Duke Dumont and A*M*E - Need U (100%) - Rolling UK dance pop interzone thread

this is the first great uk no 1 of 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnJIb4A-DuY

s0 happy to have terrific commercial house back at the top of the charts, we can probably discuss all the stuff like this song itt as well

the original is all about that double clap for me, but the skream remix is a rather wonderful disco/boogie take on it

http://soundcloud.com/tom-tungyai/duke-dumont-feat-me-need-u-100

Yeah, that Skream remix is astonishing, did a double take when I found out he was responsible for that kind've sound, and finished off this DJ Q mix wonderfully: http://www.mixesdb.com/w/2013-03-25_-_DJ_Q_-_Essential_Garage

What else is floating around in the UK charts like this? How did it get to #1?

Because it sold around 23,000 more copies than Pink and is getting played on the radio.

the disclosure/alunageorge single got to no 2 last month

i mean the garage revival x 90s house revival has been bubbling under for a while now, so it's not completely out of nowhere - i assume this song had a particularly good PR campaign and came along at the right time. but we had the rudimental song at no 1 last year too...

another example of skream's new sound - this terrific rudimental/angel haze remix http://soundcloud.com/rudimentaluk/rudimental-hell-could-freeze-1

did "Au Seve" chart in the UK at all?

got to no. 55 apparently, which itself was a pleasant surprise

this goes nicely with the Skream remix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVcG9lpZV24

i mean the garage revival x 90s house revival has been bubbling under for a while now, so it's not completely out of nowhere - i assume this song had a particularly good PR campaign and came along at the right time. but we had the rudimental song at no 1 last year too...

Just hadn't realised that it was any more likely to chart than, say, Funkystepz - the NZ top 40 reflects a fairly X-Factor-centric view of the UK charts (as well as ... why is this Passenger UK singer-songwriter guy at the top of the Aus/NZ charts but only reached 137 on the UK charts, IDGI); around the early 00s chart dance stopped making an impact locally.

Thing that puzzles me is it was released back in January, unless PR effort was very recent seems there should have been a catalyst for it suddenly receiving attention again.

need u was released back in jan? you sure?

genuinely delighted at skream's new non-wob direction, hoping that and the new jessie ware track are signs of how things are heading clubmusicwise

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Well, it's been around for a couple of months now, and has been charting in Holland and Belgium already, but in the UK its official release has been held back until last week. It became so popular that cash-in versions were starting to infiltrate the UK iTunes chart. I guess the build-up paid off.
(And yeah, it's a great track)

http://www.discogs.com/Duke-Dumont-Feat-AME-Need-U-100/release/4202739
To be fair, didn't know what countries it was for sale in, just remember seeing it on Soundcloud back then plus saw that page. Just checked the iTunes release and it was last week.

Skream remix kills it.

Just hadn't realised that it was any more likely to chart than, say, Funkystepz

when it comes to who decides what becomes a hit and why, i'm perpetually mystified but tend to assume the answer is PR

glad to see this thread! searched for this here after the Singles Jukebox rated it a while back. I'd have to guess the video has something to do with its success, no?

this mediocre vocal performance really propels this mediocre uk house track to new heights of mediocrity

the skream mix is quite awful

Yeah I'm not mad keen on this either, certainly in comparison to White Noise which really deserved to be #1.

Do Gorgon City fit in somewhere here as well? That tune has been getting mad 1xtra play lately.

and it's not that i have anything against garage revival x 90s house revival, i just don't see what's so great about this song

compared to au seve or street walker or whatever

Do Gorgon City fit in somewhere here as well? That tune has been getting mad 1xtra play lately.

― Matt DC, Monday, 8 April 2013 20:49 (26 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah, kind of - 'need u' was cowritten by mnek, who along with gorgon city is part of rudimental's black butter stable. black butter have near enough singlehandedly (albeit strongly enabled by mistajam and then radio 1's decisive support and playlisting) created/curated a sort of new uk dance pop interzone where songful tunes touch on various amorphous dance flavours (garage, to brostep, to dnb, to trap, to boogie, to just cute blippy stuff, to whatever etc) without ever placing them too strongly in discouragingly specific context; sort of a 86-93 chart spirit with modern tools. it doesn't really lend itself to shorthand but the more you listen the more you get it - there's lots around, and it feels to me like a very mini golden period right now.

I really like this Krystal Klear & Jenna G one that r|t|c referred to on the Jessie Ware thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vpDHSxE_gU

xp, aye Black Butter's turned out to be a really nice label. Must admit I was a bit underwhelmed when they first came out after being a big fan of Rudimental's funky stuff, but they've grown on me. Gorgon City, Lulu James, Kidnap kid etc have all done lovely stuff and I think Woz in particular is awesome (though he's more harder edged than the aforementioned).

anyway chuffed to see need u at number one, kinda makes me wish something like this had happened for funky a few years back but hey-ho...

That Krystal Klear/Jenna G thing is even better than need u. Be interesting if this stuff manages to catch any of the surf from the forthcoming Daft Punk Disco Leviathan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GElrc2ikqIo

this one's a good literalisation of how this thread's specific concerns come out of the wider vibe

I have been playing zero attention to Black Butter while separately enjoying Kidnap Kid, Lulu James and Gorgon City (plus Rudimental obviously) so for there to be some kind of gravitational centre to all this makes me happy.

Was last year's Tensnake/Syron track a hamfisted pitch to this territory as well or just a coincidence.

'ONE HUNDREET' - track would be slightly less pants if she could pronounce the word correctly

xp depends on your attitude to coincidence really, heh. syron is signed to black butter too (maybe this is what you meant already) but otherwise not a direct pitch i'd have thought

"some kind of gravitational centre" is definitely the way to be looking at it rather than territory though yeah

all of these tracks are nice but katy b is just gonna wipe the floor once her new stuff comes out, right

it's certainly the most amenable climate there's been for her to return to. could do really well if she gets it right

That Devolution track is great - I listened to the second Black Butter comp on the way home yesterday and 'If You Believe' and 'Listen To The Badman' are also straight up bangers.

In all honesty I like most of the stuff mentioned on this thread more than Need U.

South Soul Project stuff also sounded great.

is there a catchy genre title for all this stuff? seems like a more hooky spin on deep house

i like the duke dumont like okay, it's fine - weirdly this is ny type stuff but reminds me of the same sort of sound, but it's better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irBwhhFum6s

*stabs NI in face*

stab house, i dig it

"Street Walker" isn't nearly as good as this one

that Skream Rudimental remix is so good, I had gathered that he'd been stepping things up recently but had no idea he'd gone in this direction.

This is what I get for taking my eye off the ball but I had a mad Black Butter binge over the last couple of days and I love this record's entire aesthetic. "86-93 chart spirit but with modern tools" is very OTM.

Is there enough going around in this vein to merit a rolling UK pop-house thread?

i sort of intended this to encompass all that, maybe the title can be edited to that end

"... love this LABEL's entire aesthetic", even.

xp Yes, it needs its own thread, or a re-edit of this one's title. Lots of good stuff happening.

haha late great harking back to the glory 2005 years of ilx, on steroids. hats off

house is a feelin (of violent outrage)

Hate Can't Turn Around

the gorgon city/yasmin single is AMAZING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4__q9CapVo

Yeah that's the track that provided the penny-dropping moment for me. This Lulu James track is good as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVtuluGSG7Y

I suppose we're at the tipping point that I naively thought funky would bring around in 2008*, the final return of a decent chart-friendly vocal house music that feels UK rather than euro in its approach. Like a lot of this stuff has the same modern DNA as the UKG interszone but takes it in a different direction.

*I suppose it did in a way, but via a very roundabout route.

That Devolution track is great - I listened to the second Black Butter comp on the way home yesterday and 'If You Believe' and 'Listen To The Badman' are also straight up bangers.

The "Bass Drop Mix" of "Listen to the Badman" in particular is (((((|O_O|)))))

But loving this "The Finest" rip too.

Pete Fucking Devereux!

Ed Case also has been doing some fine work in this arena e.g. "Turn My World Around (Deep Mix)".

another one of these choons from disclosure https://soundcloud.com/disclosuremusic/you-me-soundcloud-edit

I feel like this one fits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxHtclUAyLo

spotify playlist:

uk pop-bass house bubblers

(100% isn't on spotify??)

I've added some stuff to that as well.

isnt 'so close' lovely

and rudimental top of the charts again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd0cT7Dnpt8

meanwhile straight in at 17 is this delightfully fanciful little thing

shades of ztt imo

in a way, i think that might be my fave song of the year tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hut5E5bezsk

and they have a super pretty remix of the aforementioned #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VoAqNNTEa0

which on the ep admittedly pales in the shadow of this piece of utter brilliance

clean bandit have proven divisive in my office, which i can only see as a good thing. i am firmly in the "yes" camp. on paper it shouldn't work at all but it just does.

The "Bass Drop Mix" of "Listen to the Badman" in particular is (((((|O_O|)))))

No way is this better than the original version with its ridiculous rave chords and disembodied diva vocals.

xp yeah, absolutely. as an actual chart thing it is just such a non sequitur that it's impossible not be disarmed, and then from that there's a frisson that comes from having your nose tweaked aesthetically

like i mean if you heard it and felt proven right, about life and stuff, then ur totally a disgusting savage. (ie i must get round to the grim task of seeing what popjustice think)

i guess it's just the difference between being playful and being the one note wacky tie office joker

same vibe that couches the central conceit of 'spoons' (ie, literally the spoons) as lightly punning kitchen sink melodrama moreso than pure gimmick

'spoons' kinda reminded me of something steve beresford might have done actually, like 'my body' by general strike or whatever

sorta got a nightmare audio vision of alunageorge covering viv goldman 'launderette' now i've said that

aaaaanyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0w0xU7SXIE

more fabness

u don't kno how it warms my cockles to see "now playing" actually paid attention to

same vibe that couches the central conceit of 'spoons' (ie, literally the spoons) as lightly punning kitchen sink melodrama moreso than pure gimmick

haha the first few times i heard "spoons" i just assumed the title was referring to, like, lovers in bed. then i actually listened closely and was like ohhhhh. when i talked to them i mentioned the first interpretation and one of them said it had never occurred to him and another was like, i thought that was the point.

absolutely love "waiting all night" and "baby" - the rudimental album is strong too on one listen

eh soz coming back off the dp thread here

matt u and cracklebox seem to just be saying that boogie disco stuff has existed and been popular recently - fine yeah sure but is skream operating with and addressing the same balearic plonkers with those mixes? no imo, it's an appeal to a different audience, and the move to do so is brighter than is being made out i think. they're far more akin to something like this (another jenna g, brand new good for u etc) in spirit and motivation than they are to terje edits and crystal vision or whatever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16zjHb2mglw

oh no wait those ukf savages left off the amazing thriller outro where she megamixes all the said classics! here:

http://youtu.be/SRPiw1eIvBQ

haha pushing at the outline of what constitutes the interzone! but why not? the ghost of jungle has always been one of its animating spirits iirc

is skream operating with and addressing the same balearic plonkers with those mixes? no imo, it's an appeal to a different audience

I'd agree with you on this, Hot Creations are probably the missing link here, even more than Bashmore or whoever. But I don't get a sense of the essential London-ness of them, even when he's remixing Rudimental.

Contrast with a lot of the more song-based stuff that we're talking about here which is harking back to (and updating) a spirit that's been dormant in British dance music for a long time, and yacht disco doesn't quite fit in with that even given the overlapping audience, for reasons I can't quite put my finger on. Not late enough in the 80s, wrong kind of wine bar.

1000 Soul Songs is wonderful though, astonishing in its shamelessness.

I dunno Matt I think you're drawing too sharp a distinction. It's all raw like sushi imo.

idk yeah it is likely a shade too neat but better him drawing some sort of line than me not i think ultimately

hot creay's ldn-ness (and i agree it has little bearing itt but for the sake of chitchat) is probably in their import electro-ness idk? that quirky off-the-wall newcleus thing

'emperor' remains the stupidest song i've found myself liking in an age anyway, punching myself in the face every time i sing along

The Skream remixes (and I mainly mean the Duke Dumont and Rudimental ones here) are kind of consciously harking back to a (even marginally) pre-acid house era. Dunno why, but that feels like an important distinction for me, in terms of spirit if nothing else, even though the links between the artists are obvious.

Struggling to think of the last time there were back-to-back #1s as good as Need U and Waiting All Night, btw.

Mozart's House is ridiculous.

Struggling to think of the last time there were back-to-back #1s as good as Need U and Waiting All Night, btw.

march 2010, pass out/telephone

(would "ding dong" have made it even better or cheapened it?)

the last time there were three even half-decent UK No 1s in a row was 2007, when we had a bizarrely great run of 7:

umbrella/the way i are/with every heartbeat/stronger/beautiful girls/about you now/bleeding love

The Skream remixes (and I mainly mean the Duke Dumont and Rudimental ones here) are kind of consciously harking back to a (even marginally) pre-acid house era. Dunno why, but that feels like an important distinction for me, in terms of spirit if nothing else, even though the links between the artists are obvious.

Yeah I see this. Though the sonic shift that would be required to take it from pre-acid to post-acid would be pretty minor (which is why I think of Neneh Cherry - "Buffalo Stance" is one of those tunes which is clearly post-acid house (and all the better for it) but still seems in communication with a lot of ideas immediately preceding it).

TS7 - Heartlight feat. Taylor Fowlis?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqFRq1xlOOg

xp Wow, 2007. Maybe I should have voted for that in the best year of the 00s poll.

Vice have an article for if you'd like to start irrationally hating this music

So is it gonna be like this?

Apr 7: Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E "Need U (100%)"
Apr 14: Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E "Need U (100%)"
Apr 21: Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre "Waiting All Night"
Apr. 28: Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams "Get Lucky" (seems pretty much certain)
May 5: Disclosure ft. Eliza Doolittle "You & Me" (release date 28/4, should be a big contender)
May 12: Chris Malinchak "So Good To Me'' (if we're to believe Vice)

Burial seems to be the elephant in the room here, at least the Disclosure and Black butter soulful end of things. Never thought Burial would end up being a positive influence after the first few rounds of imitators being so lame so i'm quite surprised to be delighted by the stuff in this thread. Those pitched down echoey vocals sound great in a tightened up pop framework.

liking a lot of the tunes on the youtube channel this is on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnW6Yra2FBQ

damn son, where'd you find this?

burial. you what.

exploding_head.gif

don't see why thats so strange, weren't burial like the reason disclosure got into dance music? I'm not a fan of burial myself but you can hear his influence. If I was gonna be really disgusting I would have mentioned Joy Orbison.

I see how Burial might lead to Disclosure (but more in the very limited sense that Burial may have originally inspired Disclosure to investigate some of the prior music which Burial was ghost-quoting, and now they're going directly to the source for inspiration) but not anything else in this thread.

yeah well, I really only meant in the even more limited sense of vocal treatments on some of this stuff. Much more likely Disclosure got the ideas for these techniques from burial than Groove Chronicles or someone, and as I said they are employed in a different way, but its definitely about and just thought it was funny people don't mention it is all. Certainly doesn't warrant an exploding head gif anyway

Joy Orbison and etc. circa-'10 post-dubstep seem like a much more direct influence on Disclosure than Burial does

The dance scene – or at least the best bits of it – just so happened to be being played out on the brothers’ doorstep. So, while Howard was entering his obligatory, teenage emo phase, Guy was discovering grime and later Benga and Skream, having gone to school with the former’s brother. “But then it merged,” says Guy “and we both started listening to people who were coming out like Joy Orbison and Floating Points.”

Now, they agree on more things than two teenage brothers should. They agree that Burial was the real entry point for them getting into the ambient, electronic music they make today; that dubstep is “far less expressive than 2-step” and thus far more boring; that once Howard begins getting involved with the recording and production process “there will be more fights”.

When we started out we were listening to Burial and people like that. We were listening to what was going on at that time and learning how to produce. Now at the end of 2012 we’ve gone back and tried to understand the roots of dance music. That’s taken us back to Detroit and Chicago and techno and old-skool garage and house. For most people it would be the other way round but we weren’t around when that stuff was going on. It’s been a different learning curve. We’re now influenced by Todd Edwards and Zed Bias and old-skool garage people like that.

This is the thing. When we started making the stuff we make, we were only aware of what's going on right now—like James Blake, Mount Kimbie, Joy Orbison, things like that. That was what we were listening to, and that's what we were pretty much trying to copy, just to learn how to make music. We liked it; we thought we would just try and copy it. It was only when we looked into those acts a bit more and realized where they took their influence from that we became aware that we were kind of making something similar to U.K. garage and 2-step and stuff like that. Obviously, those guys took their influence from that, and we took our influence from them; now, though, we've completely done the reversal, we take our influence from much older things like, say, MJ Cole. It's weird, getting into it, because obviously, when MJ Cole and all that was happening, we were only like eight and six years old. We weren't really aware of any of it. We were getting told we were making things that sounded like that, and we were like, "What is it?"

yeah well, was just a passing thought, didn't mean to derail the thread with it.

lol at everybody getting screwed up over mention of the b-word. heaven forbid that a pet act of ILM were actually influenced by ~burial~

I don't think anyone ITT would be surprised that Disclosure are/were influenced by Burial, but this thread isn't really about, say, "Control" or "What's In Your Head".

Pretty clear that stuff like "Need You (100%)" comes from a pretty distinct lineage. And even the Disclosure tracks that fall within this thread's remit feature straightforward vocals.

That interview passage Number None quoted is exactly what I would have expected! It feels like a really obvious learning curve, in much the same way that electro-house inspired a lot of younger listeners to get into first wave Chicago house.

that interview bears the hallmarks of the journalist bringing burial (and all those other names) up first, and disclosure going yeah i guess

really don't wanna harp on about it cos I don't even like Burial and I realise its getting away from the other disco-y stuff in this thread, but Disclosure's first single is pretty much exactly midway between Burial and Joy O and with the none-more-burial title of 'Street light chronicle'so it goes deeper than 'yeah i guess...'. I think that DNA lives on in their current stuff in the treated vocals, even in something like Latch which is surely within the remit of this thread right? (that reverby pitched 'never' backing vocal and the crackly breakdowns).

There's no reason why loads of the producers here wouldn't have listened to Burial and yeah some of Disclosure bears some similarity but surely not White Noise (which is the important one here) and definitely not Duke Dumont or Rudimental or most of what's being discussed here. I don't think Burial is any more significant here than loads of other mid-00s Brit producers.

yeah fair enough, its really just the odd production trick that I hear cropping up in some of this stuff occasionally, more of a flavour than any primary influence or whatever.

As for what this thread is really about,I think rtc pretty much nailed it earlier when he said 'sort of a 86-93 chart spirit with modern tools'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPAefVz-mXg

idk yeah i guess there's a possible case for burial reviving the vox treatment for bass diaspora people somewhere along the line but it's just a new one on me to totally divorce it from the insular mood and dusty rhythm and all that cobblers, i mean you might as well say he's the elephant in jackin's room as well by that extended logic. and yeah i wouldnt be as averse to joy o

if disclosure's next single features robbie craig & gerideau singing about haunted binbags though then all credit 2 u ben

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQz1x6ptjFo

this shift k3y you posted in the q thread def belongs itt imo, 'frozen' too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVosypP91Yk

probably muddying the waters again but i love it so w/e

shantie on marcus made me like it ever more still when it moved him to brilliantly and inexplicably exclaim "run for hills! run for the hills! go now!!"

kinda feel like the absence of the signature big fat monster drop on redlight's 'switch it off' is another sign of the times, a year ago it wouldnt have seemed enough

Which Marcus show is that.

wednesday 17th, i only happened to catch a bit of it live and iirc it wasnt particularly recommendable (turned it on later and GREYMAN had been thawed out from wherever to do a set, apparently unaware that four years had passed) but it was the first sunny day in an age and shants and ranks were reunited and feeling the vibe so it was still very pleasant all the same

giving this clean bandit show on rinse a go

basically they are nice and polite mumblekids playing a lot of xxyo, deadboy, ikonika, submerse et al. i'm sure there'll be some joy o shortly

the point it hits home though is how this new black butter wave uses the apolitical deracinated junkspace weaknesses of bass as dance music to its advantage in the chart pop sphere - "songful tunes touch on various amorphous dance flavours [...] without ever placing them too strongly in discouragingly specific context" - entropia becomes utopia (hence mdc's invocation of post-acid house era)

I saw Clean Bandit supporting Disclosure. They were sweet and endearing, slightly ungainly but well-meaning, like a community arts project Basement Jaxx, but with chamber music breakdowns. I like them a lot.

yeah "community arts project" otm

when i interviewed disclosure i asked them about their first experience in clubs and the older dude said that "hyph mngo" was the titanic track for him that really pushed him into producing

i think there's a sense of space in disclosure's productions that codes very dubstep to me

yeah i can go for that definitely

disclosure run a little bit diagonally across the rest of this stuff itt i think, they use what they've learned in a more specific and singular way, not to create a suggestive soup but to use that space and remove to make singers and songs (just tracks even - cf 'control') fantastically photogenic and attractive

always think in visual terms with their stuff - clean lines, great silhouettes, sharp cheekbones, nice teeth, i guess you could even link their cover art motif into it

i heard an interview with them recently and i was shocked by how deep their voices were! all grown up i guess

this song in that noisey piece tho, jesus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KrMl32cuC2A#!

i think there's a sense of space in disclosure's productions that codes very dubstep to me

yeah the first 30 secs of the new track w/eliza doolittle keep making me think my itunes has skipped to some random forgotten post-dubstep ep from 2007 - as rtc says disclosure are slightly different though, they started off as "garage revival tailored to fact magazine et al" so their positioning has always been slanted to that end of things (as opposed to duke dumont who's been a jobbing house dj/producer for ages, and hot creations who didn't really catch on first among that crowd)

relistening to the new disclosure and i am just not 100% on board with them yet apart from "white noise", there's just something something lacking here

this shift k3y you posted in the q thread def belongs itt imo, 'frozen' too

haha "frozen" reminds me of rihanna's "jump" in its shamelessness

relistening to the new disclosure and i am just not 100% on board with them yet apart from "white noise", there's just something something lacking here

― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, April 24, 2013 12:04 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

"latch" and "white noise" are worth all the hype imo... other stuff is a bit hit or miss. "you & me" is not on that level, tho it's pretty enjoyable.

i'm really excited for that album tho, tons of potential for it to do a bunch of things and be really, really good

they're also great live

tons of potential for it to do a bunch of things and be really, really good

i doubt it'll be bad but at this point i'd say the rudimental album will probably be more of a rush

tend to think of the malinchak as being part of a different stream to this stuff, could be convinced otherwise though

http://www.mixmag.net/music/mp3-blog/stream-chris-malinchak-zinc-remix

i also much prefer the zinc mix and its weirdly witty engrossing flip into ominous non-drop

(and the mk mix but that goes as standard for 2013)

can fcl 'its you' be #1 too though please

xp Yes, Disclosure are fantastic live, with excellent visuals (custom-made kit) and live instrumentation - saw them supporting SBTRKT in early 2011, then headlining a couple of months ago, to a young, mainstreamy-type crowd (the girls dancing next to me kept giving me odd looks, then one asked if I "was on a night out"). And they certainly come across as older than their years. "Latch" is the only track I can't get behind, probably because it's less of a glide and more of a march.

can fcl 'its you' be #1 too though please

PLEASEEEEEE

(or maybe fcl's "used to be" from last year, which i was very late getting on to)

http://youtu.be/XDlaVoXxU6Y
http://youtu.be/0i8GAaTv2gU

remixes also very necessary

chris malinchak feels a lot more in the line of mano le tough or wolf & clap or something? idk wtf it's doing going to the top of the charts

(like it, though)

i doubt it'll be bad but at this point i'd say the rudimental album will probably be more of a rush

― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, April 24, 2013 12:16 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

rudimental is maybe a bit too far on the "could do a lot of things" side for me

i guess i'm struggling to see why disclosure particularly stand out, apart from what they do visually and live

i think they have pretty strong pop instincts and a devotion to verse-chorus songwriting

which is not a virtue in of itself necessarily (tho it plays to my personal biases)

is this the original version of "it's you": San Soda's Panorama Bar Acca Version

yes

i think they have pretty strong pop instincts and a devotion to verse-chorus songwriting

this is the exact thing i think rudimental do a lot better though (and what i think is lacking from "you & me")

I still haven't taught myself to associate Rudimental with anything other than

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfv44lEzOLU

FWIW I think Rudimental are a lot closer to the core of what we're talking about than Disclosure are. Not necessarily sonically but by providing a musical and commercial platform for other artists.

I was kind of sniffy about Feel The Love when it first came out but soon succumbed, got to give them credit for pulling off one of those rare pop tricks that makes you wonder why people having been hitting big with it for years.

God that Chris Malinchak track is so emotionally overbearing, it's like he took a John Talabot template and added a big dose of neediness. There's something kind of 1999 about its particular brand of drippiness.

I like this:
Lazune Ft. Katy Shotter - Feel It

And if we're talking traces of Burial, there are clearly some here:
Clean Bandit - Nightingale (Gorgon City remix)

can we stop talking like 12 cd men, burial was six years ago ffs

God that Chris Malinchak track is so emotionally overbearing, it's like he took a John Talabot template and added a big dose of neediness. There's something kind of 1999 about its particular brand of drippiness.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 19:09 (43 minutes ago) Bookmark

yah totes, this is exactly why i like the zinc interpretation

the zinc "lol u gonna get dumped" foreboding interpretation

I was going to say that Zinc was the perfect producer to jump on this particular bandwagon, momentarily forgetting he sort of helped start it a couple of years back.

haven't been keeping up with this thread but it's my fav spotify playlist since 'uk funky classics'

that joe goddard remix of 'control' is totally fucking quentin man.

Fresh link for Lazune ft Katy Shotter "Feel It", as it's gone from YouTube:

https://soundcloud.com/lazune/lazune-feel-it-ft-katy-shotter

^ man that's nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmVkQRuI63U

^ ok that ones actually by a guy from San Francisco but its anglophile enough to be included here I think (just checking his album now and its actually really nice too).

also heres the radio premier of the new Gorgon City/Clean Bandit single
https://soundcloud.com/gorgon-city/special-delivery-gorgon-city

"Intentions" is lovely. The speed garage break is huge.

All of this has made me feel sad about RD's "Got Me Burning" not taking off substantially.

