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Furious Mandrill
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FEP 027
17 Apr 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
17 Apr 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Argentina-based producer Alexny has long been one of Furious Mandrill's most reliable and prolific producers. Over the years he's delivered both white-hot re-edits and similarly high-grade original productions. This EP, the first in the label's 'World Series', sits somewhere in between, with the publicity-shy producer combining elements of (mostly obscure) old tunes with his own instrumentation and grooves. He begins strongly with the dusty rocksteady-goes-deep house chug of 'Jah-Jah', before breathing new life into what sounds like a tropical disco-funk workout on 'Start The Music'. 'JO Jojo' is a shuffling, percussion-rich bounce based on (we think) a breezy Afro-funk number, while 'Dostum' is a heavyweight, thickset romp that features electrified Middle Eastern instrumentation and Arabic vocals.
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FEP 024
15 Mar 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
15 Mar 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Leandro Sokur is perhaps best known for his work with fellow Argentinian producer Nelson Cuberli as NFC & Key Sokur. Here, though, he's flying solo as he serves up a brace of (what are presumably) Afro-flavoured re-edits for Mexican label Furious Mandrill. This writer is no expert on African music and has never claimed to be, so the source material if any for this particular installment will have to go unidentified, but 'Ay Ramon' is a fairly lively, rolling affair with an upbeat, high life kinda feel, while 'Afro Babies' drops the tempo just a notch and has a slightly groovier swing, so is probably the pick for non-specialist floors.
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FMR 025
14 Dec 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
14 Dec 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Furious Mandrill's re-edit series reaches its 22nd installment with this two-tracker from Mexican duo The Velvet Stripes, AKA Leo Cid and Abraham Barrett. 'Sanga Sanga' and 'Si Como Na' both draw on Latin music sources, which is definitely not this writer's area of expertise, so the originals will have to go sadly unidentified this time out. But the former is a dense, midpaced, warm-up friendly kinda cut with a rousing male vocal supported by call-and-response BVs, while 'Si Coma Na' is a livelier but still quite gentle lil' hip-swayer that rocks a sing-song vocal and mariachi trumpets.
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FMR 022
17 Aug 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
17 Aug 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Juno Recommends Funky House
Review: Furious Mandrill bring us an EP from Mexican producer Superflat that packs three quite different-sounding tracks. The EP opens with 'A Night In Cancun', which can just about be filed under tropical/Latin disco - but only just, because in truth it has as much to do with traditional Mexican sounds (mariachi, corrido, nortena etc) as it does with 4/4 kicks and mirrorballs. The Cuban-infused 'Radio Habana' moves closer to "proper" disco territory, but the standout for yours truly here is 'Kingston On Acid', an almost Eastern-tinged deep house groove with a preacher-style vocal and mucho 303 squelch n' squeal.
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FEP 023
29 Jun 22
Funky/Club House
29 Jun 22
Funky/Club House
Played by: Herbie Hatchback, FINGERMAN, Superbreak, Juno Recommends Disco, Ash Reynolds, Rayko, LEGO EDIT, The Magic Track
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FEP 020
29 Dec 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
29 Dec 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Juno Recommends Disco, Juno Recommends Funky House, Stephen Richards (DiscoDaze), Alexny, The Magic Track
Review: Argentina's Ivan Alexis Podwiazny, better known as Alexny, returns to Furious Mandrill with a four-track EP here. 'Glass Of Beer At Bogota' is a light n' breezy affair with fluttering guitars and a female "aa-aaah" vocal taking centre stage, while the title track opens with a simple looping percussion groove, then builds inexorably into a dense slab of Latin-flavoured funk as it progresses. The insistent disco-funker that is 'Kizi' - the pick for yours truly - then ups the tempo somewhat and sports snatches of spoken, Spanish-language male vocal alongside its exuberant brass fanfares, while completing the set is the more laidback, tropical-flavoured 'Commander'.
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FEP 019
27 Oct 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
27 Oct 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Mexico's Furious Mandrill bring us a three-tracker from Kristoff MX, AKA Christopher E de los Monteros from Quer?taro, who judging by the sound of this EP has clearly been digging on a lot of old African disco and funk records from the 1970s. 'Black Mamba' centres around a chanted vocal that sits atop a bed of fluttering guitars, while the more gently-paced 'Awake' is all rolling drums, brass stabs and a sing-song vocal in an unidentified language. Closer 'Manduke' then takes us into slightly more straight-up funk pastures, making it potentially the best bet for non-specialist floors.
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FEP 018
29 Sep 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
29 Sep 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: The Magic Track bring us four tropical disco productions that pack in a welter of influences from disco, jazz, world music and more. 'Bonsai Care' places sitars, African-style flutes and vocal chants and a jazz saxophone line over a dense, tribalistic backbeat; 'Pambolero' looks mostly to Latin jazz and flamenco for inspiration, but has hints too of hi-life and Afrobeat, sounds which also inform 'Disco Croco' and closer 'Yerba Mate', the latter throwing all sense of restraint to the winds as the Hungarian duo chuck in various animal/zoo sounds for good measure.
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FEP 017
28 Jul 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
28 Jul 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Mexico's The Velvet Stripes return to their regular home of Furious Mandrill with two cuts that fit the label's self-stated "tropical disco and Afrodisiac funk" remit down to the ground. Up first is 'Mamba Flavour', a hypnotic, summer-y funk/disco roller with a vocal that sounds like it could be of either West African or Central American origin. That's followed by the trumpet-led, guitar-flecked and organ-sprinkled 'The Soul Rhythm', which is not dissimilar in overall approach but doesn't have quite the same infectious energy - think throwing shapes for 'Mamba Flavour' and lounging by the poolside for 'The Soul Rhythm'.
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FMR 016
26 May 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
26 May 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: FINGERMAN, Pete Herbert, Juno Recommends Disco, Stephen Richards (DiscoDaze), Juno Download
Review: After impressing late last year with The Four Seasons EP, Hungarian duo The Magic Track returns to Furious Mandrill with more high-grade re-edits for those who like chunky beats, heavy horns and hedonistic disco flavours. The pick of a very strong bunch is arguably celebratory disco romp 'Panama Life' - all impassioned male vocals, fiery horns, filter sweeps and rubbery bass - though tooled-up Afro-disco opener 'Equality Pushes it Close'. Elsewhere, 'My Gentle Love' is a Clavinet-sporting chunk of rolling disco-house excellence, and 'Sweetest Goodbye' is a bass-heavy version of a sensationally summery number that should get plenty of plays at outdoor events in the months and years ahead.
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FEP 014
17 Feb 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
17 Feb 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Following pretty good - but arguably overlooked - outings on Mango Sounds and Fibanicci Recordings, Kristoff MX has become the latest member of the Furious Mandrill family. His contribution to their re-edit focused Mandrill Cuts series is on-point and quietly impressive, with both tracks being well worthy of your attention. He opens with 'FAWL (From Africa With Love)', a not so subtly tooled-up rearrangement of an old Afro-disco gem rich in elastic bass guitar, vibraphone style motifs, gnarled disco-funk guitars and punchy horn lines. 'Nigerian Flava' is a slightly looser and more relaxed revision of what sounds like a post Afrobeat boogie number of the sort that was very popular in Lagos around 1983.
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FMR 015
13 Jan 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
13 Jan 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Greek disco producer Giannis Mpizas, better known as JB Boogie, comes to Mexican label Furious Mandrill with four suitably Latin-tinged workouts. Opener 'Pina Colada' places barrio-style "jungle music" shouts atop a looped-up funk guitar riff reminiscent of (but not sampled from) The Jackson Sisters, while 'Cocktail' has a slightly more lounge-y feel, with brass to the fore. It's the horns, too, that make Spanish-vocalled EP standout 'Cuba Libre' - that riff will get under your skin like scabies! - before the EP's closed out by 'Amaretto', which like 'Cocktail' has something of an easy listening vibe. Schmaltzy, but tons of fun all the same.
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FEP 012
16 Sep 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
16 Sep 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Following releases with About Disco, Deep Sense and Moiss Music, Argentinian duo Nelson Cuberli & Leandro Sokur, ala NFC & Key Sokur, arrive on Furious Mandrill! Delivering three disco, house and funk tipped originals primed for the dancefloor, cocktails and good times, it's tracks like "Malaui" that will inspire the best of Ibiza-washed nostalgia. "Water Love" looks to something more percussive and Afrobeat in style while "Welcome To Cancun" sets up the DJ for a most welcome funk-infused house number for the peak time! And for the more tempered DJ out there, check out the beefed up albeit refined Alexny remix of the title-track. Fiesta!
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FEP 010
13 Jul 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
13 Jul 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Mexican label Furious Mandrill - specialists in "tropical disco and Afrodisiac funk" - bring us a four-tracker from Argentinian producer Alexny. 'I Believe', which is either a cover of The Jackson Sisters' 'I Believe In Miracles' or a re-edit of someone else's (it's hard to tell) gets the ball rolling, followed by 'Diggin' Roots', a shufflin' funk-soul cut with a late 60s/early 70s feel (think War, Sly Stone, Rare Earth). 'Tamanqueira' is a summery slice of Latin-infused funk, while the high life-esque 'Sekele Movement' plays us out on an Afro tip. Four very solid cuts that'll work well on more discerning floors.
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FEP 009
15 Jun 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
15 Jun 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: FINGERMAN, Juno Recommends Disco, Stephen Richards (DiscoDaze), Chuggin Edits, Kongisto, Paul Older, Ruff Diamond, Saint-Loup-en-Bray
Review: Since he last featured on Furious Mandrill back in December 2019, Paul Older has taken his particular brand of humid dancefloor funk to the Discoweey and Tropical Disco labels. His return to Furious Mandrill tops the lot, with the now-established re-editor and remixer offering up chunky, floor-friendly revisions of hot-to-trot disco, funk and jazz-funk jams from both Africa and South America. Their most infectious and weighty of the four tracks is undoubtedly the inspired Afro-disco workout "Akisakisana", where positive chords and chanted vocals raise the temperature after an extra-percussive start, though the horn-heavy Brazilian disco-funk vibes of "Mais" are also deliciously addictive. Elsewhere, "Los Carmelos" is a cheery skip through sun-kissed samba-disco territory and "Monkey Funky" sees Older successfully beef up a wild, Hammond-heavy disco-funk jam.
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FEP 008
20 May 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
20 May 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: This year Alexny has been busy... and we mean really busy. We make this outing on Furious Mandrill - his first disco-focused EP for a fair few months after a run of deep house cuts - the producer's seventeenth solo set of 2019 - an astonishing figure when you think about it. We'd argue that the headline attraction is opener "Que Beleza", a percussion-rich, beefed-up take on a horn-toting Latin disco workout, though some may be more attracted to the breezy, piano-sporting positivity of samba disco edit "Do Sol". Elsewhere, "Deixa A Tristeza" sees him craft a filter-heavy house chugger from bits of a joyous old samba jam, while "First Pay" is a sludgy loop-house head-nodder rich in jazzy guitar licks and twinkling melodies.
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FEP 005
18 Dec 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
18 Dec 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: These days, C Da Afro seems to be pushing the likes of Rayko, Sunner Soul and Mitiko hard for the coveted title of "most prolific remixer and re-editor". The Greek producer is once again in fine form on this Furious Mandrill outing, offering up a quartet of cuts that are funkier than a gurning gibbon after a night out with the Goodies. Our pick of a very strong bunch is sturdy, filter-sporting disco-highlife revision "Highlight Groove", though sweet, string-laden opener "Coconuts" and the colourful, synth-laden tropical disco number "Tropical Boogie" push it close. Kwaito/Afro-boogie number "Zooming", which closes the EP in fine style, is also worth a listen.
