Track List

1. Povarovo – J.S Bach
2. Teargas & Plateglass – Plague Burial
3. Leila – Mettle
4. Amon Tobin – Chomp Samba
5. Moondog – Why Spend the Dark Night With You
6. Al Chem – No Hopper
7. Instituto Mexicano del Sonido – Tristeza Hawaiana
8. King Midas Sound – Cool Out
9. Wangtone – Bi Ma Wen
10. Einstuerzende Neubauten – Weil Weil Weil
11. Moondog – Bird’s Lament
12. Django Reinhardt – Minor Swing
13. Sibot – Expect Everyone
14. Rukus Roboticus – Everlasting Ghettoblasting Gobstopper

Knee Deep In The Beats:

Junkies Bad Trip:

The London Funk Allstars were Jason Tunbridge aka Mad Doctor X, Stefan Turner and Francis J Carter.

Old Skool Reunion:

Funky Sweater:

U.J.:

Flesh Eating Disco Zombies Vs. The Bionic Hookers From Mars:

Mad Love:

Booyakka:

There’s Only One F In Funk:

According to Wikipedia:

Mad Doctor X, the undercover alter-ego of hip-hop veteran DJ Jason Tunbridge (aka Xavier Jones, Funk Wizard Jay Rock, DJ Jason, Monty Props) has been busy working in the lab conducting his illicit experiments and concocting his ill beats in various disguises ever since: London Funk Allstars and DJ Toolz on Ninja Tune, Clusterfunk on Cooltempo, and most recently as Mad Doctor X on Freskanova. He may also be familiar as the man providing all the scratches on The Freestylers’ recent records.

London Funk Allstars is the fruit of a collaboration between a bunch of musicians/DJ’s/Producers/Mixers already responsible for various projects including Clusterfunk and DJ Toolz and all those releases on Blaaps!. The link between all these is Jason, who was (is) part of all these projects.

For the London Funk Allstars projects, Jason teamed up with long time friends and musicians (keyboard, bass, flute…) and the debut EP Can You Understand arrived in March 1995. This was closely followed by the release of London Funk Allstars Vol. One, packed with samples, breaks, jazzy cuts, laid back hip-hop and even a hint of acid.

At the time Ninja Tune were catching vapours from a pretentious competitor label called Mo’ Wax. Pete played the groundbreaking DJ Krush album Strictly Turntablized to the Doc and felt the London Funk Allstars could sell to a new market of instrumental album buyers of the now vilified Trip hop market.

The album was very well received by DJ’s, punters and press. ..Genius..!! was used by music loving DJ and journalist Willbur Wilberforce in his review of London Funk Vol I for Touch magazine.
“Armed with samples from Gang Starr, Barry White, The Six Million Dollar Man and the video game Street Fighter, the London Funk Allstars add quite a bit of jazzy spice to their funky breaks and hip-hop influenced beats.” (Jessy Terry) London Funk Allstars want to give a big slap to the hip hop genre, giving the London version of the thing. Indeed, London Funk Volume 1 is a small wonder that inspired hip hop turns in all directions.

“I really wanted to have some rap tracks in amongst the instrumentals. I thought that people who bought Ninja Tune releases, that were basically hip hop backings, would want to hear the tracks laced with raps. I wanted to bring in emcees and singers to give my tracks wider appeal.” The Doc was told Ninja Tune was not a rap label. Ironic when you look at its output today.

The second album Flesh Eating Disco Zombies Vs. The Bionic Hookers From Mars, is more musician based than the first album, and includes, William George on vocals, John Miles on flute, Alan Simpson on guitar, Stefan on keyboards and Sir Hugo Havern on brass. It is warm and funky and has a sound resolutely melodic and live orientated.

The 2nd and the last London Funk Allstars album was released on Ninja Tune and the overspill of tracks was released simultaneously on Blapps!’ through Ninja Tunes distribution and was the 1st Mad Doctor X album Mad Doctor X’s Hip Hop Experiments Escape From The Lab And Go On The Rampage Volume 1.

Links: MySpace, LastFM, Wikipedia.

Track from the album “USSR, Life From the Other Side”.

MySpace, LastFM, Facebook, Wikipedia, Official page.

Killa is a girl. Yep, a DJesse.  She’s cool. Check her MySpace. Great scratches and samples.

Dan “the Automator” Nakamura is the brain behind many of the best hip-hop acts of the last 20 years, such as: Lovage, Handsome Modeling School, Gorillaz, Peeping Tom and he mingles along the likes of Mike Patton, Prince Paul, Dj Shadow, etc.

Kid Koala is …. Kid Koala -- the turntable master, signed to Ninja Tunes and constant inovator, mixing turntables, games and graphics into a big ball of fun.

Del tha Funkee Homosapien is that voice that you will never forget but never quite put your finger where you heard it for the first time. Well I’ll spare you the effort of googling it: he is Gorrilaz’s Del from Clint Eastwood & Rock The House. But he’s also a regular on many underground hip-hop acts, such as Jurassic 5, Handsome Boy Modeling School, etc.

Important info: The song Time Keeps On Slipping, featuring Damon Albarn, is said to have been the influence on the creation of the Gorillaz.

In this formula, Deltron 3030 is born, telling the story of Deltron Zero’s fight against an oppressive government and powerful corporations, while also battling to be the Galactic Rhyme Federation Champion.

Madness

Time keeps on slipping (with Damon Albarn <3).

3030

Turbulance

Love Story

Memory Loss

Myspace

12345

Super evil me

Expect everyone

Who Split the beans on the dance floor

Nice one George

Granny scratch -- a little kid koala influence-just a tiny bit…

I give you my love

Pull you back

Bang on the drum

Hello Flat Foot Have You Had Your Fish Yet

Get clean

Meribeth Old

Sixatesix

Octivebyoctive

Itch Cross over RetroSpective

Only doin a bit lads

Strhaff Tak

Folland

Shoulder Crawl Remix

Mums the word

Chilli Pick Your Nose

Buyline

Badder Than

Use with care:

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You can download all of his mixes. He has loooots of samples from Disney, and also Mary Poppins – always a plus!

Some more Disney samples gathered by Discorgy here.

More songs:

“Alimentara”:

“Alimentara (second version)”:

Also: Gospodaru, Invidia, Imnul Planeta Moldova, Vocile Reproducerii.

Planeta Moldova is a comedy group formed in Romania by Mitoș Micleușanu and Florin Braghiș, citizens of Republic of Moldova. They are known for irony and sarcasm in sketches, animations and music using a russified Moldavian language.

Links: Official page, LastFM, iLike, Wikipedia.

Never play with scratches

Face the music

A child’s introduction to drums

When I grow up

Myspace

Closer (with DJ Shadow and Sally Dury and MC Darrison)

All that jazz

DJ Fresh is a big name in the drum and bass scene. He is one of the principal members of Bad Company. The group is well known in the drum and bass industry for their single The Nine. Today the group is somewhat dissolved. DJ Fresh had left Bad Company to pursue several solo projects, Darren White continues to produce under the name D-Bridge. The remainder of the group, now known as “Bad Company UK” because they had a legal battle over the name as there was a band in the 70’s also called Bad Company, consists of Maldini and Vegas. DJ Fresh and MC Ivory work together in present on the project Sound Weapon.

Links: MySpace, LastFM, Wikipedia.