WUT WUT WUT WUT~~~

Love Wut and Showstoppa but kind of think both sound like they're missing something. Wut gets boring at its length.

Anticipating
http://img602.imageshack.us/img602/9245/jamcity.jpg

Say whatever about Night Slugs, their sleeve designs are just out-and-out great.

Listening through proper speakers for the first time... this is fucking AMAZING music

i shall be talking to girl unit (and braiden) tomorrow on resonance fm, 7pm http://www.resonancefm.com/ (pre-recorded interview w/girl unit and talking w/braiden live); i'm sure it'll be on the internet afterwards too

there will be EXCLUSIVE MUSIC played!

among the topics of discussion: which rapper girl unit would most like to hear over the top of these trax

interview in middle of this podcast - http://freakytrigger.co.uk/lollards-podcast/2010/11/freaky-trigger-and-the-lollards-of-pop-series-4-week-11/

Wow, the last four tracks on the Night Slugs label comp are really fantastic, especially Jacques Greene's 'Baby I Don't Know What You Want'. This sort of colourful space-funk sound works *so* much better for me than the more full-on thick-grey-line bass stuff that comes before it. I'm including 'Wut' in the former category obviously.

yeah the optimum one really surprised me, given what his ep was like. you should hear the velour ep if you haven't, it's all technicolour off-kilter funk like that - you can tell why dâm-funk's a kindred spirit.

this is my favourite on the compilation though, soooo good - posted it in the dance partisans thread already but never sure how many people actually look in there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs5sEaYGNBU

Really impressed by the few other Jacques Greene tracks I've heard, too. (<3<3<3 "Tell Me"!!)

His LuckyMe 12" was supposed to come out Monday but I'm not seeing anywhere to buy it yet.

funny that the Greene track mis/re-interprets Ashanti's "Baby I don't know why..." from 'Foolish'

think i like the Kingdom, Egyptrixx (maybe filler-y to some but i like the relative oddness) and Velour tracks most (aside from 'Wut') but it's all good and will get bought.

yeah Arpjam is just incredibly funky

http://www.urb.com/2010/11/30/urb-presents-jacques-greene-exclusive-mix/

1. Jacques Greene – The Look (Koreless remix)
2. Ango – Love Me
3. Jacques Greene - Tell Me
4. Mood II Swing – Move Me
5. Machinedrum - DDD
6. Jacques Greene - Good Morning
7. Nu-Birth – Anytime
8. 24 Hour Experience – All Nighter
9. Ramadanman & Midland – Your Words Matter
10. James Fox – New Jack Swing
11. Sasse & James Flavour – The Right Way (Tony Lionni Rremix)
12. Jacques Greene – (Baby I Don’t Know) What You Want
13. Dubbel Dutch - Throwback
14. Aril Brikha - Groove La Chord
15. xxxy – Ordinary Things
16. Colours - Hold On (SE22 Mix)
17. Jacques Greene – Another Girl
18. Rick Ross ft. Drake & Chrisette Michele – Aston Martin Music

I think Arpjam (and Jam City in general) is strictly at the end of the spectrum I don't like, but I'm trying to be nice here.

yeah i haven't liked other Jam City stuff but i really like that one. obviously it's not a full-blown technicolor dream like some of the other tracks on this comp but i find the beat irresistable

irresistIble... jesus what is wrong with me

would love Arpjam a lot more if he'd thrown a big extra hook on top - not necessarily the mentalism extent of Ecstasy Refix but it doesn't outstrip that imo

my 2nd fav jam city track might be "in the park" - on his myspace - http://www.myspace.com/jamcitytrax - no idea whether there are plans to release it, he made it quite a while ago now, but i absolutely love the gothiness of it - the sample of blowing wind in the background and that sinister melody

this is not on night slugs, but the dance partisans thread doesn't seem to get many responses, so in the vein of "banging bass music with r&b samples", gotta recommend brenmar's at it again ep (out this week), in particular this a-ma-zing marques houston-sampling joint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD70jxSwCZ4

hmm, i don't usually like brenmar's live stuff at least but i think this is the first production i've heard from him, don't hate it

my idea of hell is being stuck in a room listening to this

describe this room

Chiming in on this being my favourite thing in the dubstep/bass continuum so far. Early dubstep I found a bit slow and dull, didn't mind the nosebleed Caspa stuff but it got boring after not very long at all, then all the Zomby/post-step stuff came out and was pretty good but seemed a bit IDM-y and missed the point of "bass" music. This is great stuff - a nice mixture of colour, danceability, poppiness and menacingness. Love the way dance music is going at the moment.

That Brenmar track is fun, I like it. All these dudes need to stop fannying around with samples and instrumentals and start working with some actual vocalists a bit more.

I like the Velour EP as well, Booty Slammer and Kick It Til It Breaks in particular.

All these dudes need to stop fannying around with samples and instrumentals and start working with some actual vocalists a bit more.

Haha I said almost these exact words to Steve Braiden on the radio.

Like it feels like British dance music is approaching some kind of Wild Bunch style tipping point but not getting there due to a) lack of vocalists, b) lack of record labels to put the good stuff out (WHY are there no dedicated funky record labels?) and c) a residual hangover from dubstep that values bass over beats and hooks. It's getting there though.

the vocalists closer to this scene that spring to mind - ahu, fatima - tend to veer towards off-kilter/abstract/skewed hip-hop stuff themselves rather than club bangers

i have said to girl unit that what i really want to see, maybe in about a year's time, is for the "wut" ep to be scored for orchestra

Scoring dance music for orchestra never really works, it either sounds like remedial classical music or loses something else in translation. Unless they're going to somehow orchestrate for an airhorn and pitched up vocals it would just ruin it.

i was listening to the night slugs comp today and my itunes jumped from Jacques Green to the Jonzun Crew, which was kind of mind blowing

Umm... On "Booty Slammer" by Velour, is the sample saying "Inside of Me" or "Sodomy"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFjwPTJIM6Y

It's definitely saying "inside of me". Isn't it...?

Just got the Egyptrixx album, pretty great upon first listen. Also, lots of excellent mixes are available on the night slugs web site.

It's definitely saying "inside of me". Isn't it...?

― Number None, Monday, 2 May 2011 16:17 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I don't know... is it?

i suppose you think the cover art is phallic symbolism too huh

Probably not that many songs mentioning sodomy they could have sampled it from

bury fc's 92-93 away shirt successfully reminding me of both night slugs and teh lex

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/0dc2d03fe217f8c83829496872af24a0/i/m/image_3682_1.jpg

tags: too much time on ilx, kind of lol but mostly sad, funky house sceptics let me draw your attention to this

That's an MIA shirt, not a Night Slugs shirt. Maybe a Klaxons shirt as well.

http://assets.gearlive.com/music/blogimages/MIA.jpg

!!!

even spells my name right

i see the NS thing, i'm fairly sure i've seen bok bok wearing a shirt with a similar pattern

http://cdn.worldcupblog.org/mexico.worldcupblog.org/files/2010/06/campos.jpg

enjoy wonky beats and the rinse fm breakfast show?

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/0dc2d03fe217f8c83829496872af24a0/w/i/willem-96-homej.jpg

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/i/m/image_7444.gif

talking of dva i am totally in love with this release on his label - http://soundcloud.com/scratchadva/dva008-shy-one-the

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/0dc2d03fe217f8c83829496872af24a0/i/m/image_17343.jpg

^^^ The 1994 mediocre Premiership goalkeepers jersey is surely one of the most unnoticed fashion influences of our time.

Pretty sure there's an actual dubstep record sleeve with that exact pattern on it.

on reflection matt might be right and mia might even have designed that shirt herself ...in 92 she'd have been what... 35?