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

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