funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

It would almost be disappointing to come across an official version and realise it doesn't have Shantie saying "YEAH!" just before the drop.

Almost.

Belatedly noticed that Funkystepz got profiled (and did a minimix) in Fact's yearly "producers to watch" segment.

The mix has "Warrior" on it! Sounds great, though rather like Naughty Raver's "Sticks & Stones" or Smoove Kriminal's "Stop Dat" now I think on it. Shame they didn't include "Lovers".

while marcus playing batches of 3 sunday roasts at a time (where once he interspersed more judiciously) similarly sets the tone for the current arid landscape du jour, despite a few of those productions individually being of sound merit.

r|t|c were you actually referring to the sunday roast guest mix on this set? Or was Marcus doing this as well? I guess I heard shout outs to sunday roast several times even early on.

Anyone know who's done the (great) female vocal version of "Shitta" marcus plays early on?

Digging Katy B thanks to the singles poll. (And now I find she did a cover of "Good Life!")

Not funky really, but this chick Little Izzy seems to be pushing the same 2-step revivalist sound (not "future garage", honest to goodness 2-step) as that Mike Delinquent Project remix of "Traktor". Put out on Frenzy's label (the dude who did "Bounce" which I posted upthread).

Everything on The Rain EP is awesome but I'm particularly fond of the cover of Maxi Priest's "Close To You" (inspired cover choice).

Increasingly curious as to how this sound fits into the current landscape.

r|t|c were you actually referring to the sunday roast guest mix on this set? Or was Marcus doing this as well? I guess I heard shout outs to sunday roast several times even early on.

this would have been somewhat foolish of me. no, i meant marcus himself - by my count (oh yes) about a third of each recent set has been soulserious content. (marcus currently also seems to be hashtagging "dubhouse" in their honour.)

care to venture an opinion on these fellows work?

Anyone know who's done the (great) female vocal version of "Shitta" marcus plays early on?

haha this is half great and half deeply tragic casualty of modern rap ;_;

don't know her name yet tho soz.

has anyone managed to snag last week's marcus set btw? site issues for me again.

if my myspace sleuthing is what it was then little izzi appears alas to be less a chick and more an ageing scouse hairdresser-looking bloke. disturbing.

those tunes are really fun anyway! but, given the nature of juno always being a bit of an elephant's graveyard for ukg diehards, until someone plays them it's impossible to estimate how they might fit in (if they even do at all).

though yeah i was listening to a bit of love fm playing a set of chunkier proto-breakbeat era garage (like sunship mix of misteeq 'one night stand') this weekend and mused a little wrt 'traktor' myself. perhaps a particular londonist version of bassline's general overt 2step nostalgia? but still i suspect a devolution rather than evolution of funky tbh.

this would have been somewhat foolish of me. no, i meant marcus himself - by my count (oh yes) about a third of each recent set has been soulserious content. (marcus currently also seems to be hashtagging "dubhouse" in their honour.)

care to venture an opinion on these fellows work?

Not really into them TBH. Even that jazzy number that Marcus was playing heaps a few months ago, I recognise is a choon on one level but it's all just not fruity enough for me, and I've already been through the process of listening to (german) Luciano sets circa 2008 after he'd already lost most of the flava and am not keen to repeat the process so quickly.

Also as per discussion upthread it just seems like a less interesting version of Dubplate Wonder two years ago.

Because the tracks mostly are (to steal your term) proudly interstitial it's not really a problem until they reach a certain critical mass, i'm not sure if they quite have got to that point yet but certainly the threat of that happening feels like a pall hanging over the music.

given the nature of juno always being a bit of an elephant's graveyard for ukg diehards, until someone plays them it's impossible to estimate how they might fit in (if they even do at all)

Hadn't thought about this before but this is true! All those old producer retrospective packs et. al. I was more interested that the releases are on a label run by a funky dude, which surprised me, but yeah I don't think funky itself is gonna go there, the 2-step beat matrix is actually much further away from funky than it is even from straight 4X4 bassline (and that's not to mention bassline's more obv fondness for the music).

though yeah i was listening to a bit of love fm playing a set of chunkier proto-breakbeat era garage (like sunship mix of misteeq 'one night stand')

If there was some kind of 2-step revival or updating I think it would have to start there rather than the strict 1999 sound - certainly funky is closer to 2001 2-step rhythmically (all the soca beats, use of breakbeats etc), but also because it's fleetingness as a "thing" (and the fact that so many listeners had already vagued out by 2001) means it's not so weighted down by its historical associations.

yeah ok that's what i reckoned you'd think re sundayroast. (my previous moanings went unechoed so i had to force the subject, haha.)

because of that interstitial nature their tracks are obv primarily defined by how interestingly they're used - i totally agree that even that jazzy number ('lofi box' i think?) is no great shakes in itself but as an unexpected melancholy switch it was v enjoyable in context. (perhaps kinda like the blackening banana that isn't fruity in itself but ripens the other fruit in the bowl - only now the whole thing's all rotting since it and many additional bananas since have been carelessly left in there too long.)

and while even that jazzy track is something of an imaginative outlier for them, you could say similar of the big wub-wubs of 'snm' or the vocal sample in 'kid louie': each highly usable moments, but only in nimbler hands than marcus's are right now. (one positive note however is that no one else seems to be playing this stuff afaik.)

could maybe argue that what let the sunday roast material in to preside in the first place was a dispiriting drop off in set-building tracks from elsewhere (thinking like emvee's 'freak meesha', or drew austin's 'break bread'). it's the subtle glittering enthusiasm of these tracks that speaks more to the health of the scene than the shining auteur highlights forlornly bobbing up and down in a swamp.

probably the best soulserious tune in itself is jook 10's 'feeling lonely' from ages ago, would i be right in saying that?

http://www.uk-funky.com/ukfunky_previews_298.htm

Download the new SIGNAL mix

http://www.clubsignal.com/mix11.php

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

http://soundcloud.com/clubsignal/radio-signal-volume-11

01. SIGNAL Saturday March 5th @ Innocence, Newmarket
02. Selah ft. Donae’O – I Want You Out My House (Radio Edit)
03. Addictive ft. Trilla – Bad Girl (Champion V.I.P Mix)
04. TLC – No Scrubs (FunkyStepz & Scott Mix)
05. Mighty Moe – Dangerous (FunkyStepz Remix)
06. Natalie May – Closer (Rudimental Remix)
07. EMKYU ft. L.E.V. – Motion (Original Mix)
08. Akatriel ft. DJ IC – Circles (London Mix)
09. El-B ft. Nat Mor – I Feel (DJ Q Hands In The Air Remix)
10. Hannah Liston – Explore Me (Dumplin Remix)
11. FunkyStepz – Mr. Bandicoot
12. Katy B ft. Ms. Dynamite – Lights On (Radio Edit)
13. Raw Vybes (Mr. Mayhem & Alizae) – DPMO (Don't P**s Me Off)
14. Tribal Magz ft. Ramzee & Gracious "Nappa Man" K – 21 Dares
15. Fis-T – Nighthunter
16. Wiley – It's Wiley (Showa Eski Riddim)
17. Natalie Storm – Boyz 4 Breakfast (Showa Eski Riddim)
18. Ward 21 – Bump And Grind (Showa Eski Riddim)
19. Trilla – Freestyle (Woooo Riddim)
20. SIGNAL Saturday March 5th @ Innocence, Newmarket
21. Trilla – Funky Dub
22. Undisputed ft. Mr. M & D.G.B – Caught In The Hype
23. Undisputed – Fya (Andy Jay & S-Tee Remix)
24. Undisputed ft. Ramzee – Certain Man
25. Greyman – Blackberry Music (Undisputed Remix)
26. Ramzee – Unite The Raver (Hand In The Air)
27. Andy Jay & S-Tee ft. Big Rob – Tutti Frutti
28. Major Not£$ ft. Dappa MC – March To The Tribal
29. Wretch 32 – Traktor (Mike Delinquent Project Remix)
30. Yasmin – On My Own (Royal-T Remix)
31. FunkyStepz – Leave With You
32. Encore – Wind Up (Ill Blu Remix)
33. FunkyStepz ft. Louise Williams – Whispers (Trinity Hill Vocal)
34. Janiece Myers ft. Wiley – Underground Love (FunkyStepz Mix)
35. Ruff Diamondz – Alright Still (FunkyStepz Mix)
36. Screama ft. Farah – In Control
37. Screama ft. Farah – Give It To Me
38. Fuzzy Logik ft. Jada Pearl – All My Love

http://soundcloud.com/missfireuk/miss-fire-rock-ur-world-produced-written-sung-by-miss-fire

<3!

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I heard this house-ish kinda song in a store the other day, kind Balearic, with a chorus that went "singing in the rain." PRetty sure it was a girl singing... any ideas to help me ID the song?

