Bumping to draw attention to this as the current thread for this sort of thing (since I just linked to the 2012 one by accident).
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 25 January 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
the gorgon city/mnek single is out tomorrow. i am a fan.
― dyl, Saturday, 25 January 2014 21:08 (ten years ago) link
feeling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbVOvEPDsG4Jakwob - Somebody New ( Ft. Tiffani Juno)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoEQHUcj984Dj Zinc - Show Me (Original Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW32oZqqrpULancelot feat. Antony & Cleopatra - Givin' It Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJcBtRTi8mMRedlight feat. Lotti - 36
― r|t|c, Friday, 7 February 2014 11:36 (ten years ago) link
the zinc's been around for a while but it's a totally underrated grower... a lot of this sort of stuff can seem like its smoothly on rails (bom bom bom shadow child drop fatigue prevented me succumbing to the gorgon city mnek for some time) but whoever that vocalist is has a real ragged winsome need that cuts through to the heart ("I WANT YOU SO BAD" startlingly grabbing you by the lapels just when you assume it's looping back round)
― r|t|c, Friday, 7 February 2014 11:43 (ten years ago) link
post clean bandit prim popjustice comfort zoning is prob the great trap with this stuff now basically, unabashed urgency required
― r|t|c, Friday, 7 February 2014 11:52 (ten years ago) link
it's a dialectic!! and i feel like hannah wants is the bellwether for it.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 February 2014 13:05 (ten years ago) link
like, as go her monthly mixes so goes the destiny of this particular sound
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 February 2014 13:08 (ten years ago) link
just waiting for the manservant to fetch my uk funky gatekeeper ceremonial robes from storage before i respond to that
― r|t|c, Friday, 7 February 2014 22:12 (ten years ago) link
really enjoying that jakwob track.
― oppet, Sunday, 9 February 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
i bought a box of neurofen plus and a box of alka seltzer in a pharmacy a couple of weeks ago that was completely empty and the woman behind the counter was standing really still and quietly listening to this song at full volume
― plax (ico), Sunday, 9 February 2014 21:25 (ten years ago) link
see if i had any real faith in ilm i'd ask for a thread of suchlike circumstantial poetics
fwiw this week's effort from myself is i was in a pub (again but poncy this time) and boc 'roygbiv' soundtracked a bunch of thirty something girls having a post-work pre-friday night festivities natter about whether they should go home and get changed first. felt unprecedentedly correct of course
― r|t|c, Sunday, 9 February 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link
i have an experiment for the above haplessly enthusiastic tracer hand
http://youtu.be/4BQjK2jS7jE
iyo does this track, taken from a recent hannah wants mix, fit into the remit of this thread
― r|t|c, Sunday, 9 February 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link
maybe superficially but there's a kind of outsider witch-house broken feeling to it that makes me say no.
lol @ "haplessly enthusiastic" - my epitaph, if ever i had one
fact fans will have noticed that clean bandit is No.1 in the uk pop charts for the third straight week now. CLEAN effing BANDIT. i mean..!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 February 2014 10:05 (ten years ago) link
and i have to say that "rather be" is a mite prim but i do like it. it certainly doesn't feel like a No.1 to me though, more like an unexpected side D cut from a back to mine album that temporarily cuts through the murk.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 February 2014 10:08 (ten years ago) link
Cheap Picasso - Don't Play Aroundhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_oM65OTMUo
starting to feel a bit by-numbers?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 13:57 (ten years ago) link
if "I Got U feat. Jax Jones" DOESN'T actually say "takin' drugs all night" during the chorus i'll eat my hat
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 February 2014 17:42 (ten years ago) link
sorry, "takin' drugs all right" i mean
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 February 2014 18:01 (ten years ago) link
whoa i had no idea this song existed
so tropical! jeez
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 17 February 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link
is talabot getting royalties off this
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 17 February 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
wholly nonplussed yet again by associations of blissed out happy goosebump chill with talabot. spose this actually admittedly does have the same sound palette if not intention tho
quality choon anyway but continues to leave me strangely unmoved idk
― r|t|c, Monday, 17 February 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
that cheap picasso is indeed p hilarious now trace has pointed it out
went a-searching for "clean bandit name generator" anon but google lets me down
― r|t|c, Monday, 17 February 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
New Kidnap Kid: "Stronger", following further in the footsteps of "Thin Lines". No Clean Bandit trajectory for him, that's for sure.
https://soundcloud.com/kidnap_kid/stronger
― breastcrawl, Monday, 17 February 2014 21:54 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4WV9nna10sKlingande - Jubel (Friend Within Remix)
― r|t|c, Monday, 17 February 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link
so sam smith 'money on my mind' set to succeed clean bandit as #1 this week
it would seem a breakbeat and a horrifying nuclear reactor meltdown klaxon chorus was all terius' verses ever needed
― r|t|c, Thursday, 20 February 2014 08:28 (ten years ago) link
really up til now i'd not been partic cognizant of this success and just assumed it was just the mk mix that was killing it, guess i must be out of the loop somewhat
― r|t|c, Thursday, 20 February 2014 08:29 (ten years ago) link
wonder if it's taking advantage of a détourned appeal like kendrick 'swimming pools' did. like do punters perhaps wave £20 notes to this at weatherspoons in converted bank premises
having a brit song (however lightly) about money in the charts is pleasing to the 86-93 moodboard i spose
― r|t|c, Thursday, 20 February 2014 08:39 (ten years ago) link
That Sam smith song is really shit imo. Think they're trying to turn him into the dude Sandé
― pearly-dewdrops' bops (monotony), Thursday, 20 February 2014 08:47 (ten years ago) link
kicking your career off with a meta protest-too-much song about signing your major label contract is a bit much
― lex pretend, Thursday, 20 February 2014 08:51 (ten years ago) link
it brought to mind jessie j, not sandé
i like this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RcbQdKeSRs
― lex pretend, Thursday, 20 February 2014 10:38 (ten years ago) link
that "36" is a bit of alright
raekwon's gonna be on that ep too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iLCqGlfEcE
― lex pretend, Thursday, 20 February 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link
is "givin' it up" about an abortion?!
― lex pretend, Thursday, 20 February 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
i think "nirvana" is the good sam smith solo song but i could be mistaken
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 20 February 2014 21:55 (ten years ago) link
after watching the brit awards tho i don't see how he's materially different than john newman or tom odell aside from having an early disclosure cosign which gives him the veneer of being more cool than those dudes
but aesthetically it's the same shit
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 20 February 2014 21:57 (ten years ago) link
another one for the 'electro/fidget dudes gone deep house & bass' file - Friend Within is Lee Mortimer!
have enjoyed most of FW stuff so far but all of it pales next to the "Jubel" remix, just way gorgeous
― Mind Taker, Thursday, 20 February 2014 23:52 (ten years ago) link
"i got u" is more tensnake than talabot to me, despite the steel pan sound
it's amazing tho. for some reason i only expected duke dumont to make one special track but he's backing "need u" up really well
― lex pretend, Friday, 21 February 2014 10:41 (ten years ago) link
you know there's a tensnake mix right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FxtJABs39k
― Number None, Friday, 21 February 2014 10:47 (ten years ago) link
HAHA i didn't, no!
― lex pretend, Friday, 21 February 2014 10:48 (ten years ago) link
He had at least one special track before Need U, because 'The Giver' is and has always been great.
― Matt DC, Friday, 21 February 2014 11:16 (ten years ago) link
john newman or tom odell aside from having an early disclosure cosign which gives him the veneer of being more cool than those dudes
John Newman has had that veneer as well, it's pretty much how the industry breaks its fast-tracked MOR singers these days. I'm not expecting much from Ella Eyre's solo career either.
The idea of Tom Odell on one of these is pretty lol though, although Black Butter have someone lurking within their stable who is almost as insipid, I forget the name.
― Matt DC, Friday, 21 February 2014 11:18 (ten years ago) link
it's pretty much how the industry breaks its fast-tracked MOR singers these days
yeah cosigns from dance types don't mean much, sandé was the template and it's used for everyone now. sadly the featured singers who stick with house when they go solo, like sinead harnett, haven't made anything like the impression of your newmans, smiths etc
― lex pretend, Friday, 21 February 2014 11:22 (ten years ago) link
I csn't think of a Sam Smith-fronted track that I like at all actually, even the Discloure track he features on is limp.
― Matt DC, Friday, 21 February 2014 13:45 (ten years ago) link
strongly disagree w/that, latch is all-time imo
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 21 February 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
also sam smith's got pipes that newman wd kill for, ditto the loathesome tom odell, if tom odell even knew what good singing was, which i haven't seen the evidence of
i dunno, it's hard for me to hate on newman or smith, they're so young, and they're just singers trying to break big, they've got plenty of time to become a bit more thoughtful about what they want to accomplish
odell on the other hand
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 21 February 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
Naughty Boy ft. Sam Star - La La La (Deckstar Bass Mix) is the one.
― Tim F, Friday, 21 February 2014 21:18 (ten years ago) link
also ft. Sam Smith.
― Tim F, Friday, 21 February 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
that's how he should be billed on everything
― Number None, Saturday, 22 February 2014 13:17 (ten years ago) link
digging "i got u" but it's totally calling for an 8 minute edit
this should be the 2014 gui boratto "beautiful"
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 22 February 2014 22:20 (ten years ago) link
"If [Jimmy] Jam & [Terry] Lewis threw a house party, then invited George Michael, Janet [Jackson] and Peabo Bryson, that would be my album."
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/5915484/mnek-readies-throwback-debut-while-working-with-kylie-minogue
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 24 February 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYCFN5nnsQ
j0rd i can only assume ur starting mnek threads cos you havent heard this yet
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 22:42 (ten years ago) link