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

https://soundcloud.com/twilliamsmusic/t-williams-three-letters

this would be a felicitous time for t williams to start banging them out, the ejeca/warehouse urban undercurrent marries well with his otherwise usually untempting stiffness. vibe to keep an eye on

http://soundcloud.com/rubygoe/odysseus-feat-ruby-never-gonna

i'd been pondering a small investment in this one

One of the big things that's killing me about this wave of UK dance pop is how much of it has really good tunes, simply really good tunes. (OK carry on with your more expert conversations.)

THE WAIT IS OVER

http://soundcloud.com/hannah_wants/hannah-wants-mixtape-0713

NEED U 100%!

(Sorry, slow learner here.)

Ruby Goe! I'd forgotten about her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piadty2HS7U

co-written by MNEK

Looking forward to that new Hannah Wants mix, will listen as soon as I'm home!

the new Kidnap Kid!

https://soundcloud.com/kidnap_kid/thin-lines

keep expecting to tire of Black Butter's stuff, but ^that's really nice

lotti dotti, we likes to listen to jessie ware facsimile

new dumont/mnek is a bit much for me i think https://soundcloud.com/dukedumont/duke-dumont-feat-mnek-hold-on/s-NdUny

that new kidnap kid is choice tho

anyone know what's up with these dudes? https://soundcloud.com/bondax/giving-it-all

song is pretty pro forma & not very inspired but 50k plays in one day? i think they're supposed to be nsync to disclosure's bsb or whatever the appropriate british analogy is

"gold" got a lot of radio play and wound up in a lot of mixes but i don't know much about them beyond that. it's a sort of balearic bubbler i guess? not sure i hear the disclosure comparison beyond the fact that they also look about 12 years old to this fogey

i still think of t.e.e.d as the nsync (although maybe they missed the boat?), bondax are more like idk, o-town

you know what i think it is about that (otherwise a+++ excellent) kidnap kid tune, the way he cuts in the vocal sample on that intro is so paul poli that i automatically experience a lingering trace of pavlovian disappointment when the ware-alike comes in and happens to not be teedra

kidnap kid's delicate sensibility does not scan like that of a uk dance producer/listener at all really, it's kinda miraculous. let alone a former dnb raver

Kidnap Kid tune is amazing, and yeah Paul Poli is spot on, surely Teedra (aka uk house and funky diva of choice) is in fact available to help out here.

I've taken to playing "Animaux" rather a lot in the car, mainly so I can sing along to "DREAMER".

haha tbh i was meaning and then forgot to submit "I just die every time the groove cuts out and that woman shrieks "DREAMER!" to posts v much in character

(I think one reason so much of this Benny B mix goes down so easy for me is that it's more disco than house.)

xpost i can't deny it

i love the new duke dumont and lulu james singles - interesting how both have gone for an opulent emotive house diva look this time round in contrast to the slightly staccato hooks of their breakthroughs

i like kidnap kid but am finding his stuff a bit too easy to stop paying attention to halfway through. clean bandit not quite doing it for me either.

the odyssey/ruby goe track rtc highlighted is a banger though

Xthread post @ tim

does kidnap kid qualify as part of your softcore continuum or I have got it wrong? :)

that devolution 'admire' is getting into my head something rotten now

softcore nuum is probably the most fiendish shell-game we've ever devised so don't worry about getting it right

scanning recent posts back i see i missed a deeply cruel "t.e.e.d-ra moses" gag

Hannah Wants & Chris Lorenzo - Rude Boy
https://soundcloud.com/hannah_wants/hannah-wants-rude-boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4uw4Zef9cY

ls has been remarkable with vocalists for a good while now but this is pretty spesh

i guess i never really expected him to leave aside the sickly (sometimes sickly sweet) brutalism

but now look at this lil raggo grime duckling turned magnificent larry heard swan

damn that's lovely

yes i am quite spellbound by it

awesome. that did not go the way i expected it to.

more T. Williams!

https://soundcloud.com/twilliamsmusic/t-williams-feat-tala-on-my-own

latest boogie skream track. not as good as the duke dumont and rudimental ones (his mix of 'hell could freeze' is possibly my fave track of the year), but still better than that rollercoaster one iyam

http://youtu.be/Yy1NIJX06iQ

his mix of 'hell could freeze' is possibly my fave track of the year

That thing is amazing.

I like that. I like everything this year. Responsibility to what? Do I have to have 1,000 pages of theory in order to live?

Not sure if this *quite* belongs here but this has the feel of a top ten hit in the making:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOJjikWX3sQ

http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/read/youneedtohearthis-black-butter-records-vs-scrufizzer

he's spitting over 'Spoons' and Kidnap Kid's 'Be more', some Woz riddims...an album from him drawing on the BB stable of producers could be great, chuck in a bit of funkystepz aswell. The (undeniable) dizzee comparisons might be a problem for some but the more I listen, the more he reminds me more of Duurty Goodz actually.

havent heard this yet but scru and woz seem like perfect combination to me

ok 1 min in and whoa yeah he sounds a LOT like goodz

Yeah he doesn't really sound like Dizzee until you hear him say 'skank' or 'brand new day' or something. Quite a lot like Goodz though but without the constant smirk in his voice.

This mix is fire by the way.

and on cue...

http://soundcloud.com/scrufizzer/kick-it

see he's back to channelling dizzee there. disturbingly uncannily too

good though, as is the mix. thing with monetizing scru is he is ultimately a spitter not a songwriter and therefore an instrument for trax. HOWEVER THOUGH do my ears deceive me or is that him singing a hook very decently on the last track?? now we're talking

in fairness he does just seem like a very absorbent chap in a very genuine inadvertent way, it doesnt come off like gimlet-eyed mimicry at all

his flirta d glossolalia moments are also spot on

produced by zed bias btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWq9rtvphGg

suppose now would be the time to give this its long-deserved mention

someday i would like to know exactly how c4 obtained a recording of my inner monologue and turned it into an indifference ftw summer jam

^ yeah s'alright that