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Love that tune. Not sure what it is but it's a remix of (or samples) Jamelia's "I Do".

A belated holy shit @ Funkystepz remix of "We Found Love"...

It's easy to read too much into micro-developments. Six months ago it seemed like MN was in danger of going boring trad deep tribal house, now he seems to be too bombastic and bass-driven, back in early 2009 he went through a period of deliberately cluttering his sets with unusually tepid...

There has been a trend for big, dumb (I mean that descriptively not judgmentally) bassline-driven tunes over the past few months actually. But funky will not follow the same trajectory as dubstep if only because the scene qua scene will never cross over in that way. Look at any online forum...

Martin I meant it's hard to be upset when you don't really expect standards-maintenance in the first place. It's not like Jook10 is reliable.

I hardly think the UKF border guards will be crying into their jagerbombs over anything Jook10 does really.

Spot on description of Fuzzy's beats, Benny.

The Casanova remix is excellent, really really grows on you after repeated listens. The beat is so relentless and compulsive that the singing has to just get out of the way somewhat which makes it seem less erm anthemic to begin with, but it ultimately really works as like, freestyle, or something.

2-step is back sorta, a lot of it as an outgrowth of the bassline scene - e.g. DJ Q plays a lot of this stuff. What interests me is that (Dem 2 aside) the sound that has been revived is garage at its most artificial and sugary and 2000-pop-crossover primed, the foundational text seems to be the...

Check stuff like Dillon Francis' "Mastablasta" and Munchi's "Hope". Not original tracks but also more fully fleshed than just edits: Releaserpm - Win Win (Nadastrom Remix) Toddla T - Take It Back (Dillon Francis Remix) There's heaps more in both categories but I'm focusing on the stuff I...

Um. The scene is like 2 years old and has heaps of original tracks. It's only blown up media-wise in the last 6 months due to Dave Nada's comp for Diplo's label (which is about two thirds original tracks).

Yes, let's not run down Roska by implying that he's only just falling off now.

"beware of sounding like an ipod shuffle" is an important injunction for any and all DJs, I think.

Probably the most pernicious binary is the one between binaries or their lack: as if the self-evident truth that a theory of music or set of aesthetic preferences cannot explain all that is good about music necessitates their abandoment in favour of pure flux. Most of the things talked about...

The context of all of this is people, especially on this board, saying he was totally out of it for having certain opinions. It seems a legitimate (though mildly petty) move to point to "anonymous" arguments on this board that appear to take the same line. OTOH getting a seemingly supportive...

Astonished and appalled that someone would use this argumentative tactic. What next, cherrypicking pieces of music that suit his argument too?

Yeah! Most people who engage in the sort of "this is good, that is bad" dichotomy-driven polemics are wrong much more than half the time; SR's strike rate is pretty good by comparison.

I bet when SR was slagging off progressive house and raising up hardcore/jungle etc back in the early to mid 90s there would have been people (rightly) saying "hang on, he clearly hasn't actually heard all the stuff he's slagging, this (insert Leftfield or Underworld or etc) tune totally bangs...

Funky doesn't have a fundamentally different BPM, the beat matrix is different but the BPM is the same spread as Garage, 125-135 in the main fair call, I wrote that to talk about the beat matrix then inserted BPM at the end - still, I tend to think garage is clustered around 132-135 while...

Funky has a fundamentally different beat matrix and bpm though. You could just as easily talk about the various sub-genres of funky - vocal, dark, housey, MC-based etc.