And of course Shazaam wasn't working at the time.

Nothing?

Whatever it is it's unlikely to be uk funky, and this thread has a pretty small readership I think?

I can't think of any tunes that fit at any rate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdssG1hBSCo

Coming out on Terror Danjah's label Hardrive.

Champion: A1) Motherboard. B1) Loose Control. B2) Tribal Affair VIP

Brilliant news.

once again, not gonna buy that purely on grammatical principle. fucking plebs. (unless B1 features some deliberately meta slapdash beat programming of course).

anyone managed to snag the 26th january marcus set? (rinse site still going on stupid). i've got half an hour of it and sounds like it might perhaps be a goodie. 2nd feb one miraculously came down for me so if anyone needs i can put that up.

i'd d/l it if you upped it, rtc

http://www.iden.org.uk/images/video_pausebutton.jpg

no alright i will tho. and maybe a tracklist too just for laughs.

ru a funky listener on the low k3v, or just dabbling?

lmao

kind of both - i basically dig most of the stuff regulars of this thread recommend (and this is UK funky house was on my 09 ballot i think), but i don't keep up with the scene enough to be considered a head or anything

cool! try and holla when u like something though, the 50 people around the world perving on me tim and a handful of other dudes vibe can be a bit oppressive. (I DID SOME OF MY LINKS IN GOO.GL SO I KNOW THIS).

not to presume on ur level of depth but generally speaking for an american totally divorced from the competing local contexts and logics i would think that signal mix a couple of posts upthread might be pretty fun if you haven't already checked it - just all the pure pop singles spectrum steez. would be interested in ur opinions!

(also totally off-topic but would i be right in guessing that that kandi album for the r&b thread a month ago is proving tricky to errm, procure for preview purposes? i can sort that out too.)

Enjoyed Carnao the other night on Deja Vu: http://www.youtube.com/user/carnaoBEATS

no i got my hands on that kandi album, i remember really liking the first track and wanting to give the rest anothe chance but never really got around to it. i think i have to be in the right mindset to put on such a grown-ass record; the craft was there but i think i just wasn't in the mood for that style at that time

i might've overstated tbf.

MARCUS NASTY, RANKING & SHANTIE 02/02/11

Screama ft Phe Phe - Never Say Bye
GTE ft Kelsey - Something On Your Mind
?? [this old chestnut]
Big Bang - Smile In Your Eyes (Mark De Clive Lowe Remix)
Carnao Beats ft Teeboy & Kadey - Get Out
GuGu - AC Riddim
Louie Vega ft Blaze - Brand New Day
Carnao Beats - Dog Bark (Remix)
?? [you funky whore]
?? [african sub riddim]
Jae Elle - See You There

--------- 30 mins
??
Bassboy & Marcus Nasty ft ?? - Shitta
LR Groove - Basskick? [can't remember, all his new ones sound the same]
Sunday Roast - Occuring
Ill Blu - Chelt
Ms Jaie - Fall Outta Love (Paleface Remix)
Funkystepz ft Louise Williams - Whispers
Eric Benet - Love Don't Love Me (?? Funky Refix)
?? [groovy electric worm riddim]
LR Groove - Buckshot
Funkystepz - Fuller
Sunday Roast - ?
?? ["yeah yeah"]

--------- 60 mins
?? [sunday roast bom bom dinosaur stomper]
?? [caralarmy - ceeeeelebrate?]
Sunday Roast - 14 Months
Mosca - Square One VIP
?? [bit of hiphouse in there...what the fuck ever tbh]
Sunday Roast - ? [pulpit intro -- big drop -- this is a good one!!]
?? [roska?]
Shay & Sinista - Transporter [lol lr groove rip off]
T Williams - In The Deep
Redlight - Source 16
Sunday Roast - [the 'snm' soundalike]

--------- 90 mins
Sunday Roast - Kid Louie
Roska - ?? [bleh imo]
~ 10 minutes of tedium ~
Brackles & Shortstuff ft Terrible Shock - Good Foundations (T.Williams Remix)
Sunday Roast - [mellow intro, then same old]
Sunday Roast - Control
[yawn yawn]
Sunday Roast - SNM

BONUS: TOP FOUR RANKIN OUTBURSTS IN THIS SHOW

4 "like a giant bouncing a basketball"
3 "constructive, professional, unruly behaviour"
2 "ccb.... continuous combinant bangers"
1 "yeah, smizing" (antm lolz)

err, marcus' on a heavy sunday roast rotation, right? the 'dark undergorund' ep was mostly forgettable, but, dunno, maybe in the context of a dj set it can prove to be more interesting.

that set with shantie & ranking will be my first 2011 marcus set. is the rinse fm site still indecisive?

kinda enjoyed the signal mix. disappointed with 'in control' by screama & farah.

oh i don't know about that, it's kinda cute? farah being able to do a scarily spot-on kid sister impression is a thing i did not know before at any rate.

Listened to the first few tracks of the Marcus/Rankin set on the way to work:

Screama ft Phe Phe - Never Say Bye - all time classic obv
GTE ft Kelsey - Something On Your Mind - this is A++!
?? [this old chestnut] - have a feeling this is either Marcus/Bassboy or Madfingers?

Thinking about Sunday Roast vs Dubplate Wonder 2009 (see r|t|c's comparison upthread) - diff. with DW may be how thoroughly (but subtly) he has absorbed that sort of 2-step/r&b groove logic where the groove really wraps itself around the vocals, it makes the percussion and basslines much more thrilling (in the sense of there being something at stake in the choice to place the snare here rather than there) than in SR's straight tribal-into-deep-house "rollers". Whereas Dubplate Wonder is (was? what's dude up to) "deep" in the same way that The Dreem Teem were deep at the end of 2007.

Pretty sure r|t|c identified way upthread the inherent lurking danger of roller-mentality: hat tip to you.

Eric Benet - Love Don't Love Me (?? Funky Refix)

this is great!

The Eric Benet tune is this Sunday Roast mix

http://www.junodownload.com/products/after-all-this-time/1576843-02/

Cheers!

Funkystepz' "Fuller"/"Hurricane Riddim" now also available:

http://www.junodownload.com/products/fuller/1690355-02/

http://soundcloud.com/missfireuk/miss-fire-rock-ur-world-produced-written-sung-by-miss-fire

this is gorgeous btw.

yes isn't it brilliant! i was hoping you'd pinpoint what it was specifically reminiscent of though, it's been driving me mad. (some 00-03 r&b obviously, diamond princess even maybe).

?? [caralarmy - ceeeeelebrate?]

this is dj tonka's 'freeze' btw.

yes isn't it brilliant! i was hoping you'd pinpoint what it was specifically reminiscent of though, it's been driving me mad. (some 00-03 r&b obviously, diamond princess even maybe).

reminds me of the second mis-teeq album actually.

ILL BLU MISTAJAM MIX 08/02/11

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y2srl

Ill Blu - Tick Tock
Ill Blu - Overdose
Ill Blu - Bhangra Knights
Ill Blu - Meltdown
Ill Blu - Alrite Mate
Ill Blu - Monsta
Toddska - Gal From England
Shay & Sinista - Glitch In The System
Ill Blu - Dirty Monkey
Ill Blu - Do That
Katy B - Lights on (feat. Ms Dynamite)
Troublesum - Boot Install
Ill Blu - Chelt
Ill Blu - Warp Speed

Last night I was in a club where in amongst lots of dubstep and minimal techno and very "serious" tunes the DJ decided to play Addictive's "Domino Effect (DJ Naughty remix)" and it was a very clear highlight of my night - I don't think there's a single bad funky version of that tune.

Okay excited about checking that Ill Blu set.

I don't think there's a single bad funky version of that tune.

Trying to remember if there are others apart from Naughty, O.B. and Dubplate Wonder? Each of those are excellent, yes.

Crazy Cousinz version too, which is also great, if not as great as other Crazy Cousinz productions.

never heard the dubplate wonder remix, iirc. o.b. = personal fav.

that ill blu set looks great. thx.

Rusty if you haven't heard the dubplate wonder remix you haven't heard his Wonderland 2009 set either! This must be rectified!

http://soundcloud.com/nmbrs/ill-blu-meltdown-ep-3-track-sampler-nmbrs12/s-2B7WQ

the blurb is kinda pointless, tho :

"Elusive may be a word that is easily chucked about in todays scene but despite being regarded as one of the most feted UK Funky / House production teams in the country they rarely let go of their original material. There's a handful of remixes for underground and major label artists, the masterful Bellion twelve inch for Hyperdub and the odd appearance on pirate radio but that’s pretty much it."

Yeah it's kinda... not true?

"Chelt" really is such a banger.

That Ill Blu mix is so fucking intense. I don't think it's possible to concoct a scarier beat than "Monsta".