If you aren’t up on Budos Band, check our In The Deck archive, we’ve been covering them for years. Or, check this new mixtape from Cloud Kicker and Emilio Sparks, which mashes-up remixes Wu-capellas with Budos beats. Well done, fellas. Cloud Kicker + Emilio Sparks – “The WUDOS Band”

It’s rare that after three albums and an EP a band can maintain such a distinctive sound. But the Budos Band are masters of combining nearly every genre that gave birth to hip hop in to one sonic punch to the stomach that never felt so good. They manage to play elements of jazz, afrobeat, [cont.]

   With funk and soul revivalists still in high demand, Staten Island’s The Budos Band makes a welcome entrance onto the scene with their somewhat familiar and always soulful brand of afro-influenced instrumental music heard on their self-titled debut. Unlike other modern afrobeat, funk and soul groups like Antibalas or Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, [cont.]