Seasons Greetings, Everyone. Boy o' boy do we have a special holiday treat for you! Fellow Space Cowboy, 8ball, just dropped this eclectic, two-hour mixset, entitled "ALL THE THINGS", under our tree. As the name suggests, 8ball leaves no genre un-sampled in this Armory-exclusive mix. We hope you like! Press play. Enjoy.

8Ball (aka JDW) is one of Space Cowboys' founding members. He started in the mid-90s, playing jungle then breaks at warehouse parties and on the playa. These days 8Ball plays all sorts of genres, from breaks to disco, from old school hip hop to new school funk, rock to electro, and all sorts of stuff in-between. 8Ball is also the producer of The RIPEcast, the Space Cowboys' weekly, Breakspoll-nominated electronic music podcast.

Tracklist

1. My Doorbell (Father Funk Remix) - The White Stripes
2. Bring It Back That Azz Up (Lil Jon & K0ntr0l Blend) - Juvenile f. Mannie Fresh & Lil Wayne vs. Travis Porter
3. I Get Around (feat. Digital Underground) - 2Pac
4. The King (Magic Fly Remix) - See I
5. Freaks 2 (Dj Inko Remix) - N2 Abyss
6. Wobble - V.I.C.
7. Fame (The Apple Scruffs Edit) - David Bowie
8. Runnin (Bit Funk Remix) - The Pharcyde
9. Rock On It (Basement Freaks Remix) - Qdup
10. The Light - Common
11. Fuck Tha Police - Bone Thugs and Harmony
12. So Into You - Chris Malinchak
13. Grown Up (Original x Fly Magnetic Remix) - Danny Brown
14. Gangsta Beat 4 Da Street (Dj Prime Remix) - Easy E
15. Novacane - Frank Ocean
16. In-outs (featuring Cage) - High & Mighty
17. Touched - What So Not
18. Superstition - The Geek x Vrv
19. Red Wine Rebelulation - Funk Ferret
20. Bad Duppy Walk - Slynk
21. Bad Boys (featuring Top Cat) - Ed Solo & Deekline
22. Drop Call (featuring Tenor Fly) - Run Tingz Cru
23. Bongo Bong (DJ GMC Remix) - Manu Chao
24. Sweet Sunshine (feat. Top Cat) - Run Tingz Cru
25. No No No (You Don't Love Me) - Ed Solo & Deekline
26. Lowrider (Ganja Kru Remix) - War
27. Insane (STP Remix) - Skarra Mucci
28. Handclaps - Wood 'n' Soo
29. The 900 Number - The 45 King
30. Doin' It Right (B-Side remix) - Daft Punk
31. Cool - Le Youth
32. Power Boots - Dancefloor Outlaws, Defkline, Red Polo
33. Saturdays (Bobby C Sound TV remix) - De La Soul
34. Blow Your Mind (Featurecast's Saturday In the Park Remix) - The World Class Art Thieves
35. Doggs booty - Nodding Doggs
36. Sha Sha - All Good Funk Alliance
37. Ruffneck (D.END remix) - The Freestylers
38. Can't Do Nuttin' For Ya Man - Public Enemy
39. Peg Leg - Livingstone & Canosis
40. That Body - Sharam Jey
41. Call Me (Bronx Remix) - Chordashian
42. So Many of Us (Original Mix) - Larse feat. Charlie Sputnik
43. Happy Days (Satin Jackets Remix) - Max Lyazgin
44. Heart Of Glass (Oliver & Thee Mike B Remix) - Blondie
45. The Eraser (XXXChange Remix) - Thom Yorke
46. Mother Protect (Goldroom Remix) - Niki & The Dove

8Ball draws inspiration from countless sources, but here are a few of his favorites:
www.soundcloud.com/spacecowboys
www.soundcloud.com/ghettofunk
www.soundcloud.com/runtingzrecordings
www.soundcloud.com/ryanhemsworth
www.soundcloud.com/djdeekline
www.soundcloud.com/sharamjey

And a plug for a local DJ doing excellent nu-disco work: www.soundcloud.com/kevnull

Best way to keep up with 8Ball is through Space Cowboys www.facebook.com/sfspacecowboys

8Ball On Twitter @dj8ball & @joshdamon

8Ball On SoundCloud: www.soundcloud.com/joshdamon

For more of 8Ball's mixes visit www.soundcloud.com/spacecowboys/sets/8ball-mixography

Artwork by www.jempanufnik.com

Hey Gang.

Apologies for the delay with this post, the last couple of weeks all got a bit busy while our house had no roof on it, so unfortunately the blog updates had to be temporarily postponed. Thankfully we have now reconstructed said roof and normal business can be resumed!

Free Music Always great to have something new by Bobby C Sound TV…

Smokey Joe & The Kid have given away a rather tasty remix from their bandcamp page. Love the way it drops into drum & bass for the last section.

Rather like the bass heavy grooves on this from Alfonso Swing:

On first listen I didn’t really know what to make of this from Johnny Lectro but it has certainly grown on me and I’d love to see what it does to a dancefloor! Available from facebook.

Plenty of old style melodies mixed up with scratching and turntablism:

Loving the 50′s style grooves on this tasty freebie from Mr Tomahawk:

Quality downtempo grooves from Al’Tarba. Free download from bandcamp.

New Releases

Electro Swing VI – Bart & Baker The compilation series simply named ‘Electro Swing’ has undoubtedly been the most popular series of releases in the genre and so it’s great to see another addition in the guise of Part 6. Compiled by Bart & Baker there is once again a great selection of tracks including artists such as Kitten & the Hip, Lyre Le Temps, Swing Republic and Parov Stelar. It also includes the dance floor destroying Swing Break by the McMash Clan which should be an essential in everyones collection. Available from itunes.

They haven’t got a minimix to demo it so here’s Swing You Winners which is featured on it:

White Mink 3 It’s not released until 9th December but I had to include the teaser for the upcoming White Mink 3 double album from Freshly Squeezed. They’re repeating their format of modern tracks on CD 1 and vintage originals on CD 2. If the last two are anything to judge by this should be an essential purchase. Check it out!

DJ Mixes I never seem to get through a DJ set without dropping at least one Jamie Berry track so it only seems right that we post one of his mixes too. It’s good too.

Here’s a nice electro swing mix with live instruments over the top:

That’s it for this week. If you’ve got anything you’d like included in future roundups hit me up on soundcloud. To find out more about my own events check out the Electro Swing Ball.

Electro Swing Roundup

As part of Hip Hop Month on BBC Radio 1, JFB has produced a very special Hip Hop BattleMix.

Grab your copy below…

Listen to Rob da Bank every Friday night/Saturday morning 5AM-7AM

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wknd

The funny lads of the Hong Kong Ping Pong crew have just uploaded their latest Beating The Crates Show on NSB Radio to Soundcloud. A rather splendid 2 hour show of the latest mid tempo funk you are likely to hear. For previous shows head on over at the links below.

www.mixcloud.com/hongkongpingpong
www.archives.nsbradio.co.uk

Tracklist

01: Capitol 1212 & Serocee – Making Disturbances (Bluntskull Remix)
02: C@t In The H@ – Drunk N Disorderly (feat Mr FX)
03: Dodge & Fuski Culprate – Vice
04: K More – Ride With Me (Max RubaDub Remix)
05: Morlack – Lets Go Jammin
06: K Theory & Frost Raven – 18th Century Gangster
07: Mary Jane Girls – All Night Long (Father Funk Remix)
08: Tonic – Informer
09: GRiZ – Too Young For Tragedy pt. II
10: HerbGrinder – The Horn
11: Cedar Senior & Imagine This – Funk I’m Kickin’ (Howla Remix)
12: Skeewiff – Fritada De Cumbia (feat Rayna)
13: Tonic – Thistler
14: Ray Charles – I Got A Woman (Father Funk Remix)
15: Jayl Funk – Rising
16: Tonic – Sugar Is Sweeter
17: Krafty Kuts – Feel Like Jumpin (Krossbow Remix)
18: Bobby C Sound TV – DISCO FOURth
19: Tonic – The Way
20: Wood n Soo – Petty Larceny
21: Jamko – Shake Your Pants
22: Jayl Funk – Lowdown Funk
23: Odjbox – Teresina
24: All Good Funk Alliance – Turn The Sound
25: Estelle – American Boy (Father Funk Remix)
26: Dub Pistols – Alive (Benny Kane & DJ Specs Remix)
27: Got KDS Stabfinger – Go_Feet
28: Myniemo – The Boss
29: Ying’n'Yang & Marc Spence – Dirty Donald
30: Shades Of Rhythm – Sweet Sensation (Pimpsoul Remix)
31: BreaksMafia – Hot Winter (Original Mix)
32: Radiokillaz – Unity
33: Danny Byrd – N***as In Paris
34: House Of David Gang – Reggae Warrior (Ed Solo & Stickybuds Remix)
35: Hatty Keane – Best Kept Secret (Erb N Dub Remix)
36: Danny Byrd – Smells Like Teen Spirit
37: Laidback & Deekline Featuring Simm & Midas – Take Me Away (Ed Solo Remix)
38: JFB & Dancefloor Outlaws – Israelites
39: PhonoMatt & Tommy Boy – 5 ‘O Clock (The Captain Remix)

www.hongkongpingpong.co.uk

Co founder and Sleeve Artist Of  legendary Breaks Label Fingerlickin Records … Jem Stone , Has A Free Download to start the Weekend .

Fake Ghosts is weird but funky head nodder with a Housey vibe …

Put it on before ya head  out …

Yo! And warmest of welcomes to Spinforth’s Biweekly SoundCloud Scour #96. Me, Spinforth, with you briefly up top – in a speed Scour stylee cause it’s way past midnight and I’ve still not had my dinner!! – before we head down below for some much more professional Fat Harry intro blurb lovin action.

So yeah, I’ve been massively up against it this week, almost convinced myself I’d even be failing you all in fact, but I cracked on regardless in hope of a successful miracle catch up mission. Seems that miracle has come true, and so have tonight found myself in a mega rush to get this one out there for you all. If I had failed I had a perfect excuse..I lost a usual whole evening of Scouring on Monday, due to still being in recovery from the awesome Bassfunk gig that I Spunforth™ at with Dutty Moonshine in Plymouth on Saturday night. Yep, of course i partied that hard – not for two whole days hard, but still hard enough for my Monday to be a write off – it was a great gig, and great gigs demand a great big messy after party at my good friend The Fritz‘s new pad. Kind of a good job I’ve succeeded I guess, else Mr Fritz would have a lot to answer for! Anyway as it happens I survived both the gig and the good ol fashioned Fritz up afterward. Such a rad weekend, looking forward to re-running that Bassfunk fun, but inna HKPP stylee, next month at Bassfunk presents: The return of Hong Kong Ping Pong! If you reside in or around Plymouth, please bring you!

Ummm..what else can I speedily fill this bit up here with?? Oh yeah, of course, HUUUUUUUUUUUUMONGOUSEST of UP’s to everybody whom has so far supported Scour Records Debut Artist EP from Cedar Senior & Imagine This (previewed for the final time below..just incase anyone failed to check out very well received previous Scour #95)! Incredibly over the past two weeks you’ve landed us #1′s in Juno Download’s Breakbeat, Hip Hop, Reggae charts (all of which at time of writing it’s still holding), aaaand even a few days on top of ALL genres single chart too! Have to give a couple of very thankful respectful nods to Glitch Hop Community for supporting on their

and to www.GlitchHop.NET for featuring it just >>HERE

Release date: **OUT NOW**

Right then, that’s plenty enough Scouraffle™ from me, time to flick you all over to Sir Harry of Fatness for the penultimate time this side of Xmas & New Year. Yep, that really does mean we’re planning on taking a much needed whole 4 weeks OFF for the festive break – i say ‘OFF’..you don’t genuinely think forthcoming Centenary Scour #100 is going to compile itself do you!?

Scour lover thumbers at the ready, aaaaand…

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Cheers Spinny! A gruff and manly bear hug to all the gents and a tender kiss on the back of the hand to all the gentettes in the house! Lovely to see you all looking so sexy and rampant. Hope the weather’s not been too chillard for you and that you’re continuing to keep the festival season alive by still rocking the shorts and sandals – it’s not quite cold enough for the sock and sandal combo just yet!

Pinx is a secret Scour virgin super weapon, very much adored. Here he puts a cheeky scratch over Brother Bones’ Sweet Georgia Brown. This is part of a 90bpm mix he put together for his lovely lady to run a half marathon to – how amazing is that? Mrs Pinx is raising money for Melanoma Research so if you’re feeling the love and have a few dollars to spare maybe you’d like to support her here >> http://www.justgiving.com/mtmrf Respect! 90bpm ▼

Massive feet and testicle owners, Lady lovers and Asian Love Bombs DJ Chamber & DJ Syko team up once more, reworking Rodney P’s Trouble. Excellent work from the best expat crime fighting duo to ever live in Taiwan. Unfortunately both of them wanted to wear Robin’s green tights so they’ll have to be referred to as ‘No Batman and Robin Robin’ but it doesn’t matter :Kapow!: As they’re both :Chop!: equally awesome. Holy stop-punching-me non Batmen! 90bpm ▼

You’ll remember The Geek & VRV from Scour #94, with their slo-mo Stevie Wonder rework (

). Consider your timbers shivered, since then they’ve posted up another twelve or so tracks, we really like ‘After’ but it’s like throwing velcro darts behind your back onto a field of a thousand sleeping badgers – they’re all awesome! 93bpm ▼

Barila Funk drizzles sexy hip hop over Scour Superstar B.Visible. Sounds like the start of a porn movie, wunderba! Welcome to The Scour fella! Barila hails from Actiontown in Germany, which I hope with all my heart is a real place! The B.Visible instrumental is from the stunning Cloud Watching Vol 1 from Riddim Fruit (which you can grab for free from >>HERE

Another welcome to The Scour to Davr! Pop your clothes on the side, we’ll be with you as soon as we’ve taught these hamsters how to not fear fire. Davr Loses the fluff with his, dare we say, moody rework of Danny Brown’s Grown Up. There we are, we said it. Please don’t stab or merk us most severely! Davr belongs to the Random Bastards! stable, a Sweedish skate, snowboard, clothing brand and petting zoo collective from Sweden’s Dirty North. I wanna go! 93bpm ▼

Keeping things mad viking rampagey-pillagey, it’s a pleasure to re-introduce Rollomatik to your very sexy ears. A beautiful hip hop soul blend with plenty of horn and sass. Rollomatik are from Finland, which to our ears just screams Christmas and reindeers and beef and cheese! John Lewis could have employed these boys and had a few quid left over from their 7 million pound advert….or for £30 each they could have had me and Spinforth and Shakin’ Stevens all in tights pushing mince pies into each other. Sexy. 92bpm ▼

I love My Therapist. Not only has he the good ears to put two great things together, he also has the courtesy to fully credit everyone involved. I love him as one of his ingredients is the ever amazing Palov, an artist I love as much as puppies, biscuits and puppy biscuits (mmmm, smell so good) As an avid amateur blurb writer I also follow the A-I-D-A (Attention, Interest, Desire, Action) approach as often as I can and appreciate a fellow acolyte….although I do tend to litter my blurbs with general helpings of A-L-O-B-A-B-A-B (A Lot Of Bollocks and Bullshit and Badgers) 95bpm ▼

Will you look at the time! It’s skank o’clock! Step forward Sir Bruised Willis of Missile! We love Sir Bruce (Good game, good game) This skanktathlon is no ordinary tune, Don’t Worry, Eat Burek is a collaboration with the syrup tongued Las Balkanieras (say hello here) I could listen to those vocals all day long…I wonder if any of them are up for a naked from the waist down arm wrestle? 97bpm ▼

