TUPAC: Old School (Cookin Soul remix)(DJ TANNER video edit)(2014) Free download

Now I know the kids nowadays think Jay Z is old school but back when Jay Z was new school, Tupac was name-checking his old school which seems to have included – er – quite a lot of the original new school (LL Cool J, Slick Rick, Doug E Fresh, Mantronix and Stetsasonic), the golden era gang which succeeded them (Big Daddy Kane, De La Soul, Eric B & Rakim) and a few of the real old school like Kurtis Blow, Flash and Grandmaster Caz. Then, just recently, Cookin Soul popped along and retrofitted Tupac’s lyrics to a boomier, bappier, …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

UGLY DUCKLING: ‘Moving At Breakneck Speed’ album release details, artwork and tracklist announced (2011)

UGLY DUCKLING: ‘Moving At Breakneck Speed’ album release details, artwork and tracklist announced (2011)
As previously announced on MB back in February, Long Beach old-school hip-hop crew, Ugly Duckling, have been in the process of working on their fifth studio album, Moving At Breakneck Speed. According to their brand new website www.uglyduckling.us, it will be released in October this year. The record is a 14 track…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

THE BREAKBEAT JUNKIE & DJP: Goodgroove Artist Series no. 10

THE BREAKBEAT JUNKIE & DJP: Goodgroove Artist Series no. 10
Bath’s Goodgroove label lives up to it’s name once more and shows hip-hop producers the way back to the dancefloor. The recipe is simple, take one old school hip-hop acapella circa 1985, take one old funk loop circa 1967-1975, forgo the tired ‘dusty breaks’-re-creation-of-1992-approach and instead apply muscular 21st century club vibe instead. Retaining the breakbeat (correctly) it also chucks in a few house-production flourishes. Not the shit vocoder-vocals, cheesy electro synths of…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM