Another blast from the past, an hour of booming hiphop classics, funk, breaks and beats that I was heavily into back in 2006. Some of the pre-dubstep bass music here by the likes of Tipper really acts as a timestamp. Good times!

Annoyingly, the remix of Das EFX and Danny Breaks I recorded for this mixtape was lost years back in a hard disk crash.

Please download and share.

https://tinyurl.com/ycbjp86z

Tracklist follows:

01. Davey Dex - Set it Off (AV8)
02. Nas - Halftime (Ruff House)
03. ASAP Productions - The Track (Bomb Hip-Hop)
04. Public Enemy - Don't Believe The Hype (Def Jam)
05. Deadbeats - Funky For You (Mark Rae Remix) (Grand Central)
06. Bomb The Bass - Bug Powder Dust (La Funk Mob Remix) (4th & Broadway)
07. Davey Dex - Get On Down (AV8)
08. Tipper - Ton Of Bricks (Tipper Music)
09. Heavy Stylus - Attack of the Real Hip Hop
10. Giant Panda - Super Fly (TRES)
11. Danny Breaks - Windscreen Wiper (Alphabet Zoo)
12. The Blendcrafters - Lola (Genuine)
13. Lab Rat - Ya Mama Be Proud (Carbon Imprints)
14. Tribe Called Quest - Oh My God (Jive)
15. Ozomatli - Cut Chemist Suite (Almo Sounds)
16. The Jackson 5 - It's Great To Be Here (Kenny Dope Remix)
17. Ohmega Watts - That Sound (QSO Remix) (Ubiquity)
18. QSO - Pushin' On (Tru Thoughts)
19. The Baker Brothers - Ponky Wockett's Revenge (Peddler)
20. Jaco Pastorius - Come On Come Over (Epic)
21. United 8 - Getting Uptown (To Get Down) (Atlantic)

Back In The Lab

Back In The Lab (2006)

Heavy Stylus: An explosive amalgamation of Jamaican roots, hip hop beats, heavy soul breaks and blaxploitation ghetto-funk.

I’ve been rocking funk/soul/beats/hiphop/roots for around 20 years in various bars and clubs across the South West, and have supported a wide range of acts and artists such including Jelly Jazz, Boca 45, Andy Smith, Quantic, Craig Charles, DJ Food, Bonobo, Gilles Peterson, Ugly Duckling and DJ Format.

Although I started as a vinyl-only DJ in Bristol, these days I use a pair of battle-scarred Pioneer CDJs as my weapons of choice. I’m currently a resident (of 11 years) at the Angel Bar on Queen Street, and in the past have held Exeter-based residencies at The Monkey Suit, Timepiece, Dr. Inks and Verve (now Urban Underground), as well as DJing regularly for Hold it Down.

For bookings / remix/edits and hook-ups contact James via DM here.

https://soundcloud.com/heavy-stylus
https://www.mixcloud.com/jamesmonkman/

(Oh, and in addition to rocking the ones-and-twos, James Monkman is also one half of Exeter-based independent videogame development studio RGCD.DEV, hence the goofy twitter tag).

Back In The Lab (2006)

Heavy Stylus (Devon, UK)