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Feeling serious envy.

Hard for me to go past the awesome shudder of the original, but yes, the Scottie D remix is reliably great! Also the Mista Bee remix!

Sadly I suspect their versatility ultimately will trend against them becoming "feted" in any way outside the scene-proper - to get a rep it seems you need to have a production style that is immediately identifiable at ten paces, which producers like Crazy Cousinz, Roska, Ill Blu, Cooly G, Lil'...

This time last year I was saying that I felt like there was a bit of a division between the soft, straightforward, housey vocal tracks and the harder, syncopated instrumental tunes. I feel like that gap (if it existed) has closed a lot since then, and the habit of versioning has been a big part...

Yeah I know. I think about all the wasted hours I spend cross-referencing track names and producers on funky sets and imagine what I could have achieved with my life if I'd spent that time doing other stuff. BUT it's worth it to be able to say that my favourite of the elusive new Funkystepz...

That "Thriller" track on the Petchy set!!

Sami Sanchez - What ... unsurprisingly!

Just want to say that - having finally allowed myself to listen to it - the Petchy set is huge. I love that he starts with Seb Chu's "You Got Me", that's one of my favourite vocal tracks. But yeah the best bits probably are the hard MC sections. Also major props to Andy for bringing the...

Thoughts on Funkystepz: http://getphysical.blogspot.com/2010/02/funkystepz-first-time-i-heard-funky.html

i'm all up for repping for the underdog but the cynicism on this thread is astounding. when i hear funky on rinse i don't rate its usually the kind of anyHouse, waste-vocal, tepid mediocrity certain people wee themselves hyping to the max... For the record Blackdown I was being sarcastic when I...

Rinse may be old hat now but people should get on Funkystepz's sets - 5 February set in particular has some killer dubs. Don't know how these guys (or is it one dude? It's never exactly clear) make so many amazing tracks, though in fairness I'd say only 2 out of 3 of their (seemingly endless...

Yeah I think what is quite noticeable about Sully is precisely that solidity that you mention - the drums really bang. I think a lot of this stuff really is post-Burial to the extent that the 2-steppy beats are deliberately light, flimsy even, presumably so as to maximise the music's delicate...

Martin on one level this is absolutely correct - as I said earlier, we tend to apply "frames" to music that "hears" what the music is doing on a strictly sonic level in different ways depending on our assumptions about the artist and their intentions. BUT my experience is that almost all of the...

Yes, absolutely, and I think this is definitely a point worth emphasising given the usual desire of younger listeners to claim that "now is the best time to be alive" - except that I'm not sure that, post-jungle, this has ever been the case with this cluster of genres (with the possible...

I don't want to turn this thread into yet another referendum on "what I think", but: Martin, as I said in the UK thread, the distinction is musical, not class-based. As far as I know, the dudes behind Funkystepz went to Eton (they probably didn't obv, but I can't say for sure...). What...

1) Yes. I'm doing a piece on them at the moment but the following tracks at least are all grand: "Funky Sound", "Trinity Hill", "Gamechip", "For You", "Malibu". They also have a fair number of tracks that are just okay though ("It's Over", "Sounds In Moruga", "Touch On Me"), which may be because...

No I don't think Terra Danjah counts as "deep" really. Basically "deep" almost always means heightening the resemblance to one of the following: - deep house - detroit techno - basic channel So if you wanted to make "deep" 2-step the archetypal reference points are Horsepower Productions and...

I simply don't know the class background of producers so I don't make assumptions about it. Terms like "effete" seem a bit too loaded IMO, especially when it comes to instrumental beat heavy dance music. It makes more sense to me to use terms like "serious", "abstract", "deep", high production...

Blackdown's recent interview with OneMan suggests that it's "common ground" that a good deal of OneMan's success lies in his old UKG selections effectively being "dubplates" given so much of the audience never would have heard them before. Obv OneMan's own knowledge is pretty deep and...

NB. I'm not having a go at Whistla - it's good that he has an honest and worked out idea of what he likes, even if I feel very differently obv. It's interesting too b/c funky kinda revives basically everything about uk garage EXCEPT its specific beat matrix. Whereas "future garage" seems in...