The pathway of a Scour tune is often convoluted and murky, Take Arnivore & Ocelus & Chrispop’s ‘Mamma Said La La Saraghina’. 2012 Kaligola Disco Bazar brought out an EP of extraordinary magnitude (amazeo!) eight months ago Chrispop versioned it, appearing in Scour 82, today Arnivore & Ocelus dropped The Mamma Said acapella over it and knocked it out of the park! Blaow! How ya like me now?! ALTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD LINK REQUESTED/AVAILABLE ON SOUNDCLOUD/IN TRACK DESCRIPTION 102bpm ▼

SCOUR #96 EXCLUSIVE: What happens when you put three titanic legends in the same room? Worlds collide, dark matter gets liberally spilt as if it was money shot juice, Quasars form and black holes occur. So just your general high grade shenanigans. DJ Inko remixes Timothy Wisdom and Busta!’s Pound For Pound sublimely….we hope Inko has a jaunty hat, NO ONE wears a hat of such jauntiestness as our Tim and Busta! Click on the following text to grab your very kindly donated..>>SCOUR EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD LINK RIGHT HERE

Cheshire is a bit of a fox in the box. Awesome EP earlier in the year and you may remember his disgustingly rude Down In Mexico track from a few Scour’s ago. Chunky and lovely, like a Yorkie chocolate bar. Do they still make Yorkies? I used to like the Cabana, but that was a bit acid jazz. (If I had a hashtag on my laptop i’d put one in here) :Random Chocolate bars they don’t make anymore: 104bpm ▼

The Father baits his lines and once again goes fishing for girls in the river of love. I remember when his tunes had more hooks in than the bit in hellraiser when they open that box and the multitude of hooks fly around and cause some serious damage, good to see the more mature Father casually strolling down to the river and dropping in the one massive, solid gold hook that screams “I AM FUNK, COME GET SOME!” 104bpm ▼

D.End has a fiddle with House Of Pain’s Jump Around. Lovely work, very uniquely D.End who does nothing to dispel the rumour that he is Kraftwerk’s love child, separated at birth and raised by a family of bass guitars and monkey porn stars. 106bpm ▼

Is this a back door ‘wiff? Nobody puts baby in the corner and nobody let’s DJ Steve Jones in through the back door (..easy now, not like that). Steve Jones adds a little bit of something sexy to something that is already very sexy, i’m not sure what that makes him….triple sexy? Akin to putting Nigella in my mind with two swedish Au Pairs, a world of nylon and a big bag of extra curricula’s. There’s nothing backdoor about that… ALTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD LINK REQUESTED/AVAILABLE ON SOUNDCLOUD/IN TRACK DESCRIPTION 108bpm ▼

The Bas Lexter Ensample made one of my favourite songs of the summer, Kilburn Soulshaker. Remember rolling around in the back of the (previously known as) Holy Rolly at Boomtown with that skanking out of the back doors, good times! Austria’s Ras Gass (welcome to The Scour sir!) has had a tasty little tinker with it, dive in! – your crates will thank you for also grabbing the original!

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His Royal highness DJ Wood has very kindly let this one out of the bag for our listening and dancing pleasure – No Ice Cream On The Road, I love sensible song titles, i’m working on ‘No Shouting In The Back’ and ’No heavy Petting Or Bombing’ Big Love n thanks Sir Wood x 110bpm ▼

Tighten your belts and batten down your hatches! Your spleen and pancreas may well be about to jump ship! Professor WBBL (..for he has just graduated) does James Brown proud with added bass and bounce. Hopefully his degree isn’t in engineering, we wouldn’t want to lose him in some kind of Wesley Crusher/Star Trek young genius type of affair. Employers of Earth, give WBBL a Job that keeps him on this planet! Thankyouplease. 110bpm ▼

