funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

Has anyone listened to the new Cooly G album? I haven't gotten a chance to yet, I'm interested in what everyone thinks of it.

On my first scan through I didn't really care for it much. There are a lot of repeats from singles (including the GREAT "It's Serious"), but I felt a lot of the rest featured too many vocals (not necessarily a bad thing but..) and some really uninteresting rhythms.

Tim, if you're out there: Any chance of a mid 2012 Funky Skykicking roundup?

btw, re this, my engagement has diminished to the point where I don't think I could really do this :-(

I still hear some good stuff but not enough to make a proper round-up and the whole tone would be a bit depressing.

Given my favourite "funky" tune of the year is Nick Hannam & Tom Garnett's "You Want Me", perhaps we need a "jacking house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this" thread...

Tim, I would be all for that.

I feel roughly the same though. I've heard a number of great things but there just doesn't seem to be near as much out there these days. I was hoping I was wrong!

I think there are some great Funky tunes coming out!

You guys know about Tickles previously known as Mr. Tickles on Roska Kicks and Snares label? You should check out his SoundCloud, LOADED with quality Funky tracks http://soundcloud.com/mrtickle
He also got up a free EP, Higher Stakes!

This tune by Tickles is absolutely LARGE! Called 'Wot U Do'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDErGy8Hw6w

Fuzzy Logik got a new track with MyShy called 'Pose' but I can't find a link to that :S

Meleka dropped her song 'Love You Baby' which is cool has that Funky vibe but it doesn't touch 'Go (Crazy Cousins Mix)'

I Killed Kenny dropped a track called 'Let's Go' which is pretty large http://soundcloud.com/jamiegeorge/i-killed-kenny-feat-jamie

Greenmoney dropped a track also called 'Feels Good' BIG BIG BIG http://soundcloud.com/greenmoney/greenmoney-feels-good-feat

Yep, that's new funky I could get that grabbed my attention. What you guys think?

Given my favourite "funky" tune of the year is Nick Hannam & Tom Garnett's "You Want Me", perhaps we need a "jacking house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this" thread...
Here's the thread (sort of):
Jackin' House partisans, convince a skeptic

Funky house enthusiasts, please direct me to stuff that sounds like this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGL9yINzJx8

I'll never figure how the embedding works here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGL9yINzJx8

http://dummymag.com/new-music/2012/11/21/premiere-shy-one-bedknobs-and-boomkicks-lp-stream/

^^really impressive little album, this

my uk funky manifesto:

http://getphysical.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/last-year-i-had-privilege-to-contribute.html

https://twitter.com/elite_gz/status/302407852398620673

DJ at the club I just left dropped "Inflation" wayyy slowed down with some dancehall vocals (not the Aidonia version) over it and I went o_O_O_o

hi, i'm looking for some dark uk funky, without vocals, something like lil silva, cooly g, emvee, ill blu, etc. where should I look? apparently this style is too obscure for google to be able to help me.

for anyone that still cares, andy jay & s-tee put some remixes on soundcloud for d/l a few months ago:

https://soundcloud.com/andy-jay/digital-dubstar-ft-miss-fire
https://soundcloud.com/andy-jay/daniel-james-take-my-hand-andy
https://soundcloud.com/andy-jay/jasmin-knight-fee-the-heat

the digital dubstar/miss fire one was always a fave and 'take my hand' fit nicely in the radio raving mix, winding it all down.

not found :(

oh sorry, i have soundcloud blocked here so i just googled the links. i can up them later

:)

here

https://soundcloud.com/djnate/younihousefunky
DJ Nate B2B Dundeal ft Ramzee, Riskgo, Mr Silva & C Don - Youni House Funky Mix 2010 #ThrowbackMix

idk whether this actually applies to anyone else but if seeing all the rinse 20 funky takeover hype has aroused a mild itch - one that ur not ready to fully go in on but the podcasts havent quite scratched either - then this just appeared the other day and i can confirm does the job very nicely indeed

(also let's pretend i crossposted this to the afrobeats thread the other week)

funny (ha-ha/sad) revisiting how much the initial ritual grousing that kicked this thread off echoes the shuffle deep tech one now

hardly surprising in some ways really how it became the fashion magazines that ultimately inherited the critical earth... like if we were all posting on the parallel universe messageboard "i love hats and/or shoes" u would never be reading all this "but trainers are footwear worn by sportspersons" or "havent humans been wearing pelts and stuff on their heads since cavemen times in pangaea" that u get every fucking time a new music trend comes round, u would just have an immediate no-brainer apprehension that localised (not necessarily closed) subcultures will flip a look/vibe by selective appropriation and recontextualisation and that there is flux sometimes in form sometimes in function sometimes in both

blah

on the subj of deep tech tho it's minorly interesting seeing which (relatively few) funky characters are reappearing and what their adaptation says about both genres... guys like x5 dubs and mr solo sucked at the former, or more accurately already represented a shift away from funky vibes at the time, oris jay would have been rubbish at it.... funkystepz otoh can't seem to get it at all... not too much trickle-down really

i also like how shay & sinista really properly (imo) cracked the deep tech vibe only just now that they've fully inhabited their new "saint and sinner" personae... ties into panta's metamorphosis into the pseudo-cosmopolitan-but-still-p-rugged arun verone (and other noms de guerre like calle lebraun and ivee mercutio) i guess

I don't post but I still read you (when I can). glad you still post! (you're not pissing in the wind). some day I'll just have to jump back in. when me kids are grown and telling me wots good...?

seems cthulu keeps sending me back here soz

https://soundcloud.com/djsupad/whore-4-house-reunion-sat-29th-nov-dj-supa-d

this just come up today, i checked it fiending for some moar shuffle smack as per but instead it turns out to be no less than a promo mix FOR THE MATURE RAVER advertising an old skool nostalgia night for the 2006-08 ldn house scene ("wine bar revival!" says spidey g)

it is perhaps not an enthralling essential thing in itself BUT i do also reckon it to be pretty unique and important as being the most representative audio document/chronology there's yet been or is ever likely to appear of how funky came about and what it mutated from

the recording seems to have been cut off before supa could drop 'giggle riddim' unfortunately but it's v educational nonetheless

hi paul btw, always a pleasure 2 c u! rest easy soldier you've done your bit

(ready for the wheelbarrow)

FOR THE MATURE RAVER

<3

https://soundcloud.com/platform/uk-funky-flashback-round-table-discussion-boiler-room-london

^ a must

lollllll @ marcus nasty getting into fights with all the oldtimers.

yes this is excellent

ma1: favourite moment? maybe making my first tune, recording it in my yard, giving it out, getting feedback-

marcus: you pussy

I was sad when Marcus called Footloose a cunt though :-(

That was fun. You can tell they've had variations of that conversation a lot over the years.

Thought Donaeo's I'm Fly would have got more grief as a prominent corny crossover track that failed to get traction and while I understand in principle why Head Shoulders Knees and Toes might be worthy of derision, it was undeniably a funky track.

"I'm Fly" was a great tune though. What is corny about that beat.

In any event it came out in mid-2010 so was too late to contribute to the "death of funky" narrative (which was well in train by that point).

Corniness applies more the lyrics and the video than the beat which was perfectly fine, but just that. Lacking the mystique of "Party Hard" or the urgency of "Devil in a New Dress". Working in the same vein but adding nothing new.

May not be a reflection of what was actually happening in the scene but for me that was the death knell.

Was it really 2010? I remember hearing it earlier than that.

Whoops that's probably "Devil in a Blue Dress"

what was nasty's beef with roska about again?

Well Marcus was probably playing "I'm Fly" earlier but the video was mid-2010.

I think the roundtable is interesting in that it goes beyond "bad corny MC tunes killed funky" and unpacks what that means. The issue wasn't "Head Shoulders Knees & Toes" or "Are You Gonna Bang Doe" per se - few if any of the key DJs even played those tunes - so much as how they:

1. created a sense of easy mainstream crossover which - when it wasn't really fulfilled - made funky seem like a commercial failure in a way that limited people's capacity to sell their work as "funky"; and

2. pushed away the older audience who started identifying with "house" again.

Yeah those points were put across really well and I'm probably being too facile. I guess what it boils down to is that I really don't like "I'm Fly".

"Head Shoulders Knees & Toes" is still the absolute shit tho. Every genre gotta have its ringtone rap.

RIP my hard drive from the late 00s I had all this shit on ;_;

two things from me:

first, a youtube playlist of 500 UK Funky songs I made

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhv5FL0vpzUmZVNeDwOv3p0x6iBvPhU9t

...and a mix to go with it

http://soundcloud.com/benny-brassic/uk-funky-oldskool-session-2015-benny-brassic

1. Casanova (Fuzzy Logik remix) - Monique Lawrence
2. Lost in your house - Miss Fire
3. Addicted - Peremapay & Dee ft. Cleo Sol
4. Track 2 - Wiley
5. House Girls 7 (No war inside) - Mad One
6. Holograph - Roska
7. Friend of mine - Major Note$
8. Dejavoodoo (Geeneus remix) - Beezy
9. Touch my (Mr Majika mix) - Mos Wanted Mega ft. Janee
10. Get up - Jook 10
11. Get off the wall (Delio D Cruz remix) - Kcat
12. I want it all (Ed Case UK Funky mix) - Trak D
13. Nitro - Lil Silva
14. Learn your ABC - Maddison
15. Report to the dancefloor - Rapid
16. Stompa - Seany B
17. Motherboard - Champion
18. Cooking - Enrique Benitez
19. Bongo Jam instrumental - Crazy Cousinz
20. Creeper - Unknown dub
21. Hurricane riddim - Funkystepz
22. Smile - Funky Twinz ft. Angel J
23. Unfinished business - Aphrodisiax
24. People keep dancing - Maddison ft. Murdz 86
25. Get a hit - Scottie D
26. Signed and sealed - Courtney Dennie
27. Preacher's daughter - Mr Mathz

!!!

I've been trying to rebuild my UK funky selection cause my hard drive from that era died without backup and it's some of my favorite music ever. This will be super helpful!

glad to be of use! it took quite a while to put together, theres still plenty of great tunes i wanted to include that aren't on youtube, but its as comprehensive a list as you you're likely to find i reckon.

btw anyone know who made that creeper bootleg thats on the mix?

Pretty sure it's Maxwell D & Bean Funky Creeper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFzQheuI1EE

It's one of the only ones I remember anyway.

Mix looks ace.

thats it! thanks its been bugging me for ages. never would have guessed!

Mix looks excellent Benny, will check shortly.

http://uk.complex.com/music/2015/01/complex-uk-20-best-uk-funky-tracks/

https://twitter.com/geeneus/status/555389032612757505

lol i am loving this imaginary uk funky revival tbh... all the other aggro uk urban music gets nostalgia and hugs round the campfire but mention fucking soca tribal bongo jams and it's goon armshouse within minutes

I will never understand Makeda's taste in funky tunes, it always seemed so random esp. when it would be combined with these boilerplate "state of the nation" pronouncements about funky as a scene which would make you expect more rote opinions, but no, she always followed her own oddball muse.

"The Funky Anthem" @ number 3???