funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

brasstooth 'pleasure' (paleface mix)?

funky alzheimer's is the worst, dunno where i'd be if i didnt note every single thing down now.

we should probably start a new thread shouldnt we. fond of the old girl though...

brasstooth 'pleasure' (paleface mix)?

Oh yes, I'm pretty sure it is this. Case in point: I knew this!

Okay so the House Girls album (plus the Never Coming Out EP) are now available on iTunes under "Mad One". Get on it people.

Notwithstanding the impurity of not being a House Girls version, I'm so pleased "Gotta Have It" was on there - always felt that tune needed more time in the sun.

Should I start a lex/matt dc style thread in re the single of the fucking year finally getting a release, for hype purposes, or would that be disingenous.

disingenous disingenuous

Well this is weird. Is it out anywhere other than iTunes currently? I see it's still listed as having a 12/3/10 release date on Amazon for some reason.

Totally in favour of individual song hype threads. Doesn't seem to have worked for The Fives, though :(

Yeah I know. I feel like I'm banging my head against a wall sometimes. It's like lots of people who should otherwise be into so much of this stuff have this kind of fortress of indifference set up, a fortress with about ten walls each with a different excuse, and when you overturn one excuse they just retreat to the next wall back.
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the album is wonderful though! i'd only heard a snippet of house girls 6 beforehand, which sounds kind of hissy and horrible when you're only listening to its busiest 45 seconds cropped out of a mix - but it's probably the trackiest version, and the album as a whole is really pretty warm. like how spooky and subdued and yet totally fun #8 is - the zombie chants and uncanny synths are about as weird as it gets, but it would still fit right in on a halloween playlist. #5 might be my favorite so far tho, i love how odd the siren sounds only played once - like instead of being a 'shit gets real' part in the song, the entire song takes on that initial moment of unresolved tension, with all the parts echoing the siren (like that chattery synth at about 2:05) - so good. 'gotta have it' is killer too - instead of ruining the track, the mass of too many rhythms coming together somehow makes the perfect counterpoint to the staccato piano - where else do you get this style in funky? (srs question) also, i assume there's no secret house girls 2, and the track numbering is just misleading?

AFAIK "House Girls 2" is just a special dub of the original, with things like double organ chords rather than single organ chords. Having them both on an album would be overkill somewhat.

'gotta have it' is killer too - instead of ruining the track, the mass of too many rhythms coming together somehow makes the perfect counterpoint to the staccato piano - where else do you get this style in funky? (srs question)

I dunno, it's kind of unique in that way. Most tunes with a staccato piano line like that would have a very simple beat - as indeed "Gotta Have It" does for roughly one third of the time. The messy drum kit bits are pretty much a deliberate (but effective) switch up gimmick in that context.

Am feeling the "House Girls - The Album" love too, shame we have to wait until Christmas!

fao matt dc: hey so remember a few months back when i was blithely suggesting the awesome funky nostalgijam potential of football italia, did you also think to yourself then WHY YES but strictly only in the form of a bad 'rated r' rihanna rubstep knockoff?

well guess what!

http://soundcloud.com/screama-complexsimplicity/screama-ft-farah-goalazio-clip

http://www.junodownload.com/products/dark-underground-ep/1660317-02/

and now i mention it, the pathetic sense of achievement i get from filling in three unknown intersticial marcus instrumentals in one go is uncomfortably reminiscent of doing a panini sticker album again.

screama apparently also does a terrific line in nu-basementjaxxia now btw:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/82780777457cac32/

love this guy so much

found this solid lil set accelerator from murdz up for download: http://soundcloud.com/murdz86/murdz-86-you-will-get-air-pie

has anybody ever locked into dj spookys weekly funky sets on icecold fm? i'm fascinated by his approach to tunes. obviously he's the most visible proponant of tough, rigid almost industrial grime so his treatment of slicker, more elastic rhythms draws their sense of propulsion into a sprawling construction of sorts.

love that link. screama really is a fantastic producer. i think something that makes the midlands so fertile for universal bangers (trc is the master of this) is the lack of concrete stylistic provincialism found in london. i mean, rival still wouldn't care about funky house were he from birmingham, but i dare say you'd see him on a set somewhere.

Funkystepz's Deep Roller EP Out 20 December Featuring "Cut Above", "Mr Bandicoot", "Kingtowns VIP", "Windstorm".

Face Off EP out next year.

I know "Mr Bandicoot" and "Windstorm" and they are both bangers and a half.

Not to mention that Sounds of Malibu is out now!!:

http://www.junodownload.com/products/sounds-of-malibu/1663971-02/

http://www.gifs.net/Animation11/Jobs_and_People/Police/Siren.gif

DOWNLOAD: http://clubsignal.com/mix10.php

ITUNES: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/radio-signal/id404540584

01. SIGNAL XMAS EVE SPECIAL 24TH December 2010 Advert
02. The Fives ft. Vanya Taylor – It's What You Do
03. FunkyStepz ft. Lily McKenzie – For U (Original Mix)
04. Lil Silva – No Hooks
05. J Labelz ft. Naughty Natz – Touch Me
06. Diamond ft. Sophia Romain – If I Never... Fall In Love Again...
07. Katy B – Katy On A Mission (Roska Remix)
08. Perempay 'N' Dee ft. Cleo Sol – Addicted (Main Mix)
09. Bassboy & Marcus Nasty – Shitta
10. Donae'O – I'm Fly (Radio Edit)
11. Funky Twinz ft. Angel J – Smile
12. El-B ft. Natasha – I Feel
13. Champion – Tribal Affair
14. Kano ft. Aidonia & Wiley – Get Wild
15. Mr. M – Dash Down
16. SIGNAL XMAS EVE SPECIAL 24TH December 2010 Advert
17. Riskgo – They Call Me (Sunglasses Freestyle)
18. Undisputed – Sunglasses (Dumplin Remix)
19. Mr. Silva & C-Don – 10 Outta 10
20. Champion – Motherboard (Undisputed Remix)
21. Funky Twinz – Energizer
22. DJ Sava ft. Raluka – I Like (The Trumpet) (Ill Blu Remix)
23. Princess Nyah – Take Control
24. Tenny Ten – Swaggnificent (Crazy Cousinz Club Mix)
25. KOF ft. Esco Williams – All Good (FunkyStepz Mix)
26. James Bellamy – My Love (Say U Want It) (FunkyStepz Remix)
27. Jessie J ft. Lady Chann – Do It Like A Dude (Curtis Lynch Jnr Remix)
28. Andriah – Love Me Not (Digital Dubstar Mix)
29. Crazy Cousinz ft. Tasha Kenny – What You Did
30. SiSi ft. Riskgo – Love Me
31. Hard House Banton – Colonel
32. Screama ft. Justice & Sy – Tomboy
33. Andy Jay & S-Tee ft. Tasha – Take Me Up
34. FunkyStepz – You Got It (Original Mix)
35. Fuzzy Logik ft. Jada Pearl – All My Love
36. GTE ft. Kelsey – Something On Your Mind
37. Miss Fire – Do You Feel The Same (2010 Mix)

Some awesome new dubs on the 24 November Marcus set. What on earth is that tune that Shantie smashes right after Mercurial Myrmidon's "Hey Bongo".

Also, this sounds 100 x better as silly hip-house than it did as an instrumental (and it sounded pretty great to begin with):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-bZYpehG60&feature=player_embedded#at=218

Some awesome new dubs on the 24 November Marcus set. What on earth is that tune that Shantie smashes right after Mercurial Myrmidon's "Hey Bongo".

Also the mix of Veve/Eastwood's "Right There" into Funkystepz's "Fuller" was a mix that had to happen. That's some fucking harmonic Ewan Pearson type shit right there.

YO peeps The Fives made some BANGING Funky remixes!

Hey peeps I'm new to this!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrEGPfWy3Zs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxhzvnhjuGk&feature=related

What do you guys think??

@Tim F I've been thinking of something. I'm a HUGE fan of Funky but I feel that Funky has yet to reach mainstream/commercial success. I mean Funky is more enjoyable and radio-friendly and club-oriented in comparison to Dubstep. I mean Garage EXPLOADED a decade ago, and I think the same should happen to Funky very soon. Why do you think that is...Funky not getting mainstream love? Is it to do with labels...? and which Funky act(s) do you think should definitely be signed to a major to get Funky across the nation, and not just the clubs?

TBH I've never really expected funky to have massive crossover success and I've never really cared that much whether it does or not.

I mean, it'd be great for the artists to get money, but I don't think it would significantly change my experience of funky for it to be in the charts.

I guess this is a reflection of the fact that, living in Australia, I never experienced garage as a chart phenomenon. The only garage tunes that really charted over here were "Sweet Like Chocolate", "Out Of Your Mind" and "Fill Me In", which only half-counts. So, while I followed garage pretty intensely, the massive ubiquity of the music in the UK was something I only heard or read about.

I've said before that I think the conditions are simply less conducive for funky: garage at its most pop was only a stones throw from the sound of a lot of other pop music of the era (esp. R&B obv) while still sounding very novel, whereas funky's syncopation is now out of step with the straight footed beats of pretty much all pop, and then when funky smooths that out it becomes hard for the average listener to distinguish it from straight vocal house, which is hardly charting with any great regularity these days anyway.

HOLY SHIT at Funkystepz' Deep Roller EP:

http://boomkat.com/downloads/365602-funkystepz-deep-roller-ep

ah, here's the thread. i'd just been forlornly searching for "rolling fuck off with the sunday roast already" all this time.

had thought 'cut above' (or at least its sample) was a little silly at first but have now fully succumbed to its spirographed lunatic geometries.

Yeah I think i'm often slightly wary of funky tracks that seem too fractured until they reveal their underlying logic, which takes a couple of listens.

Don't take seriously any Boomkat blurbs of course </standing rules of funky house sceptics' constitution>

oh no sorry, the timbaland "beat club" snatch was what i meant by sample. (heavens man what do you take me for.)

Ha ha no my volenti non fit injuria w/r/t boomkat certainly wasn't aimed at you!

Although really boomkat making everything funkystepz do a grand prelude to their hyperdub single is probably doing funkystepz a favour in terms of generating hype.

got nowt better to do, so here's a little december top 5 dead or alive catchup sesh:

murdz 86 - homeland
(http://smoovekriminal.podomatic.com/player/web/2010-11-30T14_17_46-08_00 , hour mark)

glowering double bass murmur, a muted distant ominous wind, tribal drum prowling, and altogether a general sense of unease and listless danger - what is it in this i find so absorbing? i don't know, but i kind of feel it might have something to do with that champion "uk funky conga mix" i keep finding myself getting lost in but would hate to make a big prescriptive thing out of. perhaps also subconsciously reminiscent of the older atmospheric riddims you don't hear so much of now like seany b's 'bass & congo'.

gugu - rockabyebaby
(http://soundcloud.com/gugu-mcr/dva007-gugu-ep-preview)

from the man who done that amusing jazzy number, this is the (erroneously heard) "drop the bomb baby" one i mentioned on that funkystepz set a while back. as with the murdz, same applies; chitinous creep, instant pin-drop silent prairie menace. is this really me writing this stuff? *taps screen*

carnao beats ft kadey james - love strong
(youtube.com/watch?v=NMBogKfCz1w)

the follow up to 'get out' doesn't disappoint. iirc one of the two involved was on twitter the other day excitedly telling the other he'd heard this on at selfridges? christ knows how that might have come to pass, but perhaps it was the destined soundtrack to a girl desperately searching for a dress she knew would fail to save her relationship.

secret agent gel - frankenstein
(youtube.com/watch?v=z7Nnog890wM)

this is that marcus banger! (no, not the pew-pew drexciyan african pirate submarine torpedo riddim, as er, i like to call it). memorably and best heard as part of the perfect series of ominous scene-setting tunes preceding one of the MOMENTS of 2010, rankin's sudden first thrilling battle with the almighty 'lions den' tyrannosaurus during the classic 20th october set. turns out this track was made by a lol/dj/rupture matt shadeteky brooklynite global ambulance chaser? do try and act surprised.

brenmar - at it again
(youtube.com/watch?v=nWKI9OO0gKo)

fully admit there's tons of more deserving tunes to pick out tbh (need to listen to dumplin's remix of monique parris 'be my baby' again for starters) but after secret angent gel i may as well ostentatiously flaunt my open-minded side with this lone good tune off some nonsense release on discobelle of all things. essentially this is just some haunted ballroom bassline, which i have o'deed on in recent weeks and happily remains reliably addictive in its psychotic protoplasmic id sort of way. still processing, but boss margins: rest assured your excellent post did not go unread.

Argh you had to post this while i'm at work and can't check out youtubes!

ha ha, i did. tbf those are mostly all notes in the margins and not like banger banger banger or anything. but speaking of... how fucking amazing is this? marcus is totally missing tricks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpyupbuti6Y

Of the above descriptions I'm most excited to hear Secret Angel Gel and the Carnao Beats one, but three thumbs up for "chitinous creep".

yeah, thought i'd use that one up since that dickhead praying mantis probably wasn't going to show his face again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfEFz3mZB7I

also hope everyone is fully appreciating this one by now - think it's gaining a little radio traction too. i'd finessed the name down to EMKYU but thought pioneer had got his wires crossed when he said qualifide! (twilight-period ukg loyalist in case you don't recall). wonder how long before the wideboys or artful dodger et al give this ting a go - even mask or duncan powell or whoever might be fun.

refix of masterstepz 'melody' a few marcuses ago was another "wish this big garage swipe didn't secretly kinda suck" moment. like, seriously might as well been better off trying to mix in the original? sunday roast's 'hype the funk' does do what it says on the tin i suppose.

Has there been even one honest to goodness awesome garage swipe so far?

Would prefer that producers adhered to garage's own past practice and reached back to the late eighties and so on - "Sleeping Satellite", et. al.

X-post:r/t/c, Secret Agent Gel has been making dubstep for years.

Shock, horror, gasp.

Curious to check this though.

Oh yeah, those strings make a lot of sense.

I'm guessing like a lot of Anglophile early adopters he was into grime first.

here's what FACT magazine said about a song from the house girls disc (by mad one):

‘House Girls’, first and foremost, is in this list because it’s a prime piece of militant UK Funky. But it’s also in this list because of what it’s come to represent. An anthem in the underbelly of UK house that circulates the Deja Vu and Live FM radio stations (both full of raw vitality, and healthy competition to the increasingly clinical Rinse FM), for the majority of the year the only way you could get an mp3 of this track was by paying Mad One an extortionate amount of money. Which we guess people did."

(emphasis mine). what are other good examples of "militant uk funky" (unless FACT magazine is wrong about there being such a thing, which i'd also like to know).

They're not wrong, though "militant" is an adjective rather than denoting a sub-scene within the scene, if that makes sense.

Possibly also the writer was inspired to use the term because the rolling snares on "House Girls 1" sound a bit like a military marching band.

At any rate I would recommend off the top of my head:

Ill Blu - Time To Get Nasty, Meltdown
Lil' Silva - pretty much anything he's done
Scotty D - Dream
Naughty Raver - Drama
Undisputed - Sunglasses, Terror

"a lol/dj/rupture matt shadeteky brooklynite global ambulance chaser? do try and act surprised."

What does this mean? I ask sincerely.

is this ep by smoke-off-ski uk funky? i am kind of in love with the uptempo, piano-driven, lush remix of the commodores' easy.

Yes, although that tune is pretty "straight" for funky.

Amid the flood of Devine Collective releases, did Tribal Daydream ever come out?

No, they same weirdly reluctant to release their hottest non-"House Girls" tracks - "Tribal Daydream", "Tribal Conga", "People Keep Dancing", "Touch Her In The Morning"...

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hot dog! christening my christmas headphones in some style

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