Duke Dumont and A*M*E - Need U (100%) - Rolling UK dance pop interzone thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GElrc2ikqIo

this one's a good literalisation of how this thread's specific concerns come out of the wider vibe

I have been playing zero attention to Black Butter while separately enjoying Kidnap Kid, Lulu James and Gorgon City (plus Rudimental obviously) so for there to be some kind of gravitational centre to all this makes me happy.

Was last year's Tensnake/Syron track a hamfisted pitch to this territory as well or just a coincidence.

'ONE HUNDREET' - track would be slightly less pants if she could pronounce the word correctly

xp depends on your attitude to coincidence really, heh. syron is signed to black butter too (maybe this is what you meant already) but otherwise not a direct pitch i'd have thought

"some kind of gravitational centre" is definitely the way to be looking at it rather than territory though yeah

all of these tracks are nice but katy b is just gonna wipe the floor once her new stuff comes out, right

it's certainly the most amenable climate there's been for her to return to. could do really well if she gets it right

That Devolution track is great - I listened to the second Black Butter comp on the way home yesterday and 'If You Believe' and 'Listen To The Badman' are also straight up bangers.

In all honesty I like most of the stuff mentioned on this thread more than Need U.

South Soul Project stuff also sounded great.

is there a catchy genre title for all this stuff? seems like a more hooky spin on deep house

i like the duke dumont like okay, it's fine - weirdly this is ny type stuff but reminds me of the same sort of sound, but it's better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irBwhhFum6s

*stabs NI in face*

stab house, i dig it

"Street Walker" isn't nearly as good as this one

that Skream Rudimental remix is so good, I had gathered that he'd been stepping things up recently but had no idea he'd gone in this direction.

This is what I get for taking my eye off the ball but I had a mad Black Butter binge over the last couple of days and I love this record's entire aesthetic. "86-93 chart spirit but with modern tools" is very OTM.

Is there enough going around in this vein to merit a rolling UK pop-house thread?

i sort of intended this to encompass all that, maybe the title can be edited to that end

"... love this LABEL's entire aesthetic", even.

xp Yes, it needs its own thread, or a re-edit of this one's title. Lots of good stuff happening.

haha late great harking back to the glory 2005 years of ilx, on steroids. hats off

house is a feelin (of violent outrage)

Hate Can't Turn Around

the gorgon city/yasmin single is AMAZING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4__q9CapVo

Yeah that's the track that provided the penny-dropping moment for me. This Lulu James track is good as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVtuluGSG7Y

I suppose we're at the tipping point that I naively thought funky would bring around in 2008*, the final return of a decent chart-friendly vocal house music that feels UK rather than euro in its approach. Like a lot of this stuff has the same modern DNA as the UKG interszone but takes it in a different direction.

*I suppose it did in a way, but via a very roundabout route.

That Devolution track is great - I listened to the second Black Butter comp on the way home yesterday and 'If You Believe' and 'Listen To The Badman' are also straight up bangers.

The "Bass Drop Mix" of "Listen to the Badman" in particular is (((((|O_O|)))))

But loving this "The Finest" rip too.

Pete Fucking Devereux!

Ed Case also has been doing some fine work in this arena e.g. "Turn My World Around (Deep Mix)".

another one of these choons from disclosure https://soundcloud.com/disclosuremusic/you-me-soundcloud-edit

I feel like this one fits:

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

spotify playlist:

uk pop-bass house bubblers

(100% isn't on spotify??)

I've added some stuff to that as well.

isnt 'so close' lovely

and rudimental top of the charts again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd0cT7Dnpt8

meanwhile straight in at 17 is this delightfully fanciful little thing

shades of ztt imo

in a way, i think that might be my fave song of the year tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hut5E5bezsk

and they have a super pretty remix of the aforementioned #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VoAqNNTEa0

which on the ep admittedly pales in the shadow of this piece of utter brilliance

clean bandit have proven divisive in my office, which i can only see as a good thing. i am firmly in the "yes" camp. on paper it shouldn't work at all but it just does.

The "Bass Drop Mix" of "Listen to the Badman" in particular is (((((|O_O|)))))

No way is this better than the original version with its ridiculous rave chords and disembodied diva vocals.

xp yeah, absolutely. as an actual chart thing it is just such a non sequitur that it's impossible not be disarmed, and then from that there's a frisson that comes from having your nose tweaked aesthetically

like i mean if you heard it and felt proven right, about life and stuff, then ur totally a disgusting savage. (ie i must get round to the grim task of seeing what popjustice think)

i guess it's just the difference between being playful and being the one note wacky tie office joker

same vibe that couches the central conceit of 'spoons' (ie, literally the spoons) as lightly punning kitchen sink melodrama moreso than pure gimmick

'spoons' kinda reminded me of something steve beresford might have done actually, like 'my body' by general strike or whatever

sorta got a nightmare audio vision of alunageorge covering viv goldman 'launderette' now i've said that

aaaaanyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0w0xU7SXIE

more fabness

u don't kno how it warms my cockles to see "now playing" actually paid attention to

same vibe that couches the central conceit of 'spoons' (ie, literally the spoons) as lightly punning kitchen sink melodrama moreso than pure gimmick

haha the first few times i heard "spoons" i just assumed the title was referring to, like, lovers in bed. then i actually listened closely and was like ohhhhh. when i talked to them i mentioned the first interpretation and one of them said it had never occurred to him and another was like, i thought that was the point.

absolutely love "waiting all night" and "baby" - the rudimental album is strong too on one listen

eh soz coming back off the dp thread here

matt u and cracklebox seem to just be saying that boogie disco stuff has existed and been popular recently - fine yeah sure but is skream operating with and addressing the same balearic plonkers with those mixes? no imo, it's an appeal to a different audience, and the move to do so is brighter than is being made out i think. they're far more akin to something like this (another jenna g, brand new good for u etc) in spirit and motivation than they are to terje edits and crystal vision or whatever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16zjHb2mglw

oh no wait those ukf savages left off the amazing thriller outro where she megamixes all the said classics! here:

http://youtu.be/SRPiw1eIvBQ

haha pushing at the outline of what constitutes the interzone! but why not? the ghost of jungle has always been one of its animating spirits iirc

is skream operating with and addressing the same balearic plonkers with those mixes? no imo, it's an appeal to a different audience

I'd agree with you on this, Hot Creations are probably the missing link here, even more than Bashmore or whoever. But I don't get a sense of the essential London-ness of them, even when he's remixing Rudimental.

Contrast with a lot of the more song-based stuff that we're talking about here which is harking back to (and updating) a spirit that's been dormant in British dance music for a long time, and yacht disco doesn't quite fit in with that even given the overlapping audience, for reasons I can't quite put my finger on. Not late enough in the 80s, wrong kind of wine bar.

1000 Soul Songs is wonderful though, astonishing in its shamelessness.

I dunno Matt I think you're drawing too sharp a distinction. It's all raw like sushi imo.

idk yeah it is likely a shade too neat but better him drawing some sort of line than me not i think ultimately

hot creay's ldn-ness (and i agree it has little bearing itt but for the sake of chitchat) is probably in their import electro-ness idk? that quirky off-the-wall newcleus thing

'emperor' remains the stupidest song i've found myself liking in an age anyway, punching myself in the face every time i sing along

The Skream remixes (and I mainly mean the Duke Dumont and Rudimental ones here) are kind of consciously harking back to a (even marginally) pre-acid house era. Dunno why, but that feels like an important distinction for me, in terms of spirit if nothing else, even though the links between the artists are obvious.

Struggling to think of the last time there were back-to-back #1s as good as Need U and Waiting All Night, btw.

Mozart's House is ridiculous.

No Enemiesz is the first decent Kieszsa followup, though the product placement in the video is rather offputting.

oooh i like this:

https://soundcloud.com/crownduels/sets/crown-duels-drdr-easily-remixes

Crown Duels & DrDr - Easily

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG6-1hIqqZM

lol this tat is getting bigger and bigger

i keeps on listening to it now tho #derp

more constructive than maybe ppl tweeting majestic's ukg show requesting deekline 'sexy cinderella' cos it reminds them of the funfair. actually that's p great idk what i'm saying any more

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kinda lol i said this earlier today cos this thing is totally that magical ice rink / bowling lanes phenomenology where all chart music sounds at its absolute very best

reminds me that the last time i was at rowans in goonerland (this was within the last couple of years) they were playing soul for real 'candy rain' in the arcades!! candy fucking rain!!!!

they'll never clear this sample anyway tho surely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozx898ADTxM

feel like i should hate this but..... don't

for some reason i'm surprised uk pop charts are still this classically house-y (correct me if i'm wrong)

i guess this maybe belongs in the tropical house thread

you should definitely hate that :(

help me decide if i like this or nah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDxJlW6cxRk

revolting

hehe, it is kind of revolting

somehow i've completely missed all lead-in singles to the rudimental album which is currently #1 in the UK

has anyone heard it? did they make another baby / spoons / waiting all night?

i have too, i think it's because they've been pretty unmemorable

The new Rudimental stuff has disappointed me even more than the new Disclosure stuff.

I have no interest in hearing either but I assume Rudimental have been trawling it around the festival set like a military campaign.

The first Disclosure and Rudimental albums felt perfectly timed, they both hit at the crest of a wave, a moment that's gone now. What I've heard from both suggests that they get less and less enjoyable the more they try and broaden their appeal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1IVP8R8jTs

fond of this one

https://soundcloud.com/heldeeprecords/oliver-heldens-throttle-waiting

into this (idk what thread it belongs in)

yup

kinda reminds me of cheesy chicago classic "time for love" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zVpxjpKT8o

oof apologies terrible formatting on that post

is this the thread? FFS @ billy kenny

https://soundcloud.com/perfectdriver/buzzsaw-billy-kenny-wongo-out-jan-29-preview

an idea whose time has come: "Body Language" riddim put to good use

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKB4cioGs98

A post to note that A*M*E of "Need U" repute is now making music under the name KABBA and has released her first EP: https://open.spotify.com/album/3gzZEIjvV8djfkYG1z4Pk8

She's called Duke Dumont out for his fuckery so don't expect that team up to happen again:

. @DukeDumont do me a favour and keep my name out of your mouth please. I saw the Music Week write up, you sir are a liar and you’re disrespectful. 2013 was a long time ago my guy, let it fucking go! You didn’t even get my name right!

— KABBA (@kabbaofficial) December 20, 2019

.@DukeDumont I was not enthused to write to your loop but I asked my friend to write the song with me and together we scored you your only number 1 record and a Grammy nomination. Instead of thanking us you’ve been nothing but shady & rude all these years.

— KABBA (@kabbaofficial) December 20, 2019

.@DukeDumont I could go on and on but I’ve been nothing but respectful and sweet to you (as I try to be with everyone) why you felt you needed to be so shady and blatantly rude baffles my spirit. Give it a rest & enjoy the PRS. Happy holidays!

— KABBA (@kabbaofficial) December 20, 2019

so many disappeared youtube upthread :[

so what's the story here?