YOUTHFUL IMPLANTS feat. RAGGA TWINS: Hold That Gyal (2013)

Yet another Ghetto Funk release before the end of the year and it’s the turn of Youthful Implants to unveil an EP of sweetly wistful ambience of Hold That Gyal to lullaby the year to its close. Yeah right! It’s got Ragga Twins on it – didn’t you see? What kind of madman would put Ragga Twins in charge of a lullaby? They do snarly, shouty toasting over planet-threatening bass noise. Like this. And if you…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

MR BENN: Shake A Leg (2013)

Big up the Bristol Massive! Mr Benn finally comes through with Shake A Leg – an album that’s been ‘soon come’ for so long that it was starting to make even the most generous concept of ‘island time’ look like a mockery. Our man doesn’t disappoint though delivering a scorching eleven track set of varying bashment flavour – damn near any one of which could be a single. Mr Benn is famed far and wide for his hip-hop reggae hybrid sound and that is certainly present on here – most obviously in the form of Shame…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

CMC & SILENTA: Get It On Now (2012)

The trickle becomes a stream and the stream is shortly to become a flood. I’m on about albums that broadly (let’s not get bogged down in genre politics) fall under the ‘ghetto funk’ heading. The proto ghetto funk LPs were arguably Badboe’s bass wobble free Break The Funk from 2009 and Basement Freaks’ second LP Something Freaky from early 2011. Then young upstarts Morlack and...READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM