TAG: Fort Knox Five

Sep08

Download :: Thunderball – “12 Mile High” (URB Exclusive) (MP3)

Smooth tempos, sitars, retro-future samples? It must be the return of Thunderball, the stylish kids from DC all grown up after half a decade spent tuning their forks as members of Fort Knox Five. These ESL originators helped define the post chill-out sound along with label heads Thievery Corporation, and the spirit of their legendary Eighteenth Street Lounge lives on in the title track off their new album, coming out 11/9 on ESL.

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Jul16

Fort Knox Five – Shift feat. Afrika Bambaataa & Mustafa Akbar (Video & MP3)

The 2009 Inaugural weekend saw massive celebrations in Washington, DC and worldwide. The legendary Afrika Bambaataa, who helped launch the hip-hop generation with hits like Planet Rock and Searching for the Perfect Beat was in town to celebrate the historic moment. While Barack Obama was being sworn in as President, the Fort Knox Five teamed up with electro-funk innovator Afrika Bambaataa and Mustafa Akbar to create the funk anthem Shift. Originally released on the 2009 compilation The New Gold Standard 2, Shift has been reinvented in both audio and visual form.

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Nov16

Fort Knox Five – A Good Things Come In 5’s Mix (Podcast)

Fort Knox Five

All Good Things Come In 5's


Tomorrow, D.C.-based party rockers Fort Knox Five are releasing the second compilation off their Fort Knox Recordings label, titled New Gold Standard 2. To celebrate, the group mixed up this selection of highly funky dance floor killers for URB.com, featuring some …

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Jan30

Best of ‘08: DJ Kevlar

When he’s not covering the wide world of film and hip-hop for media institutions like URB, DJ Kevlar (aka Kevin Polowy) is one of NYC’s rising turntable workers—proving that ‘waxmaster’ might be one of the few recession-proof gigs, even in Burrough that brought us the bear market.

DJ KEVLAR’S TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2008

10. Rabbi Darkside – Building the Better Bomb and Hired Gun – The People’s Verses (tie)
Full disclosure: These are my dudes… otherwise I might’ve had to rank them higher. Two of 3rd Party’s threesome went solo in ‘08, and the results couldn’t be more official. Rabbi D’s Bomb drops like a ton of bricks, with pensive poetics that range from political to deeply personal, while on Verses, Hired Gun continues to drop knowledge with the ferocity of a young and …

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Apr10

Fort Knox Five – Reminted (Review)

Fort Knox Five

Reminted

Released by Fort Knox Recording


Who's on it?
The misleadingly named quartet from DC pimp out already-bumping cuts from
Skeewiff, Nickodemus, Latin jazz legends Tito Puente and Joe Bataan and others for this party-moving mix session.
Any good?
Every track in this well-paced set is thoroughly reworked to augment the original fl avors with some of FK5's style. It's all about layered rhythms,
rampant horns and moving butts.
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