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

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

it does remind one of rub-a-dub atomic kitten however so i might as well now take the opportunity to chuck this in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itGl448FtNY

you know who i particularly hope goes in this direction? (the thread direction, not this poor tragic ginnel we've stumbled down.) MISHA B

idk about misha but we could head to the light at the end of the... ginnel... with wretch 32/shakka 'blackout' or kwabs 'spirit fade'

i'm not entirely sure if and how those quite fit in but they're certainly not being spat out by the wider world either, doing very well indeed

altho a cynic (looks round shiftily) might suggest shakka sounds like vampire weekend and kwabs like james blake so bobs ur uncle

You should set up a street stall for this.

So yeah this Rudimental album is pretty good but suffers a bit from favouring jump-up Britsoul almost entirely over MCs (Angel Haze excepted), so while there's loads of great stuff on there the overall effect is a bit Grange Hill rave. Also TWO tracks featuring Emeli Sande ffs, as if there's a human being alive on the planet right now that is suffering from insufficient Emeli Sande in their life.

The best tracks are fantastic but I dunno, needs a bit more ruff to go with the smooth. Basically what I am getting at is 'why have you forsaken Shantie?' ;_;

Ha, Grange Hill rave.

i actively try to avoid emeli sandé and yet there she fucking is on both the fantasia and rudimental albums within the space of two weeks

longest unbroken top 10 run for any album in uk chart history

sande's, i mean

The Sande track is one of the few decent songs on the new wiley album.

Ella Eyre did a much better job on Sande's "Free" when I saw them live last week. They should have kept it in-house!

crucial addition to this thread

http://soundcloud.com/sineadharnettmusic/sinead-harnett-got-me-eats

does emeli sande have any other songs like "heaven"? really liked that one, but from what i understand the rest of the album is adult-contempo dross...correct?

sounds about right to me

I don't mind "Next to Me", but it's not omnipresent here

#46 in the US, that sounds about right

Heaven was great but... didn't exactly require great vision from anyone concerned.

http://soundcloud.com/friendwithin/karma-kid-friend-within-ft

feel like this vibe is getting a bit dog's dinner now tbh

i fn love the malinchak song

Every time I hear it I imagine Skins-esque kids coming down off their first pill and watching that video and just weeping at the girl with her giraffe. It's the drippiest thing I've ever heard.

New Duke Dummont - https://soundcloud.com/annie-mac-presents/free-music-monday-duke-dumont

Not really feeling that Karma Kid track.

frittered some time away doing a bit of reading on black butter, in my signature morbidly ott style

quite the little vertically integrated ecosystem they've got going - artist management company starts the label on the side, amir amor who joined rudimental after the funky stuff but before 'spoons' runs the studio major tom's (with the guy from 679 and xl) where lots of brit stuff gets made, press/a&r person is former bbc radio and brings the clubby blippy side in, etc

amor appears to be the key man all-round pop svengali dude, check him out, twice mentions bananarama/fun boy three in separate interviews which of course makes a lot of sense. also his and mnek's shared love of jam & lewis

btw sugababes/mks (keep wanting to call them http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kima,_Keisha,_and_Pam ) appear to be doing their album in that hq studio which bodes excellently

oh and one of bb founder guys used to run this breaks label

http://www.discogs.com/label/Hardcore%20Beats

god, really need that MKS project to get a move on. The kendrick lamar "cover" / interpolation-thing slayed.

fuuuuuuuuclmk glbblah

https://soundcloud.com/defectedrecords/fcl-its-you-mk-mix

the comment in the waveform that just says "FUCK MY ASS" otm

haha i think maybe by tomorrow i will have cooled on that but sometimes you just need something a bit filthy

https://soundcloud.com/i-d-online-1/no-artificial-colours-crying

https://soundcloud.com/hannah_wants/hannah-wants-mixtape-0513

The "Bass Drop Mix" of "Listen to the Badman" in particular is (((((|O_O|)))))

No way is this better than the original version with its ridiculous rave chords and disembodied diva vocals.

― Matt DC, Monday, April 22, 2013 9:27 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha, turns out my copy of the original was mislabeled as being the Bass Drop Mix, and since it did indeed have a pretty fucking big bass drop it didn't occur to me to question that...

'Baby' is easily the best thing on the Rudimental album innit? Not a bad album but we'd heard all the best songs on it before.

So much great stuff on Black Butter though, been going through the back-catalogue. Kidnap Kid is brilliant!

speaking of which

https://soundcloud.com/kidnap_kid/guest-mix-for-b-traits-radio-1

Aw man "Baby" is great

^^^^^^^^

someone upthread mentioned that this current "setting" would be perfect for katy b. so, here it is : http://soundcloud.com/katyb/what-love-is-made-of-radio