funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

Benjamin, where's good for Funky vinyl in London? Am looking forward to picking up a bunch now that I'm here... Is it Uptown? Rhythm Division?

Uptown has the most concentrated funky selection in the centre, and gets some stuff the others don't. but bm-soho is increasingly good on the UK stuff, and has a far far superior house section in general, its always got loads of heavy stuff from all sides of house (plus dubstep, grime, bassline downstairs). they do those funky CDRs too

i've never actually made it to Rhythm Division's physical shop, it being a bit of a mission, but they seem to have a good range in now

RE: Rinse podcast bitrate...

They have been 64kbps, but they're in mono, which means that effectively they are 128kbps. The station broadcasts in mono over the FM dial, as have most pirates over the years, so not much to worry about.

The lastest Marcus Nasty set (Feb) is acually 160kbps and mono, so is 320 quality. The difference is not really worth worrying about tbh.

wow, thanks for the info

a lot of music rinse plays actually benefits from that compression sometimes compared to when i hear the proper cds of it (grime esp).

JUMP IN THE MIDDLE & SKANK:

SKANK CALM DOWN:

Hook me up with this tune.

MORE SKANK CALM DOWN:

As a special gift for y'all. Tune of 2009 so far?

http://rs515.rapidshare.com/files/184960926/Pro2Jay-_Skank_Calm_Down.mp3

JUMP IN THE MIDDLE & SKANK

This is awesome. I really love these sort of ultra-cheesy and brazen attempts to start dance crazes. In years to come there'll be a thread where we happily reminisce about DIY funky videos featuring people dancing in formation.

Yeah I could stay up all night watching these.

ha, kig bandwagonning! have you seen the migraine skank too?

also, this doesn't have a dance, but roska's 'our father' is just euphoric, and just slightly reminiscent of booka shade: http://www.sendspace.com/file/v1k65v

Yeah it's pretty intense! Thanks heaps for the link though - had only heard that on his site.

I'd seen crappy videos of the migraine skank but that one's great.

The beat on the Migraine Skank video is ruff.

It's sounds like a bootleg remix of the Karimza/Gregory track 'Don't Panic'.
Whodunnit?

Oh, it actually is the Migraine Skank...

I wonder if there's an instrumental

yeh the beat is in fact DJ Gregory - Don't Panic, just pitched up. such a big track!

such a good name for a dance!

that 'our father' there bears quite the resemblance to the admittedly less evocatively titled 'to be vocalled soon i hope' tune on dj ng's page mentioned way upthread; both in turn remind me of elephant man's 4ever fabulous 'can't stop we now' from 2003, which married that year's sense of triumph with an uncontrollable welling-up of a vague melancholy it knew not, and which has also just given me an unrelated and undesired libertines earworm. bah.

also love 'bounce' on roska's myspace. bit underwhelming in demo form there though, footloose played a better one a while ago i'm sure.

Ha I love "Can't Stop We Now" but i'll have to listen to everything again to see such a link.

Does anyone think "In The Morning" might become a moderate-sized hit? it reminds me of Architechs' "Bodygroove" for some reason.

Anyway I love, it's so irrepressible and fun and feel-good but (unusually for a big vocal anthem) with a really cool beat.

I am sympathetic to jacob's complaint upthread that the scene is a bit bipolar in terms of anthems vs bangers. 2-step managed this issue by having long "hard" instrumental sections in the middle of poppy tracks (most typically this would be on a remix of a more straightahead pop-2-step version) which would turn anthems into bangers. Funky seems still to be beholden to the housier tradition of not actually switching up the groove too much.

That said I adore that vocal track that goes "if you want it gotta take it babe you know you gotta ask for it don't you wanna own it honey..."

Also loving DJ Naughty's electrodribbly fem-vox cover of "Love Lockdown" - A+ for concept and execution.

^^show me!!

i'm not sure funky is going to spawn any size of hit - 'do you mind' missed the top 40 the other week :(

Lex it's on all the recent marcus nasty sets, I don't have any standalone evidence.

Other tune that's really hype for me right now is the one with the descending piano riff and the sampled vocal going "dat dat, nn dat nn whoo-whoo!" before breaking out into near-absurd broken beat percussion.

can someone re-up or send me "Our Father"?

okay listening to the Jan 15. Marcus Nasty set and the funky beat + "Gypsy Woman" riff + "Back to Life" vocal + Skepta doing that one rap he always does about the gorgeous lady is totally fucking w/ my mind

okay, what is the piano track that comes in at 22 mins?

this set is k-awesome btw

Yeah the 15 Jan is a favourite of mine too. I don't know what the piano tune is but how cool are the beats on it?

When you get to it Reverend let me know what you think of the track at 36 minutes.

I'll try to re-up "Our Father" a bit later.

Also the one I'm describing above (see quote below) is at 52 min:

"the one with the descending piano riff and the sampled vocal going "dat dat, nn dat nn whoo-whoo!" before breaking out into near-absurd broken beat percussion."

Actually it's more like "da da, da-daon her-ber!"

Also wouldn't mind knowing what the track at 30 mins is.

Yeah that one's everywhere - in my head I'm grouping it under the banner of "LFO revivalism" (see also Roska's "In Your Handbag" and JME's "Blanka").

(though "In Your Headbag" is perhaps more like LFO X Claude Von Stroke X Nick Holder's "Erotic Discourse" - and of course there's a funky refix of "Erotic Discourse" floating around too)

36 mins is okay. I like the vocals in the chorus, but not so much during the verse, beat isn't quite anything special. I've heard several things in this mix I like more.

Liking whatever comes after it.

52 mins is A++++ would dance to this all the time

sorry to be dumm but wheres the link for that mix?

The Crazy Cousinz track at 56 mins is dope too

http://rinsefm.blogspot.com/2009/01/marcus-nasty-21st-january.html

Rev, that's "Inflation", AKA my track of the year!

thank u!

ah, I see... it is the b-side of "Funky Anthem" (which is so-so not their best work imo)

Yeah "Funky Anthem" is pretty average. If I ever see that 12inch though I'm picking it up for "Inflation".

Some more youtubery on this thread

lots of these tunes (inc 'inflation' and 'our father') are available to buy from ukfunky.com btw

outside of the uk?

oh i don't know if it works outside the uk - it's via paypal so i thought it would. will reup tonight if tim hasn't...

btw crazy cousinz rmx of shontelle. omg pianos! http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yyvo1my0ott

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/4620/backoc5.jpg

Tracklist:
N10-Tainment feat Ruth - I Pray (FaZe Special)
Footsteps - Baby Kinta
Princess ft Coldsteps - Frontline Remix
DJ NG - Tell Me (Geeneus Remix)
DBC - Promises
DBC - Promises (Roska Remix)
Lil Silva - Seasons
Fuzzy Logic ft Egypt - In The Morning
Roska - Whats In Your Handbag
KIG - Head Sholders Knees & Toes (Donaeo Remix)
Suges Vs Swift Jay - Tribe
Coldsteps ft Princess - I Will Be There
Dj Gregory - Dont Panic
Marz Music ft Kadisha - Free
Lemar - If She Knew (Crazy Cousinz Mix)
Major Notes ft Steelo (Skream Out)
Restless Soul - Tricks (Faeda Remix)
Delinquent - I Got U (Delio D Cruz Super Funky Mix)
Diamond ft Terri Walker - Love At First Sight
Tribal Audio - Abyss
Tawiah - Everystep (Arms Remix)
Roska - Our Father
M Sadler - Shine For Me
Yotam Avni - Get Together
Doctor - Give It To You (Soultonic Soundsystem Mix)
Fuzzy Logic ft LA - Call Me
Wookie - Finally
The Sunburst Band - Journey To The Sun (Dennis Ferrer Mix)
Teedra Moses - Be Your Girl (Faeda Soulful Mix)
AC Layne ft Charlene Dance - Deja Vu
Dj Sekey - Ride The Database (Chillzone Mix)

Download:

Zip File (Seperate Tracks)
rapidshare: http://rapidshare.com/files/197742403/FaZe_-_Funky_February_09.zip
sendspace: http://www.sendspace.com/file/lqxvdd
zShare: http://www.zshare.net/download/55582475312d0614/

Single File:
zShare Stream: http://www.zshare.net/audio/5557763227d97caf/

THANK U THANK U <3 <3 <3

Thanks for that FaZe! It's nice to be able to ID the Suges vs Swift Jay track - would never have guessed that Suges were involved (then again I don't know what the original sounds like) but in retrospect it kinda makes sense. I always thought that tune sounded a bit like a Low Deep grime instrumental.

From the Marcus Nasty set Jan 15th, what the f&*k is that MAW/Omni Trio-esque tune with the pianos at 22:38secs!!!???

KIG - Head Sholders Knees & Toes (Donaeo Remix)

^ this is teh nuts. (might forgive him farmer yardie at this rate.) also the new lowslung muttered verse is exactly why i keep saying flowdan should switch to funky. even the crap one from tok would do!

Farmer Yardie was great though.