Eww: It's the Ill Blu Hype Thread

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not saying it's remotely on the same level but did you ever hear this other bit of inflationesque drama btw? think handy andy on the other place has also mentioned it. i was thinking mixed over something that rolls it could be a thing. (xp)

can't remember if i mightnt have just been feeling charitable but i quite enjoyed the last marcus show (with depeo); hard to pick out an outstanding radio set this year though i agree.

11th january ill blu set was the one i highlighted if anyone's got that

That Illmana track is lovely. It's not quite "Kiss You", but those strings and flourishes are amazing. I've got to say I love the bassline folks producing this stuff.

it certainly takes shape a little differently than usual but the orchestration at very least is surely unmistakeable. i just can't imagine otherwise. the other thing in favour of it is i think if we'd first heard 'alrite mate' uncredited we'd have had a harder time guessing that was them than this.

This is true. "Bhangra Knights" and "Do That" too probably. They seem to be branching in more different directions than before.

Notwithstanding its recognisable Ill Blu-ness, "Get Freaky With You" is notable for switching up its rhythmic attack several times, like "we have so many beats." There's the stuttery first breakdown, the breakbeaty second breakdown and the snare-overload third breakdown. I can't think of another recent track that is so generous rhythmically.

'chelt' too i think was quite an unexamined departure for them, despite it having been accepted without question.

as you say though, there's a implacable ease in their turning the screw every which way that belies titchy's fingerpointing, not to mention a variety that makes a mockery of any simple reduction to "dubstep".

in fairness to the little fella however, as absorptive as funky is in itself there is perhaps value yet in loosely trying to corrall whatever vibe it is it's picking up: a kind of mistajamified urban brit frankendance beyond (and largely uninterested in) the crippled ring-the-alarm horizons of dubstep, hyperdub, future garage, factmusic et al. a world of mike delinquent remixes, d double e on dnb, and the crown prince maverick sabre. (was dizzie really as reactive as first seemed with tongue n cheek?)

btw tim i was flabbergasted to find that you'd already just had the exact same dubstep argument from this thread back in january re britney? you bloody love it you slag.

told you it was just a regular set didnt i!

ILL BLU 12th MARCH

Carnao Beats ft Teeboy & Kadey - Get Out
?? [¡levantate! (what is this thing anyway, it's great?)]
Murdz 86 - No Glitches
DJ Eastwood - Oh Yeah
Bassboy & Marcus Nasty - Next Funky
DVA - Flute Tune
Chang-Sam - Don't Hold Back
Cooly G - ?

----- 30 mins
Lil Silva - Cheese & Bun
DJ Mystery - Room 101
Fuzzy Logik ft Myshy - Playground
Bassboy & Marcus Nasty - Stamp
?? [46']
Ill Blu - Get Freaky With You
Mr Tickle - Citrus Oxide
Toddska - Gal From England

----- 60 mins
SP ft Rosita - Right Side
Ill Blu - [mind's gone blank]
DJ Q ft Louise Williams - Over
Roska - ?
Ill Blu - Chelt
Funkystepz - ? [new!]
Ill Blu - Monsta
Selah ft Donaeo - Out My House
Funky Twinz ft Angel J - Smile

----- 90 mins
Ill Blu ft Shanique - Take It Low
Lil Silva - ? [slyly incorporating the 'good life' sound...]
Ill Blu - Meltdown
A1 Bassline - Shock Headed
GuGu - RockAByeBaby
Ill Blu - Alrite Mate
Roska ft Nikki - Energy
Miss Fire - Crazy
Encore - Wind Up (Ill Blu Remix)

MARCH APRIL

I was gonna namecheck frankendance!

who knows about maverick sabre? is anyone in the world really ready to discuss maverick sabre? i think i'm ready to discuss maverick sabre.

in particular i would like to hear the views of a local garda regarding this preposterous pikey.

Tell me about him/her/them.

i saw an awful maverick sabre vid on youtube, awful song too. that's about all i can say.

11th january ill blu set was the one i highlighted if anyone's got that

― r|t|c

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OMG! 'get freaky with you' is such a banger. best funky track of the year, so far? most likely.

I'm starting to think so!

a kind of mistajamified urban brit frankendance

This sound is going to be huge but it already overlaps with Rusko and Chase & Status and people as well though doesn't it? Might have been what Tinchy was blindly fumbling towards at to an extent.

best funky track of the year, so far? most likely.

funkystepz' forthcoming face off ep is astonishingly great

there's a track called "piano storm" in particular which is just >>>>>>>

piano storm

This is right in the Ill Blu tradition of "look, we want you to know well in advance that this is going to be amazing" titles.

Yeah "Piano Storm" is great. Was originally the backing music for some remix of a pop tune I think? But was a bit too massive and "look at me!" to work well in that context? Trying to remember back to funkystepz mixes circa Feb 2010.

Funkystepz' "Warrior" also an amazing tune that hopefully will get a release soon (and "Lovers"!!! Please!!!!)

the tracks on the EP are champion/loca moca/piano storm/shocker - all amazing, so much house piano

yeah, 'warrior' is probably the one tune around right now that can son any ill blu number in a epic monster beef

the swing of it once it gets going is just !!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf6o2pg4WJ0&feature=related

never heard this before, is at the end of the march rinse fm set. amazing tune...

Ronan I assume you know "Turn Me On" as well??

no...just listening now.

the above reminds me a lot of elle by dj gregory or the francois k remix of moloko, could imagine the former being played in an in ill blu set. i like the whole set a lot actually, getting more into the more banger type stuff.

i love the track just before the sound cuts off for whatev reason at about 1hr 37 mins...

Driving listening to the weeknd and frank ocean whos with me? 2:07 AM Apr 12th via Twitter for iPhone

Ronan from memory that's an instrumental of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFW9lb1Mr0o

In my private version of reality the "Good Times" and "Green Light" remixes were as big as Guru Josh's "Infinity".

Driving listening to the weeknd and frank ocean whos with me? 2:07 AM Apr 12th via Twitter for iPhone

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that was ill blu btw...i don't have an active twitter or a car...and have never heard frank ocean. i thought the weekend was okay and i do have an iphone.

ha nah i knew what you meant.

If anyone can see fit to use their expertise to upload "Get Freaky With You" to youtube, I will credit you in a (non-remunerative) piece of internet-writing thereby ensuring you achieve instant and eternal fame.

Also, this is great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-TzeyoIRzw

The 12th April set version of "Get Freaky With You" has an entirely different section at the end! Too many ideas in one track.

maybe it is the next song?

No, it's the same track but the beat pattern changes - the third such switch-up in the track so not surprising except to the extent that i'd already thought the tune was gargantuan in its generosity.

New section starts out with just this ominous bass pulse and kicks on the 3 and 4, and then these sorta underwater high-pitched papery drums. The restless inventiveness of it (not to mention the super sharp drums) reminds me of Dom & Roland's "Elektra".

oh okay. i've never been able to tell where one track ends and the next begins in mixes

With this one it's pretty easy because the whole thing has these cycling vocals "uhuh uhuh uhuh uhuh ohohohohohohoyoy get. frea. ky. wit. you." And a ridic bassline of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aImVAxAtRY4

oh go on then. (chuck my eternal fame over on the pile there).

wouldnt rule out my having gone overly ham with the eq there btw, i might've had a few.

Generations past, present and future will sing your name.

They've done a mix for Crazy Legs.

http://www.mixcloud.com/wearecrazylegs/crazylegs-005-ill-blu/

DL link in there too.

Do Ill Blu ever actually DJ anywhere or do they just put out endless mixes?

I don't think I've ever seen them on a club lineup now you mention it.

They must have played a club somewhere right? I just assumed they had. They've got the DJ skills it would be strange if they hadn't.

Wait!

They put up info of the odd gig here: http://www.facebook.com/ILLBLU?sk=wall

I've been wondering what that Time Takers track was for weeks, its Vonstroke-jacking is shameless but it's going to be an anthem nonetheless.

i saw ill blu dj at fact's halloween party last year (alongside bok bok, hyetal, dj spinn) - they were really good. played "omg"!

i was so sure we'd come a lol id cropper with the funerealness tune but 'get freaky'?! wtf.

glad to have given laggardly dissensus vermin a titter anyway.

Lol no way. Lucky I hadn't finished my piece. From now on I'll trust nothing but the "eww" drop.

An amazing tune regardless of course - who are the living Graham bond anyway?

Benny b is a good bloke I think btw.