RIGHT?!

interesting point of comparison (esp so wrt the forthcoming katy b lp in this climate). even though the og mk 'burning' is so spot on right now (and would probably go top 20 today) i think the rd version would still code too specifically urban as it did in 2011 to really gain any purchase

another good ref point for this is ts7 & taylor fowlis 'heartlight' which trace suggested upthread; seems like it should be exactly zeitgeist right, and yet still has a grain to it that prevents it transcending into the frictionless pop sphere

and btw if u seek an rd for the 2013 might i recommend the similarly hopelessly doomed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diSmuRIhh4c

haha i like this one by m.o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CSaCq_JIg4

yeah i... ought to have a kind word for that just out of a channel u nostalgia tip but really even as a rhetorical device the stench of failure is just too overpowering

it does remind one of rub-a-dub atomic kitten however so i might as well now take the opportunity to chuck this in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itGl448FtNY

you know who i particularly hope goes in this direction? (the thread direction, not this poor tragic ginnel we've stumbled down.) MISHA B

idk about misha but we could head to the light at the end of the... ginnel... with wretch 32/shakka 'blackout' or kwabs 'spirit fade'

i'm not entirely sure if and how those quite fit in but they're certainly not being spat out by the wider world either, doing very well indeed

altho a cynic (looks round shiftily) might suggest shakka sounds like vampire weekend and kwabs like james blake so bobs ur uncle

You should set up a street stall for this.

So yeah this Rudimental album is pretty good but suffers a bit from favouring jump-up Britsoul almost entirely over MCs (Angel Haze excepted), so while there's loads of great stuff on there the overall effect is a bit Grange Hill rave. Also TWO tracks featuring Emeli Sande ffs, as if there's a human being alive on the planet right now that is suffering from insufficient Emeli Sande in their life.

The best tracks are fantastic but I dunno, needs a bit more ruff to go with the smooth. Basically what I am getting at is 'why have you forsaken Shantie?' ;_;

Ha, Grange Hill rave.

i actively try to avoid emeli sandé and yet there she fucking is on both the fantasia and rudimental albums within the space of two weeks

longest unbroken top 10 run for any album in uk chart history

sande's, i mean

The Sande track is one of the few decent songs on the new wiley album.

Ella Eyre did a much better job on Sande's "Free" when I saw them live last week. They should have kept it in-house!

crucial addition to this thread

http://soundcloud.com/sineadharnettmusic/sinead-harnett-got-me-eats

does emeli sande have any other songs like "heaven"? really liked that one, but from what i understand the rest of the album is adult-contempo dross...correct?

sounds about right to me

I don't mind "Next to Me", but it's not omnipresent here

#46 in the US, that sounds about right

Heaven was great but... didn't exactly require great vision from anyone concerned.

http://soundcloud.com/friendwithin/karma-kid-friend-within-ft

feel like this vibe is getting a bit dog's dinner now tbh

i fn love the malinchak song

Every time I hear it I imagine Skins-esque kids coming down off their first pill and watching that video and just weeping at the girl with her giraffe. It's the drippiest thing I've ever heard.

New Duke Dummont - https://soundcloud.com/annie-mac-presents/free-music-monday-duke-dumont

Not really feeling that Karma Kid track.

frittered some time away doing a bit of reading on black butter, in my signature morbidly ott style

quite the little vertically integrated ecosystem they've got going - artist management company starts the label on the side, amir amor who joined rudimental after the funky stuff but before 'spoons' runs the studio major tom's (with the guy from 679 and xl) where lots of brit stuff gets made, press/a&r person is former bbc radio and brings the clubby blippy side in, etc

amor appears to be the key man all-round pop svengali dude, check him out, twice mentions bananarama/fun boy three in separate interviews which of course makes a lot of sense. also his and mnek's shared love of jam & lewis

btw sugababes/mks (keep wanting to call them http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kima,_Keisha,_and_Pam ) appear to be doing their album in that hq studio which bodes excellently

oh and one of bb founder guys used to run this breaks label

http://www.discogs.com/label/Hardcore%20Beats

god, really need that MKS project to get a move on. The kendrick lamar "cover" / interpolation-thing slayed.

fuuuuuuuuclmk glbblah

https://soundcloud.com/defectedrecords/fcl-its-you-mk-mix

the comment in the waveform that just says "FUCK MY ASS" otm

haha i think maybe by tomorrow i will have cooled on that but sometimes you just need something a bit filthy

https://soundcloud.com/i-d-online-1/no-artificial-colours-crying

https://soundcloud.com/hannah_wants/hannah-wants-mixtape-0513

The "Bass Drop Mix" of "Listen to the Badman" in particular is (((((|O_O|)))))

No way is this better than the original version with its ridiculous rave chords and disembodied diva vocals.

― Matt DC, Monday, April 22, 2013 9:27 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha, turns out my copy of the original was mislabeled as being the Bass Drop Mix, and since it did indeed have a pretty fucking big bass drop it didn't occur to me to question that...

'Baby' is easily the best thing on the Rudimental album innit? Not a bad album but we'd heard all the best songs on it before.

So much great stuff on Black Butter though, been going through the back-catalogue. Kidnap Kid is brilliant!

speaking of which

https://soundcloud.com/kidnap_kid/guest-mix-for-b-traits-radio-1

Aw man "Baby" is great

^^^^^^^^

someone upthread mentioned that this current "setting" would be perfect for katy b. so, here it is : http://soundcloud.com/katyb/what-love-is-made-of-radio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo_OI_4nJgk&feature=youtu.be

"baby" is rly good, damn

umm also gonna profess my love for the chris malinchak one. i like drippiness tho.

One thing I really like about "Baby" is how it builds so remorselessly (though gracefully) from airy vocal house to trippy deepness, and then resets itself back to the beginning, only to go through the process again. It really traverses the terrain of possibilities afforded by the weird dance-pop meets deep house equation of the moment.

it is brilliant how the drop is made to sound SO dramatically deep as well, a real feat of production - usually that kind of move comes off more like the sky and stars opening up but this is suddenly rushing, claustrophobic, simultaneously tinny and muffled submarine acoustics with pressure gauges off the meter and (literal) crush depth alarms ringing out of control. love as single-person bathysphere, and quite correctly so

(although truthfully speaking i did just think my mp3 was buggered at first)

love those funk guitar microlicks too, pure class

i keep wanting to sing "baby, don't make me watch - if i can't ride it"

i keep expecting it to turn into bashmore's 'au seve'. is that... intentional...?

it's like they retroactively decided to write a song that au seve could have been sampled from.

Speaking of the drop in Baby, it's a neat trick how the chorus IS the breakdown...!? and the drop comes just AFTER the chorus is over? Maybe this is an old trick, but it's the first time I've noticed it.

By the way don't sleep on that Hannah Wants mix

kind of weird that a huxley mix from skream & benga maybe belongs better in the bobbins thread, but hey

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018xfm6

Ehtyl/Huxley - Byzantine
FCL - It's You (MK Remix)
Huxley - Lost Love
Tom Shorterz - Wot U Do (Shorterz Stop & Drop Mix)
Major City Drum Ensemble - The Stranger
Alex Jones - Voltage
Huxley - Shower Scene (SecondCity Mix)
Jonas Rathsman Not Given Bringing You Down
Rascals - Fire Blaze (MRK1 Remix)
Available since: Friday

yes lol at "Major City Drum Ensemble"

it is brilliant how the drop is made to sound SO dramatically deep as well, a real feat of production - usually that kind of move comes off more like the sky and stars opening up but this is suddenly rushing, claustrophobic, simultaneously tinny and muffled submarine acoustics with pressure gauges off the meter and (literal) crush depth alarms ringing out of control. love as single-person bathysphere, and quite correctly so

― r|t|c, Monday, May 13, 2013 8:49 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(although truthfully speaking i did just think my mp3 was buggered at first)

― r|t|c, Monday, May 13, 2013 8:50 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha, I've actually been thinking "how much of this seeming immense deepness is in due to a fact a poor quality rip?"

BTW maybe my biggest critical faux pas of 2012 was almost-instantly forgetting how massive and awesome and just brilliant and etc. Kidnap Kid's "Lazarys Taxon" was and is after briefly falling in love with it way back in the first part of the year.

What other mix has it been in? I feel like i've heard it many more times than just the four or so times I listened to it then.

"Lazarus Taxon" is also a good tune.

xp re: 'Baby' breakdown: yeah you particularly notice its muddiness when you mix it in with other stuff i found. I like rtc's description of it though, I guess it must be a production choice. It also makes Sinead Harnett's verse seem more snappy when it kicks in.

Totally.

https://soundcloud.com/monkey-wrench-1/monkey-wrench-grip-your-body

Disclosure and Natalie Duncan's cover of "You Used to Hold Me" by Ralphi Rosario

http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ep3v4f#p0192n6q

Ha, I just came here to post that - Nottingham Pride!

Don't think anyone's mentioned this one yet have they? Cracking tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa2qR_soHVw

complete with a "I'm SoOoOo 90's Remix"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqxzgOnpXZc&list=UUFoFjMo5rX3EsjQe3yJChwQ&index=6

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/sound-deep-house-ministry/id636283283&ls=1?affId=1405655

well played mos, well played

sheer chutzpah aside idk if i couldve done it any better myself no joke

That tracklist looks basically perfect.

Deep House though? Is that what this is?

It is now.

That's such a fast and loose trolling title that it makes me wish we could bring Pipecock back for an afternoon.

