I seem to have accumulated a lot of footwork the past couple of years, but almost never play any of it.
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 10 June 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
Got to play out my first all-footwork set last night. Sounded great on a big system. Sully played too, and while yes he's a mate, his set was terrific.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Sunday, 10 June 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
do i just not know enough about juke or is the dj rashad album kind of unprecedented?? like, 80+ minutes with tons of songs that are 5+ minutes. and they really feel like songs more than tracks. not to sound rockist but it feels elevated.
― een, Sunday, 10 June 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
in any case it's amazing
It's the most solid/accomplished/listenable chi footwork release I've heard - not sure about songs, but on its way to greatness
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Monday, 11 June 2012 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
i can't fucking even with that album. album of the year #realtalk
― la musica de harry frogbs (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 11 June 2012 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
Listening to it again now. Yep, it's fucking ace. The jarring nature of footwork just dissipates by around the time We Trippy Mane comes on, and it really starts sounding like a perfect cross between full throttle dance and experimental lo-tech electronica.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Monday, 11 June 2012 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
Actually the whole section frok We Trippy through Fly Spray is completely unfuckwithable.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Monday, 11 June 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
this takes some pretty amazing left turns, have to take my hat off to rashad
― ogmor, Monday, 11 June 2012 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
bit.ly/LR7vmc
my review and you can stream the record! :)
― la musica de harry frogbs (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
Thank you based bitly
http://www.spin.com/reviews/dj-rashad-teklife-vol-1-welcome-chi-lit-city
Enjoyed that review, still playing this album. Maybe the first footwork album I can happily play front to back more than a few times with no skipping.
(one for the sticker, yes I know)
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
wait is comparing footwork to black dice any more or less corny than comparing it to dubstep
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 12 June 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
Iconoclastic rapper-producer DJ Quik wanted his tenth album to sound like missing tapes from funk-soaked 1991. Instead, it's from an incredible year that never existed, blending baroque '80s roller jams, velvety '90s slow-rides, contemporary Dam-Funk swooshwave, and a breakdown with the late P-Funk guitarist Garry Shider. For every vintage Quik banger, there's a rhythmically unique implosion of backmasked "Paul Revere" drums and Madvillainous drone ("Poppin'"). Lyrically, he's back to his old tricks - shitting on haters, shouting out himself, somehow rhyming "orange" and having "diamonds like kablooie."
― flopson, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
that quik review was kinda great
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 12 June 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
Why do white people criticize one another for being white?
― flopson, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
jeez is that a review or a thinkpiece whiney
― the late great, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
great review
― flopson, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
thanks flop and dog lat. thanks, i think, late great!
― la musica de harry frogbs (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
it looks awesome and it's always good to see people pushing the boundaries of the capsule review
wish i had the motivation to read it but ALL I DO IS SMOKE TREES ALL I DO IS SMOKE TREES ALL I DO IS SMOKE TREES
― the late great, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
<3
― la musica de harry frogbs (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
"trap bakk"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― the late great, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
i think 'twitter' is my fav so far
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
Whew, just got back from a seeing (among others) Spinn and Rashad, which was pretty really great.
― Hennesy Williams (EDB), Thursday, 14 June 2012 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
Guys - I'm so Teklife, I'm so Teklife, I'm so Teklife....
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 14 June 2012 09:08 (twelve years ago) link
I would love to see Rashad and Spinn, could be on the top of my list right now.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 14 June 2012 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
do they beatmatch like dance djs or slam between cuts like hip hop djs?
― the late great, Thursday, 14 June 2012 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
beatmatchin
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 14 June 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
wow
― the late great, Thursday, 14 June 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0hTcg695rE
― ogmor, Thursday, 14 June 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
bamp
I wandered off from juke, is there anything new I should be aware of
― nohighs, Sunday, 24 June 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
am i mental or does dj clent's 'dj clent #1' sample sun city girls?
― Merdeyeux, Saturday, 30 June 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
Saw Rashad & Spinn the other weekend, its was fucking ace. Love the Rashad album too, its maybe my favourite of the year so far.
― jimitheexploder, Sunday, 1 July 2012 09:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/43042667
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
(dj footmerc - gregory hines discovers distal + machinedrum)
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
did this footwork-y remix awhile back, out today: http://soundcloud.com/chantssound/phone-tag
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
Will take a listen. Btw Jordan I never said how much I enjoyed Chants, it's pretty awesome. Been popping up on shuffle a fair bit but I still need to listen to it through properly.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
thanks man! <3
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
oops apparently i posted that prematurely, had to take it down for a bit
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
The DJ Rashad album is also one of my favorite albums of the year thus far but I really wish they would release a physical. Is anyone here going to Juke Fest 2012 at Smartbar (http://smartbarchicago.com/juke-fest-2012) and can help me get in as I am only 20?
― afroslack, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
whoa. wish i could go to that (ie 'wish i wasn't so lazy about driving 2.5 hours and going to shows in general').
my ersatz footwork track is back up.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F1bF3ZbegM
Can't stop listening to this fella.
― mr.raffles, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 04:23 (twelve years ago) link
now what? I'm still quite enjoying the junglefoot hybrid stuff, as well as Rashad, but there's not that much replay value on a lot of juke I guess...
― Quickly, take hold of my hand, asshole! (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 11:43 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure I've heard a better album than the DJ Rashad this year/decade. Damn.
― mr.raffles, Saturday, 11 August 2012 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
"DANCE FU" on netflix directed by cedric the entertainer + starring kel of kenan and... is absolutely terrible but i pretty much died at his nickname being "chicago" and it having FOOTWORK BATTLES, there was even actual footwork played when they didn't just show some people dancing and replaced the tracks with trap
― fauxmarc, Monday, 13 August 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.mixcloud.com/doglatin/dj-dog-latin-icklefoot-mix-footwork/
a quick footwork mix I made a couple of months back...
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Monday, 24 September 2012 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
The Young Smoke album (Space Zone) that came out today is quite good. Up there with Traxman and Rashad.
― matt damon & the jb's (the anephric project), Monday, 24 September 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
I'm listening to it now actually. This is total sci-fi footwork - like a late '70s space shooter in footwork form. WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
It seems a lot more polished than the Rash and Trax albums, not in a bad way or in a Machinedrummy way, just a bit more fleshed out.
Very very good though so far.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
into it
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
ya
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 01:32 (eleven years ago) link