funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

well the original is so ubiquitous now that the remix pretty much functions as its own track, it's not really so much a case of one commenting on the other.

moreover rev you gravely underestimate the veyr-much-effort-filled fun of hollering along to doneao's operatic mavadoisms. (crossed with i dunno, john legend or whatever.)

― ed, gar, allan, & poe (r|t|c), Friday, March 6, 2009 10:16 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

a) I live in the US, and I would guess that there are no more than a few hundred people in the entire country who follow funky at all. Ubiquitous isn't even an issue.

b) I like that aspect of Donaeo, and think that's what sets him apart as a vocalist. I just don't think it works for that particular track.

Yeah the original KIG track was a big track for me several months ago Rev. I really like the Kardinal Offishall rap version deej posted - though the Wale rap not so much.

wale sounds like fake kanye & really awkward over something that fast

wale sounds awkward over anything of any speed

Am I the only one who prefers the original KIG to the Donaeo mix?

The Crazy Cousins one is good as well. Slinky!

Lex, do you have any idea what the tune Marcus played immediately before frontline was? The jumpy electro basaline thing?

The Crazy Cousins one is good as well. Slinky!

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― Hreidarsson The Storm (Matt DC), Saturday, March 7, 2009 6:56 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ooh, haven't heard this

RUNNING TINGS:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=95482502

Anyone got any recommendations for the ravier side of funky? I'm thinking in particular of stuff like Jalla's Turbulence, which is like 50% Township Funk and 50% the Trentemoller remix of What Else Is There. Although not as bombastic as that sounds.

Matt, follow my link!

Though I've not heard "Turbulence" as far as I'm aware.

funky house + township funk = kwaito???

yooooo "head, shoulders, knees n toes" is O_O

other thoughts after one quick run thru of lex's 09 funky zip:

- i continue to enjoy crazy cousinz remixes far more than their own trax
- dunno if the farty horn noise is a new thing recently or not, but i support reggaeton in my funky house
- "party hard" is also great, reminds my n00b ass of those sweet sean paul duets that i love so dearly
- i still think that the faeda rmx of teedra moses is still my fav funky joint of the year tho

i like that the dude who says "i make the bed rock/ yeah like flintstones" actually sounds like a caveman

lex, did you send out a new zip? (and if so, why did I not recieve it?) (I should put together a zip of goodies myself, that seems to be the charitable thing to do nowadays)

Why hasn't "funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this" become a "y'all ready for this" yet?

lex zip ysi

lol whoops

haha u spilled der beans

jacob, sorry, no idea what that track was...

rev check your hotmail

My bad, I did get your first email with it. I think I just opened it at school or something when I couldn't download and forgot about it by the time I got home.

(side question: sic = alex in mtl?)

kit in mngrl

What do you lot think of this Grievous Angel penned mix of mixes? Not a bad starter pack for the uninitiated I reckon (myself included).

here

A decent overview of the more raucous end of the scene - DJ Larizzle's "Strickly Funky 8: The Skanking Season":

http://www.4shared.com/file/89285792/67620a0b/DJ_Larizzle-_Strickly_Funky__8_-_The_Skanking_Season.html

Tracklist:
Sabrina Washington ft. Donaeo - Get Out
Fr3e - Skank, Calm Down
K.I.G ft. Donaeo - Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes Remix
Crazy Cousinz - Inflation
Boy Better Know - Too Many Man
QT - Free To Move
Meleka - Go (Crazy Cousinz Mix)
Apple - Rotten Apple
Tribal Mangz - Tribal Man Skanks (DJ Larizzle Special)
Fuzzy Logic ft. Egypt - In The Morning
Coldsteps ft. Princess - I Will Be There
Roska - In Your Handbag
Donaeo - Party Hard (Anthem Tribal Remix)
Zest - Jump In The Middle And Skank
L.A. - Call Me
Gracious K - Migraine Skank
Donaeo - Love To Happen
Roska - Do You Believe In Love
The Origional Charmer - Arrd Core Skanker (DJ Larizzle Special)
Apple ft. Mr Kaos - Wriggle It
Roska - Climate Change
Fuzzy Logic - The Way You Move
Whytepatch ft. Gift & Miss Teejah - Fresh Air
Terri Walker - Love At First Sight
Cahill - Sex Shooter (Crazy Cousinz Mix)
Mischief - Red Bull Skank (DJ Larizzle Special)
Major Notes - Junglebook

Sabrina Washington ft. Donaeo - Get Out

is this...is that...is that who i think it is!!

Some great stuff I haven't heard before here:

- "The Way You Move" is an awesome piano number a la "Quicktime", "Gallium", "Visions", "Hypnotic"
- the "Anthem Tribal Remix" of "Party Hard" removes "We Belong To The Night" and turns the track into weird darkside gamelan, while "Love To Happen" is a pretty amazing tune that speeds up DJ Gregory's "Don't Panic" exactly like "Migraine Skank" only adds all sorts of amazing little details and effects and motifs.
- "Fresh Air" is amazing widescreen ragga-cum-R&B a la "Girls Like This".
- The rhythmically distended "Red Bull Skank", full of these Skream-like showy stiff snare hits, is probably the kind of sound the scene will plump for if it decisively moves away from house. Reminds of "Midnite Request Line" etc. but in a good way.

x-post - yeah it's Sabrina from Mis-Teeq! Unsurprisingly she sounds a bit shriller than usual here (may just be pitched up). Though actually a lot of their second album tracks were kinda shrill - i'm thinking of "Best Friend". I'm wondering if she's the one doing the patois ad libs here ("blood clart!").

she needs to do something decent after the crap they were going to release for her solo album.

crazy cousinz were pretty great at night slugs last night. was pretty exhausted half an hour before they came on and wondering how i could get through their set but god the energy they brought was spectacular, even if the crowd had thinned by that point. had never heard their jazmine sullivan remix out before, hands in the air.

bokbok played some joker and other 'wonky' earlier too, didn't see any ket heads though.

Lex can you get them to not put this on a fvcking school night next time please?

FaZe - Deep & Funky March Edition 09

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/9490/march01.jpg

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/2392/march02.jpg

Tracklist:

Sacha - Boomerangs (Funky Mix)
Dj Naughty - Firepower
Rudenko - Everybody (Fingaprint Mix)
Kcat - Get Off The Wall (Delio D Cruz Remix)
Fuzzy Logic - The Way You Move
Sia - Little Man (DJ Q Funky Mix)
Invasion Crew - Takeover V.I.P
Kyla - Daydreaming (Crazy Cousinz Remix)
Steve Angello ft Robin S - Show Me Love 2009 (Geeneus Remix)
N.B Funky - Riddem Box
Sabrina Washington - Get Out
Donaeo - Love To Happen
Tina Moore - Never Gonna Let You Go (Code Red Remix)
Ill Blu - Rider
Vman - Sweet Blue
Jalla - Turbulence
P2J ft Shaniqua - Dance With Me (Crazy Cousinz Mix)
Lil Silva - Burning
Dj NG - Show Me Happiness
Fuzzy Logic - Polyfunk
Natalie Walker - Up On You (Sexy Sexy)
Darkus Beat Company - Find The Path
Sweet Boy Candy - Shake What Youve Got
Soul Gypsy - Black Russian
Cahill - Sex Shooter (Crazy Cousinz Mix)
Dj Fonti & Marc Garvey - Horny
Terry Hunter ft Terisa Griffin - Wonderful
Martino ft Sacha - Peace of Heaven (Geeneus Remix)
Mighty Moe - I Believe

Single Tracks (ZIP)
rapidshare: http://rapidshare.com/files/208604394/FAZE-DEEP_FUNKY_MARCH_EDITION.zip
sendspace : http://www.sendspace.com/file/qf8e96
zShare: http://www.zshare.net/download/5697593306a2de07/

Single MP3 (Stream + Download)
zShare: http://www.zshare.net/audio/569580642de46bdd/

!

(btw thanks for that mix, looks excellent)

faze you fuckin hero

Funkystepz's "Trinity Hill" (massive piano number) and "Dancing Scene" (insane 2-steppy xylophone workout) are massive. Love these guys - they seem to master any style they put their hand to. Not sure about their "Just Dance" remix though...

Finally reading this thread this week was a smart idea.

Kyla's Daydreaming is astonishing - a big jump up from Do You Mind.

Wanna hear that. Matt did you ever check the 26 Nov 2008 Marcus Nasty set? With all the DJs? That's probably the most concentrated ravey funky set I can think of.

Jammer's funky track and Lil Silva's "Burning" are probably the most ravey single tracks I can think of outside of "Turbulence".

Fact article here on Kode 9 and why dubstep fans are getting into funky.

Tim - I'm actually downloading it now. Kind of amazed the Sendspace link still works.

I think my somewhat belated love affair with funky stems from the fact that it only takes one rhythmic tweak to work virtually the entire history of dance music* under one umbrella. Pretty sure the producers know this and are having an enormous amount of fun with the myriad possibilities this throws up - how far are we off the appearance of funky trance I wonder? Our Father is most of the way there already.

*Okay maybe not jungle. Lol continuum.

Tranciest (good) funky tune I know is the Arms remix of Tawiah's "Every Step", which steals the trancey riff idea from "Mandarine Girl"/"In White Rooms"/Madonna's "Get Together".

Your general comment though is perhaps the strongest reason for my own enjoyment - that all-embracing ecumenical vibe whereby tricks that would sound tired in their original setting suddenly take on a new life (the unlikely fun-factor of Geeneus's remix of "Show Me Love" is a good example here, although to be honest I always love "Show Me Love" in any setting).

I think there are a lot of tracks, particularly at the "tribal" end, that sound pretty junglistic though. Still don't know the name of the archetypal tribal track that Marcus always plays, the one that sounds like some sort of harvester machine wielding bongos.

The Show Me Love remix was the exact track that made me think that, incidentally, mostly because it appeared in that Faze mix immediately after hands-in-the-air piano house (The Way You Move), no-nonsense minimalist hard house (Takover) and Daydreaming, which is only one step away from being a Body Language bootleg. Funky to me feels most interestly 'read' as a recontextualisation of the past 20 years of house music with a more limber beat that makes it more boozy than druggy - like a reimagining of the way dance music might have progressed if ecstacy had never existed. This might be incredibly wanky but at the same time it might explain why some of the hardcore continuumheads seem to have a problem with this stuff.

That Tawiah track also crossed my mind when I was talking about 'funky trance', I'm not sure it quite fits the sound I'm thinking of though because Arms's own production style is quite chunky and jerky and beat-em-up even when he's being girly.

"more boozy than druggy": maybe part of why I like it a lot?

the funky/champagne connection is as strong as any music/drug relationship there's ever been. bubbly bubbly, so damn bubbly

champagne seemed to be "drug" of choice for UKG during that speed->2 step transitional period '97'98 too

It's funny, because I've been thinking the exact opposite about the this music, that it brings overtly druggy elements back into the continuum. Certainly a lot of the afterparties I was going to two of three years ago were highly drug fuelled, and the audiences and music being played were directly related to the more 'concrete' scene that exists know.

i was THEEERRE

Simply an observation of drug use, still relevant. I give up here now.

naw, that was a good post and I envy your partying

tracks like tell me have always seemed a bit druggy to me.

Fact article here on Kode 9 and why dubstep fans are getting into funky.

― Tim F, Sunday, 15 March 2009 06:15 (2 days ago) Bookmark:

"the seed for funky isn't New York garage, but more dubiously, US house's placeless, post-authentic progeny."

"To less-than-obsessed ears, overlap with common-or-garden varieties generally inspires indifference."

or y'know, house heads

ah man

i think there is too great a range of feeling in funky for one drug connection to explain or define the vibes