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Biography
Monkey Mafia's brand of big-beat "Brit-hop-amyl-house" is similar
in respects to that of the Chemical Brothers , Fatboy Slim , and
artists associated with the Skint and Wall of Sound labels. The
production arm of Essex-born DJ Jon Carter's many club-related
activities, the project began in 1995, following a string of tracks for
Wall of Sound under the name Artery and coinciding with his
residency at Heavenly's influential anything-goes weekly, the
Sunday Social. Carter's musical past actually reaches quite a bit
farther back than London's post-acid house big-beat scene; he
was the member of a number of pub-rock and psychedelic cover
bands while studying philosophy in Southampton.
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Shoot The Boss
Monkey Mafia - Biography
Monkey Mafia's brand of big-beat "Brit-hop-amyl-house" is
similar in respects to that of the Chemical Brothers, Fatboy
Slim, and artists associated with the Skint and Wall of Sound
labels. The production arm of Essex-born DJ Jon Carter's many
club-related activities, the project began in 1995, following a string
of tracks for Wall of Sound under the name Artery and coinciding
with his residency at Heavenly's influential anything-goes weekly,
the Sunday Social. Carter's musical past actually reaches quite a
bit farther back than London's post-acid house big-beat scene; he
was the member of a number of pub-rock and psychedelic cover
bands while studying philosophy in Southampton. As such, his
influences run a far wider berth than usual suspects such as
Kraftwerk, Public Enemy, and Double D & Steinski, including
obscure old-school hip-hop and electro,'60s rock and soul, and his
longest-running obsessions, dancehall and reggae.
Carter moved to London around 1993, learning engineering and
production working in the studios of (oddly) hardcore and jungle
labels such as Trouble on Vinyl and No U-Turn. He passed a
demo of ragga-tinged midtempo breakbeat tracks he assembled
in his spare time to Wall of Sound's Mark Jones, who released a
few of them before losing Carter to deConstruction in 1995.
Carter's debut for the label, "Blow the Whole Joint Up," appeared
that same year. An instant hit among the capital's flourishing
acid-hop scene, the track earned Carter remix work for the
Prodigy and Saint Etienne, as well as a steady stream of DJ gigs
(the latter of which has tended to limit his release schedule). A
pair of EPs have managed to trickle out since, however, including
1996's "Work Mi Body" and 1997's "Lion in the Hall." The
long-awaited full-length Shoot the Boss appeared in late 1998.
-- Sean Cooper, All Music Guide
Shoot The Boss
Monkey Mafia
Format: Audio CD
Release Date: 10/13/1998
Label: Arista Records
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1.
Make Jah Music
2.
Blow The Whole Joint Up (Coughing
Up Fire mix)
3.
I Am Fresh
4.
Lion In The Hall (beats edit)
5.
Steppa's Ball
6.
Work Mi Body (Chicken Scratch mix)
7.
Ward 10 (Voodoo mix)
8.
Whore Of Babylon, The
9.
Metro Love
10.
Healing Of The Nation
11.
Retreat Wicked Man
12.
Long As I Can See The Light
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Rolling Stone (12/10/99, p.127-128) - 3 1/2 Stars (out of 5)
...boasting deep, dubby dance mixes, reggae toasting and pureed sample
soups thick enough to clog a speaker..."
Spin (1/99, p.122) - 7 out of 10) - "...SHOOT THE BOSS captures the spirit
of
contemporary British multiculture in a way that really hasn't been accomplished
since the end of the '70s--when the Clash, the Slits, Mark Stewart of the
Pop
Group, and other punky-reggae types discovered the vast legacy of Jamaican
music.
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Album Notes
Monkey Mafia includes: Jon Carter. Additional personnel: Douge Reuben,
Patra,
Silvah Bullet, Shirzelle (vocals); Krash Slaughta (voice box); Sonia Slaney
(strings); Lee Horsley (keyboards); Lee Spencer. Engineers include: Jon
Dee,
Keith Tenniswood, Tim Holmes. Those who castigate the Chemical Brothers
for
selling out or crossing over, or some such nonsense, look to Monkey Mafia
to
represent the undiluted face of DJ culture/club music in the late '90s.
Regardless
of when you stand on the relative authenticity of its peers, Monkey Mafia,
the
brainchild of turntable whiz Jon Carter, offers a solid blend of danceable
beats,
shifting (but never spacey) textures and effective samples. There's a definite
reggae undertone to SHOOT THE BOSS, represented in the occasional vocals,
the dub-like feel of some of the tracks and the syncopated percussion,
but
Monkey Mafia sounds very British, a quality that will make them lots of
friends on
both sides of the Atlantic. Too single-minded to cross over, too naturally
hooky to
come off aloof, Monkey Mafia occupies an agreeable middle ground between
the underworld and the electronica mainstream.
General Info
Genre: n/a
Catalog Number: 19039
Distributor: BMG
Spars Code: n/a
Mono/Stereo: Stereo
Studio/Live: Studio
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