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

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.

wow @ the shift k3y tune

i didn't know shift k3y sang or could sing!

his debut tunes upthread were him singing

kinda understood the shift in k3y to falsetto with this and 'make it good' as a little jt/thicke kinda play (although the delight of 'touch' imo is how it's more like a jordan knight vibe) (cf what i mentioned on the katy b thread actually)

v curious/baffled as to why his marketing so far is p much that of faceless dance producer with logo when even the mutest dweebs get fullblown photo ops now

shoutout to that shift k3y song, yes

noting your mnek shade though

heh no i am reasonably up for the mnek to be clear

(should also have mentioned for the bubblers btw - how magnificent is chris lorenzo's sorrowing vampireballad rework now that we know what the original 'touch' sounds like)

"touch" has a video now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KtYYHKEGDc

i'm calling this the post-disclosure blue eyed garage revival's "nice & slow"

hah this is why i specifically singled u out for that tune (might personally qualify it with the 'nice & slow' bass mix or really anything from the fin de siecle florida boy bands but yeah)

(had been kinda dying to ask the ilx homo thug crew what they made of him now he's finally been revealed (and renovated) actually... he seems imo unexpectedly sorta inherently scowly like an fred perry-jocking arctic monkey type bro, crossed with uh erm idk... rick astley)

he's got jams aplenty and - to a near absurd degree - every possible string to a bow going, but still i'm uncertain if they can really truly make a star out of him

yeah he's cute in a specifically british grungey way

it's funny you mention rick astley tho cuz i realized you can pretty much sing the chorus of "never gonna give you up" to the tune of "touch" and it fits in the meter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhjzMeW_j-0

silently rebuking myself for posting this here and not the r&b thread (where i would likely have posted a stream only and falsely and wildly claimed it was lloyd produced by los or something) but whatever, the boogie matrix itt is probs more valid and valuable anyway. most agreeable jam, dude seems to have an x-factor the other pmr'nb hope javeon mccarthy doesnt (despite the latter's talent)