Is there other Billy Kenny I should check? His "Spaceship" remix was one of my very favourite things from last year.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
not that i've found in terms of the same glorious one hit of everything all at once, i need to check harder though tbh
kind of don't want to disturb the air of nu-ukg unassumingness with that lot really, the 'spaceship' vibe is all there diffused longform in kenny's sets but it takes the ineffable genius of a dj q to pluck something out and let it sing solo
http://soundcloud.com/billykenny_music
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://soundcloud.com/princessnyah/princess-nyah-around-the-world
oh btw let's not front, you all know this is awesome right
!!!!! at that
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 19:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't like being the guy doing this but I'm not hugely impressed with that IB mix. Their new productions at best sound good but not great to me. Maybe need to give it a couple more listens I dunno.
― Mr Andy M, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 21:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
rtc feel free to direct your best zinging gif at me, I feel I have let you all down. ;(
― Mr Andy M, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 21:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's not as good as the mistajam set from last year certainly.
I have some more thoughts on it that I'll try to set down later.
But for now can I just note that "Heisenberg" is majestic even in its unsurprisingly overdriven thuggishness.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 22:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah i'm a bit meh about 'heisenberg' really, textbook blu that was already bettered on the mistajam set cuts imo. even in that textbook style i prefer 'turnpike'
they are so obv breaking bad fans btw, that just makes perfect sense to me
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 23:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
'bassage' is absolutely my shit on this despite the lamentable name
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 23:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think "Heisenberg" distinguishes itself from the textbook with the trumpet bit at the end.
"Bassage" is immense, yes.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 23:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
love their almost kinda campy vincent price-ish halloween horror melodies sometimes
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 23:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
(haha i'd written that musing on 'bassage' before i'd come to the great big and somewhat bizarre interlude there on 'alrite wave' just fwiw)
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 23:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
haven't got round to the mix yet but "clapper" underwhelmed me.
i'd rather hear ill blu remix pop and r&b songs than disappear down whatever rabbithole they're exploring atm.
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Thursday, 12 April 2012 07:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Pretty sure Ill Blu consciously boring up their sound for their Hyperdub releases actually.
That said the stretch from 'Heisenberg' to 'Alrite Wave' is a belter. The last leg of the mix is somewhat... sterner than we're used to from them? It's not really a direction I want them to go in ('PumpA' is the worst of all possible Ill Blus), I like them when they're gleefully dropping bombs all over the place like most of the Mistajam mix from last year.
i'd rather hear ill blu remix pop and r&b songs than disappear down whatever rabbithole they're exploring atm
These seem to have dried up a bit of late? They need to remix more pop-grime tracks as well.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 April 2012 09:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
i guess it's more like right now they are this sort of amorphous creature of power looking to mould itself into and around something
My guess remains that in a couple of years everyone will be sounding like Ill Blu of varying quality and they'll be getting no credit for it whatsoever.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 April 2012 09:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
I really love Clapper in that 'Pon the Floor' kind of way.
― Josephine, Thursday, 12 April 2012 10:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
'pumpA' is probably the best rick ross track ever, certainly his finest lyrical achievement
'me x u (plastik cups)' is the one i least appreciate i think, not badly executed or anything but chasing fool's gold all the same
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 April 2012 11:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
less so than just remixing but i agree it's disappointing there've been no follow-ups to sneakbo's 'the wave', they really cracked it there in a way not many funky producers ever have
bless her little cotton socks for trying (and not that sneakbo is a high quality artist either) but princess nyah doesn't count
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 April 2012 11:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://soundcloud.com/urban-history-x/shystie-bad-gyal-original-dj
gonna put this here cos i'll forget otherwise but the new shystie is very good and very bluish imo (it is produced by p-jam). attn lex
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 April 2012 11:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
fuck i love 'bassage' so much, can't stop putting it on
i hereby rename it.... 'ZOMBIE GUS'
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 April 2012 11:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is it pronounced 'bass-idge' or like to rhyme with 'massage'. If it's the latter I'm not sure I approve.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 April 2012 12:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
I can't help but read it as bassaaaage, and I'm sure I don't approve.
Yeah. I like "Clapper" but it's pretty self-conscious, like they thought "Okie Dokie It's Ill Blu on Hyperdub".
― Tim F, Thursday, 12 April 2012 12:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
"I like "Clapper" but it's pretty self-conscious"
Why, because its on Hyperdub. We've been here before with DVA Tim lol. Take it you're not a fan of the label then? I'm just happy someone is releasing Ill Blu and Funkystepz right now.
― Josephine, Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
found the xlr8r mix rather dull i'm afraid
but that shystie tune is FUCKING INCREDIBLE OMG THIS IS WHAT I WANT FOREVER
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
and yeah "the wave" def strikes me as a fruitful path not taken, sadly
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Why, because its on Hyperdub.
No, because it's a lot drier than most of their other tunes, and feels deliberately so. Mixing straight into "Dragon Pop" really underscores the point. Ill Blu going dry for a label release once may have been coincidence, but twice?
If they'd released the Meltdown EP on Hyperdub I wouldn't have been able to make the same comment. And Funkystepz's Hyperdub releases have been great (esp. the first). Believe it or not this is not actually about me and my prejudices.
― Tim F, Thursday, 12 April 2012 20:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
FWIW I feel like Clapper is less of a distance from what I would expect from IB than Dragon Pop was (although listening back to it here Dragon Pop actually sounds better than I remember it being). Anyway listening to the mix another time Legs and Turnpike actually sound the closest to standing out as choons to me, Legs has a nice bounce to it. Still feel overall it's a wee bit average though.
― Mr Andy M, Thursday, 12 April 2012 20:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, I like "Clapper" more than "Dragon Pop" (though the latter became better when they re-used it on that Suncycle/Mavado tune).
― Tim F, Thursday, 12 April 2012 20:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
― r|t|c, Saturday, 21 July 2012 18:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
This is like an amazing "Flaunt It".
― Tim F, Saturday, 21 July 2012 22:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
bloody addictive
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 11:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
Is no one else jumping on this? So good!
― Tim F, Monday, 6 August 2012 12:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
Mixmag are giving away a track called 'Turnpike':http://www.mixmag.net/music/mp3-blog/free-mp3-ill-blu
― Mercer Finn, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 06:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
I'm loving that Sneakbo track, that's the kind of Ill Blu production I like, fun, ott, ravey, and full of those electro/dutch house-influenced synths. Ill Blu really should be doing more vocal collaborations. I do like "Turnpike" as well, much more than when I heard it on the XLR8R mix.
― Astrochimp32, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
I see the appeal of the tracks in the XLR8R mix now, I guess I just don't like so many of those aggro-bassy tracks in one mix without something by Sneakbo, for example, lightening it up with his talk of pagan yats, riding jet skis, and daggering women with african backs.
― Astrochimp32, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 18:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
if by that you're suggesting sneakbo provides a counterpoint or contrast to the production then i disagree i think; he is the finer, literal point of what ill blu are already about and they have an really very unusually natural synergy
the appeal of 'zim zimma' is more in the thuggish ill blu/sneakbo mindmeld's unwitting creation of something like a muscle mary anthem
― r|t|c, Thursday, 9 August 2012 08:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
I suspect that where people struggle with recent Ill Blu is that they associate it with other boshy mersh electro-house and etc. (this is not so much of a negative for me but) - if nothing else Sneakbo offers a more attractive frame.
"Zim Zimma" really is so so so good though, that strangely lethargic synth riff like a wrecking ball accidentally knocking over a building is just brilliant.
― Tim F, Thursday, 9 August 2012 10:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
i feel more that people are just looking at it from the wrong and boring way round cos they have the "answer" already
like the story isn't oh the guys who did 'meltdown' make mersh electro-house, it's what is up with this weirdly tuff mersh electro-house that doesnt quite fit anywhere easily
― r|t|c, Thursday, 9 August 2012 10:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
do you fancy the promo of this btw
hypothetically speaking of course
― r|t|c, Thursday, 9 August 2012 10:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
Yes I agree - but I think you need to be at least neutral on the idea of "weirdly tuff mersh electro-house" in the abstract to approach it that way.
― Tim F, Thursday, 9 August 2012 10:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
Um... hypothetically already found it.
cos they have the "answer" already
can I say this is particularly OTM
― Tim F, Thursday, 9 August 2012 11:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
bloody addictiveYES
― record-collection rave (Mr Andy M), Thursday, 9 August 2012 12:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://soundcloud.com/cahill/cahill-dj-q-play-1-xtra
YASSSS
― r|t|c, Thursday, 9 August 2012 15:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
Woah.
― Tim F, Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
I'm really digging these new IB tracks, and I don't think Sneakbo makes 'Zim Zimma' at all- the production on that one is massive on it's own, as an instrumental it would have fit in with the rest of the Mista Jam set of theirs just fine.
― Astrochimp32, Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
Been a bit ambivalent about the lurch towards techno seriousness that Ill Blu seem to have taken on their own stuff most recently (e.g. their new single), so it's nice to discover that "419" on this radio set is a marvelous piece of bubbly vocal house:
http://soundcloud.com/madtechrecords/ill-blu-guest-mix-bbc-radio-1
― Tim F, Monday, 15 October 2012 16:49 (7 months ago) Permalink