<p><span><span>- Coburg’s spaghetti western cowboys are back. Karate Boogaloo burst onto the scene back in 2018 with an idea so awesomely simple and obviously brilliant you might think they came up with it at music school for an assignment. What if we re-constructed live orchestrations of all the golden-era funk that was sampled on all our favourite golden-era hiphop records? <em>Mixtape #1</em> was born and suddenly the Coburg sound was defined: using great players, rare hardware and retro production techniques to create a sound that is a tribute to the most crucial mainstream instrumental music of the Twentieth Century.</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>Flash forward to now, and ‘the Boogas’ have already got a second mixtape and an album of original material under their fourth-dan blue belts, but this week it’s <em>Mixtape #3</em>! They’ve spooled up the reel-to-reel tape, aired out the Hammond B3 organ, grabbed the fuzzbox and polished up their collection of outrageously expensive snare-drums to present the<em> Songs of Film & Television</em> - a sprawling twelve track outing that covers everything from <em>James Bond</em> through Bollywood to <strong>Dolly Parton</strong> to frikkin’ <em>Gundam</em>!</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>It’s all immaculate production, understatement and Tonmeister-level flex.. and it adds to the stream of super-high end instrumental music that’s been flowing out of this humble little suburb in Melbourne’s north from sister bands like <strong>Surprise Chef</strong>, <strong>Mildlife</strong>, <strong>Swooping Duck</strong> and <strong>Snooch Dodd & the Pro-Teens</strong>.</span></span></p>
<p><span><span><strong>College of Knowledge</strong> continue to carve out a place for deliciously minimal and thoughtfully crafted instrumental music with a deep respect for history. It’s as good an answer to <strong>Stones Throw Records</strong> as Oz is likely to get any time soon. This is a record that will be spun in small bars and big dance floors around the world, with a unison hushed cry of ‘ahh! this song!’ as soon as the hook drops. </span></span></p>
<p><span><span>With <em>Mixtape #3</em> Karate Boogaloo are running their own dojo dance party. Grab some tatami and get down.</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>- Kieran Ruffles.</span></span></p>
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