funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

theres a kano lyric that mentions him too...
'heartless crew and M.A.D tapes grew me...cant forget to big up petchy and scoobee'

@coolyg

my fuckin fish has died kmt that was my dwargyyyy over upset I had him for long
about 1 hour ago from UberTwitter

Omg my fish has risen frm death omg alhumduliallah I love u fishey I shook some bubbles aOmg my fish has risen frm death omg alhumduliallah
21 minutes ago from UberTwitter

Fish Go Deep - The Cure & The Cause

live fm>>>>

love those cooly g tweets

that's interesting Luka. i'd noticed he'd played at pacha a bit i'm gonna keep an eye out and go down sometime. i'm sure he'd play quite different styles to radio in a spot like that but i'm sure it'd be very heavy. i saw a youtube of him playing a tune by that guy Ossie down there in and out of two very big tracks so definitely worth reaching!

he was one of the best djs in grime when he was still doing that...him and mak 10 were way ahead of everyone else.... im glad he's making a name for himself...
this is the myspace
http://www.myspace.com/djpetchy

http://vulive.co.uk/content/2010/02/14/d-malice-5-feb-2010/
d malice show on deja.... very listenable.

So many amazing dubs on Funkystepz' Rinse shows - check 5 Feb in particular, there's a track with Louise Williams I'm calling "I'm So Into You" which is just a-maz-ing.

i can only find one from the 9th feb.

Go here titchy:

http://rinse.fm/index.php/podcasts

Thoughts on Funkystepz:

http://getphysical.blogspot.com/2010/02/funkystepz-first-time-i-heard-funky.html

Also: that DJ Petchy set is fantastic.

Also: the Ill Blu remix of Cheryl Cole's "Parachute" is enormous and is floating around for illegal download.

hey where do you dudes find mp3s of this stuff? i'm not above youtube rips but i'd rather not if they're available elsewhere.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kkingdomm

i posted this in another thread but it should have gone in this one -
http://blissout.blogspot.com/2010/02/piece-on-resurgence-of-female-mcs-in_22.html

Wow that post is pissily defensive. I don't think even the anti-continuum dudes are claiming there's no relationship between UKG, funky and grime, because that would be, well, fucking stupid. I mean, Lex's article only reinforces the continuum if the sole point of the continuum is to state the bleeding obvious.

The point of the continuum is to state the bleeding obvious though.

The Feb 10 Marcus set has some amazing new tracks. The Andy J and ST refix of "Reign" is just O_O good.

(OTOH Andy J's "Lighter"-sampling track is a bit tenuous - the c*ntinium-bait tracks almost always end up disappointing I find!)

Anyway I was listening to this on the way to work today and it made me a tad emotional thinking about how attached I am to pretty much everything this style of music tries to do.

emvee's 'windrush' at 64mins on that is amaaazing - the one with the what sounds like the "chubby checker" intro.

Ha ha I was about to come back and post "OMG WINDRUSH!"

hold on, i gotta zshare this for the people.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/730548616238e88b/

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/snouts/61812443.gif

NEXT LEVEL HYPE HYPE

Wow what's the gif equivalent of "that's strong words".

marcus show this weds was HYPE, well what i caught of it

still wish i could love funky as much as tim tho

what's the melancholic synth salsa one a couple after that btw? simple but so crucial.

Woah I didn't realise that that "Feel the vibe and know that you are truly blessed... Now MOVE!" tune was by Funkystepz.

These guys have too many great tunes. You could make an awesome album just out of the ones I know the names of. To whit:

Malibu
For You
Fireworks
Mr Bandicoot
Lovers (AMAZING TUNE BTW)
Piano Storm
Gamechip
Who's Skanking The Hardest
Hurricane Riddim
Trinity Hill
Leave With You
Bubbly

^^^ This would be a great album. I've even thought about the track order.

not tryna sound rude honest but having heard and enjoyed a few funkystepz sets i consider myself as interested in their oeuvre as the next man and i'm still nowhere near knowing all the tracknames like that -- if youre wanting a reaction beyond "good 4 u bro" then some timestamps at least would be handy innit, especially so on a epic blogspot. i know it's an arse but...!

anyway, lately i am feeling particularly enamoured of the infallible screama + farah = WIN formula.

