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I'm not sure why the radio set itself isn't "the standalone creation" (produced in collaboration like so much great art). It's only a problem if you're thinking of great music in terms of "greatest 12 inches of the year". But then I guess my perspective on this is coloured by the fact that 99%...

I can see how this is an issue commercially, but not creatively. Really you could map this onto any "underground" music that makes aesthetic choices which run counter to commercial success. Actually the 12 October Ill Blu set on Rinse is a slamming argument against my claim re the redundancy...

YES. This is by far the best possible outcome imaginable (I mean, I'd love for them to release "Lovers" and "Whispers" too but it wouldn't work for a hyperdub release). This'll be one of the singles of whichever year it emerges in. People who haven't heard "Hurricane Riddim" are in for a treat.

Actually "Yellowtail" seems relatively tool-ish to me though not at all in a bad way - I would say it was pretty influential! Although it's not like it was the only 07/08 track to sound like that. The tunes that (weirdly) no one talks about it but I think are a really telling example of where...

I mean the "African Warrior" instrumental there obviously.

For the record, the only reason I raised the "African Warrior" remix is that I remember how many times I read/heard people say "oh yeah some of this funky stuff is actually good, I really like that "African Warrior" tune though I hate the vocal version", so I chuckled in recognition when I saw...

a) the "African Warrior" vocal is great, recognise; b) it's "rolling with my stick in my hand", and obv "stick" does not mean what you think it means, it's not about african tribes except as a play on words; c) marcus used to alternate between the vocal and the instrumental, which is what he...

Soul Jazz using the instrumental of "African Warrior" on their comp is such an archetypal example of this that it's almost amusing, like if I'd been asked to write a fake Bill Drummond style guide on how to sell funky as safe for curator types my number 1 instruction would have been to include...

If it's Topsee over a tune with a ratatat military snare pattern and timestretched vocals and organ stabs, then it's "House Girls Part One". From memory doesn't the Topsee version switch briefly to Hardhouse Banton's "Reign" as well? As I said, maybe they've switched it up.

That's Mad One's "House Girls Part One", unless they've done a new version recently that I haven't heard of. Martin, I think I am saying 2010 beats 2009, though not by any substantial margin. I think I've just heard many more super amazing radio sets this year, whereas last year I was more...

Yeah DJ Champion should not be forgotten! Oversight on my part. Mr Mageeka needs to provide DJs with more tunes. Apart from "Different Lekstrix" the only ones I've stumbled across outside his myspace are "De Congo" and "Fire", neither of which set my world alight. Whatever happened to...

This is a bit misleading. All of the DJs are playing wavs or (at least) 320s. If you're actually listening to the radio live (rather than via MP3) then the sound quality of funky is the same as for any other dance genre on radio (assuming a decent signal of course) - and that has been the way...

"Lazy" only if the standard is "music that can be treated as discrete artistic artifacts." But heaps and heaps of dance music styles follow this pattern, it's probably the rule rather than the exception. The average amount of variation or internal development in a funky production is greater...

That was for Martin obv.

Actually the way in which yr argument re Night Slugs, Blunted Robots, Oneman etc might make sense to me is that it seems like all of the DJs who are playing that stuff are playing less funky this year than last year... But surely this is primarily because percussive 130bpm post-dubstep was what...

Just this year, off the top of my head, there's been: The Fives - It's What You Do Screama & Farah - Kiss Me/I Won't Lose Devine Collective - House Girls 6 Funkystepz - Lovers Ill Blu - Meltdown Devine Collective - People Keep Dancing Funkystepz - Lovers Roll Deep - Green Light (Ill Blu Remix)...

Totally disagree obvs, unless you mean "plateau" in the sense that with funky 2010 is as strong as 2009 is as strong as 2008. If you're looking for ostentatiously future-music thrills then funky isn't going to do this any more than 2-step did - in that it does it (speaking of which did anyone...

This passes for a zing these days huh.

Also also, can't speak for Tim but I'm happy for Funkystepz to get a release on Hyperdub if it means that more people find out about/listen to them plus keeps people interested in UKF generally. Although maybe they'll have already released it by then, I think Fuller would be a good choice of...

"Terror" has already been released, you can download it from juno.