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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo_OI_4nJgk&feature=youtu.be

"baby" is rly good, damn

umm also gonna profess my love for the chris malinchak one. i like drippiness tho.

One thing I really like about "Baby" is how it builds so remorselessly (though gracefully) from airy vocal house to trippy deepness, and then resets itself back to the beginning, only to go through the process again. It really traverses the terrain of possibilities afforded by the weird dance-pop meets deep house equation of the moment.

it is brilliant how the drop is made to sound SO dramatically deep as well, a real feat of production - usually that kind of move comes off more like the sky and stars opening up but this is suddenly rushing, claustrophobic, simultaneously tinny and muffled submarine acoustics with pressure gauges off the meter and (literal) crush depth alarms ringing out of control. love as single-person bathysphere, and quite correctly so

(although truthfully speaking i did just think my mp3 was buggered at first)

love those funk guitar microlicks too, pure class

i keep wanting to sing "baby, don't make me watch - if i can't ride it"

i keep expecting it to turn into bashmore's 'au seve'. is that... intentional...?

it's like they retroactively decided to write a song that au seve could have been sampled from.

Speaking of the drop in Baby, it's a neat trick how the chorus IS the breakdown...!? and the drop comes just AFTER the chorus is over? Maybe this is an old trick, but it's the first time I've noticed it.

By the way don't sleep on that Hannah Wants mix

kind of weird that a huxley mix from skream & benga maybe belongs better in the bobbins thread, but hey

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018xfm6

Ehtyl/Huxley - Byzantine
FCL - It's You (MK Remix)
Huxley - Lost Love
Tom Shorterz - Wot U Do (Shorterz Stop & Drop Mix)
Major City Drum Ensemble - The Stranger
Alex Jones - Voltage
Huxley - Shower Scene (SecondCity Mix)
Jonas Rathsman Not Given Bringing You Down
Rascals - Fire Blaze (MRK1 Remix)
Available since: Friday

yes lol at "Major City Drum Ensemble"

it is brilliant how the drop is made to sound SO dramatically deep as well, a real feat of production - usually that kind of move comes off more like the sky and stars opening up but this is suddenly rushing, claustrophobic, simultaneously tinny and muffled submarine acoustics with pressure gauges off the meter and (literal) crush depth alarms ringing out of control. love as single-person bathysphere, and quite correctly so

― r|t|c, Monday, May 13, 2013 8:49 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(although truthfully speaking i did just think my mp3 was buggered at first)

― r|t|c, Monday, May 13, 2013 8:50 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha, I've actually been thinking "how much of this seeming immense deepness is in due to a fact a poor quality rip?"

BTW maybe my biggest critical faux pas of 2012 was almost-instantly forgetting how massive and awesome and just brilliant and etc. Kidnap Kid's "Lazarys Taxon" was and is after briefly falling in love with it way back in the first part of the year.

What other mix has it been in? I feel like i've heard it many more times than just the four or so times I listened to it then.

"Lazarus Taxon" is also a good tune.

xp re: 'Baby' breakdown: yeah you particularly notice its muddiness when you mix it in with other stuff i found. I like rtc's description of it though, I guess it must be a production choice. It also makes Sinead Harnett's verse seem more snappy when it kicks in.

Totally.

https://soundcloud.com/monkey-wrench-1/monkey-wrench-grip-your-body

Disclosure and Natalie Duncan's cover of "You Used to Hold Me" by Ralphi Rosario

http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ep3v4f#p0192n6q

Ha, I just came here to post that - Nottingham Pride!

Don't think anyone's mentioned this one yet have they? Cracking tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa2qR_soHVw

complete with a "I'm SoOoOo 90's Remix"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqxzgOnpXZc&list=UUFoFjMo5rX3EsjQe3yJChwQ&index=6

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/sound-deep-house-ministry/id636283283&ls=1?affId=1405655

well played mos, well played

sheer chutzpah aside idk if i couldve done it any better myself no joke

That tracklist looks basically perfect.

Deep House though? Is that what this is?

It is now.

That's such a fast and loose trolling title that it makes me wish we could bring Pipecock back for an afternoon.

Haha

everything about that comp is just tremendously pleasing

to think from a couple of years ago noticing that jamie jones mix of azari picking up a diff tradewind and now bosh here we are, double cd in tesco

holy shit

everything about this is just..... wow

haha top google search for this cd is Asda

everything about that comp is just tremendously pleasing

to think from a couple of years ago noticing that jamie jones mix of azari picking up a diff tradewind and now bosh here we are, double cd in tesco

― r|t|c, Friday, May 17, 2013 11:28 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://ruanglirik.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/shania-twain.jpg

exciting times.

only computing the sincerity dividend of garda posts brings me more joy