SHAOLIN TEMPLE DEFENDERS: Live In London

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SHAOLIN TEMPLE DEFENDERS: Free Your Soul (2017)

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SHAOLIN TEMPLE DEFENDERS: Keep This Funk On A Roll/ Taxman (2013)

Shaolin Temple Defenders – ‘the band with the best name in contemporary funk’ ™ are back with two hard-hitting uptempo funk cuts. The first of these is the guitar-pickin’/ hammond-tickling Keep This Funk On A Roll which, despite its title, appears not to be about the difficulties of using the world’s greatest musical genre as a sandwich filling. Also available is the band’s sweet little cover of The Beatles’ tax evaders anthem Taxman because frankly you can never have enough houses. Or …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SHAOLIN TEMPLE DEFENDERS: From The Inside (2013)

France’s mightiest funk act Shaolin Temple Defenders once more stand firm against fake funk forces with From The Inside, their fourth long player in a decade. It’s an agreeable thirteen strong mixture of sweet Motown style (northern) soul and nuggets of fatback funk which ticks all the right boxes. Decent tunes? Yep, no duff ones here. Singer with the range and ability to pull off convincing soul? Yep – the highly capable ‘Brother’ Lion is is in his element as soul frontman with the …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SOUL REVOLUTION: 'One More Time' LP (2012)

Remember the more soulful wing of the underground Cali hip-hop sound of the late nineties/ early 2000s? I’m mainly talking about Quannum projects – er – projects – Blackalicious, Latyrx, Lyrics Born’s solo stuff. Soul Revolution do – and they’ve taken the most soulful end of that already soulful body of work and run with it. ‘Soul’ – it’s in their name see? They’re West Coast too – although in this case it’s the west coast of France. ...READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SOUL REVOLUTION: One More Time (2011)

SOUL REVOLUTION: One More Time (2011)
Soul Revolution are ‘The Lion Of Bordeaux’ and Don Argentino (no, really) – two heads brought together by the lure of the smoky basement clubs of the capital of Aquitaine who discovered a shared love of the U.S. West Coast hip-hop underground. ‘Le Lion de Bordeaux,’ in particular, may sound familiar to UK funk heads, probably because he’s the lead singer in a band with one of the best names (and some of the best sounds) in contemporary funk – The Shaolin Temple Defenders. One More Time recalls the more soulful side of the Quannum crew…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SHAOLIN TEMPLE DEFENDERS: Take It Slow (feat. Gift Of Gab)

SHAOLIN TEMPLE DEFENDERS: Take It Slow (feat. Gift Of Gab)
These guys have to push T Bird & The Breaks pretty close as to who has the best band name on the contemporary funk scene. But that’s another story. What we have here is the horns n Hammond-rich new single and title track of their forthcoming LP (due 4 October 2010) feat. Blackalicious’ LISTEN/ READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

SHAOLIN TEMPLE DEFENDERS: Let Yourself Go – 2009 – Single review

SHAOLIN TEMPLE DEFENDERS: Let Yourself Go – 2009 – Single review
Man, if my band was called Shaolin Temple Defenders and I had a single out entitled Let Yourself Go that’s exactly what I’d do. I’d have superfast percussion, put the wah-wah pedal in overdrive and knock out a lo-fi video featuring loads of rapid-fire editing of battling monks and fast shaky zoom shots of a manically cackling kung-fu master, who would arrogantly flick his long wispy beard and then screech something like, “Your monkey style is no match for my southern crane technique!” But then>…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM