Musclecuts Vinyl & CDs

Review: DJ Shepdog gets busy on the buttons for the next Musclecuts drop with a pair of precision tooled cuts on this tasty new 45rpm. It's the body-popping 'Party Breaks & Bullshit' that kicks off with iconic melodic refrains next to bouncy beats, ass-wiggling bass samples and hard bars all taken from a wide array of hip hop classics. It's a real party pumper. On the flip the mash up vibes continue with another busy amalgamation of classic hip hop sounds are all chucked into a vibey melting pot of beats.

Review: An eagerly awaited repress of DJ Shepdog's 2006 mashup of Damian Marley's 'Welcome To Jamrock' with Dead Prez's 'It's Bigger Than Hip Hop', effortlessly juxtaposing one of contemporary dancehall's most iconic vocals with undeniably one of the fattest basslines ever laid. This iconic pairing is flanked by ultra fun cut 'Sleng Hop' uniting the original Dead Prez acapella with another of the world's most famous basslines- Prince Jammy's Casiotone MT-40 'rock & roll' rhythm... You do the math!

Review: Musclecuts provides all the pump you need for your party with this new limited edition orange 7" from DJ Shepdog. His Party Breaks & Bullshit EP mashes together a collage of legendary samples from hip hop greats like Notorious BIG. The drums hit hard, the scratching, melodies and basslines all pop with character and colour and made for non stop good times. And that's just the A-side. On the flip, Dr Dre, amongst others, is dropped into the funky breaks next to more from B.I.G. A real DJ weapon for sure.

Review: An impressively retro-feeling "breaksoul" choice from London label Digga Please?, once again delivering on their promise to bring the finest in funk, soul, disco, rap, b-boy breaks and "all that good shit". First released in 2004 on the iconic Freestyle Records, 'Get It On' is a bona fide cut & paste classic, its break-do backbeat and slippery funk vamps harking a filtered Rhodes line; here an obscure r&b libretto sings demonstratively, warning us of an incumbent detailing of her preferred mode of frisking: "this is how we like to get it on!" The record then segues into a timeless Gil-Scott Heron sample and breaks-tastic track slathered in sax, attesting to a so-called coolness that can be tapped by anyone willing to ease into it: "hipness is not a state of mind, it's a fact of life".