ANDY TAYLOR: El Pantano Remixes (2014)

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DJ ANDY TAYLOR: El Pantano (2013)

I’ve been waiting ages for an Andy Taylor LP – ever since the canny Scotsman sent me his excellent (and still unreleased) Louisa Rox collaboration Pray in an unsolicited email five years ago, in fact. Actually (given how long ago it was), I think he might even have contacted me in a Myspace message. A what? Never mind – it’s finally here. I suspected title El Pantano might be Spanish for ‘soon come’ or something but it turns out that it’s actually Spanish for ‘the swamp’ – cheers googletranslate. Apparently the world’s largest …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DAYTONER: Treat Me EP (2013)

One of my favourite tracks off Daytoner‘s Sunburst Radio LP from last summer was the Motown-groove-with-nineties-indie-vocals of Treat Me. It was clearly single material and is here given the full EP treatment with remixes from Suonho and Tenoshi. Suonho replaces that sixties Motor City beat with something that’ll have them trippin’ …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DAYTONER: Sunburst Radio (2012)

Penzance calling! This is what happens when you spend three years locked in a shed above the radioactive granite of Cornwall. The PR has it that Daytoner’s Sunburst Radio is a, “retro-ride through Latin American, Blues, Jazz, Swing and Motown rhythms, underpinned by dance floor break beats, linked by valve-age voices” and that’s pretty much spot on. Our man conjures a combination of late forties/ early fifties atmosphere for music that never existed back then lending his breakbeat rhythms a classy retro sheen. It’s like a Bakelite …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DAYTONER: On my Own (2012)

UK producer Daytoner gets his first drop on Smoove’s ‘northern jazz’ breaks label and he’s on his own. He’s not really of course – that’s all bollocks. For a start classy little latin breaks number On My Own features the breathy vocals of Jane Kennaway and secondly he’s got three remixers for company. And we’re not talking just any old dial-a-remixer because…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

RENEGADES OF JAZZ – ‘Cascade’ released September 2010

RENEGADES OF JAZZ – ‘Cascade’ released September 2010
I hate scat and when I say ‘scat’ I refer to the jazz style of singing and not those coprophagic pornos that that bloke at school who smelt of jizz used to go on about. Come to think of it - I ain’t even too keen on jazz - so I was surprised (and I can’t believe I’m going to say this) to find myself appreciating a track containing both jazz and scat. That and the fact that it contains…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Karabine EP – Release details

RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Karabine EP – Release details
Everyone keeps trying to jazz me at the moment. No, that’s not an euphemism, it’s just that the monkey’s inbox keeps being filled (no, that’s not one either) with jazzy business – or that. And so we come to Renegades Of Jazz (i.e. David Hanke of Mash & Munkee) - the big signing to new label WASS of which the owner, king of the northern beats (i.e. Smoove of Smoove & Turrell), himself claims combines, ”jazz dance and b-boy funk to devastating effect.” The phrase ‘jazz dance’ is like a bit like a cold shower of piss…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM