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TJ Cases gets unfairly associated with The Dreem Teem's abortive attempt to clean up garage in late 2000 when they championed his supa-smoove (but lovely) "Dedicated To Love" over Oxide & Neutrino/So Solid et. al. But actually he had some of the most astonishing darkside garage releases of...

Also Crazy Cousinz's "Always Be Mine".

I think it's a bit premature to start predicting the death of the credible funky MC - "Bound For Da Reload" hardly made a great case for serious garage MCing but look what it ultimately led to. At any rate I think trying to read the dance tunes in grime or quasi-grime terms skews things a bit...

Ach thank you for the Mak 10/Shantie set! The second track - a funky remix of J-Will's "Deja Vu", I think - is AMAZING.

Also, I agree with this completely - I was thinking more of the people who are still complaining about funky now and wanting it to be more like, say, the last Kode9 single. My own taste tends to gravitate towards the more banging stuff, tunes like Funkystepz's "My Sound", Perempay & Dee's "Buss...

Craner I agree with your last post re counties and satellites, but still... Would I be wrong to say that the continuum, while not always restricted to East London, always requires the support of East London. I don't think that's true of any other area. Basically my thesis (as an outsider obv)...

In my view the notion of "hardcore continuum" is pretty useless unless its only qualifying requirement is "this is the music that runs things in East London" - all other forms of continuity flow from that really. But yes, I think that funky has to be seen as something of a reset button...

Referencing Theo Parrish kinds distorts the issue I think - he's further away from the mainstream of house than funky (even Lil' Silva) is. There's a lot of quality US house that funky pretty openly draws from - not just early MAW but late MAW ("Work" from 2001 is a big adopted funky track)...

The two funky tracks that I've heard that make me think of The Black Dog are Aphrodisiax's "Unfinished Business" and Bearfoot Monk's "Wearwolf". Less Black Dog-ish but Dub Boy's "Funky Underground" is also a fantastic example of how out-there funky's rhythms can get. Gumdrops I think you're...

While the US house that funky draws on does cross over with US garage (Ferrer, Quentin Harris etc.) there's a lot of (US even) house that gets played in funky sets that has nothing to do with garage - and it's a really broad range from Claude Von Stroke's "Who's Afraid of Detroit" to Suge's "We...

Yes I love that one - Gurley in pop mode!

Representing for my bubblin' crews: (I've described this tune as standing at the very centre of my entire aesthetic universe) (strangely overlooked classic) (I'd never heard this one before!) (one of my favourite tunes ever, makes me cry every time) (short-circuit between mercantilism...

Was just about to post what Transpotine did: Simon's notion of a "hardcore continuum" will never make sense if you think it's primarily about the transmission of sonic/stylistic influences in music, about familial relationships of influences between genres. Simon's writing on the topic has...

I cosign all those choices. These are also good: Indo - R U Sleeping (Dem 2 Remix) Basement Jaxx - Jump & Shout (Dem 2 Remix) Divine Styler - Directrix (Dem 2 Remix)

The best version (from a riddim perspective) of "Are You Really From The Endz" is the VIP mix, that's the instrumental one all the grime MCs were rapping over at the end of 02 and beginning of 03. There's also a decent Jammer mix. I love the sound of the VIP mix - which is why the fact that...

I've been trying to ID that tune as well. Don't know what it is but it's so so ace, the stuttering piano (driven home by the massive bassline) and the rattling percussion, SO GOOD!

When this stuff (whether from the late 90s or later) matches early-to-mid-90s jungle in terms of rhythmic intensity it's close to being my favourite music in the world - at it's best, like a metallic version of A Guy Called Gerald's best jungle. Sadly, such moments are fleeting. But some of them...

"i'm interested in possibilities that are outside the binary of cheese (excess, self-indulgent silliness) versus middle-aged good taste" Conversely, I would be sad if Mungolian Jet Set abandoned what cheesiness they do have, which is not an excessive amount I would think. (anyway what are we...

He is truly a genius. I'm loving the new Cassie track "Is It You" as well.

Glad to see there's a Dissensus thread on this stuff now. I kept meaning to start a thread on Studio in particular. When I first heard them the first thing they made me think of was Simon R's complaint somewhere that all the post-punk revivalism had somehow forgotten that some post-punk (e.g...