F-F-F-F-F-Funkystepz

what on earth is wrong with the name funkystepz

― that's my hair no horses up there (lex pretend), Monday, 16 May 2011 12:40 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

It just sounds really generic, like the kind of thing you'd go and see at some depressing leisure park meatbox in Luton or something.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lctvi9WrBp1qbfy8p.jpg

Really looking forward to hearing this mix anyway.

actually it says you have to login before you can download, so if anyone can post the direct link that'd be nice.

good to see mdc upholding our solemn duty to shoehorn a footer pic into every thread. (maxsin funkystepz supports arsenal fyi).

http://brooklynradio.net/download/2947.mp3

kisses

a certified mix of awesomeness!

I'm saying!

The Boiler Room set w/ Lily McKenzie, Ramzee, Mighty Moe, Bruza & Scrufizzer was vibes.

http://boilerroom.tv/funkystepzs-75-min-mix/

what on earth is wrong with the name funkystepz

http://bballsml.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/kidz_bop_cover.jpg

might've had another hyperdub 12 out of it if they'd called it 'expired applecare' or something...

― r|t|c, Sunday, 31 October 2010 12:35 (6 months ago) Bookmark

The Funkystepz bit starts off about 29mins into that podcast, by the way. There's a clear demarcation so I might cut off the opening section and upload it to save people skipping/slogging through it.

But have you listened to it Matt! I want reax please.

Sets like this and the Ill Blu ones feel a bit like gorging on all the icing and none of the cake, but on the other hand mmmm sugar.

Tim I think you might be overselling it a bit with the Kish Kash comparison but it definitely feels like there's a bit of a sonic leap between the stuff here that seems to have been around forever and the newer material. Same Lego brick approach to funky but somehow more... muscular? British dance music in general seems to be getting more beat-em-up soundtrack so it fits right in, albeit for a very colourful cartoonish beat-em-up.

Also that New Boyz remix is just wow. They're even better as pop remixers than original producers IMO, the way they pitch everything up into chipmunk vocals works really well with autotune pop - see also the Rude Boy remix. The Equiknoxx remix threatens to go a bit Henry's Cat Riddim but I like it.

(xpost - that do you?)

In fairness that detuned "oh oh oh oh" vocal in "Girls Go Wild" (which is almost exactly like the same trick in "Lucky Star") may be overdetermining my Basement Jaxx comparison.

Yeah I think if the mix corresponds to anything on Kish Kash its the kind of Tazmanian Devil energy of Lucky Star rather than the rest of it.

woah this is insane

Here's that mix without all the superfluous stuff at the beginning. Mwah.

r|t|c you got it Max is the Arsenal fan, me and Stimps are Red Devils haha

Just letting you guys know 'Trouble' & 'Girls Go Wild' are going to be out on Hypderdub!

Our next release will be 'Our Love' (alongside 'No More' both featuring Rhian Moore) a summer track which is a cross between UKG & Funky you can listen back on Cameos show here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011j6j6#synopsis

We also refixed a couple of tracks from our previous EPs, Trinity Hills, Malibu, Bubbly and more so 'The Refix EP' will be out too, although this isnt a one of our main releases it should interest djs :)

At this moment im unaware of all 3 release dates but ill keep u updated!

:D

amazing

RENAY WHEN ARE YOU GUYS RELEASING 'LOVERS'!! we love that one round here

also is 'rude girl' on the refix ep cos that's a personal fave too

'Rudeboy' isn't as its unofficial however now you've said that ill add the instrumental! So as it stands its refixes of Trinity Hills, Bubbly, Loca Moca, Rudeboy, Malibu and one more which ill keep a secret :p

'Lovers' would defiantly need a remix with it, as i feel the beat is dated...love her vocals on it though! ill see whats happening with that too! but it will be defiantly after the 3 releases mentioned in my previous post

haha wow, dunno about "dated"... if you mean just in terms of the ravey 90s piano riff then i'd say that was a big part of what makes the track so enjoyable. and it's not like that vibe ever really gets a bad response anyway? (especially not in funky circles but beyond that too.)

course i wouldnt have anything against additional mixes...

oh yeah and with 'rude girl' i was thinking of this one instrumental refix of the 'rude boy' remix that maxsin played a couple of times round the middle of last year - it was kinda pretty much the same but you guys added loads of big swooning synth choruses and tropical steel pan stuff?

to be honest i'm going from dim memory here cos i've lost the radio rip of it i made - it's a good memory though!

Renay,

1) Congrats on running it so hard at the moment

2) Everything about "Lovers" is perfect, please release in its OG form (though additional mixes are fine)

3) What is going on with "WARRIOR", aka certified banger for the ages?

OK this mix is the business

It is funky
It is steppy
It is... FUNKYSTEPZ

But no upcoming gigs listed anywhere on the net.... What's up with that?

Good shout on the feedback, glad it doesn't sound dated either...

Everyone is asking about Warrior!! theres a few labels interested in putting it out

Rudegirl is Rudeboy with just a few more sounds

Our Love is out 4th July, still no info on the rest, will also get details about upcoming gigs however i do know were on the Hypderdub soundsystem at Bestival!! http://www.bestival.net/#/artists/2011-lineup/hyperdub-soundsystem-feat-kode-9-joker-king-midas-sound-nomad-lv-and-funkystepz

Make sure you lock in to Roskas Show on Rinse FM today at 5-8 it will be FUNKYSTEPZ B2B DJ CHAMPION B2B ROSKA...we got LOADS of freshness..DO NOT MISS THIS!

We will also be on Scratchas 'Grimey Breakfast' on Rinse FM this Friday too!

http://soundcloud.com/matchstick-1/six-d-best-damn-night

Six D - Best Damn Night (Funkystepz Dub Mix)

oops i see that went up on youtube yesterday, along with some other new bits:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Funkystepzuk#g/u

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROeNzHNi4Ps

Can't remember where I first heard this but now it's up on youtube, always liked it

Funkystepz killing it on Rinse right now btw, alongside Roska and Champion

rmde at my belated ass only just getting round to buying the backseat remix

this thing is surely one of the great wonders of the world

one of their top 5 ever for sure. no, top 3. no...

I DIDNT EVEN KNOW ABOUT THIS BREAKDOWN AT 3 MINS

been bumping that virus syndicate rmx lately

love that initial link was to jubilee's show, love her

yeah that one's another masterpiece

like you assume it's only doing one thing, that it's looping somewhere, but there's just constant mindboggling everything going on simultaneously

especially of late their stuff feels so uniquely alive and organic and careering around wildly but somehow never quite losing control

Spot on. The backseat breakdown is ridic. I like how their increasingly staged production style has all these little resemblances to but difference from ill blu. Ill Blu use breakdowns to push the tune higher, but for funkystepz the breakdown is the moment when the tune eats itself.

Also "Best Damn Night" is AMAZING.

Those youtube clips also remind me of how much I love the use of the booka shade stagger trance riffs on "Heaven".

OMG the halftime beatbox breakdown at the end!

Download our Promo mix for the YOYO takeover at Fabric Tonight https://www.fabriclondon.com/blog/archive/2011/07/

10pm-6pm - Room 3 - YoYo - Seb Chew, Funkystepz, Champion, Greenmoney, Smutlee, Monki - £16 on the door.

Butterz & Hardrive presents @ Cable Saturday 13th August

Kode 9
Elijah & Skilliam with P Money
Terror Danjah
Swindle
Champion
Royal T
D.O.K
Scratcha DVA

Room 2 hosted by S.O.T.U (Sounds Of The Underground)

Playing the best in UK Funky and Deep House

DJ PIONEER (Kiss 100)
MARCUS NASTY (Rinse Fm)
DJ NAUGHTY
FUNKYSTEPZ (Hyperdub)
HARD HOUSE BANTON
MA1 (Rinse Fm)
FUNK BUTCHER (Rinse Fm)
LR GROOVE (Deja Vu)

http://www.cable-london.com/event/we-fear-silence-pr%E2%80%8Besent-butterz/13082011

fireworks guest mix still BEST EVAH

Some hot new Funkystepz tunes on this Smoove Kriminal / Maxsin Funkystepz set:

http://smoovekriminal.podomatic.com/player/web/2011-07-01T06_11_43-07_00

"Class A" is super compulsive. "Royal Rumble" is actually insane, like someone should slap them for the cheek of it. Dead center between "Warrior", the Jim Screecha remix and a computer having an epileptic fit. "Fizzy" is yr typical jittery funkystepz party vibes only with added percussive hi-jinx.

These dudes really do have too many killer tracks.

^ Tim where did you get the tracklist for that? Is it on the Deja site? Some great Funkystepz bits that I hadn't heard before on there anyway. Actually the show as a whole had a lot going for it I think - I remember last year really enjoying Smoove Kriminal's shows, but in the last few months I've found it hard to listen to them because long stretches of them just seem very dull to me. This felt more like... maybe not a full return to form but def a step back in the right direction.

Here it is Andy:

Tracklisting:

Floating – DJ Trizzy Feat. Yelitza
We Can Go (In The Sunshine) – Soneni & The Soul
Heartbeat – Major Notes Feat. Lisa Lee (Smoove Kriminal Special)
Emergency Room - OB Feat. Channy Angelina (Fingaprint Congo Mix)
A Fool - Delerious (Funkystepz)
Soul City – Mistaken Identity Feat. Panama & Salwa M
Windstorm - Funkystepz
On My Mind - Smoove Kriminal
Riddim - DJ Whitecoat

*Funkystepz Mini Mix*

Jumanji - Funkystepz
Class A - Funkystepz
Fuller - Funkystepz
Warrior - Funkystepz
Caution - Funkystepz
Girls Go Wild - Funkystepz
Your Life - Virus Syndicate (Funkystepz Dub Mix)
Trouble - Funkystepz
Royal Rumble - Funkystepz
Fizzy - Funkystepz

*End Of Funkystepz Mini Mix*

Resilience - Smoove Kriminal
Kingston Town - Funkystepz (VIP Mix)
Avalanche - Smoove Kriminal
Unfinished Business - DJ Seany B
Tropico 2011 - Lorenzo
Space Impact - Zoltan
Darkwing - Smoove Kriminal
Stereo In Motion - Smoove Kriminal
Stop That! - Smoove Kriminal
Broken - Mr Solo
Dance Music - Smoove Kriminal
Beat Of Zen - Damu
Drops - Beneath
Brick Lane - Matt IQ
Lost - Mr Solo
Our Love - Funkystepz Feat. Rhian Moore
Robot Wars - Mistaken Identity

*Funkystepz & Rhian Moore Interview (Back Ground Music 'No More Instrumental Mix)*

Live PA Of No More By Funkystepz Featuring Live Vocals From Rhian Moore.

They're on Deja on Sunday night w/ Local Action too 10-12.

Looking forward to that.

as ever with garage remixes you fight back the temptation to post the original load of shit just to fully make clear the magnitude of alchemy wrought

but seriously - what. a. ting.

It just made my day to see "XTC" is getting a release. I doubt "Lovers" will ever see the light of day, though, Tim, unless they include it in their annual Christmas giveaway, it just sounds so much different than what they put out over the last year and a half. On the bright side, that new vocal track "Bring Me Back" of theirs sounds sick!

yeah, difficult to make a big deal of it at the time at the end of that breathtaking mix but 'bring me back' sounded fucking fantastic

Oh I'm sure yr right Astrochimp, in some ways if it actually came to light now it would tarnish the holy grail status it has earned in my head.

Tim, you can download 'Lovers' here: http://www.louisewmusic.com/#!music/c22j5. Enjoy!

That mix from October is just omg what are these pinky and perky mutations and meltdowns jesus christ!

xpost OMG!!! Brilliant.

I couldn't get te six tracks (just ask to d/l more things to get it). anyone help?

Click on the Louise Williams picture, then when you get to zippyshare.com, they'll be a box on the right with scrambled letters. Types those in, then click on the 'download now' link directly below. Hope that helps!

Cheers! Really enjoying this...

b2b w/dj target

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p013t1yz

Funkystepz - Bring Me Back (Extended Mix)
Funkystepz - Vice Versa (Original Mix)
Funkystepz - Nu Shooz
Shiva - Fosky (Martinez Brothers Remix)
Salva - BBQ
DJ Pantha - Love To The Max Hate To The Minimal (feat. Shantie)
Sky Juice - Lick It Back
Dennis Ferrer - Hey Hey
Di Nation & Skitzophrenix - Respeck
Funkystepz - Phantom
DJ Zinc - Only For Tonight (feat. Sasha Keable)
Devolution - My Friends
maNga - Time (feat. Wiley & Lily McKenzie)
Traits - Fever (feat. Elisabeth Troy
Calvin Harris - Sweet Nothing (Diplo & Grand Theft Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQHGK3CBpes

don't mean to make a habit of such posts but this lol wtf banger reminds me so much of deconstructed funkystepz

hot mixxx !!!!! havent heard this shantie

F-F-F-F-F-Fonkytimez

"Vice Versa" is awesome.

just getting round to listening to the Backlog EP now and, my god 'Section 5' is completely insane. I mean, I already knew about XTC's amazingness but that track had passed me by before somehow. The whole EP is incredible though. If Zomby or someone had released this as an album everyone would be going completely nuts for it. Have they ever talked about doing an album? I reckon they could do an amazing one.

Then again, casually tossing out a 9 track EP of backlog material that still pisses over 99% of everyone else is pretty admirable.

http://www.djcity.co.uk/digital/shea-soul-where-did-you-go-funkystepz-loveshy-remix---29090.htm

only clip around right now outside of target's shows but the track is fucking fiyah

New Funkystepz from their soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/funkystepzuk/jeremih-all-the-time. That Shea Soul remix has been running through my head since I first heard it on Target's show. They're IMO the best producers in the UK (along with Lorenzo atm) and have been for over two years. The could easily put out another 2-3 Backlog EP's worth of killer tunes, their sheer volume of quality tracks is breathtaking. I'm genuinely perplexed at how Funkystepz have not blown up then. Is it their name? Their connection to UK Funky? Not conservative or serious enough for the Factmag/ Post-dubstep crowd? Maybe if they just changed their name to something like Blawan/Beneath/Girl Unit people would be falling over themselves to proclaim them as modern-day musical Gods?. Help me out here..

https://soundcloud.com/funkystepzuk/jeremih-all-the-time

So i guess this tune is aimed at the cutting shapes/shuffling scene right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&client=mv-google&hl=en&v=dIJ5_ahR0ME&nomobile=1

Loving the Jeremih.

https://soundcloud.com/funkystepzuk/drake-started-from-the-bottom

thanks j0rd, what would we do without you

Several degrees of awesome - although I'm not inclined to check the originals, the remixes are so authoritative.

IT WAS A BAD TIME FOR THE EMPIRE.

https://soundcloud.com/funkystepzuk/funkystepz-narcotics-ep

http://i.imgur.com/rPrAK6Z.gif

predictably banging

admire them for sticking to their guns in this most antipathetic of climates

altho maybe this is them in a holding pattern for the presumably meagre guaranteed french money idk

rly and truly they should just cut their uk nuum losses already and go all out to slay in the euro edm mongface godzilla stomper electrohouse arena proper instead of reinterpreting it for earnest fraidy cat internet tourists

http://www.beatport.com/genre/electro-house/17/top-100

i mean like if you flick thru this and try and claim that there's not plenty funkystepz kicks to be had then ur a dirty lying ape

thing is i say "reinterpret" there as if there's any evidence they've ever paid attention to this stuff

but then it would be beyond quixotic for them to have just invented something so akin all on their innocent own so idk

http://www.beatport.com/track/home-funkystepz-dirty-trap-remix/4416127

oh btw

funkystepz remixing austra?!?! i might have to take some time to attempt imagining that before i actually play it

rly and truly they should just cut their uk nuum losses already and go all out to slay in the euro edm mongface godzilla stomper electrohouse arena proper

This counts 10x more for Ill Blu by the way, or at least it did 18 months ago before the moment slipped away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxiEtCl2vro

just par example like

got more in the clip should anyone desire

For those not already aware, a free EP for the holidays indulging the Loveshy side of things (a good thing): https://soundcloud.com/funkystepzuk/sets/funkystepz-loveshy-ep

Higher hit ratio than the Narcotics one earlier this year, I think.

crazed & epic - https://soundcloud.com/boxed-up-london/funkystepz-low-end-theory-mixtape-101-strictly-funkystepz

This is really great, though it does suggest that Funkystepz haven't decided yet how much they want to fall into line with everyone else and how much they want to continue to forge their own idiosyncratic path. It seems to veer between those two options, though with more subtlety and grace than I would have expected if you'd described that to me.

yeah. on second listen (this time errr from the beginning) it's not nearly as crazed as i'd thought. very smoothed out and quite straight ahead housey actually. for me it really starts picking up around the 1/2 hr mark

radio raving w/ cameo:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02gf24g

Quite liking their new (rather mellow) EP for Club Soda:

https://soundcloud.com/clubsodarecords/sets/funkystepz-special-delivery-ep-1

Ok lol:

Iv been in the funkystepz guys dms a few tyms tryna get dem on board w the new vybz ca they wd do ths stuff w dere eyes closed but they sed no and r happy 2pursue dere tech house career insted 😔

— Scratchclart (@ScratchaDVA) August 11, 2021

https://funkystepzldn.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-not-a-tech-house-ep-2021

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