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FEP 003
23 Oct 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
23 Oct 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: C. Da Afro, Craig Charles Funk And Soul, FINGERMAN, Juno Recommends Disco, SUNNER SOUL, Dave Mathmos, CHEWY RUBS, The Funk District, LEGO EDIT, 80's Child, Stephen Richards (DiscoDaze), Chuggin Edits, Sould Out, Vito lalinga, Ruff Diamond
Review: Fresh from an impressive contribution to a recent multi-artist EP on Editorial, Cancun's Fernando Mendoza once again dons the Funk District alias and serves up some more funky dancefloor heat. First up is the bounding Afro-disco/Afro-funk fusion of "Freaky Stuff", a rubbery but decidedly heavy version of a familiar favourite, quickly followed by the filter-sporting Afro disco-funk bounce of "Do It Right". Arguably even better is "Soul Vibration", a booming, full throttle, house-friendly tweak of a slamming disco-funk belter. Bets of all, though, is closing cut "Tin Lin Non", where subtle house beats underpin a rearranged version of a steamy Afro-funk/Afro-disco cut rich in glistening guitars and undulating bass.
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FEP 001
16 May 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
16 May 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Having recently impressed via a tidy two-tracker on the effervescent Dikso label, fast-rising producer and re-editor Levantine makes his bow on Furious Mandrill with two more party-starting treats. First up in "Wilde", a heavy but suitably swinging revision of a blue-eyed disco-funk jam bristling with jaunty horn lines, elastic bass guitar, glassy-eyed vocals and chunky, house style beats. "Body Work", meanwhile, is similarly bouncy but slightly more driving in feel, with soaring disco orchestration and high-register vocal snippets being smothered in filters while weighty beats bob along beneath. It's disco-house, Jim, but not as we know it.
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FMR 007
12 Sep 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
12 Sep 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Stephen Richards (DiscoDaze)
Review: Edit imprint Furious Mandrill has barely put a foot wrong since debuting back in November 2016. The label's latest hot-to-trot missive comes from C Da Afro, a talented Greek producer and re-editor who has spent the last five years releasing party-starting grooves on some of the rework scene's most lauded labels. He kicks things off with "Only", a rework of a killer Nigerian boogie favourite smothered in glistening new pianos, meandering synth solos and cowbell driven disco drums. It's a tasty and tactfully execution revision, all told. "Serious Jam" inhibits similar sonic territory, serving up a sparkling tweak of another boogie-era Nigerian instrumental rich in jaunty piano stabs, elastic bass and glassy-eyed dancefloor positivity.
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FMR 006
31 Jul 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
31 Jul 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: For the fourth edition on Mandrill Cuts, they are honoured to include Mexico City's Sould Out (FDL/Masterworks Music) to the label roster, with two dancefloor jewels that will burn up the club. "Cosmic Wayo" is a nice serving of congo fuelled Afro-disco-funk, filled with harmonic trumpets, happy vocals and a rhythm section to make you get up and boogie. While on "The Magical Mystical" they take on a classic by a certain main with one thousand fingers, taking you back to a golden era in disco with its majestic piano chords, sexy rhythm guitar licks and classic vocals - plus some newly added cosmic FX all bringing some magic to the release. Good time guaranteed on this one!
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FMR 004
17 Apr 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
17 Apr 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: LEGO EDIT
Review: The latest tasty missive on fast-rising re-edit imprint Furious Mandrill comes from NFC, an Argentine DJ/producer who has previously released original material on Thunder Jam and Onrika. Both tracks here are marked out not only by the tidiness and respectfulness of the re-edits, but also the quality of his source material. "Rico Coco" is an authentic original Latin disco gem, where hazy female vocals, jaunty piano lines and hard panned guitars wrap themselves around a wonderfully rich, mid-tempo groove. "Nigerian Feel", on the other hand, is a killer rework of a slightly better known, West African influenced disco-funk gem, where flanged Blaxploitation guitars and sweaty horn solos combine with a guttural male vocal to create an intoxicating, floor-friendly mood.
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FMR 003
15 Nov 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
15 Nov 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
