funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

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.

Actually the Observer makes more sense.

No wait Matt you're wrong:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jul/12/funky-house-rinse-10-review

i think matt's right, i remember seeing that in the omm...

do they combine their stuff on the website?

It's a bit cute to claim that Sean Paul has "recorded a version" of "Inflation". Indifferently and sub-standardly freestyling over the top of a tune while flicking through a magazine didn't amount to "recording a version" last time I checked.

Oh yeah, the piece is attributed to The Observer actually.

Nah that's the Observer, you can see in the byline. All Observer content is on the Guardian website as a matter of course, the former being essentially the Guardian on Sunday. </Britishes>

(xpost - damn, I'd been looking forward to that Sean Paul track)

plus sean paul rode inflation quite poorly. that reviewer does all the observers grime/dubstep/funky stuff though so im assuming she knows her stuff.

lex - CC "Day N Night" remix is NOT on their mix album

oh i meant the ministry of sound mix

Tim, is this the tune you think is Madd.One - Gotta Have It (Devine Recordings).

http://www.zshare.net/audio/62721497050089bd/

If it is, they better release this one - some Dave Angel sh*t right here!

(you know what, I meant Dave Clarke)

Ach I love that track but it's not "Gotta Have It"! Don't know what it is I'm afraid.

"Gotta Have It" is on the DevineRecordings myspace page.

Faustus on dissensus posted this Lil Silva interview and minimix on Footloose's show:
Footloose - **LIL SiLvA Mix and Interview**

http://www.divshare.com/download/7917257-098

Dennis Ferrer - Touch the sky
Lil Silva ft Kyla - Something (Different)
Dirty South ft Rudy - Let it go
Lil Silva - Fix
Sticky ft Lady Chann - Yuh Eye Too Fast
Dj Oji & Una - We lift our hands
Lil Silva - Pulse vs Flex
Lil Silva ft Addictive - Drama (Seasons)
Kenny Dope - No hooks (Lil Silva RMX)
Perempay ft Teedra Moses - Be your girl (RMX)
Danny Native - Rass out (Altered Natives)
Lil Silva ft Egypt - In the Morning (RMX)

He namechecks Fedde Le Grand as the producer that got him into house!

Oh K. Gotta find out who that tune's by. Actually I think the hard one by Devine Recordings had a big jungle-style timestretch vocal in it:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/6274059490c9fb7f/

and while I'm at it, I'm sure I knew who this one was by, but I've completely forgotten if that was true or not:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/62740641a7c3c9c2/

Ach I haven't downloaded the first link there but I assume you're talking about Madd.One/Devine Recordings' "House Girls Part 1", which has the timestretched vocal "GIIRRRRRRRRRRLSS!!!!", and the highpitched vocal "yeah yeah!" towards the end.

I don't know the second download but it sounds a bit like Scratcha DVA - especially his remix of "God Made Me Funky".

Ahhhh just listened again to that Scotty D tune from last year based around Armand Van Helden's "Mother Earth" - the one with the "Destruction keeps happening!" vocal. So so so amazing.

He really does have the best aesthetic of any producer in the world I reckon:

1) Beats the size of continents

2) Chilly strings and synthesiser arpeggios

3) Murderous bass surges

4) Fantastically eerie and portentous female vocals ("DREAM!"; "KEEPS HAPPENING!") that seem to tie the music into vocal house, (darkcore) rave and 2-step simultaneously

He should do a funky version of Van Helden's "Conscience" next.

how weird i was just listening to 'conscience' today.

róisín murphy says she's on a funky tip...

The singer told 6 Music that she is some way into recording her third album.

"It is quite gritty, it has a slightly London sound to it, it's a bit more urban and bass-ey than my last record," she explained.

As a taster to the new LP, the singer is set to release new single Demon Lover before the end of the summer.

"I've got a big funky house track ready to go," she said. "It's a souped-up full on garage tune."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8154515.stm

"how weird i was just listening to 'conscience' today."

Not weird, "Conscience" deserves listening to every day.

indeed.

big funky nights this week...planning to reach both of these.

http://www.viceland.com/music/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/picture-1.png
http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs200.snc1/6768_104038731539_656226539_2551493_6960276_n.jpg

these mixes from the night slugs fbook page look good too:

Christian Martin May 2009 Mix
http://www.zshare.net/audio/599598428f72859f/

1. Bop – Clear Your Mind
2. SIS – Sum
3. Sideshow – If Alone (Chateau Flight rmx)
4. Yo! Majesty – Don’t let Go (Radioslave remix)
5. Voodeux – Enter the Voo
6. Audio Dub Odyssey – This Dub (reprise mix)
7. Hugo – Strobo Revenge (Carola Pisaturo remix)
8. A1 Bassline – Girl Thing (Christian Martin remix)
9. Itzone – Azul Magico
10. Style of Eye – Retur
11. Constar – Sunset Tribe (Voodeux’s Dusk Mix)
12. Max Cavalerra – Nostalgia

BOK BOK - LUCKY ME MIX
http://s3.amazonaws.com/luckymedia/32bokbok.mp3

01 - REFUGE - U Best Believe
02 - DONAEO - Love To Happen
03 - MOSCA - Square One
04 - DRE SKULL - I Want You (BOK BOK remix dub)
05 - ALISON HINDS ft MACHEL MONTANO
06 - DJ CLEO - East Rand Funk
07 - R1 RYDERS - Rubberband
08 - DORIAN CONCEPT - Trilingual Dance Sexperience
09 - SHORTSTUFF & MICKEY PEARCE - Tripped Up
10 - ZOMBY - With Lasers
11 - ELECTRIK RED - Drink In My Cup
12 - JOKER & GINZ - Purple City
13 - TERROR DANJAH - Sidechain
14 - BOK BOK - Crew dub
15 - DJ ASSAULT - Vandalism
16 - MR DE - Time Space Scrilla
17 - BASUTBUDET - Take Them Out To Eat (BOK BOK's sundown edit)

TIM F!

Incase u didnt knoo me and Scotty D are toghetha as Funk Factory.. lol..
Jus to claryfy, the signiture of our tracks goes "Now Hear Diss"

Chek out our new track called Sound.. part of the sound E.P that has Liberty on it as well in uptown and rhythm division and let me kno wat u fink..

Major props Smoovie! You guys are the best.

Is "Sound" the track that goes "IT'S THE NEW SOUND"? I had a feeling that might be from your camp. Never stop using shrill female vocal samples.

I will check out the EP, excited that you're finally getting some product into the market place.

Also I have been wondering if that track with the female sample "GIVE YOURSELF! GIVE YOURSELF! GIVE YOURSELF! TO MEEEEEE!" and the insanely juddering choppy groove is by you guys as well.

I'm repeating myself but this stuff is really the pinnacle of modern music, like even before I heard UK funky, my hypothetical "what music would I make if I had talent/skill/equipment" answer would have been something close to this.

"GIVE YOURSELF! GIVE YOURSELF! GIVE YOURSELF! TO MEEEEEE!"

Is this the same sample used in 'Far Out' and probably a load of other old rave tunes as well?

It certainly sounds very "old rave tune" diva exhortation, but I haven't listened to "Far Out" in ages so I can't remember.

It's on that November 2008 Marcus Nasty set with all the MCs. In the first half hour or so i think.