Eww: It's the Ill Blu Hype Thread

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.

From Facebook:

ILL BLU
hope every1 remembers y they r celebrating easter, this is actually more valuable thn xmas as Jesus was born in september...Easter is when Jesus christ sacrificed his life so we could be forgiven for our sins...Today - Gd Friday, is the day to celebrate when Jesus shared the fish and bread between the 5 thousand so its time to get fryin...Have a nice day ppz...Amen

I'm not even religious and i approach all such seasonal messages with a fact-checker's censorious pedantry.

Update on The Living Graham Bond:

You can buy the "Get Freaky" tune on junodownload, it's called Purpl Pop's "The Way (The Living Graham Bond Remix)", the only difference being there's some additional, mostly irritating vocals. Ill Blu must have a dub or something. But the sound quality is blessedly sharp. From last year, irritatingly, so my opportunities to fete this for year end listicle purposes are restricted.

Nothing else by this dude sounds quite as magnificent (though forthcoming single "Werk" sounds promising) or Ill Blu-ish, however I ultimately purchased "The Bail Out" and "Guttergo", both on a Ramadanman tip (which, in retrospect, makes a great deal of sense). You can also download his free, enjoyable remix of Origin Unknown's "Valley of the Shadows" from his soundcloud.

a couple new remixes (from last year) are for sale on amazon's mp3 store - two fresh's 'whatcha', which from the sample sounds like it may be cut from the same cloth as the roll deep mixes, and then selah's 'woman's world', which is great & should please drama seekers, nice busy juggling rhythm with a hook that sounds like 'riverside'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rxJ0fEUoNI

sigh

shout out to andy on this

Haha! Glad to ID this.

shout out to andy on this
Cheers mate, you're welcome.
It does sound very Ill Blu-ish once you get to the section with the strings.

alrite fella, you defecting? :)

i shouldve thought of shox earlier tbf, they'd played his even more bluish 'raise the stakes' a few months ago:

http://soundcloud.com/shoxrinse/shox-raise-the-stakes2

anyone listened to any sets of theirs recently? i moved onto greener pastures once it began to seem like the same 20 tracks in rotation but i imagine they mightve freshened it up by now

Hehe, not exactly defecting, but thought I might stick my head round the door here every so often, seeing as I already check the funky threads on here and it feels a bit daft us dissensus folks posting 'via ILX', 'big up the ILX crew' etc all the time and vice versa without interacting directly. Plus tbh there's so few places for decent UKF discussion online that I don't want to rule any of the existing ones out.
^ I'd forgotten about Raise The Stakes, it's decent but maybe not quite in the same league as Strung Out imo. Not heard any IB sets in about a month either, can't often listen to Rinse during the day but might have a look at the site and see if there's any recent podcasts of them about.

its weird but i find some of ill blus recent tracks quite tiring to listen to. not only are the synths crazily caffeinated and almost piercing but the energy levels are unflagging and there is no respite between each section - its like constant building of manic energy. not saying its a bad thing but its like they have made sure there is no possiblity of boredom or something. its unignorable.

ALERT:

You can now download the instrumental dub of The Living Graham Bond's remix of "The Way" (aka "Get Freaky With You") for free on dude's soundcloud:

http://soundcloud.com/thelivinggrahambond/free-download-purpl-pop-the

Given this version has only just emerged I feel I can technically name this one of my songs of the year.

Dude's "Warehouse Bird" is pretty great also.

Okay his May 2011 promo mix is really ace:

http://soundcloud.com/thelivinggrahambond/highpressurelowfrequencies

anyone ever listen to redlight's show? i gave the most recent one a whirl and while i guess it's kinda what you'd expect* it actually manages to live up to its imagined fun too.

* superficially familiar but not easily categorized when you start to think about it; if i had to place it the presiding animus is that of big beat i reckon! definitely reminded me of jon carter doing an oldskool breezeblock session or something. would be interested in vahid's thoughts if he's reading obv.

also check this out, it's nuts! the berk mumbles all over the top of it unfortunately but i think he says it's by breach

http://hulkshare.com/o6h8dq26uyag

full show here

That tune is amazing!!!

Whoa! Thx for that r/t/c!

Okay his May 2011 promo mix is really ace:

http://soundcloud.com/thelivinggrahambond/highpressurelowfrequencies

YES. Thanks for this Tim, really liking this mix. To me this is kind of like the ultimate party music i.e. it's actually fun & bouncy & kind of inventive (but in a cheerful, not very self-conscious way) rather than just boshy. Plus anything with a version of Monkey See Monkey Do can't really go wrong. Warehouse Bird is a cracker too, yeah.
About to give that Redlight show a shot (Planet X is still one of my current fave tunes). I guess at this stage this is now more the 'Ill Blu/Graham Bond/Redlight/general chunky bangers hype thread'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH8XsdMkzok

just to save incorrect googling casting a pall over my swag

do wish they hadnt tried to be a bit clever with it but thumbs up still

I guess at this stage this is now more the 'Ill Blu/Graham Bond/Redlight/general chunky bangers hype thread'.

― Mr Andy M, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:52 (3 days ago) Bookmark

yah this is how i was working it

would like to help with "graham bond" but much like with "jhene aiko" something dark in me folds its arms and straight refuses to check

hopefully my therapist will bring the remedy one day

His name is awful and annoying admittedly.

haha yeah i mean you try not to be shallow and follow through on your basic stated tenets but graham bond (remixing some awful awful AWFUL swedish discobelle goons to boot) really does bring the bloghouse wince so unforgivingly hard - likewise aiko screaming cutesy ill-starred mp3 pet cause etc

http://i.imgur.com/HASa2.gif

That's totally hypnotic.

Yeah it's kind of astonishing how painful the vocals on "The Way" are, and yet dude still brought this awesome beat, it makes you question his sense and judgment that he would waste it on something like that. I guess he wised up tho.

When I delved a bit deeper into Redlight last year I was kinda amazed how much ropey frankendance there was in there, like the sort of thing you'd have heard on any Kitsune-hyping blog c. 2007, and had trouble squaring that with 'Stupid'. I suppose Ill Blu work so well because they're grounded in funky even as their sound gets so big it bursts out of it, and yeah I know huge maximalist bangers are very 2011 but the line between that and Chase & Status or Nero or something is kinda thin.

My longer-term worry about Ill Blu is that the prospect of an actual album might make them switch up their sound a bit more. This maybe groundless but still, Bhangra Knights is thrilling in the middle of a mix of all their other stuff but it's not a rhythmic change I'd ever want them to repeat.

Yeah "Bhangra Knights" is totally stunning as a one off. Though what's kinda clever about it is that it's only the big snare on the 3 that makes it seem very dubstep - if you removed that (or, rather, replaced it with a kick) it'd sound a lot like their other material. It's like they're doing it just to show that they can fuck with you.

Given none of their 2011 tunes have been released though I wouldn't be surprised if what we've heard to date makes up a large chunk of the album.

Slightly boring question - what do you guys mean when you talk about frankendance? It's not a concept I'm familiar with. Just from the name I'm getting the impression of something like Frankenstein's monster that's cobbled together from bits and pieces of different things and therefore doesn't really have a life of its own. Am I on the right track here?
(Apologies for only posting in the same 3 funky-related threads over and over btw, I will warm up to joining in on some of the others eventually).

the monster does have a life of its own, it's just that since its agreeable and educated nature can only be discerned by kindly old blind men like vahid it has sworn vengeance on its father and accidentally strangled his beloved young son named funky

or something

it's just that since its agreeable and educated nature can only be discerned by kindly old blind men like vahid

A+

the juke/bmore/bloghouse frankenstein dance music they play at clubs

I had forgotten "blogmore"!

You guyz are just the best.

^ Cheers for the link, I think I've pretty much got the gist of it now.
rtc that Redlight show you posted a while back was quite good btw. Not every one on there was a winner obv, but a higher ratio of hits to misses than I expected (maybe I had low expectations 'cause I was worried it was all going to be ultra-overdriven tunes with straight drum loops a la Progress). #slowresponses

Ill Blu are threatening to give this away for free:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq4nseLFTCk