funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

The track that's mixed out of the vocal tune from 2:10 and then through 4:35/5:10 is Elevated Levels by Roska

27:25: - ? feel this could be crazy cousinz or else yeah gabryelle refix
29:00: - ?
29:40: - ?
33:30: drake - find your love (drew austin remix)
34:45: crazy cousinz - inflation
37:45: havana cultura - chekere (seji remix)
39:17: lil silva - night skanker
42:04: altered natives - ??? sick!
47:30: - ?
49:50: supaneer - congo natty? forget how it goes
51:43: - ?
52:55: eastwood - soft touch
54:22: - ?
55:20: modjo - lady (spyro refix)
56:52: - ?
59:09: mj cole - volcano riddim
60:39: lr groove - just believe
61:45: altered natives - rass out

(several of those -?s are marcus standards i'm sure ppl will know)

23:22 could be scratcha dva based on sound and shout-out

haha i taped the last hour of tonights set (featuring new dubs + shantie!) and am already instantly bored of last week's extravagangsta - <3 you funky

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

42:04: altered natives - ??? sick!

Yes this took my head off on first listen!

radio rip of the new roll deep/ill blu remix if anyone's interested

http://www.zshare.net/audio/781028469de58db3/

overwhelming martial madness once again

I would be quite happy for Ill Blu to go through the rest of his career only remixing pop grime tracks.

42:04: altered natives - ??? sick!

It looks like this was played on Marcus Nasty's show yesterday evening as well... maybe 10-11 minutes in? It sounds like it's ID'd as "Hit not Miss"

yeah 17 minutes - i wager "this one hit not miss" is a classic type shantieism though

how good does shants sound on that whole floaty section immediately after it btw, got me feeling emotional for a sec

love this thing that we call life
shantie don't check for the asking price

the new "i don't care, no i don't care" vocal cut right after that too - tremendous

glad these guys are going on holiday for a bit, gonna check myself into funky rehab i think

Haven't had a chance to download the new set yet but my favourite recent Shantie rhyme is the "what's GWANNING cuz?? Why are you startin' trouble/when you can bounce and bubble?!?" one.

not sure 11:20 is j labelz related besides subject matter.

yeah sorry this is a dodgy remix of La Cartier's "Call Me" not J Labelz's "Touch Me".

at least 40% of that assertion was just me not wanting it to be true tbh, 'touch me' is unimpeachable

one of my favourite things about garage mc-ing i think is when conversational hosting imperceptibly takes on a rhythm all by itself, before lauching back into a full-fledged lyric when the riddim drops -- shantie does this so, so well especially with his peculiar circularity sometimes (cf "hit not miss" i guess), he's like a dreamy kurupt

shake it down, riddim and beat in here
style and sound
shantie's the mc londons the town
do it for the black white blue brown
riddim, beat, style and sound
easy the gang thats on the shakedown
in we go

at least 40% of that assertion was just me not wanting it to be true tbh, 'touch me' is unimpeachable

Yes, one of my absolute favourite diva tunes of the year. "Call Me" is pretty great though, both the Fuzzy Logick production original and the Roska remix (which is maybe Roska's best tune this past 12 months).

Re Shantie's rhythmatic rhymes, I really like "Shant lyricilly goin' in for the killy and we're hot and we're flame and we burn like chilli"

your one previous mention of that roska remix last october seems to be the only online record of its existence alas

have found listed a "soulful house mix" of 'call me' on a wireless sound mix a couple of months ago however so that's 11:20 sorted if we're still on that

if anyone feels like deigning to listen to something that isn't a radio set, i absolute love this scratcha dva mix - http://disko404.org/podcast/podcast.html

1. COOLY G - UP IN MY HEAD
2. FINGAPRINT - RISING SUN
3. L VIS 1990 - FOREVER YOU
4. SMASHER - DUBZ 2
5. DVA - NEW WORLD ORDER
6. MAGNETIC MAN - I NEED AIR (REDLIGHT REMIX)
7. BOK BOK - DANCE REPORT
8. FUNKYSTEPZ - FULLER
9. BREACH - FATHERLESS (DOC DANEEKA REMIX)
10. DONAEO - IM SO FLY
11. R1 RYDERS - HYDRAULIC
12. DEEP TEKNOLOGI - DISTORTION 101
13. EL B - I FEEL
14. KODE 9 - BLACK SUN
15. DVA & STARKEY -
16. GREENMONEY - WHO'S GREENMONEY (DUB MIX)
17. REDLIGHT FT MS DYNAMITE - WHAT YOU TALKIN' ABOUT

and i don't know if i've raved about the new greenmoney gold ru$h ep but it's a must for anyone into the dancehall vocalist end of things - mz bratt/lady chann/serocee over ruff'n'tuff beats - http://www.foolsgoldrecs.com/blog/2010/06/22/greenmoney-gold-rush/

8. FUNKYSTEPZ - FULLER

^ yeahhh this tune is a madness - the evil razor slinky attack cousin to naughty raver's 'drama'!

lol don't try turning the prissy tables though.

greenmoney ep was pretty middling i thought - 'suh mi stay' is fun but eisegete axis struggling with the flava once again otherwise

are post-dropoff south rakkas crew not still signed to fools gold btw? their time now surely

Lex the passive aggression is misplaced - the fact that you don't like to listen to radio sets doesn't mean we don't listen to anything else.

This set looks great - will download. And yeah "Fuller" is massive, total ravey madness chaos (wrote "madness" w/o even realising r|t|c had just said the same).

BTW that "Call Me" remix is on Roska's 100% Roska productions special for Rinse from September last year. I should up it as it's basically the only Roska set one really needs. The remix is awes, has a fantastic "Pump Up The Jam"-but-ridiculously-stop-start-syncopated feel to it.

