PROFESSOR ELEMENTAL: Professor Elemental & His Amazing Friends Part 2

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DR RUBBERFUNK: My Life At 45 (Part 2) (Vinyl 7″)

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JON KENNEDY: Corporeal Remixed Part 2 (Teaser) (2014)

More varied downtempo-isms and instrumentalisms from the JKF camp as Jon Kennedy‘s 2013 LP Corporeal gets a second LP’s worth of tangible remixing shortly. In the meantime here’s a five-track teaser in advance of the full LP. Steve Cobby of Fila Brazilia makes the ‘chilling on the yacht’ vibe of Tonto Rides The Gain even more chilled, while Dopedemand provides an equally relaxed but…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

POETS OF RHYTHM vs. EDAN: Video (part 2) (2013)

Not had enough of Edan in a glossy black wig eh? I refer, of course, to his effortless cutting between Poets Of Rhythm wax whilst rhyming promo verse over the top in the apparently ‘gone viral’ Poets Of Rhythm vs. Edan video part 1. Well, now’s your chance to catch the reclusive legendary rapper/ dj/ producer looking quite a bit like Joey Ramone once more. Both videos are part of the PR campaign by Daptone to big up the Poets Of Rhythm …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

BEASTIE BOYS: Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 – Album review + Audio – 2011

BEASTIE BOYS: Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 – 2011
It's a couple of years late but the Beasties are finally back. Is there anyone else who's been in the hip-hop game as long as they have who still garners this much hype on the eve of a release? To date they haven’t released a single duff hip-hop album and their last hip-hop release (2005’s To The 5 Boroughs) was a superb effort. On the other hand

FOREIGN LEGION: (EXCLUSIVE interview) The Official Monkeyboxing Fireside Chat (Part 2 of 3) – 2011

FOREIGN LEGION: (EXCLUSIVE interview) The Official Monkeyboxing Fireside Chat (Part 2 of 3) – 2011
I saw a billboard advert for deodorant in Canada once. The slogan was, “So dry, people will think you are British.” It’s an epithet which could equally apply to Foreign Legion in this, the second part of a triple interview (part 1 HERE) which monkeyboxing attempted to conduct with those ‘intangible emcees’ Prozack Turner and Marc Stretch. I say ‘attempted’ since they were continually out of their seats, did not listen to a word I said and demonstrated a flagrant disregard for serious answers…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

GUITAR RAY: Funky Pete Pts 1 & 2 (45 re-issue) – 2011

GUITAR RAY: Funky Pete Pts 1 & 2 (45 re-issue) – 2011
More original funk 45 filth courtesy of Tramp Records. Funky Pete Parts 1 and 2 is the forthcoming repress of the 1967 cut by Guitar Ray a.k.a. Raymond Washington to his mum. It contains almost as much in the way soul horns as it does scratchy funk guitar and is a timely reminder that no matter how hard twenty-first century middle class white boys and girls try (with a few exceptions) it is no easy thing to reproduce the sound of black America in the sixties. Part 1 will also feature on the forthcoming Tramp Records compilation Feeling Nice and both will be released around the same time which should be early summer. Which will give you time to practice your ‘camel walk’ won’t it?
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BEASTIE BOYS: Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 – Album release update 2011

BEASTIE BOYS: Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 – Album release update 2011
I slept on this a bit just to make sure the ‘Rolling Stones’ of rap weren’t pulling another fast one on release dates and album names but it does seem fairly certain that the next Beastie Boys proper hip-hop album is due on 3 May this year – due in no small part to the recovery of MCA from throat cancer. Just to clarify, the album is entitled Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 as opposed to the original title of Hot Sauce Committee Part 1 and has virtually identical track list originally slated for Part 1.…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM