Broken Bells & Your Old Droog Producer/Drummer J-Zone Readies The Du-Rites Funk-laden "Bug Juice" 7-inch EP with Tom Tom Club Guitarist Pablo Martin (Flea Market Funk)
"
The Du-Rites
finally drop a full song to check out.
"Bug Juice"
now on
Soundcloud
(who are a bunch of squares a bunch of squares and simps for not having a
"Funk"
option in their genre drop[-down] menu, but
"Trap"
is available). To hear: my website link in bio - newest post or
. 7-inch single later next month; album late Fall," multi-instrumentalist and
Hip-Hop
producer
Jay "J-Zone" Mumford
wrote within a recent aptly-titled
@jzonedontig Instagram
post. Still hot on the heels of his latest solo album,
Fish-n-Grits
, which is made up of a gaggle of limited edition vinyl-only 7-inch releases dating as far back as 2014 and new material,
J-Zone
has readied "probably the closest to what [he] aspired to in my Funk-drenched 80's childhood" in the form of a newly-minted 2-man
Funk
band, fittingly titled The
Du-Rites
.
J-Zone
is currently preparing a 7-inch
Funk
instrumental EP with his long-time engineer and revered
Tom Tom Club
guitarist,
; according to
The Du-Rites' Soundcloud
description, Martin plays lead and rhythm guitars, bass guitar, and synthesizer, while
J-Zone
mans drums, organ, bass guitar, turntables, and "hand percussion instruments that require little skill."
Self-described husband, dad, crate-digger, beard cultivator, and
founder
DJ Prestige
heroically recounted
"Bug Juice"
as "pure
Funk
with no option on
Soundcloud
for the
Funk
genre, this may be the record that makes them put
Funk
in there, seriously. This instrumental is heavy, and
J-Zone
's drum break towards the end solidifies this as one of our faves of 2016."
J-Zone & Pablo Martin
are currently holed up in the studio readying their
"Bug Juice" 7-inch EP
for September with a full-length album to likely follow as soon as October or November.
J-Zone
's own on-site
biography additionally notes that he's currently "also preparing for the roll out of
SuperBlack
," yet another super-group formed with the likes of legendary
De La Soul
-affiliated producer
Prince Paul
and
American
TV producer, filmmaker, writer, and
member
Sacha Jenkins
. "Um, I pretty much think of myself as like a jack of all trades, but master of none— that's my tagline; I mean, I'm not a master producer, I'm not a master emcee, I'm not a master writer, I'm not a master drummer, I'm not a master DJ, I'm not a master musician, engineer, etc."
J-Zone
lamented during the introduction to a rather self-loathing
Fish-N-Grits
promo uploaded to his wonderfully-titled personal
YouTube
channel,
The Onion Ring Pimp
(which I personally vote as the title for his forthcoming eighth studio album).