(ready for the wheelbarrow)
― Paul, Saturday, 4 October 2014 01:52 (nine years ago) link
FOR THE MATURE RAVER
<3
― lex pretend, Saturday, 4 October 2014 09:43 (nine years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/platform/uk-funky-flashback-round-table-discussion-boiler-room-london
^ a must
― r|t|c, Friday, 9 January 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
lollllll @ marcus nasty getting into fights with all the oldtimers.
― Tim F, Friday, 9 January 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link
yes this is excellent
― Tim F, Friday, 9 January 2015 20:50 (nine years ago) link
ma1: favourite moment? maybe making my first tune, recording it in my yard, giving it out, getting feedback-
marcus: you pussy
― r|t|c, Friday, 9 January 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
I was sad when Marcus called Footloose a cunt though :-(
― Tim F, Friday, 9 January 2015 22:10 (nine years ago) link
That was fun. You can tell they've had variations of that conversation a lot over the years.
Thought Donaeo's I'm Fly would have got more grief as a prominent corny crossover track that failed to get traction and while I understand in principle why Head Shoulders Knees and Toes might be worthy of derision, it was undeniably a funky track.
― tsrobodo, Friday, 9 January 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
"I'm Fly" was a great tune though. What is corny about that beat.
In any event it came out in mid-2010 so was too late to contribute to the "death of funky" narrative (which was well in train by that point).
― Tim F, Friday, 9 January 2015 22:50 (nine years ago) link
Corniness applies more the lyrics and the video than the beat which was perfectly fine, but just that. Lacking the mystique of "Party Hard" or the urgency of "Devil in a New Dress". Working in the same vein but adding nothing new.
May not be a reflection of what was actually happening in the scene but for me that was the death knell.
Was it really 2010? I remember hearing it earlier than that.
― tsrobodo, Friday, 9 January 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
Whoops that's probably "Devil in a Blue Dress"
― tsrobodo, Friday, 9 January 2015 23:22 (nine years ago) link
what was nasty's beef with roska about again?
― Benny B, Friday, 9 January 2015 23:46 (nine years ago) link
Well Marcus was probably playing "I'm Fly" earlier but the video was mid-2010.
I think the roundtable is interesting in that it goes beyond "bad corny MC tunes killed funky" and unpacks what that means. The issue wasn't "Head Shoulders Knees & Toes" or "Are You Gonna Bang Doe" per se - few if any of the key DJs even played those tunes - so much as how they:
1. created a sense of easy mainstream crossover which - when it wasn't really fulfilled - made funky seem like a commercial failure in a way that limited people's capacity to sell their work as "funky"; and
2. pushed away the older audience who started identifying with "house" again.
― Tim F, Saturday, 10 January 2015 00:44 (nine years ago) link
Yeah those points were put across really well and I'm probably being too facile. I guess what it boils down to is that I really don't like "I'm Fly".
― tsrobodo, Saturday, 10 January 2015 01:22 (nine years ago) link
"Head Shoulders Knees & Toes" is still the absolute shit tho. Every genre gotta have its ringtone rap.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 10 January 2015 02:36 (nine years ago) link
RIP my hard drive from the late 00s I had all this shit on ;_;
― The Reverend, Saturday, 10 January 2015 02:37 (nine years ago) link
two things from me:
first, a youtube playlist of 500 UK Funky songs I made
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhv5FL0vpzUmZVNeDwOv3p0x6iBvPhU9t
...and a mix to go with it
http://soundcloud.com/benny-brassic/uk-funky-oldskool-session-2015-benny-brassic
1. Casanova (Fuzzy Logik remix) - Monique Lawrence2. Lost in your house - Miss Fire3. Addicted - Peremapay & Dee ft. Cleo Sol4. Track 2 - Wiley5. House Girls 7 (No war inside) - Mad One6. Holograph - Roska7. Friend of mine - Major Note$8. Dejavoodoo (Geeneus remix) - Beezy9. Touch my (Mr Majika mix) - Mos Wanted Mega ft. Janee10. Get up - Jook 1011. Get off the wall (Delio D Cruz remix) - Kcat12. I want it all (Ed Case UK Funky mix) - Trak D13. Nitro - Lil Silva14. Learn your ABC - Maddison15. Report to the dancefloor - Rapid16. Stompa - Seany B17. Motherboard - Champion18. Cooking - Enrique Benitez19. Bongo Jam instrumental - Crazy Cousinz20. Creeper - Unknown dub21. Hurricane riddim - Funkystepz22. Smile - Funky Twinz ft. Angel J23. Unfinished business - Aphrodisiax24. People keep dancing - Maddison ft. Murdz 8625. Get a hit - Scottie D26. Signed and sealed - Courtney Dennie27. Preacher's daughter - Mr Mathz
― Benny B, Saturday, 24 January 2015 17:36 (nine years ago) link
!!!
― The Reverend, Saturday, 24 January 2015 19:44 (nine years ago) link
I've been trying to rebuild my UK funky selection cause my hard drive from that era died without backup and it's some of my favorite music ever. This will be super helpful!
― The Reverend, Saturday, 24 January 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
glad to be of use! it took quite a while to put together, theres still plenty of great tunes i wanted to include that aren't on youtube, but its as comprehensive a list as you you're likely to find i reckon.
btw anyone know who made that creeper bootleg thats on the mix?
― Benny B, Saturday, 24 January 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
Pretty sure it's Maxwell D & Bean Funky Creeper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFzQheuI1EE
It's one of the only ones I remember anyway.
Mix looks ace.
― jimitheexploder, Saturday, 24 January 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
thats it! thanks its been bugging me for ages. never would have guessed!
― Benny B, Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
Mix looks excellent Benny, will check shortly.
― Tim F, Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link
http://uk.complex.com/music/2015/01/complex-uk-20-best-uk-funky-tracks/
https://twitter.com/geeneus/status/555389032612757505
― r|t|c, Sunday, 25 January 2015 12:49 (nine years ago) link
lol i am loving this imaginary uk funky revival tbh... all the other aggro uk urban music gets nostalgia and hugs round the campfire but mention fucking soca tribal bongo jams and it's goon armshouse within minutes
― r|t|c, Sunday, 25 January 2015 12:55 (nine years ago) link
I will never understand Makeda's taste in funky tunes, it always seemed so random esp. when it would be combined with these boilerplate "state of the nation" pronouncements about funky as a scene which would make you expect more rote opinions, but no, she always followed her own oddball muse.
"The Funky Anthem" @ number 3???
― Tim F, Sunday, 25 January 2015 13:03 (nine years ago) link
ha I like how after all of Geeneus' aggro, Marcus Nasty jumps in there being completely reasonable
― The Reverend, Sunday, 25 January 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
v interested to see how the uk makes out with complex or complex makes out in the uk or ... whatever
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 26 January 2015 01:00 (nine years ago) link
Does anyone have a non-garbage quality mp3 of the Aidonia version of "Inflation"?
― aybaybayfan (The Reverend), Saturday, 31 January 2015 23:33 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I've got one rev - I'll stick it up later.
Prompted to revive this thread again by listening to the DJ OneDrop 'Kingston Flavour' mix and suddenly realising it's one of my favourite mixes ever, kinda the ur-Azonto mix in places.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 7 February 2015 19:08 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/funkystepz/status/564370948108087296
― aybaybayfan (The Reverend), Sunday, 8 February 2015 10:45 (nine years ago) link
It appears I've only got the Aidonia track in 192 which may be all that exists in for that matter, I assume that's too shonky for your purposes?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 8 February 2015 11:04 (nine years ago) link
The one I could find is only in 128 so that would be an improvement.
― aybaybayfan (The Reverend), Sunday, 8 February 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link
Does anyone have this in better than 64kbps mp3? Have been looking for the past 3 weeks, but haven't been able to do better than that (which is really rubbish).
― toby, Saturday, 28 February 2015 08:47 (nine years ago) link
sorry can't help u, just bumping this thread to keep it next to the future brown one
― r|t|c, Saturday, 28 February 2015 10:24 (nine years ago) link
sounds better than 64 kbps - https://www.mixcloud.com/mashupcrew/what-you-call-it-uk-funky-3-kingstonflavour/
― just sayin, Saturday, 28 February 2015 10:49 (nine years ago) link
?
here's the onedrop mix and the aidonia.
― dbs, Saturday, 28 February 2015 11:24 (nine years ago) link
and here's a bassboy banger that i missed at the time and randomly found a few days ago while looking to upgrade some tunes:
bassboy ft pheleba - only you
― dbs, Saturday, 28 February 2015 11:32 (nine years ago) link
thanks!
― raih dednelb (The Reverend), Sunday, 1 March 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link
Awesome - thanks so much for this!
― toby, Sunday, 1 March 2015 09:36 (nine years ago) link
np
― dbs, Sunday, 1 March 2015 12:11 (nine years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/l_phonix/blend-masterbuilders-l-phonix-yllavation-remix-free-download
― transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Friday, 12 June 2015 08:36 (eight years ago) link
not even sure what funky is in 2015 but it should all be like that imo ^
― transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Monday, 15 June 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2016/04/05/drake-one-dance-uk-funky-crazy-cousinz-sample/
This is a catastrophic moment in the history of music.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 12:08 (eight years ago) link
drake - not a funky house sceptic
― just sayin, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:31 (eight years ago) link
more a funky house septic
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:46 (eight years ago) link
come on j0rd be real u know u ride for this
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 23:37 (eight years ago) link
lol
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 00:02 (eight years ago) link
does r|t|c?
i cant