DJ Regal – DJ Regal Presents!

DJ Regal Presents! – DJ Regal

By Aidan Roberts

Everyone loves their dose of rhymin’ and stealin’ every now and then; though it is a bit amusing to recognise the now transparently obvious formula employed in modern instrumental hip-hop – beginning with a couple of oblique TV/vintage radio dialogue samples, deftly stitched together to construct a congratulatory prologue – neatly chosen funk beats, soul guitar samples and a fat bass-line, all hopping along like a basketball. Having said that, this is tasteful stuff from Bondi mix-master DJ Regal (Paul Eve), and we’re presented here with a series of collaborations and mix-ups from his storied career, several from local white-boy MC’s including a remix of the ridiculously popular Karma by 1200 Techniques. Great fun is the break-beat buoyancy of Do The Do feat. Double R, and the flash-fire wordplay and stinging beats in Regal’s remix of All Good Funk Alliance’s Timely Convo. Largely, we’ve heard all this stuff before, but if this CD does anything for the serious listener it’s to demonstrate the quality and breadth of Regal’s experience. Not much experimentation here, but audible joints nonetheless.

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