VARIOUS: Motor Jazz: Them To Us

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RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Neverthless

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KENO: Around The Corner

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NUBIYAN TWIST: Dance Inna London feat. SUPACAT/ All The Pieces Ltd. 12″ (2017)

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RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Moyo Wangu (2016)

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DIESLER feat. GLORIA ADERETI: Birds & Bees (RENEGADES OF JAZZ REMIX) (2016)

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RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Afro Cookie (2016)

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CHART – SEPTEMBER (2015)

1. (-) Renegades Of Jazz – Imperial Breed (Got The Blues mix) ROJ's glorious gospel blues rework of his own track…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Paradise Regain’d (2015)

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HIDDEN JAZZ QUARTET feat. GREG BLACKMAN: Tap On The Backdoor (2015)

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FRAMEWORKS feat. QnC: Back To The Music b/w Classic (RENEGADES OF JAZZ remix) (2015)

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RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Paradise Lost (2015)

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ANDY TAYLOR: El Pantano Remixes (2014)

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RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Fire (2014)

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RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Soul Boogie/ L.O.V.E. 1000 (2014)

Keen readers of MB will know that Renegades Of Jazz has been dropping 45s like they’re hot recently. Apparently it’s all stuff he had waiting around that nobody else wanted to release so he set up a new imprint, Rawkingcuts, to release them. What? Who didn’t want to release these …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Assignment B-Boy (2014)

Your mission David (should you choose to accept it) is to create a brace of b-boy friendly breaks out of big band horn riffs and the sort of library music that might accompany sixties and seventies car chases. What do you mean ‘that’ll be a piece of piss’? Oh I see, well, yes, your record does appear to indicate that you have some experience in this sort of thing. Do you need a latex mask that makes you look like Smoove or Suonho? No? Wire harness so that you …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Rock To The Rhythm (2014)

Renegades Of Jazz‘s last single Break This Chain broke a stylistic chain of releases of his ‘northern jazz’ style with something more akin to a hybrid of his Mash & Munkee project and good old-fashioned sampled breaks a la The Wiseguys second LP The Antidote. Tellingly, that was released on new label Rawkingcuts rather than his Hiperbole imprint or Wass. Here’s another effort very much in the same vein although it transpires that this is a re-release …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

VARIOUS: We Are Friends (2014) Free download

Now I know pan-European co-operation is not exactly de rigeur this year what with recent events on the eastern side of the continent (not to mention the persistence of piss-weak ‘What corrupt bankers? It’s immigrants!’ narratives beloved of governments) but a more hopeful model (and message) is provided on We Are Friends, a free twelve track drop of funk, soul, breaks and a dash…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Gonna Break This Chain/ Gimme Some (More)(2014)

Man, looks like I broke out a new pair of Puma Suedes just in time! Renegades Of Jazz is about to go totally off the northern jazz reservation with the totally off-the-chain funky soulful b-boy breaks of Gonna Break This Chain. It doesn’t get much better than that right? Wrong. Digital flip Gimme Some (More) is a phat 100 bpm slab of instro-hop tweaked with ‘golden age’ of soul andfunk vocal cuts and shout-outs. No need to give …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Sidewinders (2014)

Renegades Of Jazz returns with Sidewinders, a twelve-strong musical arsenal of heat-seeking ‘northern jazz’ missiles so catchy you’ll be unable to ignore them even if you can fly like Maverick and will probably end up moving to them even if you dance like Maverick. Anyone who has previously experienced the work of ROJ will know that we’re talking one of the few outfits aside from ATCQ who can use jazz loops and samples without making the monkey want to chew a …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM