DJ DNA feat. KURTIS BLOW: ‘Far Far Away’ (Stu Mix) video (2014)

In keeping with the accidental eighties theme today, how about this? A cranking old school electro hip-hop mix of Far Far Away by DJ DNA (of Urban Dance Squad fame) which features none other than (and few more old school than) the world’s first commercially successful rapper Kurtis Blow! DJ Stu takes the boogie-tinged original album version and goes all crunchy 8-bit Atari on your ass. The video kicks off with what …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

AFRIKA BAMBATAA feat. GRANDMASTER FLASH, MELLE MEL & KURTIS BLOW: We Funk This Party Out (Qdup & AGFA Remix) (2013) Free download

Having all your favourite first wave of NY hip-hop emcees together on one record holding forth about the ‘pioneers’ and how ‘everyone dances when they hear the funk drop’ would sound a lot more convincing were it not happening over a nineties house beat. Someone should really do something about that. Oh wait…they have. Step forward Qdup and the All Good Funk Alliance who bring the…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DJ DNA feat. PAX & KURTIS BLOW: The Sum Of The Sound (2012)

Can there conceivably be another MB 5 star recommendation in a week when even the tracks without one pretty much merit one? About four bars of this should decide you the answer’s a ‘yes’. Mysterious Dutchman DJ DNA has only gone and hooked up with hip-hop legend Kurtis Blow as well as Pax from respected Dutch hip-hop duo Pax & Pry for stompin’ sixties garage-soul-shuffle-hip-hop-party thing …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM