SMOOVE: A Quest Called Tribe (Vinyl 7″)

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SMOOVE: Recorded Delivery

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NICOLE WILLIS & BANDA PALOMITA: I Call Your Name (SMOOVE remix)

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CHROME: Dopamine Hit (I Need A Hit SMOOVE remix) b/w To The Big Apple (Vinyl 7″)

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JOHN TURRELL: The Kingmaker Remixed Pt 2

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IZO FITZROY: Say Something

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SMOOVE: Main Sourced 7″ audio premiere (2017) + Video

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SMOOVE: For The Love Of 45s Pt. 2 Smoove DJ Mix (2016) Free download

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PETE ROCK & SMOOVE: ‘Ghettos Of The Mind’ remix (2016)

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WACK RECORDS 16: SMOOVE Nowhere To Go/ Return Of The Beats 7″ (2016)

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SMOOVE: For The Love Of 45s Smoove DJ Mix (2015) Free download

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SMOOVE: Wack Dynamite (2014)

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RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Fire (2014)

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SMOOVE: Big Bird (remix) (2014)

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BEATNIK CITY PRESENTS: The Rio District Vol. 1 (Power bossa, Samba & Brazil) (2014)

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ALEXIA COLEY: Beautiful Waste Of Time (2014)

Alexia Coley’s new Dr Rubberfunk-mixed single – Beautiful Waste Of Time is kind of halfway between the funky soul jazz of Barbara Lynn’s Nice And Easy or Nina Simone’s Some Say and the grittier sister funk of Laura Lee’s It Ain’t What You Do But How You Do It. Which is another way of saying it’s dope. Just in case there’s not enough percussive presence on the original for …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SMOOVE & TURRELL: Broken Toys (2014) Album review

Smoove & Turrell reach that critical career watershed of the ‘difficult third’ album. You know – the one which can elevate a good band to classic status or see a previously good band consigned to the scrap heap like…well…like a broken toy. Sure, debut Antique Soul was particularly well-received and the pair sidestepped the ‘Antique Soul-Pt II’-trap with Eccentric Audio by shimmying down a mirrorball/ ladies’ night route to the dancefloor which ultimately rewarded them with a tour support slot for Nile Rodgers and Chic. But have Berry Geordie and his meaty-voiced partner in crime, Turrell, deftly resisted the urge to sell out, get all self-indulgent or, worst of all, produce a ‘concept LP’ with Broken Toys? Let’s find out!…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SMOOVE & TURRELL: Lay It On Me (2014) + video

Berry Geordie is back, in the company of the mighty John Turrell of course, with their latest installment of the ‘northern coal’ sound. Lay It On Me is the first single off the pair’s forthcoming long player Broken Toys and the sort of big soul-clap stomper that is their bread and butter. Or whatever they can afford to eat up north now in these benighted economic times – probably a coal…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

SMOOVE: Slow Down (B-boy Instrumental remix)(2014)

A third Smoove & Turrell album is on the way, a single is due before that (for both of which, check back with the Monkey soon) and before that, Smoove keeps the funk-soul massive’s enthusiasm for all things S&T-flavoured well fluffed by favouring us with this b-boy instrumental. I feel like I should know that sample though – something classic and soully – what is it? It’s on the tip of my mind but I can’t quite place it! That’s because it’s not a sample …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

WACK RECORDS 13: SMOOVE & SUONHO ‘A Little Soul’/ ‘Summertime’ (Smoove remix)

It’s been two years since Wack 12 and at least a year since a version of A Little Soul appeared in a Smoove mixtape. God knows, I for one have constantly pestered Berry Geordie to release this massive collabo with Suonho. Now, finally (judging by soundcloud) he’s given the people what they want. And what they want is this supercharged soul n bass rework of A Little Soul – Aretha’s sixties number about writing hits which signally (not to mention unfairly) failed to become …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM