the ineffable genius of DJ Q

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grr

r|t|c, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:50 (eleven years ago) link

I liked how they quite sincerely and unashamedly cite Jamiroquai as a key influence

Benny B, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:58 (eleven years ago) link

oh do they! well then. in fairness i kinda feel like that's an slightly easier thing to say now than it might have been as recently as idk a year ago...?

r|t|c, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:03 (eleven years ago) link

since Jay Kay's tragic death yeah

Number None, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:04 (eleven years ago) link

son, don't test me

r|t|c, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:08 (eleven years ago) link

heh turns out they said it two years ago http://www.loudandquiet.com/2010/10/disclosure-interview/

why do you think its easier to say you like Jamiroquai nowadays though?

Benny B, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:28 (eleven years ago) link

the daneeka thing was idle trolling ;-)

the late great, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link

that said i do love his style, not that it is particularly relevant to this thread above, say, any of other vaguely housey bobbinsy thing

mea culpa

the late great, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link

Didn't Funkystepz rep for Jamiroqoai? That "proper white people tunes" playlist or something? Maybe that was someone else.

REV LION (The Reverend), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link

this mix is amazing

lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link

i've pretty much lost all interest in thinking about instrumental british club music beyond that though

lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link

that linkoban track >>>>>>>>>>>

lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link

Swooning over Todd's 'Love Inside' all over again right now. But how old is this track? It seems to have been around for donkeys but I see its only recently been released

Benny B, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link

even night slugs lex?

the late great, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link

i said thinking about, not listening to! i can't even bring myself to think about why all this taste chess and subgenre politicking bores me senseless now. still love the music. i've run out of words to say about it, prob my failing.

(that said the current NS direction is...less my thing than they used to be)

lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link

oh yeah i agree, like who gives a fuck about the line between dubstep / funky / grime / bass / uk house blah blah blah

the late great, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link

idk why british dance music infected with it so much more than any other genre but it makes it seem so un-fun

lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link

like who gives a fuck about the line between dubstep / funky / grime / bass / uk house blah blah blah

DJ Q?

Tim F, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link

His ecumenicalism is hardly senseless.

Tim F, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link

well sure but isn't his thing (everyone's thing?) kind of scribbling back and forth across some of those lines?

the late great, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link

I don't think you can really collapse all of these approaches together - so much of the artfulness is tied up in where the DJ/producer thinks the lines are. It's what gives the scribble meaning and definition.

Tim F, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link

so what would be your precis of the dj q sound?

the late great, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link

It goes back to what I was saying in the bubblers thread about a kind of plasticky high-contrast sensibility - I'll quote the relevant post when I'm not writing on my phone.

But a pretty key distinction from a lot of 'scribblers' is that dj q is not really in dialogue with us hip hop or r&b at all.

Tim F, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link

Except in the circuitous sense of recreating past uk quotations of us source material (e.g. 2step remixes of Brandy).

Tim F, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link

Here's that post:

I think the real demarcation these days is less between abstract vs songful and more along production values lines.

This is where a distinction between say 1999 garage and 2001 garage really makes sense, the earlier stuff still retaining a kind of vinyl warmth and almost-"deepness" and the later stuff sounding like the contrast has been turned up - heavier but more plasticky beats, exaggerated bass but also exaggerated treble... a generalised air of hyperreality.

This (rather than pop vs abstraction or lightness vs heaviness) is probably the key point of distinction between "future garage" and the stuff that Q plays, only it's even more extreme now, future garage being "deep" to the point where it has to shun anything that might interfere with that, and the Q interzone retaining (albeit as a kind of reigning principle rather than a clearly defined sonic property) the sickly harshness of bassline.

― Tim F, Thursday, 5 July 2012 23:18 (1 month ago) Permalink

The above is less relevant for what I say about future garage than for what I say about Q.

Picking up on r|t|c's jamiroquai/zero 7 references, even the more tasteful parts of DJ Q's sound have a kind of trebly artificiality (and perhaps superficiality) to them - the signifiers rather than the "substance" of tastefulness.

Tim F, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 22:37 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM6XlH5BNh8

r|t|c, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 07:40 (eleven years ago) link

Glad that the owl track made it on here...

MikoMcha, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 08:55 (eleven years ago) link

Free EP on his soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/djq85/sets/dj-q-mc-bonez-all-i-really/

Mercer Finn, Sunday, 26 August 2012 14:17 (eleven years ago) link

FWIW: Another basically non-"dance" person here who likes what I've heard of Disclosure. I think I've liked everything, though I'm not sure I've loved any of it.

neti pop (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, 26 August 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link

last EVER 3-hr mix on 1Xtra tonight. LOCK IN, as they say

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link

and i don't know for sure but mc bonez may be in the building

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link

#ThankQ

r|t|c, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link

^ nice

First 12 minutes ridiculously good

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 00:12 (eleven years ago) link

ok love you nihal but please stfu now

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link

Mike Delinquent, KCAT, MC Bonez, Slick Don, TS7, Preditah, Trevor Nelson, Toddla T, Stay Fresh, Elijah Butterz, Ed Wideboys, DJ Target, and Amnesia all in studio or on the phone for the final show -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m47t6

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 12:32 (eleven years ago) link

sheesh

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link

leo leo

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link

amazing! preditah!

moullet, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link

one month passes...

another mix http://soundcloud.com/societe-perrier/soci-t-perrier-dj-mix-dj-q

Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Friday, 5 October 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link

Like the first three minutes of this so far.

_Rudipherous_, Friday, 5 October 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link

huzzah

a delight to see, not least as evidence that i'm keeping vaguely up to speed with stuff :)

shame i can't listen til tomorrow

r|t|c, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link

that ejeca shit is a monster btw, the new bax perhaps

r|t|c, Friday, 5 October 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link

This is a great mix btw. Can anyway deny the objective truth of dj q's ineffable genius at this point.

Tim F, Monday, 15 October 2012 11:22 (eleven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

http://soundcloud.com/theblastakastb/djq

r|t|c, Saturday, 10 November 2012 13:42 (eleven years ago) link

one month passes...

vocal bassline - not john legend-related

https://soundcloud.com/djq85/dj-q-ordinary-people

rap乒 4-tay (The Reverend), Monday, 10 December 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link

i can't find where i spoke on wookie's '2 us' from this year before but i love this for the same reasons, that lost hippy herby 4hero acid jazz neo-soul platitude 90s vibe

r|t|c, Monday, 10 December 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link

http://soundcloud.com/factmag/dj-q-closer-than-close

mmmhmmm

Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Saturday, 22 December 2012 10:37 (eleven years ago) link

yeah, love that

more Q action:

http://podcast.dgen.net/rinsefm/podcast/MarcusNasty191212.mp3

Mind Taker, Saturday, 22 December 2012 10:40 (eleven years ago) link

^ worth it just to hear flirta d mimicking the 'au seve' ahhh baby

r|t|c, Saturday, 22 December 2012 11:03 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

album coming soon. lead single:

http://soundcloud.com/localactionrecords/dj-q-trust-again-feat-louise

hemioblock (The Reverend), Monday, 7 January 2013 20:21 (eleven years ago) link


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