So we're... blah blah blah... of the way through 2009; what records are worth listening to so far?

Sarges, the Crazy Cousinz mixes are def worth your time.

Beanie Sigel - The Broad Street Bully

Still an unrepentant scumbag, it sounds like.

― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, November 8, 2009 5:01 AM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wtf?

Rudipherous is from Philly and is for some reason connecting Philly resident Beanie's real life stints that have led to jailtime with his album title. But yea, the complaint doesn't make sense. I like the title. Are the Philadelphia Flyers still known as the Broad Street Bullies?

tim, you need to hear the black meteoric star and redshape albums.

Seconded Tim, this is fabulous and well worth a listen. One of my most played of this year.

Black Meteoric Star, that is... I haven't heard the latter.

whole lotta overlap with some of yours but

The-Dream - Love vs Money
DJ Quik & Kurupt - BlaQKout
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
Dam-Funk - Toeachizown
Electrik Red - How to be a Lady, Vol. 1
James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Mariah Carey - Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
UGK - UGK 4 Life
Maxwell - BLACKsummersnight
Ryan Leslie - s/t
Eleni Mandell - Artificial Fire
Pill - 4180
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Ciara - Fantasy Ride
Freddie Gibbs - Midwestgangstaboxframscadillacmuzik
Gucci Mane - Burrprint 3
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - s/t
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II
Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You

Sarges, the Crazy Cousinz mixes are def worth your time.

Co-Sign. I've split the first disc into track-by-track if you want me to upload and send it your way. Haven't gotten around to doing disc two yet. But it's an amazing overview of the UK Funky scene. I should start getting a list into vague order this weekend. I've been avoiding it because it seems so DAUNTING. Reading over all of yours makes me feel like I've missed out on SO MUCH this year. every year, i suppose.

Re Beanie Sigel: I suppose it was uncalled for (and at least it doesn't belong on a thread like that). Beanie Sigel's name is a bit of a red flag for me after what I've read about him. It's not just the album title but the gangsta rap he continues to make after also acting it out in real life.

lol

*kills self*

yo beanie, please man, either quit the gangsta rap, or quit it with the guns alright?

*kills self*

― k3vin k., Sunday, November 8, 2009 9:51 PM (56 minutes ago)

lollll this was meant for a football thread, i did not have that severe reaction to rudipherous's post

gorilla zoe - don't feed da animals

lex this is a terrible album!

it's not, it's pleasant ear candy and about half of it gets stuck in my head on a regular basis

^^^hibidtae

been staring at that for 5 minutes trying to work out what it's an acronym for

WHAT KILLED THE UNDERGROUND

edging-towards-end-of-year list:

Zu -– Carboniferous
Sunn o))) –- Monoliths & Dimensions
Tyondai Braxton –- Central Market
Sax Ruins -– Yawiquo
The Flaming Lips -– Embryonic
Extra Life -– Secular Works
Kong –- Snake Magnet
Converge –- Axe to Fall
Richard Youngs -– Beyond the Valley of Ultrahits
Mike Patton –- Crank 2: High Voltage
Secret Chiefs 3 -– Le Mani Destre Recise Degli Ultimi Uomini
Knife World –- Buried Alone: Tales of Crushing Defeat
Storsveit Nix Noltes –- Royal Family Divorce
Master Musicians of Bukkake -– Totem One
Umlaut –- Umlaut
Part Chimp –- Thriller
Black Sun - Twilight of the Gods
Richard Youngs -– Under Stellar Stream
Evangelista –- Prince of Truth
Dÿse - Lieder Sind Brüder Der Revolution
Dokaka – Human Interface
Vom –– Primitive Arts
MadLove -– White with Foam

listened to the crazy cousinz funky mix, and duh it's really great - i think i like it better than the marcus nasty cuz it seems to skew more towards... the melodramatic/romantic (female?) side of funky as opposed to the more beat workout kinda stuff?

email it 2 me plz :D

really like this emptyset album i got in the mail. it's techno music!

Been enjoying the Ben Frost album. Scary stuff - not entirely suited to trying to work (or headphones) but very interesting.

Also, like what I've heard of the Demdike Stare album. Need to hear more if it's all that good.

Moreover here's my longlist so far for the year. Can't be much more to come I guess now. First album of 2010 I'm looking forward to is the Delphic one based on the singles so far...

The Sight Below - Glider
Micachu and The Shapes - Jewellry
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
The Field - Yesterday and Today
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
The Yellow Moon Band - Journey to Several Remote Countries
JJ - no.2
Julianna Barwick - Florine
Prins Thomas and Lindstrom - II
Wilco - The Album
Marconi Union - Tokyo
Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
The XX - XX
The Gentleman Losers - Dustland
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Andrew Weatherall - A Pox on The Pioneers
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Shackleton - Three EPs
Ben Frost - By The Throat

Ok. Uploaded the first This Is Funky House disc split into tracks. If anyone wants/needs a link, Webmail me, I guess, and I'll send you the link. (would post it, but I'm not exactly sure if that would be cool.) Working on splitting the second disc into component tracks.

And everyone really should hear this. It makes me wish every nascent scene had a compilation this good - the biggest producers in the scene mixing two discs: one of their own remixes and one of every major hit that UK Funky has thrown our way. Someone should get on this for Jerking stat.

i think the jerkin with jhawk tape is like the #1 easily available jerk mix

http://www.zshare.net/download/575196508d0e657a/

I have Jerkin' w/ JHawk but it's not quite the same, nahmean?

yes

Anyway, fuck it. Crazy Cousinz, Disc One:

http://www.mediafire.com/?zmn2gnx24zm

If it shouldn't be here, mods can delete it, and apologies for the hassle.

i think the jerkin with jhawk tape is like the #1 easily available jerk mix

I digress.

http://matthewafrica.podomatic.com/entry/2009-09-06T11_42_19-07_00

1. Cold Flamez: Miss Me, Kiss Me
2. Jaye Cooley: Drippin Wet
3. YT: Call Me Daddy feat. New Era & TayF3rd
4. Dizzy: Swagg It Out
5. YG: AIM Me
6. Looney Toonz: Cock A Doodle Doo
7. Swagg City: That Hoe Crazy
8. Asia Lynn: Bad Bitch
9. Vixen Ent: Toot My Shit
10. Clothes Off Movement: Better Than You
11. J.R.: Inhale It feat. TayF3rd & Ashlii
12. NHT Boyz: Introduction
13. Dinoo Supreemo: Dirty Ass Vans
14. Rude Boyz: Go Hard
15. Go Go Power Rangers: Tippin on My Dick
16. New Boyz: You're a Jerk
17. Rude Boyz: Tight Jeanz
18. Fresh Boyz: I Rock Skinnies feat. New Era
19. YT: Skinny Ass Nigga
20. Pink Dollaz: I'm Tasty
21. Camille Tianna: Hot Commodity
22. TayF3rd: Heard About Me feat. Project & New Era
23. Turfeazy: In a Tree
24. Vixen Ent: Bust Me a Nut
25. The Lowz: She Poppin' feat. Nie'Starr
26. Julian: Jerkin Song
27. L7: Knock Knock
28. YB: 2 Step
29. Ro2co: Toot It Up Done
30. Dinoo Supreemo: Step To
31. Aeiress Ent: Billy
32. Wes Nyle: Dougie
33. Nokio: Hi I'm a Jerk feat. YT
34. YB: I'm a Jerk
35. Jayy Starr: Where the Functions
36. New Boyz: Cricketz feat. Tyga
37. YG: I'm Still Poppin
38. Young Sam: I Do My Thang feat. Asia Lynn
39. Payso: Beat That Pussy feat. Cold Flamez
40. New Era: Dumb Bitch
41. Draft Pick: Get It Jerkin
42. Julian: Do It Don't Stop
43. The Bangz: Get It Girl feat. Pink Dollaz
44. Asia Lynn: Tip Toe feat. Aaliyah D
45. Fly Guys: We Jerkin
46. Ro2co: Shooting Dice
47. TayF3rd: Conceited

alright word

oh is that all one track?

yeah, it is

this is dope too

http://mrleubmixtapes.blogspot.com/2009/08/los-angeles-jerk-movement.html

01 Bobby Huntington feat. FKi - Tounge Martial Arts Remix
02 Red Duce - Pussy In My Mouth
03 Crown Vik - Go Bizerk
04 Michael Harrell - Hold Up Master
05 Dinoo Supreemo - Dirty Ass Vans
06 The Bangz - Hard In The Paint
07 YT ft. Tayf3rd , New Era - Call Me Daddy Remix
08 Wes Nyle - Reject
09 New Boyz - You're A Jerk
10 The Bangz ft. Pink Dollaz - Get It Girl
11 Flip Major - Yes Sir
12 Green Thumbs & Bbeezy - Jerkin' WIt A Pistol
13 Jaye Cooley - You Wid It
14 The Bangz - We Jerkin
15 Double-A feat. G-Low - No Doub
16 Fe Raw ft. Yung Miss - Got What They Want
17 Double-A feat. G-Low & T.J. - Hot Boi (Hot Chick Reply)
18 New Era - Do It Now
19 New Era - Filth In My System
20 Double-A feat. G-Low - On Point
21 Looney Toonz Ft. City and FlapJack - Cock A Doodle Doo
22 Red Duce - Shake My Ass
23 Conce1ted 1nk ft. Deadly - Turnt Up

Probably less of a hassle to track down all of those songs on zshare and make an "album" than to download the single mp3, tbf.

i'm gonna try & do the former, we'll see how it goes

Those are both mixed, rather than individual tracks.

Jerk does work very well in a mix format.

Finished splitting mix 2 of Crazy Cousinz an hour or so ago, but it's failed to upload twice. I will try again later and post the link when it does.

u r great

^^^

vol 1 is really great so far

vol. 2 is almost better? because instead of all these crazy cousinz mixes with the same basic patterns to them it's an overview of funky's first yr in the spotlight.

I like the Washed Out and Neon Indian records quite a bit. Anyone have any other recommendations based on those?

off the top of my head, three great albums that came out in '09:

brand new "daisy"
the flaming lips "embryonic"
and fever ray.

there are tonnes more that i could list without hesitating, like the xx and micachu and yeah yeah yeahs and fuck buttons and atlas sound, etc etc, but i'm sure these have all been listed already.

hi marc

calstars - I guess check out the Memory Tapes stuff.

i found that atlas sound was a bit of a slog, the first one's got all that wonderful creepy atmospheric children's music while the new one seemed like a lot of boring indie with a couple amazing pop tunes thrown in. i only listened to it like once though, i'll check it out again.

logos is a really boring album, i'm not gonna lie. boringness is a trend i've noticed in a lot of the new music i've been listening to. the thing about logos, though, is that it is awesome as hell on top of being boring. it's great music to go to sleep to. or wake up to.

that crazy cousinz mix is proving to be a pretty great introduction to the genre. from my vantage point-basically having absolutely no previous knowledge of uk funky besides an odd dj night here and there-it seems pretty heavily loaded with great melodies and jams. a lot of these songs are surprisingly unrepetitive, like the hooks just keep on coming. it's all weird to me though, it's familiar sounding in a weird way, like something i heard a lot of as a child or something.

albums:

the-dream - love vs money
think about life - family
dirty projectors - bitte orca
dj quik & kurupt - blaqkout
nadja - the bungled and the botched
white denim - fits
lil boosie - superbad
tv ghost - cold fish
electrik red - how to be a lady vol. 1
clues - s/t

not-albums:

destroyer - bay of pigs ep
the bitters - wooden glove 12"
red mass - radio radio 12"
gucci mane - burr russia
ultrathin - endless sumer ii c-20

I really love the Dirty Projectors, but that album would be sooo much better if the drumming wasn't so rigid and shy. Put Grizzly Bear's drummer in there instead and we'd see a big difference.

ya it's pretty calculated. but so is everything on the album besides his vocals and guitaring, but i think that's a big part of what i like about it; it's really mechanical and moves in really clearly defined, intentional strokes. and then his singing is really care-free, sounds almost improvised at times.

my lengthy list of records i have really dug this yr

outrageous cherry - universal malcontents
section 25 - nature + degree
hatcham social - you dig the tunnel, i'll hide the soil
coloma - love's recurring dream
desolation wilderness - new universe
wye oak - the knot
paper moon - only during thunderstorms
we were promised jetpacks - these four walls
future of the left - travels with myself and another
the joy formidable - a balloon called moaning
st vincent - actor
telekinesis - telekinesis!
speck mountain - some sweet relief
pull tiger tail - paws.
cut off your hands - you and i
it hugs back - inside your guitar
new rhodes - everybody loves a scene
engineers - three fact fader
sky larkin - the golden spike
camera obscura - my maudlin career
cheval sombre - cheval sombre
saint jude's infirmary - this has been the death of us
the hussy's - japanese graffiti
for against - never been
raveonettes - in and out of control
headlights - wildlife
spc eco - 3d
at swim two birds - before you left
juan maclean - the future will come
annie - don't stop
my sad captains - here and elsewhere
burning hearts - aboa sleeping
golden silvers - true romance
starless & bible black - shape of the shape
elusive parallelograms - and everything changes
the pains of being pure at heart s/t
woolfy - if you know what's good for ya!!
emma tricca - minor white
fanfarlo - reservoir
grammatics - s/t
cave - psychic psummer
seeland - tomorrow today
thee oh sees - help
the bats - the guilty office
dreamdate - patience
asobi seksu - hush
deep cut - my thoughts light fires
liechtenstein - survival strategies in a modern world
thee oh sees - help
gofaster>> - a modern education (MLP)
the boxer rebellion - union
blackbud - s/t
the beautiful few - the nights you did your hair
vivian girls - everything goes wrong
de rosa - prevention
the durutti column - love in the time of recession
sad day for puppets - unknown colours
the legends - over and over
socialist leisure party - tactical pop for coffee cadets (MLP)
dolly rocker movement - a purple journey into the mod machine
the lea shores - s/t
idlewild - post electric blues
the drums - summertime (MLP)
grand salvo - soil creatures
the innits - on the fence

haha that's as long as the "albums i've listened to at least once this year" list i've been keeping. that future of the left will probably be on my list in a week, i'm loving it more every time i listen to it.