Superjock US Vinyl & CDs

Review: Party-starting twosome Computa Games - AKA producers Quickie Mart (arf) and Kung Fu Chris - can usually be relied upon to bring the goods. They've certainly hit the spot with their second seven-inch for Superjock Records. A-side "Rock Creek (Revenge)" is particularly good: a whole-hearted, thoroughly authentic tribute to Jonzun Crew style electro full of rubbery slap bass, crispy drum machine hits, colourful synth stabs and robotic vocoder vocals. They flip the script on flipside banger "Apache 3000", a Double Dee and Steinski style tribute to early NYC hip-hop culture built around an impressive array of cuts, sratches, breaks, beats and vocal snippets seemingly lifted from all manner of early rap and electro records. Naturally, the Incredible Bongo Band's "Apache" break provides the necessary sonic glue.

Review:  Connie Price & The Keystones of labels like Stones Throw and Ubiquity, and Bootie Brown of The Pharcyde make for a real dream team. They link up here to bring their unique West Coast sounds and styles to a funky ode to New Orleans. Making up the team who laid this one down are some real stars such as Dan Ubick on guitar, Mario Calire on drums and Richard Donovan on organ amongst others. They cook up a real break heavy funk tune that is alive with big horns and bustling rhythms., It is impossible to sit still with this one playing and on the flip is a DJ friendly edit from Professor Shorthair, who extends the intro and outro with hard-hitting drum breaks.

Review: Five years have passed since Superjock launched the Nola Breaks series of DJ-focused funk reworks. Here the New Orleans-based imprint offers up installment number nine, handing over the reins to local legend Professor Shorthair and Bay Area scratcher DJ Platurn. The former handles the A-side, wrapping the Enticers' fuzzy funk gem "Thief" - as sampled by Mos' Def - in fat new breaks and tight scratches. On the flip, DJ Platurn has his wicked way with Warren Lee classic "Underdog Backstreet", wisely extending the intro and outro breaks while also adding some tasty new samples.

Review: New Orleans edit collective Supajock tap deep into the source with two outright classics, break-blazed for the modern age. The cleverly named Professor Shorthair takes the reins for this 45": The Meters' sing-along happy-clapper "Hand Clapping Song" gets broken down over a sturdy, almost militant snare-based swing while Ernie K Doe's "Here Come The Girls" gets its bombast reduced to create a more subtle soul sensation. Instant party pacifiers.

Review: A unique smashing of worlds between funk and hip-hop, this fantastic, vibrant, red-and-black splatter 7" brings together a host of collaborating greats, all of whom have contributed in major ways to both sounds over the years. With Dan Ubick on guitar (Breakestra, Big Daddy Kane), Julius Augustus on bass (The Sandollars), Dan Hastie on organ (Orgone, Alicia Keys), Steve McCormick on dobro and Professor Shorthair on the cuts and edits - and mastered by Dave Cooley (J Dilla, Madlib) - this is a mournful yet masterful example of live-recorded battle breaks.

Review: Connie Price & The Keystones are a modern day 'deep funk' supergroup from Los Angeles, led by guitarist, producer and multi-instrumentalist Dan Ubick and trumpeter/arranger Todd M. Simon. On their new single 'Everybody Pays', they team up with Detroit rap legend Guilty Simpson and soulful singer Destani Wolf for a hard-hitting slice of hip-hop funk. The A-side features Guilty's gritty rhymes over a heavy groove and a catchy chorus by Destani, while the B-side is an instrumental version that showcases the tight, unparalled musicianship of The Keystones, a whopping octet. Vintage funk heads beware; this one's probably gonna find its way into your collections one way or another.

Review: New Orleans-based Professor Shorthair debuted in 2014 and has been cooking on gas ever since. It is now to his own label Superjock Records that he returns once more with NOLA Beaks: The Funkilation. His hip-hop sound are richly infused with funk and soul knowledge and his back catalogue brims with classics. Now, this new album lands on vinyl with an all-star lineup and classic remixes of gems like 'The Meter's' and 'Hand Clapping Song and 'Ernie K-Doe's.' Some unreleased tunes and original greats also make the cut to add up to a rather epic offering.

Review: Pure brass bedlam from the long-standing, Grammy-winning, heavy-hitting Rebirth Brass Band: "I Like It Like That" and "Do It Again" are taken from the band's hugely successful Rebirth Of New Orleans album and have never seen the light of 45" before... Until now. The former is hotter than a Mardi in July with a party-rearing hook you'll be humming into the 20s. The latter takes more street corner momentum as the band put down their horns and chant like their lives depends on it. It doesn't get more powerful than this. Super limited too - only 500 copies to be pressed.

Review: Somewhat predictably, this double-dose of party-hearty Professor Shorthair remixes is as colourful and vibrant as the purple marbled vinyl seven-inch onto which the tracks are pressed. On side A he does his thing with The Unemployed's rugged 1970 funk-rock jam "Funky Thing", beefing up the beats for modern dancefloors while adding a choice selection of scratched-in samples. Arguably even better is his rework of Lee Dorsey's "Occapella", a sweet, lo-slung groover that gets re-cast as a dubbed-out chunk of hazy, bass-heavy hip-hop soul rich in echo-laden vocal snippets, snatches of rap and hazy horns. As Dorsey's vocal says, it's "finger-snapping good"!

Review: Superjock's latest seven-inch salvo serves up two tasty new remixes of funk breaks classics on vibrant green vinyl. Party-rocking Bristol twosome The Allergies take control on Side A, slamming down an on-point revision of Danny White's 1968 soul jam "Natural Soul Brother". Their version places White's familiar vocal (as well as the original version's fine backing vocals) over a stomping beat. It sounds a little like a Northern Soul anthem of old, albeit with a bit more contemporary punch. Either way, it's ace. Over on Side B, producer Professor Shorthair dips into his sample bank before cutting and scratching his way through a dizzying medley of killer tracks by the Meters. It's a bit like DJ Format's legendary James Brown medley ("Stealin' James"), only arguably even better.