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Tom do you think Emvee sounds substantially more bassline-ish than, say, Funkystepz (who incidentally have done the other properly bassline-funky fusion track with "Touch On Me" - but that's not even what I'm thinking)? I agree that there's often a warm deepness to funky that bassline excised a...

Not sure I know of Emvee's (I assume) pre-funky bassline material? I LOVE "Love Charm" though, so ominously sickly sweet. I do agree with this mms - my only claim for commonality amongst them is their status as liminal w/r/t funky. But (and this surprises me in some ways!) the people I know...

Dave once you do that promo mix I'll do a profile of Mos' Wanted based on it - I love both "Different Lekstrix" and "Frozen". Re the bassline influence in UK Funky - well obv not just Screama but also Naughty Raver and Bass Boy are from bassline, and even T2, DJ Q and TS7 have been making a...

Anyway guys you should jump on Hard House Banton's "Peek'n'Duck", massive tune available on this DJ Antman mix "House or Nowhere": http://www.sendspace.com/file/gmcond Based on my limited knowledge this is his most headwreckingly percussive, monolithic effort since "Reign". Mix is pretty good...

TRU_G I was LOLing because it makes sense to me that an Afrojack production and an Untold production might be mistaken for one another. The truth is that a lot of the housey post-dubstep stuff is picking up on influences from stuff like big room Swedish Mafia, Fedde De Grand, Sidney Samson...

What I find interesting about the above is that you've basically got these two strands (post-dubstep house, commercial post-electrohouse) now running pretty much parallel with one another, and yet excepting a couple of tunes/producers who seem to do well in both scenes ("Pon De Floor" / Vato...

Pretty sure that's actually the original version of which "Pon De Floor" is a remix/new version. Kinda LOLing at the fact that I was saying "You know all this Afrojack/Sidney Samson kinda stuff is surprisingly similar to UK funky at times" at the same point in the thread that you were thinking...

Oh I missed that one - one UK funky track then. And a great one! Yeah Dan I don't know that it's that common? I've only ever heard Footloose play it. Massive tune.

No funky either though Tom, to be fair.

The Greyman remix of "Lions, Tigers & Bears" is A+. It's funny how THE R&B divas in UK funky are Teedra and Jazmine - must be their mix of full-bodied soulfulness with contemporary R&B mores. One way you can tell the difference between UK funky and "future garage" not merely by the beats is by...

What a disaster for Deadboy that he has to suffer imaginary Tim F slings and arrows. People worried about feeling the full force of my critical ba(n)ton, chill: you're conflating my irritation at dismissive or non- coverage of the stuff I love with some imagined rage at coverage of stuff I like...

I actually rather like the original "Riverside", that Lil Silva remix is so weak though. Dude's remixes almost always have that zero-effort vibe to them though. Funnily enough a fair amount of Sidney Samson productions already sound very UK Funky-ish. There's a decent article to be written on...

That's a very rude list of tracks Andy. Enjoying the Ossie stuff too - the R&B stuff most of all though!

Jimi, here are some awesome 2009 UK Funky tracks readily available for purchase as standalone MP3: Crazy Cousinz - Inflation Royal P - Between Us Ill Blu - Time To Get Nasty Skepta - Lush (Fuzzy Logik Remix) Delerious - Truthful 321 - Bring It Back (Ill Blu Remix) Fuzzy Logik - In The Morning...

Ha ha, not as far as I'm aware, but I'm hoping the fact that "House Girls" suddenly seems to be cropping up everywhere again is a sign that it's about to be released.

Dan I liked your piece and agree with you about skank dances. Pretty sure that Marcus Nasty's complaints are limited to untested MCs jumping on other producers' instrumental tracks without permission and doing half-hearted jobs of it. He plays a fair amount of skank tunes (e.g. Black Biscuit's...

Not really related except in the sense Luka notes - more specifically I'd say that the audience for the two appears to be the same or substantially the same i.e. the same people who enthuse about Bok Bok/Mosca/Greena/etc. to me also enthuse about Cooly G/Roska/Scratcha DVA/Kode9's funky tunes...

Also, yes, baltimore is the resemblance that was escaping me. That particular beat does appear in UK Funky tunes actually but almost always buried under a latticework of percussion, what distinguishes Bok Bok and similar tunes is how the beat becomes the central rhythmic structure.

Point taken Martin - as I've said I'm not remotely critical of the release policy of Night Slugs (making harsh judgments based on one release would be a bit presumptuous at any rate).

Tom I wonder if I'm just boring everyone at this stage and should not respond, but since you raise the issue: I don't think anyone would claim that Bok Bok is working against funky or anything, obviously Night Slugs pushes funky about as hard as any not-out'n'out-funky night could. Beyond that...