couple of weeks ago i found myself waiting upon a night bus at the stop opposite the hackney empire, which has a little club or bar type thing in the corner there if yall familz. anyway as i harrumphed @ tfl in my dishevelled state i recognised a vaguely familiar sound emanating from said venue. gadzooks (i remarked internally) if it isnt the migraine skank by gracious k! and a live pa at that! shortly afterwards an unimpressive gang of revellers streamed out of the place and ran to the nearby bus stop and back again, to muted cheers. come up on stage all of you cried gracious k. i put my headphones in and pulled up citymapper once more, content to accept that funky was still dead.
― r|t|c, Thursday, 9 June 2016 00:32 (seven years ago) link
jam with the usual "shout out to jack poppy olivia and gabriel in halls" beeb biz. [actual transcript, no golby]. least he got tadow horns in there i spose
― r|t|c, Thursday, 9 June 2016 00:38 (seven years ago) link
All the streaming services deleted "this is classic uk funky" from their sites. RIP genre, you are now a drake meme
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 2 September 2016 07:02 (seven years ago) link
In all seriousness if someone has a zip for that comp I'd kill for it
hadnt seen it before
https://www.7digital.com/artist/various-artists/release/this-is-classic-uk-funky-house
this seems to be the only place where it's still listed to buy (and flacs too) but uk only i'm supposing
u might have decent luck seeking the tracks individually, esp if the ogs itt still have functional hard drives from then unlike myself
― r|t|c, Friday, 2 September 2016 09:18 (seven years ago) link
I have like 95% of that comp anyway but the mix was nice Friday evening comfort food. It's one of the few places where the Aidonia Bounce is commercially available as well and certainly the only place where it was on a streaming service.
― Matt DC, Friday, 2 September 2016 09:22 (seven years ago) link
Ugh "Funky Steps".
that comp totally passed me by too. i've got most of the tunes already but theres a few that weren't available or that i've never even heard before (or maybe just forgotten) that i might have to grab.
anyway, FNG - Night time july : this tune sounds super super familiar, did it come out under another name? i'm sure i've got it but can't find anything by FNG on the harddrive
― Benny B, Friday, 2 September 2016 15:15 (seven years ago) link
^^ it's by fingaprint
― dbs, Friday, 2 September 2016 15:50 (seven years ago) link
aah yeah had a feeling it was off invasion records thanks! i had that 12" with space invasion on the flip, classic riddims both.
― Benny B, Friday, 2 September 2016 16:30 (seven years ago) link
Looks like there is a US download for this 🙏🏻 thanks rtc
Yeah it wasn't so much that this was some kind of defining document or something as it was an easily available overview that touched on many of the important records, unlike the trash playlist introductions to uk funky or whatever
Also "do you mind" is no longer on streaming 🤔 *looks to toronto*
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 2 September 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdRFqYopBRI
never forget (= totally forget until just now)
― r|t|c, Friday, 2 September 2016 19:55 (seven years ago) link
https://www.7digital.com/artist/ministry-of-sound/release/the-sound-of-uk-funky
this one isn't so bad in retrospect. rly it's only the keystone invasion crew (fingaprint & tadow) cuts that set the other one apart
― r|t|c, Friday, 2 September 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link
https://www.beatport.com/track/lets-do-it-again-kenny-dope-dub/546305
by the by i was looking for something else a while ago and accidentally reacquainted myself with this utter classic, probably somewhat forgotten bit of foundational filth
― r|t|c, Friday, 2 September 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link
Tadow's "Rising Sun" remains the archetypal "makes no sense on its own but is the best tune ever in the mix" track.
― Tim F, Friday, 2 September 2016 21:11 (seven years ago) link
I for one never forgot and will never forget the "Find Your Love" remix.
― Tim F, Friday, 2 September 2016 21:14 (seven years ago) link
My treasured Marcus Nasty 2008 sets are sounding particularly excellent to date. I think I've been in mourning ever since funky died .
― Tim F, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 08:52 (seven years ago) link
do you still listen to (current) UK radio Tim? I haven't for a long time. always wonder if I'm missing much... to be honest what I do miss recently is dropping in here to ILM casually and seeing you and r|t|c raving about dance bangers on threads like this. after decades of underground dance and a houseful of 12"s it was a relief to slow things down. what I want now is tunes that scratch every itch!
― Paul, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
https://beta.mixcloud.com/RadarRadioLDN/ahadadream-w-crazy-cousinz-17th-december-2016/
here be flukes, back solo under the crazy cousinz moniker with a half hour guest mix and short interview at 45mins in which he reflects on his "captivating year" having pound notes pouring from every pocket enjoying the patronage of a nice group of teenagers that are currently proudly purveying a super ultra new global bass type post-funky zzz (you may have seen it around being enticingly referred to as 130bpm). (all the yuppies lex stabbed in the back in that final episode of funky house of cards revenged themselves upon him by having kids i guess). "people are taking it more seriously than the scene we had before".
the mix is not unpleasant with the old riddims to begin with but swiftly nosedives into a dog's breakfast of irrelevant semi-modern solecisms. the usual.
brother tim will now join me in donning the old ceremonial robes and gravely chanting "i'm a wise old yoot and i know what's what."
― r|t|c, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
10 years' time let's see what we got.
God knows I might hate it, God knows I might not.
― Tim F, Sunday, 18 December 2016 21:10 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/u8J3nQI.gif
― r|t|c, Sunday, 18 December 2016 21:14 (seven years ago) link
^^^ otm
― Tim F, Sunday, 18 December 2016 21:20 (seven years ago) link
crying @ funky house of cards
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 18 December 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
that ahadadream set was so tedious i've decided to share the gift of xmas with some liquidated stock
https://soundcloud.com/iambru/bru-c-x-tc4-marimba-freestyle-1https://soundcloud.com/tc4wolves/bambohttps://soundcloud.com/tc4wolves/tc4-x-moad-corona-1
these frootloopy tc4 2016 treetz should actually really be filed in the old PVC thread i guess, except the chocolate puma student whiteboy grimey bigbeat basshouse scene never reveals itself to me whenever i delve. maybe because it doesnt exist!!! oh well enjoy
― r|t|c, Sunday, 18 December 2016 22:11 (seven years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/rinsefm/marcusnasty211216
OI.
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 12:54 (seven years ago) link
actually everything after vapour arrives at 50mins is a towering garbage inferno, don't even bother. but that first half!!!
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 13:57 (seven years ago) link
^^^^^
This is tremendous.
I don't even recognise most of the tracks from about 23 minutes (other than the obvious like "Rass Out" and "Seasons").
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 04:27 (seven years ago) link
grateful not to have been commuting when 'crackish' crept in. woulda done a madness.
i love the whole bit where coldsteps is like 'alright let me give them a conscious one' and you just hear shants in the background going YES. YES. YES. YES.
also funny cos coldsteps has only ever had one conscious one and it is his horrible apocalyptic "bodies burning ending up in bins" piece. which still sounded fucking incredible because somehow, impossibly, only marcus-ly, warm queasy synth pads suddenly bloomed from the tune out of nowhere at the very exact moment he says "take a look things just got worse", just like a poisoned 4hero 'loveless'. incredible scenes
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 08:46 (seven years ago) link
Sad to think that some people don't get that this music is the nicest vibes of all time.
I tried to write "biggest vibes" but my phone changed it to "nicest vibes", my phone otm tbh.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 11:17 (seven years ago) link
― r|t|c, Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:38 Bookmark
https://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/exclusive-mistajam-response-independent-drake-top-boy-working-class-culturehttps://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/exclusive-mistajam-response-independent-drake-top-boy-working-class-culturehttps://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/exclusive-mistajam-response-independent-drake-top-boy-working-class-culture
― r|t|c, Monday, 10 April 2017 16:21 (seven years ago) link
EEDIAT
Just to let you all know about my new mixcloud where I'm uploading all the classic era uk funky sets I can find, 60 sets so far.
https://www.mixcloud.com/Classic_UK_Funky_Sets/
You'll find most of the sets that got raved about and discussed in this thread - Marcus Nasty 2008> on Deja/Rinse, formative 2007 sets from Supa D, Taffa, Kismet, Hardhouse Banton & Dubplate Wonder, funkystepz, Ill Blu, loads of my own recordings of live FM from Petchy, Devine Recordings and whatever else I could gather together.
I've already gone a bit mad on this and don't have much more to upload but I'd like to keep it going, so if any of you lot have got classic material that I haven't got, please share and I'll upload it.
― Benny B, Thursday, 3 May 2018 09:16 (six years ago) link
OMG Benny.
I lost so many of my favourite funky sets when my computer died last year, this is a godsend.
― Tim F, Thursday, 3 May 2018 13:04 (six years ago) link
This is my favorite ilx thread of all time. Thanx Benny
― moullet, Friday, 4 May 2018 11:22 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy5T7gl2j08
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:17 (four years ago) link
Baby J - I Wanna Tell You Something ^
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
didn't know where else to put this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsaXoYa9pL0
― omar little, Friday, 28 February 2020 00:54 (four years ago) link
Done a zip of some old funkystepz tunes. If you want it you have 7 days to ask me for it.— Funkystepz (@Funkystepz) May 6, 2020
― just sayin, Thursday, 7 May 2020 06:41 (four years ago) link
I got mine this morning and it is the best. Pastor Lucas! The Whitney refix! All the Rihanna versions!
― boxedjoy, Friday, 8 May 2020 11:50 (four years ago) link
Damn! missed it
― moullet, Sunday, 24 May 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
i asked twice :(
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 24 May 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link
hint taken, keep an eye on your DMs
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 24 May 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
:)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 24 May 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
could you send it to me too, please?
― dbs, Sunday, 24 May 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
thx <3
― dbs, Sunday, 24 May 2020 17:21 (three years ago) link
bj - 😌
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 24 May 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
thx a lot boxedjoy!
― moullet, Thursday, 28 May 2020 11:45 (three years ago) link
A little history lesson on why UK Funky was actually called UK Funky..... Because so many people have asked me this.— N:Fostell (@nfostellmusic) June 11, 2022
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 11 June 2022 23:19 (one year ago) link
Thanks for sharing!
I miss uk funky
― paolo, Sunday, 12 June 2022 10:52 (one year ago) link
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/SPxzVZLrDatFm1rN9Burt Cope - Let U Go
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 15 July 2022 12:37 (one year ago) link