funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

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!

Okay, so I know it's over a year old now, but can we talk about how amazing Aphrodisiax's "Unfinished Business" EP is?

There's so much feeling of momentum on these tracks, and those delirious counter rhythms on the title track...the cheesy dubby horns on Keep it Moving. And the spoken word house gospel stuff on My Getaway. I'm always a sucker for that.

Pretty sure the guy doing the vocal bit on My Getaway is the same one from Grand High Priest's My Guitar, too.

I don't know if i've heard the tracks apart from "Unfinished Business" (all time classic) and "Keep It Moving" which is a persi.

I can remedy that for you sometime this weekend.

cheers!

Speaking of the Devine Collective, did anyone actually shell out for those $40 a pop EPs?

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=130911980280071

looks like fun

I found that Aphrodisiax single at Grammaphone in Chicago and it made my day.

Why isn't all house music desperately imitating Aphrodisiax right now? Instead of MCDE?

Because interesting rhythms in house are now thought of as a bit naff. Also in a lot of ways the rise of post-dubstep as the dance-connoisseur's experimental after dinner mint of choice has meant that the main course has grown more inward-focused by comparison.

Well, South African House and Funky are certainly grounds for some optimism.

That trip to Chicago did not leave me feeling like House is in roaring health otherwise.

where did u see house in chi

Yeah I'm also a bit disappointed by that Greenmoney record. Love love love his remixes and that Serocee track is great but the rest of it is too 'dirty basement' and not 'riotous street party' enough for me. Lady Chann only works in one gear and the track isn't quite ferocious enough for her and Ms Bratt's awful sub-Tinchy monotone shouldn't be allowed anywhere near anything - she raps like she's reading an autocue.

XP Some club downtown, I've been to the Smartbar before.

DJ played a bunch of 90s house and then switched to some not so great club rap.

I couldn't find anything going on that weekend except the Martinez Brothers.

double lol at "Oh Yeah" apparently being from like 2006 or something.

lol maybe fedde le grand was listening to wiley.

Link to Funkystepz's remix of SLK's "Hype Hype" (provided by Maxsin Funkystepz):

http://www.sendspace.com/file/76olo7

link to green light rmxxx:

http://filezee.com/6xu9i67nsnrs

How on earth do they remain so good. I shouldn't still be so thrilled by their fanfares.

re that richie dan, duhh just worked this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F791eu7-L7Y

(totally forgot ras kwame was in m-dubs!!)

http://www.filefront.com/17042905/HardHouseBanton-Freebies-Vol.1.zip/
or
http://www.sendspace.com/file/xnd6hk

hardhouse banton's tweeted up an essential zip of bits & bobs - includes 'turn it around' (FINALLY) and his awesome epic proghouse mix of 'riverside'

yeah saw that last night, haven't got round to listening yet

this isn't quite the right thread for this but the redlight/roses gabor track found a home here and i've no idea where to put it otherwise - benga and katy b, "katy on a mission". it's great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNhPYj-5rIY&feature=player_embedded

is it though?

benga really liked wearing my rolex didnt he? i seem to be hearing variations of that in several tracks of his. its dubstep btw, not that hard to know where to put it. all you need to know is it should not be in the funky thread.

Love katy b and the synths are okay but benga's beats are basically mariah I can't .gif for me I afraid.

I will never get back the hours I spent trying to find something to like in diary of an afro warrior.

bengas often a bit leaden but these days hes leaden AND over polished.

these beats are nothing like afro warrior tho? it's far closer to zinc's "crack house" stuff or that redlight single

i liked quite a bit of afro warrior - prefer that to a lot of current benga (even if bmore clap was great).

To my ears "Stupid" is squarely and solidly uk funky, regardless of Redlight's background - the whole skippy soca 5 beat per bar snare pattern over a 4X4 kick is practically funky core DNA at this stage.

By comparison "Katy on a Mission" is squarely and solidly dubstep in the patented 2007 halfstep meets 4X4 mould - if you follow the beat it goes kick - kick - SNARE - kick.

Listen to "Night" or "E Trips" or "Go Tell Them" or "Pleasure" of Afro Warrior - same beat pattern.

its a pretty standard dubstep pattern. if it didnt have katy b on it and came out a bit earlier no one would think it funky. its def not as funky-ish as say, night was.

is this the rhythm nerd vs sonix nerd thing again? cuz the metallic, springing synths that form the basis of both "katy on a mission" and "stupid" are pretty much the same

I see that resemblance but they also sound like "Wearing My Rolex" so I'm not sure where that gets us. In that case Kele's "Tenderoni" is funky too, as awful as that is even to hypothesise.

Basically there is no sonix that make a tune funky, but there's definitely rhythms that make tunes funky. I'm sorry if that sounds like I'm trying to call the game in my favour!

i didn't say "katy on a mission" was funky! but then i didn't really think "stupid" was either. neither would be out of place dropped into a funky set though.

Oooof stumbled across this thread by accident and it's almost made me lose the will to live. Is this how you lot 'enjoy' music? All sounds far too serious and analytical for what is essentially rave music, we ain't talking high art here are we?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EM1Fq5nEHwY/S5QCEQeoFkI/AAAAAAAAAhw/HtVyFL70UyM/S660/puppet12.jpg

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/snouts/Screen_shot_2010-03-05_at_11.png

Ahhhhh "Turn It Around" is so good! I had almost forgotten.

Smoove Kriminal's remix of Horace Brown's "Shake It Up":

http://www.sendspace.com/file/i9iznd

Adore this tune, have a feeling r|t|c and deej in particular will appreciate.

UK Funky half year report:

http://getphysical.blogspot.com/2010/07/uk-funky-2010-half-year-report-whats.html

haha, dogs cheering you on - it's true! also carnao/ttd, YES spot on.

i do love how hard you go for 'midnight affair', always think of it as the tim song. i like it (as i'm sure others do) but somehow just never quite to the same ineffable degree.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/78537185346d24b2/

you might wanna use ^this in lieu of a housegirls 6 youtube btw? (from the most recent dj nate mixtape - the most marcusest of non-marcus djs, i find.) also lr groove 'just believe' is on there: watch?v=-4aCYgk0tr8

and yeah, loving that horace brown remix - wasn't sure at first but then that sense of melancholic celebration just shimmers and ripples all around you like whirlpools

such a random unremarkable choice of og song as well! written and produced by frenchmen at the twilight of his career.

http://vulive.co.uk/content/2010/07/19/smoove-kriminal-on-deja-vu-mon-17th-july-2010/

gonna put this on in a bit... havent heard any of it before i don't think

I'm not sure whether dog metaphors or the way sentences simply stop halfway through are bigger testaments to how tired I was when I finally finished that post. Some very nice person has gone and made youtube videos for the songs that weren't already on there (with the skykicking logo no less) and turned the whole thing into a playlist:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C7E7A7BDFA1D6112

If I'd known this service was provided I would have written about more tunes!

gib pu retskoovz! (uoy suoiretsym odriew)

lmao

ha okay well that makes it a bit more obvious. cheers retskoovz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A23GCwgYYyc

i forgot to mention this was up on the tubes as well.