Cooly G and Jon Hopkins are collaborating on some new material by the looks of their Twitter pages.

new lady chann joint is hot - looking fwd to her april EP as well (sign up on her myspace), and she's signed to toddla t's new label it seems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhID8mZ7cBg

not tryna sound rude honest

Someone at work actually said "with all due respect..." to me yesterday and I thought to myself "oh you bitch!"

Okay then, on the 9th Feb show:

Lovers - 56:53
For You - 59:30
Bubbly - 1:02:55
Leave With You - 1:06:05
Fireworks - 1:09:49
Hurricane Riddim - 1:13:27
Mr Bandicoot - 1:18:03
Malibu - 1:26:20
Piano Storm 1:33:27
Trinity Hill - 1:40:30

ok i am actually going to listen to that show now and keep an ear out for those songs.

q - how dyou find out the track titles of this stuff tho?

actually i only have the 5th feb one. hopefully they play the same tunes.

Maxsin announces them all! 5th Feb show:

Hurricane Riddim - 1:12:34
For You - 1:16:09
Piano Storm - 1:19:40
Lovers - 1:22:22
Fireworks - 1:25:39
Mr Bandicoot - 1:29:31
Bubbly - 1:37:09
Leave With You - 1:34:15
Malibu - 1:35:57

i like this one track of theirs thats like buss it mk 2.

Ha that could describe half of them actually.

is this guy bigged up as swindle - he says hes one of the best doing it in funky - the same swindle who made the grime track airmiles?

Dunno, the track he plays is pretty good though.

Also NB. everyone you can buy Emvee's "Windrush Riddim" on uk-funky.com:

http://www.uk-funky.com/ukfunky_previews_365.htm

In fact dude's entire Great High EP is sounding pretty great.

been luvvin the ill blu mix of sabrina washington's 'omg' lately but this might be even better: roll deep - good time remix

also this! frm bugz in the attic/reinforced dude:

http://soundcloud.com/markforce/that-rhythm

(heard these on the infallible seani b covering mistajam's show last nite - why oh why can't it always be this way 1xtra? jam is fucking useless.)

Ha ha I came on to this thread to post the Ill Blu remix of "OMG" which I'd finally ID'd. Massive and murderous! I love it when she sings "I won't lower myself to snap at her!!" Reminds me of "You Better Tell Her". Also kind of nice that it's a bit less slick, which balances out the "Parachute" remix which is also great but almost too perfect.

But more generally loving this middle ground between, like, "Something Good" and the Freemasons.

thats a really good one.

DJ Naughty remix great also. I like how DJ Naughty has his aesthetic and sticks to it but about once every three productions or so pulls out some increasingly rococo and sickly and bizzaro twist on it.

^ yeah totally! i've long thought if i were to do a skykickin style expose of a producer in particular it'd be on naughty but i think hearing a couple of naughtyesque things that didn't turn out to be by him dissuaded me a little. also the whole being lazy thing.

the more i listen to naughty's mix the more i prefer it to the ill blu, but i'm not sure i've heard it in any sets as such - not to the extent of blu's anyway. (i hev nice mp3s of both if anyone desires.)

Actually both plus the Sound Boy mix are on mediafire, easily googlable everyone.

Naughty and Major Notes are my next two write-ups BTW. Naughty has done a ridiculous number of awes tracks in the past twelve months.

The Ill Blu remix is just more anthemic I think, it reshapes Sabrina's vocals perfectly. Funnily enough the Naughty remix is a bit too oddball to really cross over massively I think.

v broadly speaking i guess one thing i find most intriguing about him is his balance of up 2 the time modernity leavened by an almost i dunno, rinky dink house of horror vibe with the cheapo organ and stuff, it's fun.