FREQNIK & WDRE: Favela B-Boy Funk (2012) 7inch and video

NY production team Freqnik & WDRE’s debut Favela B-Boy Funk is nothing less than a tribute to the sizeable but largely unsung latin contingent of early hip-hop. And like previous tributes (e.g. Bronx Dogs’ Mambo Roc) to the sizeable but largely unsung latin contingent of early hip-hop it’s rather good. It’s the break you see. Fat syncopated drums, resonant with latin percussion, laced with stabs of tropical horns and irresistible to b-boys and girls