funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

Just got back from a night out at some random lounge in Montreal. In the middle of the set at 1:30 in the morning, the DJ busted out Wearing My Rolex and Head, Shoulderz, etc. and also some bassline that I didn't recognize offhand. Unexpected, but awesome.

OMG the last fifteen minutes or so of the june 10 Marcus Nasty/Mak 10 set is just O_O - amazing militaristic snare-heavy Scotty D track (ID'd by the "whoidit?" signature sample) into this astonishing bass-lurching monster which is like a funky version of old Metope tunes, then a long long blend into the perfect choice of Jalla's "Turbulence".

With stuff like this the whole "funky as feminine reaction to x" explanation just doesn't make sense any more, this stuff is totally ruff and tuff. I'm liking that funky seems to be moving to a kind of dancehall equivalent position where questions of masculinity and femininity are basically suspended.

this dj one drop is one of the best sets ive heard ... part of that might be my bias towards 192kbps mixes tho

Busy Signal - Tic Toc (GreenMoney Remix)

^^^ This!

yeah that dj onedrop set is incredible. tim, check out the greenmoney showcase mixtape floating around the internet!

also, i like the fact that the jumeirah riddim is so called...because sticky made it in a jumeirah hotel room.

LOVE this onedrop mix too: "Don’t Jealous Me!"

everyone otm abt how awesome the one drop mix is, went so well w/ the hot weather on sunday

onedrop mix is good imo - big and bashy funky!

Nothing called 'African Air Horn Dance' can possibly be bad.

Ministry of Sound Presents The Sound of UK Funky:
Release Date: 06/07/2009

CD 01
1 Donae'o Party Hard Full Vocal
2 DJ Naughty Quicktime
3 Paleface Feat. Kyla Do You Mind Crazy Cousins Remix
4 ENUR Feat. Natasja Calabria 2007 Club Mix
5 Ultra Nate Love's The Only Drug Original Mix
6 Paleface Run Away
7 Aaron Carl Oasis Nick Holder Vocal Mix
8 Altered Natives Rass Out
9 Steve Angello & Laidback Luke Feat. Robin S Show Me Love Geeneus Mix
10 Geeneus & Zinc Feat. Nikki Emotions VIP Mix
11 Hardhouse Banton Sirens
12 Kele Le Roc So Good (My Love) Diamond Remix
13 DJ Naughty Trouble's Back
14 Nick Holder Erotic Illusions Triple T OV Mix
15 Trackheadz Feat. Zaki Feel Vocal Mix
16 Karizma Twyst This
17 Hardhouse Banton Reign
18 Courtney Dennie Signed & Sealed
19 FunkyStepz Sounds In Moruga
20 Diamond Feat. Sophia Romain Fly Away

CD2
1 ATKM (All The Kings Men) Feat. Leo The Lion Call My Lions
2 Donae'o Devil In A Blue Dress Vocal Mix
3 Geeneus Feat. Katy B As I
4 Crazy Cousinz Feat. MC Versatile Funky Anthem
5 Kid Cudi Vs Crookers Day 'N' Nite Crazy Cousinz Remix
6 Lil Silva Different
7 Karizma Darqness Tru Remix
8 Brasstooth Celebrate Life Footloose Remix
9 Delio D'Cruz Vs KCAT Get Off The Wall Delio D'Cruz Remix
10 Blackhouse Project Come Dancin'
11 Blackcoffee Feat. Bucie Turn Me On Original Mix
12 DJ Footloose Feat. Courtney Dennie So Dangerous M. Sadler Remix
13 Footsteps Feat. A L. Tell Me
14 Bizzi Bizzi's Party Soulful House Mix
15 Marco Del Horno Feat. Katie Leone Never Gonna Let You Go
16 N. B. Funky Riddim Box Sami Sanchez Mix
17 Miss Fire Feat. Van Cleef Lost In Your House
18 DJ Q Feat. Natz Yours
19 Footloose Feat. Simone Just Leave
20 Rebecca Knight Guilty Secret (Sunday Showers)
21 TJ Cases Feat. Yvonne Fragile

CD3
1 Apple Chantes Mood II Swing Can't Get Away Accapella
2 Fr3e Tribal Skank Vocal Mix
3 D-Malice Gabrielle Bootleg Mix
4 Perempay & Dee Feat. Katie Pearl In The Air
5 Undisputed Sunglasses
6 Perempay & Dee Buss It
7 DJ MA1 Feat. Sophia I'm Right Here DJ Naughty Remix
8 Crazy Cousinz Inflation
9 DVA Feat. Alahna I'm Leaving MA1 Remix
10 Geeneus Yellowtail Original Mix
11 Crazy Cousinz Feat. Kimona I See You
12 Mista Bee Amazon's Night
13 Princess Nyah Frontline
14 Apple Goy Goy Cowbell
15 Donae'o African Warrior
16 Funkystepz Trinity Hill
17 L. A. Cartier Call Me
18 Bakongo Bambara
19 Barber Bizzle Feat. Miss Fire Do You Feel The Same
20 Fuzzy Logik The Way You Move
21 Nat-Mor I Feel

tracklisting looks good... surprised rinse hasnt put out volume 2 of their funky series yet.

i just got that ministry mix, can't wait to put it on - i like that there's a fair number of tracks i haven't heard, so it won't just be the usual bangers (great as they are) in a difft order

I cannot believe Ministry put out a funky mix without Heads, Shoulder, Knees & Toes on it. I'd assumed that would be the first name on their teamsheet.

Still it looks a very good mix of well-known anthems and tracks I don't know, while being very dilettante-friendly.

"16 Funkystepz Trinity Hill "

I love this track so much. And I'm intrigued to hear their "Sounds In Moruga".

Hmm a trip to their myspace page reveals "Sounds In Moruga" to be kinda boring actually :-(

finally found the Crazy Cousinz release and it is hella nice

The OneDrop mix bumps obviously - love the unexpected experience of the Ripgroove sample durin Bringing It Down.

Maybe it's just the overload of MC's on this one but it feels like virtually every record here references two or three others, like they're trying to reach some kind of critical mass of whoops of recognition. Route one funky!

hey rev can u hook me up?

omg absolutely flipping out at this Teedra Moses funky remix that Mak 10 plays

ladies free before 10
no hoods, hats or trainers
(prada ok)

deej: will do

oh yeah. night slugs on friday with geeneus. REACHING!

http://profile.ak.facebook.com/object3/778/65/n114959012064_159.jpg

Slightly surprised to see Martyn knocking around in there...

http://14tracks.com/selections/63-14_tracks_opening_up_uk_funky

Yeah but that's about the most dubstep take on funky i could imagine. It's all Ramadanman/LD/Kode 9 etc.

Siegbran will be very pleased to know that Marcus Nasty and Mak 10 are playing THIS BADBOY VATO GONZALES TUNE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvzgb7-Doc0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emKzeDqi7g4

That Badman riddim is great.

OMG Geeneus' "Crackles" with Ms Dynamite on vocals!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check the crappy radio rip on www.theheatwave.co.uk - worth it!

track id on "sexy sexy sexy put your fingers all up on me"

Natalie Walker - All Up On Me

thanks!

I want to marry every person commenting on this facebook page:

Best Skanking tunes out there??

i thought sean paul would do better than that...

mak10 kinda killing it right now on rinse... i think i heard some new rapid-produced track that was really good, in spite of the rolex sweep-style 'sexy' vocals.

I haven't heard the above yet but I'm loving his 24 June set for Rinse (under Marcus Nasty - Mak 10 does the first hour then Marcus the second). Very ruff!

Marcus plays this vocal tune "Cookin" by Enrique Benitez (not sure if that's correct) which strikes me as exactly what vocal tunes should be aiming for right now: sassy r&b vocals over a spiky groove that could be from Scotty D, all sharp snares, menacing bass and chilly synth sounds.

The vocal goes "I see you lookin' lookin'/(at) what i've been cookin' cookin'/I wanna take it slow/Watch you go down low..."

the one i like - god knows if its out now, ive stopped keeping track of the 12s as i cant afford to be tempted right now - is the one with the girl talking (very emphatically) about 'i just wanna do you right!' still like that older one 'i dont give a fuck about she'. the new princess one 'big boys' is good for LOLz but its not really on par with frontline. not sure what other good vocals ive heard, except for the fuzzy logik one thats apparently delayed til autumn now cos some major snapped it up.

mak 10 played some DIRTY hard house sounding stuff tonight... sounded brilliant in the car, even better with poor reception lol.

Just now listening to Roska's June 30th set on Rinse and it's great. I don't know what 90 percent of this stuff is though. The song around 9 minutes is killer.

Titchy, the "Do You Right" tune is definitely a Crazy Cousinz remix but I can't remember what the original track is. The "I don't give a..." tune is Yazz's "You, Me & She", probably the DJ Naughty remix.

Yeah "Big Boys" is a bit sub-par. A shame because Ill Blu (who I assume produced it as per "Frontline") is totally smashing it lately. To whit:

Ill Blu - Time To Get Nasty
Shystie - Pull It (Ill Blu Remix)
Kris Bayer - Heartbreaker (Ill Blu Remix)
Aaliyah - Rock The Boat (Ill Blu Remix)

Between these four tunes he's definitely in the running to be producer of the year-so-far.

>Help me fill in the tracklist blanks on the Marcus Nasty/Mak10 26 March set:

did you ever i.d. more of these Tim? if I were able to keep up more I'd like to have helped!

Aaliyah - Rock The Boat (Ill Blu Remix)

UH WHAT

WHAT

SHOW ME

i was also gonna add the ill blu remix of mj cole's 'gotta have it' but the thought of ill blu/aaliyah has fused my brain a bit

also ill blu's own 'rider'

"Rider" is good (as is "Say Yes") but I'd say they're second tier compared to the tracks I listed above. Haven't heard the MJ Cole remix...

Updated Mak 10/Shantie set tracklist:

0:00:00 - Emvee - Love Charm
0:02:50 - J-Will - Deja Vu (Major Notes Remix)
0:05:02 - T2 - Butterflies (Arms Remix) - I THINK, NOT SURE
0:07:14 - Ny - Dangerous
0:09:25 - DJ Q - Your Girl
0:11:36 - Hard House Banton - Sirens
0:12:35 - Unknown - A Little Bit Funky/Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle
0:14:16 - ??? "It's the New Sound!"
0:16:28 - ??? Stuttery drums and sad bleeps
0:17:27 - Addictive - Domino Effect (O.B. Remix)
0:19:53 - ??? Sounds like DJ Naughty maybe
0:21:48 - Sticky and Paleface - Open Your Eyes
0:24:30 - Crazy Cousinz - Always Be Mine
0:26:40 - Donaeo - Love To Happen
0:29:37 - Lil' Silva - Different
0:32:15 - Fuzzy Logic - In The Morning
0:33:29 - ??? Piano tune
0:35:40 - Dotstar - Ransom
0:37:38 - ??? synthy
0:38:52 - Lil' Silva - Seasons
0:41:30 - ??? "Jump and skank to the beat"
0:43:13 - Aaron Carl - Oasis (Nick Holder Dub)
0:44:56 - ??? dancehall-ish with piano, maybe Tadow?
0:46:07 - Hard House Banton - Reign/D Double E Freestyle
0:51:45 - ??? Maybe Fuzzy Logic, piano stomper
0:52:34 - snippet of Princess - Frontline
0:53:18 - Sticky - Juremiah Riddim
0:55:29 - ??? echoing percussion, "work me!"
0:58:25 - Scottie D - ???
0:59:38 - ??? Tribal bleep
1:01:36 - ??? Spooky arpeggios and trance chords
1:03:03 - ??? Histrionic synth blasts
1:04:17 - ??? Feel like I should know this one. "Now move!"
1:07:34 - This is by Karizma I think
1:09:46 - Funkystepz - Funky Sound
1:11:42 - This is by Lil Silva I think
1:12:49 - Scottie D - Dream (fabulous!)
1:14:10 - Rapid - Report to the Dancefloor
1:15:23 - Lil' Silva - Funky Flex vs Pulse
1:17:19 - D-Malice - ???
1:19:02 - Madd.One/DevineRecordings - Tribal Conga
1:20:30 - ??? Eerie horns
1:22:15 - ??? "And I'm here to tell you!" LOVE THIS
1:24:23 - Lil' Silva - ???
1:27:33 - ??? Organ riffs
1:28:35 - ??? Rip Groove samples?
1:30:01 - ??? very Jammer
1:31:00 - Unknown - A Little Bit Funky
1:32:27 - Danny Native - Rass
1:33:42 - ??? Latin percussion
1:35:24 - ??? LOVE THE ARDKORE VIBE ON THIS ONE
1:37:33 - ??? Drum rolls
1:38:43 - Scotty D I think, pretty sure the "Whoidit?" sample is his producer signature.
1:40:57 - ??? Very grimey
1:41:54 - ??? Love the assymetrical groove on this one
1:43:09 - ??? Feel like I should know this one, heard it heaps
1:44:37 - ??? Zipping string riffs
1:46:06 - Roska - In Your Handbag
1:48:01 - ??? Deep house vibe
1:49:32 - ??? More of a tribal deep house thing

Lex, the Ill Blu remix of Aaliyah is all over recent Mak 10/Marcus Nasty sets. Download their June 24 set off the rinse fm blog.

It's great, not as muscular as some of his other productions but very dark and mysterious.

Having real trouble finalising my Top 50 funky tracks for first half of 2009 - the actual shortlist of tracks I lik eand know the name of blows out to about 100, but no way am I gonna do a write-up for all of those.

thanks Tim! LOVE Emvee - "Love Charm"

When I do my big round up I might - MIGHT - be able to offer some exclusive links for special friends. Although it's odd hearing "Love Charm" without Shantie saying "one-two!"

i still love that ny/wookie track even though its old now. but then i still play do you mind like its just come out too. would love to hear that alliyah remix - i think i heard it once, rankin said something like 'you cant go wrong with aaliyah' but i duno which set its on.