did that come out already? looking forward to picking it up, some great tracks on there. i think the one you mention is Ill Blu. i'm pretty sure the clips on Roska's myspace appear in the order that the producers are listed judging by the production on them
― Benjamin, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 10:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Was supposed to come out in January I think. Yeah all of the tracks sound pretty great from the samples on Roska's site.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 10:49 (fifteen years ago) link
yeh too many releases getting pushed back, but Roska seems quite efficient relatively. hopefully it'll be out soon! in other exchange news Lil Silva is selling new mp3s through his myspace at £4 a pop! which is a touch steep i would say
"Cool, was v curious about that one. I like that middle section of the mix a lot because it feels very UK but without going the obvious route of crap grime vocals/chants or harsh synths as a signifier."
― Mirror-spangled elephant head (J@cob)
yeh there is definitely a thread out there of deep dark and hypnotic uk stuff, taking cues i guess from Dennis Ferrer and Objektivity and such, but developing into a distinctly uk sound. i am definitely keen, and even keener when that rolling vibe is combined with some slightly odder or sourer elements / melodies or vocals. that Hard House Banton mix of Turn It Around is a good example, and some of the stuff D Malice is playing / producing. this set although old now has some big tunes in this vein - D-Malice b2b Twista @ Deja Vu FM (26-10-2008)
on another note its interesting how Hard House Banton's stuff is turning really rushy and euphoric, pure 3am bliss material, detroity synth stabs and loopy vocals, deep subby bass. its funny cos all these nights are booking him up apparently expecting and promoting 'grime in disguise' but must be getting quite a different thing out of him. Dubplate Wonder has got so many phenomenal unreleased tunes too, the vibes on his stuff are crazy
― Benjamin, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 12:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Benjamin, where's good for Funky vinyl in London? Am looking forward to picking up a bunch now that I'm here... Is it Uptown? Rhythm Division?
― Mirror-spangled elephant head (J@cob), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 12:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Uptown has the most concentrated funky selection in the centre, and gets some stuff the others don't. but bm-soho is increasingly good on the UK stuff, and has a far far superior house section in general, its always got loads of heavy stuff from all sides of house (plus dubstep, grime, bassline downstairs). they do those funky CDRs too
i've never actually made it to Rhythm Division's physical shop, it being a bit of a mission, but they seem to have a good range in now
― Benjamin, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 12:48 (fifteen years ago) link
RE: Rinse podcast bitrate...
They have been 64kbps, but they're in mono, which means that effectively they are 128kbps. The station broadcasts in mono over the FM dial, as have most pirates over the years, so not much to worry about.
The lastest Marcus Nasty set (Feb) is acually 160kbps and mono, so is 320 quality. The difference is not really worth worrying about tbh.
― Ach!, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 03:14 (fifteen years ago) link
wow, thanks for the info
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 06:17 (fifteen years ago) link
a lot of music rinse plays actually benefits from that compression sometimes compared to when i hear the proper cds of it (grime esp).
― Yellow Carded (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 11:10 (fifteen years ago) link
JUMP IN THE MIDDLE & SKANK:
― Tim F, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 11:50 (fifteen years ago) link
SKANK CALM DOWN:
Hook me up with this tune.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 11:59 (fifteen years ago) link
MORE SKANK CALM DOWN:
― Tim F, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 12:02 (fifteen years ago) link
As a special gift for y'all. Tune of 2009 so far?
http://rs515.rapidshare.com/files/184960926/Pro2Jay-_Skank_Calm_Down.mp3
― Tim F, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 12:22 (fifteen years ago) link
JUMP IN THE MIDDLE & SKANK
This is awesome. I really love these sort of ultra-cheesy and brazen attempts to start dance crazes. In years to come there'll be a thread where we happily reminisce about DIY funky videos featuring people dancing in formation.
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 12:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah I could stay up all night watching these.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 12:47 (fifteen years ago) link
ha, kig bandwagonning! have you seen the migraine skank too?
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 13:10 (fifteen years ago) link
also, this doesn't have a dance, but roska's 'our father' is just euphoric, and just slightly reminiscent of booka shade: http://www.sendspace.com/file/v1k65v
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 13:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah it's pretty intense! Thanks heaps for the link though - had only heard that on his site.
I'd seen crappy videos of the migraine skank but that one's great.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
The beat on the Migraine Skank video is ruff.
It's sounds like a bootleg remix of the Karimza/Gregory track 'Don't Panic'.Whodunnit?
― Ach!, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 23:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, it actually is the Migraine Skank...
