BOBBY OROZA: This Love (album) + Your Love Is Too Cold video

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THE HAWKMEN: The Hawkmen (Album)

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BRONX SLANG: Bronx Slang LP

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WOXOW: Chaos Remixes

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TOM CARUANA presents: Black Gold (WU-TANG vs JIMI HENDRIX) Ltd. black and gold vinyl LP

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THE PUTBACKS: The Putbacks

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MADISON WASHINGTON: Facts (Album)

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D/TROIT: Soul Sound System (Album)(2017)

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JON KENNEDY: HA! LP (2017) + HA! video

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BEI BEI & SHAWN LEE: Year Of The Funky LP (2017)

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RUN-D.M.C: Run-D.M.C. (2016)

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LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS: Special Night (album)(2016)

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MANOSJMT: Shake Your Tail Feather (2016) Free download

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A BAND ON HOPE: A Band On Hope (2016)

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GALACTIC: Into The Deep ‘album’ (2015)

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FORT KNOX FIVE: Pressurize The Cabin LP (2015) + Title track free download

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THE GRITS: Make A Sound (album) (2014)

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VARIOUS: RECORD KICKS 10th (2013)

Record Kicks 10th? Tenth what? Traffic offence? Cup of tea in twenty four hours? Notch on the bedpost? The answer is ‘tenth birthday’ of course, as the Italian label celebrates a decade of bringing funk, soul, jazz, afrobeat, ska, reggae and boogaloo to the people. I celebrated my tenth birthday by blowing out ten candles on my cake and unwrapping a Shakin Stevens cassette. Record Kicks are going somewhat larger with a twenty one track compilation of release highlights, new singles …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DIRTY DUBSTERS: ‘Fire It Up’ album (2013)

Please don’t adjust your seismographs – all that intense activity is just the Dirty Dubsters‘ debut album. Fire It Up finds the boys who put the ‘dub’ into Dublin lighting up the bottom end bong to finally make (split infinitive intentional) their first full-length journey into outer bass. Production crew are the Dubsters themselves of course while vocal crew are guests: Mystro, Leiko Tola, YT, Clinton Sly, Turbulence, Danny Red, Burro Banton, Sista Quanna and the mighty Blackout JA and Bass Nacho. I don’t know about you but I think it’s time for a ‘Byron Crawford’ track by track analysis – haven’t done one of them in a while. Here goes:…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

BADBOE: Pump Up The Funk (album) (2012)

Badboe‘s Pump Up The Funk is number three then – full-length ghetto funk albums of original material this year that is, hot on the heels of big LPs by CMC & Silenta and Featurecast in the autumn. Now, though, it’s the turn of the man who arguably released the first one – back when ‘ghetto funk’ was a term being used by the Guardian to describe Diplo and MIA (no, really) – or at least not long after – when anything involving funk and breaks was still ‘nu-funk’ and anything involving funk and breaks and bass wobble was pretty much just A Skillz’ Insane Bangers crew. Anyway – the …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM