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

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

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exciting times.

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

haha... carry on

It is nice to see Hot Creations together with the UK stuff on this MoS mix.

Ten City - That's the Way Love Is (Deep House Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxCi-NcZpr4

...in actuality an acid version of a Shep Pettibone record or something

I'd never heard this Ben Pearce track before the MoS collection. But then, I guess these have all been big hits...

Totally missed this thread and it's one I should be watching.

Moka, FYI the Harry Wolfman remix of the Ben Pearce is the killer IMO.

This comp is great though! They really nail the vibe and it's nice to have the legit deep tunes interspersed with more pop and/or not-explicitly-1993 material.

it was nice to be watching music TV for the first time in months and months while visiting the family for the weekend and hearing that this vibe is now so much the standard for UK stuff, RIP Guetta and Harris, GTF Americans still stuck in that sound.

That said, 'deep house' is perhaps not the least confusing genre name MoS could have found.

ooooooh shit i'd never bovd listening to the harry wolfman mix. tasty!

xpost a lot of it really is deep though! Stuff like "White Noise" is really at one end, stuff the Wolfman mix is at the other and you wouldn't bat an eyelid hearing that in basically any "proper" deep house set.

In that regard the Needwant TRAXX comp is maybe more "pure" but I find myself getting bored of that one more easily (curiously, esp. in mixed form - as standalone tracks it's much more bearable), whereas the incursions into populism help to juice up the Ministry of Sound comp.

The really perfunctory mixing also helps, five second transitions show up the contrasts from track to track with a certain brute efficiency.

Best thing about the Wolfman remix is how it really doesn't want to try that hard to get you to like its likkle organ vamp, it's like "oh yeah, I guess you wanted this huh."

O yah, this remix is nice.

Just to clarify the thing about hits, this compilation on the whole makes me feel like I'm an old guy discovering what young people's music is like.

Hannah Wants mix upthread is really great though. I think she's officially jumped to the top of my must see DJ wish list.

Heh, that's why I bought it. From Sainsburys! Awful mix out of Chris Malinchak, though. If I dare say so, Pete Tong uses Malinchak to start a much better run on his half of All Gone Miami 2013. (The other half is mixed by Skream, and it just doesn't work at all - jumps around all over the place in style and mood.)

Possibly the wrong tread for it, but this new Ikonika track is really fucking nice imo:

http://www.factmag.com/2013/05/28/ikonika-announces-new-album-aerotropolis-stream-the-first-track-beach-mode-and-read-our-interview-inside/

Dunno who the singer Jessy Lanza is but overall there's some very Tessio-like vibe to that song.

Quite like this new Sinead Harnett:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTAPkD-RHtw

Also, it seems from Facebook and Britain's Got Talent (!) that Addictive have split, which seems a bit of a shame, I would have liked to have heard their attempts to feature in this new wave of urban dance pop.

Hatching some plans see Hannah Wants, Deeper Love, Warehouse, London, SAT 22...

Next month that is.

i LOVE the sinead harnett single

also yeah this prob is the wrong thread but that new ikonika single is amazing yeah (as is the album)

Interesting there's so many competing threads of UK house at the moment. Everything seems to be sort of overlapping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwMsa8SKA1c

This Zinc tune has been knocking about for a few months but is worth an airing here as well.

The groove on that Sinead Harnett single is great but the over-enunciation in the chorus is even more irritating than the AlunaGeorge faux-glottoral stop. When did British singers stop being able to sing words properly?

Ikonika is definitely not allowed in the treehouse though. Could've sworn she had her own thread but apparently not.

god matt, it's not a competition with your typical male chauvinist boundary policing. all about the music man.

also i asked all my friends and they can't tell the difference between a house tune and a lute solo at a rave so up yours internet nerds.

Was thinking about all this when listening to the Disclosure album this morning and I suppose what unites a lot of this stuff is a kind of High Street pop realness (any high Street almost, certainly stretching across social classes), a spirit that's been kind of lacking in the last two waves of mainstream British pop. In a way that's distinct from the more self-consciously arty end of the spectrum and certainly from forced and half-hearted VIP area anthems.

makes you Proud To Be British. pleased to be reunited with that zinc song.

xp yeah that works for me... even when mos blithely fold in ~deep house~ it's like, hairdresser deep

i am reminded of hot natured's 'reverse skydiving' and its excruciatingly/deliciously trashy lyric "rewind, timing / this be the contract for sky i'll be signing"

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

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incidentally on that side of things this is a bit of proper summer anthem now

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2013/may/28/jackin-dance-music-bassline-uk

Read this the other day through Sreynolds' blog. This probably isn't the right thread for it, but how does jackin' relate to the UK house chart resurgence? Hannah Wants seems like one link, but are they separate things? Does it matter?

that's kind of a hit n hope question really isnt it

this one apparently got to no 1 the other week and i hadn't heard of it until today when i looked back at the charts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O1_3zBUKM8

i really love it

first heard of naughty boy when wiley/emeli sandé's "your woman" cover ended up credited to him

The DEVolution remix is great. I think it's mentioned upthread somewhere. Also quite fond of the TS7 remix of Fuse ODG's "Antenna" (currently #7 on UK iTunes!)

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

there was also this excellent kidnap kid remix of their previous single last year. kk really is the man

People need to stop putting this Sam Smith guy on things.

feel like kk's 'so close' might perhaps be underappreciated itt btw

Like I dunno if he writes his own vocal lines but they've all got this ponderous Dev Hynes-Solange recorder lesson thing going on, he's most of what is wrong with 'Latch'.

gone right off his pubs as well

i keep expecting to hear former british number one tennis player and current commentator sam smith, it's all very confusing

bizarrely i like "latch" a lot more in album context

'so close' is a beauty, love 'animaux' off that single too and his remix of 'waiting all night' is the best version I reckon.

Sam Smith sounds great on that Naughty boy song!

bizarrely i like "latch" a lot more in album context

It really annoys me, When A Fire Starts To Burn is such an awesome (proper) opener and then you get this limp-dick faux-schaffel thing immediately afterwards.

interesting to note that Champion records is now rebranded for 2013 and releasing stuff like that great DrDr single 'Addicted'. Very apt when you see the awesome back catalogue.

http://www.discogs.com/label/Champion

nothing limp about "Latch" to my ears.. it did take awhile to, er, grow on me though