the vocal tunes from funky are growing on me. not really heard much on the level of do you mind or as i yet but theres a few others from the last few months that seem decent.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 21:21 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone else get kind of a 80s NY house feel from some of the instrumentals? they have that hard brittle percussive vibe to them.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 21:22 (fifteen years ago) link
The man has good taste in general, I'm excited to see him taking a stab at this music.
yeh man i think he will come with goods
btw has anyone checked DJ Mystery's new tunes on myspace? http://www.myspace.com/1djmystery
feeling Turn It Around majorly, very big vibes on that, seems like that vocal could be quite anthemic. so ravey, which is interesting... don't think i've heard anything so ravey from funky yet, only one that comes close is that Scotty D tune with the 'Destruction keeps happening" vocal
most people will know Mozart i guess it seems like its been getting hammered by quite a few djs
― Benjamin, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 00:43 (fifteen years ago) link
"seems like that vocal could be quite anthemic"
what i actually meant to say was epic!
― Benjamin, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 12:30 (fifteen years ago) link
perempay rmx of teedra moses on his myspazz omg!!!!
― lex pretend, Saturday, 20 December 2008 13:55 (fifteen years ago) link
ah very nice. but youd have to be a complete idiot to ruin that song. best remix of be your girl is the bmore club one tho...
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, 20 December 2008 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link
love that bopstar remix of in the air though... so good.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, 20 December 2008 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
apparently funky producers are holding 'scene meetings', ukg/jungle style, to crack down on the grime-style riddim tracks (according to this crazy cousins interview i read in shook magazine)...
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 22 December 2008 10:15 (fifteen years ago) link
link? post article?
― J@cob, Monday, 22 December 2008 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
okay lol @ that
― The Reverend, Monday, 22 December 2008 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
"according to this crazy cousins interview i read in shook magazine)..."
which issue is that? i just downloaded the two most recent (winter, summer) from www.shook.fm but i don't see it.
― paul nomos, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Perempay N Dee ft Shola Ama - DJ Playhttp://www.zshare.net/audio/53597844a2be77e6/
huge track...
― faze01, Sunday, 4 January 2009 00:11 (fifteen years ago) link
wow thanks, loving that
― lex pretend, Sunday, 4 January 2009 11:15 (fifteen years ago) link
latest one. issue 4 i think.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Sunday, 4 January 2009 11:44 (fifteen years ago) link
(xpost)
lil silva - seasons/funky flex is banging http://www.chemical-records.co.uk/sc/servlet/Info?Track=LILSILVA
― Women can be captains too, you know? (jim), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Seasons is probably the stand-out, both very grimey with great bass.
― Women can be captains too, you know? (jim), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
decent mix here by jackmaster of glasgow's numbers: http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=73011
Tracklisting:
Lil Silva - Funky FlexApple - SiegalizerRoska - Our FatherDonaeo - African WarriorRoska - Elevated LevelsPalceface & Kyla - Do You Mind (Crazy Cousins Remix)Roska - Tack TilesLil Silva - SeasonsD Malice - Gabrielle RefixKode 9 & LD - BadMartyn - VancouverSkream - If You KnowZomby - Rumours & RevolutionsPerempay & Dee - Buss It
― Women can be captains too, you know? (jim), Thursday, 15 January 2009 02:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Liking this nice ‘funky’ mix I'm listening to, which I got on Little Detroit:
http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1723&Itemid=28
It’s more techy than I would have thought (plus there is deep house on it as well), but they are primarily a techno forum so that’s no surprise. How do you guys on here think it sits with the rest of the sound?
01 Ill Blu - Frontline (Roska Special)
02 Darkus Beat Company - Promise (Roska Remix)
03 Perempay & Dee - Hypnotic
04 Roska - Feeline (Roska 10K Dub Plate)
05 Karizma - I C U
06 Hard House Banton - Reign
07 Geeneus - As I (feat. Katy B)
08 Audiowhores - Make a Choice
09 Donaeo - Party Hard (Suges - We Belong to the Night)
10 Kenny Dope - Sound Bwoy
11 Roska - Gone to a Better Place
12 Hard House Banton - Sirens
13 Gary Bardouille - Starting Over
14 Karizma - It's What I Am (Simbad Remix)
15 Wookie - Gallium
16 Fingaprint - Take Over
17 Magic Touch - Hips
18 Geeneus - Yellowtail
19 Roska - Feeline (Original Mix)
20 Kentphonik - Sunday Showers
21 Crazy Cousinz - Inflation
22 Roska - Holograph
23 Roska - Climate Change (Original Mix)
24 D Malice - Gabrieylle Refix (Roska Special)
25 Roska - In Your Handbag
26 Nick Holder - Erotic Illusions (Triple T O V Mix)
27 DJ Gregory - Vasefa (Argy Remix)
28 Geeneus - Into the Future
29 Afefe Iku - Mirror Dance
30 Roska - Over the Horizons
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 15 January 2009 12:24 (fifteen years ago) link
That doesn't seem that far away from a usual funky set once you get over the relative lack of vocal tunes. Also I'm assuming this is an ID for the ace funky version of "Erotic Illusions" I've been hearing of late.
― Tim F, Thursday, 15 January 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
‘Roska - Gone to a Better Place’ sounds remarkably close to (what I consider) tech house. I like it.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:59 (fifteen years ago) link
i think Hard House Banton might be my favourite producer name ever.
― Women can be captains too, you know? (jim), Thursday, 15 January 2009 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I was just having a chuckle at that one too.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 15 January 2009 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
this seems quite a slow moving scene.
― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 15 January 2009 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I like the FACT Roska mix (especially as it's 256kbps). Smoothly flowing and agreeably varied.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 16 January 2009 00:08 (fifteen years ago) link
ah, that looks good, downloading now.
― Women can be captains too, you know? (jim), Friday, 16 January 2009 00:15 (fifteen years ago) link
this CC inflation track is so crappy! its like a playschool xylophone line played with basic grime changes (but obv cos its a nice sound its 'classy').
― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 23 January 2009 17:41 (fifteen years ago) link
re: slow moving...
I saw Marcus Nasty at aka for the rinse night recently and he was playing pretty much all stuff from last spring... On the other hand that's probably because it wasn't a proper funky night. Dunno, doesn't seem to have been much more of the good stuff since last summer though - just novelty dance tunes.
― J@cob, Friday, 23 January 2009 20:41 (fifteen years ago) link
"this CC inflation track is so crappy! "
titchy off the money as usual.
― Tim F, Friday, 23 January 2009 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
no, no. its just crap. its almost like funky gone easy listening.
― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 23 January 2009 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
"its almost like (x) gone easy listening" is a black hole into which all interesting thought goes to die.
People have said the same of all manner of awesome tunes over the years. But anyway it's not even true, the groove is really muscular and the xylophone hook is totally ravey.
― Tim F, Friday, 23 January 2009 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
'Inflation' is almost like a tighter relative of 2-Step/UKG's 'Endorphins'. The beat is hugely propulsive, largely down to the snare pattern (first hit is on the first beat of the bar), and the track has a huge amounts of vibez and tension.
― Ach!, Monday, 26 January 2009 04:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Spot on, "propulsive" is precisely the word. There's a sense in which it really perfects (in the sense of intensifying it to a point it's difficult to imagine bettering) the vibey energy of the funky's snare heavy sound without actually having to go down the grime route (the easiest way to know that someone is full of shit w/r/t funky is that they only like post-"Seasons" tunes that emphatically adopt grime/dubsteppy rhythmic ideas - now obv. "Seasons" is classic, but I like the way "Inflation" feels incredibly energetic but not at all aggressive).
― Tim F, Monday, 26 January 2009 07:25 (fifteen years ago) link
i caught up with Arms remixes showreel i downloaded a while back and they're all terrific - best of this subgenre i've heard so far
― Bondzilla vs Mechaholmes (blueski), Monday, 26 January 2009 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
That's the broken beat end of the genre I guess. Agree that his stuff has a subtlety and er "depth" that's missing from a lot of the others. He seems like the MJ Cole of this stuff to me...
― J@cob, Monday, 26 January 2009 11:36 (fifteen years ago) link
princess's remix of 'party hard' is A+
― lex pretend, Monday, 26 January 2009 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link
the track has a huge amounts of vibe
funnily enough, i heard what sounded like a budget roy ayers remix of inflation a little while ago on rinse i think. had some strange attempts at soloing which made me lol a bit.
― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 26 January 2009 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link
titchy might be thinking (...) of kentphonik's sultry 'sunday showers', or (as noted by prancehall) akefe iku's 'mirror dance', both of which could be seen as jazzier 'inflation' xylobites. wrongly.
not to k-punkture the polemic and all but shamefully i must admit that the nomenclature does also hold a certain allure - what mightve merely been a rote afro bubbler now looms with vague zeitgeist doom, absurdly escalating and fluttering up like an exploded suitcase of worthless trillion-dollar zimbabwean bills. feels crafty! the credit crunch ep from which it is supposedly taken will mercifully over-egg that notion though.
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 00:17 (fifteen years ago) link
barely inflected “quality” productions so full of “soul” that there was no room left for a tune, so “deep” that all topographical dynamism gets smothered, all made by “cats” so jive that a positive reaction from plebian suburban, adolescent, gay, drug-using and/or female audiences would be rejected with distaste even if it was possible.
gotta hand it 2 u tho titch, you upped ur word game for this bad boy!
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 00:20 (fifteen years ago) link
come to think of it though - i do like that recessionista waffle in terms of localising the proto-everything idealisation of funky. when else was house, bleep (i fought roska but couldnt ever rule him out), rnb (magic touch pro's 'signed and sealed', that 'sexy sixty seconds' one - shouldnt someone be mentioning these?), ragga and (oh yes) acid jazz all at play but the early 90s - grimness, pirate radio, south london, a general rebirth of uk ownbrand music of all stripes, all of that. context music! just er, substitute the bongo for the breakbeat. soul 2 soul woman's daughter winning x-factor IT IS A PORTENT DON'T U SEE
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 00:49 (fifteen years ago) link
with me as the jeezy of uh-wait-a-sec-how-is-this-actually-relevant-to-what-i'm-hearing-NO-ONE-SAID-THIS-ABOUT-'THE-GREAT-DEPRESSION'-BY-DMX flimsy social crit, natch
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 00:52 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.bm-soho.com/store/AutoKey/101604/mr/mathziap
btw who's heard any djs/sets playing anything off this besides footloose? i declare it canon.
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:30 (fifteen years ago) link
what mightve merely been a rote afro bubbler now looms with vague zeitgeist doom
ha this is actually totally right! there's definitely a kind of menace in the way it builds and builds. roska mixes it into 'sunday showers' on his fact mix, it's definitely a reply of sorts to it, the stabby strings as well as the xylophone riff. and one of those mr mathz tracks also has xylophone action, truly it is the sound of 09.
also feeling jalla's 'turbulence', which uses 'who's afraid of detroit?' as a jump-off point for a lovely zig-zagging riff.
a heads-up - www.invasionrecords.co.uk now has an mp3 store - pick up the crop for me right now is 'hips'...
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
i bet they thought they were being really clever by calling it inflation and having a xylophone riff that goes up and down, up and down, etc etc. 'see what weve done there?!??!?!'
ive not listened to marcus nasty in weeks. might see him on sunday tho.
― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Where's he playing on Sunday?
― Mirror-spangled elephant head (J@cob), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
fwd at plastic ppl, if youre in london.
― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link
has anyone been to the yellow night which is on saturday? keep meaning to go, but can't make it this time. will be seeing d-malice and kode9 @ night slugs tomorrow though!
― lex pretend, Thursday, 29 January 2009 10:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Sshh Titchy.
r|t|c I ritualistically support your posts as ever but is there a glossary somewhere...?
― Tim F, Thursday, 29 January 2009 10:25 (fifteen years ago) link
not been yellow, no. i wanna see kode 9 deejay funky though. as long as he doesnt have spaceape mc on top ;)
― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 29 January 2009 10:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Now that I'm in London i really want to go to one of those club E3/Stratford/Dagenham style funky raves rather than centrally located dubsteppy things. Anyone know a good source of info about them? Might go to FWD on sunday though...
― Mirror-spangled elephant head (J@cob), Thursday, 29 January 2009 12:59 (fifteen years ago) link