TREMENDO BIG RECORDS presents: TELEPHUNKEN Artist EP 01 (2013)

I was only thinking at the weekend that I hadn’t heard from Telephunken‘s Tremendo label and then this EP turned up. With a title like ‘Artist EP 01′ I’m sensing this one is the first in a new artist-focussed series. And I have to say, if it was my label and I was a producer, I reckon I’d be the first artist I’d feature. Apparently, Telephunken thinks the same way because guess who delivers 3 slices of straight up party wobble breaks on this? You can …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

TREMENDO: Dirty Funk Vol. 1 (2012)

That the raison d’etre of Vol. 1 of this new series (i.e. Dirty Funk) on Telephunken‘s Tremendo label seems to be to put the funk back into ghetto funk will come as no end of relief to those who were wondering if that ‘f’ word was (with honourable exceptions) becoming as redundant as the ‘funky’ in ‘funky’ house always has been. It opens with Trotter & Telephunken getting all stank with the seventies – a theme continued to equal party effect by Jayl Funk while DJ Soo & Tim Livingstone (egg-)roll the years back to the sixties because they ain’t just checking any funk sources, they’re checking M&S Band funk sources. Next …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

TRU FUNK: Nu Party Breaks Vol. 4 (2012)

Ahhh the party breaks/ funky breaks/ ghetto funk compilation – you’re never quite sure what the content will include these days. Bit of glitch hop? Er – alright, yeah. Drum n bass? Not really my bag, man. Moombahton? No ta. Dubstep? Fuck off. Which is where Tru Funk come in. The missing ‘e’ indicates that we’re all modern ‘n shit but there is actually a clear link with the thang that James Brown instigated. Which might explain why with …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

TREMENDO Vol. 3: Various (2012)

Er, yeah – so this should’ve been posted last week. If you didn’t know, the man behind the Tremendo label is Spanish ghetto funker Telephunken. That’s Señor Telephunken to you. Or Senor Tremendo. Sounds like a magician – which is apt since his first trick, I mean track, (well – it is his label) is to sample Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name – just in time for its twentieth ...READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

TREMENDO Vol. 1: Various (2011)

TREMENDO Vol. 1: Various (2011)
Telephunken drops the first release on his own label Tremendo here and its eight floor fillers from across the ghetto funk/ funky breaks spectrum from the likes of his own bad self, Stickybuds, The Captain, Tom Drummond, Bobby C Sound TV, Bryx, The Breakbeat Junkie and Ursula 1000. Basically there’s ammunition here for virtually every style of breaks dj occasion: you’ve got your old-school flavoured cuts like Breakbeat Junkie’s Neneh Cherry-sampling Take A Stance…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

TELEPHUNKEN: Latin Demon EP (2011)

TELEPHUNKEN: Latin Demon EP (2011)
Alright, so this has been out for a bit – I figured if I went on holiday for two weeks in the middle of August it’d be a slow news fortnight as far as music was concerned but I return to an inbox busier than Gaddafi’s ‘inner compound’. One assumes the phrase ‘Latin Demon’ was intended to convey an olive-skinned Mr Lover Lover type rather than some leathery-winged denizen of hell obsessed with the difference between the dative and the locative in a dead language (“What's this, then? "Romanes eunt domus"?”)…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

BIG M PRESENTS…Vol. 9 - Various Banging Artists No.3 – 2011

BIG M PRESENTS…Vol. 9 - Various Banging Artists No.3 – 2011
Big M goes bigger and harder than ever this ‘Banging Artists’ drop. Rightly leading with Funkanomics scarily heavy Cypress Hill rerub of Lick A Shot the monstrous ghetto funked-up Licky Shot and then Chris Awesome cooks up a fat one - see what I did there?. Telephunken (clearly not contented with having his own four track EP out on Big M currently) has a bash at reworking Edwyn Starr’s heavy soul…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

BIG M PRESENTS…Vol. 10: TELEPHUNKEN - All The Mamis EP – 2011 + All The Mamis video

BIG M PRESENTS…Vol. 10: TELEPHUNKEN - All The Mamis EP – 2011 + All The Mamis video
Spanish nu/ghettofunker funker Telephunken gets an EP all to himself on scene label Big M and dials in with four big slices of nu/ghettofunk kicking off with what certain people will insist on calling a ‘titty shaker.’…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