is there a catchy genre title for all this stuff? seems like a more hooky spin on deep house
― NI, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
i like the duke dumont like okay, it's fine - weirdly this is ny type stuff but reminds me of the same sort of sound, but it's better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irBwhhFum6s
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
*stabs NI in face*
― the late great, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
stab house, i dig it
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 10 April 2013 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
"Street Walker" isn't nearly as good as this one
― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
that Skream Rudimental remix is so good, I had gathered that he'd been stepping things up recently but had no idea he'd gone in this direction.
― a similar stunt failed to work with a cow (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 11 April 2013 11:25 (eleven years ago) link
This is what I get for taking my eye off the ball but I had a mad Black Butter binge over the last couple of days and I love this record's entire aesthetic. "86-93 chart spirit but with modern tools" is very OTM.
Is there enough going around in this vein to merit a rolling UK pop-house thread?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 April 2013 11:30 (eleven years ago) link
i sort of intended this to encompass all that, maybe the title can be edited to that end
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Thursday, 11 April 2013 11:31 (eleven years ago) link
"... love this LABEL's entire aesthetic", even.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 April 2013 11:32 (eleven years ago) link
xp Yes, it needs its own thread, or a re-edit of this one's title. Lots of good stuff happening.
― Deafening silence (DL), Thursday, 11 April 2013 11:34 (eleven years ago) link
haha late great harking back to the glory 2005 years of ilx, on steroids. hats off
― NI, Thursday, 11 April 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
house is a feelin (of violent outrage)
― the late great, Thursday, 11 April 2013 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
Hate Can't Turn Around
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Friday, 12 April 2013 07:25 (eleven years ago) link
the gorgon city/yasmin single is AMAZING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4__q9CapVo
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Friday, 12 April 2013 09:39 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah that's the track that provided the penny-dropping moment for me. This Lulu James track is good as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVtuluGSG7Y
I suppose we're at the tipping point that I naively thought funky would bring around in 2008*, the final return of a decent chart-friendly vocal house music that feels UK rather than euro in its approach. Like a lot of this stuff has the same modern DNA as the UKG interszone but takes it in a different direction.
*I suppose it did in a way, but via a very roundabout route.
― Matt DC, Friday, 12 April 2013 10:02 (eleven years ago) link
That Devolution track is great - I listened to the second Black Butter comp on the way home yesterday and 'If You Believe' and 'Listen To The Badman' are also straight up bangers.
The "Bass Drop Mix" of "Listen to the Badman" in particular is (((((|O_O|)))))
But loving this "The Finest" rip too.
Pete Fucking Devereux!
― Tim F, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 10:30 (eleven years ago) link
Ed Case also has been doing some fine work in this arena e.g. "Turn My World Around (Deep Mix)".
― Tim F, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 10:41 (eleven years ago) link
another one of these choons from disclosure https://soundcloud.com/disclosuremusic/you-me-soundcloud-edit
― monotony, Saturday, 20 April 2013 02:07 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like this one fits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxHtclUAyLo
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 20 April 2013 11:24 (eleven years ago) link
spotify playlist:
uk pop-bass house bubblers
(100% isn't on spotify??)
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 20 April 2013 11:27 (eleven years ago) link
I've added some stuff to that as well.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 20 April 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
isnt 'so close' lovely
― r|t|c, Saturday, 20 April 2013 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
and rudimental top of the charts again
― r|t|c, Monday, 22 April 2013 07:56 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd0cT7Dnpt8
meanwhile straight in at 17 is this delightfully fanciful little thing
shades of ztt imo
― r|t|c, Monday, 22 April 2013 08:01 (eleven years ago) link
in a way, i think that might be my fave song of the year tbh
― r|t|c, Monday, 22 April 2013 08:06 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hut5E5bezsk
and they have a super pretty remix of the aforementioned #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VoAqNNTEa0
which on the ep admittedly pales in the shadow of this piece of utter brilliance
― r|t|c, Monday, 22 April 2013 08:10 (eleven years ago) link
clean bandit have proven divisive in my office, which i can only see as a good thing. i am firmly in the "yes" camp. on paper it shouldn't work at all but it just does.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 22 April 2013 09:21 (eleven years ago) link
No way is this better than the original version with its ridiculous rave chords and disembodied diva vocals.
― Matt DC, Monday, 22 April 2013 09:27 (eleven years ago) link
xp yeah, absolutely. as an actual chart thing it is just such a non sequitur that it's impossible not be disarmed, and then from that there's a frisson that comes from having your nose tweaked aesthetically
like i mean if you heard it and felt proven right, about life and stuff, then ur totally a disgusting savage. (ie i must get round to the grim task of seeing what popjustice think)
― r|t|c, Monday, 22 April 2013 09:47 (eleven years ago) link
i guess it's just the difference between being playful and being the one note wacky tie office joker
same vibe that couches the central conceit of 'spoons' (ie, literally the spoons) as lightly punning kitchen sink melodrama moreso than pure gimmick
'spoons' kinda reminded me of something steve beresford might have done actually, like 'my body' by general strike or whatever
― r|t|c, Monday, 22 April 2013 09:59 (eleven years ago) link
sorta got a nightmare audio vision of alunageorge covering viv goldman 'launderette' now i've said that
aaaaanyway
― r|t|c, Monday, 22 April 2013 10:08 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0w0xU7SXIE
more fabness
u don't kno how it warms my cockles to see "now playing" actually paid attention to
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 22 April 2013 10:13 (eleven years ago) link
haha the first few times i heard "spoons" i just assumed the title was referring to, like, lovers in bed. then i actually listened closely and was like ohhhhh. when i talked to them i mentioned the first interpretation and one of them said it had never occurred to him and another was like, i thought that was the point.
absolutely love "waiting all night" and "baby" - the rudimental album is strong too on one listen
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Monday, 22 April 2013 10:56 (eleven years ago) link
eh soz coming back off the dp thread here
matt u and cracklebox seem to just be saying that boogie disco stuff has existed and been popular recently - fine yeah sure but is skream operating with and addressing the same balearic plonkers with those mixes? no imo, it's an appeal to a different audience, and the move to do so is brighter than is being made out i think. they're far more akin to something like this (another jenna g, brand new good for u etc) in spirit and motivation than they are to terje edits and crystal vision or whatever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16zjHb2mglw
― r|t|c, Monday, 22 April 2013 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
oh no wait those ukf savages left off the amazing thriller outro where she megamixes all the said classics! here:
http://youtu.be/SRPiw1eIvBQ
― r|t|c, Monday, 22 April 2013 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
haha pushing at the outline of what constitutes the interzone! but why not? the ghost of jungle has always been one of its animating spirits iirc
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 22 April 2013 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
is skream operating with and addressing the same balearic plonkers with those mixes? no imo, it's an appeal to a different audience
I'd agree with you on this, Hot Creations are probably the missing link here, even more than Bashmore or whoever. But I don't get a sense of the essential London-ness of them, even when he's remixing Rudimental.
Contrast with a lot of the more song-based stuff that we're talking about here which is harking back to (and updating) a spirit that's been dormant in British dance music for a long time, and yacht disco doesn't quite fit in with that even given the overlapping audience, for reasons I can't quite put my finger on. Not late enough in the 80s, wrong kind of wine bar.
1000 Soul Songs is wonderful though, astonishing in its shamelessness.
― Matt DC, Monday, 22 April 2013 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
I dunno Matt I think you're drawing too sharp a distinction. It's all raw like sushi imo.
― Tim F, Monday, 22 April 2013 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
idk yeah it is likely a shade too neat but better him drawing some sort of line than me not i think ultimately
― r|t|c, Monday, 22 April 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
hot creay's ldn-ness (and i agree it has little bearing itt but for the sake of chitchat) is probably in their import electro-ness idk? that quirky off-the-wall newcleus thing
'emperor' remains the stupidest song i've found myself liking in an age anyway, punching myself in the face every time i sing along
― r|t|c, Monday, 22 April 2013 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
The Skream remixes (and I mainly mean the Duke Dumont and Rudimental ones here) are kind of consciously harking back to a (even marginally) pre-acid house era. Dunno why, but that feels like an important distinction for me, in terms of spirit if nothing else, even though the links between the artists are obvious.
Struggling to think of the last time there were back-to-back #1s as good as Need U and Waiting All Night, btw.
Mozart's House is ridiculous.
― Matt DC, Monday, 22 April 2013 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
march 2010, pass out/telephone
(would "ding dong" have made it even better or cheapened it?)
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Monday, 22 April 2013 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
the last time there were three even half-decent UK No 1s in a row was 2007, when we had a bizarrely great run of 7:
umbrella/the way i are/with every heartbeat/stronger/beautiful girls/about you now/bleeding love
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Monday, 22 April 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I see this. Though the sonic shift that would be required to take it from pre-acid to post-acid would be pretty minor (which is why I think of Neneh Cherry - "Buffalo Stance" is one of those tunes which is clearly post-acid house (and all the better for it) but still seems in communication with a lot of ideas immediately preceding it).
― Tim F, Monday, 22 April 2013 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
TS7 - Heartlight feat. Taylor Fowlis?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqFRq1xlOOg
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
xp Wow, 2007. Maybe I should have voted for that in the best year of the 00s poll.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
Vice have an article for if you'd like to start irrationally hating this music
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
So is it gonna be like this?
Apr 7: Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E "Need U (100%)"Apr 14: Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E "Need U (100%)"Apr 21: Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre "Waiting All Night"Apr. 28: Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams "Get Lucky" (seems pretty much certain)May 5: Disclosure ft. Eliza Doolittle "You & Me" (release date 28/4, should be a big contender)May 12: Chris Malinchak "So Good To Me'' (if we're to believe Vice)
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
Burial seems to be the elephant in the room here, at least the Disclosure and Black butter soulful end of things. Never thought Burial would end up being a positive influence after the first few rounds of imitators being so lame so i'm quite surprised to be delighted by the stuff in this thread. Those pitched down echoey vocals sound great in a tightened up pop framework.
liking a lot of the tunes on the youtube channel this is on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnW6Yra2FBQ
― Benny B, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
you should definitely hate that :(
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 19 September 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link
help me decide if i like this or nah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDxJlW6cxRk
― davey, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 05:33 (eight years ago) link
revolting
― the late great, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 05:52 (eight years ago) link
hehe, it is kind of revolting
― davey, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 08:42 (eight years ago) link
somehow i've completely missed all lead-in singles to the rudimental album which is currently #1 in the UK
has anyone heard it? did they make another baby / spoons / waiting all night?
― carly bae jepsen (monotony), Saturday, 10 October 2015 05:34 (eight years ago) link
i have too, i think it's because they've been pretty unmemorable
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 10 October 2015 10:07 (eight years ago) link
The new Rudimental stuff has disappointed me even more than the new Disclosure stuff.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 10 October 2015 10:35 (eight years ago) link
I have no interest in hearing either but I assume Rudimental have been trawling it around the festival set like a military campaign.
The first Disclosure and Rudimental albums felt perfectly timed, they both hit at the crest of a wave, a moment that's gone now. What I've heard from both suggests that they get less and less enjoyable the more they try and broaden their appeal.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 10 October 2015 10:38 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1IVP8R8jTs
fond of this one
― r|t|c, Saturday, 10 October 2015 11:26 (eight years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/heldeeprecords/oliver-heldens-throttle-waiting
into this (idk what thread it belongs in)
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, 31 January 2016 21:37 (eight years ago) link
yup
― r|t|c, Sunday, 31 January 2016 21:50 (eight years ago) link
kinda reminds me of cheesy chicago classic "time for love" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zVpxjpKT8o
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, 31 January 2016 23:56 (eight years ago) link
oof apologies terrible formatting on that post
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, 31 January 2016 23:57 (eight years ago) link
is this the thread? FFS @ billy kenny
https://soundcloud.com/perfectdriver/buzzsaw-billy-kenny-wongo-out-jan-29-preview
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 1 February 2016 23:00 (eight years ago) link
an idea whose time has come: "Body Language" riddim put to good use
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKB4cioGs98
― Mind Taker, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 14:29 (seven years ago) link
A post to note that A*M*E of "Need U" repute is now making music under the name KABBA and has released her first EP: https://open.spotify.com/album/3gzZEIjvV8djfkYG1z4Pk8
She's called Duke Dumont out for his fuckery so don't expect that team up to happen again:
. @DukeDumont do me a favour and keep my name out of your mouth please. I saw the Music Week write up, you sir are a liar and you’re disrespectful. 2013 was a long time ago my guy, let it fucking go! You didn’t even get my name right!— KABBA (@kabbaofficial) December 20, 2019
.@DukeDumont I was not enthused to write to your loop but I asked my friend to write the song with me and together we scored you your only number 1 record and a Grammy nomination. Instead of thanking us you’ve been nothing but shady & rude all these years.— KABBA (@kabbaofficial) December 20, 2019
.@DukeDumont I could go on and on but I’ve been nothing but respectful and sweet to you (as I try to be with everyone) why you felt you needed to be so shady and blatantly rude baffles my spirit. Give it a rest & enjoy the PRS. Happy holidays!— KABBA (@kabbaofficial) December 20, 2019
― monotony, Monday, 17 February 2020 07:02 (four years ago) link
so many disappeared youtube upthread :[
― nashwan, Monday, 17 February 2020 11:53 (four years ago) link
so what's the story here?
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 17 February 2020 12:16 (four years ago) link