gyptian - holdyuh

natalie storm has been killing it recently - i recommend the mixtape she just dropped, which has the title songs 2 fuck and fight 2, which SAYS IT ALL

that is hot! need to check out the mixtape, Natalie Storm prob had my fave song on the Dem Gyal Sitt'n Riddim from a few years back (LOOOVE this riddim):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzYZlm3ohnA

have you heard this BTW:

http://soundcloud.com/tandarecords/01-hot-gyal

TNT - Tifa, Natalie Storm & Timberlee

i hadn't heard that! but it's off the same ep as "running". DOWNLOADING NOW it's awesome. this all feels like completely inappropriate breakfast time music btw

<3

the past day or so, everything i listen to that isn't 'hold yuh' just doesn't seem to cut it.

sweet i love it when u start an ilm thread & come back to it a day later and it has exploded w/ links & youtube riches

so jealous of ppl for whom this is a radio jam. lol me, i discovered it via ezra koenigs "guest list" feature on p4k. but i did hear it playing out of a car a couple days later

really glad someone nominated this for the trax list. or a uk funky remix at least. no doubt top 5 for me

I have it in my Pazz & Jop top songs list

can't get past "feel calm" almost broke down listening to it :o

yeah it can take one like that :/

great thread, loved gyptian on the "serious times" comp. but hadn't sought out anything more since

lots of good tips itt

Diplo remix is also very awesome

Yes it was the biggest reggae crossover of 2010 but one of the keys to Gyptian’s success was the sheer volume of pop, soca, chutney, house, UK funky and reggaeton remixes, refixes and answer records this shit generated. Even on its own Ricky Blaze’s spare arrangement foregrounded the kind of raw, striking melody that can be all things to all islands; though it is most likely a variation on a North African pop song, I’ve heard the spare, plinky keys on the intro described as Latin jazz piano by a mambo connoisseur and steel pan by a Guyanese hipster.We called it here and here

http://largeup.okayplayer.com/2011/01/04/toppa-top-10-pan-caribbean-anthems-of-2010/

^also via there, Los Rakas, “Abrazame” & Los Rakas, “Abrazame” Uproot Andy refix

didn't realize gyptian was uk either

― J0rdan S., Saturday, January 8, 2011

He's a UK-born Jamaican who grew up in Jamaica I think (website bios suggest that)

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Fader mag list posted december 22

Top 14 Versions of Gyptian’s “Hold Yuh” In Our iTunes
14. Gyptian f. Foxy Brown, “Hold Yuh (Remix)”
13. Los Rakas f. Faviola, “Abrazame”
12. IPhone Voice Memo 2/03/10 (recorded to create our “Hold Yuh” ringtone)
11. Gyptian, Hold Yuh “La Roux/ Major Lazer Remix)”
10. Gyptain f. Vybz Kartel and Machel Montano, “Hold Yuh (Soca Remix)”
9. Michael Montano, “Wine on Me (Hold Yuh Riddim)”
8. Gyptian, “Hold Yuh (Major Lazer Remix)”
7. Jazmine Sullivan, “Luv Back”
6. Gyptian, “Hold Yuh”
5. Gyptian, “Nah Let Go”
4. Ricky Blaze, “You and I”
3. Gyptian f. Nicki Minaj, “Hold Yuh (Remix)”
2. Lady Saw, “Me Hold Yuh”
1. Los Rakas, “Abrazame (Uproot Andy Remix)”

1. Los Rakas, “Abrazame (Uproot Andy Remix)”

Yeah this is an absolute favourite of mine.

i claim total ignorance about dancehall, but damn, "Feel Calm" really is amazing.

or not *dancehall*, but just this entire aspect of dance music in general.

damn, "me hold yuh"

i totally forgot "abrazame", yeah it's excellent

i didn't know there was a machel montano soca version, scurrying off to acquire now! or a foxy brown version!

tho omitting "feel calm" is a disappointment, to say the least

It's quite a malleable remixable song actually. Love the original, the Major Lazer remix (90s house!) and the Lady Chann version, the latter is really surprising because I'd previously held she could only operate in one gear (ie ferocious).

the Major Lazer remix (90s house!)

i find myself unable to brave this one due to the presence of la cunting roux

i don't think la roux has anything to do w/ that remix aside from it appearing on the mixtape they did or w/e that was

unless this samples some la roux song that i'm not aware of but i doubt that

Yeah there's no La Roux on the version I've heard. Didn't know they were even connected with it.

Lex you'd really like it, it basically splits the difference between the original and Livin' Joy's Dreamer.

I'd also be astonished if you haven't in fact heard it many times Lex, in Australia (which is a crazy place full of idiots granted) I hear it more than the original I think.

the only ones i've heard irl are the nicki minaj version and the funkystepz remix - major lazer remix is nice tho!

"Feel Calm" really is amazing.

cosigning this btw.

The blaze of versions is amazing, but... I just don't like this riddim.

Question for the more clued-in: How often do these things go in this direction, i.e. dancehall hits into rap remixes rather than vice versa?

RTC and Amon and others to thread for the answer to that.

I have always liked soca man Machel Montano and thought with the right push his creative sounds (which go beyond just straight soca) could and should reach a broader audience.

http://www.npr.org/2010/12/29/132442770/gyptian-tiny-desk-concert

Wow, a Gyptian 3 song concert in the National Public Radio office.

11. Gyptian, Hold Yuh “La Roux/ Major Lazer Remix)”

8. Gyptian, “Hold Yuh (Major Lazer Remix)”

Both these remixes kick arse. I quite like the toddla T one as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsld43ShCeM

^^i hear this on the radio all the time now too, like it a lot

was sure he's singing "nyaaaaguuuuh"

funkystepz is the worst name of all time

Waiting for the explosions of cognitive dissonance when Kode 9 fans have to deal with a Hyperdub 12 inch from "Funkystepz".

moeveryone i know who's into hyperdub is also already into funkystepz so there might not be any. now who's got the cognitive dissonance!

uh *everyone

I've been right about every single one of these issues to date lex.

moeveryone i know who's into hyperdub is also already into funkystepz

pretty sure this doesn't include people who live in the u.s.

The soca refix is the one i've been playing constantly for the last year. I'm always surprised that soca / soca remixes don't make more of an impact on the charts.

I've been right about every single one of these issues to date lex.

citing dissensus isn't proof of anything

i'm just saying, i bet there are a lot of people here (like me) who have gotten into hyperdub, but don't care for/about funky.

i listened to some funkystepz tracks on youtube and it sounds like it's put together well, even if it's not my thing. still, that name, ugh.

yeah i guess you can find any combination of fan tastes to prove whatever point you want to make in every case, but treating it as a rule of thumb misrepresents the people actually involved in the scene itself. what australian dubstep fans think has no bearing whatsoever on how either the music or the scene works and i couldn't really care less about it.

Lex on ILX last year:

Post-dubstep (esp. Night Slugs) and UK Funky are all part of the same genre. Those dudes love and respect UK funky in all its guises.

Resident Advisor interview with Bok Bok last year:

Connolly is also swift to dismiss any suggested associations between UK Funky and the label. "I wouldn't want any genre name applied to the label at all," he says sharply. "UK funky is something totally different. It was Crazy Cousinz, Roska and all those dudes back then. I think that UK funky as a genre is pretty much obsolete now. I think it has turned into a big soup of different sounds."

It's pretty much impossible with a global, heavily net-based scene like post-dubstep to have audience attitudes that are entirely different from country to country, at best you've got regional variations and time lag issues whereby the mindset originates in one place and migrates to another.

lol that's l-vis, not bok bok. iirc i was arguing that what NS, then very nascent, was doing was similar enough to funky, and in close enough proximity to it, that it could be discussed on that thread in lieu of anywhere else suitable. i trust that thread is now pure and free of anything except 4hr radio sets and songs that aren't available for anyone to hear?

as for the strawman audience will you bear in mind for once that i know a lot of these people, lol. i'm not going to put words in their mouth about what they think but a lot of the positions you ascribe to them (esp harking on about "dubstep"!) couldn't be further from the truth.

and in this case, not one person i know will have any cognitive dissonance about funkystepz releasing music on hyperdub. (the ep in question is only ok, fwiw; my enjoyment of funkystepz' remixes far outstrips my enjoyment of their own tunes, vocal or instrumental.)

both of those are really great -- especially the los rakas version -- but nah it was neither of those

this one was super heavy on salsa percussion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLYKcrH4bQI&feature=related

There's so many of 'em. Wonder which one it is?

that is dope xp

\(o_O)/

I need a gif of 2:35-2:40.

ha

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

sometimes you just gotta know when to say bollocks to the cutesy global village

I see you and I raise you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgLEzw8Mb-M

shankle my nankle i was not ready for that drop

Yeah I know! It's like, ho hum, so far so standard bassline biz, then !!!!!!!!!

like a fast bike pon the road vroom vroom, vroom vroom indeed

this is relevant to the interests of "hold yuh" fans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWJrb9i9hOs

when i was in the dentist waiting room the other day a girl had hold yuh as her ring tone <3

ok this ice prince song is pushing all my buttons, thank you thank you

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/events/e9wmxj/acts/adfrbp

him at hackney weekender is a must pree - SO SO GREAT

gyppo will never not be my fave, the charisma is just through the roof

thinking abt going to see him w/ tarrus riley... why does it have to be at the o2???

^^^^^^ this was amazing btw

tarrus riley! gyptian!