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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
sorry to be all "mansplain it to me" but i.... just..... dgi
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 16:54 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
Chief Keef grimier imo
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 13:00 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
heard "touch" at the barber's today <3
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 10:45 (nine 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
whole thing sounds sluggish/like the worst kind of club IMO. House for Supreme clad 16yr olds etc.
― online hardman, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 09:24 (nine years ago) link
I find that track pleasantly formulaic but if you're sneering at house music for 16 year-olds this probably isn't the thread for you. I've heard a lot worse in shitty clubs over the years.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 09:40 (nine years ago) link
wasn't sneering, and this isn't the thread for it, but i was into house when i was 16 and wouldn't have listened to this.
tbh, i'd no doubt enjoy it a lot more in the context of a mix so I'll trawl through this thread and download some recent ones.
― online hardman, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 10:39 (nine years ago) link
This kind of needs to be the sort of hyper-familiar melodic track that you drench the crowd with after a stretch of harder stuff. I don't love it by any means and it's sort of route-one but I can totally see how it would work.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 10:50 (nine years ago) link
mm yeah you'll definitely crack the case of the #1 pop song by pondering it in the mix
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
would it be wrong to post this one here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jUGAVUwhRU
Vic Mensa, "Down On My Luck"
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 7 June 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMbA6xire3M
ooh didn't know this had a video and everything (u will know it from the shift k3y mix, where it blends in seamlessly with ryan leslie vox and sk's other assorted minor 90s-ish new yorky quirks) (crossref with disclosure i guess)
luvvit; beguiling and casually unconventional
― r|t|c, Sunday, 15 June 2014 10:24 (nine years ago) link