Fundamental
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Just like things said about funky house. There isn't still much UK productions around but there will be.
Yeah tbh I also think it will not be as big as those genres/movements (atleast in terms of musical innovation), but this is just like usg -> ukg, us house -> funky. Only difference I see is that they'v reached bigger audience without own productions. But tunes will come.
Yeah I hope they do. But sonically funky is a new area. There wasn't much house on the UK radar that had the soca/gallop before it. That was new territory, it demanded a new moniker.
Taking a tune from 2008 or deep house from america or europe and slapping the 'dubbage' tag on it is not genre creation. If something results from that like us garage-> 2-step then brilliant, but anything at this stage is nothing more than courageous prophecy. If I go by what I hear on rinse and the sets on the net.
I would liken what is going on at the moment to the rare groove explosion in the 80s. It's currently more of a collage of tracks, although it does have the capacity to become more than that
I'm not saying it won't happen, and I hope it does. There is a maturity and a level headedness to the tunes that the dubbage guys are supporting, that has been lacking in london since UKG. But if you don't have distinct tunes and a proper creative base of original productions to plunder then I think it naive to market old corn as new seedlings. Just call the music 'house music' and get over trying to engineer a scene with a new name for the sake of control.