THE CAPTAIN feat. GEO JOHNSON: Galactic FUNK (2016)

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THE CAPTAIN: The Bossa Fella’s Funk (2014) Free download coming soon!

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SCOUR RECORDS: Freemixed Nuts Vol. 2 (2014)

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ICONS OF GHETTO FUNK 2013 Parts 1 & 2: Free download (2013)

I had been thinking this latest annual installment of the Ghetto Funk Icons series, Icons Of Ghetto Funk, was early. But then I checked and actually it’s later than the previous two years. And that’s not all that’s different. This time the icons they’re remixing aren’t the popular music giants of yore but some of the label’s own artists. Say what? Remixes of the Ghetto Funk back catalogue by ghetto funk artists? Yep – it’s not the work of the …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

THE CAPTAIN presents: PHONOMATT & TOMMYBOY (2013)

This latest release from Breakbeat Paradise finds Italian duo Phonomatt & Tommyboy at the helm under the guidance of The Captain a.k.a. Fab Samperi. It also demonstrates one of the label’s strengths i.e. it’s broad approach to breakbeat music, here manifested in a five stage voyage that, broadly speaking, sails through the brisker end of bass. 5 O’ Clock is a liquid dnb-ish EZ Rollers-esque affair for example, that the The Captain remixes into a more jump-up Aphrodite number and…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

GHETTO FUNK presents: THE CAPTAIN (GFP013)(2013)

The Captain a.k.a. Italian breaks producer Fab Samperi, is a man known for his wide-ranging voyages across the seas of breakbeat-related music. He seems of late to have been cruising mostly in ghetto funky waters though. Aptly enough, really, since here he is with a party ship of an EP on the Ghetto Funk label. It’s all very modern with wobbly bass and those drop thingies and suchlike and the he’s kept it euphorically hands-in-the-air by sampling Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

TREMENDO Vol. 1: Various (2011)

TREMENDO Vol. 1: Various (2011)
Telephunken drops the first release on his own label Tremendo here and its eight floor fillers from across the ghetto funk/ funky breaks spectrum from the likes of his own bad self, Stickybuds, The Captain, Tom Drummond, Bobby C Sound TV, Bryx, The Breakbeat Junkie and Ursula 1000. Basically there’s ammunition here for virtually every style of breaks dj occasion: you’ve got your old-school flavoured cuts like Breakbeat Junkie’s Neneh Cherry-sampling Take A Stance…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

CMC & SILENTA: Roca Records presents Feature Breaks Vol. 2 (2011)

CMC & SILENTA: Roca Records presents Feature Breaks Vol. 2 (2011)
Second release in CMC & Silenta’s Feature Breaks series on their Roca imprint and they’ve opened up their back catalogue for remixing. It has to be said that this could be tantamount to handing a nutter some garden shears and getting your wedding tackle out, depending on who you’ve got on remix duties. Never fear though, half the ghetto funk universe were already …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

FAB SAMPERI: Listen Up – 2011

FAB SAMPERI: Listen Up – 2011
RATING: 5/5
Did you know that ‘Fab Samperi’ is actually Italian for ‘dope groove’? It doesn’t really matter too much as you would have instinctively grasped this fact upon hearing the title track on this release. More or less a cover of Marvin Gaye’s Can I Get A Witness it operates via a
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GOODGROOVE: Regrooved Series XI

GOODGROOVE: Regrooved Series XI
It’s refix time again and while the original versions of the tracks on here might have been around the block a few times that doesn’t prevent the dirty foursome assembled by the Goodgroove label giving them various kinds of ‘extreme makeover.’ Somehow I suspect the inspirational drug of choice during the making of these was MDMA. Except for The Captain who obviously…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM