Funk on ya Face

"They've really come up trumps with this EP. A return to slamming funky breaks...and I love 'em for that" - Craig Charles (BBC 6music)

"great EP guys! Like it a lot" Featurecast

"Good vibes on this EP!" Slynk

"Straight up hip hop summer vibes here, big tunes!" WBBL

Release date: Late Feb

The Allergies -  React Ft. Figure Of Speech &amp; The KPS Horns

Smif N Wessun 'Wreckonize' Rmx definately got me into this song!
Thought this'd be a perfect one for Valentine's Day coming up. This came about after a series of serendipitous events in early december 2013, talking with Ness, The Herbal Hustler about Bill, led to making a mini-bill mix (maybe i'll put that out one day if I expand on it), to watching the documentary "Still Bill" and on the plane ride home, I thought to myself "I'd like Just the Two Of US alot better without Grover's sax" so, I started working on it just for fun. Well, here's how it turned out. Just the Vocal Bill parts chopped, some magic that could only come from the great heart of Bill Withers! 

 Time WIth You is a personal one, lots of heart opening while I was working on it, and what was going on with myself, my wife, my best friend Ness, and her boyfriend. It's about spending one-on-one time with those you love, which is so so important when the relationship is deep. Whether it's a: mother, father, grandma or grandpa, brother or sister, wife or husband, daughter or son, homie, friend, soul mate, or twin soul. Whether renewing an old friendship, or starting a new one, all the words you need to voice how you feel were sung by Bill 30 some years ago.

So, to dedicate, on my travels, I of course interact and sometimes hangout with the Girlfriends & Wives of my Musical Peers. They always tell me the SAME THING. "Gaff, make sure you make the most of your time with your lady when you're at home" So, really, this song is for them, missing their men, and to all my brothers travelling or touring on the road, "make the most of your time with YOUR ladies when you're at home!"

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Time With You

We proudly present new bomb track from the homeboys TWO SMOKING FELLAZ called Heavy Soul, listen the new party banger from the breaks addicts.





Two Smoking Fellaz - Heavy Soul

HERMITUDE - SPEAK OF THE DEVIL ( K+LAB REFLIP )
RELEASE DATE: 18/05/2015

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Speak Of The Devil ( K+Lab Reflip )

The Beat Kicks Vol.2
Following the release & success of our 1st volume, Beatnik City is excited to bring you our second in ‘The Beat Kicks!’ super big beat series! We continue our exploration of the rock n’ roll classics you’ve always loved and having our artists take their spin on these hits. We’ve been having these jams on repeat top to bottom at the Beatnik City Headquarters and we can’t stop shaking our arms, legs & booties! We think you’ll feel the same way when you hear our top artist’s soulful re-cuts like: Skeewiff & Fab Samperi’s ‘Mr. Body Rock’, Badboe’s ‘ Magic Carpet Ride’ & Rory Hoy’s ‘Runaway again’. We're bringing you this just in time for summer to keep those backyard BBQ’s swingin' and those dance floors full for all those sunny days to come!


1 Fab Samperi & Skeewiff - Mr Body Rock [CLIP]

Finest Funk Featuring the mighty @beat-fatigue  #GetSome

Produced By Skeewiff & Beat Fatigue
Additional Keyboards - Chris Neill

****FUNKY SHIZZLE****

Juno Download - bit.ly/1FeC3pY - 1st June 2015
iTunes - apple.co/1HBSspS - Pre-Order - (Released 8th June)
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What The Funk!?

Yes Skeewiff are back in town and they've brought their time machine, taking you back with some seriously sizzling collaborations and they are funk’n brilliant!

There’s beats, there’s rhythm, there’s horns all ready to get you groovin’. 
All that’s left for you to do is sit back, keep calm and let Skeewiff funk you with their shizzle.

13 Tracks of purest skee-funk.. OUT NOW

Skeewiff Feat Beat Fatigue - Bamboo Beats

A new remix from Bridge Theory ... Enjoy!!

Sara Lugo feat. Protoje -Really Like You (Bridge Theory Remix)

Dalton Richmond - Shatter

Yup.. You read that right. The BRAND NEW Friggin' HEAVIES!! #Woop

What The Funk!? 

Yes Skeewiff are back in town and they've brought their time machine, taking you back with some seriously sizzling collaborations and they are funk’n brilliant!

There’s beats, there’s rhythm, there’s horns all ready to get you groovin’. 
All that’s left for you to do is sit back, keep calm and let Skeewiff funk you with their shizzle.

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iTunes - http://apple.co/1HBSspS
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Amazon - http://amzn.to/1dD1qMv

Skeewiff Feat The Brand New Heavies - Snakeweed

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Two of Mexico’s most talented producers, Mexican Institute of Sound and Toy Selectah, have joined forces to create COMPASS. Since each are known for their ability to mix traditional Mexican sound with contemporary urban rhythms, they come together in “I’m A Soldier” to create a new type of dance music. While this track shows off the super duo’s best-known talent, it also contains elements of dancehall and hip hop as well. Not only does it sound like a turnt up mariachi band, but it is also a song we can imagine M.I.A. or Major Lazer turning up to.

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Compass: Mexican Institute of Sound + Toy Selectah - I'm a Solider (feat. Angela Hunte & Chedda)

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When Featurecast & The Gaff got a chance to play together recently, it didn't take long to get to talking about their mutual love for Stevie Wonder's "Hey Love" and how the world needed an edit of it, and just like that, a few sleepless nights, some dusty records and a little bit of finesse: "Ain't Got Time" was born! The ultimate Marvin Gaye meets Stevie Wonder track that never existed......So why did a collabo between these two legends never happen? They both recorded for Motown at the same time and were fans of each other!....Here's a little history lesson: 
 "Too busy thinkin bout my baby" was written by the Motown team of Whitfield, Strong, and Bradford in 1965, and first recorded by The Temptations a year later.
Marvin's cover of the tune came out a few years later, and was his 2nd biggest hit of the 60's, right after "Heard It Through The Grapevine" in 1969 at the age of 30...Curious who was in Marvin's heart as he was singin this? If You do the math, it's none other than Tammi Terrel, who he fell deeply in love with as they began working on their tracks ("ain't no mountain high enough) around the same time....Unfortunately, Tammi wasn't into Marvin in that way! She was much younger, early 20's, and apparently favored "darker men", Marvin was a light skinned brother, and perhaps wasn't what caught her eye? Well, that's the breaks, Tammi put on a good show for sure...
Now, Marvin Gaye was 11 years older than Stevie Wonder, who, at the time, was about to breakthrough to his hugely successful crossover lp's at only 19 with "Signed Sealed Delivered"! 
Stevie Wonder's "Hey Love" had come out on his album "Down TO Earth" in '66, at only 16, and a dope version was covered later by SoulSister Bettye Lavette, You should check it! Not many know about that cover :-)
So, there was a big age gap, with marvin bringout out songs of soulful love in his 30's, and Stevie bringin the Funk in his 20's!!!
in 1991, almost 25 years after it was released, De La Soul would flip "Hey Love" into "Talkin bout Hey Love" where it was brought back all over again for a new generation of Hip Hop heads around the world (a young skateboarding gaffer and a LIl Featurecast being 2 of them :-) 
25 years after that, we added in the horns from an early Serge Gainsbourg record so this tune would appeal to fans of De La Soul, be enjoyed by Motown lovers, and any fans of DJ's with dope cuts.....Sampled the OG records to provide the instrumental parts used...
We kept this mix so classic, for old and young alike, even your grandma can still appreciate it, nod her head to the fatback drums, dope cuts and scratches....we hope this version makes its rounds for a long time to come, giving you the Marvin & Stevie collaberation that you always wished for.......cheers! 
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Featurecast & The Gaff Ain't Got Time

CATALOG #: FKX082 ARTIST: Qdup
RELEASE: Funk and Dance LABEL: Fort Knox Recordings RELEASE DATE:
Beatport: 6/9/15 Worldwide: 6/23/15

Out now exclusively on Beatport:
pro.beatport.com/release/funk-and-dance/1516354

Washington, DC’s funky music ambassador Qdup returns to Fort Knox Recordings after his 2014 release, the Lone Star EP. The Warp 9 remix of “Electro Funk Boogie feat Bavu Blakes” was Mixmag’s October 2014 “Breaks Tune of the Month”. This time Qdup brings a heater of a single featuring the vocal styling’s of Mustafa Akbar. The funk is strong with this one and to make it even stronger, Qdup has enlisted a few of his favorite producers from different ends of the globe to remix this jam and get the dance floor bouncing.

Mustafa Akbar who is well known from his work with Nappy Riddem, and collaborations with Fort Knox Five, Thunderball & Basement Freaks lays down some funky vocals on “Funk & Dance”. Mustafa’s vocals compliment the heavy funk banger vibe on Qdup’s original mix. Auckland, NZ’s keytar wielding, glitch hop funk master K+Lab infused his remix with his signature edgy bass, synth chords and slinky lead solos. Rounding off the single with some nice variety is Whistler, BC’s own retro après ski party gurus SkiiTour bringing their fun, energetic style to flip the track on it’s head into a bass driven Nu-Disco direction. Try not to shake your butt to any of these tunes. We dare you!

Qdup has done it again here keeping the funk alive in dance music. This one has you covered for all of your funk breaks, funky glitch hop and nu-disco needs. The Funk & Dance Single is set up to be DJ friendly with Instrumental mixes on all versions and ready to wreck dance floors worldwide.

Free Download

Qdup Funk & Dance Featuring Mustafa Akbar (K+Lab Remix)

100% original & sample free, hope you all like it! Buy on iTunes here: http://bit.ly/september-itunes
Big thankyou to Leo Wood, Tom Hyland (ESC), Paul Cakebread and Dephicit

Dedicated to Luke Parsons 1986 - 2012

Funk on ya Face

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