Haha

everything about that comp is just tremendously pleasing

to think from a couple of years ago noticing that jamie jones mix of azari picking up a diff tradewind and now bosh here we are, double cd in tesco

holy shit

everything about this is just..... wow

haha top google search for this cd is Asda

everything about that comp is just tremendously pleasing

to think from a couple of years ago noticing that jamie jones mix of azari picking up a diff tradewind and now bosh here we are, double cd in tesco

― r|t|c, Friday, May 17, 2013 11:28 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://ruanglirik.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/shania-twain.jpg

exciting times.

only computing the sincerity dividend of garda posts brings me more joy

haha... carry on

It is nice to see Hot Creations together with the UK stuff on this MoS mix.

Ten City - That's the Way Love Is (Deep House Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxCi-NcZpr4

...in actuality an acid version of a Shep Pettibone record or something

I'd never heard this Ben Pearce track before the MoS collection. But then, I guess these have all been big hits...

Totally missed this thread and it's one I should be watching.

Moka, FYI the Harry Wolfman remix of the Ben Pearce is the killer IMO.

This comp is great though! They really nail the vibe and it's nice to have the legit deep tunes interspersed with more pop and/or not-explicitly-1993 material.

it was nice to be watching music TV for the first time in months and months while visiting the family for the weekend and hearing that this vibe is now so much the standard for UK stuff, RIP Guetta and Harris, GTF Americans still stuck in that sound.

That said, 'deep house' is perhaps not the least confusing genre name MoS could have found.

ooooooh shit i'd never bovd listening to the harry wolfman mix. tasty!

xpost a lot of it really is deep though! Stuff like "White Noise" is really at one end, stuff the Wolfman mix is at the other and you wouldn't bat an eyelid hearing that in basically any "proper" deep house set.

In that regard the Needwant TRAXX comp is maybe more "pure" but I find myself getting bored of that one more easily (curiously, esp. in mixed form - as standalone tracks it's much more bearable), whereas the incursions into populism help to juice up the Ministry of Sound comp.

The really perfunctory mixing also helps, five second transitions show up the contrasts from track to track with a certain brute efficiency.

Best thing about the Wolfman remix is how it really doesn't want to try that hard to get you to like its likkle organ vamp, it's like "oh yeah, I guess you wanted this huh."

O yah, this remix is nice.

Just to clarify the thing about hits, this compilation on the whole makes me feel like I'm an old guy discovering what young people's music is like.

Hannah Wants mix upthread is really great though. I think she's officially jumped to the top of my must see DJ wish list.

Heh, that's why I bought it. From Sainsburys! Awful mix out of Chris Malinchak, though. If I dare say so, Pete Tong uses Malinchak to start a much better run on his half of All Gone Miami 2013. (The other half is mixed by Skream, and it just doesn't work at all - jumps around all over the place in style and mood.)

Possibly the wrong tread for it, but this new Ikonika track is really fucking nice imo:

http://www.factmag.com/2013/05/28/ikonika-announces-new-album-aerotropolis-stream-the-first-track-beach-mode-and-read-our-interview-inside/

Dunno who the singer Jessy Lanza is but overall there's some very Tessio-like vibe to that song.

Quite like this new Sinead Harnett:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTAPkD-RHtw

Also, it seems from Facebook and Britain's Got Talent (!) that Addictive have split, which seems a bit of a shame, I would have liked to have heard their attempts to feature in this new wave of urban dance pop.

Hatching some plans see Hannah Wants, Deeper Love, Warehouse, London, SAT 22...

Next month that is.

i LOVE the sinead harnett single

also yeah this prob is the wrong thread but that new ikonika single is amazing yeah (as is the album)

Interesting there's so many competing threads of UK house at the moment. Everything seems to be sort of overlapping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwMsa8SKA1c

This Zinc tune has been knocking about for a few months but is worth an airing here as well.

The groove on that Sinead Harnett single is great but the over-enunciation in the chorus is even more irritating than the AlunaGeorge faux-glottoral stop. When did British singers stop being able to sing words properly?

Ikonika is definitely not allowed in the treehouse though. Could've sworn she had her own thread but apparently not.

god matt, it's not a competition with your typical male chauvinist boundary policing. all about the music man.

also i asked all my friends and they can't tell the difference between a house tune and a lute solo at a rave so up yours internet nerds.

Was thinking about all this when listening to the Disclosure album this morning and I suppose what unites a lot of this stuff is a kind of High Street pop realness (any high Street almost, certainly stretching across social classes), a spirit that's been kind of lacking in the last two waves of mainstream British pop. In a way that's distinct from the more self-consciously arty end of the spectrum and certainly from forced and half-hearted VIP area anthems.

makes you Proud To Be British. pleased to be reunited with that zinc song.

xp yeah that works for me... even when mos blithely fold in ~deep house~ it's like, hairdresser deep

i am reminded of hot natured's 'reverse skydiving' and its excruciatingly/deliciously trashy lyric "rewind, timing / this be the contract for sky i'll be signing"

https://soundcloud.com/i-d-online-1/no-artificial-colours-crying

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 17:28 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

incidentally on that side of things this is a bit of proper summer anthem now

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2013/may/28/jackin-dance-music-bassline-uk

Read this the other day through Sreynolds' blog. This probably isn't the right thread for it, but how does jackin' relate to the UK house chart resurgence? Hannah Wants seems like one link, but are they separate things? Does it matter?

that's kind of a hit n hope question really isnt it

this one apparently got to no 1 the other week and i hadn't heard of it until today when i looked back at the charts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O1_3zBUKM8

i really love it

first heard of naughty boy when wiley/emeli sandé's "your woman" cover ended up credited to him

The DEVolution remix is great. I think it's mentioned upthread somewhere. Also quite fond of the TS7 remix of Fuse ODG's "Antenna" (currently #7 on UK iTunes!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iImhDPABByI

there was also this excellent kidnap kid remix of their previous single last year. kk really is the man

People need to stop putting this Sam Smith guy on things.

feel like kk's 'so close' might perhaps be underappreciated itt btw

Like I dunno if he writes his own vocal lines but they've all got this ponderous Dev Hynes-Solange recorder lesson thing going on, he's most of what is wrong with 'Latch'.

gone right off his pubs as well

i keep expecting to hear former british number one tennis player and current commentator sam smith, it's all very confusing

bizarrely i like "latch" a lot more in album context

'so close' is a beauty, love 'animaux' off that single too and his remix of 'waiting all night' is the best version I reckon.

Sam Smith sounds great on that Naughty boy song!

bizarrely i like "latch" a lot more in album context

It really annoys me, When A Fire Starts To Burn is such an awesome (proper) opener and then you get this limp-dick faux-schaffel thing immediately afterwards.

interesting to note that Champion records is now rebranded for 2013 and releasing stuff like that great DrDr single 'Addicted'. Very apt when you see the awesome back catalogue.

http://www.discogs.com/label/Champion

nothing limp about "Latch" to my ears.. it did take awhile to, er, grow on me though

feel like kk's 'so close' might perhaps be underappreciated itt btw

― r|t|c, Tuesday, June 4, 2013 8:51 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love it so much, the percussive section in the final minute or so is O_O

presumably u are referring to the club mix?

it's alright tho, i tend to let one run onto the other and pretend it's an epic whole. and yes that bit is amazing!

Yeah the club mix

I was thinking about how on earth this stuff ever ended up being called deep house given that it really doesn't sound that much like what has historically been called deep house. But then I realized its not the latest iteration of deep house, it's a reboot. Some clever marketing type somewhere decided to reboot deep house like star trek. Well done them.

it really doesn't sound that much like what has historically been called deep house.

Actually a lot of it does!

See also UK Garage, where people used to say "it doesn't really sound like US Garage", but, of course, a lot of the time stuff like Tuff Jam really did, whereas Artful Dodger much less so and Oxide & Neutrino not at all.

mainly for those who are hopelessly behind and need to catch up tbh. Lots of tunes from this thread.
http://www.mixcloud.com/bennybrassic/uk-house-pop-2013/

do you have that in downloadable form somewhere?

(or else it just joins the other twenty tabs I have open to non-downloadable mixes that I may or may not ever get around to)

sorta surprised that the sophie track, much as i love it, fits into this

mixcloud's non-downloadable platform remains baffling

Second the request for a downloadable version. Tracklist looks great.

The Sophie track totally fits into this, like I don't know anything about anyone involved in it but it's totally the right vibe.

I prefer the vocal version to the dub, mind, but there's little difference.

i guess just because i first heard of the sophie track via the glasgow crowd (jackmaster etc) who are a pretty different scene to both the london tastestep crew and your black butter/disclosure axis

Looking forward to this mix (Benny B - your mixes are always great!).

I like that Mixcloud is "non-downloadable" because it means that it is streaming at a higher quality than e.g. Soundcloud, and of course it is very hard to make something non-downloadable, anyway.

it is seriously a matter of seconds to google a way to dl mixclouds ffs

chiming in to say yeah, benny i luv your work

I´ll stick it up for download on zippyshare or something tonight when I get back from work, I had no idea you could dl mixclouds tbh

(What r|t|c said.)

How about downloading stream-only Ministry of Sound radio sets? Anyone?

