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I think I kind of agree with dubversion here. Funky house from what I can tell just seems to encompass lots of things I really don't like in music. That doesn't mean I'm against fun and exuberance and licks for the ladies. I'm prepared to change my mind if someone can send me some decent pills and cocaine for the weekend.
send me your address and a money order for $350 dollars. i'll hook you up.
and i'll hook everyone else up for free if they lighten up and understand that, when it comes to big picture thinking and contextualizing your own obsessions, grime and dubstep are very very obscure. so obscure, in fact, that 99.9999999999% people outside of the U.K.--hell, outside of London--have no idea what it is.
house has been around since the glory days in Chicago/Detroit, it's here to stay, and everyone's heard it even if they couldn't identify it by name.
woebot is right, it seems to me.
from an american perspective, people from the U.K. seem to get awfully pious about grime and dubstep (i'm basing this from what i've noticed on the internet, of course), which only detracts from its appeal and any gritty "cred"--in the U.S., grime and dubstep are seen as sort of whimpier degraded forms of hip-hop, though admittedly that's not right either.
maybe "minimal" guys aren't rabid devotees, but i appreciate how they seem to care most about music on that abstract level of sonics, they seem content to go make it and do their drugs and have an experience that doesn't need any further justification, and doesn't have to make some bid to "greatness."