funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

btw hi tom!

who are n10-tainment

"n10tainm✧✧✧@l✧✧✧.c✧.u✧ for all enquiries", duh.

my god how good is 'i pray'??

er, i dunno what happened there. tried to copy the email address from the clip and it went all wingdings.

btw hi alex!

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

the second half is so nightmarishly weird with its legend of the mystical ninja type sounds and wobbling bass currents. whats yr schmindie comparison?

pj harvey - the darker days of me & him

or something off white chalk maybe

i think i could do without hearing 90& of funky vocal tracks. why arent is the ratio of good to shit better?

*isnt

that pray track is fantastic. really love those pure sine tone marimbas or whatever that is

ban titchy

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.

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.

"Wad" is arguably funky too, no?

what genre is "hot city bass" ?

marcus and a whole heap of mcs killing it on rinse right now. though not sure for how much longer.

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.

Rev, "Wad" is definitely funky.

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.

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

wow Tim, you have brought us the future - it's still 2009 here! (not according to the post timezone thingy below)

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 :-(

haha Tim, I was just using Tom's phrase

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!)

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

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).

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

btw, how is the future? do you have a personal jetpack?

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.

Here's a download link for Dubplate Wonder's Wonderland '09 mix:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/r16fnl

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/

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.

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

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.

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

Seriously, don't sleep on this, it's a great summation of funky right now.

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

is there any funkstep

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ha

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

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.

It's "Wad" and "Love Dub (Refix)"

i.e. calm down

hey bolano is awesome

I know I'm reading Savage Detectives right now - Derrick May and (sometimes) Martyn and This Heat are awesome too!

I wish Scratcha DVA's "Hard House" was on youtube or like, if Scratcha's stuff is by definition funkstep then that is far and away the best example (or tied with "Wad" maybe). Ridiculously... funky!

I'll give the Marcus Nasty and the Dubplate Wonder a listen.

I'm a little less cranky tonight, its got a better chance of getting through.