It's a cruel cruel summer: the sounds of deep tech / shuffle / cuttin shapes / upgrunt house / etc. etc. in 2014

I'm not sure whether it's pleasing or annoying that this really is just straight up deep tech.

Yeah. What's definitely annoying is that the piece (and she) doesn't make any reference to the scene or anything, just seems to come out of nowhere.

in happier news Jay Power has outdone himself with this one https://soundcloud.com/djjaypower/ay-power-perch-mc-london-live-1030fm-962015

when the track at 14:30 comes in is the height of everything. anyone know what it is?

Kane Law pulls in the same track halfway through his feature on Radford in April and you can use the two as an exhibit in how great Jay is as a DJ. Like you say Tim "he has a very specific notion of what it is that these tracks are supposed to do" that Kane and most others don't. lets it play out in full, while Kane slams it in without ceremony and cuts it off halfway through. (That Kane's section of the mix is still thrilling despite this is is a tribute to how terrific this music is). https://soundcloud.com/rinsefm/markradford180415

Not just jay though -- Perch knows exactly when to drop in and out of the mix. Went to House of Silk last month and the MC was awful, stomping over everything, but Perch brings it. love his instagram too https://instagram.com/p/55VVbNR1Yr/?taken-by=realperchmc

https://soundcloud.com/kanelawmusic/clip-of-mark-radford-live-from-ministry-of-sound-playing-higher-by-hugo-massien-kane-law-remix

thanks!

good cooly g track

Oh wow this Jay Power set

As with other his earlier sets discussed above he has this real knack of making each track sound like a step up from whatever it's emerging out of, though I'm pretty sure this is an illusion.

A little late, but "From Above" is really great! Only liking a pretty small percentage of this music overall.

This cutting shapes stuff is not how I would have imagined moving to it, but I guess that's pretty moot considering how unlikely it is I will be out dancing to this in clubs any time soon.

wait . . . did anyone know that Luke Larrell who did Serious People a k a the first Audio Rehab release a k a the first deep tech release was previously Flukes from Crazy Cousinz?? Just stumbled on this fact by accident here https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151919639114477&id=43921789476 and hadn't seen any mention of it

latest in k.flint's for promotional use only series https://soundcloud.com/k-flint/for-promotional-use-only-3

if anyone's still out there . . . Cooly G makes the Thump tracks of the year list . . . https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/the-50-best-tracks-of-2015

Self-promotion but I think my review (brutally shortened though it may have been) did a decent job of explaining the vibe of the release:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16809-this-aint-chicago-the-underground-sound-of-uk-house-and-acid-1987-1991/

― Tim F, Friday, 22 February 2013 22:38 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm reckoning if you sub the ecstasy blear there for kanye style modern anomie & grime refugee aggro influence and then inject that into a confluence of the shuffling/shapes urban mnml scene and ejeca/waze & odyssey acid warehouse revival u might possibly have the ldn flavour to come

just saying like

― r|t|c, Friday, 22 February 2013 23:03 Bookmark

https://soundcloud.com/skreamizm/sets/techno-eski-ideas

i'm not srsly rating myself for that before anyone gets funny :)

hopefully it may at least still come to pass that strange static/vybe/kg3 aren't making simultaneously the most crucial yet most irrelevant music ever though. recent stuff is mind-blowing and there just doesnt seem any place for it

Eski techno = A+ hypothetical genre would bang all that shit.

tbh the wishful hypothetical thing i'd most be taken with is some sort of amniotic melange biz drawing from the strange jazzy abstraction of that uk house and acid comp plus the more uncommon bits of that woebot 89-93 uk techno mix on the other thread. lil silva became larry heard so could arun verone become kirk degiorgio etc

basically the thought of if factmag will turn everything into idm then why not have that add up to something more not less idk

lol everyone i can dimly remember from the deeptech scene who began to make sort of interesting experimental guff like that (like imagemk, karlton phillips) has now deleted them off their soundclouds and went all linear zzz again

whats the good non afrobeats non grime non factnerd uk dance music this year. is there a 2016 thread equiv i missed

death by a thousand cuttin shapes

I for one have no clue.

all these dead links make for one depressing thread!!

But “one track and minimal description to be greeted by the retching of grampas” really made me lol.

oh yah lots of good discourse ... just wish the mixes & tracks werent like , vanished