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

(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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79YDgv_zWA4

i posted the original version of this somewhere earlier. it was a hit as an instrumental in some parts of europe and i guess now with these added vocals they are trying to reach the uk audience.

https://soundcloud.com/wearedevolution/devolution-too-much-heaven

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

Cool vid.

grime producer goes house to superb, lightly drifting effect. it really is the spirit of uk funky back again

http://soundcloud.com/rudekidmusic/rude-kid-ft-tanya-valensi

(that's tanya valensi of "i know i love u" non-fame btw)

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

http://www.youtube.com/v/XOJjikWX3sQ&fs=1&hl=en

in at #12

quite like the pillowy synths here https://soundcloud.com/luxurymusicuk/j-a-w-s/s-LgVfW

A cursory glance at the Top 10 this week suggests our summer-long mini golden age would appear to have been btrampled underfoot by hegemonic forces brutally reasserting themselves.

yes this little mayfly met its exquisite destiny some months ago

is it just me or can anyone else feel something deep under the earth, an almost noiseless tectonic shift, that guetta-pop and harris-ified "decadent" club bangers are already more than halfway to naff and will soon be the stuff of nose-scrunching reminisces on late-night TV

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, March 21, 2013 5:23 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i can feel it

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, March 21, 2013 5:24 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i just realised that actually they've all just been hibernating, their minds busy plotting, planning

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, March 21, 2013 5:38 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.youtube.com/v/Bg2q6ZofewM&fs=1&hl=en

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, March 21, 2013 5:39 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

klangkarussell and naughty boy the seashells left in the sand as the wave is sucked back into the sea

time for beachcombers and oceanographers to once again shake hands and part ways

eh i hadnt even looked at the charts this week... ben pearce 'what i might do' is at 7

may the #1 song reign there for 400 years of plenty imo btw

also am i not right in expecting next week's numero uno to be the storm queen/mk rerelease

oh wait my bad november 3... next months then

omg this week's top 10, just nooooooo

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/annie-mac-presents-2013/id704309101?affId=1930871

Cannot wait!
by elephunkgolf29
What a stunning collection of pure art to celebrate 2013 and where we are going together as one society and one world!

well said, elephunkgolf29, well said

http://soundcloud.com/annie-mac-presents/lulu-james-cant-stop

this excloose on there is fiyah btw

Haven't heard a Lulu James song yet in 2013 that I don't like.

i was fairly surprised that 'step by step' seemed to fall through the cracks... got a couple of radio plays but no one really ran with it

http://soundcloud.com/walter-ego/sets/lulu-james-step-by-step-walter/

walter ego's mix very much worth checking also