PULPFUSION: From A Kid To A Man

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BREAKBEAT PARADISE RECORDINGS: Big Fat Mama Beats (2016)

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PULPFUSION: Funk Never Sleeps EP (2015)

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FLYING FISH: Play For Me/ Oh My Dayz (2013)

The A-side on the current 45 from Flying Fish is a hectic Pulpfusion remix but frankly this one’s all about the flip – Oh My Dayz – the best bit of boom-bap soul I’ve heard since The Snugs dropped Strugglin’ back in 2007. Sparse stabs of dark horns and a tight break create a smoky atmosphere over which Leah Smith weaves a tale of a bloke she’s just met who’s ‘kind of cute’ but a bit full on. “You’re asking me to move in with …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

PULPFUSION: Pain & Hurt (2013)

A nice bit of downtempo breakbeat soul, Pain & Hurt is one of the standouts on the just-released Modern Jazz LP from Swiss producer Pulpfusion – a man more usually known for inflicting damage with sledgehammer breakbeat assaults. Featuring a very easy-on-the-ear female vocal pitched somewhere between horny and sweetly heartbroken, this might be about the singer’s lovelorn heartache but there’s every chance of it …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

PULPFUSION: Modern Jazz (2013)

Right then – how about some Modern Jazz. Wait – come back! I’m on about Pulpfusion‘s forthcoming LP Modern Jazz not ‘modern jazz.’ Yes – Pulpfusion – that Swiss ‘ghetto metal’ merchant who makes Junkie XL and The Prodigy sound like chamber music. Has he found a new musical direction? ‘Nu-fusion’ perhaps? A ‘ghetto funk’ On The Corner? Nothing so hideous. The title track might open with a slab of smokey breaks that might have made it onto a Mo Wax comp. back in the day and second track Ashtray might sport a trumpet but by the time we get that far the breaks have accelerated into b-boy breaks territory. Which is a location Pulpfusion stays in for one more track …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

LASH SMASHER: Get Ready Or Get Lost (2013)

Say hello to Pulpfusion‘s new alter-ego Lash Smasher and LP Get Ready Or Get Lost. Basically if you felt that the presence of Keith Flint and Maxim Reality on the The Prodigy’s Music For The Jilted Generation and Fat Of The Land was surplus to requirements or that Junkie XL’s early material was his best work, then listening to this will feel like coming home. In other words, you’re getting seventeen tracks of snarling, metal-tinged breakbeat so menacing they could wheel a crystal-meth-laden tea trolley untouched through a room …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

PULPFUSION: Wrong World Remixed Vol. 2 (2012)

News of Pulpfusion’s Wrong World Remixed Vol 2 arrived at just the wrong time two weeks ago dropping on to monkey’s virtual doormat hours before the annual monkey summer holiday. Still, to redress matters here we are now in a brief examination of what happened when the Swiss beat assassin bravely handed over the keys of his Wrong World LP for the second time this year to a …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

PULPFUSION: Wrong World Remixed Vol. 1(2012)

In which Swiss beats merchant Pulpfusion throws the keys of recent ghetto metal LP Wrong World into the remix dish and allows his baby to be taken home by a variety of remixers to get as saucy as they wish. Engaging in the action are Zenit Incompatible, Turntill & Merlin, Hong Kong Ping Pong, Frenic, Assassinated, Funkanizer, Rambla Fresh Combo, Monstaphunkaz and Jazz K Lipa. Between them they…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DJ AXE vs. STEREO BEATZ: Funk N’ Breaks (BigMD038) (2012)

BigM regular Stereo Beatz has brought along his mate DJ Axe this time for Funk N’ Breaks or more accurately ‘ghetto funk n breaks’. Not that I’m complaining you understand – as the synths on this rock a funky ice cream van vibe that I haven’t heard since Jake Slazenger brought out Supaphunk about fifteen years ago. Slazenger’s was more of an armchair anthem though whereas the big breaks…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

PULPFUSION: Wrong World (2012)

PULPFUSION: Wrong World (2012)
It’s Pulpfusion everybody and he’s just released his third full-length LP Wrong World. Wrong world? It certainly feels like it at the minute – as the government comes up with ingenious recession-busting initiatives like reducing tax for the rich, increasing tax for pensioners and, my personal money-saving favourite – regional pay for civil servants – oh - unless you’re the MP type of civil servant in which case you’re unaffected. And that’s just the UK. Elsewhere it’s all rapacious oil companies, civil war and ruining the planet. It’s enough to give you the right hump. It’s enough to make you want to listen to something with loud breakbeats and distorted metal guitars. As luck would have it loud breakbeats and distorted metal guitars is what characterises large portions of Wrong World which turns out to be…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

PULPFUSION: Goodbye To Humanity EP (2012)

PULPFUSION: Goodbye To Humanity EP (2012)
Now – admittedly – I was aware of this at least a fortnight ago now but since I’ve been harbouring biohazard-strength flu germs for the last week or so and since everyone I live with was a walking biohazard the week before that you’ll maybe excuse the delay in posting. Frankly, the sentiment Goodbye To Humanity pretty much captured my prevailing mood last week. There’s no way I could have listened to this then though – way too lairy for a sick man – for PulpFusion has only gone and made…‘quasi-metal-breaks.’ Yep
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PULPFUSION: Street Art EP (2011)

PULPFUSION: Street Art EP (2011)
The Street Art EP is a quality instrumental EP from Pulpfusion (the man who bought you Decks And Drums And Rock N Roll and ‘that’ video from earlier in the year) which the PR would have you believe that is a collection of “downtempo breaks.” Listening to the Poison-era, Prodigy-style sound-graffiti of the title-track original and remixes…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

LOVE MUSIC: HATE RACISM/ CULT MUSIC present: Funk Against Fascism (2011)

LOVE MUSIC: HATE RACISM/ CULT MUSIC present: Funk Against Fascism (2011)
There are many reasons to reject fascism in its many forms – the one-dimensional, ‘might is right’ attitude, the staggering lack of logic in its ideological arguments and crucially – the shit music. Wagner and Skrewdriver? Christ! Enter breakbeat deejay Totalcult who (in collaboration with Love Music, Hate Racism has been marshalling the rebel forces
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PULPFUSION: Sex, Drums, Funk & Roll EP (2011) + video

PULPFUSION: Sex, Drums, Funk & Roll EP (2011) + video
orget Swizz Beats – this is all about Swiss beats for it’s from the land of expensive watches and expansive bank accounts that PulpFusion hails. The Sex, Drums Funk & Roll EP finds Mr Terence Thony (there’s an umlaut on the ‘o’ but not on my keyboard) indulging his love of big ass drum breaks, funky samples and rock guitars in quite spectacular fashion. Oh yeah – and sex. This is in the original video though. Essentially a riff on the sexy-aerobics-work-out pioneered by…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM