BASEMENT FREAKS: ‘Booty Shackin’ DJ Mix (2014) Free download

In internet time, posting about Basement Freaks‘ latest Dj mix two weeks after it dropped is akin to the media reporting Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination in Sarajevo like it’s breaking news. But then two weeks ago was also when Vol. 4 of the latest B mixtape came out and shit was a little busy round here. Never mind – World War 1 is …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

BASEMENT FREAKS: Funk From The Trunk (2013) + Booty Shackin’ Free download

You can count on one hand the number of key players in the forging of the ghetto funk scene who actually had an album of anything out prior to that scene’s creation. But George Fotiadis a.k.a Basement Freaks was one of them. Even so, the funky, latin, afro, nujazz, chilled breaks of his debut Urban Jungle were a far cry from the warping synth-bass line/ breakbeat monsters (of which BF has made his fair share) for which the scene has become known. Nevertheless, last LP Something Freaky was far from a wobble-fest – indeed it was a …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM