ONDATROPICA: Cumbia Especial (MANOSJMT edit)(2017)

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MORLACK: Sokit2Me EP (2012)

Definitely one of the funkiest producers aligned with the ghetto funk movement, the Sokit2Me EP is Morlack’s latest effort and finds him reworking a number of old school gems for the kids. The title cut sees him have a go at a bit of DC Go Go – and when I say ‘having a go’ I mean producing a bass-bumpin version of…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DJ TZINAS: Mad So Mush EP (2012)

DJ TZINAS: Mad So Mush EP (2012)
The European fiscal storm might be pissing down from an especially great height on Greece and Ireland at the minute but here’s a team-up to bring a few rays of musical sunshine as Cretan producer Djtzinas (or is it DJ Tzinas – I’m never quite sure?) gets signed up to Irish label Bulabeats. Tzinas’s Mad So Mash EP is a short and sweet three-tracker demonstrating the talents of a man who knows how to prudently spread the contents of his musical portfolio across…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

JOHNNYPLUSE: This Will Twist Your Head (2011) Free download

JOHNNYPLUSE: This Will Twist Your Head (2011) Free download
‘Tis the season of giving and here’s JohnnyPluse, boss of Irish label Bulabeats, coming over all Santa-fied here with free fourteen-track LP. If you’re the sort of person who doesn’t have enough breakbeat remixes in your life this’ll twist your head and probably your melons too. JP’s basically remixed his way through the punk and post-punk seventies (Blondie, The Clash and The Jam), the overblown and self-indulgent eighties…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

MADBALL SCIENTISTS: All This Beauty EP (2011)

MADBALL SCIENTISTS: All This Beauty EP (2011)
Maybe it’s the fact that it’s scorchio outside, and I sit writing this in little more than my birthday suit fanned by dusky beauties in fur bikinis but at this moment in time Madball Scientists All This Beauty EP seems the very thing to be listening to. Maybe it’s because the Madball Scientists is a team up between Andre Lamb who hails from the adopted country of trip-hop, New Zealand and legend in his own lifetime David ‘Renegades Of Jazz’ Hanke – the only man to find an original use for jazz loops in a long, long time. Whatever it is, this four track EP has all the louche, laidback decadence of early stuff by downbeat UK outfit Akasha which…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Moo Juice EP – 2011

RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Moo Juice EP – 2011
Stand aside fusion bores and chin-stroking poseurs, Renegades Of Jazz is back with a new single! Moo Juice is yet more gold-top goodness from David Hanke whose ability to combine jazz samples and heavyweight breakbeats without sounding all wanky/ noodly is near supernatural. Lighter on it’s feet than the music of ‘Daisy Age’ hip-hop but with just as substantial a bottom end, the ROJ sound is to jazz fusion what breakdancing is to ‘jazz hands’ prancing and belies the ‘northern jazz’ tag applied to it…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Get A Wiggle On – Release details

RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Get A Wiggle On – Release details
Renegades Of Jazz (a.k.a. breakbeat duo Mash & Munkee’s David Hanke) once again tempers his perverted love for jazz scat-singing with a connoisseur’s choice of breakbeat and uplifting b-line. So good are they in fact that, once again, I found myself overlooking what would otherwise be some frankly unforgivable ‘do-be-doing.’ Not that ‘do-be-doing’ is ever forgivable of course, but couple some crisp percussion, ‘Animal’-off-The Muppets-style drum fills with an eminently hummable bass groove and you might even find yourself going over to the dark side. And when I say ‘dark side,’ …LISTEN/ READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

AQUASKY feat. THE RAGGA TWINS: Living Legends/Raggatron – 2010

AQUASKY feat. THE RAGGA TWINS: Living Legends/Raggatron – 2010
Christ! I got knackered just listening to this. Normally, long-serving breakbeat terrorists Aquasky would be too ‘core to feature on monkeyboxing and – er- they still are. On Living Legends they supply an approximately 135 bpm breakbeat and a loop that sounds suspiciously like it came from the Blues Brothers soundtrack then race ‘do-what-it-says-on-their-tin’ vocalists The Ragga Twins to the finish. If that doesn’t finish you off…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM