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

TIMEWARP INC: Ghetto Drunk Remixed Vol. 2

The Timewarp Inc. label’s in-house Ghetto Drunk LP from back in February gets a another whirl around the remix tree on this second volume of remixes which travels (not unsurprisingly) by the name of Remixed Volume 2. This time it’s the turn of Umbo, Soopasoul, mSdoS, Apedroid, Angel Funke, Atfunk, Trotter, Gabriel Rocca, The Spank!, MustBeat Crew and Acidisco to put their own…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SAMMY SENIOR feat. RAYNA: Don’t Touch My Heart (The Remixes) (2013)

Don’t Touch My Heart? Fat chance of anything not being ‘touched’ when it comes to remixing a release. And the time when Sammy Senior‘s excellent MC Rayna-featuring ghetto funked-up, swing-hop banger from February got passed around the grubby mitts of B-Side, DeFunk, DELimentary, and the Mustbeat Crew was no exception. It got a thorough groping. Check the results below – expect four different adventures…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SAMMY SENIOR feat. RAYNA: Don’t Touch My Heart (The Remixes) (2013)

Don’t Touch My Heart? Fat chance of anything not being ‘touched’ when it comes to remixing a release. And the time when Sammy Senior‘s excellent MC Rayna-featuring ghetto funked-up, swing-hop banger from February got passed around the grubby mitts of B-Side, DeFunk, DELimentary, and the Mustbeat Crew was no exception. It got a thorough groping. Check the results below – expect four different adventures…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

MUSTBEAT CREW: Boogie Woogie (2013) Free download

Hungarian outfit the Mustbeat Crew have knocked out a top slice of Electro swing/ Balkan breaks in the shape of Boogie Woogie. Don’t worry, it doesn’t involve Jools Holland and technically, Hungary isn’t in the Balkans. But somehow ‘breaks influenced by Magyar culture and other non-specific Eastern European influences’ doesn’t trip off the …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

BIG M presents: EZ Icarus – Funky Vine (2012)

Hey everybody, it’s EZ Icarus with his track Funky Vine whereon he walks the bass through a 140 bpm breaks/dnb thing complete with chopped up vox from a soul sister version of Marvin classic I Heard It Through The Grapevine. Yet another BigM release hot on the heels of two others? I bet you’re wondering how I knew? It took me by surprise when I found out yesterday. Just fucking with you. It was the PR email of course. Icarus is aided and ...READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

THE GEMINI BROS: Trump Skyscrapers (2012)

BigM’s latest drop sees The Gemini Bros deliver four-tracker Trump Skyscrapers. When I was a kid ‘trump’ was the word one of my mates dad’s used as a euphemism for a fart (bear with me – this is going somewhere) so you can imagine my amusement when I discovered there was an obscenely rich bloke called Donald Trump. Somehow it was appropriate. Anyway (coincidentally) he built a huge ‘mixed-use’ concrete phallus in NYC called Trump Tower (didn’t find out about that until years later – and when I did it was still amusing) which Gemini Bros. seem to be referencing on what might be termed a mix-use EP. In the…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