TREMENDO: Dirty Funk Vol. 1 (2012)

That the raison d’etre of Vol. 1 of this new series (i.e. Dirty Funk) on Telephunken‘s Tremendo label seems to be to put the funk back into ghetto funk will come as no end of relief to those who were wondering if that ‘f’ word was (with honourable exceptions) becoming as redundant as the ‘funky’ in ‘funky’ house always has been. It opens with Trotter & Telephunken getting all stank with the seventies – a theme continued to equal party effect by Jayl Funk while DJ Soo & Tim Livingstone (egg-)roll the years back to the sixties because they ain’t just checking any funk sources, they’re checking M&S Band funk sources. Next …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