i've not fallen off you bellend, i'm standing up for what i hear and what i believe in.
falling off is pretending you always were into house and techno really, when house and techno were invented in the 80s, if not before. falling off is being into grime then acting like house is a new invention, when in fact it's just the case that you didn't bother to listen to it before 2009 but fashion tells you that you now can.
who is pretending to have always loved house and techno? what is wrong with having listened to grime and then moving onto house in 2009 when grime had been dead for a year already? you do realise when your main genre goes bust u have to look for new music that gets u going right?
falling off is saying "oh, well i like the nuum and this is where the nuum community are taking drugs, ergo i must like it" while turning off my ears.
i haven't commented on this music + drugs sidebar because it's so irrelevant and entirely fabricated/imagined. in due respect i dnt think anyone is pushing this logic apart from the people actively trying to get into the sound e.g. forcing e.g. you
my opinions are concentrated around the stuff i do now because people and sounds i rated got so mediocre i got up off my arse and found people who were hungry to collaborate with. if 2step 2.0 or uk funky 2.0 was happening now i'd be enthusing about that too but instead everyone wants to be Jamie Jones.
so it's ok to rehash sounds as long as they're long established UK ones, always looking forward ye. where were you for uk funky 1.0? ive read that funky topic start to end and believe you me the johnny come lately shit is immense
newsflash randomer untold joe kode9 beneath mosca martyn even ill blu to an extent = not funky.
I'm not against it, I just can't laud it: it's just a house variant. I recognise it is big, of the moment & has potential for the future, but if this truly the next UKG, right now please tell me one tune from this scene that can look "31 seconds" or "Destiny" or "I Luv U" or "LFO" or "Do you mind" in the eye? Just one.
the music's really good, if you're closing your ears to it you're missing out on some of the best music in the UK at the moment.
But pretending like house music is anything other than comfort food for ravers isn't going to help either...
u think when any of these tunes came out people said this is a genre defining moment, a timeless classic, or they just said this is a banger. or was it not till a year or 2 or 5 down the line that they clocked they were still saying its banger and it took on that status?
the latest mark radford show on rinse is absolutely brilliant and, it has to said, totally nuumy like doom is describing. Remixes of little man, 31 seconds, full on speed garage tracks, late 90s dnb sounding ones. His own productions with False Identity are wicked too. Best set i've heard out of this scene so far.
my opinions are concentrated around the stuff i do now because people and sounds i rated got so mediocre i got up off my arse and found people who were hungry to collaborate with. if 2step 2.0 or uk funky 2.0 was happening now i'd be enthusing about that too but instead everyone wants to be Jamie Jones.
so it's ok to rehash sounds as long as they're long established UK ones, always looking forward ye. where were you for uk funky 1.0? ive read that funky topic start to end and believe you me the johnny come lately shit is immense
newsflash randomer untold joe kode9 beneath mosca martyn even ill blu to an extent = not funky.
Pros of funky, to me:
· It's an exciting new urban London movement.
· It from the same communities that gave you dubstep and grime, and before that jungle and garage.
· It's feminine, percussive and rhythmically interesting: things dubstep and grime are failing at right now.
· All the grime youngers are jumping on it, turning it darker.
· It is mutating rapidly.
Cons of funky, to me:
· Parts of it sound like any mainstream 4x4 house tunes. I've not been exited about 4x4 house since 1997.
· Getting exited by a sound you said you didn't like before just because it's hype is a bit fake.
· Parts of it sound like any broken beat. I've not been exited about any broken beat since Bugz in The Attic's (incredible) Fabric mix CD.
On the other side, can people not see how it's pretty disappointing that in the long history of UK bass music, the latest development, the thing people are going nuts for in East London is now... house? I mean, yeah I know every time a new genre comes along people say it's 'just house'. Garage, funky, jackin etc. But it seems with each generation the difference between the UK flavour and whatever international strand of house it came out of (NYC garage house, US/Euro funky house, electro/fidget/big room deep house) seems to be getting smaller and smaller.
There is something very anti-climatic about it as far as a head-on rush into the future goes.
But pretending like house music is anything other than comfort food for ravers isn't going to help either...
Most times, an anthem's usually big around the time of release.u think when any of these tunes came out people said this is a genre defining moment, a timeless classic, or they just said this is a banger. or was it not till a year or 2 or 5 down the line that they clocked they were still saying its banger and it took on that status?
Most times, an anthem's usually big around the time of release.
Like he said Do You Mind, that was getting rinsed hard around the time it came out, didn't take it a year or two to build up momentum to become what it is.
Or even how bassline had Heartbroken by T2 or Delinquent - My Destiny, both had something about them which didn't take a year to build up to.
ere goes mate.need to put a tracklist together for this set.
wouldn't be nice if there was some radical head-fuck spaceage dancefloor duppying rave music rather than a London take on house.
with deep tech we're not even talking about a new sound pallet, as much as just a new vibe.
I still find the deep tech stuff a bit samey and can't listen to a full set of it.