Duke Dumont and A*M*E - Need U (100%) - Rolling UK dance pop interzone thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQz1x6ptjFo

this shift k3y you posted in the q thread def belongs itt imo, 'frozen' too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVosypP91Yk

probably muddying the waters again but i love it so w/e

shantie on marcus made me like it ever more still when it moved him to brilliantly and inexplicably exclaim "run for hills! run for the hills! go now!!"

kinda feel like the absence of the signature big fat monster drop on redlight's 'switch it off' is another sign of the times, a year ago it wouldnt have seemed enough

Which Marcus show is that.

wednesday 17th, i only happened to catch a bit of it live and iirc it wasnt particularly recommendable (turned it on later and GREYMAN had been thawed out from wherever to do a set, apparently unaware that four years had passed) but it was the first sunny day in an age and shants and ranks were reunited and feeling the vibe so it was still very pleasant all the same

giving this clean bandit show on rinse a go

basically they are nice and polite mumblekids playing a lot of xxyo, deadboy, ikonika, submerse et al. i'm sure there'll be some joy o shortly

the point it hits home though is how this new black butter wave uses the apolitical deracinated junkspace weaknesses of bass as dance music to its advantage in the chart pop sphere - "songful tunes touch on various amorphous dance flavours [...] without ever placing them too strongly in discouragingly specific context" - entropia becomes utopia (hence mdc's invocation of post-acid house era)

I saw Clean Bandit supporting Disclosure. They were sweet and endearing, slightly ungainly but well-meaning, like a community arts project Basement Jaxx, but with chamber music breakdowns. I like them a lot.

yeah "community arts project" otm

when i interviewed disclosure i asked them about their first experience in clubs and the older dude said that "hyph mngo" was the titanic track for him that really pushed him into producing

i think there's a sense of space in disclosure's productions that codes very dubstep to me

yeah i can go for that definitely

disclosure run a little bit diagonally across the rest of this stuff itt i think, they use what they've learned in a more specific and singular way, not to create a suggestive soup but to use that space and remove to make singers and songs (just tracks even - cf 'control') fantastically photogenic and attractive

always think in visual terms with their stuff - clean lines, great silhouettes, sharp cheekbones, nice teeth, i guess you could even link their cover art motif into it

i heard an interview with them recently and i was shocked by how deep their voices were! all grown up i guess

this song in that noisey piece tho, jesus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KrMl32cuC2A#!

i think there's a sense of space in disclosure's productions that codes very dubstep to me

yeah the first 30 secs of the new track w/eliza doolittle keep making me think my itunes has skipped to some random forgotten post-dubstep ep from 2007 - as rtc says disclosure are slightly different though, they started off as "garage revival tailored to fact magazine et al" so their positioning has always been slanted to that end of things (as opposed to duke dumont who's been a jobbing house dj/producer for ages, and hot creations who didn't really catch on first among that crowd)

relistening to the new disclosure and i am just not 100% on board with them yet apart from "white noise", there's just something something lacking here

this shift k3y you posted in the q thread def belongs itt imo, 'frozen' too

haha "frozen" reminds me of rihanna's "jump" in its shamelessness

relistening to the new disclosure and i am just not 100% on board with them yet apart from "white noise", there's just something something lacking here

― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, April 24, 2013 12:04 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

"latch" and "white noise" are worth all the hype imo... other stuff is a bit hit or miss. "you & me" is not on that level, tho it's pretty enjoyable.

i'm really excited for that album tho, tons of potential for it to do a bunch of things and be really, really good

they're also great live

tons of potential for it to do a bunch of things and be really, really good

i doubt it'll be bad but at this point i'd say the rudimental album will probably be more of a rush

tend to think of the malinchak as being part of a different stream to this stuff, could be convinced otherwise though

http://www.mixmag.net/music/mp3-blog/stream-chris-malinchak-zinc-remix

i also much prefer the zinc mix and its weirdly witty engrossing flip into ominous non-drop

(and the mk mix but that goes as standard for 2013)

can fcl 'its you' be #1 too though please

xp Yes, Disclosure are fantastic live, with excellent visuals (custom-made kit) and live instrumentation - saw them supporting SBTRKT in early 2011, then headlining a couple of months ago, to a young, mainstreamy-type crowd (the girls dancing next to me kept giving me odd looks, then one asked if I "was on a night out"). And they certainly come across as older than their years. "Latch" is the only track I can't get behind, probably because it's less of a glide and more of a march.

can fcl 'its you' be #1 too though please

PLEASEEEEEE

(or maybe fcl's "used to be" from last year, which i was very late getting on to)

http://youtu.be/XDlaVoXxU6Y
http://youtu.be/0i8GAaTv2gU

remixes also very necessary

chris malinchak feels a lot more in the line of mano le tough or wolf & clap or something? idk wtf it's doing going to the top of the charts

(like it, though)

i doubt it'll be bad but at this point i'd say the rudimental album will probably be more of a rush

― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, April 24, 2013 12:16 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

rudimental is maybe a bit too far on the "could do a lot of things" side for me

i guess i'm struggling to see why disclosure particularly stand out, apart from what they do visually and live

i think they have pretty strong pop instincts and a devotion to verse-chorus songwriting

which is not a virtue in of itself necessarily (tho it plays to my personal biases)

is this the original version of "it's you": San Soda's Panorama Bar Acca Version

yes

i think they have pretty strong pop instincts and a devotion to verse-chorus songwriting

this is the exact thing i think rudimental do a lot better though (and what i think is lacking from "you & me")

I still haven't taught myself to associate Rudimental with anything other than

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfv44lEzOLU

FWIW I think Rudimental are a lot closer to the core of what we're talking about than Disclosure are. Not necessarily sonically but by providing a musical and commercial platform for other artists.

I was kind of sniffy about Feel The Love when it first came out but soon succumbed, got to give them credit for pulling off one of those rare pop tricks that makes you wonder why people having been hitting big with it for years.

God that Chris Malinchak track is so emotionally overbearing, it's like he took a John Talabot template and added a big dose of neediness. There's something kind of 1999 about its particular brand of drippiness.

I like this:
Lazune Ft. Katy Shotter - Feel It

And if we're talking traces of Burial, there are clearly some here:
Clean Bandit - Nightingale (Gorgon City remix)

can we stop talking like 12 cd men, burial was six years ago ffs

God that Chris Malinchak track is so emotionally overbearing, it's like he took a John Talabot template and added a big dose of neediness. There's something kind of 1999 about its particular brand of drippiness.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 19:09 (43 minutes ago) Bookmark

yah totes, this is exactly why i like the zinc interpretation

the zinc "lol u gonna get dumped" foreboding interpretation

I was going to say that Zinc was the perfect producer to jump on this particular bandwagon, momentarily forgetting he sort of helped start it a couple of years back.

haven't been keeping up with this thread but it's my fav spotify playlist since 'uk funky classics'

that joe goddard remix of 'control' is totally fucking quentin man.

Fresh link for Lazune ft Katy Shotter "Feel It", as it's gone from YouTube:

https://soundcloud.com/lazune/lazune-feel-it-ft-katy-shotter

^ man that's nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmVkQRuI63U

^ ok that ones actually by a guy from San Francisco but its anglophile enough to be included here I think (just checking his album now and its actually really nice too).

also heres the radio premier of the new Gorgon City/Clean Bandit single
https://soundcloud.com/gorgon-city/special-delivery-gorgon-city

"Intentions" is lovely. The speed garage break is huge.

All of this has made me feel sad about RD's "Got Me Burning" not taking off substantially.

RIGHT?!

interesting point of comparison (esp so wrt the forthcoming katy b lp in this climate). even though the og mk 'burning' is so spot on right now (and would probably go top 20 today) i think the rd version would still code too specifically urban as it did in 2011 to really gain any purchase

another good ref point for this is ts7 & taylor fowlis 'heartlight' which trace suggested upthread; seems like it should be exactly zeitgeist right, and yet still has a grain to it that prevents it transcending into the frictionless pop sphere

and btw if u seek an rd for the 2013 might i recommend the similarly hopelessly doomed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diSmuRIhh4c

haha i like this one by m.o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CSaCq_JIg4

yeah i... ought to have a kind word for that just out of a channel u nostalgia tip but really even as a rhetorical device the stench of failure is just too overpowering