HIPSTA: Step To The Rhythm (2014)

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MASSEVIL: Welcome To Eccentric City EP (2014) + Shake That Booty video

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COCKNEY NUTJOB: Get Up On Ya Feet Remixed (2014)

Cockney Nutjob‘s muscular dancefloor skank from November gets the remix treatment on the next drop from Radical Mixtape Recordings. Going in first are Phibes who doctor the original in a wub-wub-snarl stylee that gives it a sort of ‘insectoid-battle-droid cousin to the original’ air and then Maars goes in for sloppy seconds. If Phibes’ version was a cyborg then the Maartian version is like some sort of giant-mecha-powered-by-a-human effort …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

MORLACK: Wake Up! (2014)

That most prolific of breakbeat music men, Morlack, has yet another release out Wake Up! this time on Radical Mixtape Recordings with the sort of HR Giger cover that normally presages death metal content. There’s no need to throw out the horns just yet though because this one’s all about the boogie. Disco boogie on Check The Remote with it’s Lil Kim intro and dancehall vocal, squelching boogie breaks on my favourite – the title …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

CHRISPOP: Got To Get Some/ Just Get Up (2014)

Funky breaks…got some? Don’t worry if you haven’t. Chrispop’s here to provide a surfeit to cover your shortage as he resurrects the lost art of the ’80s megamix’ to suture together the likes of JB, Aerosmith, the Bongo Band, Lyn Collins, Kool & The Gang and Bad Bascombe, for Got To Get Some. Over on the ‘flip’ the megamix fun continues with Just Get Up‘s Funkinstein-like creation of Gwen McCrae, JB (again), this year’s third (at least) …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

JAPETTO: Party Bangers Vol. 7 (2014)

Once upon a time there was a nufunk beatcarver called Japetto who got his hands on some rather lively samples which he fashioned into his debut three track EP for the Radical Mixtape label. There was the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies one which formed the basis of opener swing breaks opener Swingin Riot, the Diana Ross one which underpinned the ladies ghetto-funk night middle number and the Wilson Pickett one which brought up the rear in a …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

COCKNEY NUTJOB: Get Up On Your Feet (2013)

Wasn’t it the late great Rufus Thomas who said, “Get up on your feet and then you start to move,”? I’m not sure what he had in mind was Cockney Nutjob‘s third outing for the Radical Mixtape label but to some extent that’s academic as the parping bass-horns which form an integral part of the powerful skanking title track along with the various chopped-up well-known vocal snippets that adorn it are hardly the soundtrack to meditation or …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SHAKA: Party Bangers Vol. 6 (2013)

Just backdoored the peak at Teahupoo? Throw out a shaka. Won the latest Billabong XXL? Throw out a double shaka! Vintage VW Beetle or camper driver who’s just experienced the massively unlikely coincidence of passing someone else who drives a Beetle or vintage VW camper? Throw out a shaka – even if you are clueless as to the gesture’s name and origin. All very well – but what do you throw out if you are a shaka? Or rather Shaka. How about…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM