Kingdom ft. Shyvonne - Mind Reader

"deep in love we drown to the kingdom sound"

loves it

the prince william fade to mind mix is bangin', cannot wait for tomorrow

http://fadetomind.net/audio/ftm_mix_001.mp3

sooo jealous

Anyone else going tonight in Seattle?

That party was sick. And I even left before NGUZUNGUZU came on!

T Williams ft Terri Walker - Heartbeat (Paul Woolford Rewurq)

This is an absolute jam, I love the way she makes my heart go BOOM BOOM BOOM.

Yeah that's a great track. Paul Woolford, at his best, is unfuckable-with as a producer. Weird that he's coming up in sets of this sort of stuff and even in straight funky sets, almost seems the wrong kind of ravey but his stretchy MDMA noises always sound great.

that remix has never really overtaken the original (or the mosca remix) enough for me

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co-sign on that, I've always thought The Truth was a really under-rated album. His sounds are so brutal and earthy but in the best ways.

Woolford >>>>> Mosca even when Woolford is being lazy.

The original is vv good though.

Yeah the Mosca is kind of underwhelming? It doesn't have "make it go BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM" either obv.

it's not as good as the original obv but i find the vocal treatment lovely and tactile. can't really hear anything notable about the woolford one at all

"make it go BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM"

ok the mosca remix has those amazing echoing birdsong noises and the STRINGS! and those awesome tactile bass pads in place of the booms. the woolford one just sits there and doesn't add anything except slightly tuffer beats

I know let's drop this and instead talk about this awesome and overlooked prior Terri Walker number from 10 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t7WhQ2ZN_8

or her awesome new track with donae'o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpJeu9Ua7ew

(donae'o's new album is out, or soon to be out, and is really good btw - i haven't had time to really big it up anywhere)

Yeah love "When Angels Sing". The Donaeo album is actually up for free download from the dude himself weirdly. First listen seemed good.

the woolford one just sits there and doesn't add anything except slightly tuffer beats

He doesn't add much to the first half but the second half is completely different! I'd say what Woolford brings is, if not an acid house sensibility then certainly a bleepier, techier vibe, that big ascending hook in the second half is what makes the track for me. Sensibly he doesn't mess with the original's bassline as well - the bass pads are what put me off the Mosca version (although I like the strings and the bird noises).

If we're talking Woolford then maybe his acidy sensibility comes out more on tunes like the second half of this absolute banger:

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

This is also marvellous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-_pSv9Qh3U

rizzla (on kingdom's f2m label)'s free collab ep with blk.adonis is pretty on-point

http://soundcloud.com/rizzladj/bekiki-blk-adonis-rizzla-pnp

http://db.tt/yfTZIBgx (ep dl)

lol why is Talib Kweli on the Donaeo album

also lol: Donaeo's James Brown impression

Is Kweli the first US rapper to appear on an (I'm assuming) UK funky track? As a guest in his own right rather than remix form, I mean.

He strikes me as the worst possible rapper to put over funky but that's neither here nor there.

ha i didn't realise that was talib kweli, the promo version came without guest vocalist info (SO ANNOYING WHY CAN'T PEOPLE FIX UP)

new EP in a couple weeks with "stalker ha"/"let you no"/other stuff

http://soundcloud.com/blogtracks/kingdom-dreama-ep

mndr - cut me out (kingdom rmx)

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

New mix
http://www.thefader.com/2012/01/06/download-fade-to-minds-fader-mix/

lol he did the soundtrack to darkness ii!

http://agenda.complex.com/thedarknessii

haven't had a chance to listen to this yet but

http://soundcloud.com/fadetomind/fadefm-july27-2012-kingdom

http://soundcloud.com/fadetomind/fadefm-11-2-12

^^^^2.5 hour mix with mikeq, nguzus, total freedom. yeaaaaaaaaaaaah

(deej if he is reading this will prob be interested to hear it has "mirror dance" v near the beginning)

http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2012/12/kingdom-announces-compilation-fa

http://25.media.tumblr.com/bac7fd448c2c1cf1db6c7b8d9cd61538/tumblr_mkdvzr45XX1qa7dyho1_1280.jpg

https://soundcloud.com/kkingdomm/bank-head-feat-kelela

I guess this is maybe not the best existing thread for it, but here's an excellent interview with Rizzla about appropriation in dance music:

http://www.factmag.com/2013/04/08/get-to-know-it-and-you-wont-want-to-rip-it-off-fade-to-minds-rizzla-on-confronting-appropriation-and-humanizing-the-exotic/

love "bank head". the part where the vocals keep jumping up to those high notes kept reminding me of something, finally figured out that it's 'stillness is the move'.

(rizzla article is great too)

"Bank Head" is totally on slow burner status

it hasn't burned for me yet, felt a bit like a lesser "take me"

though this whole axis has been disappointing me for a year or more now so *shrug*

f2m/ns/qb camp's been hyping kelela for a bit, i haven't listened to other stuff she's done yet. she was opening on the solange tour, dunno if still.

but yeah this rules, he's been dropping it in his mixes for a while now and it's always stood out.