DR HOOKA presents: A SKILLZ, KROSSBOW, ROAST BEATZ & More (2015) Frome, 24 October

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A SKILLZ & KRAFTY KUTS: Now Drop (DJ TANNER video edit)(2015) + free download

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DJ TANNER: A Skillz’ ‘Poppa Soul’ (‘Is It A Banger? Parks & Recreation video edit) (2014) + DJ Tanner ‘All Vinyl Funk Mix 2004′ free download

Double trouble from DJ Tanner here (he of video edits for Featurecast, The Reflex, WBBL, Amerigo Gazaway, The Gaff, Daytoner, Smoove, The Allergies and Mako & The Hawk among others) as the Canadian delivers his latest video edit (the snappily-titled ‘Poppa Soul’ (DJ Tanner Parks & Recreation video edit)) for A Skillz’ massive Ultramagnetic MCs/ Bobby Byrd mash Poppa Soul off Insane Bangers Vol. 10 from 2010. 2010!!!? It’s still a regular in my sets! And now it’s available …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

FORT KNOX FIVE: 10 Years Of Fort Knox Five Remixed (2013) + ‘We Love To Bring Back The Funk’ free download

How’s this for a plan: you get fifteen of the finest bass n breaks producers to remix fifteen of your finest tracks from ten years of adventures in the world of party breaks production and assemble them in ascending order of bpm? This, ladies and gentlemen, is precisely what the mighty Fort Knox Five have lined up for release in ten days time on their own (what else?) Fort Knox Recordings label. But into whose sweaty palms did FK5 deliver their original material? The lineup is BIG and includes the likes of the following: A Skillz & Krafty Kuts (once together and a solo joint from each!), Badboe, …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

A SKILLZ: Beats International ‘Dub Be Good To Me’ (Festival Edit)(2013) Free download

Well this is jam hot isn’t it? That boy from the big bad city, A Skillz, has only gone and retouched Beats International’s Dub Be Good To Me in time for festival season – hence this ‘Festival edit’. This song has been in my life so long it’s like it’s always been there. It came out right about when I started to go out clubbing – I remember dancing to it at in Bristol’s legendary rave/ squat/ graffiti-gallery/ skate ramp The Pink …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

PERFECT TOY RECORDS proudly presents: Shake-A-Leg Vol. 2 Club Night Compilation (2013)

Ah – the old ‘put together a compilation that recreates the feel of one of your club night sets’ eh? Actually yeah. Problem with that? One trusts not when the djs in question are Tramp Records boss/ crate digger extraordinaire, Tobias Kirmayer, and latin-jazz producer Jerker Kluge a.k.a the hosts and djs of Munich’s Shake-A-Leg club night. Cue their second Shake-A-Leg compilation bursting at the seams with big cuts selected from a wealth of funk, soul, reggae, latin, afrobeat…and dancefloor …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

A SKILLZ: Think (It Takes Two) feat Lyn Collins – free download

It’s reassuring to know that the mighty Lyn Collins ‘features’ on what is essentially a remix of her own song – still – this is a remix by the mighty A Skillz so we’ll let him off. If you’re one of the three people who hasn’t yet heard this, imagine Lyn Collins still-fresh original, cut up a bit with Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock’s massive ’88 hip-hop club banger It Takes Two (which almost entirely consists of samples from Collins’ version) and regularly punctuated with ...READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DJ NU-MARK: Broken Sunlight Series 3 – ‘Our Generation’ feat. Ernie Hines/ ‘The Fever’ feat. A-Skillz (2012) Free download

Hello. New Nu-Mark. It’s the third drop in the former J5 dj’s Broken Sunlight album series and the title cut is a re-edit of Ernie Hines’ classic seventies funk number Our Generation. Like the original, it kicks off with a couple of bars of dope funk rock riff but quickly settles into a mellow soul groove. If you’d prefer a bit more heat it’s over on the flip on the shape of a collabo with A-Skillz who is…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DJ LOVE feat Geechi Suede: Zigga Zigga – 2011

DJ LOVE feat Geechi Suede: Zigga Zigga – 2011
RATING: 5/5
Hot damn this is the best thing I’ve heard Geechi Suede on since Camp Lo dropped Black Hollywood way back in 2007! Dallas-based DJ Love shows he’s no musical cowboy with a beat that could cause a stampede on any dancefloor. It’s not that it’s particularly fast nor especially lairy, more that it’s harder to resist than a sexy Mexican maid with nothing innocent on her mind. Yes, this is a beat with more bounce to the ounce than most and that Flamenco vamp at the start deserves to become as famous as the fanfare at the start of House of Pain’s Jump Around…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

EWAN HOOZAMI- Free mashup madness!

EWAN HOOZAMI- Free mashup madness!
Bristol beatmonger Hoozami, gets in on the end of year/ start of new year free download craziness with some of his own. That’s right – not ‘one’ – ‘some.’ Clearly not a man to be outdone, the rising producer (whose debut breaks and beat-fest LP Wildebeats recently dropped on Pig Balls Records`) here conjures up no less than four mashups as he fiendishly engages in splicing experiments with the efforts of the good and the great culminating in the hybrid brilliance of…DOWNLOAD/ READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

GRINNY GRANDAD: Good Girl (A Skillz remix) 7” – 2010 – Single review

GRINNY GRANDAD: Good Girl (A Skillz remix) 7” – 2010 – Single review
RATING: 5/5
In which A Skillz transforms the somewhat innocent original into a rather more naughty slice of brassy, beat-heavy funk, mainly by speeding it up by 10 bpm or so and adding a bigger drums. Neither factor detracts from singer Kymberley Kennedy’s Aguilera-esque vocal and both render the track guaranteed dancefloor artillery. The fact thatREAD THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM