dial-a-remixer because…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

VARIOUS: Carnibal Records 003 (2012)

The latin breaks party continues apace with Hammond Classics, Palov, Mr Bird and, of course, Panama Cardoon. A subtler affair than it’s predecessors, and largely mid-tempo there’s still plenty of upright bass, latin piano and shuffling breakbeat rhythms to swing those hips to which the ladies love…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM