funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

to clarify, thats not an argument against writing about music, by any means, just against a very specific but prevalent tendency within it

on reflection over lunch the sentence about doing justice to emotional or visceral response doesn't really have a place there...

http://images.yuku.com/image/gif/f472518e3072d2a49c7ea620de3f7307be12ad5.gif

diseensus poster posts link to 4yr old diseensiest ilx thread ever feat. disssensus mainstays. it's a par.

^ dyslexus.

any new sets about that arent footloose/rinse fm crew btw?

i think i missed something...

lol, I never clicked the link in the Guardian article. I thought it was this thread being linked!

not sure i've been to sosho - pics look comparable to the upstairs bit of east village i guess? perhaps i meant those kinds of places too.

Ha ha some inadvertent astrology in that thread though. From yours truly:

Alternative: an R&B/garage/broken beat/house fusion a la Mis-Teeq's "Eye Candy" (the actual track) which strikes me as being simultaneously one of the most brazenly physical, most feminine, and most startlingly new-sounding things I heard of in '02. Although I never *did* find out who produced it (it was bizarrely and shamefully left off the Oz version of the album).

-- Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, January 24, 2004 7:37 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

dyslexus nexus

for yr reference:

Mis-Teeq - Eye Candy.mp3

This has been my entry point, and now I'm a little obsessed:

http://djcable.blogspot.com/2008/08/dj-cables-weekly-mix-30.html

Have tried some of the Marcus Nasty mixes (at least when Sendspace co-operates) but can't cope with his MC - is he on all of them?

He cycles through different MCs Mike - Rankin', Shantie, Quincy etc. - but uses an MC on all of them except (if I recall) the 1xtra mix, which may still be available for download upthread.

Yay, still available; I Googled 1xtra marcus nasty and was rewarded with a Megaupload.

Shantie is the most um interventionist of the MCs Marcus uses. Rankin and Quincy limit themselves to commentary and the occasional short chant.

so the ukfunky.com mp3 shop is in full swing now, including 320 kbps versions of malice's 'gabryelle' refix and 'speechless' by dj mystery. i tried my luck last night and the transaction was smooth. hope they keep building up the catalogue and getting more labels on board.

http://ukfunky.com/ukfunkydotcom_004.htm

oh and, from the marcus nasty v mac10 set on rinse the other night...

why don't you take your broom, and sweep my yard, you better brush it good......

oh. my. days!! such a tune. no idea who it is. and mac10 says "this one's one away... you won't get this like this!"

such a monster set.

Paul that's probably "Work!" by Masters At Work, from 2002 I think. It's very much UK funky avant le lettre, and gets a lot of caning by funky DJs. Massive tune.

thanks tim. there's my lack of house pedigree showing.

here's the marcus/mac10 for anyone who can't get it from the rinse site: http://www.divshare.com/download/5327266-32a

so the ukfunky.com mp3 shop is in full swing now

:D

i went to my first funky rave at the weekend btw. it was really super-awesome. everyone totally glammed up and really good vibes. bit school disco-ey at the start, everyone sort of...camped out around the edges of the dancefloor warily eyeing each other up, but it soon got packed. everyone went nuts for 'who's afraid of detroit' and 'my joy' but the moment when the dj dropped 'in the air' was OMG.

where did you go lex?

the circle events one at purple e3...

cool, thanks, i keep meaning to get to one so im keen for recommendations. what is the club itself like? sorry for all the boring questions!

remember those purple e3 ads on rinse where mc supplier would shout for about 5 minutes straight?

"DRESS CODE IS SMART AND SEXYYY! NO RIPPED JEANS OR SPORTS WEAR! SMART TRAINERS ARE OHH-KAAY!

actually i'm curious about purple too since i might be over there in a few months.

haha yeah the dress code in the email i got went on for a paragraph. no timberlands! no bapes! &c. club was nice, classy and glam (and clean! nice leather sofas to sit on) but not really flashy. everyone seemed to be drinking champagne. it's a monthly night i think, definitely recommend it. u need id though!

these are the dudes who put the night on, from what i gather they've been putting on house nights for years.

ok cool, thanks! i have thus far been quite averse to the Circle cos of their overt conservatism regarding the newer styles and producers, but it'd probably be a great night out anyway :)

"SMART TRAINERS ARE OHH-KAAY!"

lol

Siegbran's post on here is just flat-out classic insular bubble-bursting

i wish this stuff wasnt so pricey on 12".

anyone keeping up with funky? should be moving into peak season for great UKG releases or more likely advance radioplay, but there's still a problem with Footloose archives, affecting (select?) overseas listeners only? - I re-test it weekly (RA link doesn't work either). Tim, is the Footloose archive working for you? if so, may be a U.S.-only thing... (yet Cameo archive works fine)

themco to the rescue? any new sets from Aug onwards?

There's at least one new 2-hour Crazy Cousinz Rinse FM show, which they've put on Sendspace and linked from their MySpace blog. (I'd link directly, but MySpace is blocked from here.) It's good, as long as you can cope with the DJ chatter - which mainly consists of saying "Crazy Cousinz" a dozen times a minute for two hours....

yah i think the footloose archives might not be working cuz yr overseas, i'm in london and can access them.

u know what sounds totally funky house-y is 'get down get horny'
grrrr8 song btw

Love the Marcus Nasty/Mac 10 mix on Rinse FM from a few weeks ago, though I wish the sound quality on the Rinse FM podcasts was better.

Esp. love the grimy section after the remix of "Work", esp. that mash of ravey/insane tracks around the thirty minute mark. Totally WTF material. I think they're Little Silver and Malice tunes mostly, based on the shout-outs.

Also that new Donaeo track at the 70 minute mark, he really is becoming the Lenky of funky. And how about that bizarre one at 85 with the technoid synth riffs, I'm not even sure how I'd describe it .

yeh i finally got the chance to hear the Marcus Nasty b2b Mak10 set in full, some of it is so next level. but maybe even more importantly for me the whole thing is balanced so well, really finely between the madness and rawness of grime invading and the sensuality of house. they even dropped Aaron Carl! at about +8! was feeling that

there is this point where (i think) Mak 10 drops a DOK tune into the mix with a vocal house bit, chopping it up, twisting the eqs and filters all over, it is just completely ridiculous

rinse fm have started a new regular (monthly?) funky night called beyond - went to the first last week, it was ok! great in places but not as glam or fun as the circle one, a bit too boys-standing-round-in-hoodies at the start, and 'in the air' was dropped like 3 times in an hour, but it got going pretty well and there's lots of potential there.

i tried to listen to the marcus nasty podcast but the bitrate is just too horrible. wtf is the point w/out bass.

That DOK tune is DOK doing funky house though innit - still great! Grime producers unabashedly jumping on the funky house "gravy" train is totally a-okay by me. Dubstep producers, not so much.

yeh the DOK tune is crazy. he is a shockingly good producer imo, i am keen to hear him jump on anything at all really!

i don't see a problem with dubstep producers jumping on it, so long as its not the ones who jumped on dubstep in 2007! but i can't see the funky scene being subordinated to dubstep no matter what, so i am more of a live and let live perspective on that one. that track at 1hr18 on the Rinse podcast to me is dubstep-influenced, and im feeling that as an outer-reach of the sound.

but also i don't think its a huge worry cos dubstep already kind of has its own funky, house is really very integrated into it in parts, its just different strains and feelings of house i think, more deep, more detroit. people like Mala have been making crazy, percussion-led, bass heavy, deep house-influenced music for ages, and Anti-Social, Ramadanman, LD etc are all continuing to do so

also, bit of a tangent but hopefully no-one will object, some of the mad ravey stuff in dubstep i almost see as direct descendents of/torch-bearers for people like Adonis and Trax

I got a feature on Funky going up on RA some point soon... Hard to do it justice but hopefully I captured the main stuff.

Also: Marcus got a regular spot on Rinse now, wednesdays 7-9pm.

the Queen of Sheba (!) was kind enough to re-upload this unbelievable Mak 10 set off Rinse from 9 September

thought some people here would feel it if they missed it, its a very very very big show. tunes and mixing are off the scale

Love the Marcus Nasty/Mac 10 mix on Rinse FM from a few weeks ago, though I wish the sound quality on the Rinse FM podcasts was better.

― Tim F

completely agree with this. 64kbps is almost unlistenable.

marcus nasty's show this week had so much good stuff.

i have too many of these shows to listen to now though.

OK! Hold up everyone thats been plugin me in this forum! Maximum boost for the support! If anyone has any questions regardin the funky movement.. let me knoo (includes trak names etc..)
Anyways.. jus wanted to give u an update on the scene which has happend for a while bak naw but jus incase u didnt knoo.. i am naw a part ov a 2 man crew called FUNK FACTORY wid maself DJ Smoovie T wid DJ/Producer Scotty D!
Scotty D pwas the one who produced the track "Liberty"
And were both on Touch FM every sunday night 10-12am were u can catch us on www.touchfm.com
Like i sed! Any info or anyfin jus holla..
P.S
I rememba somebody talking about that I Feel Remix by footloose! Its currently out on 12" So cop that naww!!!

so bongo jam was out on mp3 yesterday according to about a hundred myspaces. problem is, none of them said where to get it!

http://www.play.com/Music/MP3-Download-Track/4-/6202508/Bongo-Jam/Product.html?aid=6200939

that looks like it's part of a mixed album rather than a standalone unmixed single though...otherwise surely it'd be on 7digital and itunes. odd, but the proper release is definitely coming (and 'do you mind' will follow in jan)

Yeah it's the whole single I'm after, with the Naughty remix. Probably just get the vinyl I guess but after all the hype I'm wondering where the digital is.

the official release date is 13 nov i think - i assume a digital release will accompany it at some point

didnt it say on their myspace that it was comign out 20th Oct? do you they have it on ukfunky.com?

It did (does?) say that on their MySpace, yes. But iTunes returns the same as play.com: they just have that mixed MoS comp track, which has been available for a few months now.