Dunno if I ever mentioned this short Undisputed BBC 1xtra special mix earlier in the year:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ryrk21

Anyway, it's lots of fun, if you don't mind hearing several different iterations of "Sunglasses" (which I certainly don't). Really teases out the bassline influence on funky, lots of slithery slimy but metallic synth sounds and bassline-ish MC-tracks.

xxp saying all that i'm enjoying this picking up carnival momentum lately:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsXSfvtp8K0

richie dan is a no-brainer though obv.

at some point i shall have to confront the influence of major lazer on todays music without resorting to the afrojack solace haha

i assume no one checked out the busy signal youtube upthread btw?

i did! it's kind of nuts, i like it.

do feel like roska has suppressed a more colourful impulse throughout his career in lieu of the edgy minimalist moneymaker

was BOUNCE ever released??

http://www.zshare.net/audio/78134353eca0427f/

lol soz forgot to paste it in

100% roska set would probably be too much roska but id love to hear it if poss, tim.

do feel like roska has suppressed a more colourful impulse throughout his career in lieu of the edgy minimalist moneymaker

Yes! The "Call Me" remix handily demonstrates this.

100% roska set would probably be too much roska but id love to hear it if poss, tim.

Okay will try to do this soon. It kinda is too much roska, but it's a handy resource.

roska reminds me a lot of terror danjah.

i wish terror would make some funky, i dont get why he hasnt and why hes made a couple of bloody dubstep tracks instead.

Because he's a goth.

also other goths shelling out for his objets d'goth natch

Can sort of see that at Roska's more madcap end ("Hey Cutie" say, or his remix of Borish Duglosh's "Bangkok") but Terror Danjah has a more squiggly multicoloured quality mostly I reckon. I'd put forward Funkystepz's "Hurricane Riddim" and "Bubbly" and "Rude Girl" and (coincidentally) "Fuller" if I was trying to think of Terror-ish funky tracks.

r|t|c that richie dan track is brilliant! Should not be remotely surprised though, if anyone's career deserved a funky-derived revival...

what is this squiggly multicoloured quality people always talk about with terror (and its influence on joker, gemmy and co)? i must have missed it. the roska comparison is based on terror tracks like green street or cock back. ultra ultra sparse, even similar drum sounds, and not much variation between tracks. all very similar but just slightly different under the surface each time (which is kinda what i love about both of them).

♫♪ call it fate... ♪♫ xp

what is this squiggly multicoloured quality people always talk about with terror (and its influence on joker, gemmy and co)? i must have missed it. the roska comparison is based on terror tracks like green street or cock back.

I'm thinking of stuff like "boogeyman", "one wish", all those goblin-ghosty keyboards he used/uses all the time. "Cock Back" is definitely Terra at his most spartan, so I can see the Roska comparison making sense in that regard.

boogeyman isnt really 'colorful' though is it? it is a tiny bit wonky i suppose but the synths (which are a tiny bit wonky i suppose) are in the background. terror was always more of a percussive producer IMO rather than one with an overt melodic sensibility in his work in the way someone like joker is.

Yeah but I'm not comparing him to Joker, Joker takes all that a lot further obv.

didnt say you - i think people have just gone along with that theory since reynolds said it.

what other devine collective tunes are worth checking/out there except for house girls btw? seems amazing to think that they play so many tracks on the radio but there are so few you can get.

^ see what i'm saying about this guy being a peerless wind up merchant

er who/how am i winding anyone up exactly?

at least im not wilfully dense and purposelessly verbose.

Titchy see also "Poltergeist (Remix)" and "So Contagious" for two pretty colourful tunes. The diff. with Terror I guess is he'll then pull the layers back to just bass and beats for a while.

Re Devine Collective:

Tribal Conga - You'd probably know this one, it's on Marcus' Rinse CD (though weirdly uncredited, mixed in with "Wonderful Day").
Tribal Daydream - Eerie menacing tune with a guy talkin' about love, peace and unity like he's gonna impose them on you by force.
People Keep Dancing - really humid vocal tune, absolutely gorgeous groove.
Touch Her In The Morning - stark, martial string-slashing tune.
Eyes On You - liberally samples Tim Deluxe's "It Just Won't Do.
Thriller Refix - self-explanatory.

I'm pretty used to titchy now even when he says totally face-slapping things like Teedra only has one decent tune.

how good is the first track on lil silvas fact mix?

I didn't know he'd done one! Getting now.

track around 34/35 mins in is proper eski-funky ;)

Not sure about the sudden shift into funky schaffel midway through that Scratcha DVA mix, this doesn't really seem like a fruitful direction to be going in. The first half of the whole mix is a bit too I Am Serious Funky for my liking and in weather like this any funky mix should be sounding amazing.

Surely that funky-schaffel track is intended to be a quasi-comedic genre-splicing exercise. It's Bok Bok yeah? Don't worry I don't think this is going to be a "thing" in funky any time soon.

The Cooly G track that starts the mix is fab I think. "Rising Sun" (by Tadow Productions not Fingaprint ftr) is the most amazing track ever with the right MCs (my fave will always be Shantie and Rankin' going head to head over it about two years ago) but always sounds incomplete when played as an instrumental. After that I'm not into anything really aside from "Fuller" and "I'm So Fly" and "I Feel". DVA sure does has a taste for lugubriousness these days. I wonder if he'll bust out anything as carefree and light as "Hard House" from now on.

track around 34/35 mins in is proper eski-funky ;)

LOL that my favourite thing on the Lil Silva's (excellent) Fact mix 'pon first listen is Fedde Le Grand's "Oh Yeah" - and it turns out to be titchy's too!