The undying cult of the soulboy. This is what third is trying to ward off with his invocations of ghetto house etc. But it's there at the very heart of the Great British House Establishment.
You hate soulboy culture, what's new?
Imo JN is nowhere near 'the heart' of UK house culture
You could add grubby, sheeny sleeve 'art' of bikini clad nymphs, egotism, outright crimes against art, drive-thru culture. Cocaine, more cocaine, about as soulful as a sock.
No one is to 'blame'. It's just one of these great sea-ports people dock at. It could be way worse. The U.K. has soulboys. America and Australia have 'classic rock'.
You could add grubby, sheeny sleeve 'art' of bikini clad nymphs, egotism, outright crimes against art, drive-thru culture. Cocaine, more cocaine, about as soulful as a sock.
lol let's not start necroing threads where everyone bigs up Pechy and Marcus Nasty playing the most bait beatport stuff. yeah man, so fresh.
This is always where i part with your london nuum boys.
Jungle, best music in the world. Garage, fantastic, grime, great for a few years. Dubstep, had its shining moments if you dig deep. bassline, fuckin let's 'av it.
But UK funky house? Spare me. that genre got better when the mcs got involved and then everyone was like nah this is causing too much trouble back to tech house we go.
But to discount JN from UK house culture is a bit short sighted. I don't even like him but that side of watered down soulful house does have a lineage in the UK, a lineage far more adjacent in the hardcore continuum, as much as people would like to disown it. But of course not everything affiliated with the hardcore continuum is inherently good, far from it in fact.
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With garage it seemed the break from 4/4 to a half-step, with an mc front & middle, pulled in a blingy, wannabe rude-boy element, who through sheer stupidity managed to ruin a lot of nights out. It drew a lot of hardcore people in because the bass work is so consuming at quality volumes, plus the ladies.
I worked for a PA company for too long & the gradual transition over to promotions with 2 step were marked by a spike in bell end idiot punters, too many anecdotes, compounded by a lot of the jocks appearing to revel in it. Champagne, cognac & crack. There's sketchy & then there's prostitution rings, heroin suppliers, public school Nigerians throwing money everywhere before being picked up by a diplomatic dispatch team. Not slighting the music, but the promotional operators involved could be sick cunts, found that impossible to respect. There's masses of good music at that intersection of 4/4 & half step that have both signatures though. Todd Edwards & Grant Nelson will always feature here. A mate is obsessed with this world, his job meant he got every promo worth a damn & he sold masses of 2 step recently. If you're a buyer i could grip a list, there's masses of it & he's knee deep in covid patients these days so no rush either.
edit - this fit in somewhere above
With garage it seemed the break from 4/4 to a half-step, with an mc front & middle, pulled in a blingy, wannabe rude-boy element, who through sheer stupidity managed to ruin a lot of nights out. It drew a lot of hardcore people in because the bass work is so consuming at quality volumes, plus the ladies.
I worked for a PA company for too long & the gradual transition over to promotions with 2 step were marked by a spike in bell end idiot punters, too many anecdotes, compounded by a lot of the jocks appearing to revel in it. Champagne, cognac & crack. There's sketchy & then there's prostitution rings, heroin suppliers, public school Nigerians throwing money everywhere before being picked up by a diplomatic dispatch team. Not slighting the music, but the promotional operators involved could be sick cunts, found that impossible to respect. There's masses of good music at that intersection of 4/4 & half step that have both signatures though. Todd Edwards & Grant Nelson will always feature here. A mate is obsessed with this world, his job meant he got every promo worth a damn & he sold masses of 2 step recently. If you're a buyer i could grip a list, there's masses of it & he's knee deep in covid patients these days so no rush either.
Love the two step. West end raves maybe sketchy if you're not into that but loads of smaller local stuff that was just young people having a laugh in their church shoes.