funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

smi's '60 hz' sounds nothing like dj eastwood's 'toilet blocker', it's true

Here's something I don't really understand. As lovely as "Deep in the Valley" is, how did that get an official release, but "Midnight Affair" never did?

smi's '60 hz' sounds nothing like dj eastwood's 'toilet blocker', it's true

― r|t|c

^^ ya right, obv. but the bassline is kinda similar, i guess (not that i can really recall how 'what u talkin' about' sounds like).

there was something from 'toilet blocker' that sounded strangely familiar : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dohzrXT09w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzFB2XUybCQ

Fucking huge.

I'd love to see more Mr Mageeka come out he's ace.

We had a chat with Altered Natives: http://thequietus.com/articles/06053-sonic-router-019-the-altered-states-of-altered-natives

yeah yeah it's taken me forever to get around to it but this dj reflex funky vol 6 is unstoppable

This EP is gonna be SO ESSENTIAL:

http://soundcloud.com/naughtyraver/the-cheeky-barse-e-p-show-reel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Qoi18ZRds&feature=player_embedded

since we're on dis frankenting, what ARE we thinking about that donaeo then? i feel like he should have unimpressed me - but i like it anyway!

like it'll only be an artistic failure if it fails commercially? (what a strange thing to type).

It's not as bang out the gates as his last couple of singles but I love the groove, need to listen to Donaeo's song on top more to decide what I think of it but I remember being cautiously approving.

Definitely one of those songs ripe for validation for commercial success.

Lol at this thread becoming primarily about official releases and the ill blu thread becoming about radio sets. Poor Lex :'(

The Champion 12" is finaly on the way out: http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/04/recommended-champion-%E2%80%93-motherboardloose-controltribal-affair-vip-hardrive/ 16th May I hear.

I've been having computer troubles the last few weeks so not had chance to catch many sets has Petchy been on Live at all on sat nights? He seemed to disapear for a while and I've not had chance to lock since.

the dutch thing... not sure its that good an influence at the moment. to me its just a re-hash of blog house with a little swing. Every other track sounds like pon de floor with better drum programing at this point. That is a bonus cos its a stale track in need of a little bounce but... I sware everyone this side of 2000 was bored of blog house until I started to hear it on funky radio with that funky swing. Its been something thats bugged me ever since I went to an electro/blog house night a few years back and every other track had bait re-hashes of funky drums in them. I was wondering if electro would filter one way or funky the other...

What are you referring to apart from Ill Blu and, like, Seany B's remix of Bassjackers, etc?

"pon de floor with better drum programing" sounds like a good deal to me, in theory at least.

Its that Bassjacker vibe you have the whiny synths the bait drum edits the stright house kick drums.

Ill Blu play the influence well, really well better than the genre itself prob.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llX89iV69j8

Carnao does it well but its getting to that point wher its reaching towards bait elector rather than anything remotly funky.

Then you have peeps like Seiji who's last tracks kinda fed into that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1xbfrAa1OM

Its all a bit African Forest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fspurrtNbn4

I really like those tracks I just posted its just an influence that is beign a bit over played and I can see it getting a bit tired really quick.

I <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F_f4LchNnI

But when you get a million tracks feeding off that vibe you just get blog house again and its a bit annoying.

I sware funky has more ideas in its little finger than dropping back into that electro house vibe again.

But Its on an edge right now. Its not feeding off dubstep if you ask me its feeding off blog house from years ago and its being egged on by this dutch connection lol.

I don't think blog house (In the post Soulwax/Kitsune sense) has anything to do with it - isn't it just a straight mid-00s electro-house into dutch thing?

I kinda get where you're coming from but this influence seems more muted to me than Soulserious(cat) traditionalism (which is the other side of the "African Forest" vibe), at least at the moment.

Funky is just kinda frustrighting to me at the moment on one hand we’ve got pure soulful deep big room house, which is alright but I’m use to it since its been all over the shop unless you’re a pirate in London it seems. I mean you’d hear it in day time TV adds here about a decade ago and the rules haven’t changed that mujch to make it sound fresh again to my ears at least. Then you have the Dutch thing going on, its got some cool ideas but it isn’t a million miles away from Zomby Nation or Erol Alkan its pretty much thier tricks condenced. I keep hearing all this in funky radio recently. I’m not making a sweeping statment mind, I get diffrent vibes from diffrent DJs and producers but this is one vibe thats bugging me and embedding itself at the moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xe8wO7h2JE

cool

always did quite like rapid's (iirc maligned) funky dabbling early on, interestingly awkward in a way the deliberately awkward critnip stuff wasnt

also i know ghetto looking like chris rock is already a thing but still!!

really do think marcus' new direction as it were has hit its stride recently, even if it isnt quite what we all fell in love with

last week's one is probably my fave radio set of the year so far (although i am not as au courant as i have been in the past admittedly)

http://soundcloud.com/majornotes/troublesome-11-major-notes

Loving this, the original's a favourite.

OMG "Gully" is so fucking intense!

Also LOL at "critnip".

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

!! What does it all mean?

Funkystepz are gonna be at the boiler room in a while: http://boilerroom.tv/live/ Hyperdub takeover. Terror Danjah is on right now so they wont be far away.

oh shit, there was a great track played on the Rudimental Show on DejaVu last friday. thought i recorded it but somehow i didn't. bummer.

http://www.factmag.com/2011/05/04/stream-lil-silvas-new-patience-ep/

^^out monday

r|t|c do you mean the 20 April set?

I'm loving this one, the last hour in particular and especially the last half hour.

I'm wondering if it's so much Marcus mastering his "new style" or simply normalising it, after the first half hour or so there seems to be less Sunday Roast-ish material in general, more bangers.

Or to the extent that he is playing that kind of percussive house funky he's ripping through it really quick, in a way that re-integrates it back into a funky mix sensibility (that is to say, more dancehall X grime).

Overall you could say there's more of a percussive bubbly quality - kinda like if Classic Records tunes were made to be MCd over - than Marcus circa 2008, but otherwise it reminds me of his set with Rankin', Shantie and Dream last year.

It also reminds me of Petchy at his best, though I'm not sure how much of that is the music and the mixing and how much of it is down to Rankin' and Shantie being in such fine form, so relentless, so enthusiastic, chiming in on each other's rhymes like The Last Supper like to do so much. Their energy on this really is phenomenal, the last 30 minutes is so intense. Such a good example of why radio sets are so crucial to understanding how funky works, a DJ Reflex or whatever mix, no matter how good, just isn't in the same category.

Can you help me out though: does that Funkystepz tune at about 79 minutes go right through to 81 minutes? Because if so that's insane, what a massive tune. Any bet Hyperdub will try to snatch it and "Warrior" for a double.

yeah, it must have been that one - it's got a stonking windrush/crunk vip/warrior section whereupon i distinctly recall thinking now this is more like it

listening to your bit now and funkystepz 'shocker' plays for 30 seconds and then it's naughty raver 'slave of the bass' WHICH YOU WELL KNOW (iirc)

love the big juddering carnival one after that too, been looking for an id

need to listen to this set in full again but fully agree marcus' mixing has been next lev of late

i am almost ashamed to say it but shantie & rankin are pretty much on a best imaginary friends level for me these days, even when marcus was sounding cack i couldn't not check in with them, see how rankin's foot fetish was coming along etc

Ah of course! I had forgotten my own ID. I thought i recognised the "Shocker" bit too and that if it had been followed up by something so awesome I surely would have remembered.

"Crunk VIP" awesome also.

Tim, that Scottie B track you posted about a month ago has disappeared. Mind helping me get my hands on it?

http://www.sendspace.com/file/4jpbtw

kinda prefer this one myself tho:

http://vimeo.com/22331443

haha he doesnt do it in this partic set but rankin seriously deserves a medal for turning the ooh-look-at-me-i'm-sampling-grime "dun know fam" into "jaegerbomb" on that mosca tune

Yes he does! Early on. Totally takes the tune to a new level.

Smashing mix by Funkystepz for, of all places, The Wire:

http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/6463/

FUNKYSTEPZ MIX

Funkystepz & Lily Mckenzie - "Circles"
Wideboys feat Rusty - "Stop Fighting (Funkystepz Mix)"
Funkystepz - "Tokyo Drift"
Funkystepz - "Girls Go WIld"
Funkystepz - "Piano Storm"
Mighty Moe - "Dangerous (Funkystepz Mix)"
Virus Syndicate - "My Life (Funkystepz Mix)"
Funkystepz - "Shocker"
Funkystepz - "Trouble"
Funkystepz - "Caution"
Funkystepz - "Fuller"
Funkystepz - "Loca Moca"
Funkystepz - "Dingolay Riddim"
Funkystepz Feat Lily Mckenzie - "For U"
Funkystepz - "Cut Above"
Funkystepz - "Hurricane Riddim"
Funkystepz - "Warrior"
Funkystepz - "You Got It"
Funkystepz Feat Rhian Moore - "No More"
Funkystepz - "Funkystepz (Funkystepz Anthem)"

Really must stress how thankful I am for being directed to the 21st April Marcus set. Best set in forever!!

20th April I mean.

Here's the link people:

http://podcast.dgen.net/rinsefm/podcast/MarcusNasty200411.mp3

heres the link to that wire mix via tracer hands method of downloading soundcloud links... http://media.soundcloud.com/stream/Rg2JavCSru44?stream_token=S8cmG (i think that shld work)

Funkystepz - "Girls Go WIld"

won't hear this mix til monday but my spidey sense is tingling me that this will be some kind of refix of the assassin song

will expect a parade in my honour if so obv

alas i may have spoken too soon re marcus as sets since have decidedly failed to recapture anything like the 20th's magic :/

It's not, but it's pretty awesome.

Perhaps Funkystepz reasoned they couldn't improve the Assassin tune given it sounds like Funkystepz at 33 rpm anyhow.

xpost

i attribute a lot of that set's success to eastwood's fantastic 'dirty cash' version early on btw, you just can't go off on a noodle after that's set the tone

the wheeling up of the mistakenly played lady chann song in lieu of the jazzy pioneer ft egypt song was a classic marcus blast from the past as well - you or i or any other lesser dj would have gone with the chann but only he would have envisioned a bigger picture smashcut like that - an object lesson in linear vs dialectical funky

Perhaps Funkystepz reasoned they couldn't improve the Assassin tune given it sounds like Funkystepz at 33 rpm anyhow.

― Tim F, Sunday, May 8, 2011 12:34 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

true true

the wheeling up of the mistakenly played lady chann song in lieu of the jazzy pioneer ft egypt song was a classic marcus blast from the past as well - you or i or any other lesser dj would have gone with the chann but only he would have envisioned a bigger picture smashcut like that - an object lesson in linear vs dialectical funky

lol I was thinking something vaguely along these lines today.

Hey what's the "deep dubby house" tune Marcus always plays with the accordian spurts, like a spookier version of "Heater"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-ZseUKh-Rg

blimey i'd thought this was a refix of scotty d's 'dream'!

am currently catching up and researching a tracklist for the marcus show, dunno that accordion one yet but it's earcatching i agree

(gonna end up being sunday roast, let's face it)

Ha I'd been slowly doing the same thing. Probably have about half the IDs though.