FUNKSHONE: It Ain’t Never Gonna Work/ Aberlady Fry (2011)

FUNKSHONE: It Ain’t Never Gonna Work/ Aberlady Fry (2011)
Funkshone follow up their mighty Soul Survivor with a new seven inch before their second album drops. Less raw than earlier releases, vocal cut Ain’t Never Gonna Work featuring Jaelee Small channels the seventies via the nineties. What? Yeah – it’s that twenty year retro cycle thing isn’t it because guess was hot in 1991 apart from grunge? That’s right retro seventies funk. So…er - that means this sounds like music from twenty years ago, that was trying to sound like music from twenty years before that. Ladies and gentlemen I give you…neo-retro-funk. Yep, Mike Bandoni and the boys are tapping into the same vein that Freestyle and Record Kicks and Smoove & Turrell have all been heavily hitting recently with no small success. …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

LACK OF AFRO: Special Baby 12” release details

LACK OF AFRO: Special Baby 12” release details
The Lack is back with the jazz-funkiest of cuts and I have to say I’m feeling the re-rubs a bit more as Funkshone’s Mike Bandoni adds some Hammond flourishes and P-Funky bass to the Blue Note-iness of the Special Baby original cut while DJ Flevans gets his disco on with the late-bar jazziness of Flip Beautiful Here. Even so, it’s still all a bit too jazzbo for me. Then again, I’m not a jazzbo…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

FUNKSHONE: Soul Survivor – 2010 – Single review
RATING: 5/5
Funkshone (ably assisted by singer Chris Wilson’s authentic 24 carat vocals) here deliver an impression of soulful seventies funk so convincing that it could easily be mistaken for a long slept-on 45 from Atlantic Records’ basement. It’s not of course and despite…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM