Yeah, I was wondering what you guys have meant by funky house all this time because I only know this kind. Does anybody have a link to a streaming radio station, or dj/producer myspace where where I could hear some of this "urbance" funky house stuff? (..or is it not actually a genre but an eclectic mix style of electro house, garage, etc?) I don't think we have anything like funky house here in the U.S.
i asked the
same damn question a while ago
never got a fully satisfactory answer, but liked these answers best =
logan sama said, "it's like a bastard amalgam of Hed Kandi and Defected [though this part doesn't sound so good]. You will hear broken beat, afrobeat, deep house and electro all in one set. It is a scene in so much as it is just a bunch of places playing a type of music.
It's not dissimilar to the original Levan ethos of just playing whatever the fuck you like.
Oh, and gangsters go there with guns and coke and sometimes get in disputes outside."
matt mason said, "My point is, UKG garage was truly amazing as a scene when it was still the really small Sunday scene, 94, 95, 96, when it was largely ignored by the media. The 2-step era produced some great music, and while I personally thought it was a great scene, but a lot of the pioneers were already really disillusioned with it even then - I remeber Cliff the Hat, founder of London Underground FM, quitting the scene in 1998 because it was already too commercial and unrecognisable to him. I didn't get it at the time. By the time I'd heard Champagne Dance, I could sympathize.
"Funky house has been really great for the last few years, and of course it will change as it gets more popular, and I'm sure some great music will be made. But funky house got popular because people wanted to get away from fenced off, franchisable sounds like 2-step, grime etc, and get back to a type of clubbing where DJs can be truly diverse and eclectic and play all sorts of stuff, and the focus is on creating a vibrant underground scene rather than creating a defined, marketable sound that might "blow up". And perversly, that's why it has blown up."
ANYWAY, what's the address of rinse fm these days??? i should probably start tuning in
as for my own position, i'm basically an 79/93 (89/92 concentration) man -- largely for same reasons as woebot advances in his post -- i.e., italo house next to hip house next to deep house next to early hardcore, all the best flavors, whatever moves the floor
i couldn't get into grime, but i do enjoy hearing dubstep out from time to time -- hearing loefah play was one of my better musical experiences of recent years, and i definitely want to hit dave q's dubwar next time he does one
all in all, i sympathize with what appears to be the culture and vibe of the london funky house djs, as described by matt mason. but i still haven't any real notion of what this music sounds like