funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

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

FINALLY.

dont like the mighty moe so much but the stush is great (more female mcs please). she has already come back though, on that f yr x tune with sway last year...

*more female mcs over funky i mean. i think theres a dynamite one out there that ive not yet heard...

One of the best things about funky is that it's a great vehicle for awesome female MCs who either missed out on grime altogether (Ms Dynamite, Lady Stush) or were unjustifiably sidelined by it (Shystie).

fingers x'ed for no lay to be next...

No Lay might be a bit aggressive and confrontational but you never know.

She should voice "Time To Get Nasty" for sure.

even shystie is a bit much for funky, never mind no lay.

titchy have you heard the "Pull It Wheel It" remix tho? it's fabulous!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N91h2_CYj0

Haha considering my favourite record this year is Your Eye Too Fast I'm not really sure what I mean by "too aggressive and confrontational" here.

i really liked shystie when she was around. i think she was a better mc than a lot of the male mcs who had more hype around them than her for whatever reason. i know that track tim - its not bad. id really like to hear stush sound a bit more on-form (that track up there is good but she doesnt sound as on it as she usually is) and dynamite on some funky (spyro played some old dynamite last night which made me remember just how insanely lethal she was). hot like fire with sticky was cool but the chorus just totally dragged the momentum down - i hate when producers do that fast/slow switch.

there was a snippet on the heatwave blog of the new dynamite + geeneus track

Not sure if you saw upthread but Dynamite has voiced Geeneus' "Crackish", what I've heard sounds pretty amazing.

xpost!

just heard it. sounds brill. not as rigorous/dextrous as the old stuff but still good. geeneus is an insanely good producer.

(i meant shes not as dextrous as how she used to be, not geeneus).

i'm gonna wait til i hear the full thing in decent quality to judge but the snippet is v promising. i hate snippets and radio rips though. she sounded dexterous enough on 'bad gyal' which, when all is said and done, is still prob my favourite of the female mc funky tracks...

i think stush is a perfect female funky mc - playful, feminine (but not in a speech debelle kind of way lol), funny as fuck, and pretty nifty in how she rides the beat. thats why i didnt like too many man - too gruff, forceful, and heavyhanded but why KIGs tune is still great.

I love Too Many Man but then I think of it as grime really.

I'd say it's both.

grunky innit.

One of my favourite female MC funky performances is the female MC that Heatwave feature on top of Sami Sanchez's "Dirty Trumpet" at the beginning of their 21 May show. Not sure if it's a dubplate or if it was done live or what but it's jawdropping.

haha i love how tim's favourite [x] is always some random moment in a radio show

yeah I know it's all a bit lol tim. But that's how it is! i just love all this stuff so much. I'm currently writing a long epic piece on how listening to funky has kinda remapped a lot of my thoughts about music generally, which is an even more stereotypically me thing to do.

Also listened to my favourite Mak10 show tonight (the one from March with the tracklisting above) and was struck again by just how many brilliant tracks there are on it, so many of which I still don't know the identity of...

Okay, so the Cooly G set currently up on the rinsefm site is great great great, much better than the Fact mix I reckon.

http://relay.exequo.org/rinsefm/podcast/CoolyG6709.mp3

Hello to all the sceptics!

a little BIT FUNKY presents ‘The VIP Showcase’

If you're into UK funky music Download 'The VIP Showcase', its got some 4 to the floor, some dancefloor tracks, and a little hint of breakbeat for those who like it heavy!

The zip file contains 24 original and remix tracks produced by myself, and includes covers.

Facebook alittlebitfunky if you're interested in getting hold of any of the beats on there

Enjoy

http://www.sendspace.com/file/m7h220

anybody got an mp3 of the crazy cousinz remix of cudi/crookers?

Should we be excited by the upcoming Marcus Nasty Rinse mix? (Rinse 10)

Anybody wanna be awesome and up that Cooly G set that Tim linked to a few posts ago somewhere? The new Rinse site seems rather impossible to download from right now.

i only have the CC cudi rmx on their mixed album, jordan (i assume you have this?) but maybe the greenmoney rmx will tide you over http://www.4shared.com/file/94148484/892f060a/Kid_Cudi_vs_Crookers_-_Day_N_Nite__Green_Moneys_Up_All_Nite_Remix__wwwmusic4youhu.html

think tim repped for greenmoney's busy signal remix upthread too - also recommend their remix of twizzle's 'skydiving', and their 'love lockdown' one is worth hearing too

im excited for the marcus rinse mix but am wondering what it will sound like without an mc... hope its not just all his favourites that have been rinsed (no pun) out though...

I'm kinda hoping that he does include a lot of his favourites that I rarely hear anywhere else, e.g:

- "If you want it then you gotta take it boy you gotta ask for it don't ya wanna own it honey"
- DevineRecordings/Madd.One - Gotta Have It ( the one that goes "dap dap daabbherber!!")
- Lil' Silva - Tribal Land
- DJ Naughty - Love Lockdown
- Yazz - Energy

from the guardian review - It's a quick-fire mix that catapults the listener through 30 new tracks in just over an hour, where you're as likely to hear an uninterrupted stretch of steel pans, synths and soca as a song like Roska and Jamie George's quirky, charming Wonderful Day. Accordingly, Marcus Nasty mixes the grit of grime (Lil Silva's Seasons ), with R&B vocals (Fuzzy Logic feat Egypt's In the Morning) in a raw ride that makes you want to reach for the airhorn.

So of course the Guardian singles out "Wonderful Day" for special praise.

Wait till some chancer collaborates with wotsisname from the Arctic Monkeys.

OTOH a blend of "Seasons" and "In The Morning" could be :-O

A pedant writes, but that was actually in the Observer rather than the Guardian. Possibly the OMM now I come to think of it. The Graun has largely ignored funky up to now, one Crazy Cousinz interview notwithstanding.