DJ MK Bangers & Mash 2 (mixtape)
The original Bangers & Mash by Rob Life came to herald the launch of Disorda & Skegs Boombox Distribution venture, a couple of years later it's the turn of Rodney Manuvas DJ, mister MK to take up the mantle of promoting the UK's hiphop scene. And on the surface the tracklisting alone should whet the appetite, for instance after Klash's Murda we go into 101 Pianos and then into the undisputable classic Fingerprints Of The Gods etc etc. A few old school classics from London Posse, Demon Boyz, Caveman and Hijack amongst others make up the rest of the CD along with recent material from recent years by all of the major players in the scene - Skinnyman, Ghost & Kash, Harry Love, Kyza, Jehst etc etc, you get the picture, 25 tracks all told.
My personal preference for mixes is to give a good blend, let the tracks breathe and not be too messy and cluttered. MKs mix sometimes seems to do this and is sometimes too fussy for my taste, don’t get me wrong as we all know he’s obviously got the skills, the intro is really nice mix and match up, going into Klashnekoff’s Murda with a bad scratchup but then the vocal repeats and the beat juggling are just a bit too much, and the ‘pen to the paper’ cut up at the start of Fingerprints just annoys me because I just want to hear the full track and not those words repeated by Rodney half a dozen or more times! When it’s on point it really is, It’s All Live going into Big & Bashy works really nicely but then the latter track gets cut up to death, more than it needs to, and sorry but the final minutes of the CD, a total hack and slash of Doc Brown sounds like something you’d hear in a manic DMC routine and not as the final track on a showcase of the UK’s finest.
But hopefully that’s just my weird tastes and preferences, I know MK’s obviously been commissioned to do a job on it so wanted to make an impression and showcase his full repertoire of DJ skills so I suppose I shouldn’t really argue with that because overall it’s a nice CD, got some absolute belters of tunes on it, some nice old classics that the new heads might not be familiar with and some good stuff from recent years I’d temporarily forgotten about (Big & Bashy, Don Gramma etc.) and most of the major (London based) talent seems represented.
With Boombox Distribution well on top of their game now this should be widely available on release in January in your local indie’s and also HMV and Virgin.
overall it’s a nice CD, got some absolute belters of tunes on it
- Spoon
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