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
couple of lightweight but noice garage pop numbers
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 (ten 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
as an aside it's probably worth observing (in this continuing climate of ppl simultaneously parlaying solo pop star oversharing with dance vocalist disposability cf sam smith thread) how obstinately anonymous sam frank (not even listed on the video title there) is
think there's like one poss two photos of him and he just looks like the sort of guy who comes round to fix your broadband
guess singing whole tunes like skream 'rollercoaster' in a marge simpson voice is a compensation of sorts idk
― r|t|c, Sunday, 15 June 2014 10:35 (nine years ago) link
lol sam is literally an electrician these days! rtc your instincts can be somewhat frighteningly on point!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 15 June 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
is anybody rating "overdrive"?
i kind of like it when i hear it, but on the other hand it feels like EDM's bid to annex the interzone
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
it goes both ways (Tchami, Maff Boothroyd, etc) - i think of it more as a cooperated effort by interzoners and EDM renegades to reclaim the midrange
― Mind Taker, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
yeah we mentioned this mini angle briefly on the ill blu thread
love 'gecko' but 'overdrive' is rather a hasty awkward record label bodge job from the bad old times
i suppose it has a sort of grisly recherche charm in that respect (the vocal of idk, ninetoes 'finder' certainly did not)
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
rightful pioneers of this crossover are actually the wideboys on their kiss radio show of course (hat tip to self in mirror)
sadly they were a little bit too popular (or fortunate) too soon as they've recently been given an extra hour to play with and it's since all lost its ott hyper-compressed rush now
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link
http://www.kissfmuk.com/fnk/2014/06/07/wideboys-070614/
still tho have a butchers
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
i will!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
the perfect follow-up to "Rather Be" that never was <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjiZNUsJYjw
(just found out that one of the Blonde guys runs Eton Messy, woah!)
― Mind Taker, Thursday, 3 July 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link
this is obviously the wrong thread & both these songs are a few months old now but i'm fucked if i'm going to make a "grime in 2014" thread and i feel like they should have SOME 2014 ilx mention because they're so huge (and fwiw both in my top 10 trax of the year)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHZRHEJHS2k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyONbqggasY
it's like grime's prime years never ended
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
true, i used to look like you, but looking like a mess, nah, that's not me
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
http://f.cl.ly/items/0u2w1K1G082o1B3q3O0M/Screen%20Shot%202014-07-20%20at%2013.28.46.png
:o
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 20 July 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
speaking of grime did you guys see this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOIF7iUn-Z8
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 8 August 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
er lemme try that again https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NOIF7iUn-Z8
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 8 August 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
idk who this is but this is in the top 10 and i dig it a lot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk3r-K8TQ5g
i think it's the same guy who did one of the best "west coast" remixes (alongside the mk one obv) as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAg5QHqrqIM
― lex pretend, Monday, 11 August 2014 11:19 (nine years ago) link
i've been arguing with ppl at work about whether "faded" promotes DUI or subtly discourages it
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 August 2014 12:31 (nine years ago) link
That ZHU thing was in the Australian charts for months I think. Has that Peking Duk track made it to the UK yet?
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Monday, 11 August 2014 13:24 (nine years ago) link
Haha yeah, this has been huge here.
That plus the lyrics always make me think of Pendulum's "Coma" (different Pendulum) even though they don't really sound anything alike.
― Tim F, Monday, 11 August 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
Probably a bit harder than this thread usually goes it but fuck it there's no general purpose interzone thread, and it's taken me ages to ID this from Purge's 'House of Ill Repute Vol 4' mix. Luvvit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcyojxV-bTo
― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
Similar apprehension that I'm posting on the right thread but er, guys, is it just me that's taken this long to realize that everything on Hot Haus is "buy on sight"?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
don't think anyone's really bothered about what goes on what thread these days
besides me that is, i'm fucking disgusted w/ all of u
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link