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Shadeleaf Music LP01 : thatmanmonkz "Non Zero Sum Game" Album.

It’s a strange new post-everything musical landscape we occupy. The machines - you could argue - have been playing the humans for some time, and the conversation has become pretty one-sided. The focus now is metrics not moments. A million transcendent dance floor events condensed into monetisable data, the compost in which ‘likes’ and ‘solid socials’ are grown, but little else.

Being regularly bludgeoned with forgettable new music has taken its toll. But not everyone is singing from that hymn sheet. Sheffield's Thatmanmonkz enjoyed the apprenticeship at "House PLC" more than the opportunity to progress to middle management.

Itchy musical feet meant extended exploration of fertile avenues of interest like the Madison Washington & Pan Amsterdam Hip Hop projects, meanwhile the pull of the 4/4 was never far from the studio door, and, all accomplished with an assured versatility that shines through. Musical alliances have been formed in the disparate but related playgrounds of Sheffield, Detroit, Berkeley and Atlanta, all underpinned by an emphasis on seeking out collaborations and gigs which represented a real exchange of energies, rather than a bank raid.

Letting things percolate in this more measured way means we’ve arrived here, a follow up of sorts to 2016’s ‘Columbusing’. This is 'monkz allowing the ear ringing of gigs to feedback organically into bright dance floor flashes, which by virtue of their careful crafting are destined to last much longer.

It’s a pick 'em and stick 'em ride of individual gems and a cohesive whole too. The opposite of thrown together, this has been worked and weathered, naturally.

The House always wins, but sometimes... just sometimes.

SM LP01 : THATMANMONKZ 'Non Zero Sum Game' ALBUM

Here's snippets of the second release from SHADELEAF MUSIC, this one coming from Chicago polymath and vocalist KHALIL ANTHONY reworked from his wicked 2013 album "Train" into a pair of vocal remixes and two very different dubs by THATMANMONKZ.

Vinyl : http://www.juno.co.uk/products/khalil-anthony-that-man-monkz-reworks/517821-01/ http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/prod/KhalilAnthony-ThatManMonkzReworks-Shadeleaf-94694.html 

Digital : http://www.traxsource.com/title/322095/thatmanmonkz-reworks  
http://www.junodownload.com/products/khalil-anthony-thatmanmonkz-reworks/2465804-02/





SM-12-002 Khalil Anthony "Needed You Bad(vocal/dub)/Shelter(vocal/dub)(THATMANMONKZ REWORKS) Clips.

GAZILLION VILLAIN

Brand new single from thatmanmonkz, featuring J.Gordon. It's from his forthcoming album "You Should Have Been There", a Shadeleaf Music retrospective to celebrate their ten years in the game anniversary. 

Releases 27/10/23.

Like To Feel (your Eyes On Me)

Columbusing

For Bae

Take U 2 My House

Take U 2 My House (Jimpster Remix) [feat. Khalil Anthony]

Moon On The Hill (feat. DJ Kali)

Turn It Out EP

Boogie Down (Laurence Guy Remix) [feat. Erik Rico]

Snippets from "AmeriKKKan Poets" EP by thatmanmonkz, Malik Ameer Crumpler, and, Leron Thomas. Out through SWAT records, on vinyl, in alllll good wreckastows. 

(Update : And digitally here https://www.traxsource.com/title/860646/amerikkkan-poets )

SWAT002 : thatmanmonkz, Malik Ameer Crumpler, Leron Thomas "AmeriKKKan Poets" (Low BR snipptes)

Here's the unedited audio of my guest DJ mix for Radio One on 02/11, when my man Toddla T sat in for Benji B. x

Tracklist :
Funkadelic - Music 4 My Mother (Underground Resistance Remix)
Poolside and Fatnotronic - Onda Redo *
Cassiano - Onda
Nx Worries - Link Up
J.I.D - Never
Children Of Zeus - Tonight
Billy Brooks - Forty Days *
Chuks Ejelonu - Inner Vision
thatmanmonkz - The Assassinator
Marcel Vogel ft. Khalil Anthony - Brown Curls (Nebraska Remix)
Edwin Birdsong - Goldmine (KZR Edit)
MFSB - Love Is The Message (PPF Brake For Daze Edit)
Maggs Bruchez - Don't You Worry (Edit)
Beat Spacek - Ring Di Alarm
Tim Wright - Thirst (Luciano Mix)
Marshall Applewhite - Ugly
Carolyn Crawford - Comin' On Strong (Floorman Edit)
Monkz N Simba - Fantastisch
Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Pan Amsterdam - Darlene
Madison Washington - Monkz Point

THATMANMONKZ GUEST MIX FOR BBC RADIO ONE (02/11/17)

Listen links to DJ Applejac's forthcoming release on Shadeleaf Music, out 05/11/18. 

1. Adinkra (ft. Miles Bonny)
2. B&P
3. G.A.Tech 

Holler at shadeleafartists@gmail.com for more info.... x

SM16 : DJ APPLEJAC "ADINKRA" EP (Low-res snips)

GOTTA BELIEVE (thatmanmonkz Original Version)

Vocals by Nikki O.
Produced by thatmanmonkz.

AFTER DARK  (ft. Nikki O)

SM 020 EASY STILL (w/ a brother is... )

CHAI TEA (VINYL ONLY)

SAWA SAWA (DIGITAL ONLY)

THEM THANGZ (ft. Ms. Fae)

THEE OTHERS (ft. Malik Ameer)

FREAKS N PROPHETS

"DEL MONDO, CON AMOR" (THATMANMONKZ DJ MIX)

JAZZZ

IN THE PARK AFTER DARK

BLACK SUGAR HONEY

POURIN' OVER ME

GOTTA BELIEVE IN THE BOOGIE

SYNTAXE DE L’AMOUR

SERMON

Want me to rock a party? Get at me... 

I am thatmanmonkz aka Mack Daddy on the Left. I be .... a recording artist, deejay, bawss at Shadeleaf Music, producer, beatmaker, 1/2 of hip hop duo Madison Washington, producer of Pan Amsterdam debut, ad music writer, film sound tracker, and so forth/suchlike.... x

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