CMC & SILENTA: Feature Breaks Vol 1 (2011) + 'Blue Brothers' free download

CMC & SILENTA: Feature Breaks Vol 1 (2011) + 'Blue Brothers' free download
Feature Breaks Volume 1 sees Manmade Records label owners CMC & Silenta inaugurate the new vinyl series on their other label Roca Records and they’re so excited they’re giving away an EXCLUSIVE FREE DOWNLOAD of their huge good-time funky breaks club classic BLUE BROTHERS via monkeyboxing HERE. As with other Roca releases the emphasis is on sample-free music. First up is a fat-ass, shooting-from-the-hip, wobbly-bass-synth toting refix of the Dub Pistols/ Rodney P cut Ganja…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

MANMADE RECORDS: Feature Funk Vol. 7 – 2011

MANMADE RECORDS: Feature Funk Vol. 7 – 2011
A game of two halves this one. The A side consists of label bosses CMC & Silenta continuing to sidestep predictability with an disco-breaks/ wobbly-bassed/ big female vox-powered cut that seems to have been formulated solely for the purpose of convincing those formerly enamoured of house music that, yes, the nu/ ghetto funk scene has something for them. I certainly didn’t expect that. Then we’ve got new boy Busta who goes a bit electro and applies some LL Cool J but seems in spirit as Majorca bound as C & S. The B-side is…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

MANMADE RECORDS: Gold Edition - 2010

MANMADE RECORDS: Gold Edition - 2010
Old funk, nufunk, ghettofunk, blue funk – Dr Seuss would have a field day as we live through the most amusing genre-name wars since the old trip-hop vs. blunted beats conflict of the mid-nineties. All that aside, Manmade celebrate their tenth release with some 24 carat action in the form of a double vinyl EP – you know that’ll be cut loud …READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

MANMADE RECORDS: Feature Funk Vol. 6

MANMADE RECORDS: Feature Funk Vol. 6
And I thought August was supposed to be a slack month for music. You know how it is – artists and the public alike off at festivals indulging in free love and expensive drugs (if not expensive love and free drugs) and nobody seeing any point in releasing anything until September restores sanity. Apparently not this August though for Manmade deliver volume 6 of their ongoing Feature Funk series and its another good-time, floor-filling package of bootlegs from the cheesier end of the nu-funk spectrum. What you get is hands-in-the-air, big-club breakbeat restylings of Hit The Road Jack, The Velvelettes He Was Really Saying Something, a very cheeky use of The Mohawks Beat Me Til I’m Blue by CMC & Silenta plus a frankly Brie-tinged (or similarly aromatic Lithuanian equivalent) appropriation of Deep Purple’s Smoke On The Water…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

MANMADE: Feature Funk Vol. 2

MANMADE: Feature Funk Vol. 2
The second in today’s brace of mash-up science 12"s, in truth this has been out a short minute already as swift glance at the MB chart for October will reveal with the Slynk track at number ten. And in hindsight that’s languishing way too low. It is the jewel in the crown of this EP and with it Brisbane's Slynk takes sixties-diva Mavis Staples’ soul torch song slowy You’re The Fool, drops in a bit of the ‘Stones, some dialogue from what I think is Beat Street then – as if you hadn’t already guessed – ups the bpms and adds a rather large breakbeat. The other tracks don’t fuck around either.
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