I wonder if there's an instrumental
― Ach!, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 23:29 (fifteen years ago) link
yeh the beat is in fact DJ Gregory - Don't Panic, just pitched up. such a big track!
such a good name for a dance!
― Benjamin, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
that 'our father' there bears quite the resemblance to the admittedly less evocatively titled 'to be vocalled soon i hope' tune on dj ng's page mentioned way upthread; both in turn remind me of elephant man's 4ever fabulous 'can't stop we now' from 2003, which married that year's sense of triumph with an uncontrollable welling-up of a vague melancholy it knew not, and which has also just given me an unrelated and undesired libertines earworm. bah.
also love 'bounce' on roska's myspace. bit underwhelming in demo form there though, footloose played a better one a while ago i'm sure.
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha I love "Can't Stop We Now" but i'll have to listen to everything again to see such a link.
Does anyone think "In The Morning" might become a moderate-sized hit? it reminds me of Architechs' "Bodygroove" for some reason.
Anyway I love, it's so irrepressible and fun and feel-good but (unusually for a big vocal anthem) with a really cool beat.
I am sympathetic to jacob's complaint upthread that the scene is a bit bipolar in terms of anthems vs bangers. 2-step managed this issue by having long "hard" instrumental sections in the middle of poppy tracks (most typically this would be on a remix of a more straightahead pop-2-step version) which would turn anthems into bangers. Funky seems still to be beholden to the housier tradition of not actually switching up the groove too much.
That said I adore that vocal track that goes "if you want it gotta take it babe you know you gotta ask for it don't you wanna own it honey..."
― Tim F, Friday, 13 February 2009 01:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Also loving DJ Naughty's electrodribbly fem-vox cover of "Love Lockdown" - A+ for concept and execution.
― Tim F, Saturday, 14 February 2009 04:55 (fifteen years ago) link
^^show me!!
i'm not sure funky is going to spawn any size of hit - 'do you mind' missed the top 40 the other week :(
― lex pretend, Saturday, 14 February 2009 10:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Lex it's on all the recent marcus nasty sets, I don't have any standalone evidence.
― Tim F, Saturday, 14 February 2009 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Other tune that's really hype for me right now is the one with the descending piano riff and the sampled vocal going "dat dat, nn dat nn whoo-whoo!" before breaking out into near-absurd broken beat percussion.
― Tim F, Monday, 16 February 2009 04:42 (fifteen years ago) link
can someone re-up or send me "Our Father"?
― I would much rather listen to hard bop jazz and stfu (The Reverend), Monday, 16 February 2009 05:46 (fifteen years ago) link
okay listening to the Jan 15. Marcus Nasty set and the funky beat + "Gypsy Woman" riff + "Back to Life" vocal + Skepta doing that one rap he always does about the gorgeous lady is totally fucking w/ my mind
― I would much rather listen to hard bop jazz and stfu (The Reverend), Monday, 16 February 2009 06:29 (fifteen years ago) link
okay, what is the piano track that comes in at 22 mins?
― I would much rather listen to hard bop jazz and stfu (The Reverend), Monday, 16 February 2009 06:37 (fifteen years ago) link
this set is k-awesome btw
― I would much rather listen to hard bop jazz and stfu (The Reverend), Monday, 16 February 2009 06:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah the 15 Jan is a favourite of mine too. I don't know what the piano tune is but how cool are the beats on it?
When you get to it Reverend let me know what you think of the track at 36 minutes.
I'll try to re-up "Our Father" a bit later.
― Tim F, Monday, 16 February 2009 06:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Also the one I'm describing above (see quote below) is at 52 min:
"the one with the descending piano riff and the sampled vocal going "dat dat, nn dat nn whoo-whoo!" before breaking out into near-absurd broken beat percussion."
Actually it's more like "da da, da-daon her-ber!"
― Tim F, Monday, 16 February 2009 06:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Also wouldn't mind knowing what the track at 30 mins is.
― I would much rather listen to hard bop jazz and stfu (The Reverend), Monday, 16 February 2009 06:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah that one's everywhere - in my head I'm grouping it under the banner of "LFO revivalism" (see also Roska's "In Your Handbag" and JME's "Blanka").
(though "In Your Headbag" is perhaps more like LFO X Claude Von Stroke X Nick Holder's "Erotic Discourse" - and of course there's a funky refix of "Erotic Discourse" floating around too)
― Tim F, Monday, 16 February 2009 06:56 (fifteen years ago) link
36 mins is okay. I like the vocals in the chorus, but not so much during the verse, beat isn't quite anything special. I've heard several things in this mix I like more.
― I would much rather listen to hard bop jazz and stfu (The Reverend), Monday, 16 February 2009 07:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Liking whatever comes after it.
― I would much rather listen to hard bop jazz and stfu (The Reverend), Monday, 16 February 2009 07:01 (fifteen years ago) link
52 mins is A++++ would dance to this all the time
― I would much rather listen to hard bop jazz and stfu (The Reverend), Monday, 16 February 2009 07:16 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry to be dumm but wheres the link for that mix?
― gucci mane gretzky (deej), Monday, 16 February 2009 07:17 (fifteen years ago) link
The Crazy Cousinz track at 56 mins is dope too
http://rinsefm.blogspot.com/2009/01/marcus-nasty-21st-january.html
― I would much rather listen to hard bop jazz and stfu (The Reverend), Monday, 16 February 2009 07:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Rev, that's "Inflation", AKA my track of the year!
― Tim F, Monday, 16 February 2009 07:55 (fifteen years ago) link
thank u!
― I would much rather listen to hard bop jazz and stfu (The Reverend), Monday, 16 February 2009 08:24 (fifteen years ago) link
ah, I see... it is the b-side of "Funky Anthem" (which is so-so not their best work imo)
― I would much rather listen to hard bop jazz and stfu (The Reverend), Monday, 16 February 2009 08:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah "Funky Anthem" is pretty average. If I ever see that 12inch though I'm picking it up for "Inflation".
― Tim F, Monday, 16 February 2009 08:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Some more youtubery on this thread
― Mirror-spangled elephant head (J@cob), Monday, 16 February 2009 09:21 (fifteen years ago) link
lots of these tunes (inc 'inflation' and 'our father') are available to buy from ukfunky.com btw
― lex pretend, Monday, 16 February 2009 09:41 (fifteen years ago) link
outside of the uk?
― I would much rather listen to hard bop jazz and stfu (The Reverend), Monday, 16 February 2009 09:55 (fifteen years ago) link
oh i don't know if it works outside the uk - it's via paypal so i thought it would. will reup tonight if tim hasn't...
btw crazy cousinz rmx of shontelle. omg pianos! http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yyvo1my0ott
― lex pretend, Monday, 16 February 2009 10:51 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/4620/backoc5.jpg
Tracklist:N10-Tainment feat Ruth - I Pray (FaZe Special)Footsteps - Baby KintaPrincess ft Coldsteps - Frontline RemixDJ NG - Tell Me (Geeneus Remix)DBC - PromisesDBC - Promises (Roska Remix)Lil Silva - SeasonsFuzzy Logic ft Egypt - In The MorningRoska - Whats In Your HandbagKIG - Head Sholders Knees & Toes (Donaeo Remix)Suges Vs Swift Jay - TribeColdsteps ft Princess - I Will Be ThereDj Gregory - Dont PanicMarz Music ft Kadisha - FreeLemar - If She Knew (Crazy Cousinz Mix)Major Notes ft Steelo (Skream Out)Restless Soul - Tricks (Faeda Remix)Delinquent - I Got U (Delio D Cruz Super Funky Mix)Diamond ft Terri Walker - Love At First SightTribal Audio - AbyssTawiah - Everystep (Arms Remix)Roska - Our FatherM Sadler - Shine For MeYotam Avni - Get TogetherDoctor - Give It To You (Soultonic Soundsystem Mix)Fuzzy Logic ft LA - Call MeWookie - FinallyThe Sunburst Band - Journey To The Sun (Dennis Ferrer Mix)Teedra Moses - Be Your Girl (Faeda Soulful Mix)AC Layne ft Charlene Dance - Deja VuDj Sekey - Ride The Database (Chillzone Mix)
Download:
Zip File (Seperate Tracks)rapidshare: http://rapidshare.com/files/197742403/FaZe_-_Funky_February_09.zipsendspace: http://www.sendspace.com/file/lqxvddzShare: http://www.zshare.net/download/55582475312d0614/
Single File:zShare Stream: http://www.zshare.net/audio/5557763227d97caf/
― faze01, Monday, 16 February 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
THANK U THANK U <3 <3 <3
― I would much rather listen to hard bop jazz and stfu (The Reverend), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 02:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks for that FaZe! It's nice to be able to ID the Suges vs Swift Jay track - would never have guessed that Suges were involved (then again I don't know what the original sounds like) but in retrospect it kinda makes sense. I always thought that tune sounded a bit like a Low Deep grime instrumental.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 09:45 (fifteen years ago) link