BREAKBEAT PARADISE: Paradise Breaks Vol. IV (2016)

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BREAKBEAT PARADISE RECORDINGS: Bring Back The Funk EP Vol. 3 (2015)

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SLYNK feat. TIMOTHY WISDOM: Flip It Up (2014) JIGGYJOE: Shake It EP (2014) EURO CINEMA: Funkstamatic (2014) SMOOVE: Slow Down (B-boy Instrumental remix)(2014) SPEEDOMETER: Happy (2014) + DJ Snatch ‘Pharrell vocal’ edit KATAKANA EDITS: Vol. 16 (2014) THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS: ‘I Want You To Stay’ Remix competition (2014) DEATH JAM: Death Wolf (2014) Video + free download MOOQEE & BEATVANDALS: Bombstrikes: 10 Years In 10 Minutes Mix (2014) Free download THE GETUP: What If?/ Ooh Ooh (2014) VARIOUS: Bombay Disco – Disco Hits From Hindi Films 1975-1985 (2014) LACK OF AFRO: Music For Adverts (2014) CHART – MARCH (2014) HOUSE OF PAIN: ‘Jump Around’ Special edition green vinyl 12″ reissue (2014) MR BRISTOW feat. BENNY SILVER: My Life EP (2014) JunoMixers SLYNK feat. TIMOTHY WISDOM: Flip It Up (2014)

Clearly not a man who feels he’s released enough big free downloads in the last month, Slynk drops yet another one. It’s not an edit this time though but some original funky disco breakin and he’s joined on it by Timothy Wisdom. “Not Timothy Wisdom ‘the ghetto funk MacGyver: you name it, he can do it?’” “Yep – the very same.”…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

TIMOTHY WISDOM: Dance With You (2014) Free download

He produces snarly ghetto funk anthems, he does a spot of emceeing and now it turns out he’s a bit of a crooner to boot on this funky-but-sweetly-gentle slice of electronic breaks? What can have come over Timothy Wisdom as he declares that all he wants to do is ‘Dance With You’ in a Prince-like falsetto. Especially when he does that over what he freely admits is more of a set-closer than a peak-time banger. Well, it is Valentine’s Day tomorrow. One speculates that perhaps ‘little Timothy’ is the …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

TIMOTHY WISDOM: On My Mind EP (2013)

ReSoul Records employ a certain Wisdom to create their latest funky breaks release which he does without resorting to wobble or even much grind but neverthless in a party stylee. Put The Stereo On reworks Gappy Ranks in a pumping, skanking disco funk manner while On My Mind refluffs George Duke’s Reach Out in a pumping disco breaks manner. But how does he do it all…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

TRU FUNK: Party Breaks: Essential Selection (2013)

In today’s internet-era, the public’s appetite for interesting ‘stuff’ is voracious and their memory of said ‘stuff’ so short that they’ve practically forgotten whatever it was they gawping/ listening/ mooing at in the second it took them to ‘swim’ from one side of the digital fishbowl to the other. Plus the amount of ‘stuff’ out there keeps increasing exponentially. In this environment, any record company that fails to market effectively is a soon-to-be-defunct record company and marketing in today’s – er – market effectively means putting …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

GHETTO FUNK PRESENTS: Bring The Boom (GFP16)(2013)

Some of you may be aware that Bim and Ben lead bands with brooms and furthermore that Ben’s band bangs and Bim’s band booms. While you’re pondering that, here’s something else that booms – Ghetto Funk‘s forthcoming Bring The Boom EP. JFB & Dancefloor Outlaws give Desmond Dekker some dnb boom, Timothy Wisdom gives LL Cool J some ghetto funk boom (don’t call it a comeback) and Tom Drummond has what sounds like an …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

BASEMENT FREAKS & TIMOTHY WISDOM: Loopback Brother (2012) + ‘Golden Rock’ free download

Loopback Brother finds Basement Freaks and Timothy Wisdom take a brotherly approach to music creation by pooling resources – including TW on the mic. Which presumably makes them ‘loopback brothers’ or something. Anyway, this semblance of sibling seemliness spawns a squelchy, hip-hop-influenced (and hip-hop speed, at 101 bpm) ghetto funker which our men toss out into the ghetto funk fraternity for Aussie Slynk to …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

TREMENDO Vol. 3: Various (2012)

Er, yeah – so this should’ve been posted last week. If you didn’t know, the man behind the Tremendo label is Spanish ghetto funker Telephunken. That’s Señor Telephunken to you. Or Senor Tremendo. Sounds like a magician – which is apt since his first trick, I mean track, (well – it is his label) is to sample Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name – just in time for its twentieth ...READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

LOVE MUSIC: HATE RACISM/ CULT MUSIC present: Funk Against Fascism (2011)

LOVE MUSIC: HATE RACISM/ CULT MUSIC present: Funk Against Fascism (2011)
There are many reasons to reject fascism in its many forms – the one-dimensional, ‘might is right’ attitude, the staggering lack of logic in its ideological arguments and crucially – the shit music. Wagner and Skrewdriver? Christ! Enter breakbeat deejay Totalcult who (in collaboration with Love Music, Hate Racism has been marshalling the rebel forces
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MANMADE RECORDS: Feature Funk Vol. 7 – 2011

MANMADE RECORDS: Feature Funk Vol. 7 – 2011
A game of two halves this one. The A side consists of label bosses CMC & Silenta continuing to sidestep predictability with an disco-breaks/ wobbly-bassed/ big female vox-powered cut that seems to have been formulated solely for the purpose of convincing those formerly enamoured of house music that, yes, the nu/ ghetto funk scene has something for them. I certainly didn’t expect that. Then we’ve got new boy Busta who goes a bit electro and applies some LL Cool J but seems in spirit as Majorca bound as C & S. The B-side is…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM