funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

finally found the Crazy Cousinz release and it is hella nice

The OneDrop mix bumps obviously - love the unexpected experience of the Ripgroove sample durin Bringing It Down.

Maybe it's just the overload of MC's on this one but it feels like virtually every record here references two or three others, like they're trying to reach some kind of critical mass of whoops of recognition. Route one funky!

hey rev can u hook me up?

omg absolutely flipping out at this Teedra Moses funky remix that Mak 10 plays

ladies free before 10
no hoods, hats or trainers
(prada ok)

deej: will do

oh yeah. night slugs on friday with geeneus. REACHING!

http://profile.ak.facebook.com/object3/778/65/n114959012064_159.jpg

Slightly surprised to see Martyn knocking around in there...

http://14tracks.com/selections/63-14_tracks_opening_up_uk_funky

Yeah but that's about the most dubstep take on funky i could imagine. It's all Ramadanman/LD/Kode 9 etc.

Siegbran will be very pleased to know that Marcus Nasty and Mak 10 are playing THIS BADBOY VATO GONZALES TUNE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvzgb7-Doc0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emKzeDqi7g4

That Badman riddim is great.

OMG Geeneus' "Crackles" with Ms Dynamite on vocals!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check the crappy radio rip on www.theheatwave.co.uk - worth it!

track id on "sexy sexy sexy put your fingers all up on me"

Natalie Walker - All Up On Me

thanks!

I want to marry every person commenting on this facebook page:

Best Skanking tunes out there??

i thought sean paul would do better than that...

mak10 kinda killing it right now on rinse... i think i heard some new rapid-produced track that was really good, in spite of the rolex sweep-style 'sexy' vocals.

I haven't heard the above yet but I'm loving his 24 June set for Rinse (under Marcus Nasty - Mak 10 does the first hour then Marcus the second). Very ruff!

Marcus plays this vocal tune "Cookin" by Enrique Benitez (not sure if that's correct) which strikes me as exactly what vocal tunes should be aiming for right now: sassy r&b vocals over a spiky groove that could be from Scotty D, all sharp snares, menacing bass and chilly synth sounds.

The vocal goes "I see you lookin' lookin'/(at) what i've been cookin' cookin'/I wanna take it slow/Watch you go down low..."

the one i like - god knows if its out now, ive stopped keeping track of the 12s as i cant afford to be tempted right now - is the one with the girl talking (very emphatically) about 'i just wanna do you right!' still like that older one 'i dont give a fuck about she'. the new princess one 'big boys' is good for LOLz but its not really on par with frontline. not sure what other good vocals ive heard, except for the fuzzy logik one thats apparently delayed til autumn now cos some major snapped it up.

mak 10 played some DIRTY hard house sounding stuff tonight... sounded brilliant in the car, even better with poor reception lol.

Just now listening to Roska's June 30th set on Rinse and it's great. I don't know what 90 percent of this stuff is though. The song around 9 minutes is killer.

Titchy, the "Do You Right" tune is definitely a Crazy Cousinz remix but I can't remember what the original track is. The "I don't give a..." tune is Yazz's "You, Me & She", probably the DJ Naughty remix.

Yeah "Big Boys" is a bit sub-par. A shame because Ill Blu (who I assume produced it as per "Frontline") is totally smashing it lately. To whit:

Ill Blu - Time To Get Nasty
Shystie - Pull It (Ill Blu Remix)
Kris Bayer - Heartbreaker (Ill Blu Remix)
Aaliyah - Rock The Boat (Ill Blu Remix)

Between these four tunes he's definitely in the running to be producer of the year-so-far.

>Help me fill in the tracklist blanks on the Marcus Nasty/Mak10 26 March set:

did you ever i.d. more of these Tim? if I were able to keep up more I'd like to have helped!

Aaliyah - Rock The Boat (Ill Blu Remix)

UH WHAT

WHAT

SHOW ME

i was also gonna add the ill blu remix of mj cole's 'gotta have it' but the thought of ill blu/aaliyah has fused my brain a bit

also ill blu's own 'rider'

"Rider" is good (as is "Say Yes") but I'd say they're second tier compared to the tracks I listed above. Haven't heard the MJ Cole remix...

Updated Mak 10/Shantie set tracklist:

0:00:00 - Emvee - Love Charm
0:02:50 - J-Will - Deja Vu (Major Notes Remix)
0:05:02 - T2 - Butterflies (Arms Remix) - I THINK, NOT SURE
0:07:14 - Ny - Dangerous
0:09:25 - DJ Q - Your Girl
0:11:36 - Hard House Banton - Sirens
0:12:35 - Unknown - A Little Bit Funky/Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle
0:14:16 - ??? "It's the New Sound!"
0:16:28 - ??? Stuttery drums and sad bleeps
0:17:27 - Addictive - Domino Effect (O.B. Remix)
0:19:53 - ??? Sounds like DJ Naughty maybe
0:21:48 - Sticky and Paleface - Open Your Eyes
0:24:30 - Crazy Cousinz - Always Be Mine
0:26:40 - Donaeo - Love To Happen
0:29:37 - Lil' Silva - Different
0:32:15 - Fuzzy Logic - In The Morning
0:33:29 - ??? Piano tune
0:35:40 - Dotstar - Ransom
0:37:38 - ??? synthy
0:38:52 - Lil' Silva - Seasons
0:41:30 - ??? "Jump and skank to the beat"
0:43:13 - Aaron Carl - Oasis (Nick Holder Dub)
0:44:56 - ??? dancehall-ish with piano, maybe Tadow?
0:46:07 - Hard House Banton - Reign/D Double E Freestyle
0:51:45 - ??? Maybe Fuzzy Logic, piano stomper
0:52:34 - snippet of Princess - Frontline
0:53:18 - Sticky - Juremiah Riddim
0:55:29 - ??? echoing percussion, "work me!"
0:58:25 - Scottie D - ???
0:59:38 - ??? Tribal bleep
1:01:36 - ??? Spooky arpeggios and trance chords
1:03:03 - ??? Histrionic synth blasts
1:04:17 - ??? Feel like I should know this one. "Now move!"
1:07:34 - This is by Karizma I think
1:09:46 - Funkystepz - Funky Sound
1:11:42 - This is by Lil Silva I think
1:12:49 - Scottie D - Dream (fabulous!)
1:14:10 - Rapid - Report to the Dancefloor
1:15:23 - Lil' Silva - Funky Flex vs Pulse
1:17:19 - D-Malice - ???
1:19:02 - Madd.One/DevineRecordings - Tribal Conga
1:20:30 - ??? Eerie horns
1:22:15 - ??? "And I'm here to tell you!" LOVE THIS
1:24:23 - Lil' Silva - ???
1:27:33 - ??? Organ riffs
1:28:35 - ??? Rip Groove samples?
1:30:01 - ??? very Jammer
1:31:00 - Unknown - A Little Bit Funky
1:32:27 - Danny Native - Rass
1:33:42 - ??? Latin percussion
1:35:24 - ??? LOVE THE ARDKORE VIBE ON THIS ONE
1:37:33 - ??? Drum rolls
1:38:43 - Scotty D I think, pretty sure the "Whoidit?" sample is his producer signature.
1:40:57 - ??? Very grimey
1:41:54 - ??? Love the assymetrical groove on this one
1:43:09 - ??? Feel like I should know this one, heard it heaps
1:44:37 - ??? Zipping string riffs
1:46:06 - Roska - In Your Handbag
1:48:01 - ??? Deep house vibe
1:49:32 - ??? More of a tribal deep house thing

Lex, the Ill Blu remix of Aaliyah is all over recent Mak 10/Marcus Nasty sets. Download their June 24 set off the rinse fm blog.

It's great, not as muscular as some of his other productions but very dark and mysterious.

Having real trouble finalising my Top 50 funky tracks for first half of 2009 - the actual shortlist of tracks I lik eand know the name of blows out to about 100, but no way am I gonna do a write-up for all of those.

thanks Tim! LOVE Emvee - "Love Charm"

When I do my big round up I might - MIGHT - be able to offer some exclusive links for special friends. Although it's odd hearing "Love Charm" without Shantie saying "one-two!"

i still love that ny/wookie track even though its old now. but then i still play do you mind like its just come out too. would love to hear that alliyah remix - i think i heard it once, rankin said something like 'you cant go wrong with aaliyah' but i duno which set its on.

Wookie/Ny's "Fallin" is such a classic though, it never sounds tired. Unlike, say, DJ Q's "Your Girl", which I used to like but now could happily never hear again.

On the 24th June set Rankin' says (over the top of "You, Me & She") something, "And a girl asked me why funky house tunes are EMOTIONAL. I dunno, y'know. It's like you ladies got a lotta ISSUES that you gotta get off your chest, innit. So just put it on vinyl!"

I strongly get the impression that he much prefers the vocal tunes to the harder instrumental number, even if they leave less space for him to MC (but then he's only got about six raps anyway...).

ha. a while ago when marcus stopped in the morning, rankin sounded like he almost wanted to go and knock one off as he he was talking about 'I JUST WANNA SEE HER FACE!' hes very much a ladies man, almost to a slightly creepy/sleazy degree lol. and then theres his (now strangely classic?) 'you make my boy hard like rock' verse...

0:05:02 - T2 - Butterflies (Arms Remix) - I THINK, NOT SURE

still loving this - also Ear Dis 'Sexiboogie' (i like to pretend it's Craig David turned good)

The "you make my boy hard like rock" rap is definitely one of his better ones, though he oveuses it. Love the "thinkin' bout you gives me writer's block/a credit crunch couldn't touch our stock" bit.

whats that funky song about how there are too many guys & there need to be more girls??

what a stupid concept for a song. one in a long lineage of weird british dance songs w/ concepts that are about things that no one of either gender wants to envision while they're actually on a dancefloor cf "movin too fast"

Boy Better Know - Too Many Man

I suspect that whatever its stated intention it actually has the opposite effect really.

I think you're wrong about "Moving Too Fast" though deej, the words/body split encouraged by "Moving Too Fast" (flirting physically while singing along to a song telling the other person to fuck off) is Dancefloor 101.

80 Funky Tunes for 1st Half 2009 (I considered going to 100 but, arbitrarily, decided that was a step too far):

1 - 10:
1. Crazy Cousinz - Inflation
2. J-Will - Deja Vu (Major Notes Remix)
3. Royal P - Between Us
4. Addictive - Domino Effect (O.B. Remix)
5. Ill Blu - Time To Get Nasty
6. Fuzzy Logic ft. Egypt - In The Morning
7. Pearson Sound - Wad
8. Shystie - Pull It, Wheel It (Ill Blu Mix)
9. Scotty D - Dream
10. Lil' Silva - Tribal Land

11 - 20:
11. Perempay & Dee - Buss It
12. Mos' Wanted - Different Lekstrix
13. Lil' Silva - Sunshine
14. K.I.G. - Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes (Donaeo Remix)
15. DJ Naughty - Love Lockdown
16. Sami Sanchez - Dirty Trumpet
17. Jalla - Turbulence
18. Darkus Beat Company - Promises (Original and Roska Remix)
19. Scratcha DVA - Hard House
20. Funkystepz - Funky Sound

21 - 30:
21. Crazy Cousinz - Always Be Mine
22. Devine Recordings - Gotta Have It
23. Funkystepz - Trinity Hill
24. Kris Bayer - Heartbreaker (Ill Blu Remix)
25.Donaeo - Party Hard
26 Lil' Silva - Different
27. Mos' Wanted - Frozen
28. Sticky - Jumeriah Riddim
29. Fuzzy Logic - The Way You Move
30. Mighty Moe - Ride Again

31 - 40:
31. Donaeo - Love To Happen
32. Fr3e - Skank Calm Down
33. Sticky & Lady Chann - Your Eye Too Fast/Maxwell D - Text Text Text
34. Vato Gonzales - Badman Riddim
35. Mercurial Myrmidon - House of Emotion
36. Aaliyah - Rock The Boat (Ill Blu Remix)
37. Busy Signal - Tic Toc (Green Money Remix)
38. Geeneus ft. Ms Dynamite - Crackish
39. Delerious - Truthful
40. Emvee - Love Charm

41 - 50:
41. Brasstooth - Celebrate Life (DJ Footloose Mix)
42. Maleka - Go (Crazy Cousinz Remix)
43. Danny Native - Rass Out
44. Danny Scrilla - Funky Optimus Prime
45. Grievous Angel vs Riko - I Love This War (Ice Rink)
46. Swift Jay vs Suges - Tribe
47. Enrique Benitez - Cookin'
48. Cooly G - Dis Boy 04
49. Dotstar - Ransom
50. BlackCoffee- Turn Me On

51 - 60:
51. Swift Jay - Barefoot
52. LA Cartier - Call Me
53. Rapid - Report To The Dancefloor
54. Yazz & DJ Naughty - Energy
55. Roska - In Your Handbag
56. Robyn S - Show Me Love (Geeneus Remix)
57. Rudenko - Everybody (Fingaprint Remix)
58. Footsteps - Tell Me
59. Nat-Mor - I Feel
60. Sami Sanchez - What

61 - 70:
60. Roska & Jamie George - Wonderful Day
61. Fuzzy Logic - Roots
62. Ny - Dangerous
63. Natalie Walker - All Up On Me
64. Undisputed - Sunglasses
65. Fingaprint - Night Time in July
66. Crazy Cousinz - Bongo Jam (L-Vis 1990 & Bok Bok Refix)
67. Alesha Dixon - Breathe Slow (Jam & Tonic's Blakhouse Vocal Remix)
68. John Legend - When I Used To Love You (Dubplate Wonder Remix)
69. Karizma - Darqness (Tru Remix)
70. Kid Cudi vs Crookers - Day & Night (Crazy Cousinz Remix)

71 - 80:
71. Marc Ambience - Rain Dance
72. Cooly G - Love Dub
73. Darkus Beat Company - Rubicon Guava
74. Royal P - Like That
75. Soul Gypsy - Black Russian
76. Miss Fire ft Van Kleef - Lost In Your House
77. Fuzzy Logic - Polyfunk
78. BKP - Boom Ting
79. OB - ER
80. NB Funky - Riddim Box

i hate too many man. everyone on there sounds desperate to make an anthem, wiley sounds bored, fuck knows what scratchys doing on there, and i dont think ive heard it played by many funky djs either (though i could be wrong). its too grimey. doesnt sound right.

i've heard it out quite a lot. it's not amazing but it works well in most sets, it's pretty malleable and you can ~repurpose~ it to your own ends.

Is the grime-orchestral backing ripped from "Are You Really From The Ends"? They should so revive the VIP mix of that as a funky track.

i kind of assumed the whole song was a jump-off from that track...

not as good though...

I want to draw special attention to Mighty Moe's "Ride Again", which I haven't discussed in this thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmdbYnwjT0Y

1) Welcome home Mighty Moe! I've missed you since yr amazing verse on Static's "Charge". I love your total indifference to the notion of actually saying much at all.

2) That beat! Compare and contrast with my comments way at the top of this thread - "I like that the genre is increasingly coalescing around that post "Cure & The Cause" sound but with a stronger Carribean influence - I'm hoping it becomes even more syncopated." Look how far we've come! This is like "Mash Up Da Venue" headwrecking business.

3) The stabbing piano chords. I feel like funky is just doing so much great community work under the heading "promotion of the public benefit of piano".

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7xHBpqKcsk

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BOOMING

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?niwiynikqg4