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Yeah the "soca beat" in late 2-step was six beats per bar - kick kick snare kick kick snare. It'd be fun to trace a history of this, especially as it rose up through slightly more obscure tunes like Steve Gurley's remix of "Neighbourhood" and then suddenly was everywhere in 2001 (Agent X, yeah...

What was the excuse last summer.

I think it's a historical error to conflate 2-step's popular success with the presence of bass. First, remember there was a 2 year lag between the first 2-step tunes (stuff like Anthill Mob's "Set You Free", Dem 2's "Destiny", Amira's "My Desire", Dreem Teem's "The Theme") and chart crossover...

Not a value statement, but I think what you're saying Jimi was more true 12 months ago than it is now. There's much less talk of funky and post-dubstep merging than there used to be. By and large, non-funky-listeners aren't even interested in "funkstep" now that "uk house" (or "uk bass", or...

Marcus plays the VIP of Mosca's "Square One" a lot. Pearson Sound's "Wad" obv. The Doc Daneeka remix of "Fatherless" sounds like a straight UK funky tune to me really, it's not really different in feel to Seiji remixing "Chekere Son" or MJ Cole's "Volcano Riddim" (though obv there's an irony...

To keep this in perspective, people like Funkystepz obviously have made great strides of late in terms of making their music accessible via digital download, but it's not like that has resulted in a tidal wave of media support (though Tom it was great that you profiled them for your 2011...

I was really pleased to see "House Girls 1" get a write up in the FACT list but it was weird seeing it treated liked an anthem of 2010, including in the blurb. Which is at least in part because you couldn't buy a non-dubplate version until 2010, obv, but it underlined the weird disconnect...

Actually it's been on ukfunky.com for about 2 years. Its appearance on bleep now suggests that ukfunky.com (which hasn't updated in ages) is history.

I was startled to hear Wretch 32's "Traktor (The Mike Delinquent Project Remix)", which is basically a straight 2-step track that you might have heard in, oh 2001 say - roughly comparable to "Boom Selection" et. al. This was on DJ Q's show on 1xtra, nominally a mixture of all (street)...

Hyping circle/dubbage as "the next big thing" just seems odd to me, a bit like caring about "funky" back in 2005. There's nothing in the music to distinguish it from a Jerome Sydenham DJ set from five years ago (and hasn't been for the 3 years of the scene's existence to date). That might change...

I have wondered this frequently myself.

Deep Roller EP is thoroughly essential.

I adore the Paleface remix of "Pleasure" as well.

No, it's Seany B formerly of More Fire Crew. Pretty sure I've told you this before Martin but you refuse to believe me!

Haha, it's possible there's more than one Tim F out there... Yeah I've been wondering about that tune for about a month now.

Interested to hear how people do actually consume this stuff. I've read so many people explain their disinterest in listening to radio sets (I'm not talking about your comment above corpsey) on the basis that they don't have the patience to sit and listen to 2 hour radio sets. To which I always...

Both are worthwhile. If you're getting individual tracks I'd say the keepers are "For U", "Whispers" and "Malibu". I adore "Leave With You" in the mix but as a standalone track it gets a bit repetitive. I wouldn't describe these tracks as the antithesis of "Fuller"/"Hurricane Riddim" - they're...

The Naughty remix of "Seasick" is 2009 also I think. Yeah it's fabulously garagey. Luka check the "Follow Me" remix if you haven't already!!

Yeah sorry that was a typo re Emvee - I got it off ukfunky.com too. "Tease Me (After Dark Mix)" is also available on ukfunky.com... Miss Fire's "It's You" and "Can't Say No" were other oversights. I think of "Falling" as 2009, and don't really know about "Take Off Your Clothes" but I'm pretty...

Drake remix was a total oversight! It was in my top twenty originally. And lr groove's 'black up' in the top fifty.