Thing is with that Original Face tune the ideas are headfucky and all over the place... just like grime in it's early days. That tune moves it on from anything after Hyph Mngo but injects a huge amount of energy into the mix which is what young producers like Original Face do best.
The ideas are all over the place? what ideas? where?
Just like Grime in it's early days......Injects a huge amount of energy?????
I didn't get any of this, there didn't seem to be any new ideas, the beats were clunky, the wonky synths were stale and weren't even that wonky, the vocal sounds like it comes from a mainstream sample cd. The synths don't even sound 'neon' in the way the best of this genre can, they just sound cheap and preset, certainly not euphoric.
@Blackdown i'd have to check your tracklists to give you names but this tune just seemed to sum up a lot of my frustration with the times i've listened to your show recently.
You say you still play UK Garage, Grime, & Funky so i'm sure you must but whenever i've downloaded a show I turn it off after about 10 minutes as the tunes sound a lot like this one and I just can't take it.
This may well be a frustration with the scene in general so don't take it too personally. I was just pretty surprised that you would rate a tune like that enough to play it/post it on here.
What I enjoyed about your show in the past was the variety and the consistent quality of the tunes, I picked up a lot of pointers on Dubstep, Grime stuff i'd missed and particularly 2-step from you boys.
I've spent the last year following these pointers deep into proper old UK Garage, amassing a big collection of tunes, which has been amazing as I missed most of it first time around.
Conversely new music seems to have become less and less interesting.
Apart from people like Mala & Kode 9 most of the stuff i've been buying has been Juke or Funky.
But even within Funky there aren't that many tunes that really nail it.
Ossie's great but his recent Sonic Router mix veered a bit too close to Trad House for me which is a shame as he does a great slinky rhythm section.
I don't have a long list of producers that I think are being ignored in favour of this stuff, i'd just rather listen to great old music than new average music.
That Jaques Green track that was posted upthread sounds like fairly mainstream balearic house from a few years back to me.
Maybe this is gradual drift into complete mediocrity is what the scene needs for a new wave of rawness to rear it's head and bite back.
I certainly hope so