ZAMALI: I Can’t Get Next To Your Chains (2014)

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TRU FUNK: Tasty Beats Vol. 1 (2014)

As promised at the end of last year, the Polish funky breaks mafia (a.k.a. the Tru Funk label) return for 2014 with a brand new series – Tasty Beats Vol. 1 – and a truly international smorgasbord of dancefloor snacks. Bosnia’s Funk Efemdzemov provides a refried soul starter, Germany’s Jayl Funk keeps it hot with a bass-poppin’ main, Phunk Sinatra supplies a Greek beat dessert, the UK’s X-Ray Ted arrives with the …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

ZAMALI: The Rebirth (2014)

The Timewarp Music nufunk tree has flowered early this year it seems with Belgian beatsmith Zamali‘s The Rebirth EP which yields five original instros and three remixes. Two of these remixes focus on the filtered guitar ‘n organ ‘n breaks of opener Funky Rotator but spin off in different directions. Apedroid plays up the more programmed aspects while Mister T emphasises the funk’s organic legacy with crunchier drums and …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

FUNKOSOL: Fresh Beats Vol. 3 (2014)

The Funkosol label continues to join the unlikely dots between funky breakbeats and eighties synth-pop (yes, I’m talking about you, Junskee, with your penchant for a bit of Carol Williams) not to mention what sounds like the co-opting of house-y nineties soul (that’ll be you, Max Revolt) with the third volume of Fresh Beats Vol. 3. Funk Efemzdemov is also on hand with a brace of good-…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

PULPFUSION: Wrong World Remixed Vol. 2 (2012)

News of Pulpfusion’s Wrong World Remixed Vol 2 arrived at just the wrong time two weeks ago dropping on to monkey’s virtual doormat hours before the annual monkey summer holiday. Still, to redress matters here we are now in a brief examination of what happened when the Swiss beat assassin bravely handed over the keys of his Wrong World LP for the second time this year to a …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

GMF feat. AKIL THE MC: Remixed! (2012)

GMF feat. AKIL THE MC: Remixed! (2012)
“Do whatever feels good to you. It’s cool/ For you to do whatever you want to just do,” raps former Jurassic 5 member Akil The MC on the original Grand Mother’s Funck version of Do (video below) – with admirable laissez-faire as his and the band’s work is taken off by Badboe and various nu-funky friends. Perhaps surprisingly, the end result isn’t a six-track ‘loud-up the drums, wobble the bass until your speakers blow free-for-all.’…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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CMC & SILENTA: Funky Town (2011)

CMC & SILENTA: Funky Town (2011)
Manmade Records’ big boss men, CMC and Silenta have just dropped this party cut on their other label Roca which revolves around the old Banbarra Shack Up beat made famous by (among others) Stetsasonic on Talkin’ All That Jazz. This is the fastest I’ve ever heard it used though and it triggers the bpm radar at a nu funkin 127 bpm or thereabouts. Keeping up is MC Penny wryly observing, “Too sick, comin’ through with my toothpick/ Any style old school, except on the new shit,” among the…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

MANMADE FEATURE FUNK Vol. 4

Manmade's Feature Funk series has been a regular drop over the last year or so, with each volume tending to have a different sub-generic slant (last time round it was mostly disco-tinged) and throwing up some big bangers in the process. There have, however, previously been hints that the label has had an itch to go to the big beat/ breakbeat-house cheesefest ball and on this one…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM