also amongst all the ill blu hype, we shouldnt forget 'stick up', which they produced and is rubbish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvkrnPHzv90
― tom lea, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
the most criminally overlooked tracks this year for me were prob magic touch productions' "hips" - rudegyal vocal, bit like a response to "party hard" but the backing is smoother, more latinate, more laidback. "ooh! don't take it thurr - if you can't take me thurr!"
who are n10-tainment! have been loving "i pray" all year, which is just gorgeously sparse and pushes all my cassie-fan-club buttons -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dAacQYoquU
- and now looking it up on youtube i find the equally beautiful "takeover" -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbwv5EA0wQ8
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
btw hi tom!
who are n10-tainment
"n10tainm✧✧✧@l✧✧✧.c✧.u✧ for all enquiries", duh.
my god how good is 'i pray'??
― tom lea, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
er, i dunno what happened there. tried to copy the email address from the clip and it went all wingdings.
btw hi alex!
― tom lea, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i have a horribly indie comparison point which keeps springing to mind whenever i put "i pray" on, i don't think i can actually say it out loud ever
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
the second half is so nightmarishly weird with its legend of the mystical ninja type sounds and wobbling bass currents. whats yr schmindie comparison?
― tom lea, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
pj harvey - the darker days of me & him
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
or something off white chalk maybe
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i think i could do without hearing 90& of funky vocal tracks. why arent is the ratio of good to shit better?
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 10:16 (fourteen years ago) link
*isnt
that pray track is fantastic. really love those pure sine tone marimbas or whatever that is
― Karen Tregaskin, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 10:45 (fourteen years ago) link
ban titchy
― deej, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link
the most criminally overlooked tracks this year for me were prob magic touch productions' "hips"
Yes! This is terrific, although I thought it was an 08 tune for some reason. There need to be more female MCs in funky.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
ILX ate a post of mine where I explained that I had no problems at all with the FACT Top 100 (it was the XLR8R list that made me le sigh) and that I thought DJ Mystery's "Speechless" was an excellent (even connoisseurial) choice.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
"Wad" is arguably funky too, no?
― art crut (The Reverend), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
what genre is "hot city bass" ?
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
marcus and a whole heap of mcs killing it on rinse right now. though not sure for how much longer.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i could def do with hearing more female mcs in funky though, yeah. stush needs to be doing more. dynamite too.
"31. kode9 - black sun"
this track is really overrated. i prefer LDs funky forays to kode 9s so far personally. i dunno if it was this year or last, but LDs remix of kylas do you mind is divine.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Rev, "Wad" is definitely funky.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
black sun is really great i think. ditto the b-side.
marcus was brilliant tonight. there was one dj (the guy before doctor cosmo or whatever) who was brilliant.
― tom lea, Thursday, 31 December 2009 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Me on Dubplate Wonder. If I'm really nice I might even upload the mix of his I talk about a lot in the post, which seems to have gone off the internet.
http://getphysical.blogspot.com/2010/01/dubplate-wonder-dubplate-wonder-and.html
― Tim F, Friday, 1 January 2010 00:21 (fourteen years ago) link
wow Tim, you have brought us the future - it's still 2009 here! (not according to the post timezone thingy below)
― Paul, Friday, 1 January 2010 01:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I should note that I did not spend my new years eve writing about Dubplate Wonder.
That said I also didn't spend it dancing to UK Funky so :-(
― Tim F, Friday, 1 January 2010 01:39 (fourteen years ago) link
haha Tim, I was just using Tom's phrase
― art crut (The Reverend), Friday, 1 January 2010 01:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Well I'd get people being uncertain if it's funky or not (mostly due to Ramandanman's lineage)... But in fact it's much more so than, say, most Bok Bok or Julio Bashmore tunes I reckon. But it's very hard to say why precisely - one of the odd (reynoldsians might say "weak") aspects of funky is that there's no single ultimate litmus test for saying what is or isn't funky (whereas 2-step at least had the 2-step beat itself).
My distinction above is not a criticism of Bok Bok etc. either, or some comment on who is part of the "scene". There's a Wookie remix of (Lex will cringe) Le Roux's "Bulletproof" which I think is marvelous (vocals notwithstanding) and rather similar to the Fingaprint remix of Rudenko's "Everybody" (the virtues of which I have extolled previously) and yet for reasons I can't quite put my finger on (not Le Roux) I'm reluctant to call it funky... (it's def. worth checking though!)
― Tim F, Friday, 1 January 2010 02:19 (fourteen years ago) link
one of the odd (reynoldsians might say "weak") aspects of funky is that there's no single ultimate litmus test for saying what is or isn't funky
that's such a strength tho! it means funky can take all sorts of things that weren't originally intended as funky (like "Turn Me On" or "We Belong to the Night" or "Self-Religion") and make them funky by proxy
― art crut (The Reverend), Friday, 1 January 2010 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I agree! I like r|t|c's image of the genre being suspended in amniotic fluid (though me saying so may cause him to disown it).
― Tim F, Friday, 1 January 2010 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I would think that in general, the more malleable a genre is, the stronger it is. That Reynoldsian line is completely antithetical to my thoughts about genre
― art crut (The Reverend), Friday, 1 January 2010 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
btw, how is the future? do you have a personal jetpack?
― art crut (The Reverend), Friday, 1 January 2010 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm over-simplifying SR obv - it's more like what a reynolds-fan who wanted to use the singularness of jungle etc. as a stick to beat the present would say.
I would not say that malleability automatically equals strength - it's that odd combination of malleability and absolute self-confidence that funky inherits from... what? us hip hop? dancehall?
(maybe this is why I kneejerk don't like the whole "let's dance to dubstep/wonky/funky/etc." movement - can't help but see it as the upmarket equivalent of hollertronix, implying by its self-conscious eclecticism that the individual genres aren't wide-ranging enough on their own - even if that's inaccurate or unfair)
The future is not as tired as it should be after last night.
― Tim F, Friday, 1 January 2010 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Here's a download link for Dubplate Wonder's Wonderland '09 mix:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/r16fnl
― Tim F, Friday, 1 January 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
the (free d/l) new nguzunguzu ep is amazing - need to find out more about these dudes, all i've known so far is that they're affiliates of kingdom http://www.wholeareas.com/
― lex pretend, Saturday, 2 January 2010 12:19 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/dec/31/music-tips-for-2010
i can think of several dozen other names id rather have seen than kingdom and bok bok personally, who i think might have deserved it more, but hey, sort of good to see them there.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, 2 January 2010 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
kingdom's "mind reader" is one of the best songs of this/last/any year, and there were nice parallels in the way both of them started out and made their names as club promoters and djs
― lex pretend, Saturday, 2 January 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm interested to know whether anyone had any reactions to the Dubplate Wonder mix - I feel too close to this stuff to accurately guess whether whatever I perceive as brilliance is something me-specific or if others will see it too.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Great Marcus Nasty set with Majestic on the mic here - good quality, and some real bad boy riddims (as well as big vocals) here.
ttp://soundcloud.com/marcusnasty/marcus-nasty-ft-majestic
― Tim F, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Seriously, don't sleep on this, it's a great summation of funky right now.
― Tim F, Thursday, 7 January 2010 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Link fixed btw:
http://soundcloud.com/marcusnasty/marcus-nasty-ft-majestic
if I don't see more assent, I'm going to have to check myself in
― Tim F, Friday, 8 January 2010 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link
is there any funkstep
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Friday, 8 January 2010 03:32 (fourteen years ago) link
pictureofheadexploding.jpg
― Tim F, Friday, 8 January 2010 03:38 (fourteen years ago) link
ha
― estelawolf (The Reverend), Friday, 8 January 2010 04:34 (fourteen years ago) link
not sure if you were serious or not, but here's a couple things:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juzk7MqnrBM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIbkC1NMM1k
― estelawolf (The Reverend), Friday, 8 January 2010 04:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Your post won't load for me while i'm at work Rev, I'm almost afraid.
Seriously I'm gonna start uploading ordinary funky sets as rickrolls under cover stories like "this dude is from AMSTERDAM, yes it's true he makes funky but he namechecks DERRICK MAY, hangs with MARTYN and likes to parade his BOLANO books in interviews while playing THIS HEAT in the background!"
Instant front page of some zine or other.
― Tim F, Friday, 8 January 2010 04:45 (fourteen years ago) link
It's "Wad" and "Love Dub (Refix)"
― estelawolf (The Reverend), Friday, 8 January 2010 04:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i.e. calm down
― estelawolf (The Reverend), Friday, 8 January 2010 04:47 (fourteen years ago) link
hey bolano is awesome
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Friday, 8 January 2010 04:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I know I'm reading Savage Detectives right now - Derrick May and (sometimes) Martyn and This Heat are awesome too!
― Tim F, Friday, 8 January 2010 05:07 (fourteen years ago) link