(excited to hear this Benny)

Also, re Kidnap Kid, was listening to "Animaux" again today and I just die every time the groove cuts out and that woman shrieks "DREAMER!"

Dude's approach to sampled vocals feels oddly reminiscent to me of how golden age uk funky used to do it, all those unnamed tunes like the ones on that hallowed Mak 10 / Shantie deja set or the tune that sampled Jagged Edge.

http://essentialgarage.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/DJ%20Q
http://www.zippyshare.com/essentialgarage

if you're just after the q sets then the show puts them up themselves

I like Kidnap Kid a lot and played the Alphaville EP loads last year but it would never have occurred to me to mentally group him with any of the rest of this stuff. I'd assumed he was a higher quality version of one of those blippy blog-friendly electronica types, partly because his stuff is so brightly-coloured and melodic (and more than a bit cutesy as well).

Also, this record sleeve:

http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/cQsh1gGCwIE/hqdefault.jpg

xp excellent! The 20 May set I was streaming sounded amazing.

Matt you're not wrong, the stuff on that ep reminds me of Damu as much as anything else. But more recent single "So Close" is a pop-house jam. And "Animaux", though basically a sequel to "Lazarus Taxon", somehow feels more thread-appropriate as well, I think because of how ruthlessly it pivots around its curated vocal samples. Plus its 1993 organ.

Also his remix of Rudimental's "Waiting All Night" is a lot ruder than you'd expect from his other material.

yeah matt otm. i really like how kk's stuff is always so clean and self-contained, even when he samples (or rather how he samples - upfront and recognisable with a simple purity) - most of everything else i listen to is blurs and echoes either in function or in spirit whereas he retains a quiet space of his own. and obv that lends itself so well to the sentiment of something like 'so close'

it's basically like total bedroom producer music but in the best, most charming possible way - 'lazarus taxon' et al feels like an afternoon well spent more so than it ever does a ukg dancemix bubbler

heh i probably prefer the clean bandit mix of 'waiting all night' precisely for it being the most idyllictronic. it's a nice subtext to things that is thoughtful wrt songcraft

Yeah this year's EP is fantastic as well. Something a bit 'major label metal album cover c. 2000' about this sleeve though:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k7rbChfwRJM/UTS92VWxZQI/AAAAAAAAPug/BavvkKhSwWQ/s640/artworks-000042114760-69rwvo-t500x500.jpg

haha i was just reading an interview where he says the first record he ever bought was 'another planet' by pendulum

oh but then in another one he says the first single he bought was 'frontier psychiatrist'! figures

these postbass blogs are like smash hits

First the Ball J Afrobeats mixes, and now this - Benny B, you are my new hero.

mainly for those who are hopelessly behind and need to catch up tbh. Lots of tunes from this thread.

Listening to it now and it tricked me into enjoying Angel Haze. I like when that sort of thing happens.

much obliged :)

you can download it here
http://www.mediafire.com/download/bdbbdz69d4tha5k/UK_pop-house_mix_-_wav2.mp3

"Permission Denied"!

yeah mediafire don't ramp these days

shit, whats happened to mediafire, it used to be the best.

I'll try zippyshare then

it says ""Got Me" by Sinead Harnett may be available for download from Amazon."

wtf!?

look i'm sorry but it's just not good enough ben. if you had any respect for our sanctified rights you'd call us up individually and play it down the phone

i'm just sort of freaked out by how it's recommending sinead harnett to me.

How has only zippyshare managed to avoid the censors?

Anyway, the mix is up here.
http://www52.zippyshare.com/v/47756244/file.html

Benny B, you are an absolute star.

yeah it's a terrific mix

^

http://soundcloud.com/drumsofdeath4eva/drums-of-death-feat-yasmin-true/

SO GOOD

fuck yes

♡

not sure about that one... a touch rote

http://soundcloud.com/itsyasmin/thinking-about-you-whitney

someone should really have insisted on whacking an 'intentions'-style garage drop into this

not sure about that one... a touch rote

lol

how you mean?

you are dangerously close to becoming the seen-it-all deej of these bubbling environs, r|t|c

http://i.imgur.com/jZ2c5vt.gif

lol

i'm just butthurt that you don't think that track is the ne plus ultra of something or other

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e81-NnDwSUA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sduuTEXjVf0

Both of these are lovely!

The Riton really makes explicit how the Skream boogie maneuvers fit in within this broader divepool-house sound

(and which sound is a really good look for Ill Blu, esp. after their recent distressing excursions into tasteful seriousness)

cba to listen again now but iirc wasnt 'me x u (plastik cups)' at the end of ill blu's xlr8r set somewhat in this vein

Yes in the sense of being straight house with yearning vocals - still more in their prior metallic throb sonic mode though whereas this is a full blown embrace of current trends.

By recent distressing excursions into tasteful seriousness I mean that EP they put about six months ago

ah right yes that seems more likely. clearly i must have mentally tagged it with 'spoons'

Thats the best Ill Blu tune I've heard for ages. I predict Fuzzy Logik will crop up again in this thread before the year's out (fingers crossed).

Not pop-house, but Black Butter signing Scrufizzer is a good look. Is this track produced by Funkystepz?
https://soundcloud.com/scrufizzer/scrufizzer-illusion

Re: Heartlight (many posts back), I find myself agreeing with

LongSleevedLesbians 1 day ago

I think this is pretty fucking cool to be honest.

It's really hard for me to see A*M*E and not think African Methodist Episcopal.

"Upfront Deep House"

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/subsoul-deep-house-garage/id650752455?i=650752472

1. Real - Gorgon City
2. Please Don't Turn Me On (Disclosure Remix) - Artful Dodger
3. What Ya Wanna Do - Toyboy & Robin
4. Don't Go (Dusky Remix) - Justin Martin
5. Lost Love - Huxley
6. Jack - Breach
7. 23 - Shadow Child
8. Nobody Else - Dusky
9. What I Might Do - Dusky
10. Got A Feeling - Josh Butler
11. So Close (Club Mix) - Kidnap Kid
12. Down With Me - Real Connoisseur
13. Faux Pa - Joey Mccrilley
14. Taking Me - The Golden Boy
15. Tin Head (Marcus Jakes Remix) - Animist
16. Take You Higher (Foama Remix) - Wilkinson
17. Thinking Of You - George FitzGerald
18. You Make Me So - Teknian
19. Latch (Remix) - Disclosure
20. Gold - Bondax

So... it's more direct than regular deep house, or something?

This thread: the Guardian article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jun/20/uk-dance-music-back-pop

*feigns astonishment*

Benny B Mixcloud embedment excitement!

I'm "latching onto" UK dance pop.

This mix really drives the point home. I'm a believer. (Actually I don't think it has anything to do with "belief.")

Really, what the fuck is going on over there?

Or did it happen in my head?

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is only a hallucination.

hah, over 1000 listeners in the last 12 hours and...

7 likes

Nah, it's over dudes. Check out this milquetoss on Black Butter:

http://soundcloud.com/solomongrey/solomon-grey-gen-v-edit

Saturday in the dance field at Glastonbury, across two adjacent stages - AlunaGeorge -> Bashmore -> Mistajam -> Rudimental -> Disclosure -> Maceo Plex -> Hot Natured. It's like they read this thread while programming it.

p sure they can gauge the uniformly huge popularity of those artists by themselves bro, it's not like they're music journalists or anything

They have historically been terrible at filling those stages, it's usually a Fatboy Slim/Carl Cox back to back preceded by I dunno Talib Kweli or someone.

Lulu James's "Closer" is so good and I don't know how I miss it the first time around. It's not that subtle.

still can't get over the fact she's from South Shields.

This new one is quite excellent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDnfMYHt5fY

now that's the stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdfL2nY-Xs8

ooh these lil scamps, i just dunno. i definitely like the way they make me not know though

like the trigger finger's trembling on ikea music but they're way too bright and careful to brusquely lump into that twee morass

i mean the video sure don't help. but then why should they pretend otherwise

This new one is quite excellent

Have to agree with that immediately.

I can't make my mind up about clean bandit either. I'm glad they're on the label though. LOVE Nightingale though.

err...slightly spammy and tangential to this thread, but this is a sort of follow up to the house pop mix (i.e., lots of black butter but the much harder and bassier stuff mixed with garage).

http://www.mixcloud.com/bennybrassic/vibers/

http://www63.zippyshare.com/v/56788523/file.html

Not really feeling that Ill Blu but I'm putting that down to the vocals rather than the groove. It's still a good look for them, I keep forgetting that before all the storming beat-em-up soundtracks they could put out a tune like 'Say Yes'.

The Riton/Meleka tune is terrific though.

https://soundcloud.com/twilliamsmusic/t-williams-three-letters

this would be a felicitous time for t williams to start banging them out, the ejeca/warehouse urban undercurrent marries well with his otherwise usually untempting stiffness. vibe to keep an eye on

http://soundcloud.com/rubygoe/odysseus-feat-ruby-never-gonna

i'd been pondering a small investment in this one

One of the big things that's killing me about this wave of UK dance pop is how much of it has really good tunes, simply really good tunes. (OK carry on with your more expert conversations.)

