thanks ach!!
what's this Spoek Mathambo mix?
grunky!
Dego and Seiji make broken beat rather than straight up house and broken beat seems like a little, somewhat insular genre tangential to the main flow of the continuum and mocked by many for its self-contained tastefulness (not me).
that fuzzy logik tune in the morning (?) that marcus nastys played a few times is proper BB influenced imo.
As noted earlier in the thread, Alex Phountzi from Bugz is one half of Green Money.
Seiji's remix of Jazmine Sullivan is much more raw than Crazy Cousinz'.
Broadcite have a show on Rinse now, don't they?
I think there was an element of self-sabotage in the Broken Beat scene. A lot of them had been around a while and had perhaps been through the processes of other scenes (like drum and bass), so I got the impression most of them fought against the idea of being a "Broken Beat DJ" or "Broken Beat Producer". So there are very few landmark Broken Beat mixes. People like Seiji and the Bugz never put out a whole album of their big Broken Beat bangers. Things would have perhaps been different if such things had happened.
Bugz did a mix CD for Breakin' Point magazine too. I'll try and up it. Quite a bit of crossover with their Fabric mix though.
funky is prob good for BB's image (if you buy into the 'continuum must only be made by ppl living in estates' thing) - makes it seem like its being 'validated' and not just something for ageing b-boys/'classy' jazz-funkateers etc. id personally like to see guys like IG, or kaidi do some funky, though i doubt they will - might make them do some more 'immediate' sounding tracks. what ive heard from kaidi lately seems a lot more traditional, not really much going on in the way of BB rhythms or programming, which is a shame.
and Goya - their Ammunition - has long since closed down
Yeah - better to keep Funky on that raw gutter grimey street shit like Crazy Cousinz remixes of Shontell.
No, broken beat isn't really nuum, which shows the (admitted) limitations of the model. It doesn't cover everything, never tried to!
1. how well the nuum does for core movements (ukg, grime, hardcore, jungle) but how badly it copes with offshoots (broken beat, dubstep, w*nky etc). i say 'cope,' what tends to happen is because it doesnt cope it pushes them away, when in fact it should have provision to accept them as edge cases
Some funky DJs seem to play the housier end of broken beat. Reckon it's due for a resurgence
BTW, 2562's background isn't garage, it's broken beat.
early days, but i might conceivably be able to get into ghetts' finally if funky beats force him to slow down a bit.. lol
the attitude in funky, on the pirates from the mcs is amazingly different and refreshing compared to the war reports of grime and the in jokes and hosting toasting of dubstep.
the return of pretty, stush girls and some right old characters to plastic people thru beyond was great too, seeing girls rush the floor for certain tunes, stuff like 'frontline' and 'do you mind' as well, that return of feminine energy, is great, darkness, gets very dull very quickly as by it's nature it needs to be balanced with colour, else it can't exist, so the current balance is great.
hints right too, west london lot were breaking up house way before north east and bedford got on it, although course this stuff is after grime while the west london stuff is after garage.
2562 told me his main background was broken beat when I interviewed him for woofah
tom c is a brilliant bloke and a brilliant producer, dying for him to do some broken funky. Might send him some bits to get started
does anyone know who made that tune that samples lfo yet?
yeah some broken beat was a bit jazz noddles but some of it was hard sweaty and raw and could tear up any dance.
eg http://www.last.fm/music/afro+force/_/goza+(dub+mix)
cant find a better link for this.
funky needs more dancehall vibes imo, both vocally and riddimatically
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2562 told me his main background was broken beat when I interviewed him for woofah
tom c is a brilliant bloke and a brilliant producer, dying for him to do some broken funky. Might send him some bits to get started