That dude, Pecoe, is up to his funk filled tricks once again with yet another fruity flip, this time of James Brown‘s ‘The Boss’. An aptly named tune too as Pecoe’s punchy rework will take charge of you and bring out the moves you never thought you could do!

Download Pecoe’s flip here via Hypeddit.

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How’s about a brand new mix of fresh Jungle & DnB blended to perfection by Vinyl Junkie? If you love your Jungle you’re in for a diverse selection of dubplate damagers on this first class mix. We’ll stop harping on, the music speaks for itself, hit play and hit the share button and let your friends know about this one!!!

JUNGLE – A WAY OF LIFE – VOL 3 (Vinyl Junkie Mixtape) **FREE DOWNLOAD**

An older funky mix from Goodgroove Records 2008 and it’s artist of the time Basement Freaks.

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This mix is part of Breakzlinkz Retro Series: www.breakzlinkz.net/Retro/

Mix from UK’s Featurecast from way back in 2008. The beginnings of the genre Ghetto Funk.

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LIVE recorded bootleg set from 2009 from UK Funkster A Skillz at Bestival back in September 2009.

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Showcasing a bunch of new tunes from his own label Solitude Studio’s, DJ Hero drops some big room bass in the hour long mix of his own work highlighting his ability to produce some damn good dance music.

Tracklist

01. DJ Hero feat. Andy McAllister, Jen Z – Listen To The Drummer (VIP Mix)
02. DJ Hero – Feel The Level (Original Mix)
03. DJ Hero – Picante Bajo (2017 Re-Work)
04. DJ Hero – Freaky D Key (Biggest Rooms Remix)
05. DJ Hero – Turn It Up (Original Mix)
06. DJ Hero – Knockin’ Bins (Original Mix)
07. DJ Hero – 2BTB (Original Mix)
08. DJ Hero – Head Trip (Original Mix)
09. DJ Hero – NAD T770 (Original Mix)
10. DJ Hero – On and On (Original Mix)
11. DJ Hero – Deliver Or Die (Original Mix)
12. DJ Hero – Now (Original Mix)
13. DJ Hero – Take My Hand (Original Mix)
14. DJ Hero – The Big Room (Biggest Rooms Remix)
15. DJ Hero – Corpus Callosum (Biggest Rooms Remix)
16. DJ Hero – Festivále (Biggest Rooms Remix)
17. DJ Hero – Just Blow (Biggest Rooms Remix)
18. DJ Hero – On Da’ Prowl (Original Mix)
19. DJ Hero – Fanatic (Original Mix)
20. DJ Hero – The Party Button (Original Mix)

Sweet LA returns to Onefold Records with the lofty ‘Turned To Dust’, a transcendental journey of a house track with rich dark vocals supplied by Sarah De Warren.

There’s definite shades of the Perfecto sound, Jody Wisternorf and even Sunscreem going all the way back to 1992 on this deep enchanting track with atmospheric swirls of 303s.

K&K add their own shine to the original with a bumpy remix that perfectly compliments the original.

‘Turned To Dust’ is available now on Traxsource

Sweet LA Ft Sarah De Warren- Turned To Dust [Onefold Records]

Bringing more archived action for you with two recordings including the live mix tribute to the late and great Prince. Remixes of The Artist include Basement Freaks, Sammy Senior, B-Side, Jem Stone and B. Rich. There will not be another like him. The May mix includes tracks from artists such as Rektchordz, Freestylers, Deekline & Wizard, Inner Massive, Chase and Status, Left/Right, and Bjork.

Direct Download: State of Breaks – May 2, 2016

Direct Download: State of Breaks – Prince Tribute – April 25, 2016

Playlist:

May 2, 2016

Subranger & Elo Method – Down
Rektchordz & Ben Remember – Never Be
Freestylers v Route 94 – My Love (Freestylers ReFix)
Deekline & Wizard – Angels feat. Yolanda & Vic (MJ Cole 12″ Vocal Remix)
Zinc – Show Me (Iva Re-Twist)
King Arthur – Belong to the Rhythm (King Arthur’s Park Your Car Mix)
Lamont Dex – Glass Heart (2016 Re-Release)
Inner Massive – When Doves Cry feat. K
Grimes – Skin (Sorrow Remix)
Stubborn Heart – Better Than This (TYTHE Remix)
Pensees x Quok x Jan Amit – Anatomy (Aether Remix)
Elènne – King of Thebes (Enzalla Remix)
Matt Lange – Fair and Feral (Original Mix) [Play Me Free]
Anuch Music – Fenix
Dal – Everybody Breaks a Glass ( Dal Remix )
null. – Fleeting Glimpse
Chase and Status Ft Delilah – Time (Star One Remix)
Artful – wasteman (UKG Mix)
Roman Heineken – Session Sucking (Original Mix Special For P310D0301)
Daze Prism – Dawn (Take Me)
Left/Right & Trespass – Sunspot
The Digital Connection – Before The Sunset
Bjork – Venus as a Boy (Parker Remix)
Florence And The Machine – You’ve Got The Love (Revolvr Remix)

Prince Tribute – April 25, 2016

Prince – PFunk (Floorman Freakshow Edit)
Prince – Alphabet Street (Agent 86 DJ Edit)
Prince – Get Off (Basement Freaks Edit)
Prince – Funk’n’Roll (Sammy Senior Remix)
Prince – Alphabet Street (DJP Remix)
Prince – 1999 (Warp9Refunk)
Prince – Kiss (B-Side edit)
Jem Stone – Sexy Mutha Flapper
Prince – Chelsea Rodgers (Dj Moar Remix)
Prince – 1999 (B. Rich’s NYE Work Out)
Prince – Seven (Love And Light RemixXx)

Cheers!

Phylo

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If you see the name, Funky Boogie Brothers, in the title of a post of ours here on the ward, you can guarantee that the finest Funky Breaks are about to be thrown down. Since discovering this Belarus based duo, they’ve always delivered party time beats with that unmistakable Bboy edge. Their remix of ‘Restless Dance’ by Under Influence feat. ElectroGorilla is another string to add to there already fully stocked bow. Party people, press play and do your thang!

Links for The Funky Boogie Brothers :

Soundcloud / Facebook / Bandcamp

I’m a huge fan of Boomsha, I’ve followed the label since it started back in 2012, and this latest compilation does the unthinkable. It manages to raise the bar once again for a label with one of the best Jungle back cats of the last 5-6 years.

Curated by Daz Breaks & Si 2 Bad Mice, ‘The Faceless Exchange Of Beats’ is living proof that Jungle in the digital realm can be every bit as good as the Jungle sound of the 90’s. With tracks ranging in tempo from 130-170BPM, and by artists old, new, and truly legendary, not a second goes by listening to this LP where you don’t enjoy it. This is Jungle unfettered and at it’s finest creatively.

Buy ‘The Faceless Exchange Of Beats’ on Beatport

I’ll start with D Audi ‘Airborne’, a nice, a very atmospheric 2 stepping track with a deep throbbing bassline

Schoco ‘Insanity’ is a dark roller with heavy breaks with switches and ghostly stabs. It gets wonderfully intense like the mind of a paranoid machine, dark progressive rave.

Ilk ‘Make You Mad’ is a golden throwback to the darkness of 97-99, swirling furious hoover riffs, GREAT drum programming, and lovely techno style  pads.

X E Dos ‘The Apocalypse’ starts with an Eastern flava, a sandstorm in the desert. The breaks come in sounding very live, very authentic followed on by subtle bleeps and sub-bass booms, as the track progresses, darkness pervades, unnerving horror like darkness.

DJ Aitch ‘The Orb is a journey of a track, how brilliantly it grabs you, takes you in, introduces new parts in just the right place, the drop is one of the best drops I have ever heard and boom!!! we are in full flight!

Nickynutz ‘Mirage’ features deep swirling synths, expertly chopped up analogue sounding breakage with busy percussion and a classic Junglist subsonic boom.

Rolling Paper ‘Grotty’ has a grime like feel. The track begins with funky metallic synths but quickly transforms into a more 92/93 Jungle Tekno like sound with a funky drummer break and lots of other interesting things going on.

Vertical Drop ‘A Quick Skank’ had me hooked seconds into the first listen. All about the soulful vocals and filtered breaks at around the 130BPM mark. To me, this is the best track on a phenomenally good compilation.

Sound Shifter ‘Darkest One’ conveys a great sense of urgency. Definite elements of  the Doc Scott, Goldie, Metalheadz sound circa 98/99 then…here comes the drumz!!!! Pure junglist rinse out, works EVERY time!

Pressa ‘Need You Now’ sounds very much in the 2011-2014 Future Jungle sound mould albeit at a slower 130BPM. The ravey hook on this one makes for a sure fire winner. They sound similar to those used in Tango’s ‘Time Bomb.’ This, plus Korg M1 pianos, a trickling water like FX, housey vox and those awesome chopped up breaks.

Next up, more classic breakbeat 140 action next, now what’s this? Is it Special Request/Paul Woolford? Actually, it’s Vertical Drop & Bobby Tee ‘All In Vain’

Check those melodic pianos, the vocal, the 2 Bad Mice ‘Bombscare’ style riff, warp bass, all the ingredients for a MASSIVE tune and I love it!!! and it just keeps getting better as it progresses, so who is it?  there’s a breathtaking mid-section to this tune, it’s very special indeed.

Things take a turn for the dark and twisted next with the fizzy opening of Redshift ‘Interdiction.’ There’s a tribal drum type stab which has really gets the  attention, lots of whirls, clicks and beeps, tight pounding breaks, some Reinforced/Moving Shadow esque melodies find their way in.

Next up, it’s Crickets and the sound of the Amazon jungle, dark tribal sounds, a spooky vocal, a lovely vocal, a BIG heavy rolling amen, sci fi like twinkles, dark jazz meets jungle, it’s Bay B Kane ‘Hanging Tree’

The hazy psychedelic intro on Blood ‘FIGHT!’ reminds me of a band called Gong from the 70’s but for the shortest of time, tough breaks abound, scary!!!! But I like it, Kung Fu samples, BIG rasping gut wrenching basslines, and H A R D beats!!

Pixel who just recently made an amazing LP for Boomsha features here with ‘Pacific’, very ambient, can’t help thinking of Liquid DnB but the beats don’t kick in for a good portion of the track. The atmosphere is warm, spellbinding at the 150BPM mark. A nice marching beat precedes little flickers of razor like bass hook which emerge fully midway, genius!!!

And so we come to the last track from renowned Jungle/Fotwork/Broken Beats producer Etch with some dreamy drumfunk called ‘Fight Talk’

In the digital era where over saturation is a major problem not to mention poor sales and people on Facebook who go on and on and on about vinyl and how good the old days were, it’s incredibly tough to maintain a label that is reputable, consistent in great output and that attracts the talents of luminaries and worthy new producers alike. Despite all that if you looked at Boomsha’s back cat, you would have to conclude Boomsha has managed to do all these things, great releases, must have artist LPs, lots of them.

In my opinion, without a hint of exaggeration, this compilation is yet another landmark on the journey for this label, I really hope that in years to come we remember Boomsha the way we remember Moving Shadow, Reinforced et all. Time doesn’t stand still, things move forward and for me, Boomsha is the modern day equivalent of these legendary imprints, the proof is there and the proof is right here!!!

VA-The Faceless Exchange Of Beats [Boomsha Recordings]