THE WAIT IS OVER

http://soundcloud.com/hannah_wants/hannah-wants-mixtape-0713

NEED U 100%!

(Sorry, slow learner here.)

Ruby Goe! I'd forgotten about her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piadty2HS7U

co-written by MNEK

Looking forward to that new Hannah Wants mix, will listen as soon as I'm home!

the new Kidnap Kid!

https://soundcloud.com/kidnap_kid/thin-lines

keep expecting to tire of Black Butter's stuff, but ^that's really nice

lotti dotti, we likes to listen to jessie ware facsimile

new dumont/mnek is a bit much for me i think https://soundcloud.com/dukedumont/duke-dumont-feat-mnek-hold-on/s-NdUny

that new kidnap kid is choice tho

anyone know what's up with these dudes? https://soundcloud.com/bondax/giving-it-all

song is pretty pro forma & not very inspired but 50k plays in one day? i think they're supposed to be nsync to disclosure's bsb or whatever the appropriate british analogy is

"gold" got a lot of radio play and wound up in a lot of mixes but i don't know much about them beyond that. it's a sort of balearic bubbler i guess? not sure i hear the disclosure comparison beyond the fact that they also look about 12 years old to this fogey

i still think of t.e.e.d as the nsync (although maybe they missed the boat?), bondax are more like idk, o-town

you know what i think it is about that (otherwise a+++ excellent) kidnap kid tune, the way he cuts in the vocal sample on that intro is so paul poli that i automatically experience a lingering trace of pavlovian disappointment when the ware-alike comes in and happens to not be teedra

kidnap kid's delicate sensibility does not scan like that of a uk dance producer/listener at all really, it's kinda miraculous. let alone a former dnb raver

Kidnap Kid tune is amazing, and yeah Paul Poli is spot on, surely Teedra (aka uk house and funky diva of choice) is in fact available to help out here.

I've taken to playing "Animaux" rather a lot in the car, mainly so I can sing along to "DREAMER".

haha tbh i was meaning and then forgot to submit "I just die every time the groove cuts out and that woman shrieks "DREAMER!" to posts v much in character

(I think one reason so much of this Benny B mix goes down so easy for me is that it's more disco than house.)

xpost i can't deny it

i love the new duke dumont and lulu james singles - interesting how both have gone for an opulent emotive house diva look this time round in contrast to the slightly staccato hooks of their breakthroughs

i like kidnap kid but am finding his stuff a bit too easy to stop paying attention to halfway through. clean bandit not quite doing it for me either.

the odyssey/ruby goe track rtc highlighted is a banger though

Xthread post @ tim

does kidnap kid qualify as part of your softcore continuum or I have got it wrong? :)

that devolution 'admire' is getting into my head something rotten now

softcore nuum is probably the most fiendish shell-game we've ever devised so don't worry about getting it right

scanning recent posts back i see i missed a deeply cruel "t.e.e.d-ra moses" gag

Hannah Wants & Chris Lorenzo - Rude Boy
https://soundcloud.com/hannah_wants/hannah-wants-rude-boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4uw4Zef9cY

ls has been remarkable with vocalists for a good while now but this is pretty spesh

i guess i never really expected him to leave aside the sickly (sometimes sickly sweet) brutalism

but now look at this lil raggo grime duckling turned magnificent larry heard swan

damn that's lovely

yes i am quite spellbound by it

awesome. that did not go the way i expected it to.

more T. Williams!

https://soundcloud.com/twilliamsmusic/t-williams-feat-tala-on-my-own

latest boogie skream track. not as good as the duke dumont and rudimental ones (his mix of 'hell could freeze' is possibly my fave track of the year), but still better than that rollercoaster one iyam

http://youtu.be/Yy1NIJX06iQ

his mix of 'hell could freeze' is possibly my fave track of the year

That thing is amazing.

I like that. I like everything this year. Responsibility to what? Do I have to have 1,000 pages of theory in order to live?

Not sure if this *quite* belongs here but this has the feel of a top ten hit in the making:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOJjikWX3sQ

http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/read/youneedtohearthis-black-butter-records-vs-scrufizzer

he's spitting over 'Spoons' and Kidnap Kid's 'Be more', some Woz riddims...an album from him drawing on the BB stable of producers could be great, chuck in a bit of funkystepz aswell. The (undeniable) dizzee comparisons might be a problem for some but the more I listen, the more he reminds me more of Duurty Goodz actually.

havent heard this yet but scru and woz seem like perfect combination to me

ok 1 min in and whoa yeah he sounds a LOT like goodz

Yeah he doesn't really sound like Dizzee until you hear him say 'skank' or 'brand new day' or something. Quite a lot like Goodz though but without the constant smirk in his voice.

This mix is fire by the way.

and on cue...

http://soundcloud.com/scrufizzer/kick-it

see he's back to channelling dizzee there. disturbingly uncannily too

good though, as is the mix. thing with monetizing scru is he is ultimately a spitter not a songwriter and therefore an instrument for trax. HOWEVER THOUGH do my ears deceive me or is that him singing a hook very decently on the last track?? now we're talking

in fairness he does just seem like a very absorbent chap in a very genuine inadvertent way, it doesnt come off like gimlet-eyed mimicry at all

his flirta d glossolalia moments are also spot on

produced by zed bias btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWq9rtvphGg

suppose now would be the time to give this its long-deserved mention

someday i would like to know exactly how c4 obtained a recording of my inner monologue and turned it into an indifference ftw summer jam

^ yeah s'alright that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79YDgv_zWA4

i posted the original version of this somewhere earlier. it was a hit as an instrumental in some parts of europe and i guess now with these added vocals they are trying to reach the uk audience.

https://soundcloud.com/wearedevolution/devolution-too-much-heaven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyNANJDhmAY

Cool vid.

grime producer goes house to superb, lightly drifting effect. it really is the spirit of uk funky back again

http://soundcloud.com/rudekidmusic/rude-kid-ft-tanya-valensi

(that's tanya valensi of "i know i love u" non-fame btw)

Not sure if this *quite* belongs here but this has the feel of a top ten hit in the making:

http://www.youtube.com/v/XOJjikWX3sQ&fs=1&hl=en

in at #12

quite like the pillowy synths here https://soundcloud.com/luxurymusicuk/j-a-w-s/s-LgVfW

A cursory glance at the Top 10 this week suggests our summer-long mini golden age would appear to have been btrampled underfoot by hegemonic forces brutally reasserting themselves.

yes this little mayfly met its exquisite destiny some months ago

is it just me or can anyone else feel something deep under the earth, an almost noiseless tectonic shift, that guetta-pop and harris-ified "decadent" club bangers are already more than halfway to naff and will soon be the stuff of nose-scrunching reminisces on late-night TV

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, March 21, 2013 5:23 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i can feel it

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, March 21, 2013 5:24 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i just realised that actually they've all just been hibernating, their minds busy plotting, planning

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, March 21, 2013 5:38 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.youtube.com/v/Bg2q6ZofewM&fs=1&hl=en

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klangkarussell and naughty boy the seashells left in the sand as the wave is sucked back into the sea

time for beachcombers and oceanographers to once again shake hands and part ways

eh i hadnt even looked at the charts this week... ben pearce 'what i might do' is at 7

may the #1 song reign there for 400 years of plenty imo btw

also am i not right in expecting next week's numero uno to be the storm queen/mk rerelease

oh wait my bad november 3... next months then

omg this week's top 10, just nooooooo

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/annie-mac-presents-2013/id704309101?affId=1930871

Cannot wait!
by elephunkgolf29
What a stunning collection of pure art to celebrate 2013 and where we are going together as one society and one world!

well said, elephunkgolf29, well said

http://soundcloud.com/annie-mac-presents/lulu-james-cant-stop

this excloose on there is fiyah btw

Haven't heard a Lulu James song yet in 2013 that I don't like.

i was fairly surprised that 'step by step' seemed to fall through the cracks... got a couple of radio plays but no one really ran with it

http://soundcloud.com/walter-ego/sets/lulu-james-step-by-step-walter/

walter ego's mix very much worth checking also

i definitely ran with "step by step" on a personal fav level

http://www.capitalxtra.com/radio/coco-cole/recently-played/sunday-13th-october-2013/

not that anyone here will likely give a monkeys but black butter associate coco cole has a show on fake 1xtra, standardish selection on first squiz

feel that black butter is a salient vector into the debate about the fall of choice fm/commerce/interzones/marginalisation/"blue collar" conservative defensivism blah blah

lulu james too in a way perhaps

dunno if this fits in the thread but I'm kinda faded and my roomie was playing this over and over last week and now I'm obsessed

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XDxeugnRQLo&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DXDxeugnRQLo

trippin off that sherm huh

that annie mac mix really is just...hit after hit, totally shameless and necessary for every house party this winter

