Shaggy – Stand Up - Donna Summer is dead. Here’s some dancehall instead. Shaggy, best known for his commercial smashes has got a load of more “credible” tracks in his back catalogue. Among them this heavy dancehall chugger from his 2004 Clothes Drop album sampling Keith and Tex /The Spanishtonians. To be fair, the rest of the album is bollocks.
Acid One (Snuff Crew Instrumental Remix) - ACID HOUSE JACKER - Rave synth stabs, jacking beats and gurgling 303 lines: It’s all gone a bit 90′s for this solid acid track from Sydney’s Bang Gang crew.
Shakes – Gangbusters [Gella Remix] - BREAKBEAT RAVE GROOVE A superb driving groove that goes to prove that there is life yet ni the hackneyed old dog of breaks. Admittedly the dog is half blind, can’t feed itself and smells like death but it’s breaks. Call it “Future Jungle” if you like but it’s still going to shit all over your [...]
Escort – Starlight - SUPERB DISCO HOOK Drums Of Death fucked up this track and named it, quite rightly, DRUMSOFDEATHFUCKSUPANESCORT. It never occurred to me that DOD had actually remixed Escort so when I stumbled across this on last years Escort LP I was spunking rainbows for the rest of the afternoon.
Grand Master Flash – This Sunday @ Brixton Club House - Grand Master Flash is warming up for me on Sunday at the Brixton Club House for the next instalment of the “Up On Roof” all-day rooftop parties in South London. Which is nice. Apparently his rider lists a bunch of tunes that mustn’t be played before he gets on the decks. But seeing as I’m [...]
Gregory Jolly – What Em Doin Is My Business (Sensus Soul Funk Lounge Remix) - It’s usually good advice to steer clear of anything that waves around the “Funky” adjective like a piss head with his cock out. Similar advice applies to anything that proports to be “jazzy”. Clicking carefully on this Sensus Soul remix throws all that good advice down the shitter and drums up this superb refix that [...]
Duff Disco – 6Pac - DEEP AND DOPE Duff Disco announced a little while back that he was to cease production of his superb vinyl bootlegs. Either the PRS came knocking or he was simply wracked with guilt from sampling Mark Morrison. How could he sleep at night knowing he’d diddled “The Mack” out of a few quid ? Taking [...]
Mooqee – Supacat Police - ALL STAR REGGAE MASH Okay, I got one:Cutty Ranks, Bob Marley and KRS ONE walk into a bar, right. The joke unfolds with hilarious consequences. Unless the barman happens to be gay then it’s really not going to end well.
SPD – TUNWAN - AFRICAN LICKED FUTURE GARAGE Slime Recordings go right back to the very roots of civilisation for this superb,African licked, bass excursion. Forging a strong debut for its 32nd release SPD demonstrates the attention to production values and sophistication that keeps the Slime Records flag flying high.
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