funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

7th oct marcus set with mc majestic most definitely a keeper. apologies as ever for the following assorted crap notes & queries & forlorn track id's:

0mins, straight away first tune, cascading string mesmerism, was ist das

20mins, tee hee can't get away with repping this basically pure garage "gimme a little more love" jam too hard can i? oh so irresistible tho for a disquieting second everyone in the studio silently knows it

25mins, hardhouse banton 'turn it around' killing me softly every fucking time, so good!! likewise 'come to mama' still sounding great at 40mins; cava and an easyjet package holiday is just more charming sometimes

46mins, ill blu pseudotake on 'night' is a skankers as they say

60mins, YES been meaning 2 ask what this cartoon 8bar with the ragga "GO SIDDUNG!" vox is

62mins, orchestral whirlwind with what teasingly sounds like wu 'cream' about to slip in

64mins, may as well ask what this sub-bass is immediately after

76mins choppy choppy 'reign' special - new new or am i being a rube?? i swear it's just that slightly bit more hectic. same applying at 93m for an unfamiliar 'gabrielle' annihilator

79mins exactly the sort of effing obvious tune i know like the back of my hand and can never remember the effing name of COME ON BRAIN. (brain replies "bom, bom, bom, bom, bom.")

91mins yep yep, and this

109 couple nice ladybits to finish off

Tim: There's a tune by Chunky Bizzle (formerly a grime producer) that sounds like Gant's "Sound Bwoy Burial" meets Sonz of a Loop Da Loop Era's "Far Out". Awesome stuff.

did anyone ever i.d. that tune ^^^ Simon also/actually enthused about? there are a couple that sound close (but no cig) on Chunky's myspace ("Snow" and "Soul Food" I think).

r|t|c I don't have that set so can't help out except the "Reign" choppy choppy is probably the Roska refix. The Gabryelle one maybe the same one as on the Larizzle set, assuming it is awesome end of the world business.

Paul: I don't think so!

closest I've found so far is "Zen On", which has similar rushiness (great signature sound) but not the anthemic melodic riff.
need a new vinyl E.P. Chunky. nah keep it one track per side for maximum weight!

marcus nasty's gone to gambia!

@MARCUSNASTY Im gone! Need to get back to my villa be4 it gets too dark if i dont twitter soon holla at the British embassy PLEASE
3 minutes ago from web

Kinda annoyed that Enrique Benitez has recycled his (amazing) arrangement for "Cookin" to use as the basis for a remix of Keri Hilson's "Energy" - comes out so much more drab without the yelpy singer he had before.

it's more than a little disconcerting that Marcus Nasty (who is in Paphos, Cyrus after missing a flight) hasn't done a followup tweet to the one Lex quoted above - 6 hours ago... especially after indicating that he was feeling strong racial tension directed at him from the locals.

(Cyprus, sorry)

on the other hand, considering this happened in the meanwhile: [via BBC] "Israel's navy has intercepted a ship carrying hundreds of tonnes of Iranian weapons intended for Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Israeli military has said. ...The vessel was intercepted "near Cyprus",..."
it could be affecting transmissions in the area?

track 11 on the marcus rinse CD is the one... really good mix actually. was wondering how i would like it without rankin but it works.

I've already forgiven Enrique Benitez on account of the amazing instrumental track of his that Mak10 plays on the Mak10/Marcus Oct 28 Rinse show. Urgent questions this show provokes:

1) Who is SCREAMA??

2) Who is CHAMPION??

i've been reigniting my love for funky last week or two, old sets but getting back that feeling! does anyone have any big new sets / shows?

Tim, i reckon Screama is probably the same Screama who has made a lot of amazing bassline...

on that tip i've been re-running Illmana ft Chloe – Burning many times these last few days, amazing track! that preceeded by Diamond ft Sophia Romian – Fly Away Remix and then a couple later some outrageous remix of Mr Seduction on the Footloose show from April has been doing it for me over and over again. whats footloose saying nowadays? is he still off 1xtra? i can't believe that they cut him

that's weird - meant to come back after benjamin's post and this thread is totally not on new answers??????? is this a thing?

anyway yeah tbf i think footloose mightve had other commitments given how often he had dj ng filling in for him the last few months, but even still i agree its a catastrophic loss - on a specific level his sets are like, idealogically crucial (well, to me at least), on a general one he's left a massive gap that 1xtra must be insane to think cameo and dj q currently fill.

or else they feel the general purpose crossover djs (mistajam, ras kwame, target) will account for funky, which is sort of grimly prescient of them tbh but divorces funky from proper house as it were entirely. i mean, are they just not gonna represent for that sort of stuff at all any more? i realise it's the most crowded sphere ever to have a presence in but to jack it all in to focus on just giving the uk bassline scene an outlet seems like some tallest midget shit to me.

anyway footloose is supposed to be appearing once a month in this graveyard segment, next one's on the 9th: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nsmwk

where does bassline stand now generally? does anyone here check for it much?

ah i see, didn't know he'd been struggling to make his shows. catastrophic loss is right though, as is crucial. i don't know anyone doing what he was doing. been listening to rinse a fair bit recently and all the house on there seems to be properly techy, loads of what i would think of as 'minimal' really. most of the rave poster i catch around are going with house / tribal / tech etc which is interesting

caught Funk Butcher the other day and he was heavy though, loads of tracky but deep house then an hour of very enjoyable funky. not all mixed up like Footloose does though, which for me was quite key to what was so good about his show

no idea what bassline is doing nowadays, i was never that deep into it, just the odd tune caught my ear. Screama and TRC were definitely some of the names i watched for though

http://www.myspace.com/screama1418

some heavy funky tunes on there, a freaky roller and a very buff vocal number

Apparently Donae'o played at Fabric with a full live band the other day? Did anyone go? I can imagine African Warrior would have been amazing in that setting.

so Marcus is ok after all and back on twitter now - SHITTAS!

footloose is on 1xtra 1-4 tonight, think he's got Aphrodisiax guesting...

unreasonable wishlist: all of Footloose's sets archived
(I'd add Marcus & Mak10, but I suspect lots of these, even besides what I have, are out there already)

does anyone know what track is being mixed in at the end here:http://smokelessfuels.blogspot.com/2009/07/most-wanted-mega-different-lekstrix.html

i lost a load of funky shows when my HD crashed lately.

not happy :(

is this REALLY necessary? guys been on the scene for about 2 minutes and hes already in the broadsheets!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/nov/09/new-band-jam-city

The truth: He's the British Electric Foundation's latest recruit.

oh what, the same b.e.f that produced this?

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/h/heaven-17/album-penthouse-and-pavement.jpg

mm, funny that.

Least likely to: Be curtly appraised.

RONG.

Also crucially that article doesn't mention funky BECAUSE HE ISN'T.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

(ay matt how much does that heaven 17 cover look like a terrifiyng kaleidoscope of jose mourinhos having meetings with simon jordans btw? i never noticed before!)

why is the rinse ad for marcus' mix cd taped via phone? he comes to the studio every single week. couldnt they have just taped him there? also, the ad loses points as there is no mention of shitttaaaaas.

40 mins into this recent mak10/marcus set and not one truly memorable vocal, though this can you kiss me there one isnt too bad.

Is that the one from the beginning of the month? yeah the vocal tunes on it aren't great, "Can You Kiss Me There" excepted!

lol. win a date with cooly g!

http://rinse.fm/index.php/djs/grimeybreakfast

im there :)

tho a date with princess nyah might have been better.

i skimmed through that hackman mix on blackdowns blog but thought it seemed really 'small' and a bit... i dunno, sterile? all very tasteful of course, but a tad boring. might give it a proper listen later though.

funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this 1751 1744 1 6

"Sexy Sexy" now has a slick video clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfv44lEzOLU&feature=player_embedded#at=67

I got way behind on keeping up with this thread. :(

why hello

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/object2/1497/33/n212481007518_340.jpg

thursday @ east village

http://www.strivingafterwind.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/funky.jpg

i am putting on yesterdays marcus set now for the duration, someone holla if they want to do the same and frolic thru liveblogging fields with me etc...

oops soz i went out to night slugs instead and OMG HUGE DANCEFLOOR MOMENT - you know when you've been dancing to a tune in your bedroom for weeks and then hear it for the first time in a club? ill blu dropped that new dennis ferrer joint w/vivien goldman singing and it was SO GOOD. also someone played the dj naughty "love lockdown" refix later too <3

fucking shittas. missed marcus' show this week. cant be bothered with the shit podcasts though. fucking rinse. was listening to that old show he did with all the mcs from last year tho and that was fucking ruff (anyone still say ruff? i dont care, im old). but i have them spread out over 3 (not sure why) tapes. anyone have a link for that?

i am putting on yesterdays marcus set now for the duration, someone holla if they want to do the same and frolic thru liveblogging fields with me etc...

We should reschedule something like this.

Also I really think this thing you said on the grime thread is OTM:

it's funny ingram mentions soul ii soul in remarking on how td and others were unable to to establish fertile collectives - something i've kept muttering on about in the uk funky thread is how it's not entirely so much just a new strain of capital-h house but a prism for the uk to recapture a sense of its own identity - like soul ii soul era brit pirate radio streetsoul culture, or even if you like the early bristol melting pot sound with smith & mighty, wild bunch, and what have you. particularly at the grassroots level that stuff wasnt necessarily less "new configuration, new riff and new structure" type hype rather than indigenous perspective on and juxtaposition of loads of familiar things, often american.

Me on Ill Blu:

http://getphysical.blogspot.com/2009/12/ill-blu-ill-blu-are-without-doubt-years.html

awesome -- & yah i totally see why you wanted me to read this!!

& uh holy crap @ "bring it back"

Lots and lots of great new tracks on this DJ Reflex mix - and interesting how heavy the bass is on so many of them, this feels like a recent development:

http://download694.filefront.com/yjvzdjmxfllg/15088147/DJ+Reflex+Funky+Vol+4.zip

Tracklist:
01. DJ Naughty Ft. Miss Fire - It's You (Reflex Dubplate)
02. Rachel M - Losing Me (Hardhouse Banton Remix)
03. Ill Blu - Blu Magic
04. Todz & Beatz Ft. Chocolate Doll - Cutie
05. Bucie - Your Kiss
06. Princess Nyah - Crazy
07. Digital Dubstar Ft. Miss Fire - Can't Say No
08. DJ Naughty Ft. Sacha - I Need Love
09. Kodi Starr - Extortion (Crazy Cousinz)
10. Mr Hudson - White Lies (Fuzzy Logik Remix)
11. Screama - Funky Gangsta
12. Shanique - Take It Low (Reflex Dubplate)
13. 702 - You Don't Know (4Motion Remix)
14. Cream - Calypso
15. Crazy Cousinz Ft. MC Versatile - Searching For You
16. Illmana Ft. Lady Stush - Ready For De War
17. Miss Fire - Woo Haa
18. S-Tee Ft. Sacha - Knockin' At My Door
19. Crazy Cousinz - Sonar
20. Miss Fire & Miss Anonymous - Connexion
21. Princess Nyah - Hooligans
22. Barber Bizzle Ft. JJ Soul - Got That Something
23. Addictive - Domino Effect (DJ Naughty Remix)
24. S-Tee Ft. Tasha - Touch On Me
25. Miss Fire Ft. JJ Soul - More Love
26. Ill Blu - Money & Girls
27. Ny - Sea Sick (DJ Naughty Remix) - 2-STEP FANS WILL *LOVE* THIS
28. Steve Hoang - No Coming Back (Ill Blu Remix)

heavy bass in funky? :D

nice ill blu analysis tim.

sorry i haven't been checking this therad so i hate to interrupt it with a n00b question but

i just ordered marcus nasty's rinse 10. are there any other recent mix CDs i should be checking for?

The Ministry of Sound one (The Sound of UK Funky) is the next best. There've been very few officially released mixes so far.

Have a big piece on Dubplate Wonder on the boil.