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

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

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 17:28 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

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

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

― r|t|c, Tuesday, June 4, 2013 8:51 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love it so much, the percussive section in the final minute or so is O_O

presumably u are referring to the club mix?

it's alright tho, i tend to let one run onto the other and pretend it's an epic whole. and yes that bit is amazing!

Yeah the club mix

I was thinking about how on earth this stuff ever ended up being called deep house given that it really doesn't sound that much like what has historically been called deep house. But then I realized its not the latest iteration of deep house, it's a reboot. Some clever marketing type somewhere decided to reboot deep house like star trek. Well done them.

it really doesn't sound that much like what has historically been called deep house.

Actually a lot of it does!

See also UK Garage, where people used to say "it doesn't really sound like US Garage", but, of course, a lot of the time stuff like Tuff Jam really did, whereas Artful Dodger much less so and Oxide & Neutrino not at all.

mainly for those who are hopelessly behind and need to catch up tbh. Lots of tunes from this thread.
http://www.mixcloud.com/bennybrassic/uk-house-pop-2013/

do you have that in downloadable form somewhere?

(or else it just joins the other twenty tabs I have open to non-downloadable mixes that I may or may not ever get around to)

sorta surprised that the sophie track, much as i love it, fits into this

mixcloud's non-downloadable platform remains baffling

Second the request for a downloadable version. Tracklist looks great.

The Sophie track totally fits into this, like I don't know anything about anyone involved in it but it's totally the right vibe.

I prefer the vocal version to the dub, mind, but there's little difference.

i guess just because i first heard of the sophie track via the glasgow crowd (jackmaster etc) who are a pretty different scene to both the london tastestep crew and your black butter/disclosure axis

Looking forward to this mix (Benny B - your mixes are always great!).

I like that Mixcloud is "non-downloadable" because it means that it is streaming at a higher quality than e.g. Soundcloud, and of course it is very hard to make something non-downloadable, anyway.

it is seriously a matter of seconds to google a way to dl mixclouds ffs

chiming in to say yeah, benny i luv your work

I´ll stick it up for download on zippyshare or something tonight when I get back from work, I had no idea you could dl mixclouds tbh

(What r|t|c said.)

How about downloading stream-only Ministry of Sound radio sets? Anyone?

(excited to hear this Benny)

Also, re Kidnap Kid, was listening to "Animaux" again today and I just die every time the groove cuts out and that woman shrieks "DREAMER!"

Dude's approach to sampled vocals feels oddly reminiscent to me of how golden age uk funky used to do it, all those unnamed tunes like the ones on that hallowed Mak 10 / Shantie deja set or the tune that sampled Jagged Edge.

http://essentialgarage.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/DJ%20Q
http://www.zippyshare.com/essentialgarage

if you're just after the q sets then the show puts them up themselves

I like Kidnap Kid a lot and played the Alphaville EP loads last year but it would never have occurred to me to mentally group him with any of the rest of this stuff. I'd assumed he was a higher quality version of one of those blippy blog-friendly electronica types, partly because his stuff is so brightly-coloured and melodic (and more than a bit cutesy as well).

Also, this record sleeve:

http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/cQsh1gGCwIE/hqdefault.jpg