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

feeling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbVOvEPDsG4
Jakwob - Somebody New ( Ft. Tiffani Juno)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoEQHUcj984
Dj Zinc - Show Me (Original Mix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW32oZqqrpU
Lancelot feat. Antony & Cleopatra - Givin' It Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJcBtRTi8mM
Redlight feat. Lotti - 36

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)

post clean bandit prim popjustice comfort zoning is prob the great trap with this stuff now basically, unabashed urgency required

it's a dialectic!! and i feel like hannah wants is the bellwether for it.

like, as go her monthly mixes so goes the destiny of this particular sound

just waiting for the manservant to fetch my uk funky gatekeeper ceremonial robes from storage before i respond to that

really enjoying that jakwob track.

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

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

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

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..!

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.

Cheap Picasso - Don't Play Around
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_oM65OTMUo

starting to feel a bit by-numbers?

if "I Got U feat. Jax Jones" DOESN'T actually say "takin' drugs all night" during the chorus i'll eat my hat

sorry, "takin' drugs all right" i mean

whoa i had no idea this song existed

so tropical! jeez

is talabot getting royalties off this

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

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4WV9nna10s
Klingande - Jubel (Friend Within Remix)

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

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

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

That Sam smith song is really shit imo. Think they're trying to turn him into the dude Sandé

kicking your career off with a meta protest-too-much song about signing your major label contract is a bit much

it brought to mind jessie j, not sandé

i like this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RcbQdKeSRs

that "36" is a bit of alright

raekwon's gonna be on that ep too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iLCqGlfEcE

is "givin' it up" about an abortion?!

i think "nirvana" is the good sam smith solo song but i could be mistaken

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

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

"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

you know there's a tensnake mix right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FxtJABs39k

HAHA i didn't, no!

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

He had at least one special track before Need U, because 'The Giver' is and has always been great.

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.

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

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.

strongly disagree w/that, latch is all-time imo

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

Naughty Boy ft. Sam Star - La La La (Deckstar Bass Mix) is the one.

also ft. Sam Smith.

that's how he should be billed on everything

digging "i got u" but it's totally calling for an 8 minute edit

this should be the 2014 gui boratto "beautiful"

"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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYCFN5nnsQ

j0rd i can only assume ur starting mnek threads cos you havent heard this yet

^ chuffed his proper debut single is this good, is it getting much radio play?

getting quite excited about how strong black butters albums game could be this year. MNEK, clean Bandit and quite possibly Kidnap Kid, Lulu James and Scrufizzer (and maybe Gorgon City?). they must be raking it in at the moment so it would be great to see all of thewse get a proper push.