let's not get too enthusiastic with our praise
― Tim F, Monday, 17 March 2014 03:37 (ten years ago) link
lol
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Monday, 17 March 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
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.
― MikoMcha, Friday, 28 March 2014 10:43 (ten years ago) link
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
― r|t|c, Sunday, 13 April 2014 20:02 (ten years ago) link
The iphone was such an amazingly grubby detail.
Was it actually a fake or just a hasty denial?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 13 April 2014 20:23 (ten years ago) link
dunno think i read something that the photo had been around a while
someone's absolutely nailed them there jeff
― r|t|c, Sunday, 13 April 2014 20:31 (ten years ago) link
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
― r|t|c, Sunday, 13 April 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link
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
― r|t|c, Sunday, 13 April 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link
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.
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 13 April 2014 22:02 (ten years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Sunday, 13 April 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
oops i shouldve added i mention ministry there as an example of savvy practice
― r|t|c, Sunday, 13 April 2014 22:37 (ten years ago) link
i see 'german whip' might be going top 5 too this week, jolly good
― r|t|c, Sunday, 13 April 2014 23:23 (ten years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 April 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Mercer Finn, Monday, 14 April 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link
i have to say i really don't understand the enthusiasm for german whip :(
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
sorry to be all "mansplain it to me" but i.... just..... dgi
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
oh man "german whip" might be the one new british rap song i banng every 2 years
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
I don't particularly like it either and it's probably for exactly that reason.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 20:06 (ten years ago) link
or is it that us rap has become much more like grime
ahhhhhh
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 21:55 (ten years ago) link
lol I love german whip with all my heart, I assumed that meant it sucked
― forum enthusiast (wins), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
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]
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 22:03 (ten years ago) link
― r|t|c, Tuesday, April 15, 2014 5:55 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark
lol it sounds like 1 million post-luger trap music songs, just particularly good
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 22:10 (ten years ago) link
couple of lightweight but noice garage pop numbers
All about she - Remedyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_CT9Ow67Zk
Kymberley Miles - Moving on (produced by Deckstar)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyBjiKmWnr0
― Benny B, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 10:31 (ten years ago) link
Also, Flockaveli is basically a grime album.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 13:38 (1 hour ago) Bookmark
good opinion, count me in
― r|t|c, Wednesday, January 12, 2011 3:21 PM (3 years ago)
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 12:34 (ten years ago) link
Chief Keef grimier imo
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 13:00 (ten years ago) link
Results are in: Kiesza "Hideaway": no 1, Shift K3y "Touch": no 3 (!), Meridian Dan "German Whip": no 13.
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 11:39 (ten years ago) link
i really don't like "touch" either; too militantly cheery, with no room to breathe
am i losing the interzone faith??
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 11:42 (ten years ago) link
I saw Duke Dumont the other night and was lucky enough to walk in right when "Need U 100%" dropped <3
― steendriver dysphoria hoos (The Reverend), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 10:19 (ten years ago) link
heard "touch" at the barber's today <3
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 10:45 (ten years ago) link
wouldn't necessarily call "Remedy" lightweight - i mean yeah, production-wise it is somewhat pedestrian but as a song it's pure class, moreso than any recent 2step throwback i can think of
― Mind Taker, Friday, 25 April 2014 22:32 (nine years ago) link
yeah i agree its a wicked song, they´ve got potential these lot. loved ´higher´ from last year (especially the preditah mix obv), and the other tracks on the new ep sound pretty schmoove too.
― Benny B, Saturday, 26 April 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
1, 2, 3 on both the overall singles chart and the dance chart are identical
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 27 April 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
this week it's 1,2,3,4
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 4 May 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01yjqpb
Hannah Wants and Chris Lorenzo - Kneadin Dungeon Meat - The F Off Track Hannah Wants and Chris Lorenzo - Girls Spoils and Monkey Wrench - Enemies in the Dance James Silk - Heard It All Jacob B - Party Time Skream - Bang That Example - One More Day (Shadow Child Remix) SecondCity - I Enter Little by Little - Bang The Box Bontan - Move On Out Chris Lorenzo feat. Apex Ape - Got To Give Linden Jay feat. Shift K3Y - Krusty Julio Bashmore - Battle For Middle You Foamo - Rep Your Manor DJ Fresh Vs. TC - Make U Bounce DVBBS and Borgeous - Stampede (Major Lazer Remix) Maverick Sabre - Emotions
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 09:13 (nine years ago) link
does anyone fuck with "hideaway"
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 May 2014 23:44 (nine years ago) link
it feels stitched together and... weirdly, like, unprofessional. like whoever made it doesn't have a great idea of how to put a track together yet.
there's some real good moments though, i'm into it
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 May 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
Kiesza
― ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Monday, 12 May 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link
ah word, thanks
everyone in that thread mostly otm
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 May 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
i'm basically 100 x more enthusiastic about the gorgon city remix than i seem in that thread, it's one of my singles of the year
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 06:50 (nine years ago) link
I'm interested to see where she goes next - in a genre driven by faceless producers, she seems (along with maybe MNEK) like the likeliest contender to be a breakout pop talent.
― ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 06:53 (nine years ago) link
well as much as i love a remix of her song, it doesn't make me care about her at all
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 07:01 (nine years ago) link
and it's not like the song's appeal is driven by her charisma exactly
unfortunately the breakout pop talents from this scene will probably be the secret sheerans and secret sandés who probably had a solo deal all along like sam smith and ella eyre. those who stick to house (sinead harnett) don't seem to get off the ground in the same way and even a*m*e, who's the most explicit about wanting to make pop (and probably the most actually charismatic vocalist to date in this mini-movement), doesn't seem to be happening
though i would argue looking for a breakout pop talent isn't really the point in the first place?
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 07:05 (nine years ago) link
I don't think this scene has thrown up a single vocalist who I give a shit about outside the context of the big dance hits. Even MNEK has a kind of dorky awkwardness to him and may turn out to be a better backroom songwriter than he his a pop star.
For now it seems like the record buying public are buying the faceless producers rather than the faces per se, and that's even allowing for people like Sam Smith with a massive record company push behind them. Duke Dumont and Rudimental are more reliably bankable names than any of the vocalists (except Sande obviously and she precedes all this really).
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 07:51 (nine years ago) link
I think focusing on the singers for their own sake is almost always a mistake when it comes to UK pop-dance. Katy B, and Mis-Teeq if they count, are the only exceptions that comes to mind across 25 years or so.
Craig David had two good singles I guess.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 09:39 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/kiesza/status/426873645755936768
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 09:47 (nine years ago) link
Similar vibes from Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eihYaVddKE
― panic disorder pixie (Sanpaku), Monday, 19 May 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
So this is looking to be next week's UK number one single.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wRW57nBLMI
It's turning into a free for all...
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
whitney and toni are the new brandy and aaliyah
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
'Functional' doesn't have to be a pejorative term when it comes to dance music but that Secondcity track is horribly functional...where's the excitement there?
― online hardman, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 09:22 (nine years ago) link