(obv remember to delete the james blake though, don't want that nasty surprise at the end, no sir)

do you like that cyril hahn then! i like that cyril hahn. ~ i'm so tongue, tied ~

i would mainly be wanting to hear 'bassline' this winter. someone should make a whigfield style dance for it in fact

now i'm flicking thru it again 'the renegade' sounds bizarrely way more xmas festive than it was summery

actually no i posted before the hahn, on the second half now and actually i think that's where it all started to tail off. it's not as terrible as i expect from him i guess, it's adequate. new-to-me amazing were "bassline", "the show", the breach/triana one...actually in the second half the new kidnap kid and lulu james ones are v sweet

"the renegade" made me irl lol, just...of course

while we're on the subject of hahn and his ilk, and because he happily doesn't get actual traction on ilx, i'll just say this here: BUN RYAN HEMSWORTH

a friend described them both as "dance game macklemore" to me at the weekend, lol

These Ben Pearce lyrics are pretty rapey:

It was drinking time, getting out of line
And I'm taking you back to your place
All is well and all is cool
Stay in your place, don't be no fool
Get along alright
You look like the type that would try to fight
Best off being a friend to me
You don't want to offend me
Better play it cool, don't know what I might do

(Grabbed these online, so I can't vouch for their absolute accuracy, but this sounds about right.)

we fucking w/ the new gorgon city & MNEK?

https://soundcloud.com/gorgon-city/ready-for-your-love-ft-mnek

I have been caning Kove's 'Love For You', lately. It's basically three hugely obvious reference points thrown together but it's also completely banging:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I346jc_zsBg

oh nice

katy b covered "so good to me" and you can hear it in the second half of this soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/katyb/sets/capital-xtra-acoustic-session/s-LtmEG

straying a bit here but do any of you guys fuck with the big chase & status singles? i like "lost & not found" a good bit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ0gnGMLVRI

ooh feel the burn matt

huh i'd not heard the original 'lies' before... best ruff ryders tune in forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE8YrL8Q6DA

Beautiful remix by Kidnap Kid for Bipolar Sunshine's "Drowning Butterflies":

https://soundcloud.com/kidnap_kid/bipolar-sunshine-drowning

The new Duke Dumont is :D

https://soundcloud.com/hannah_wants/hannah-wants-mixtape-0114

New Hannah = yay!

https://soundcloud.com/applebottommusic/applebottom-sex-drugs-cash

firmly in the house end -

https://soundcloud.com/low-steppa/low-steppa-january-2014-mix

https://soundcloud.com/lokallegend/kiesza-hideaway-2

Bumping to draw attention to this as the current thread for this sort of thing (since I just linked to the 2012 one by accident).

the gorgon city/mnek single is out tomorrow. i am a fan.

feeling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbVOvEPDsG4
Jakwob - Somebody New ( Ft. Tiffani Juno)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoEQHUcj984
Dj Zinc - Show Me (Original Mix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW32oZqqrpU
Lancelot feat. Antony & Cleopatra - Givin' It Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJcBtRTi8mM
Redlight feat. Lotti - 36

the zinc's been around for a while but it's a totally underrated grower... a lot of this sort of stuff can seem like its smoothly on rails (bom bom bom shadow child drop fatigue prevented me succumbing to the gorgon city mnek for some time) but whoever that vocalist is has a real ragged winsome need that cuts through to the heart ("I WANT YOU SO BAD" startlingly grabbing you by the lapels just when you assume it's looping back round)

post clean bandit prim popjustice comfort zoning is prob the great trap with this stuff now basically, unabashed urgency required

it's a dialectic!! and i feel like hannah wants is the bellwether for it.

like, as go her monthly mixes so goes the destiny of this particular sound

just waiting for the manservant to fetch my uk funky gatekeeper ceremonial robes from storage before i respond to that

really enjoying that jakwob track.

i bought a box of neurofen plus and a box of alka seltzer in a pharmacy a couple of weeks ago that was completely empty and the woman behind the counter was standing really still and quietly listening to this song at full volume

see if i had any real faith in ilm i'd ask for a thread of suchlike circumstantial poetics

fwiw this week's effort from myself is i was in a pub (again but poncy this time) and boc 'roygbiv' soundtracked a bunch of thirty something girls having a post-work pre-friday night festivities natter about whether they should go home and get changed first. felt unprecedentedly correct of course

i have an experiment for the above haplessly enthusiastic tracer hand

http://youtu.be/4BQjK2jS7jE

iyo does this track, taken from a recent hannah wants mix, fit into the remit of this thread

maybe superficially but there's a kind of outsider witch-house broken feeling to it that makes me say no.

lol @ "haplessly enthusiastic" - my epitaph, if ever i had one

fact fans will have noticed that clean bandit is No.1 in the uk pop charts for the third straight week now. CLEAN effing BANDIT. i mean..!

and i have to say that "rather be" is a mite prim but i do like it. it certainly doesn't feel like a No.1 to me though, more like an unexpected side D cut from a back to mine album that temporarily cuts through the murk.

Cheap Picasso - Don't Play Around
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_oM65OTMUo

starting to feel a bit by-numbers?

if "I Got U feat. Jax Jones" DOESN'T actually say "takin' drugs all night" during the chorus i'll eat my hat

sorry, "takin' drugs all right" i mean

whoa i had no idea this song existed

so tropical! jeez

is talabot getting royalties off this

wholly nonplussed yet again by associations of blissed out happy goosebump chill with talabot. spose this actually admittedly does have the same sound palette if not intention tho

quality choon anyway but continues to leave me strangely unmoved idk

that cheap picasso is indeed p hilarious now trace has pointed it out

went a-searching for "clean bandit name generator" anon but google lets me down

New Kidnap Kid: "Stronger", following further in the footsteps of "Thin Lines". No Clean Bandit trajectory for him, that's for sure.

https://soundcloud.com/kidnap_kid/stronger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4WV9nna10s
Klingande - Jubel (Friend Within Remix)

so sam smith 'money on my mind' set to succeed clean bandit as #1 this week

it would seem a breakbeat and a horrifying nuclear reactor meltdown klaxon chorus was all terius' verses ever needed

really up til now i'd not been partic cognizant of this success and just assumed it was just the mk mix that was killing it, guess i must be out of the loop somewhat

wonder if it's taking advantage of a détourned appeal like kendrick 'swimming pools' did. like do punters perhaps wave £20 notes to this at weatherspoons in converted bank premises

having a brit song (however lightly) about money in the charts is pleasing to the 86-93 moodboard i spose

That Sam smith song is really shit imo. Think they're trying to turn him into the dude Sandé

kicking your career off with a meta protest-too-much song about signing your major label contract is a bit much

it brought to mind jessie j, not sandé

i like this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RcbQdKeSRs

that "36" is a bit of alright

raekwon's gonna be on that ep too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iLCqGlfEcE

is "givin' it up" about an abortion?!

i think "nirvana" is the good sam smith solo song but i could be mistaken

after watching the brit awards tho i don't see how he's materially different than john newman or tom odell aside from having an early disclosure cosign which gives him the veneer of being more cool than those dudes

but aesthetically it's the same shit

another one for the 'electro/fidget dudes gone deep house & bass' file - Friend Within is Lee Mortimer!

have enjoyed most of FW stuff so far but all of it pales next to the "Jubel" remix, just way gorgeous

"i got u" is more tensnake than talabot to me, despite the steel pan sound

it's amazing tho. for some reason i only expected duke dumont to make one special track but he's backing "need u" up really well

you know there's a tensnake mix right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FxtJABs39k

HAHA i didn't, no!

it's amazing tho. for some reason i only expected duke dumont to make one special track but he's backing "need u" up really well

He had at least one special track before Need U, because 'The Giver' is and has always been great.

john newman or tom odell aside from having an early disclosure cosign which gives him the veneer of being more cool than those dudes

John Newman has had that veneer as well, it's pretty much how the industry breaks its fast-tracked MOR singers these days. I'm not expecting much from Ella Eyre's solo career either.

The idea of Tom Odell on one of these is pretty lol though, although Black Butter have someone lurking within their stable who is almost as insipid, I forget the name.

it's pretty much how the industry breaks its fast-tracked MOR singers these days

yeah cosigns from dance types don't mean much, sandé was the template and it's used for everyone now. sadly the featured singers who stick with house when they go solo, like sinead harnett, haven't made anything like the impression of your newmans, smiths etc

I csn't think of a Sam Smith-fronted track that I like at all actually, even the Discloure track he features on is limp.

strongly disagree w/that, latch is all-time imo

also sam smith's got pipes that newman wd kill for, ditto the loathesome tom odell, if tom odell even knew what good singing was, which i haven't seen the evidence of

i dunno, it's hard for me to hate on newman or smith, they're so young, and they're just singers trying to break big, they've got plenty of time to become a bit more thoughtful about what they want to accomplish

odell on the other hand

Naughty Boy ft. Sam Star - La La La (Deckstar Bass Mix) is the one.

also ft. Sam Smith.

that's how he should be billed on everything

digging "i got u" but it's totally calling for an 8 minute edit

this should be the 2014 gui boratto "beautiful"

"If [Jimmy] Jam & [Terry] Lewis threw a house party, then invited George Michael, Janet [Jackson] and Peabo Bryson, that would be my album."

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/5915484/mnek-readies-throwback-debut-while-working-with-kylie-minogue