funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

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

Hype!

^ UH HUUUUUUUH, THIS MY SHIT

Slick R&B + banging beats = my perennial favourite. And I was destined to love this tune given it sounds like my beloved "Deja Vu (Major Notes Remix)".

haha yes you can already kinda tell it's one of those little classics no one else will really go nuts over despite many minor, increasingly strangulated, and then strangely resigned references to it over the forthcoming years

That's enough to make me tear up actually.

At least it has a name. It's very hard even for a legacy as frail as the above to attach to my other forgotten favourite, the tune that samples Jagged Edge's "Walked Outta Heaven".

actually if you have the time (or the memory) can you remind me where exactly that jagged edge cropped up, i should like to have another stab at it

Marcus had a set on Deja with Shantie and Rankin' in May 2008, that he offered for download as 13 tracks. The Jagged Edge tune comes in at 7 min on track 1 and crosses over into track 2.

It's got this repeating piano figure and whirring beats, and "Rolling down the lonely highway, asking god to please forgive me." It's always been my pet theory that it's a Target tune as Marcus says at the beginning of the set he's got a Target track to play and it's vaguely like something he might have done.

ANDY JAY & S-TEE 1XTRA RADIO RAVING MIX 02/08/11

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012wc7f

Hannah Liston - The Middle (Dumplin Remix)
Andy Jay & S-Tee - Dirty Worker
Digital Dubstar - Can't Say No (Andy Jay & S-Tee Remix)(Feat. Miss Fire)
Andy Jay & S-Tee vs Akira - Wind Pipe
Tasha & Robbie Rue - Get Low
Animal Man - Gal Dem (Andy Jay & S-Tee Remix)
Champion - Sweet As You Like (Feat. Tasha)
J-Funkz - Untitled
Rebbeka France - Can't Wait (LR Groove Remix)
Andy Jay & S-Tee - Crunk VIP
Andy Jay & S-Tee - Summer Romance (Feat. Tasha)
Notion - Digits
Dumpin - Go With The Flow (Feat. Jasmine Knight)
Andy Jay & S-Tee - Walking on Ice (Feat. Tasha)
Daniel James - Take My Hand (Andy Jay & S-Tee Remix)

trust me chaps, u so need this one in your lives

15 seconds is all it'll take to know funky just jumped out of the casket and kicked nu-marcus in the balls

actually, no. this

*clears throat, wipes tear from eye*

this is one of the all-time great uk funky sets imo

pure as the driven snow

OMG it really only does take 15 seconds!!!

Hannah Liston - The Middle (Dumplin Remix)

boys i could kiss yeh

you take one step forward and
:O
i'll take one step forward
:O
you take one step forward and
:O
i'll take one step forward
~ the middle ~

oh yes!

In a similar vein, this passed me by and is completely brilliant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tBdl3ai2_w

Champion - Sweet As You Like (Feat. Tasha)

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Rebbeka France - Can't Wait (LR Groove Remix)

Holy shit!

i knowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

unforgivably i'd missed that one right at the end of the pioneer funky showcase dbs linked

next level shit 4real

Andy Jay & S-Tee - Walking on Ice (Feat. Tasha) > Daniel James - Take My Hand (Andy Jay & S-Tee Remix) ((((d-_-b))))

Ok you guys have got me excited here, downloading now.

fun fact from aj & s-tee's interview with dj q beforehand: they're in the video for more fire 'oi'!!

Really feeling the energy in the Andy Jay & S-Tee mix, are they on the radio anywhere?

r|t|c, amazing find!

man ive listened to a few of those radio raving mixes recently but this is next level

Yeah that's a belter of a mix, much closer to what we fell in love with in the first place.

http://soundcloud.com/lrgroove/kiss-presents

http://www.totalkiss.com/kisspresents/2011/07/02/dj-pioneer-uk-funky-showcase-020711/

just to reiterate that fuzzy logik's mix on this is tremendous fun also. (i dunno about everyone else but i'd passed it over a bit after dbs first brought attention, wrongly thinking cos i knew most the tracks it'd be standard.)

'twiss' is still SO GOOD!!!

LR.Groove & Miss Fire – Yours

^ been obsessing over this one a bit lately too, in tandem with the rebecca france remix. the brilliance of this vocal stuff has really taken me aback, there's been no hint of it to date even when he was good. (new "tribal" stuff isnt a patch on his earlier material from the key ep imo). if anything's the new dem 2/new horizons skippy dubby descendant it's this i reckon.

quick clip here

Yeah "Yours" is amazing, reminds me of "Between Us" a bit.

why does that hannah liston song not exist outside this mix, i need it in my life

It's actually a vocal version of their remix of Hard House Banton's "Reign". AFAIK it's the first time the vocal version has ever been played.

i hate searching for funky tracks and ILX THREADS being the only places they've been mentioned.

yeah, they should make like a profession where dudes write about music in mass media publications or something

I think lex is saying we're just too on point.

OMG this entire Matt IQ single is insane:

http://www.junodownload.com/products/from-bank-to-brick-lane/1799007-02/?ref=4df64c376f5a0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H10AAwZJMsg

Champion - Sweet As You Like (Feat. Tasha)

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Big co-sign on this. And yeah the mix generally is obv full of goodness.
Tim I'm glad you're feeling the Matt IQ release, wasn't sure if it would be your kind of thing. Shake & Brick Lane are big personal faves right now.
Q for rtc/Tim - do you know if Eastwood's remake of Dirty Cash ever came out in any form? Would love to get my hands on that.

not to my knowledge. matter of fact has eastwood ever released anything by himself besides that freebie ep this year? (ie not counting remixes, the 5 star collabo ep, or that time he hadnt got the hang of the soundcloud "no download" option heh heh.)

http://soundcloud.com/djwhitecoat/dj-whitecoat-feat-jae-elle-2

oh yeah this is the nuts btw

hey andy i don't suppose you can tell me anything about mista bee? loving 'even though' and 'feel it' off recent smoove kriminal shows, i know marcus has played the latter too (murky riddim with sulty "want it, come take it, desire" vox). idk if he's new or been around on the frignes for ages or if i've been confusing him with mellow bee or what.

IIRC Mista Bee is a club promoter in London who also makes tunes. I've been hearing productions from him for at least a couple of years now, but they tend to get played by the Deja guys (SK, Weeksey, LR Groove etc) more than anywhere else and I don't think many have been released. Amazon's Night from a while back is prob his best known (or at least the one I always recognise), it came out on MOS's Sound of UK Funky comp:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UxKuWWFU0s
Quite a lot of his tunes have a similar slightly dark sound to them I guess, not sure I know the two you mention though, will track em down.

That's a bummer about the Eastwood track, yeah he's not much one for releases either. Toilet Blocker is supposed to be coming on the We R Bass ep which is another collaborative thing, don't know when it's due for though. I suppose Dirty Cash could only end up being a free download anyway what with licensing considerations and all that.

oh right, what else is meant to be on that ep? i see 'bass slave' as well by the looks of it...

here's a clip of 'feel it'

also got 'toilet blocker' in 320 here if you want

oh right, what else is meant to be on that ep? i see 'bass slave' as well by the looks of it...
Hazard by Jook 10 (one of his best tunes imo) is supposed to be on there and I think 1 or 2 others but dunno what they are/who they're by yet. Cheers for the links/clips, that Whitecoat/Jae Elle remix is ace.

xpost yes plz

Didn't Mista Bee do that great dark remix of Crazy Cousinz' "Searching For You"?

Mellow Bee is more recent and tribal-ish I think.

^ Yup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymKEuM4IeFU

Also LOL, had totally forgotten about this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnUw0bL9NUE&feature=related

someone make that pioneer showcase into an mp3 plz

http://soundcloud.com/lrgroove/kiss-presents/download

ta da

Oh yeah Lighter is on wax, I copped Trim from Butterz and got a cheeky Champion 12" on the sly. I almost shat one...

Release after Lighter is: http://soundcloud.com/championdj/champion-ruby-lee-ryder

Very nice.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Maybe my song of the year. Or at least top 5.

And there's only competition because there's so many great songs this year.