funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

Believe me I know!! But also it's very difficult to search for :-(

i forgot: bits of scratcha's set veered unexpectedly into an almost fidget-house direction. this is the sort of thing i mean when i say it's all completely in flux.

all the anthems got dropped too - "in the morning", "gabryelle refix", "pull it"...

Lex I'd be interested to hear your opinion of his pure funkstep set (linked above) compared to the set you're describing (which sounds much more my thing obv)

Also did you hear the actual Fantastic 4 dj set on Rinse a while back - Ill Blu / Roska / Scratcha / D-Malice all taking turns playing 2 tracks each?

That was great. So many amazing unreleased Ill Blu dubs in particular.

nah i never have time to listen to 4hr rinse sets, dunno how you manage it!

By never listening to anything else anymore basically :-/

Except Electrik Red I guess.

This is the one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTWZWA-sDEI

BLOODY HELL (reposted from Dissensus):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiKqbMbosz4

still, wrt the various appellations being tossed around from month to month - i think, as i tweeted the other day, these ephemeral genre names are the product of genres currently in real flux due to astonishingly high levels of creativity from so many directions. a lot of really individual, distinct producers and djs working within the same scene and taking influences from such a variety of sources. it's a really exciting time to be paying attention to the whole of this spectrum.

― lex pretend, Friday, 2 October 2009 10:56 (2 days ago) Bookmark

this otm i think.
yeah that geeneus/ms dynamite track is so so huge. it got dropped at beyond like four times or sth by various people, but never quite had the dancefloor impact i thought it deserved. kode9 dropped it at the 2562 album launch party at corsica studios on friday tho - brilliant!

way behind, but "Crackish" and "Pull It, Wheel It" are slaying me right now

can't find an mp3 of "Crackish" tho :(

It's been retitled "get low", though that doesn't help re finding mp3s either

more femme MC bangers please UK funky!

lol at the retitling. much less memorable!

was it "skeptics" originally?

ha that was my first thought too but Iko/lko is referring to the Geeneus/Ms Dynamite track, which seems to have been retitled from "Crackish" to main lyric "Get Low".

funky house septics

i think the instrumental was crackish but its now been retitled for the vocal. kinda standard way of doing things...

yup was referring to crackish. was the thread retitled too or sth?

http://dissensus.com/showpost.php?p=205204&postcount=3890

suppose i'm munching garage madeleines in enjoying another mc crowdscene so much more than i do your average, but this set is different gravy to me still.

(ps i would call attention to the dude bigging up "tim geek in australia" at 16:52 but turns out that is somewhat overshadowed by "big up clive anderson" at 14:00. soz.)

Yeah that set is brill, though the sound quality is harsh esp. on earphones.

Tim Geek in Australia:

http://twitter.com/g33k84

How great is the rap about garage immediately afterwards that though.

This new Digital Dubstar/Miss Fire track reminds me of those circa 2000 garage tracks with the massive instrumental b-line drops. Does Miss Fire ever put a foot wrong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UQqP47M5Ns

bah don't remind me about footloose leaving 1xtra, i'm devastated enough as it is! the funkstep fiasco erupting the same week as him doing one was a savage coincidence and a half.

although yes i am aware he's subbing for dj q already.

http://www.myspace.com/dennisferrer

have you heard this new 'hey hey' ferrer cut?? i just thought he mightve been cashing in on a bit of cockney love on some roska 'lovely day' tip, but turns out he went the whole hog and got lol VIVIEN GOLDMAN to do that vocal. cleanup on aisle reynolds!!

also since reynolds insists on being such a cheap cloth-eared dick wrt to scoring random sub-carmodian points off broken beat so he can belatedly work funky into the nuum - look dogg, a funky relick of afronaught's 'transcend me' - http://www.myspace.com/tribalaudio

really like that out of everyone geeneus (however negligibly) ended up remixing 'good life' - very much his sort of detroity sound to begin with no?

happily i guess this also now means you don't have to listen to lifelong r&b troopers who just so happen to find themselves operating in a post-dubstep milieu to hear los da maestro in a funky set. phew.

i expected more from geeneus remaking good life. its like something some no-name would do. and yeah, cos hes always been pretty technoy anyway i thought it would be more inspired.

would love it if some funky producer remade IG cultures the sun or something. or just played it at least.

transcend me is good when the singing stops.

I think about 50% of the music ppl dl from me on s1sk is funky.

That Stush track Lex linked to is phenomenal. It's made me realise that, what I want more than anything, is her spitting over a ruff physical funky remix of Green Velvet's 'Answering Machine'.

"I don't need this <squeak>SHIT!</squeak>"

Was thinking about how "Get Low" almost cynically targets all my aesthetic biases. It makes me want to resist it and contraristan for something else but there's no point, it's just too satisfying.

I give it six months before a lot of (still) funky house skeptics retrospectively annoint it a classic.

but everyone is anointing it a classic now...?

the skeptics are? or the ppl who already love funky

oh i don't even know who the sceptics are any more.

apart from "the british public"

I'd say less sceptical and more "almost completely ignorant of its existence".

Yeah clearly a lot of people who already love funky are anointing it a classic, I mean it feels kinda like a "Destiny" or a "Neighbourhood" or a "Boo" - tunes that even people who aren't into garage that much will admit is classic. This doesn't impact on its quality one way or the other obv.

anyone who likes dubstep/grime/funky/garage would agree its an instant classic. people who dont prob would, if it actually got some exposure outside the scene. but i dont think it is getting that, well apart from on 1xtra or choice maybe.

Yeah that's what I mean, it kinda parades its classic-ness to anyone who has even a passing interest in tangentially connected stuff.

In other news the October 4 Marcus rinse set is really strong, lots of really bizzaro tunes from Naughty Raver and Passa Passa (sp? I keep on almost typing "pari passu").

cool. i taped that one but not heard it yet. i hate listening to rinse podcasts. the quality is so tinny.

suppose i have to be the one dissenting voice here - i don't actually find the wizened bellicose perma-screwface miss dynamite's cultivated since she came back a few years ago overly enjoyable. i mean it's good on 'crackish' in a generic jamaican ingredient + extra rhythmic diversion kinda fashion but in no way does it culminate in the level of brilliant personality of the other tunes you're elevating it to. (i accept this is partly down to previous affections to ms d but then that's hardly an unfair thing to do either.)

obv that does make me sound a bit "bubbla ranks maaaaade 'mysterious girl' maaaan", but fuck it, i'll take the hit.

No, well, it's not actually as good as those three tunes, if anything it's me wondering how much I can jab people who only praise this kinda tune without my snark somehow reflecting on the music.

haha yes well the WELCOME TO MY WORLD FINNEY subplot throughout this thread is one i particularly happen to enjoy.

especially liked the 'come to mama' passapassa tune on that marcus set! all the sticky-style spanish guitar and "tu sais tu es ingenue..." etc urbane continentalisms before she grabs you by the lapels.

agreed on Get Low impressions so far = more Ramp than Booo! (latter of a certain familiar poster's 10 of the noughties list fame). would expect nuum bangers to help critical (+?) cred for funky but after Pull It (and its temporary solitariness) feels like the best case for Get Low is to stake out more turf confirm/push territorial lines: this TOO is MINE - yah funky!

(prefer hushed intimacy of "Speechless" meself)

"Get Low" does sound great in the mix though! check it around 8 tracks in on Footloose's latest 1XTRA show (up for 5 days more from today).

feeling this Footsteps - "Rewind" tune too! and Cherri - "School Daze (Delirious remix)" - some of these tunes are shiny in almost New Pop way! plus electro-riffage

on the dark and dutty side is anyone else feeling the recent Bok Bok tracks? Dre Skull - "I Want You (Bok Bok VIP dub)" and the Night Slugs EP. something mysterious and sensual (but still bangin') - a more exciting use of dub than I've heard in dubstep itself.

especially liked the 'come to mama' passapassa tune on that marcus set! all the sticky-style spanish guitar and "tu sais tu es ingenue..." etc urbane continentalisms before she grabs you by the lapels.

yes this was particularly awesome, though in an almost sickly kind of way. Really liking this new trend of near-punishing diva tracks, for which I guess Enrique Benitez's "Cooking" forms the new standard industry blueprint.

^ "Really liking this new trend of near-punishing diva tracks" = posts very much in character.

(prefer hushed intimacy of "Speechless" meself)

Do you mean the DJ Mystery track Paul? Love it too, also the glacial sunburn of the recent DJ Naughty remix. I like how Naughty's holding on to his core sound but tweaking it slightly to make it feel more intense and woozy (see also his not-quite-so-good-but-still-good carnivalesque remix of Sean Kingston's "Fire Burning").

Also pleased to finally hear Donaeo's remix of "Birthday Sex". It does exactly what it needs to and no more.