BASEMENT FREAKS: Instrumental bootlegs - free download

BASEMENT FREAKS: Instrumental bootlegs - free download
Instrumental mash-up booty y'all! Courtesy of 'King (Leonidas) of the (break)beats' George Fotiadis. Better known as Basement Freaks...…DOWNLOAD/ READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

CTRL Z: Ruffneck ’09 – Free downloads

CTRL Z: Ruffneck ’09 – Free downloads
DJs Dash and Inch resurrect an old Freestylers track. I have some reservations about the advisability of this but then some people’ll dance to anything when they’ve had few chemicals – Pendulum for example. Anyway – those links:…DOWNLOAD/ READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

FOREIGN BEGGARS: ‘Seven Figure Swagger’ release details + United Colours Of Beggatron promo pics

FOREIGN BEGGARS: ‘Seven Figure Swagger’ release details + United Colours Of Beggatron promo pics
FB’s make the right choice for their next single picking the ‘other’ banger off new LP United Colours Of Beggatron. I challenge anyone to listen to Seven Figure Swagger and not walk around for the rest of the day chanting the chorus in the faces of anyone who will listen and especially those who won’t. Seven Figure Swagger b/w Don’t Dhoow It is released via Dented Records / Essential Music on November 23rd – review to follow. In the meantime, check the press release below for more details and the following pics to see the (frankly worrying) results when you let the Beggars loose on Photoshop with Bennetton’s back catalogue of adverts as source material…SEE PICS/ READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

DANIEL MERRIWEATHER: Water & A Flame (feat. Adele) - 2009 - Single review + Video

DANIEL MERRIWEATHER: Water & A Flame – 2009 – Single review
RATING: 0.5/5
More smug and puke-inducing than one of those middle class couples who don’t have the bollocks to admit they’re Tories, this will doubtless play on said couples car stereo as they take little Poppy and Jasper to pony club. Listening to it, my life-force started to…VID LINK/ READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

FORGE YOUR OWN CHAINS: Heavy Psychedelic Ballads & Dirges 1968-74

FORGE YOUR OWN CHAINS: Heavy Psychedelic Ballads & Dirges 1968-74
Is it me? Or has there just been an underwhelming amount of promo for this? I sometimes wonder if people want to sell stuff at all. Egon and Now Again records dig deep in the funky psychedelia...…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

SLUT clothing

SLUT Clothing
The name alone should indicate that Slut is not a company to compromise, so I’m sure that they will have no problem at all agreeing with me when I say that their style is in your face like a money shot. Don’t believe me? Check the pics below. It should come as no surprise to you that they are also a clothing company who know how to get down. Their launch party in 2006 was so impressively debauched they had another one the next week and then
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MANMADE: Feature Funk Vol. 3

MANMADE: Feature Funk Vol. 3
The next instalment of mental mash-up mayhem from Manmade with Javier Morillas, Slynk and D*Funk all taking a disco-influenced approach this time around - although it all sounds suspiciously like they’re trying to ‘house’ you. This means it’s up to label bosses CMC & Silenta to wheel out the heavy artillery with…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

APATHY: Wanna Snuggle – 2009 – Album review

APATHY: Wanna Snuggle – 2009 – Album review
HIGHLIGHTS: On And Off The Mic (feat. Blacastan) – Shoot First (feat. B-Real – Anyday (feat. King Magnetic) – No Sad Tomorrow (feat. Holly Brook) – Victim (feat. Holly Brook)
SOUNDBITE: “Biting imitator, you ain’t even fly you’s a flight simulator”
RATING: 4/5
What a shame there wasn’t a nice old-fashioned interfering record company around to trim the fat off Wanna Snuggle’s twenty-odd track length into the lean mean fourteen track hip-hop machine that I created on iTunes. Still, that’s what it’s all about these days isn’t it? The digital age has brought the power to the people. Apathy no longer needs a record company (this is self-released) and I have the power of an executive producer. On the other hand…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

BLAKROC: Dollaz & Sense feat. RZA & Pharoahe Monch

BLAKROC: Dollaz & Sense feat. RZA & Pharoahe Monch
Rap rock – get it right and everyone will walk your way. Get it wrong and your biscuit will be limper than a soggy krackawheat and less appetising. Enter the Blackroc project a.k.a The Black Keys who (as everybody knows) are the world’s best rock band and all your favourite rappers’ favourite rappers including Mos Def, RZA, Raekwon, Q-Tip, Pharoahe Monch…HEAR AUDIO/ READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

BREAKESTRA: Dusk Till Dawn – 2009 – Album review

BREAKESTRA: Dusk Till Dawn – 2009 – Album review
HIGHLIGHTS: Come On Over (feat Afrodyete) – You’ll Never Know – Joyful Noise – Posed To Be (feat. Chali 2Na, Mixmaster Wolf & DJ Dusk)
SOUNDBITE: "Dedicated to the fallen soldiers, and all the true blue MCs/ So let DJ Dusk show you where it's at and where it's really supposed to be"
RATING: 3.5/5
L.A.s. funk ‘orchestra’ return with their difficult third LP and prove once again that they should never be in charge of their own vocals. I don’t mean that Miles and Wolf can’t sing, it’s just that when Miles is on mic duty he sounds a bit like that bloke from early 90s jazz funk bastards Freak Power while Wolf has got the growl but not (apparently) the range and ends up doing more of a jazzy scatman thing. With the breaks the ‘Stra are dropping
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