HERMA PUMA: Busta Lockdown (Free download)

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GREGG GREEN: Propaganda (Prod. HERMA PUMA)

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HERMA PUMA: The Bob Ross EP (2016)

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HERMA PUMA feat. QnC: Killing Me (2015)

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SLIMKID3 & NU-MARK: No Pity Party (PIMPERNEL JONES remix) (2014) Free download

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FRAMEWORKS & BLURUM 13: Moonlighting (2013)

Reliable transatlantic hip-hop duo Frameworks & Blurum 13 release a new single off the rather solid Brickbuilders LP and it’s latin-tinged slab of musical masonry Moonlighting. Blurum’s lyrical focus is less his post-dayjob work in the studio however, than what happens when he pops into a bar en route. One glass of blackberry lemonade down and he’s all spun out by the hypnotic eyes of a women on a poster behind the bar who resembles an ancient middle eastern goddess. Or something. Blackberry …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

COCOA: Get Down On It EP (2013)

Sticking with the boom bap theme, here’s the Get Down On It EP. Nothing to do with Kool & The Gang of course, this is strickly in the name of hip-hop – courtesy of French production team CocoA whose debut drop this is. Fat breaks, fat as fuck production, scratchy old samples, scratching with scratchy old samples, big old horn and flute loops – it’s all there. No rapping though. Oh wait – here’s Herma Puma with Gregg Green on a more…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Hip To Remix (2012)

On which Renegades Of Jazz continues his mission to reclaim use of the word ‘hip’ to mean ‘rather well-informed about and appreciative of’ from its association with a certain eighties yuppie pop anthem. But that’s enough about Huey Lewis – let’s skip to the news which is that Renegades Of Jazz’s superb Hip To The Jive album has been remixed as Hip To The Remix. Yep,…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

HERMA PUMA: Synchro Remixed EP One (2012)

For the Synchro Remixed EP One – UK/ US hip-hop production duo Herma Puma a.k.a. Pimpernel Jones and Simple X have floated their rather good mellow-hop debut LP Synchromystic out into the seas of remix to be picked up by the likes of Tall Black Guy, Ross PTH of Wah Wah 45s, Lopez and Ariya vs. The Ones to do with as they will. All concerned have …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Blow Your Horn (Andy Taylor remix)/ Seaside Suicide (Herma Puma Remix) (2011)

RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Blow Your Horn (Andy Taylor remix)/ Seaside Suicide (Herma Puma Remix) (2011)
If you’re on top of your funky ass shit this year you ought to have caught Renegades Of Jazz’s superb Hip To The Jive LP – an album which has virtually single-handedly rescued the jazzier side of funk-related music from the smug clutch of self-indulgent whiteboy jazz funkers. Who better to remix than ROJ then and who better…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

HERMA PUMA: Jungle Brothers vs. Peacemakers (Herma reblend) (2011)

HERMA PUMA: Jungle Brothers vs. Peacemakers (Herma reblend) (2011)
Did you hear the one about what you get if you cross Jimbrowski by old school hip-hop legends Jungle Brothers with Don’t Push Your Luck by old school funk legends The Peacemakers? No? Dope shit is what. It ain’t funny but it’s sure as hell is funky. Transatlantic production team Herma Puma (a.k.a. producers Simple X and Pimpernel Jones) dropped their LP Synchromystic which was stuffed with enough old school-influenced goodness to induce an instant pimp limp…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

FIRST WORD RECORDS: First Word Is Seven (2011) – free download

FIRST WORD RECORDS: First Word Is Seven (2011) – free download
“Funk, soul, hip-hop, reggae, beats and beyond” – here’s a drop that’s right up the monkey’s street and it’s freer than Mr Humphries from Are You Being Served on his day off. Leeds-based First Word Records is seven years old (hence the title First Word Is 7) and by way of celebration they’ve put up an album for download gratis.
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QWEL & MAKER feat. Scud One: Megaphone (Herma Puma remix) – 2011

QWEL & MAKER feat. Scud One: Megaphone (Herma Puma remix) – 2011
Typically more relaxed than a stoner’s duvet-day, production duo Herma Puma bring their mellow-hop aesthetic to Qwel & Maker’s Scud One-featuring Megaphone track and, in doing so, transform the Chi-town underground sound to some sort of ATCQ-inflected Chill-town underground sound.…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

HERMA PUMA – Jollys (Ariya Afrobeat Arkestra remix)

HERMA PUMA – Jollys (Ariya Afrobeat Arkestra remix)
Christmas is the season that just keeps on giving isn’t it? And here we are again with the week’s third stocking filler free download. This time it’s an afrobeat interpretation of Herma Puma’s blissed out hip-hop instro from their dope debut album Synchromystic (recently featured in the…DOWNLOAD/ READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

TENSEI & THE PRIMERIDIAN (feat. Mike Flo): Full Throttle – Free download

TENSEI & THE PRIMERIDIAN (feat. Mike Flo): Full Throttle – Free download
If you caught Herma Puma’s super-chilled hip-hop LP Synchromystic earlier this year this may appeal since producer Simple X of Herma Puma is also part of Tensei. I have it on good authority that Full Throttle is a taster of a forthcoming project with Chicago’s Primeridian crew who I last heard on one of the monkey’s all time hip-hop LPs – All Natural’s Second Nature. If anything it’s a little grittier and darker than anything on Synchromystic but retains…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM