MONKEYBOXING.COM – Top 10 Albums 2013

What can I say? 2013 was big for boom-bap hip-hop and retro funk and soul. N.B. This chart is created from from a highly complex algorithm derived from how often shit gets played on the MB sound system. 1. Deltron 3030 – Deltron Event 2 Despite the odd dodgy skit, the second coming of Deltron 3030 was still epic…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DON CAVALLI: Temperamental (2013)

Five years down the line from last LP Cryland and funky bluesman Don Cavalli has clearly made another crossroads deal with Satan again for the equally brief and equally brilliant Temperamental. For those not familiar with the Don, what he likes to do on record is rock up, provide extremely funky delta blues with vocals in sung in English (with an American blues rasp and the faint ghost of the cadences of his native French accent) and disappear the early side of forty minutes. If you imagine a not-so-heavy Black Keys …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM