the bass on this is huge! but there's no b-line, it's just a kick
― goole, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 18:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
"this" = "wut"
There is totally a bassline, although it probably doesn't carry through to a Youtube embed.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 18:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
but i hear other low end? weird
― goole, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 18:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think the lack of bass is probably due to youtube quality...
its function in dancefloor sets is pretty amazing - it really disrupts most of them, just because the sound palette is just so full-on compared to everything surrounding it, but that's not really a bad thing. i'd never say these were bangers as such - they just sound incredible on club speakers that magnify their largeness. people don't so much get down to them as raise their hands up.
those synth noises sound like the producer's going out of their way make them to sound cheap and nasty.
i don't get this in the slightest - yeah it's trebly but it feels so clean, and there are so many ingredients (plus a ton of echo) that all three tracks have this incredibly majestic feel for me - these really overwhelming waves of sound that sound particularly amazing on club speakers. i love how detailed they are - that twinkling motif on "wut", the synth melody coming in towards the end of "every time", the whistle mid-"showstoppa". a lot of the higher-end melodies owe quite a bit to the more abstract grime productions of the mid-00s, and there's a huge juke influence in the beats (esp "showstoppa").
eh, i think it's pushing it call it any sort of flagship nightslugs release, it's good but there's easily other comparable releases.
it's prob my favourite night slugs release so far - certainly the most distinct (and the most demanded - they weren't going to release this so soon after "irl" (girl unit's debut)) but it built up such momentum that they had to. kingdom's that mystic ep and velour's the velvet collection ep are prob my other two favourite NS releases - they're so different too, properly banging, dark techno and gorgeous, melodic woozy funk (one for dâm-funk fans, i think) respectively. jam city's "arpjam" should be huge when it's released too.
whats' the story with this band? uk? new? do they have an album?
one guy, often hilariously assumed to be an all-female group. this is his second single - the first, "irl", is ok, pretty different though. he's done an incredible remix of c.r.s.t.'s "the bells", not on youtube but it definitely has the large, ecstatic walls of synths that these do.
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 18:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
this is way closer to hip-hop chillwave than lex will ever admit
i still don't know what chillwave is, specifically! is it the same as witch house? i like some of that.
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 18:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think Matt is saying that the actual synth sounds used are tightly associated with grimier music. Certainly when I was listening to this I got a sense of musical density but nothing came close to coming across as "majestic", rather more like this is the sound of rave kids fucking in slow motion.
― O'Donnell and the Brain (HI DERE), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 18:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
"showstoppa" is prob the most majestic of the three for me? i always think of a red carpet rolling out in space.
girl unit's also done two u&k mixes this year which probably help "explain" where his own aesthetic comes from -
http://palmsout.net/2010/girl-unit-mix-2010/http://www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2010/08/girl-unit
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 18:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think i could see where yr. coming from re: "majestic" if i heard this in better quality. otoh every sound seems like it's probably in the roland mc-505 that i never figured out how to use.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 18:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
like basically it's hard for me to get "majestic" out of a track that sounds like Skin Up played at half tempo
― O'Donnell and the Brain (HI DERE), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 18:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah it's not intending to sound rich and deep and opulent because the actual synth sounds used are essentially the same kind of fake chiptune noises you hear on the Ikonika album, it's harking back to a particular 90s nostalgic way of sounding shimmery, and the cheapness of the sound is part and parcel of that. You compare it to the sounds on, say, the We Love album and one obviously sounds like they've gone to the trouble of making it sound rich and full and textured and the other hasn't, and probably isn't interested in doing so. It sounds preset-y basically.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 19:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
a lot of the higher-end melodies owe quite a bit to the more abstract grime productions of the mid-00s
Exactly! Grime wasn't meant to sound opulent, it was meant to sound like cheap dirty beat-em-up music.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 19:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
This thread title makes me want to bump "Superthug" at high volume.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 19:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
just for comparison's sake, this is the Skin Up track this stuff reminded me of:
― The majestic sounds of Skin Up (HI DERE), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 21:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
i like this!
― i feed these skreets (tpp), Thursday, 28 October 2010 15:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
nice post on this at passion of the weiss
http://passionweiss.com/2010/10/28/sach-o-girl-unit-%E2%80%93-wut/
― prolego, Thursday, 28 October 2010 20:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
man this song is addictive
― catalina whiney ilxor (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 October 2010 22:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
WUT WUT WUT bay bay be bay be bay be bay be baybebaybe
― underrated joe perry project albums i have sold (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 October 2010 23:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
yessssss
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Thursday, 28 October 2010 23:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
i feel like this should be a beat for a rapper that doesn't currently exist. we need to invent a rapper.
― underrated joe perry project albums i have sold (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 October 2010 23:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
also it's awesome and hilarious to me that there is a gravediggaz youtube in this thread
― underrated joe perry project albums i have sold (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 October 2010 23:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
WUT WUT WUT
This is nice isn't it? Kind of a midpoint between Joker, Sinden and Jackie Chain. I dig.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 29 October 2010 10:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's awesome and hilarious that Skin Up is on this thread :-D
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 29 October 2010 10:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
find it strange that people "don't know what to do" with this ina post dubstep'n'crunk'n'Salem world.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 29 October 2010 10:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
shit dude, post-salem world already?
― bear, bear, bear, Friday, 29 October 2010 11:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
We can but hope.
― Matt DC, Friday, 29 October 2010 11:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
this 'wut' track has been my jam for a few days now btw.. thx lex
― bear, bear, bear, Friday, 29 October 2010 11:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
works better in a mix. hearing it as a single lessen the true potential of it. just IMO.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 29 October 2010 12:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
i thought the same thing at first, but i actually think Black Milk would sound tremendous over this
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 October 2010 12:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
― bear, bear, bear, Friday, 29 October 2010 12:00 (1 hour ago) Bookmark
Witch House is sooo early-2010s now. It's all about Swedish Industro-Bhangra in Hitchin these days.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 29 October 2010 13:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm into this but not as much as I feel I should be. Maybe I need to hear a better quality version. Still love Kingdom and the Deadboy remix of Drake's "Fireworks" if that restores my uk chillwave cred.
― Tim F, Friday, 29 October 2010 14:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
Needs more
she say im down wih huh, i say bitch you aloneyou lyin wit the flesh, lyin with the boneshe say i'm lyin wih huh, my mind in the SKREETi say i'm not with me, i'm with she, i'm with shenow plane lights blinkin, off in da eveningot me thinkin, wish i was leavin
― She Got the Shakes, Friday, 29 October 2010 14:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
nothing needs more that
― lol tea partiers and their fat fingers (HI DERE), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
those lyrics are great we should talk about that band more
― markers, Friday, 29 October 2010 15:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
bumpin
― the importance of being furnace (samosa gibreel), Friday, 29 October 2010 16:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Show your work.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Friday, 29 October 2010 16:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
Kingdom makes great use of it here: http://www.factmag.com/2010/07/30/fact-mix-171-kingdom/<3 that mix so hard.
― big jeans (lou), Friday, 29 October 2010 16:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
that mix is gone. grrr.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Friday, 29 October 2010 17:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's in girl unit's own mixes that i linked upthread too
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Friday, 29 October 2010 17:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
Gukbe- I'll send it to you.
― big jeans (lou), Friday, 29 October 2010 17:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh, you can still get it here: http://kkingdomm.com/audio/factmix_july2010.mp3
― big jeans (lou), Friday, 29 October 2010 17:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
awesome, thanks guys.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Friday, 29 October 2010 17:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
hands-down the best UK dance track of the year – take it from me, i live in minneapolis and listen to neil young!
― underrated joe perry project albums i have sold (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 October 2010 17:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
i am loving this track - i wasn't overly fond of "IRL" at the time but i should maybe reinvestigate
― dinah shore, jr. (donna rouge), Friday, 29 October 2010 17:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
IRL is just horrible. Like having some massive lairy drunk smash into you on the dancefloor. And it's on every fucking set these guys put out.
― Matt DC, Friday, 29 October 2010 21:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
Sometimes I wonder if all music in this vein was kinda ruined for me forever by the brilliance of Low Deep's "Straight Flush" - like I've actually burned out that part of my music retinas by staring at the sun too intently.
― Tim F, Friday, 29 October 2010 22:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Friday, October 29, 2010 4:51 PM (Yesterday)
why should I?
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Saturday, 30 October 2010 00:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
My this certainly does sound more impressive in high quality. Bass!
― Tim F, Sunday, 31 October 2010 21:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
Night Slugs feature @ http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1254Comes with a 47 minute mix.Thanks Lex, WUT revisits me multiple times a day since the start of this thread :)
― willem, Monday, 1 November 2010 11:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://soundcloud.com/b-e-b-e-t-u-n-e/sets/bodyguard-silica-gelhttp://soundcloud.com/t_macabre/t-grime-mix-2003
in case u guys ever tire of having your food chewed up 4 u
― r|t|c, Monday, 14 May 2012 22:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
lex you said upthread something about night slugs using the EP format better than anyone else, still trying to figure out what you mean by that and why you said it, seems like they use the format more or less like any other dance artist
― the late great, Monday, 14 May 2012 22:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
That new Slackk EP on Local Action is indeed a beast. He's really nailed those fucked up synth melodies. Almost Transparent is ace too, the subtler synths work a treat on that one.
― jimitheexploder, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 08:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think he meant Girl Unit himself rather than Night Slugs? But yeah I don't really get the point.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 08:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is Ensemble (Club Mix) meant to sound like 'In Your Arms' by Mylo?
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Saturday, 19 May 2012 14:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
ikonika's new i make lists EP is finally out and it's incredible, maybe the best thing she's done yet - the melodies are just mind-blowing, the way she makes the synths sing, and the amount of cavernous space around them...
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 16:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
^^^very good ep
in other news, bok bok x xlr8r on night slugs' visual aesthetic
― REV LION (The Reverend), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 05:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
oop, forgot the link
http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2012/08/vis-ed-bok-bok
― REV LION (The Reverend), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 05:39 (10 months ago) Permalink
i once witnessed bok bok step (barefoot) on a slug at night. he wasn't v amused at the irony
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 07:30 (10 months ago) Permalink
lol
― REV LION (The Reverend), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 08:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
RT @bok_bok i hate when a track brings in one element at a time its so pompous
― Matt DC, Friday, 19 October 2012 07:20 (8 months ago) Permalink
damn straight
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 October 2012 09:10 (8 months ago) Permalink
Just came back from the Night Slugs/Fade To Mind showcase at SXSW. Saw Nguzunguzu, Kingdom w/Kelala, L-Vis and Bok Bok. The whole night was good, but L-Vis/Bok Bok were the highlight, and yes, they did Bring In Da Katz.
― Moodles, Saturday, 16 March 2013 07:11 (3 months ago) Permalink
speaking of Bok, his new Fade to Mind mix is very good (and ends with 151 Feva Gang!)
http://soundcloud.com/fadetomind/fademix003-bok-bok
― cunnilingus ah um (The Reverend), Saturday, 16 March 2013 19:28 (3 months ago) Permalink
this is a perfect two-sentence story
― shit tie (Jordan), Saturday, 16 March 2013 19:55 (3 months ago) Permalink
yes otm
― cunnilingus ah um (The Reverend), Saturday, 16 March 2013 20:00 (3 months ago) Permalink
saw Bok last night, he played a good but predictable set to a small, fairly wack crowd with too many dudes. I went to the monthly rare soul night at the same club last weekend and it was way more popping :/
― Fred by Durst (The Reverend), Saturday, 4 May 2013 17:15 (1 month ago) Permalink
what'd he play?
― the late great, Saturday, 4 May 2013 19:43 (1 month ago) Permalink
All the stuff I recognized was ns/ftm, some of which was p old ("irl" "stalker ha"), some new ("bank head", "ballad 4ad"). The stuff I didn't recognize was either on the techy side or ballroom trax
― Fred by Durst (The Reverend), Saturday, 4 May 2013 20:07 (1 month ago) Permalink
ah yeah
i've heard a ton of good things about bok bok as a DJ but have yet to hear a set that really blows me away
― the late great, Saturday, 4 May 2013 23:09 (1 month ago) Permalink
The other time I saw him (sept. '11) he was amazing tho
― Fred by Durst (The Reverend), Saturday, 4 May 2013 23:48 (1 month ago) Permalink
Heh. The promoter has euphemistically described last night's show as "cozy". And apparently RL Grime has sold out the same spot tonight.
― Fred by Durst (The Reverend), Sunday, 5 May 2013 00:02 (1 month ago) Permalink
Fisher 18-29 (62.1%) from 3 in playoffs.
― moullet, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 02:53 (1 month ago) Permalink
obvious epic wrong thread.
― moullet, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 02:54 (1 month ago) Permalink