funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

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I aint even that huge into soca but simon reynolds wtf

The Reverend, Sunday, 3 August 2008 09:41 (fifteen years ago) link

now jamming: bongo jam

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The Reverend, Sunday, 3 August 2008 09:42 (fifteen years ago) link

I need to jam some Apple but I can't find mp3s of his shit

The Reverend, Sunday, 3 August 2008 09:42 (fifteen years ago) link

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^^^^^ complete incompatability of tastes

The Reverend, Sunday, 3 August 2008 09:47 (fifteen years ago) link

i mean fuck, half of what I love about funky is that it sounds like reggaeton

The Reverend, Sunday, 3 August 2008 09:47 (fifteen years ago) link

and soca too

The Reverend, Sunday, 3 August 2008 09:48 (fifteen years ago) link

And where next after bongomania? Steel drum sounds?!?

I would totally approve of this

The Reverend, Sunday, 3 August 2008 09:49 (fifteen years ago) link

if it works for ringtone rap...

The Reverend, Sunday, 3 August 2008 09:50 (fifteen years ago) link

otm

deej, Sunday, 3 August 2008 09:54 (fifteen years ago) link

the other half of what I love about funky house other than it sounding like reggaeton and soca is that it kinda sounds like...uh... house

yeah

The Reverend, Sunday, 3 August 2008 10:04 (fifteen years ago) link

ha ha that's three strikes for simon.

Tim F, Sunday, 3 August 2008 10:10 (fifteen years ago) link

Really it's nice that this has come along in such a down year for reggaeton. I need to get my fill of BOOM-ch-boom-CHICK somewhere.

The Reverend, Sunday, 3 August 2008 10:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Still keen to ID that Jagged Edge-sampling track on the Marcus Nasty + Rankin and Shantie show from April. I'm wondering if it's by Target - Marcus announces at the beginning of the show that he's got a track from Target he'll be playing later, and the piano plus moody synth bassline combo would seem to be right up Target's alley.

Tim F, Sunday, 3 August 2008 10:59 (fifteen years ago) link

cheers for that ID Tim.

i might be wrong but i have an inkling that that Jagged Edge tune is Producer Mario, the aesthetic, vibe and samples all seem to fit perfectly. but ive been wrong about these things before. i guess also the percussion doesn't fit so well

Benjamin, Sunday, 3 August 2008 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link

Ben you might be right. It's odd how producers often don't put their best tracks on their myspace pages.

Meanwhile I think I underestimated initially how much of a prospective anthem "Frontline" is.

Re SR's complaint of too much bongo-style percussion and evocation of live percussionists at house nights in the early 90s... This seems like an argumentative sleight of hand. The analogy implies a necessary reduction in vibe/intensity and air of anti-perspirant refinement: only tracks that are already relatively sedate could easily be accompanied by live percussionists, and the implication is that the music is not interesting enough by itself, it needs the added distraction of live percussionists.

But the funny thing about UK "funky house" is how the specific sounds are being used in an entirely different manner.

Something like DJ Naughty's "Quicktime (VIP Mix)" - a massive, inescapable anthem - is basically a grime 8-bar, with bongo samples and piano chords replacing electroid-beats and synth stabs. Rather than ripple calmly across the top of the groove, the bongo samples take centre stage and they're wielded aggressively.

Tim F, Sunday, 3 August 2008 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link

someone PLEASE tell me where i can download some of these tracks, particularly the new Wookie ones. in this day & age, there's no way i'm buying records straight from the UK like I did in the olden days, not with the dollar in such shitty condition. Help an old 2-Step head!

BATTAGS, Sunday, 3 August 2008 23:31 (fifteen years ago) link

listened to some of the Footloose show - wow why the hell is 90% of this stuff getting the 'house' label again let alone funky?

blueski, Sunday, 3 August 2008 23:54 (fifteen years ago) link

'housoca'

blueski, Sunday, 3 August 2008 23:55 (fifteen years ago) link

APHRODISIAX - UNFINISHED BUSINESS

yeah this is really something!

goole, Sunday, 3 August 2008 23:59 (fifteen years ago) link

DJ Naughty interview on that site Ach! linked to is interesting:

"Now it's just simplicity my formula is stabby chords, Melodic bass and a mad beat for me really it's all in the groove of the drum pattern that does a lot"

Jacobw, Monday, 4 August 2008 02:11 (fifteen years ago) link

Can anyone ID the track on the Marcus Nasty + Rankin set from June with the raucous soca beats and the bleepy melody somewhere between LFO and acid house? It's at about the 80 minute mark sandwiched between "Devil In A Blue Dress" and JME's "Blanka".

Tim F, Monday, 4 August 2008 05:54 (fifteen years ago) link

Actually I think it's by Little Silver (grimiest producer on road?)...

Tim F, Monday, 4 August 2008 05:56 (fifteen years ago) link

BTW thanks RTC for the Footloose sets and that JME track!

I was listening to Star In The Hood again today - so good. Any word on the new JME and Tinchy Strider albums? Good/bad/indifferent?

Tim F, Monday, 4 August 2008 09:21 (fifteen years ago) link

Ha vaguely prescient:

One thing I could really see take off is really colourful 4X4 grime, which this sorta fits - sort of like a new take on soca-house.

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Tim F, Monday, 4 August 2008 14:45 (fifteen years ago) link

you mean tinch's cloud 9 mixtape? it's very good though haven't given it enough of a chance to go beyond that yet. haven't heard the jme album...star in the hood was one of those albums which i loved on first listen, then forgot about and assumed i overrated it due to basic competence, then about five months after that it totally blew me away. how good is 'dance 4 now'?? BOK BOK BOK BOK! and ny is just gorgeous on 'hands of time'.

anyway the amount of goodness here is totally overwhelming and amazing...the footloose set from the 29th is really great. the wookie/ny track is special indeed (as are, oh, about 947843033823 others that i've heard these past two weekends)

lex pretend, Monday, 4 August 2008 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link

No isn't there a new official Tinchy album? With "StryderMan" as first single?

Tim F, Monday, 4 August 2008 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link

Fresh cut Roska interview with input from me, TimF and and Siah...

http://www.riddim.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=129&Itemid=1

More in the works!

paul nomos, Monday, 4 August 2008 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link

Mario - Mario Play The Bloodclart Bass

about 66mins in on the Marcus NASTY mix

Absolutely sublime

Ach!, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 00:59 (fifteen years ago) link

as much as i'd like to chop it up about jme and such, i think i'd much rather see luke skykicker overcome the dark forces of professional politesse and end his father's evil reign already.

congratulations to all at the riddim.ca global recon unit for an enlightening read anyway.

r|t|c, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 01:19 (fifteen years ago) link

"as much as i'd like to chop it up about jme and such, i think i'd much rather see luke skykicker overcome the dark forces of professional politesse and end his father's evil reign already."

I lost the thread of the extended metaphor somewhere here!

Tim F, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 01:30 (fifteen years ago) link

Unless you mean do a hack job on blissblog.

Tim F, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 01:31 (fifteen years ago) link

i read that as excellent metaphor.

I'M AN AFRICAN WAAAAAAARRIOR
ROLLIN SARCASTIC OUT OF HAND

r|t|c, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 01:35 (fifteen years ago) link

are you listening to this btw?!?!?! its incredible!

r|t|c, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 01:36 (fifteen years ago) link

What is "this"?

Tim F, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 01:56 (fifteen years ago) link

footloose!

r|t|c, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 01:57 (fifteen years ago) link

Oh the tracklisting hasn't been updated so I didn't realise the new show was up. I'm at work but will check it out later today...

Tim F, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 02:35 (fifteen years ago) link

hang on the girl on perempay's 'in the air' IS KATIE PEARL!

lex pretend, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 06:58 (fifteen years ago) link

wheres the link to the footloose mix? if its 1xtra the link i found wasnt working for some reason

deej, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 07:04 (fifteen years ago) link

For serious though my response to funky house negativity is slowly taking shape in the form of handwritten notes towards a blog entry.

Tim F, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 10:20 (fifteen years ago) link

I felt a vicious screed full of ad hominems brewing over the last day or two, but I remembered a certain piece about 2-step in the Wire and decided not to take shots at one of the critics I respect most on Earth.

I would like to register some mild disappointment that Simon isn't into this stuff though.

Siah Alan, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 10:24 (fifteen years ago) link

nice one Paul et al for the interview with Roska! im very very very excited to see what kind of stuff he is gonna be turning out next! vocal Roska tracks mmm

re the Simon Reynolds article, i have a lot of love for him and his writing (currently reading Bring the Noise, its so good), in his prime his work is probably the most exciting music journalism i've ever read, but that piece is so full of subjectivity and holes... it seems like quite a personal response really

Benjamin, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 11:56 (fifteen years ago) link

He doesn't "believe in beats" anymore. Not even funky ones.

Jacobw, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 12:13 (fifteen years ago) link

haaaaa after ribbing blueski upthread OF COURSE the thing i was going mad for should turn out to be an imperceptibly remixed 'samir's theme' on lacrate's label. context i am ur bitch 4ever.

though if footloose really wants to please me he'll have to chuck in like, sarai 'ladies' and 'take it 2 tha house' for the full 2003 flave.

r|t|c, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 12:19 (fifteen years ago) link

Listening now. Wau Geeneus "As I"! That endlessly rising hook! Fuzzy Logic does the same thing on "Polyfunk" but here it sounds positively Belgian.

Also the way "Take It Low" kicks off in sped-up mode lends a deeply satisfying air of frantic enthusiasm to proceedings.

Tim F, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 14:01 (fifteen years ago) link

"Unknown – Samir’s Theme (Arms Remix)"

OMG. Actually apart from reminding me of soca as per, this kinda backs up the idea I had the other day that on an overall, from a distance perspective, funky house most resembles brazilian funk.

Tim F, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 14:27 (fifteen years ago) link

some eloquent hopscotch this week. love the way footsie bookends his cheese with the supposedly experimental jobs in this passage:

Roska – Pyramids
Martin Solveig – Madan (Marco Del Horno Remix)
Daddy Funk ft Nicole Tyler – The Disco Killed My Brain
Jon Cutler – It’s Yours (David Penn Remix) (Defected)
Aphrodisiax – Keep It Moving

then twice alternating various dj spen and aphrodisiax tunes, and then 'kissing strangers' with fuzzy logik 'work the love' (which is fantastic, reminds me of manix a bit). you see his point.

r|t|c, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link

surprised he's never played crazy cousinz 'dont u like the way' (3rd track into the mac10 best of vocal funky mix) though - would go a treat with the mc lev and lonyo in particular.

tim otm re geeneus 'as i' - all his funky's been pure class. beggars belief that this is the same guy who made all that tedious grimeboy fodder.

r|t|c, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Delinquent ft Kcat – I Got You (Delio D’Cruz Mix)
Diamond ft Kele Le Roc – Nothing (Ragz2Riches)

are turning into real favourites too.

r|t|c, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link

"Delinquent ft Kcat – I Got You (Delio D’Cruz Mix) "

This in particular is dope.

Tim F, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link

Yeah I always thought Geeneus was overrated when he made grime - except for, like, co-producing "Know We" and... um... he did "Poppadoms" yeah?

Tim F, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 16:28 (fifteen years ago) link


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