DJ Dub:ra gives Heavy D’s Don’t Curse a 110bpm beef-up. I must confess I was quickly on the hotline to Spinforth to ping Dub:ra for not name checking Booker T & The MGs, my bad for not realising that’s exactly what Heavy D did back in the day, also a touch of The Tramp in there, probably a load of other gems these old mans ears are too feeble to pick out. Now, where’s my horlicks? Oh, there it is. I seem to have wet myself too. 110bpm ▼

DJ GrooveCellar! You’ve done it again! Who’d have thought a marriage between Manhattan Transfer and Cut Chemist would be so bloody amazing! DJ GrooveCellar, that’s who. I’m going to keep my eye on him, his milkshake is bringing all my girls to the yard. Damn right! 112bpm ▼

Ocelus’s remix of Sublime’s What I’ve Got. A dance floor filler for sure. At various times throughout my life – and in wildly contrasting scenarios – i’ve been asked ‘What I’ve got’ Pubic Lice is one particular reply that springs to mind which brought all conversation to a stand still. Scratch that! 112bpm ▼

DJ Inko strikes again! A Doors rework that stays true to the original with added chop and mustard is never going to be far away from The Scour. I wonder what Jim would be like today had he not passed. Would he be all woolly like Paul Mcartney or all stringy like Iggy. Would he still be the King Snake dressed in leather or would he be in a nice warm jumper and slippers, perhaps with a precautionary lemsip in hand, to take the edge off? 116bpm ▼

Hopefully you would have purchased by now your copy of the very excellent JayL Funk EP out on ReSoul, and available to purchase >>HERE

Gus Pirelli delivers the Ragga Boogie (yes, the boogie) on Mr Benn’s track ‘Without A Trace’, ably assisted by The Ragga Twins who are all ‘up in the place’ as only the Ragga Twins can be. Mr Benn’s beautiful album is available >>HERE

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CMC&Silenta are clever buggers with ears like musical encyclopaedias. Incredibly well played to spot ‘runnin’! Crack open all your glowsticks and join us as we enjoy their D&B rework of Pharrell Williams’ Happy. Are we? We are? Is there a Yoda echo in here?! Are we? We are? Is there a Yoda echo in here?! Yes, there is. Is there? Yes. 162bpm ▼

Thank you for taking your time once again to follow The Scour, we hope you had fun, there were tears, there was laughter, there were badgers and some crazy stunts, claret was spilt, violence was offered, sex was had, funk was shared, jazz was spared and no one got seriously hurt, which is how we like it. It leaves us now to cleanse your palate and wipe your weary brow with this incredibly beautiful Curveball stylee shaped thing from Dropsteady Freddy; his Jazz (D’oh), Snares and Love Affairs EP is rather stunning. 80/112/76bpm ▼

Check back on all previous Scours via: >>The Scour Archives<<.

I was lucky enough to stumble across this record when browsing for new tunes and it rocked the shit out of my Friday night funk slot in Ealing. So to discover that Jayl Funk is giving it away for free was really cool – its a must have weapon for when you just need to inject a little fun yet it’s … screw that, it’s just a big bouncy ball of a tune.

That’s right y’all! Rektchordz teams up with Birmingham bass, house and garage producing / DJing duo – Crown Duels. No politics, no messing, just a big, good vibes track to enjoy! Rolling with a soulful vocal and punchy beats, we look forward to see what comes next in Jamie’s ‘free feel good’ project.

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Stickybuds – Wicked Release !

B-Side – Tonic is a bit fuckin good really isn’t he!

Wood  – Dope tunes!

Lewd Behaviour – HUGE!!

DubPistols – 4 bombs right here

Spinforth – Top notch EP

Dancefloor Outlaws – 4 beats the size of battleships!!

Slynk – This EP is SICK! Love it.

Funkanomics – Dopeness, will play those out for shure !!

Timothy Wisdom – Jam packed with Massive Bangers. Tonic is all I’m sipping these days.

Morphosis (HKPP) – Goddam Tonic at it again, sneaks up on you nice n easy like and then BLAM… smashes your back doors in.

WBBL – Sweet Jesus! Tonic is on fire I tells ya!

Basement Freaks – hot jams