funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

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

Run out of bandwidth for the month :-(

Please last until new years day.

Not strictly funky but may be of interest to some

DJ Cameo Live set from SIGNAL, Christmas Eve 2010

http://soundcloud.com/clubsignal/radio-signal-dj-cameo-live-xmas-2010

i think the original of this song is more garage-y, but this remix converts it into something more like a funky tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUGIgO7t7eo

kind of dig the song and the remix, and most of what i'm hearing from the label (no hats no hoods).

http://soundcloud.com/scottmusik/funk-factory-oh-i-no-mix

do not, under any circumstances, mess around with scottie d.

(also available to dl on that soundcloud is a remix of 'the sound', and a forgotten marcus tune that if you're anything like me you will have had noted down as "gaytown gay??".)

so uh, anyone on here have anything to say about funky while i pass the time waiting for my dissensus props?

re doc daneeka: yeah, i like him. not everything he's done is a keeper but for a "outside" producer as it were he keeps it unusually simple (see his corrective mix of breach's 'fatherless') and rarer still, even seems to have a grasp of necessary rudeness judging by that crst remix.

can't quite think of what else is good on no hats no hoods - i love the ridiculous dok mix of 'spartan', and the bassboy mix of badness' 'nightmare', but those don't really fall under funky's remit.

in some hazy fog i downloaded a bunch of stuff from that no-hoods-no-hats label. lol spartan is my favorite, i think, maybe for the dippy vocals. and no, those other songs aren't funky; they're more like grime, right?

yeah i guess so, don't really know how grime posits itself these days tbh.

youtube.com/watch?v=5B8az5NqAp0

^ that mix of spartan i like didnt actually come out on nhnh btw, check it out though.

http://www.mixcloud.com/championdj/new-uk-funkybass-mix/

so belatedly hearing joe's 'claptrap' on this kinda makes me think the microtribal thing i was mulling over was maybe a subconscious funky-eared interpretation of hessle type stuff all along on my part, or something. i like how in that context the coughing and wheezing samples take on a danny weed-ish humour rather than the usual photek nerdage tedium.

lr groove seems to have undergone a strange transformation lately - from deep rollers to a positively dj naughtyesque strut (all based on repetitive vuh-vuh, mip-mip vox samples - super hard to remember what track's which). while 'buckshot' there is available for free download somewhere from his twitter, 'basskick' (which you can hear on the new smoove kriminal show) is clearly his new masterpiece.

have wondered whether to voice my general new year's apprehensions for how funky will go in 2011, but will see how it plays out instead i guess.

what are "microtribal" and "lr groove"?

microtribal is just some bollocks retardonym i made up to explain an uncommon and very likely unhealthy predilection for a mix of the more minimal funky riddims by dj champion earlier last year. (which is annoyingly no longer even online.) probably best disregard tbh.

lr groove meanwhile is a v v good funky producer who put out his 'key ep' last year:

youtube.com/watch?v=HfQskN-sklM
http://www.junodownload.com/products/the-key/1612002-02/

well, if this isn't you, somebody else used the term in a 2008 review.

A lot of funky microtribal sounds a little bit like (a ruffer version of) vakant circa 2008. Tolga Fidan was a decent producer IIRC.

(see his corrective mix of breach's 'fatherless')

This is a spot on description. Who but the most ridiculous of chancers would deign to check for the OG.

(also available to dl on that soundcloud is a remix of 'the sound', and a forgotten marcus tune that if you're anything like me you will have had noted down as "gaytown gay??".)

AHHHHH! I have loved "Gaytown Gay" ("Funk Factory") since forever I think!!! Or at least since Mak 1 played it on a set with Shantie last year. SO GOOD.

I looked at that URL and for a second I thought someone had decided to make the term 'funkybass' a thing and was about to delete the whole thread in a fit of rage.

no, but do you know i couldve sworn more and more funky producers are starting to append the "/bass" tag onto things. hooray for good business sense eh!

xp yeah i should really have been going a lot more mental about "gaytown gay" but the bittersweetness of it being so old and so, so much wickeder than most everything from the last few months briefly overcame me. (perhaps i exaggerate, idk.)

was thinking at some point it'd be good to have a go at compiling like a clips reel (or three) of fave unknown past funky riddims and, i dunno, put em on soundcloud and badger people for info or something. or just to have a nice historical artefact to cry over really. yeah?

http://djs.totalkiss.com/2011/01/tracklist-070111/

new pioneer show is a worthwhile way to pass the time, unusually enough. very glad to hear dj mystery's 'room 101' catching on - love that one. first time i've seen the dj q song (something like an 'i feel' swipe i guess) get played in a funky context too.

and god bless fuzzy logik for 'freestyle' obv. try mixing that into sunday roast you bastards.

http://www.mixcloud.com/championdj/uk-funkybass-mix-2006-2010

another new champion mix of that good old slashbass. putting it on now.

http://soundcloud.com/championdj/platnum-signals-champions-gassed-up-dub-mix

and another aight freebie for download.

this champion mix is sounding pretty tasty so far actually! haha i love big rob's 'tutti frutti booty wiv my goonehs" song, sorry.

was thinking at some point it'd be good to have a go at compiling like a clips reel (or three) of fave unknown past funky riddims and, i dunno, put em on soundcloud and badger people for info or something. or just to have a nice historical artefact to cry over really. yeah?

We should do this.

Still haven't ID'd that Jagged Edge-sampling tune from like 2 and half years ago.

Really really really into this Frenzy tune "Bounce", probably the slinkiest piece of MC funky since "Ransom"??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvVy5rCOkFo

Available on juno along with an assortment of other Frenzy stuff.

Gonna have to nab that awesome microtribalol tune on the "When I Loved You" EP also.

'http://soundcloud.com/scottmusik/funk-factory-oh-i-no-mix

do not, under any circumstances, mess around with scottie d.'

Really like these, the remix of The Sound is my fave I think. He's one of those guys I'd heard of but hadn't pin pointed in the sea of producers that don't get IDed often on the radio or whatever.

oooooh, dunno about cosigning that frenzy triblol effort. mother always told me to be vigilant of tech-house.

no marcus podcast this week btw? please tell me i'm not gonna miss tom lea guesting.

eastwood is starting a show on deja tonight btw. 8-10

Keen to hear that if it gets posted.

Do you know the track between "just believe" and "tutti frutti" on the champion mix?

funkystepz, 'loca moca'.

unlucky 13.

01. DJ Ant-Man - Rubix Cube
02. MA1 ft Sophia - I'm Right Here (DJ Naughty Remix)
03. LR Groove - Just Believe
04. Funkystepz - Loca Moca
05. Andy Jay & S-Tee ft Big Rob - Tutti Frutti
06. DJ Naughty - 5th Gear
07. Screama ft Farah - I Can't Lose
08. Emvee - Glitch Dub
09. Crazy Cousinz - Always Be My Baby
10. Ill Blu - Blu Magic
11. Joe - Claptrap
12. Ny - Sea Sick (DJ Naughty Remix)
13. ??
14. Champion - Motherboard
15. Crazy Cousinz ft Calista - Bongo Jam (DJ Naughty Remix)
16. Champion - Tribal Affair
17. Apple - Mr Bean
18. Funkystepz - For U (Instrumental)
19. DJ Naughty - Rhythm Dance
20. Undisputed - Fya
21. Addictive - Domino Effect (DJ Naughty Remix)
22. LR Groove - Device

just another lil reason to love the naughtster:

http://soundcloud.com/djnaughtymusic/big-mack-97