Kicking back with some more Funk and Hip Hop tunes The Beat-Pimp serves us a slice of chunky tunes to start off 2017. This mix is an exclusive for the good folks over at the Life Support Machine Blog and is Volume 14 in The Beat-Pimp’s Pimpology Series.

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Tracklist

1. The Funky Architect – Jabathakut
2. You Better Shit It – Zemerald
3. It’s Too Late – Carole King (BadboE Ghetto Funk Rmx)
4. Ain’t Got Nothing – Featurecast & The Gaff
5. Breakadawn – Del A Soul (Rhythm Scholar Rmx)
6. Soul Power Is The Earth – Dj Nomad Mashup
7. Lee Dorsey – The Liberty Chaps
8. Funky Enemy No One
9. Here Comes The Circus – Morris Chestnut
10. Welcome To The Party – Morris Chestnut
11. React – The Allergies
12. The Joint – BadBoe (Old Skool Mix)
13. Chali’s Roach Clip – The Caretaker & Mr Rich
14. Ease Funk – BadBoe
15. Do What You Want To – BadBoe (Mashup Mix)

Welcome to 2017 it’s a start of the New Year with new opportunities and a whole year to improve on the last. X-Ray Ted has rounded up some of the best tunes he has been playing through 2016 and put it together in this new mix for start of 2017.

Happy New Year folks, let’s make it a good one !

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After serving up another party rocking mix from his ‘Pimpology‘ series for our ‘LSM Advent Calendar‘ last year, The Beat-Pimp returns with volume 14. His latest mix for us takes a far more funky than chunky approach and has been designed to help ease us all into the new year, while the festive hangover still lingers in the background. Fill up on a superb selection funky Hip Hop tunes right here and then take some time to relax and enjoy the sounds.

Download ‘Pimpology Vol 14′ here from our Hearthis page.

Links for The Beat-Pimp :

Soundcloud / Facebook

Tracklist

1. The Funky Architect – Jabathakut
2. You Better Shit It – Zemerald
3. It’s Too Late – Carole King (BadboE Ghetto Funk Rmx)
4. Ain’t Got Nothing – Featurecast & The Gaff
5. Breakadawn – Del A Soul (Rhythm Scholar Rmx)
6. Soul Power Is The Earth – Dj Nomad Mashup
7. Lee Dorsey – The Liberty Chaps
8. Funky Enemy No One
9. Here Comes The Circus – Morris Chestnut
10. Welcome To The Party – Morris Chestnut
11. React – The Allergies
12. The Joint – BadBoe (Old Skool Mix)
13. Chali’s Roach Clip – The Caretaker & Mr Rich
14. Ease Funk – BadBoe
15. Do What You Want To – BadBoe (Mashup Mix)

After a very successful first year as a fully-functioning record label and publisher, Southpoint, are celebrating in a big way with their album ‘Southpoint Presents Vol. 4′. You can expect to find 30 of the hottest Garage, Grime, Dubstep and Bass influenced tracks from the entirety of the Southpoint family. The force is strong with this crew and as you’re gonna hear, they all really know how to make music to make your speakers earn there keep. Max em and feel that bass!

Click here and download each track straight from Soundcloud.

Links for Southpoint :

Soundcloud / Facebook / Website / Twitter / Instagram

Tracklist

Bushbaby – B-Line (@bushbaby)
Noble, Drax & Beanzo – Kayasaki (@nobiety) (@drax-8) (@bean-zo)
Razor – Ungodly (Prod. By Beanzo & Filthy Gears) (@reallyrazor) (@bean-zo) (@filthy-gears)
Moony – Patterns (@moony)
Tengu & Close Connection – Excuse Me (@tengu-11) (@close-connection)
Dubzta – Midnight (@dubzta-beats)
Inkline – Maze (@inkline-uk)
Mofaux – Rewind (@mofauxuk)
Rapture 4D – Shatter (@rapture4d)
KXVU – Behemoth (@cubkxvu)
Darkzy – Give It To Me Baby (@darkzyuk)
Muttley – Radio Tower (@muttleyuk)
Reeko West – Sut Wit (@reekowest)
Toka – Chimera (@xtokax)
Habouchi & Hestia – Gull (@habouchi) (@niallhealy-1)
Filthy Gears – Scizor (@filthy-gears)
SaidWho – Torn (@saidwho)
Policy – Disco Biscuit (VIP) (@policyproduction)
A.T. – Rottweiler (@abstracttalent)
Daze Prism – Home (@dazeprismmusic)
Triple S – Real Talk (@sssukbass)
Hamdi – Return (@hamdiofficialmusic)
Mr. B – Water (@mr_b_beats)
Karl Vincent & Tee – Surge (@karlvincentandtee)
Rotti – Saturn (@rottiuk)
Yeti – Skengman (@yeti_producer)
Goodzie – Daylight (@goodzie)
Eclypse – Multiple Targets (@eclypsedubz)
Luc St. Clair – Nights (@lucstclair)
Jakebob – Bad JuJu (VIP) (@hr6jakebob)

(Quick thanks to Southpoint for providing the tracklist and for taking the time to put in all the links for all of the artists and thanks to copy and past too, for making it easy to take the tracklist straight from Soundcloud to here so as you can all investigate with ease).

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Todd G ‘History Of Kaos’ out now on Brobot, a track that quite literally goes back to the esteemed roots of the House music sound

From the opening oldskool style drums of Todd G ‘History Of Kaos’, a definite mood is firmly set. This is pure House Music. The drums continue to slam their way in before the Chicago esque musical arrangements invade your senses and tantalise your mind. A spoken word tells the story of the evolution of House Music right from the mid-80s while namechecking the pioneers. Todd G proves that famous adage ‘If it ain’t broken, don’t try to fix it’ to be 100% fact.

Listening to this sublime rhythm is like remembering the legends, Mr Fingers, Todd Terry, you name them. A House music record made in 2016 with the spirit and vibe of 89, sublime, classy and essential to own.

Todd G- History Of Kaos

MR XS shares an oldskool rave themed Deep House banger for free!!!! This one’s got us spinnin’ round and round here at the blog!!! Hit that DL button, repost, and leave a friendly comment!!!

MR XS – Round & Round

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Jon Manley mixes 16 of the finest House Music flavaz from the Different Attitudes Back cat. Along with the classy DJ mix, you get the 16 full unmixed tracks. Highlights include quirky beats from DJ Bene, Deep n’ Chunky sounds from Sam Haas, Paul Najera/Jr. Quidaja’s exquisite ‘Nobody’s Perfect, and Ricky Tinez’ Chicago style remix of Owen Thomas ‘1600’. It goes without saying this is essential!!!

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If you followed last years LSM advent calendar, you’ll know that we invited along the Breakbeat legends, Drumattic Twins, to brings us the beats to finish off our 25 days in style. For 2016, we thought we’d carry on with the legends theme and invite a couple of guys who I saw absolute smash it at this years Green Meadows Festival, to once again round off what has been another very enjoyable 25 days of music, these guys are, Utah Saints.

Tim and Jez have been there and pretty much done the lot. They’ve had a handful of top 10 releases, played around the world and they’ve supported some of the very biggest artists on the planet. We’re super pleased they accepted our advent invitation and they’ve put together on hell of a party piece that features 12 of their very favourite tracks from 2016. If this mix wasn’t already enough to liven up your Christmas day evening, we can spread further good news and announce that Utah Saints are heading back into the studio in 2017 and are planning on releasing a new batch of floor filling bangers of their own.

We hope you enjoy this mix and hope you’ve enjoyed all the music we’ve brought you over the last 25 days. From all at LSM, we’d like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year.

Download Utah Saints mix here from our Hearthis page.

Links for Utah Saints :

Soundcloud / Facebook / Website / YouTube / Twitter / Instagram

Tracklist

808 State – In Your face (Bicep Mix)
Kanye West – Fade (GotSome Edit)
Armando – 100% of Disin’You (Henzel Edit)
Primal Scream – Don’t Fight It Feel It (Melè Edit)
Bicep – Satisfy (Mella Dee Re-Edit)
Mr Oizo – Ruhe ft. Boys Noize (Original Mix)
Plump Djs – Loose Your Mind (Original Mix)
Liam Taylor – TEKNO (original Mix)
TCTS – Icy Feet
Kolsch – Grey
Skream – You Know, Right?
Subfocus – Love Divine

Since 2014, those dandy gents at Gents & Dandy’s Records have been consistently living up to the tagline ‘quality underground house music’. We catch up with some fresh heat from this dandy label!!!

Criss Korey – The Rhodes EP

Mention of the word ‘Rhodes’ conjures up images of the seminal piano as played by by the Cottonmouth character in Netflix/Marvel show ‘Luke Cage’. Criss Korey sure tinkles the ivorys on that classic piece of instrumentation for the 2 super lush house rhythms that make the ‘Rhodes EP’. A fine addition to the Gents & Dandy’s Records back cat

QLab – 808 EP + Free Track

Squelchy 303s, double bass, Mr Fingers style beats, swirly synths and Hip Hop vox are the soul food ingredients for ‘Drama’. Off-kilter horns, shards of melody and tense overtones provide the deliciously dark aftertaste of ‘Etna’. Italian trio Qlab really delve deep and deliver a stunning release here

There is also this lovely NYC-centric free track from QLab too

Tito Mazzetta – Give It EP

Tito Mazzetta takes us on a 2 track voyage into the sparkling keys, disco loops, toms,  & ethereal late-night sounds meet to dance in the pale moonlight. Can House music really be this sublime and beautiful? The answer is an affirmative

Gents & Dandy’s Records catch Up Dec 2016

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Serial Killaz have a new EP out on the Streetlife imprint with the great title ‘Jungle Came First’ plus the equally good tagline ‘9 slices of heavyweight Jungle/Drum & Bass from the legendary Serial Killaz. we couldn’t put it any better ourselves, it’s a given this is an essential EP. We’ll leave it to the best copy writer in Jungle/DnB, Mr Jamie S23  to give the low down on this fantastic release….

Serial Killaz return to their legendary Streetlife Label with their aptly titled Jungle Came First EP, featuring 5 wicked riddims that will cater for everyone looking for that feel good vibe. It really spans across the board from brand new flavours, chilled out vibes to a mixture of 90’s meets 2016. This EP is nothing short of an education for the masses.

The title track Jungle Came First slams straight in with a bassline heavy horn intro which builds into something that can only be described as full on bouncy upfront jungle. Percussion patterns link effortlessly with elastic bass that will no doubt appeal to previous fans of Serial Killaz production.

Switching into beautiful atmospheric pads and reverbed vocal samples, the intro of Sub Dub certainly sets a different tone. The progression from the intro is effortless and the whole track has a certain element of calm and tranquility which takes the listener on a rolling journey while still forcing them to nod their head to the infectious kick and snare.

Tubes and Springs is in a similar style to Sub Dub and although slightly more upbeat with its drum patterns and driving bass, it’s easy to hear how well both tracks compliment each other. What really makes this track though, is the crafty under the kick bassline that will shake you to your core.

Taking elements of various Serial Killaz roots, Prophecy follows that familiar route of reggae samples aplenty and jolly organ samples before crashing down with chopped Amen breaks and plenty of wicked drum programming. This one is certainly for the original die hard junglists!

African Drums finishes off the EP and provides a nice blend of everything so far and tosses them into a big mixing pot. As the track moves forwards, so does the elements of production as if the longer you listen, the more things develop.

Words:  Jamie S23 

Serial Killaz – Jungle Came First EP