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

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)

yeah he's cute in a specifically british grungey way

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 6 March 2014 19:28 Bookmark

heh yeah thought this might be the case

feel i deserve some sort of special medal for taking my mind off the girl in that vid long enough to make any judgement on him tbh

i went looking for a bass remix of "nice & slow" and i found this random thing on youtube that's surprisingly dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOCVHT49bTE

in truth shift k3y is to me like the meiotic pop cell division of what i wanted royal-t to be, if that makes any sense (don't answer that)

xp i was referring to the b-rock remix ft twista! aka one of the best things ever made!

idk, dude looks like a teenage brother to me.

shift k3y covering "one mo' gin" http://instagram.com/p/lSKtoIki7X/#

:-/

wow at Route 94's "My Love' going to number one in the UK. Such an awesome tune, and (relatively) tracky for a big crossover hit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS46C2z5lVE&feature=share

So nice when tunes I think of as "DJ Q set tunes" successfully make the jump to massive anthem.

jess glynne sounds completely different on "my love" than she does on "rather be"

had a hands-in-the-air moment at XOYO saturday to "my love", felt very house-is-a-feeling amid the punishing clatter of the rest of the set

just listened to the new redlight ep, on first blush nothing's as great as "36" but the raekwon collab and their take on moody r&b with syron are worth hearing i guess

basscone 4eva

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doqG1_Rz1_c

This is new on Black Butter and is absolutely booming, like Au Seve with a tornado of chipmunk voices flying around it.

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.

That lot all releasing albums to their potential would tip this whole thing over from alarmingly consistent cottage industry to full blown British pop golden age.

the flip side of Kidnap Kid's new single, "Like You Used To", is great too - and more radio friendly than "Stronger".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n37rlEsHX7Q

i didnt need either from him tbph

did you like "Thin Lines"?

yes, it's upthread

this Route 94 track sounds to me like energy drink music ad

let's not get too enthusiastic with our praise

lol

Listening to the Black Butter Spread Love Vol. 3 - came out right at the end of December last year. I'm getting a real Get Physical Music vibe circa 2004-05 from this.

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

― r|t|c, Monday, 1 July 2013 18:11 Bookmark

not to walk around otm-ing myself (arent enough hours in the day) but lol did we see the bondax twitter fake hullabaloo this week

The iphone was such an amazingly grubby detail.

Was it actually a fake or just a hasty denial?

dunno think i read something that the photo had been around a while

someone's absolutely nailed them there jeff

was about to give them some dues for having some good tunes about lately but it turns out i was thinking of "bontan"

lay off the shit names ppl

jakwob & tiffani in at 47 today, redlight '36' at 81 the other week

not that i think either are necessarily thwarted smash hits or anything but it still goes to show somewhat that for all the digital power to the ppl etc there remains a fine art to labels simply knowing how long to wait before pulling the trigger on something

conversely i swear ministry have been sitting on secondcity 'i wanna feel' for like a year now, official wheels are only just starting to move

Sometimes it works though: Kiesza's "Hideaway" finally got its official release today and will be almost certainly number 1 next week, Shift K3y's "Touch" (almost forgot about that one) looks like it might enter inside the top 10.

i get the impression that the art is now harnessing that digital people power correctly, just shoving something out there just doesn't work at the highest level

oops i shouldve added i mention ministry there as an example of savvy practice

i see 'german whip' might be going top 5 too this week, jolly good

new lulu james single is gorgeous, though she might have to move out of this thread soon...

https://soundcloud.com/lulujamesofficial/beautiful-people-mo-edits

New release from Hannah Wants & Chris Lorenzo: https://soundcloud.com/foodmusicuk/sets/hannah-wants-chris-lorenzo

This is clicking for me more than anything else they've done.

i have to say i really don't understand the enthusiasm for german whip :(

sorry to be all "mansplain it to me" but i.... just..... dgi

oh man "german whip" might be the one new british rap song i banng every 2 years

aside from the (amazing) moments when the beat speeds up, "german whip" is the most in-tune-with-US-trends grime song ever. it's really great obv

I don't particularly like it either and it's probably for exactly that reason.

or is it that us rap has become much more like grime

ahhhhhh

lol I love german whip with all my heart, I assumed that meant it sucked

i do like how there's basically no conversation to be had between ppl who like it and ppl who don't

my entire mansplain to trace is simply [recites entire lyrics]